Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 00:25:32 GMT
From: "Mark Dudley" <pen411@home.com>
Subject: Re: Some perl questions
Message-Id: <0Yr27.23826$B5.5161537@news1.rdc1.tn.home.com>

> 1.  What does the following do ? Does it return the error level ?
> $rc = 0xffff & system ( "some command" ) ;
> 2.  What does the following do ? Is it for initializing ?
> $abc = shift ;

> $abc = `ptree 128` ;
> for $i ( 0 .. $#abc ) {
>     print "$abc[$i]<BR> " ;
>   }
> ....
> ...
> The problem with this script is that it does not print the spaces which
appear ( if at all ) before $abc[$i]

That's not really a perl problem, it's an HTML one.
If you want white space, you need to insert it with the &nbsp; tag, or write
it out as straight text using the <pre> tag.