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Title: perl sed like operations was RE: [Perl-unix-users] perl equivalent to "cut" Thanks for all the excellent examples, I learned a whole lot more than I bargained for. I am currently working on converting korn scripts that I have written over to PERL for the experience. The

RE: [Perl-unix-users] perl equivalent to "cut"

It is shorter, but this is better if you might have = in your value: echo "BLAH=VALUE ONE" | perl -pe 's/.*?=//' echo "BLAH=KEY=VALUE" | perl -pe 's/.*?=//' --- Begin Message --- I wrote: > echo "BLAH=VALUE ONE" | perl -anF'=' -e "print pop(@F)" This is shorter: echo "BLAH=VALUE ONE" | perl -pe

RE: [Perl-unix-users] perl equivalent to "cut"

I wrote: > echo "BLAH=VALUE ONE" | perl -anF'=' -e "print pop(@F)" This is shorter: echo "BLAH=VALUE ONE" | perl -pe "s/.*=//" ___ Perl-Unix-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs

RE: [Perl-unix-users] perl equivalent to "cut"

Title: Message another way:   echo "BLAH=VALUE ONE" | perl -anF'=' -e "print pop(@F)" -Original Message-From: Markham, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 1:54 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [Perl-unix-users] perl equivalent to "cut" how

RE: [Perl-unix-users] perl equivalent to "cut"

Title: perl equivalent to "cut" I'd do something like this   $string = "BLAH=VALUE ONE"; ($string) = $string =~ m/=(.+)$/; print "$string\n";   or   $string = "BLAH=VALUE ONE"; (@string) = split m/=/, $string; print "@string[1]\n"; Matthew Schneider System Administrator / Programmer SKLD Inform