Hello Monks,

I'm new to Perl and have fallen in love with it as an all in one replacemnt for sh, sed, and awk. I am having trouble with getting the following line to work from within a script. How can this:

perl -F: -lane 'print $F[2]' checkstatres.txt

be made to work in a script. I tried the following, but it didn't work.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my @args;

@args = ("cciss_vol_status /dev/ciss0 > checkstatres.txt");
open RESULTS, "checkstatres.txt" || die "can't open datafile: $!\n"; 
while (<RESULTS>){ 
        'print $F[2]';
}

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Any help that this noob can be given is greatly appreciated.

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