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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Saving output from awk into a perl variable Post 302244760 by matrixmadhan on Wednesday 8th of October 2008 03:13:33 PM
Old 10-08-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by userix
How would I pass awk output to a perl variable?

For example, I want to save the value in the 4th column into the variable called test. My best guess is something as follow, but I am sure this isn't correct.

Code:
$test = system("awk '/NUMBER/{print \$4}' $_");

Why don't you use the feature provided in perl itself ?

To store the 4th column value in perl,

Code:
my @arr = split(/\|/, $var);
print $var[3];

Is that what you meant ?
 

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Test::Regression(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				     Test::Regression(3pm)

NAME

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VERSION

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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FUNCTIONS

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