On Tuesday, Oct 21st 2003 at 11:44 -0400, quoth Jake McHenry:
=>Hi everyone, this is a pretty simple question I believe.. but I can't seem
=>to get it...
=>
=>I have a perl script that does a system call to get the date.... everything
=>works fine, but the returned date has a line return character and I can't
=>get rid of it... here's my perl script..
=>
=>$date = `/bin/date +%Y%m%d`;
=>
=>I've tried system("/bin/date ... ");
=>and exec("/bin/date....");
=>
=>all return the date with the line character... how can I get rid of it?
The easy answer is:
chomp ($date);
see: perldoc -f chomp
The correct answer is to not start a seperate process just to find out
what time it is.
You should definitely buy the Perl Cookbook from O'Reilly. All your
questions will be answered.
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