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$1 not containing real string from brackets

roniz5
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Feb 18, 2007, 12:25 AM

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$1 not containing real string from brackets	Can't Post

Hi

I'm trying to sort a file according to a hexa value that appears in every line.

Since I don't remember how to convert hex2int, I tryed and noticed that this works:

$val1= "0x0A"; $val2=10;

if ($val1 == $val2) {print "OK";}

So, I tryed to use just a simple compare as the above in my script that sorts the file.

But here I encountered this problem: $1 does not get the whole meaning of the string in brackets. What do I mean? look at the next lines, they should have worked but they don't:

$val1=10; $val2="this line contains the value 0x0A";

if ($val2 =~ /the value (0x\w)/)

{if ($val1 == $1) {print "OK";}}

This did not work!!

Just to show that the problem is with the $1 interpretation, I printed out to the screen the content of $1 and it printed out correctly: 0x0A.

Can someone explain this to me?

Thanks

Roni

roniz5@yahoo.com

davorg
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Feb 22, 2007, 5:05 AM

Post #2 of 2 (2373 views)

Re: [roniz5] $1 not containing real string from brackets [In reply to]	Can't Post

Why isn't my octal data interpreted correctly?

Code

use strict; 
use warnings; 
 
my $val1=10; 
my $val2="this line contains the value 0x0A"; 
 
if ($val2 =~ /the value (0x\w+)/) { 
  if ($val1 == hex($1)) { 
    print "OK"; 
  } else { 
    print "$1 is not $val1\n"; 
  } 
}

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