RE: Trouble w/ regex when no data at end of string

2002-02-09 Thread Wagner-David
That seemed to do it and Thanks very much. I need to get out the Friedl's book and see exactly what the last part means. Again, thanks much. Wags ;) -Original Message- From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 21:09 To: Wagner-Davi

RE: Trouble w/ regex when no data at end of string

2002-02-09 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Feb 9, Wagner-David said: > The system I am working on has setup for named processes as >$. What I am doing is converting a number of scripts to Perl and >trying to make it easier to do. > > The format is as stated and I have done a chomp on the line. That's why your regex fai

RE: Trouble w/ regex when no data at end of string

2002-02-09 Thread Wagner-David
The system I am working on has setup for named processes as $. What I am doing is converting a number of scripts to Perl and trying to make it easier to do. The format is as stated and I have done a chomp on the line. A line could look like: $A212

Re: file handling syntax

2002-02-09 Thread John W. Krahn
Steve Doerr wrote: > > Greetings! Could someone here offer a tip about declaring a file > variable that is itself part variable? > > I can't seem to find an example of this online and I hope someone here > could help. > > I'd like to put a path variable in the declaration, but can't seem to >

Re: rename a file in win98

2002-02-09 Thread John W. Krahn
Chris Zampese wrote: > > From: "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > use File::Copy; > > > > open OLD, "< $old" or die "Cannot open '$old' $!"; > > binmode OLD; > > open NEW, "> $new" or die "Cannot open '$new' $!"; > > binmode NEW; > > copy( \*OLD, \*NEW ) or die "Cannot copy '$old' to '$n

Re: Trouble w/ regex when no data at end of string

2002-02-09 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Feb 9, Wagner-David said: > $ description > $ description [,;] >$ description nnn,nnn > $ description [,;]nnn,nnn > $ description nnn,nnn[,;]nnn,nnn > > /^\s*\$(\w+)\s+(.+)\s+([,;\s]{0,}(\d{1,3}\s*,{1}\s*\d{0,3}))*/gi What exactly are you trying to extract? I thi

Trouble w/ regex when no data at end of string

2002-02-09 Thread Wagner-David
I have a field which can be setup like: $ description $ description [,;] $ description nnn,nnn $ description [,;]nnn,nnn $ description nnn,nnn[,;]nnn,nnn I am trying to use this format: /^\s*\$(\w+)\s+(.+)

Re: rename a file in win98

2002-02-09 Thread Chris Zampese
- Original Message - From: "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 10:03 AM Subject: Re: rename a file in win98 > > I have also tried using File::Copy but it doesnt copy the last line of the > > file. > > My file is created by printin

file handling syntax

2002-02-09 Thread Steve Doerr
Greetings! Could someone here offer a tip about declaring a file variable that is itself part variable? I can't seem to find an example of this online and I hope someone here could help. I'd like to put a path variable in the declaration, but can't seem to get it to work. What would the proper

Re: rename a file in win98

2002-02-09 Thread John W. Krahn
Chris Zampese wrote: > > > From: "Chris Zampese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Just wondering if anyone has any bright ideas on how to rename a file in > > Win98. I have tried the following... > > > > my $old="C:/sentslips/sentslipstemp.txt"; > > my $new="C:/sentslips/sentslips1.txt"; > > > > rena

Re: undef scalars

2002-02-09 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Feb 9, filson said: >Indeed, but assigning a list like this: > >($first, $second) = qw/ blabla / > >or what ever is equivalent with a array assignment, would make $second >undef, right? >If this happens like a thousand times, I might get currious how much memory >perl would use for something l

Re: undef scalars

2002-02-09 Thread filson
Indeed, but assigning a list like this: ($first, $second) = qw/ blabla / or what ever is equivalent with a array assignment, would make $second undef, right? If this happens like a thousand times, I might get currious how much memory perl would use for something like the undef value. kind regar

Re: undef scalars

2002-02-09 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Feb 9, filson said: >This might sound silly, but how much memory is allocated for a undef >scalar? Is any set aside for some sort of indexing or what? Perhaps you should consider scoping your variables more precisely. Declare your variables where you need them to exist, not at the very top of

RE: windows - how do I detect file vs directory and then traverse

2002-02-09 Thread Wagner-David
Use module File::Find along with -d filename ( if true then directory ) I believe the doc accompanying File::Find should be sufficient to get you started, but if problems, come back to the list. Wags ;) -Original Message- From: Joe Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Satur

undef scalars

2002-02-09 Thread filson
This might sound silly, but how much memory is allocated for a undef scalar? Is any set aside for some sort of indexing or what? Filip

