SPUG:Confused field parser seeks...

[Tom Legrady]

You might also consider:

( $f, $uid, $pid ) = unpack 'A8 A8 @15 A8 A*',  $lastline;

Well, that's for plain `ps`, which produces 4 fields, so it's obviously
not the version you're actually using

Tom

On Sun, 2003-05-25 at 11:47, Brian Hatch wrote:
> > Thanks that worked great.  Here's my get_newuid:
> 
> If you only need a subset of the fields, you may
> want to consider an array slice:
> 
> > ($f1,$f2,$f3,$f4,$f5,$f6,$f7)=split /:/, $lastline;
> 
> ($field1, $field3, $field4) = ( split /:/, $lastline )[0,2,3];
> 
> 
> 
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