On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 08:28 -0700, cancer wrote:
> Hi,
>  I am using Perl on Linux server. I m writing a code which will tell
> us the Linux distro with version. For this the command is
> 
> cat /etc/issue
> 
> which is common for all the distributions of linux. But the output
> varies for different distributions.
> 
> For e.g.
> 
> SUSE
> 
> Welcome to openSUSE 11.0 (X86-64) - Kernel \r (\l).
> 
> REDHAT
> 
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 (Tikanga)
> 
> I am able to save the output in a string. Now I want a code or
> function which will give me only the number from the string.
> 
> 

my @numbers = split /\D+/;

-- 
Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth,
  Shawn

"Where there's duct tape, there's hope."
        Cross Time Cafe

"Perl is the duct tape of the Internet."
        Hassan Schroeder, Sun's first webmaster


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