Re: cancatenate

2001-12-23 Thread Steve Maroney
1. Use the proper file system/directory functions to put the file names into an array. 2, Step through the array of file names and use regular expressions to test if the file name matches your criteria. 3. if test is true, open some file handles and write the file at the end of your ne

Multiple implementations of an interface

2001-12-23 Thread Roger C Haslock
Hi I am seeking advice of a general nature. I plan to write some software which will interface with another piece of software which may have various alternative replacements - for example, an http server. I intend to write a generic interface module, say 'httpd.pm', and use that to mask the act

RE: Calling a shell from a perl script.

2001-12-23 Thread Jim Conner
As personal preference I do try hard not to use system() calls in my Perl scripts because Perl can do everything itself with built-ins or modules. It's my opinion that while easier in terms of coding a lot of the time using system() calls or back-tics it is harder, albeit most likely not too

Re: cancatenate

2001-12-23 Thread Peter Cornelius
cat phr*.txt >> newfile RNOORY wrote: > Hello, > I would like to concatenate several text files that all begin phr*.txt to create one >text file. > > Thanks > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cancatenate

2001-12-23 Thread RNOORY
Hello, I would like to concatenate several text files that all begin phr*.txt to create one text file. Thanks

Re: DBI hashref of a sum (maybe OT)

2001-12-23 Thread Abdulaziz Ghuloum
Hello, I can think of two ways to do what you want: 1. use fetchrow_arrayref and get the output by its index. while ( my $row = $sth->fetchrow_arrayref ) { $Msgs_In=$row->[2]; $Msgs_Out=$row->[3]; $Bytes

DBI hashref of a sum (maybe OT)

2001-12-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi all, i am trying to access the results of a query made to a mysql db. the query is query code== my $incoming = "SELECT sum(bytes_in),sum(bytes_out),sum(msgs_in)," ."sum(msgs_out)" ." from trafficpe

RE: Calling a shell from a perl script.

2001-12-23 Thread Peter Cornelius
There are several methods for executing external commands from Perl. The 2 most common would be 'system()' and backticks '``'. You should probably read the 'perldoc -f system' for detailed info. The main difference between backticks and system is where the commands output goes and where the ret

defining connections between QPushButtons and perl-subroutines

2001-12-23 Thread fam.borgwaldt
Hi All, i'm beginning to programm dialogues with a Qt-designed graphical interface. In my test program i have designed a calculator, and i wanted him to store a value when clicking a special button. But it doesn't work. Can you help me to find my failure? the source code looks like: $qApp = co

RE: Calling a shell from a perl script.

2001-12-23 Thread Gary Hawkins
With tcsh I just use backticks (below the tilde) because it's simple and reliable and no worry about resources and they are not repetitive tasks and I don't care if Santa brings me anything. So: `cp thisfile thatfile`; bing, done. Cron for example, a scheduled task, can start the script an