Re: Convert any date format to ISO

2013-07-24 Thread mimic...@gmail.com
print "$x\n" or "invalid\n";' 1972-01-29 Most of the date modules on CPAN cannot do the job for me. I spent time reading documentations but as it now stands, I have to do this myself. Mimi On 24 July 2013 15:24, mimic...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm trying to convert dates (input from user in any format) to ISO and > check it's valid. > > Can someone provide an example of this using Date::Simple or Date::Manip? > > Mimi >

Perl Debugger: DBD::mysql::db do failed: MySQL server has gone away at

2013-07-30 Thread mimic...@gmail.com
In my script, I previous connected and disconnected to the database within every subroutine. Now I have made changes and it now connect/disconnect to mysql only once within main:: (at the start and end of script respectively). Although my script works fine, I am wondering whether this is the best

How to Auto Generate range of years (year of birth between 18 and 73)

2013-09-16 Thread mimic...@gmail.com
I have this simple script to automatically print HTML selection option. #!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; for (reverse(1943 .. 1991)){ print "\$_\<\/option\>\n"; } I need to print all the years between 18 and 73 without hard coding the range in the for loop as in the above. I am considerin

Re: How to Auto Generate range of years (year of birth between 18 and 73)

2013-09-16 Thread mimic...@gmail.com
The following works, but is this the way to go? #!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; my ($min_yr, $max_yr); $min_yr =(localtime)[5] + 1900 - 18; $max_yr = (localtime)[5] + 1900 - 73; for (reverse($max_yr .. $min_yr)){ print "\$_\<\/option\>\n"; } Mimi On 16 September 2

LWP/UserAgent fail authentication:

2014-07-31 Thread mimic...@gmail.com
Hi I receive error when calling GitHub API from Perl (LWP). Basically, the problemis authentication failure, although the username and password combination is valid. In the code snippet below, I have tried changing the values passed to credentials() in several ways, however it does not work. #!/

Re: LWP/UserAgent fail authentication:

2014-08-01 Thread mimic...@gmail.com
"$user/token", "$token"); # Thanks for your input. Cheers Mimi On 31 July 2014 23:29, David Precious wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 17:01:38 +0100 > "mimic...@gmail.com" wrote: > > > I receive error when calling GitHub API from Perl (LWP). B

Match HTML ...... string over multiple

2014-11-18 Thread mimic...@gmail.com
I am trying to extract a table (.. until ) and its content from an HTML file. With the file I have something like this . . . There could be more that one table in the file.however I am only interested in the table within . /^.*.+?()\s*<\/div>.*$/ims The above and various variations I