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From: "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>
To: ilia@chel.skbkontur.ru, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Perl thing
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 12:46:27 -0700
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IANAPP (Perl Programmer) but I know that Perl is great for text parsing. One 
way that you could do this, though it wouldn't exactly be elegant, would be 
to parse the output of (say) dmesg. Surely though, there are better ways.

>Dear Sirs,
>
>is there anything that I could use it in perl program like I can write in
>C:
>
>#ifdef __FreeBSD__
>
>#endif
>
>???
>
>I want to port some perl program that it could run either on FreeBSD or
>any other system...


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