Re: Difference between $count++ and ++$count

2002-12-06 Thread Dr. Poo
HAHAHAHAHAHA! -Chris On Friday 06 December 2002 03:51 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > He forgot to mention the: > > use Advil; > > $pills = new Advil(2); > unless($pills->take(orally)) { > sleep 40; > } > > http://danconia.org > > >

This perl script does nothing....

2002-12-06 Thread Jonathan Daniels
Hi, Hopefully this isn't too stupid of a question. Thanks in advance for any help. Can anyone tell me why, when I feed a file of the following format Date,Time,Action,Result,Client,Server,From,To,To,To,...,Subject,Size,SMTPID 20021128,9,Message Accepted,,10.0.0.1,,[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PRO

RE: Regex

2002-12-06 Thread Steve Main
Thanks Gang, I ended up with "if ( $line =~ m/^(ORA-\d+):/ ) {" -Original Message- From: Paul Kraus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 11:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Perl Subject: RE: Regex Ummm no your are correct. I assumed it was imbedded in other text

Re: Difference between $count++ and ++$count

2002-12-06 Thread david
Paul Johnson wrote: > But it might. The behaviour is undefined. The compiler may do as it > will. Google for "sequence point" if you want to find out more. > > The behaviour in Perl is undefined too, but more in the sense that the > behaviour has not been defined rather than that the behaviour

Re: Snagging the last page of a report

2002-12-06 Thread John W. Krahn
Paul Kraus wrote: > > My reports seem to perform a form feed with "^L" this doesn't seem to > all me to find it with regexpr. Do I have to search for the ASCII > equivalent? What does this translate to and where did you look to find > out? The form feed character is reresented by \f (or \cL or \0

CRLF UNIX->windows && windows ->unix

2002-12-06 Thread Mark Goland
Hi guys, I am trying to write a client/server app. The problem I am having, has to do with line terminators. my questions is when I connect from unix to windows do I need to set $\= CRLF and form windows to unix $\=LF ?? also is there a method to deturnime which machine is connecting to which ??. I

Re: Difference between $count++ and ++$count

2002-12-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 02:46:13PM -0800, david wrote: > btw, the ++$i / ++$i gives you a 1 thing behaves differently in other > programming languages. For example, try the following in C++: > > #include > void main{ > int i=2; > int j=++i/++i; > cout< } > > won't give y

Re: Difference between $count++ and ++$count

2002-12-06 Thread david
Jeff 'Japhy' Pinyan wrote: > > Strictly speaking, there is another major difference no one has mentioned > yet (and that many people might have trouble understanding). Using > $count++ returns a NUMBER OR STRING, and then increments $count's value. > ++$count increments $count's value, and retur

Re: Difference between $count++ and ++$count

2002-12-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 04:22:19PM -0500, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: > On Dec 6, Paul Johnson said: > > >On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:58:37AM -0500, Danny Miller wrote: > > > >> Strictly speaking, ++$count is faster than $count++. > > > >Strictly speaking, perl will convert $count++ to ++$count if i

RE: Seek tell

2002-12-06 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Dec 6, Paul Kraus said: >if ($data=~m/\f([0-9][0-9]\/[0-9][0-9]\/[0-9][0-9])/){ > $pos=tell (FILE); > print "$pos --pos\n"; > last; >} You don't want tell(FILE). You want to know WHERE in $data the pattern matched. For that, use the @- array (if you've got Perl 5.6

RE: Seek tell

2002-12-06 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Paul Kraus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 4:50 PM > To: 'Bob Showalter'; 'Perl' > Subject: RE: Seek tell > > suggest you add: use Fcntl qw(:seek); then you can use the SEEK_* constants to make your code more readable. > ope

RE: simple Perl prog

2002-12-06 Thread Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO
So do you want to bring together all the data related to Peter, James, etc, so you can write another file with all the data together or you are searching for Peter and ONLY want to write out the data of Peter? Wags ;) -Original Message- From: Alfa rOMEO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Re: Difference between $count++ and ++$count

2002-12-06 Thread wiggins
He forgot to mention the: use Advil; $pills = new Advil(2); unless($pills->take(orally)) { sleep 40; } http://danconia.org On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 16:22:19 -0500 (EST), "Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 6, Paul Johnson sai

RE: Seek tell

2002-12-06 Thread Paul Kraus
open FILE, "<$filename" or die "Couldn't open $filename : $!\n"; seek (FILE,0,2); for($i=-2048;1;$i-=2048){ seek (FILE,$i,1); $/=undef; $data=; if ($data=~m/\f([0-9][0-9]\/[0-9][0-9]\/[0-9][0-9])/){ $pos=tell (FILE); print "$pos --pos\n"; last; } } seek

