Re: use strict, How to 'globalised' variable within loops. (was => Re: Question!! number of line....)

2001-12-29 Thread Michael R. Wolf
"Leon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > (1)how to make a variable within loops non-lexical as in this eg:- > while (){ > my $count++; # how to globalised this variable? $count++; # NO "my", therefore implicitly global. > }; > > (2)how to make a variable availab

Re: help on how to split a string

2001-12-29 Thread Michael R. Wolf
"Peter Cornelius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > @val = m/".*?",?/g; # m//g in list context returns all matches > # list gets all matches of things that begin with a double quote > # followed by any character zero or more times matching the > # minimal amount before

use strict, How to 'globalised' variable within loops. (was => Re: Question!! number of line....)

2001-12-29 Thread Leon
- Original Message - From: "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Leon wrote: > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Mark Mclogan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > How I can know in that I number of line finds a word in a text file?. > > > For example, a file "file.txt" contains the foll

open URL as stream with LWP?

2001-12-29 Thread Steven Bach
Is there a way to open a URL with LWP so that it becomes something like a filehandle so that I can do a "while ()" on it? This would be really handy, but I can't sort out how to do it. The code I am working on originally opened a file, and used a filehandle to do its thing. Replacing the fil

Perl:readina doc file and adding a gif

2001-12-29 Thread Nestor Florez
I am trying to figure out how to insert a gif file in the middle of a word file(.doc). I am asking here, becasue I thought maybe someone has come acrss this before. I can read the doc file and create it as a different file and word will read, but if I try inserting someting into the file, then wo

RE: help on how to split a string

2001-12-29 Thread Peter Cornelius
To get the output you want from the input you listed, you probably don't want to use split(). Take a look at the m// construct. use strict; #Always use strict and warnings use warnings; my @val; #declare myself an array. while () { # DATA is a special file handle that reads from t

Re: Question!! number of line....

2001-12-29 Thread Simon K. Chan
Hiya Mark, Something like this should work: #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use strict; my $file = "file.txt"; open (READ, "<$file") || die "Can\'t open file: $!"; my @list_of_words = ; close (READ) || die "Can\'t close file: $!"; my $counter = 1; foreach my $word (@list_of_words){ ++$counter;

Re: help on how to split a string

2001-12-29 Thread John W. Krahn
"Jonathan e. paton" wrote: > > Jean-Louis wrote: > > > > Now, how can I explode the line. I'd like: > > $val[0]="a", $val[1]="bcd, efg, h", $val[2]="c" (or > > equivalent). > > C4 or TNT? Or if you are a DIY kind of guy just mix together some potassium nitrate, sulfer, and charcoal. :-) John

Re: help on how to split a string

2001-12-29 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> > I cannot figure out how to use split when the delimiter > > is the double quote. > > @var = split /\"/, $line; I am of course wrong, you need something more akin to: @var = split /\".*?\"/, $line; but as Michael says this isn't the best way to solve the problem... unless you are looking fo

Re: help on how to split a string

2001-12-29 Thread Michael R. Wolf
To: "Jean-Louis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: help on how to split a string References: <003701c1909a$e125aab0$74d2fea9@JEANLOUIS> --text follows this line-- "Jean-Louis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I found that $l=readline($filehandle) gives me the content of the current line. Use these ins

RE: Good CS Literature

2001-12-29 Thread Peter Cornelius
I just wanted to put in a shout for one of my favorite, and unmentioned, Perl books. "Effective Perl Programming" is by Joseph Hall and Randal Schwartz. It addresses many of 'am I doing it right' questions. The "Perl Cook Book' that others have mentioned is also a good reference for this. I've

Re: help on how to split a string

2001-12-29 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> I'm just starting Perl, since... a few hours ago... You'll be interested in: www.perl.com www.perl.org www.perldoc.com > > I have a text files to analyze. Each line looks like : > "a", "bcd, efg, h", "c" > > I found that $l=readline($filehandle) gives me the > content of the current line.

Re: Subject line suggestion for "newbies"

2001-12-29 Thread Michael R. Wolf
"Eric S. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To my fellow Perl "newbies": > > You might want to consider using a more meaningful subject line than something > like these, all culled from the last month: > o beginner question > o Can any one see an error in here I can't? > o Hello. How can I fi

reinventing "The Book" [ was: Good CS Literature

2001-12-29 Thread Michael R. Wolf
"jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I admire your philosophy! I purchased Learning Perl on > win32 Systems by Schwartz, Olson & Christiansen read and > worked the exercises and use it daily but now at a point > where I want more. Luckey for you, there is more. Someone anticipated your need.

Q's bout daemon from perl newbie

2001-12-29 Thread mas Tri
I have searched this topic from achive but not found yet... I make a perl daemon script >From console, my script detach itself using Proc::Daemon::Init (use Proc::Daemon module I installed from CPAN). in background, my process looping forever to check some condition saved in database. when thi

Re: Question!! number of line....

