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- From: asherman@laser.fmrco.com (Aaron Sherman)
- Subject: Re: how to get passwd
- In-Reply-To: merlyn@ora.com's message of 4 Sep 92 19:04:02 GMT
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- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 03:43:36 GMT
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- >>>>> merlyn@ora.com (Randal L. Schwartz) said:
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- merlyn> print ((split(/:/,$last))[2]); # why add zero? foo!
-
- Because a "::" should be interpreted as a ":0:".
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- Or so I feel.
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-
- -AJS
-
- PS: It hadn't even occurred to me (even though I new getc was sloppy)
- that anything but the algorithm was the bottleneck, thanks.
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