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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Get the return value and get the output to $results Post 302912143 by RudiC on Wednesday 6th of August 2014 08:01:23 AM
Old 08-06-2014
Not clear. What do you want to achieve by eval $*? Where do you assign anything to "$val"? And how do you expect that snippet to run several times?
 

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X11Font(3)						User Contributed Perl Documentation						X11Font(3)

NAME
Tk::Font - a class for finding X Fonts SYNOPSIS
use Tk::X11Font; $font = $widget->X11Font(foundry => 'adobe', family => 'times', point => 120 ); $font = $widget->X11Font('*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*'); DESCRIPTION
This module can be use to interrogate the X server what fonts are avaliable. METHODS
Foundry( [ $val ] ) Family( [ $val ] ) Weight( [ $val ] ) Slant( [ $val ] ) Swidth( [ $val ] ) Adstyle( [ $val ] ) Pixel( [ $val ] ) Point( [ $val ] ) Xres( [ $val ] ) Yres( [ $val ] ) Space( [ $val ] ) Avgwidth( [ $val ] ) Registry( [ $val ] ) Encoding( [ $val ] ) Set the given field in the font name to $val if given and return the current or previous value Name( [ $max ] ) In a list context it returns a list of all font names that match the fields given. It will return a maximum of $max names, or 128 if $max is not given. In a scalar contex it returns the first matching name or undef Clone( [ key => value, [ ...]] ) Create a duplicate of the curent font object and modify the given fields AUTHOR
Graham Barr <Graham.Barr@tiuk.ti.com> HISTORY
11-Jan-96 Initial version 08-Nov-98 Renamed for Tk800.012 COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1995-1996 Graham Barr. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.16.3 2014-06-10 X11Font(3)
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