RE: Beginer...Any free resources for Learning Perl

2001-06-17 Thread ivan . drvaric
> Unfortunately, foreign nationals do not have respect for the rights of > American created property. I'll stick only to this stupid sentence on of the stupidest I've ever heard. It seems author of this sentence doesn't understand the logic it is working these days. I hope this is the last mail o

RE: Reading versus Referencing Books

2001-06-17 Thread Webster, Murray
Hi Beginners and Scott, I think I qualify as an "oldie" (in as when I learned to program - 1968, Autocoder) and a "newie" (in as when I became aware Perl might be a fun language to learn - 2000). In between I have been doing not a lot of programming per se. But in the last couple of years expos

Re: Retaining punctuation

2001-06-17 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jun 17, Lonya said: >Say I have a line like this: >This *s a te*t, this *s only a te*t. > >And I'd like to replace "te*t," with "test," after a dictionary lookup. >Well, I can split out the punctuation easily enough, but I don't know >how to join it back in later. You probably want to use a r

Re: Retaining punctuation

2001-06-17 Thread perl
you can just do this before you spell check. { s/./ ./g; # Would make Test. Test . s/,/ ,/g; # etc. for other punctuation marks. spellcheck s/ ././g; # Make Test . back to Test. after spell check

Re: Retaining punctuation

2001-06-17 Thread Lonya
I have to remove punctuation so that I can look in a dictionary to list all possible completions of the english word: "te*t". ie. teat teet tent test text If I leave the punctuation in, there will be no dictionary matches on "te*t,". Is that clearer now? Lonya --- The tagline below makes free

RE: fork

2001-06-17 Thread Peter Scott
At 11:10 PM 6/17/01 -0400, Ronald J. Yacketta wrote: >I am a bit lost.. all the references to fork() are in the if/else context. > >so, I would wrap the fork code into a sub and then call that sub passing it >the array each time?? Not necessarily. But it would look neater. >please forgive my ig

Re: Retaining punctuation

2001-06-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 07:35:06PM -0700, Lonya wrote: > Hi all, > > I could use some help. I'm trying to retain punctuation in sentences > when doing a spell check. > > Say I have a line like this: > This *s a te*t, this *s only a te*t. > > And I'd like to replace "te*t," with "test," after a

Re: fork

2001-06-17 Thread Peter Scott
At 05:35 PM 6/17/01 -0400, Ronald J. Yacketta wrote: >Folks, > >Can someone shed some light on using fork to spawn 2+ simultaneous process? >I am reading in allot of logfiles and splitting them into 3 separate arrays. >Currently I am forking and doing a exec("egrep", "-c", "Err", @array1); >(yes,

simultaneous processing

2001-06-17 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
Folks, Can someone shed some light on the ability to kick off simultaneous process at once within perl. I would like to kick off two system level commands at the same time, as I mentioned before I am populating 2 arrays with filenames to be processed. I would like to kick them both off at the sam

Retaining punctuation

2001-06-17 Thread Lonya
Hi all, I could use some help. I'm trying to retain punctuation in sentences when doing a spell check. Say I have a line like this: This *s a te*t, this *s only a te*t. And I'd like to replace "te*t," with "test," after a dictionary lookup. Well, I can split out the punctuation easily enough,

RE: Need Perl/CGI/DBI/mysql Examples

2001-06-17 Thread Steve Howard
Well, I got so involved with the DBI portion that I didn't get into the CGI. For a very good tutorial on CGI (doing it the right way) including step by step instructions on building the web app as a whole, look at this site (it is still under construction, but is very good): http://www.peacecompu

RE: Need Perl/CGI/DBI/mysql Examples

2001-06-17 Thread Steve Howard
This is from quite a while ago (it's been a while since I've used MySQL) but it should work as a simple example: use DBI; my $database_name = 'intra_data'; my $location = 'localhost'; my $port_num = '3306'; # This is default for mysql # define the location of the

Re: Serial Device

2001-06-17 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Paul Burkett wrote: > Does anybody know how to send direct commands to your > serial port through perl? I would appreciate any help, thanks Type 'perldoc -q serial' -- you will get a FAQ entry on reading and writing to the serial port. -- Brett

Serial Device

2001-06-17 Thread Paul Burkett
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fork

2001-06-17 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
Folks, Can someone shed some light on using fork to spawn 2+ simultaneous process? I am reading in allot of logfiles and splitting them into 3 separate arrays. Currently I am forking and doing a exec("egrep", "-c", "Err", @array1); (yes, ugly but it is just the beginning!) this works well if I we

Re: Need Perl/CGI/DBI/mysql Examples

2001-06-17 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>I swear I wont be stealing anyones code for my own, all I want is just a *>"road map" for my own educational purposes. If anyone wouldn`t mind *>sharing or could point me in the right direction, it would be *immensely* *>appreciated! I was in the

Need Perl/CGI/DBI/mysql Examples

2001-06-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Helo, I am relatively new to the whole perl/cgi thing. (my high school pascal class makes my ears bleed, and I needed something to make my time worthwhile :) ) I don`t know about everyone, but the best way that I learn is by example. I am prone to falling asleep when reading as I bore easily (RT

Re: Hi, my first question is about binary data

2001-06-17 Thread Chas Owens
On 18 Jun 2001 03:45:57 +0800, Chan Jennifer wrote: > Hey folks, > > Please don't scold me if I am asking a very stupid > question. =) > > I am now handling some sort of text files, > however, they are eating me a lot of harddisk. > > I tried to using PACK, however, I found that I cannot > unpa

Hi, my second question is about image files

2001-06-17 Thread Chan Jennifer
Hey folks, Me again =) I've using a script like this. print "Content-Type:image/gif\n\n"; open (IMG, "image.gif"); binmode(IMG); while (read IMG,$buffer,1) { print $buffer } I don't know why, the graphic output sounds like abstracted together..., means incorrect output anyway, but I've able t

Hi, my first question is about binary data

2001-06-17 Thread Chan Jennifer
Hey folks, Please don't scold me if I am asking a very stupid question. =) I am now handling some sort of text files, however, they are eating me a lot of harddisk. I tried to using PACK, however, I found that I cannot unpack it if I pack the file with "B" or "H"... Would anybody have any idea

Hi all, Just testing =)

2001-06-17 Thread Chan Jennifer
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