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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need help with eliminating newlines with Perl Post 302596408 by Corona688 on Tuesday 7th of February 2012 09:38:37 AM
Old 02-07-2012
You do realize that every time you run system() or backticks in perl, you waste an entire shell, right? To process all the shell code you're embedding in your perl? Meaning, your "perl" script is actually 99% shell code, using at least two external shells to do its job, and probably more if we saw the rest of your code? If you want to write perl, write perl; this isn't perl...

Furthermore, system() doesn't even work that way. system() doesn't return a string.

I think you can get much more usable output with --batch, which will cause it to not print the +------- fluff.

Last edited by Corona688; 02-07-2012 at 11:07 AM..
 

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DateTime::Format::Natural::Lang::EN(3pm)		User Contributed Perl Documentation		  DateTime::Format::Natural::Lang::EN(3pm)

NAME
DateTime::Format::Natural::Lang::EN - English language metadata DESCRIPTION
"DateTime::Format::Natural::Lang::EN" provides the english specific grammar and variables. This class is loaded if the user either specifies the english language or implicitly. EXAMPLES
Below are some examples of human readable date/time input in english (be aware that the parser does not distinguish between lower/upper case; furthermore, many expressions allow for additional leading/trailing time and all times are also parsable with precision in seconds): Simple now yesterday today tomorrow morning afternoon evening noon midnight yesterday at noon yesterday at midnight today at noon today at midnight tomorrow at noon tomorrow at midnight this morning this afternoon this evening yesterday morning yesterday afternoon yesterday evening today morning today afternoon today evening tomorrow morning tomorrow afternoon tomorrow evening thursday morning thursday afternoon thursday evening 6:00 yesterday 6:00 today 6:00 tomorrow 5am yesterday 5am today 5am tomorrow 4pm yesterday 4pm today 4pm tomorrow last second this second next second last minute this minute next minute last hour this hour next hour last day this day next day last week this week next week last month this 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DateTime::Format::Natural AUTHOR
Steven Schubiger <schubiger@cpan.org> LICENSE
This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See <http://dev.perl.org/licenses/> perl v5.14.2 2012-05-31 DateTime::Format::Natural::Lang::EN(3pm)
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