Read UNIX environment variable

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

In unix I have an env variable like this

NOTEUSERS="
    me@us.com \
    them@us.com\
" export NOTEUSERS
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Yes there are spaces at the front. I can read this using

use Env;
my @noteusers = $NOTEUSERS;
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How can I split this up so that each entry of @noteusers array is just the email address without spacing etc. Thanks

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Re: Read UNIX environment variable by fisher (Priest) on Feb 09, 2011 at 10:33 UTC
like this? `use Env; my $n = $ENV{'NOTEUSERS'}; for (split /[\s\n]/, $n) {print "key: \"$_\"\n" if ($_)}` [download] Can you improve this and show here your result?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Read UNIX environment variable by DrHyde (Prior) on Feb 09, 2011 at 10:57 UTC
An obvious improvement is to notice that \s contains \n. And also that 'use Env' is completely useless in this case.	[reply]
Re^3: Read UNIX environment variable by fisher (Priest) on Feb 09, 2011 at 13:25 UTC
Well, thank you, captain.	[reply]
Re^3: Read UNIX environment variable by Anonymous Monk on Feb 09, 2011 at 11:01 UTC
Thanks, will I be able to access env variables if my perl code gets run from cron?	[reply]
Re^4: Read UNIX environment variable by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 09, 2011 at 11:20 UTC
Re^5: Read UNIX environment variable by Anonymous Monk on Feb 09, 2011 at 12:25 UTC
Some notes below your chosen depth have not been shown here
Re^4: Read UNIX environment variable by johngg (Canon) on Feb 09, 2011 at 11:13 UTC


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