RE: simple Perl prog

2002-12-06 Thread Kipp, James
what have you tried ? -Original Message- From: Alfa rOMEO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 4:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: simple Perl prog Hi, I have a problem and search after a simple perl solution: I want to search in a file after a Username and w

RE: Seek tell

2002-12-06 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Paul Kraus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 4:42 PM > To: Perl > Subject: Seek tell > > > I am reading through a file. > I am testing it for a regexrp. If expr is true then I save the pos of > the file to a variable using tell. > >

Seek tell

2002-12-06 Thread Paul Kraus
I am reading through a file. I am testing it for a regexrp. If expr is true then I save the pos of the file to a variable using tell. But it always the eof position an not the position directly before the match. Any thoughts? Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company 216.267.5775 Voice

simple Perl prog

2002-12-06 Thread Alfa rOMEO
Hi, I have a problem and search after a simple perl solution: I want to search in a file after a Username and write all lines with this username in a new file. Example: TestUSERPeterFAX011234567 TestUSERPeterPHONE456789 and so on Thank u for answer. Best regards Captain Mike _

Re: references in perl...

2002-12-06 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Dec 6, christopher j bottaro said: >i'm a c/c++ programmer trying to learn perl. there are just some things that >are much more easily done in a language like perl than in c/c++ i've found >out...=) anyways, i'm reading a short tutorial about references. am i wrong >in thinking they are like

Please help Simple Perl programm

2002-12-06 Thread Alfa rOMEO
Hi, I have a problem and search for a simple perl solution: Here are the task: Source File: Domainname Username Field Fieldname Example: Test Peter FAX 0112345678 I want search in the source file after a special entry in the Fieldname . Want to read the Username and write then all li

SetReadMode doc

2002-12-06 Thread Rob Das
Hi All: I'm trying to find documentation on SetReadMode. It's in CPAN module "Term::ReadKey", which I can't persuade to work with Perl2exe (for NT AND Solaris AND HP-UX), so I'd like to pick out the bits of code I need and put them in my own script. First, I'd like to understand what SetReadMode i

Re: Difference between $count++ and ++$count

2002-12-06 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Dec 6, Paul Johnson said: >On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:58:37AM -0500, Danny Miller wrote: > >> Strictly speaking, ++$count is faster than $count++. > >Strictly speaking, perl will convert $count++ to ++$count if it can. Strictly speaking, there is another major difference no one has mentioned y

Re: Difference between $count++ and ++$count

2002-12-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:58:37AM -0500, Danny Miller wrote: > Strictly speaking, ++$count is faster than $count++. Strictly speaking, perl will convert $count++ to ++$count if it can. -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For ad

RE: default C compiler

2002-12-06 Thread Yacketta, Ronald
Yes, You can dl and install a Solaris compatible version of gcc and use it to install perl I do not have the url handy, but their is a sun page for third party (GNU type) software. -Ron -Original Message- From: Tony Yi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 15:30 T

RE: Difference between $count++ and ++$count

2002-12-06 Thread Danny Miller
Well, it depends how you use them. Strictly speaking, ++$count is faster than $count++. say $count = 5 $num1 = $count++; #$num1 would = 5 and $count would = 6 $num2 = ++$count; #$num2 and $count would equal 6 Regards, Danny -Original Message- From: Mystik Gotan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Hash Question

2002-12-06 Thread Jan Gruber
Hi, Sean && List >$Hash{"$User"}{"$Page"}{"$NumTimesVisited"} = $ANumber; > Is this possible? Sure, this will work. I would decrease the hash depth a bit: $Hash{$User}{$Page} = $NumTimesVisited; > If so, how would I traverse this, as I will not know > before hand the values in the hash; I wi

RES: Hash Question

2002-12-06 Thread Igor Sutton Lopes
You can do something like this: %url_options_hash = ("times_visited"=>0); %url_hash = ("this_url"=>\%url_options_hash); %usr_hash = ("igor"=>\%url_hash); print $usr_hash{"igor"}->{"this_url"}->{"times_visited"}, "\n"; $usr_hash{"igor"}->{"this_url"}->{"times_visited"} = 1; print $

default C compiler

2002-12-06 Thread Tony Yi
sun solaris have come with perl, But it is use cc as default c compiler. I don't have license Sun C compiler, Can I change to C compiler to gcc. Thanks in advance -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question: How do i start a program and get is pid ?

