[Mimedefang] Tie to aliases.db doesn't work

Matthew Schumacher matt.s at aptalaska.net
Tue May 24 16:55:41 EDT 2005


Jan Pieter Cornet wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 06:37:05PM -0800, Matthew Schumacher wrote:

> newaliases stores the keys (and values) with a trailing \0 character. Try:
> 
>     print $aliases{"root\0"}, "\n";
> 
> Also make sure to strip the \0 from the value if you're using it for
> anything other than just printing, so the code above could also be
> written as:
> 
> my $alias = "root";
> my $dest = $aliases{"$alias\0"};
> $dest =~ s/\0$//;
> print $dest, "\n";
> 

Thanks Jan, that helps a bunch.

schu



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