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On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 11:44:13 -0400, Jake McHenry wrote:
> 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?
chomp $date;
Btw, your message to this mailing-list is not a reply to the message
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> References: <6.0.0.22.0.20031021092906.024e9b98@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Next time please compose a _new_ message instead of replying to an
arbitrary message. That way your message doesn't disturb the
threading.
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