the print command

[goude]

Hello everyone

I'm trying to print the uptime of a computer. First, I split the time at : and put it in an array:

my @time = split(/:/, $uptime);

Then I simply print it:

$t=print ("@time[0]hours and @time[1]min");  
print $t;

The output I get is:
20hours and 25
min

I don't understand why min is not on the same line as the rest of the string. I haven't included \n anywhere. Why is it printing min in a new line?

Can anyone please explain to me what I'm doing wrong?

Thank you

[Cabhan]

So first off, I have no idea what programming language you're using, so I'm a bit confused.

But anyway, where did you get the value in $uptime? What I suspect is happening is that $uptime stores the value "HH:MM\n". Then, when you split on the ':', the newline ends up in the second part when you print.

Your code looks somewhat Perl-like (though if it's Perl, you're using "print" wrong), and Perl has a function called "chomp" which specifically removes newlines from the end of strings. Otherwise, some more information would be helpful.

[goude]

Hi Cabhan,

Sorry for not mentioning the programming language but you guessed it right.
You are correct, I just chomped $time[1] and is working fine now.

Thanks a lot for your reply.