Re: Trouble with a string

[johngg]

in reply to Trouble with a string

@VMSHUT = `cat /tmp/virshlist_shutdown`;

You will also need to remove the line terminator from each line of the array using chomp otherwise each file name will have a spurious line terminator at the end.

$ cat zzz
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
$ perl -e '
> @lines = `cat zzz`;
> print qq{>$_<\n} for @lines;'
>Line 1
<
>Line 2
<
>Line 3
<
$ perl -e '
> @lines = `cat zzz`;
> chomp @lines;
> print qq{>$_<\n} for @lines;'
>Line 1<
>Line 2<
>Line 3<
$

I hope this is helpful.

[Anonymous Monk]

Thanks, I think it's the chomp. It's always the simple things.. And it doesn't help that I'm 10 years rusty and not the good with PERL to begin with. :)