Phoenix.pm: Code problem

[Nathan Bell]

If anyone would like to be so gracious as to explain it, I would be very
willing to listen as well.

Thanks,
Nathan Bell
nbell at inficad.com

At 19:32 10/12/99 EDT, you wrote:
>OK, OK!!  I have to fess up that the $size assignment in Ron's code is 
>totally and completely greek to me...
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>$size = `wc -w $out_file | tr -s " " | cut -f1 -d " "` ;
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>Can someone go through that assignment statement,  character by character
and 
>decipher it for me (and I'm sure others)?
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>Thanks.
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>Feeling stupider than the original code writer by suggesting it was a 
>returned list...,
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>Tim
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