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newbie question about OracleExpress
I've used MySQL before, but never Oracle. I just downloaded and installed Oracle Express 10g. I'm confused. In MySQL, you can create a database and the tables it contains. You then can do 'show databases' to show what databases exist and 'show tables' to show what tables are in the...- jtripper6
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Is it possible to do a substitute in a value of a variable?
I have a directory where a majority of filenames are in the format of basename.ext.new. What I want to do is rename them basename.ext using a perl script. I'm not sure, however, if it's possible to do a substitution on the value of a variable. #!/usr/bin/perl 2 @fnames = qx{ls}; 3 $i = 1... -
Creating an array containing an ls listing
Kevin, Your solution does exactly what I'm looking for. Thank you VERY much! jt -
Creating an array containing an ls listing
I need to create an array that contains a list of the files in a directory. I know it needs to be a comma separated list, and I tried using join, but couldn't get it to work the way I hoped it would. I used the following code: #!/usr/bin/perl 2 @fnames = system ls; 3 @fnames = join...