2002-12-06 Thread Hannes Krueger
>I want to start a program in perl but i need to keep >the pid to be able to kill it in the future. > >For exmple: > >system("top &"); > >this would start "top", but then i wouldn't be able to >identify the process in order to kill it. Is there a >way to do this (other than using fork) ? Have yo

Re: Newest Version

2002-12-06 Thread Christopher D . Lewis
http://www.cpan.org/src/ links from that page get you where you want. Install directions linked from perl.org are at http://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2002/07/18/580ann/INSTALL Best regards, Chris On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 01:40 PM, Paul Kraus wrote: I see that the newest version of P

Re: references in perl...

2002-12-06 Thread christopher j bottaro
cool thanks. and yes i'm reading perlreftut but not perlref. perlref looks a bit too exhaustive for my purposes now. perhaps in the future when i become more advanced in the ways of perl. and Timothy, yeah i'm sure there are difference of course, but i guess i was asking very generally if it

RE: references in perl...

2002-12-06 Thread wiggins
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 13:57:33 -0600, christopher j bottaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > i'm a c/c++ programmer trying to learn perl. there are just some things that > are much more easily done in a language like perl than in c/c++ i've fou

RE: references in perl...

2002-12-06 Thread Timothy Johnson
Yes and no. I think that if you understand the concept of pointers, then you will be able to understand references more easily, but from what keep hearing from c/c++ people, there are differences. Perhaps someone else on the list can clarify more. One thing that Perl can do with references that

references in perl...

2002-12-06 Thread christopher j bottaro
hello, i'm a c/c++ programmer trying to learn perl. there are just some things that are much more easily done in a language like perl than in c/c++ i've found out...=) anyways, i'm reading a short tutorial about references. am i wrong in thinking they are like pointers in c/c++? -- christoph

RE: Snagging the last page of a report

2002-12-06 Thread Paul Kraus
My reports seem to perform a form feed with "^L" this doesn't seem to all me to find it with regexpr. Do I have to search for the ASCII equivalent? What does this translate to and where did you look to find out? Paul > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Snagging the last page of a report

2002-12-06 Thread wiggins
p.s. see perldoc perlvar and search for "INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR" http://danconia.org On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 13:31:48 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Perl special variable it is the "input separator". From the camel (the real one): > > "Entirely u

RE: Snagging the last page of a report

2002-12-06 Thread wiggins
Perl special variable it is the "input separator". From the camel (the real one): "Entirely undefining $/ makes the next line input operation slurp in the remainder of the file as one scalar value." Which is how it was used in the first post. See $\ for the output separator. It is a good idea

RE: Snagging the last page of a report

2002-12-06 Thread Paul Kraus
What is $/ Is this a made up variable or a Perl special variable? I don't recall coming across it in the learning Perl book. But I have just started the programming Perl book. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On > Behalf Of zentara > Sent: Frid

RE: Total Newbie

2002-12-06 Thread Dylan Boudreau
I bought the O'Reilly book "Learning Perl" as well as the O'Reilly Perl pocket reference. I found the learning perl book to be a great starting point and the pocket reference is invaluable for looking things up quickly. Dylan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

RE: Regex

2002-12-06 Thread Paul Kraus
Ummm no your are correct. I assumed it was imbedded in other text so do this instead. m/\bORA-(\d+)\b/ > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 2:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Regex > > > > m/\s*ORA-(\d+)\

Re: Compare script fails (Solved!)

2002-12-06 Thread John W. Krahn
Michael Weber wrote: > > It was a trailing space in $_ that was getting me. I changed a chomp > to a chop and it now finds the string. It would be better to use s/\s+$// to remove trailing whitespace as it removes _only_ whitespace whereas chop will remove _any_ character from the end of the st

RE: Regex

2002-12-06 Thread bengleto
> m/\s*ORA-(\d+)\s+/ Correct me if I'm wrong, but wont this match fail if there are no spaces after ORA-600 I would think this is better if ($line =~ m/ORA-(\d+)/){$number = $1;} > > Hello list, > > > > I am trying to code a regex to pull out the number part of > > "ORA-600" or 600. > > > >

Re: Regex

2002-12-06 Thread John W. Krahn
Steve Main wrote: > > Hello list, Hello, > I am trying to code a regex to pull out the number part of "ORA-600" or 600. > > I have started with "if ($line =~ m/^(ORA-)(\-[0-9]*)$/) {" but this > is obviously wrong. Yes, it is trying to match ORA--600 (two hyphens.) > Anyone out there willi

