RE: Newbie Help please.

2002-03-31 Thread Timothy Johnson
As for the second question, the answer is yes and no. As far as the programmer is concerned for the most part the basic difference between arrays and hashes is that hashes have named keys, but you will normally use them in different situations. They are also stored differently, but I admi

RE: unallowed chars

2002-03-31 Thread Timothy Johnson
Call me on any Friday. I'll probably be more than willing. :P -Original Message- From: Jenda Krynicky To: Teresa Raymond Cc: Perl Beginners List Sent: 3/30/02 4:47 AM Subject: re: unallowed chars P.S.: The fact that I am paranoid doesn't mean they are not out to get me! P.P.S.: Just

Re: A Switch Case for multi-state returns.

2002-03-31 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> >If ( $data{$statefield} ) { > ># OR If ( $data{uc($rs->Fields('state')->value)} ) { > > # Process data > >} Arg! Don't do that nesting of the if!, use: if (condition1) { #action 1 } elsif (condition2) { #action 2 } else { #default } > SWITCH: { > >

Re: Module Install problem

2002-03-31 Thread Connie Chan
Well, I just found that I can install it by MIME::Decoder::Base64, however, why does the problem exist ? What can I do if I see these loop-back error occur ? - Original Message - From: "Connie Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 5:20 AM Subject:

Re: Using a module in the current pwd

2002-03-31 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Archer [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>how can I use a module that is located in the same directory as my .pl file? *>I'm searching for an equivalent to the C++ #include "headerfile.h" directive, *>which includes a header located in the current pwd. http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_in

Module Install problem

2002-03-31 Thread Connie Chan
Dear all, I have a problem for installing module MIME::Base64. I am using ActiveState Perl on Win32 OS. When I try to use ppm "install MIME::Base64", I got : Error installing package 'MIME-Base64': Could not locate a PPD file for package MIME-Base64 When I try to use ppm3, "install MIME::Bas

Re: use of HTML::Parser, HTML::FormatText

2002-03-31 Thread drieux
On Sunday, March 31, 2002, at 11:50 , M z wrote: > hello, > > in conjunction, I was looking into this module HTML to > take out all the HTML I have in several files. > Namely, the data I want is between tags > data I would look at getting the HTML::TreeBuilder module - sounds like you need to g

use of HTML::Parser, HTML::FormatText

2002-03-31 Thread M z
hello, in conjunction, I was looking into this module HTML to take out all the HTML I have in several files. Namely, the data I want is between tags data does anyone have any practical experience using this module to do just that? what I really want to do is read in a huge file, say slurp it i

installing module

2002-03-31 Thread M z
hi I downloaded an HTML module from CPan, downloaded to my windows 98 machine, where I have Active Perl v5.6 installed. I downloaded it to the C:/Perl/lib directory and after unzipping and untarring, ran perl makefile.pl this was successful, but then from instructions, I was asked to install f

Re: GD::Graph

2002-03-31 Thread drieux
On Sunday, March 31, 2002, at 05:05 , Josue Garayua wrote: > GD::Graph::chart I assume that you were trying something on the form $graph = GD::Graph::chart->new(400, 300); when it blew up??? OYE! I think I see the problem - the documentation shows the above illustration but the wordi

Using a module in the current pwd

2002-03-31 Thread Archer
Hi, how can I use a module that is located in the same directory as my .pl file? I'm searching for an equivalent to the C++ #include "headerfile.h" directive, which includes a header located in the current pwd. Thanks Robert Spielmann -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For addition

Re: A Switch Case for multi-state returns.

2002-03-31 Thread drieux
>> ??- >> @state="MA CI DE IN OH"; let me try that another way - without the bugs: vladimir: 81:] perl Switch.pl MA CI bob OH Process Says: MA_response Process Says: CI_response we do not know about state bob Mr Wizard the stateField OH unguarded at Switch.pl line 41. vladimir: 82:] sed 's/^/##

A Switch Case for multi-state returns.

