Re: Perl question / filling arrays from a system command

> > 
> > I also need to strip off the path from the lines
> returned, I only want the
> > filenames and I need them put into an array for
> use later in the program.
> > 

You could also chdir into the directory before calling
grep, so there would be no extra stuff to strip away.

David Mintz
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