RE: Regex

2002-12-06 Thread Paul Kraus
Since I am not familiar with your data I will assume that it occurs anywhere is $line you want to still match. m/\s*ORA-(\d+)\s+/ Any spaces characters followed by ORA- followed by any digits 0-9 followed by any space characters. Using the () you have placed that portion of the match into variable

Regex

2002-12-06 Thread Steve Main
Hello list, I am trying to code a regex to pull out the number part of "ORA-600" or 600. I have started with "if ($line =~ m/^(ORA-)(\-[0-9]*)$/) {" but this is obviously wrong. Anyone out there willing to get me on the right track? thanks Steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Difference between $count++ and ++$count

2002-12-06 Thread simran
Yup... good catch... i should run my code rather than just type it in a mail window i guess :-) > Don't you mean ++$count?? > > > my $i = $++count; > > print "$i\n"; > > > > On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 03:54, Mystik Gotan wrote: > > > Hiya, > > > > > > is there any difference between $count++

Problem compiling SNMP::Util

2002-12-06 Thread Anthony . Kernan
I'm having problems compiling perl mod SNMP::Uitl, I get the following error when I do a make test. Any help would be greatly appreciated. gotgraphs# make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl -Iblib/arch -Iblib/lib -I/usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach -I/usr/libdata/perl/5.00503 -e 'use Test::Harness

RE: Total Newbie

2002-12-06 Thread Beau E. Cox
Welcome! http://www.perl.org http://learn.perl.org and the many, many links posted there. Aloha => Beau. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 7:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Total Newbie Ok I am a total newbie whe

RE: Difference between $count++ and ++$count

2002-12-06 Thread Yacketta, Ronald
Gah! bassackwards again :( -Original Message- From: LRMK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 12:11 To: Yacketta, Ronald Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Difference between $count++ and ++$count ++$count will increment $count before it is used $count++ will in

Total Newbie

2002-12-06 Thread ComplexedOne
Ok I am a total newbie when it comes to perl. Could anyone please direct to a site or something that will help me learn and start programing. Any help would be great. Thanks.

Re: Difference between $count++ and ++$count

2002-12-06 Thread LRMK
++$count will increment $count before it is used $count++ will increment $count after it is used - Original Message - From: "Yacketta, Ronald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Mystik Gotan'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 11:02 PM Subject: RE: Differ

RE: Compare script fails (Solved!)

2002-12-06 Thread Michael Weber
It was a trailing space in $_ that was getting me. I changed a chomp to a chop and it now finds the string. Thanx for the tip, and the code! -Michael >>> "Patel, SamirX K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/05/02 05:08PM >>> Could there be extra, non-visible characters attached to the subject coming back?

Re: Difference between $count++ and ++$count

2002-12-06 Thread Dr. Poo
Yes sir there is! And it's quite a goober if you ask me, but very useful. I'll show the difference by example. my $SOME_CONSTANT = 2; # NO MAGIC NUMBERS! (hehe) my $pre_increment = 0; my $post_increment = 0; my $pre_result = ++$pre_increment + $SOME_CONSTANT; my $post_result = $post_i

Re: Difference between $count++ and ++$count

2002-12-06 Thread Dr. Poo
On Friday 06 December 2002 11:09 am, simran wrote: > Yup... > > In program 1 you will get $i to be 1 and then $count will be set to 2 > In program 2 you will get $count to be set to 2 and then assigned to $i > so now $i will also be 2. > > Its just a prcedence thing... > > Program 1 > --

Re: cgi session

2002-12-06 Thread LRMK
dont usehtml file for http://www.mydomain.com/welcome.html use a cgi like http://www.mydomain.com/welcome.pl when u passing user to the page don't just redirect load that page using automated form submit so you can pass the password and username to that page too and validate there if it is wrong r

Re: cgi session

2002-12-06 Thread LRMK
dont usehtml file for http://www.mydomain.com/welcome.html use a cgi like http://www.mydomain.com/welcome.pl when u passing user to the page don't just redirect load that page using automated form submit so you can pass the password and username to that page too and validate there if it is wrong

RE: Difference between $count++ and ++$count

2002-12-06 Thread Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO
$count++ - will display value then add ++$count - will add then display as in where $count = 5; printf "%5d\n", $count++ ; would display 5 and $count would be 6 printf "%5d\n", ++$count ; would add then display 6