Re: Keys and values

2002-02-09 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Feb 9, Matt C. said: >my @array=split; #split on space by default >$HASH{ $array[0] } = @array[1,2]; > ># Above is the slice. Notice the @arry[1,2]; it's in array context. No, it's in scalar context. $x = @array[1,2]; is like $x = ($array[1], $array[2]); which sets $x to

windows - how do I detect file vs directory and then traverse

2002-02-09 Thread Joe Collins
Hi, My goal is to find all the directories on my computer and sort them by size order as my PC harddrive is rapidly filling up and I am sure I have some junk on it taking up boatloads of space. I know I have to use stat() to get the file size (after I open it). My questions are: 1-Has anybody

modules install

2002-02-09 Thread Eric R. Jones
I had problem installing mods and getting them noticed. I went to http://search.cpan.org there I type in the mod I'm looking for and then download that bundle to my /tmp dir. gunzip and untar then read the README for info and install according to their instructions. Usually perl Makefile.pl make m

Re: Hello

2002-02-09 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
--- Oskar Norin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I having trouble to use Net:Telnet:Cisco lib because it > exits the program when its not able to connect to a host. > How can I a prevent it from exiting and just read the > error message and continue with the next host. eval { # Do code } if ($@)

Hello

2002-02-09 Thread Oskar Norin
I having trouble to use Net:Telnet:Cisco lib because it exits the program when its not able to connect to a host. How can I a prevent it from exiting and just read the error message and continue with the next host. /Oskar Sweden -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional com

Re: Convert to a one liner

2002-02-09 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> Okay, I'll play: > > cd /home/slutz/temp; perl -nle '(rename $ARGV, > "bad_email/$ARGV" or die $!) > and print "Moved $ARGV" and close ARGV if > /looking_glass\@telus\.net/' *.BAD > > If you don't have to die on bad rename()s then you can > just: > > perl -nle 'rename $ARGV, "bad_email/$ARGV

Re: Keys and values

2002-02-09 Thread Matt C.
This example shows an array slice, which can be very useful from time to time (although the example Briac wrote saves a step). This would make a good one liner. #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use strict; my %HASH; while(){ my @array=split; #split on space by default $HASH{ $array[0] } = @array

Re: Keys and values

2002-02-09 Thread Briac Pilpré
On Sat, 09 Feb 2002 13:49:59 +, Terri Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do I do so that the Name is the key and the Species and Gender > together are the value? You were not too far from what you wanted to do. #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my %zoo; while (){ chomp;

Re: rename a file in win98

2002-02-09 Thread Chris Zampese
> - Original Message - > From: "Chris Zampese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 12:57 AM > Subject: rename a file in win98 > > > Just wondering if anyone has any bright ideas on how to rename a file in > Win98. I have tried the following...

Keys and values

2002-02-09 Thread terri harrison
If this is my input: Happy Cat Male Evil Snake Female Patches Dog Male Bubbles Fish Female Harley dog Female Goldy Fish Male What do I do so that the Name is the key and the Species and Gender together are the value? while (<>) { chomp; %chars = split(' ', $_); $chars{

rename a file in win98

2002-02-09 Thread Chris Zampese
Just wondering if anyone has any bright ideas on how to rename a file in Win98. I have tried the following... my $old="C:/sentslips/sentslipstemp.txt"; my $new="C:/sentslips/sentslips1.txt"; rename($old, $new); But no luck, the sctipt runs without errors (I am running with the -w switch a

Win32::ActAcc : More Information Needed

2002-02-09 Thread Abhra Debroy
Hello Can you please.. 1. suggest me where I can get more details information regarding this module ? 2. give me name of some good site of Code for that module Thanking You In advance . Abhra -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problem with perl module installation

2002-02-09 Thread shilpa deshpande
Hi All, Recently, I've started using perl modules. I found that if I download a perl module and install it in the same directory as that of the module name, I can run my perl programs , which uses that module, ONLY from that directory and NOT from OTHER directories. Can anybody help me where I

Win32::ActAcc : How to print event details into Text file

2002-02-09 Thread Abhra Debroy
Hi All In the below script we can print event details into console window by debug_spin(1). Now how can I print those event details in a text file ? __ use strict; use Win32::OLE; use Win32::ActAcc; sub main { print "\n"."a