[Techtalk] perl help

[Conor Daly]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 08:12:20AM -0700 or thereabouts, Maria McKinley wrote:
> Emma Rath wrote:
> > 
> > I think that if your perl program is executing the entire following
> > line :
> > 
> > if (!defined $FILE) { $FILE='^mail.log$' }  # regex
> > 
> > then the mail log file it will be trying to read further down will be :
> > 
> > ^maillog$
> > 
> > But you said that your mail log file is called :
> > 
> > mail.log
> > 
> > So I think that the line should read :
> > 
> > if (!defined $FILE) { $FILE='mail.log' }  
> > 
> > I don't think that the regex (regular expression) characters of ^ and $
> > have any place there in the assignment line $FILE='mail.log'
> > 
> > Emma
> 
> Thanks Emma, that did the trick. Not sure why the ^ was ever in there...
> For anyone who is curious, I printed out my stats below.
> 
> cheers,
> maria

I assume that's there to avoid picking up something like procmail.log (on
the prior assumption that $FILE will be used as a regexp within the script
rather than as an absolute filename).

Conor
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