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Weird regex behavior....
Well I was sorta right and sorta wrong. Sorry 'bout that. A little more food for the fire "." can match anything except (usually) a newline or null (Mastering Regular Expressions). So I guess I'm real crunchy and tasty with mustard. -
script intended for multiple systems....
Use the shebang line on Win32 if you are doing something like #! /usr/local/bin/perl -w The Win32 version picks up the "command line" options that are present. -
Weird regex behavior....
Well the "^" is the beginning anchor and "$" is the ending anchor, so m/^$/ will match only a null string - nothing between the beginning and the ending markers. And a "*" will match 0 (zero) or more occurrences of any character. So m/^*$/ is indeed any string... -
Need Help With Win32::DriveInfo
I donwloaded the module and installed it. It worked fine. What version of perl are you using? I put the pm file in \perl\site\lib\win32. #!perl -w use strict; use Win32::DriveInfo; my $type = Win32::DriveInfo::DriveType('a'); print "drive type is: $type\n"; output is drive type...
