Hello Bob
You can use a variable within double quotes. It will be replaced by its
value at runtime. The same applies to backticks, so you could do:
system ("cat $dir");
or
@dirlist = `cat $dir`;
HTH,
Rob
"Bob H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> I can actually do that. : )
>
> What I need to do is take the contents of the $file variable expand it
> and then run some system() commands using it. The print only shows to
> console. Can I do anything with that?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 8:03 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: Expanding a variable
> >
> >
> > print $file . "\n";
> > Puts to STDOUT (Screen) what is in $file.
> >
> > Wags ;)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bob H [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 16:57
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Expanding a variable
> >
> >
> > If I have a variable that I used to a regex to populate how
> > can I now expand that variable?
> >
> > Ex:
> >
> > I have a variable $file that I use a regex to match a file in
> > a directory and put that match into $file. Now I want to get
> > that info out of the $file variable and use it in a system() call.
> >
> > Bob
> >
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