Hi Monks,

I'm a new new-bee to Perl. I'm trying to convert my shell script to adapt to perl.

Please help me in building a regular expression for converting the below shell command `uuidgen | tr '\-abcdef' '9012345' | cut -c-10`

If the output of uuidgen is a81f9284-b353-430a-a8ce-85b8118d3f3e, I'm expecting it to print it as 0815928491. I tried with system('uuidgen') to generate the uuid, but unable to process it using the regular expression.

As tr does the translation and gives as 081592849135394300908249851811833534 and 'cut -c-10' gives the first 10 digits.

Cheers

Raj

In reply to Help in building Regular expression by begin_101

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