[Kc] Need second look at this...

djgoku djgoku at gmail.com
Thu Oct 11 13:54:58 PDT 2007


On 10/11/07, Emmanuel Mejias <emmanuel.mejias at gmail.com> wrote:
> trying to grep out some info from my /etc/hosts file...just to get more
> practice with Perl and well for my personal pleasure, too.
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> open (FILE, "/etc/hosts");
> @lines = <FILE>;
> close (FILE);
>
> foreach $line (@lines){
>    if ($line =~ /pm1/){
>       print $line;
>    }
> }
>
>
> the problem with this is that it's printing out some hosts that i don't want
> that also have pm1 at the end.
>
> somehostpm1 but it also gets my dr hosts (dr-somehostpm1)
>
> thoughts?

Are the ones you don't want all have a prefix of 'dr-'? Can we get a
sample list?

> by the way, i had to jump the wifes car so i ended up missing out on the
> meeting. gonna try to make the next one for sure, though.


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