Re^2: problem with $ARG

The way to use gethostbyname can be illustrated thusly

perl -MSocket -M5.010 -e 'say inet_ntoa((gethostbyname("name"))[4]);'
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Re^3: problem with $ARG by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 05, 2009 at 16:11 UTC
`-M5.010 -e` can be written as `-E` `(gethostbyname($ARGV[0]))[4])` is clearer as `scalar(gethostbyname($ARGV[0]))` or just `gethostbyname($ARGV[0])` if you check if `gethostbyname` succeeded. `perl -MSocket -E'say inet_ntoa gethostbyname(shift)\|\|die "Not found\n"' example.com`	[reply] [d/l] [select]