Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 20:56:50 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: script perl with sed command Message-ID: <20070408175650.GB1672@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <4618992D.5050106@u.washington.edu> References: <4617B954.7010507@steelbox.org> <20070407171120.GA70957@kobe.laptop> <4618992D.5050106@u.washington.edu>
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On 2007-04-08 00:26, Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > Try using Perl only, instead of forking sed(1), like this:
> > [...]
> > | sub supfile_set_default_host($$);
> > | sub supfile_set_default_host($$)
> > | {
[...]
> Interesting. Is that old perl syntax (v4, etc)? Just curious because
> most of the documentation and examples switched to:
>
> sub supfile_set_default_host
> {
>
> syntax as opposed to:
>
> sub supfile_set_default_host($$);
>
> sub supfile_set_default_host($$);
> {
That's actually a function prototype. Prototypes are explained in:
man perlsub
in far more detail than I could ever describe in an email message :)
HTH,
Giorgos
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