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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash assign string to variable Post 302493825 by ghostdog74 on Thursday 3rd of February 2011 08:27:58 PM
Old 02-03-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by cfajohnson

The way he used it is wrong. He was using it to assign a string.

if the assigned string after his grepping and cutting is a number, then it is still technically not wrong. Some of them like qty and price is technically correct. Of course assuming that what he really grepped is the correct number (Note the word "technically")

 

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CGI::Pretty(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					  CGI::Pretty(3pm)

NAME

       CGI::Pretty - module to produce nicely formatted HTML code

SYNOPSIS

	   use CGI::Pretty qw( :html3 );

	   # Print a table with a single data element
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DESCRIPTION

       CGI::Pretty is a module that derives from CGI.  It's sole function is to allow users of CGI to output nicely formatted HTML code.

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