Re: Difference between $count++ and ++$count

2002-12-06 Thread simran
Yup... In program 1 you will get $i to be 1 and then $count will be set to 2 In program 2 you will get $count to be set to 2 and then assigned to $i so now $i will also be 2. Its just a prcedence thing... Program 1 -- my $count = 1; my $i = $count++; print "$i\n"; Program 2

Re: Difference between $count++ and ++$count

2002-12-06 Thread stelid-6
Yes it is a differense. code: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $hepp = 3; my $hopp; $hopp =++$hepp; print "hopp: $hopp\n"; $hepp = 3; $hopp = $hepp++; print "hopp: $hopp\n"; Mystik Gotan wrote: > > Hiya, > > is there any difference between $count++ and ++$count? > Just wondering. > >

RE: Difference between $count++ and ++$count

2002-12-06 Thread Paul Kraus
Yes $count++ is incremented afterwards where ++$count is incremented first $a=1 C$=++a$ #c$ gets 2 C$=a$++ #c$ gets 1 and then a$ is increment to 2 Print "$c $a" #returns "1 2". Paul > -Original Message- > From: Mystik Gotan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 11

RE: Difference between $count++ and ++$count

2002-12-06 Thread Yacketta, Ronald
Yes If I recall correctly: ++$count will increment $count after it is used $count++ will increment $count before it is used -Ron -Original Message- From: Mystik Gotan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 11:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Difference between $coun

Difference between $count++ and ++$count

2002-12-06 Thread Mystik Gotan
Hiya, is there any difference between $count++ and ++$count? Just wondering. Thanks. _ Ontvang je Hotmail & Messenger berichten op je mobiele telefoon met Hotmail SMS http://www.msn.nl/jumppage/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EM

RE: Hash Question

2002-12-06 Thread simran
To interate over something like: $abc{'a1'}{'b1'} = $number1 $abc{'a2'}{'b2'} = $number2 $abc{'a3'}{'b3'} = $number3 $abc{'a4'}{'b4'} = $number4 ... You can use: foreach my $key1 (keys %abc) { foreach my $key2 (keys %{$abc{$key1}}) { my $value = $abc{$key1}{$key2} pri

RE: Hash Question

2002-12-06 Thread Sean Rowe
Thank you! -Original Message- From: Bob Showalter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 9:45 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; Beginners@perl. org (E-mail) Subject: RE: Hash Question > -Original Message- > From: Sean Rowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday,

RE: Hash Question

2002-12-06 Thread Sean Rowe
That sounds more like what I want to do. I have a question, though: Since I'm not going to know before hand what my hash values are (as I create them on the fly), how can I iterate through each hash to get each value? -Original Message- From: Igor Sutton Lopes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: Hash Question

2002-12-06 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Sean Rowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 9:30 AM > To: Beginners@perl. org (E-mail) > Subject: Hash Question > > > I need to keep track of a user, all the web pages a user has > visited, and > the number of times the user visited

Re: Hash Question

2002-12-06 Thread Mystik Gotan
I'm not very sure if it works. I'd rather concentate the whole thing. $Hash{"User"} = $ANumber; $Hash{"Page"} .= $ANumber; $Hash{"NumTimesVisited"} .= $ANumber; Also note that you should be using $ in your HashKey calls! -- Bob Erinkveld (Webmaster Insane Hosts) www.insane-hosts.net

Hash Question

2002-12-06 Thread Sean Rowe
I need to keep track of a user, all the web pages a user has visited, and the number of times the user visited each page. I get my information from a log file. Here's how I would like to say it programmatically: $Hash{"$User"}{"$Page"}{"$NumTimesVisited"} = $ANumber; Is this possible?

Re: what is this?

2002-12-06 Thread simran
perldoc perlrun On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 22:39, Tom Allison wrote: > simran wrote: > >>From the docs... > > > > > > -S makes perl use the PATH environment variable to search > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 12:49, Tom Allison wrote: > > > >>eval 'exec /usr/bin/perl -S $0 ${1+"$@

Re: what is this?

2002-12-06 Thread Tom Allison
simran wrote: From the docs... -S makes perl use the PATH environment variable to search for the script (unless the name of the script starts with a slash). Typically this is used to emulate #! startup on machines that don't support #!, in the fol-

Re: Snagging the last page of a report

2002-12-06 Thread zentara
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:24:03 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kraus) wrote: >>snip "How to seek last 2k?" Here's a start for you, getting the last 2k of the file. Looping and checking for last page break is left up to you. :-) #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $filename = shift or die "Usage: $0 f