2002-03-31 Thread drieux
On Sunday, March 31, 2002, at 08:25 , Zeus Odin wrote: > #!D:\perl\bin\perl -w > use strict; > my %data; > > # fill in 11 other states > my @state = qw(MA CI DE IN OH); > @data{ @state } = (1) x @state; [..] >If ( $data{$statefield} ) { ># OR If ( $data{uc($rs->Fields('state')->value)} )

More Speculation on LIB v. Site/Lib

2002-03-31 Thread drieux
On Sunday, March 31, 2002, at 04:27 , Jonathan E. Paton wrote: [..] > >> By the way, why there is a folder call LIB >> while other one is Site/Lib , but they just >> put modules too.. any difference ? > > Only speculating: [ really well reasoned argument deleted ] { this is probably 'deep ba

Re: Two Strategies for Delivering Modules - or why ppm et al

2002-03-31 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
drieux [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>At one facility we just 'home rolled' a solution in the *>'build system' that outputted solaris packages - with *>all of the stock versioning in it so that people on *>the 'production network' could simply do Solaris packages aren't really 'home rolling' and

RE: If statement

2002-03-31 Thread Zeus Odin
Please note the error (WRONG) below. Apologies. -- #!D:\perl\bin\perl -w use strict; my %data; # fill in 11 other states my @state = qw(MA CI DE IN OH); # Make each element of @state a key of hash %data # Set each value equal to 1 (true) # Refer to Perl Cookbook # Recipe 4

Two Strategies for Delivering Modules - or why ppm et al

2002-03-31 Thread drieux
On Sunday, March 31, 2002, at 04:27 , Jonathan E. Paton wrote: >> Would anybody tell me what's the difference >> between using ppm to install a module and >> downloading it and puting it in my site/lib/? > > Yeah, it works properly and is easier. On Unix, > modules are installed using 'make', w

RE: If statement

2002-03-31 Thread Zeus Odin
#!D:\perl\bin\perl -w use strict; my %data; # fill in 11 other states my @state = qw(MA CI DE IN OH); # Make each element of @state a key of hash %data # Set each value equal to 1 (true) # Refer to Perl Cookbook # Recipe 4.7: Finding Elements in One Array but Not Another $data{ @state } = (

Re: Newbie Help please.

2002-03-31 Thread Ahmed Moustafa
Sa wrote: > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > $map{"red"} = "apple"; > $map{"green"} = "grass"; > $map{"blue"} = "ocean"; > print "A string please: "; chomp ($some_string = ); > print "The value for $some_string is $map($some_string)\n"; > > When I run it though I get the following complaint from perl: > > A

Re: About modules

2002-03-31 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> Would anybody tell me what's the difference > between using ppm to install a module and > downloading it and puting it in my site/lib/? Yeah, it works properly and is easier. On Unix, modules are installed using 'make', which isn't available on Windows. If you look carefully, you can probably

Re: Newbie Help please.

2002-03-31 Thread Billie
Hi The term $map($some_string) actually means 2 scalar variables, one is $map and the other is $some_string. You get warning of uninitialized variable because $map is never declared before. The correct way to refer to a value in hash is $map{$some_string}. I think there is a typo in the book Ho

GD::Graph

2002-03-31 Thread Josue Garayua
Hi: I'm trying to use GD::Graph module but I can't. When I try to display a data graphic, return the following error messages: Can't locate object method "new" via package "GD::Graph::chart" at C:\Inetpub\www\cgi-bin\grafica.pl line 15. Why this can't locate object method "new"? and method "set"

Newbie Help please.

2002-03-31 Thread SA
Hi Everyone- I'm just starting to learn perl programing. I'm doing this through the O'Reilly book: Learning Perl. I seem to be stuck on hashes. I was doing the exercise in the back of chapter 5. This program wants a hash with 3 keys and 3 values. It then asks for a string. That string is the

About modules

2002-03-31 Thread Connie Chan
Hi all, would anybody tell me what's the difference between I use ppm to install a module and I download it and put it in my site/lib/ ? by the way ? why there is a folder call LIB while other one is Site/Lib , but they just put modules too.. any difference ? Have a nice day, Connie