2001-12-29 Thread Connie Chan
Oops.. I made some mistake, sorry =) should be like this : ### open (FILE, ") { @lineNumber = (@lineNumber, $count) if ($_ eq "apple\n") ; $count++; } close (FILE); ### PS. if you have only 1 apple, then it valued at $lineNumber[0]; h

Re: Question!! number of line....

2001-12-29 Thread Connie Chan
open (FILE, ") { if ($_ eq "apple\n") { $count++ } } close (FILE); you got the result at $count have a nice day =) - Original Message - From: "Mark Mclogan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 5:36 AM Subject: Question!! number of line

help on how to split a string

2001-12-29 Thread Jean-Louis
Hi to all! I'm just starting Perl, since... a few hours ago... I have a text files to analyze. Each line looks like : "a", "bcd, efg, h", "c" I found that $l=readline($filehandle) gives me the content of the current line. Now, how can I explode the line. I'd like: $val[0]="a", $val[1]="bcd,

Re: CTLib error catching

2001-12-29 Thread gmsayloriii
here is a small example of two call back functions and their use, please also see the module's documentation at CPAN.org, as well as Michael Peppler's site for more in depth information http://mbay.net/~mpeppler/Sybperl/article.html. You will likely want much more in depth error management than t

Re: child processes and environment variables

2001-12-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 12:20:16PM -0500, Maciejewski, Thomas wrote: > I am having an issue when spawning a child I understand that this is not uncommon and should not cause undue concern. > it appears that the environment variable is not being passed to the child > process here is the code:

RE: Automatic execute of script

2001-12-29 Thread jeff
Thanks for all the help on my question. I picked the solution to periodically request a web page on a daily basis (using my browser) to execute my perl script. Although the "sleep x" worked great I think I will have problems because our business host server goes down for periodic maintenance. I

Access Question!

2001-12-29 Thread Dan Hoggard
Can anyone tell me how I can access a banner rotation script from within another script. My replicator creates html page in this form: http://www.yourdomain.com/test/s.cgi?index-1001 I want my rotator script to rotate thew banners at the top of these pages. I thank you for any help you can give

Re: Subject line suggestion for "newbies"

2001-12-29 Thread Maurice Reeves
Agreed Eric. The more descriptive your subject lines are, the more quickly you are able to get help and the more inclined everyone is to help. Also, as Eric suggested, it will make it easier for newbies to come in later and read the emails and find solutions to a similar problem they are having

Subject line suggestion for "newbies"

2001-12-29 Thread Eric S. Harris
To my fellow Perl "newbies": You might want to consider using a more meaningful subject line than something like these, all culled from the last month: o beginner question o Can any one see an error in here I can't? o Hello. How can I fix this line of code? o hello!! please help me!! o Help neede

RE: Good CS Literature

2001-12-29 Thread Gary Hawkins
Question strikes me as a great idea Jeff. Well I'm still afflicted by the awful leperous backtick habit so this might not be right but it was fast, and the result sure looks like a duck. Cheers, /g #!perl.exe -w # Collect perldoc results into a single file. # Keys in on '^=' to determine if d

Re: child processes and environment variables

2001-12-29 Thread Andrea Holstein
Thomas Maciejewski wrote: > > -- > This message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the >designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this >message you are hereby

Display filter for emails in mutt

2001-12-29 Thread Prahlad Vaidyanathan
Hi, I just joined this list, and I haven't yet looked at the archives if this has come up before ... Now for my question - I am trying to implement a display filter for my emails using Mutt's $display_filter variable (ie. the output of this script is displayed in mutt's pager). Now, I want to 's

RE: Good CS Literature

2001-12-29 Thread jeff
I admire your philosophy! I purchased Learning Perl on win32 Systems by Schwartz, Olson & Christiansen read and worked the exercises and use it daily but now at a point where I want more. I want to get a hard copy of the perl reference, but not sure what and how to print it out. I'd like to sta

dbbrowser

2001-12-29 Thread nafiseh saberi
hi dear team... hi hamid... do you work with dbi:dbd ??? thx. Sincerely yours Nafiseh Saberi People will forget what you said ... People will forget what you did... But people will Never Forget how you made them feel. < Any suggestion are welcome to me >

Re: I need your help

2001-12-29 Thread Roger C Haslock
'^' indicates the beginning of a line, '$' indicates the end will s/^$name$/#$name/ do what you want? - Roger - - Original Message - From: "Jose Vicente" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 1:26 AM Subject: I need your help > Hi friends. >

Re: Question!! number of line....

2001-12-29 Thread John W. Krahn
Leon wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Mark Mclogan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > How I can know in that I number of line finds a word in a text file?. > > For example, a file "file.txt" contains the following list: > > > > Chocolate > > Cake > > Cheese > > Apple > > orange > > melon >

Re: writing to a file

2001-12-29 Thread John W. Krahn
Lance Prais wrote: > > Does anyone know how to grab the server time to include it in a file? my $date = localtime; Or if you want UTC: my $date = gmtime; John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]