Re: arrays and hashes

2003-06-03 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 08:10 PM, Stuart White wrote: Ok, I think I get it. the $_ is printing the player name, (though I don't know why I'm not using $1 instead for that) $1 contains the first capture of the last match we did. When you're using match variables like that, store them somewh

RE: DBI and Unique Keys

2003-06-03 Thread Bob Showalter
[Mark: please post only plain text, and don't top-post. I've moved your reply to the bottom] Mark Martin wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Bob Showalter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Mark Martin'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 2:14 PM > Subject:

RE: What is this doing ??

2003-06-03 Thread Bob Showalter
T.S. Ravi Shankar wrote: > Hi all : > > I see these lines at the very beginning lines of a perl program. > Could anyone explain what this is doing ?? > > eval '(exit $?0)' && eval 'exec perl $PERL_OPTIONS $0 ${1+"$@"}' > & eval 'exec perl $PERL_OPTIONS $0 $argv:q' > if 0; > > In what wa

RE: Wirting to a log file with time

2003-06-03 Thread Bob Showalter
Vema, Venkata wrote: > HI > The following pl pgm executes when the process "srvtst26.pl "is > stopped. It gets started automatically started thru crontab by > command "ahdxapi.init" what i want now is i want to write to a log > file with time when it gets started "ahdxapi.init" > can any one help

RE: DBI and Unique Keys

2003-06-03 Thread NYIMI Jose (BMB)
use DBI;use DBD::Oracle; is redundant use DBI; is sufficient. José. > -Original Message- > From: Mark Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 12:47 PM > To: Bob Showalter; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: DBI and Unique Keys > > > Bob, > here is the code with SQ

Re: DBI and Unique Keys

2003-06-03 Thread Mark Martin
Bob, here is the code with SQL embedded. It's a very simple extract from one Dbase and insert into another : #!/usr/bin/perl use CGI qw(fatalsToBrowser); use DBI; use DBD::Oracle; $dbh1 = DBI->connect( "dbi:Oracle:SOURCE_SID", "username", "pword" ) or die "Can't connect to Oracle database: $DBI

Re: ???

2003-06-03 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: WC -Sx- Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hey! > > Has anyone heard from (or about) TCHRIST ? You mean Tom Christiansen? http://search.cpan.org/author/TOMC/ > Is he alive and well? I hope so. Jenda = [EMAIL PROTECTED] === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz = When it comes to wine, women and song

Re: Installing Heap Module

2003-06-03 Thread Janek Schleicher
Ying Liu wrote at Fri, 30 May 2003 10:48:06 -0500: > When I install Heap module, I don't have the superuser permission and set > the install location by run: > %perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/mz/hd/liuyi/local/Heap-0.50 > %make > %make test > > The above three commands run OK, but after I run '%make in

RE: Little nonsense script stats script

2003-06-03 Thread Jaschar Otto
sorry for my crappy english :-) i'm tired, normally it's better but after 2 nights with less than 4 hours of sleep i cannot really write logical sentences anymore ;-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: arrays and hashes

2003-06-03 Thread Janek Schleicher
John W. Krahn wrote at Mon, 02 Jun 2003 14:44:41 -0700: > You should probably use an array to keep the correct order and a hash to > keep the count: Or to use Tie::IxHash. Greetings, Janek -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Little nonsense script stats script

2003-06-03 Thread Jaschar Otto
I'm always an very curious guy and i just because of that i made a little script that analyises my scripts, extracts the subs, counts lines, mys, uses, subs, etc... maybe some of you are as courious as i am but too lazy to do that for yourself, so i want to share it with the perl community. totall

RE: cgi LWP::Simple script and Apache

2003-06-03 Thread Ben Crane
> > Testing with mutliple unknown factors in the mix > causes an exponential increase in the difficulty of > debugging. Pretty much done all that... > Amen to that one. That's what I was tryign to get > him to do was narrow down and rule out different > things. > Like, if he's trying to get a ur

Re: arrays and hashes

2003-06-03 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stuart White wrote: > This does make it clearer, but not entirely. Is this > James wrote: >> This is a common Perl technique, often used with a >> hash named '%seen' >> because that's exactly what it's keeping track of. >> $1 is where you >> were capturing your n

Alternative module for RPM::Database on redhat 9.0

2003-06-03 Thread Ramprasad
I have been using RPM::Database so long but that does not get installed on redhat 9.0 ( Gives weird make errors ) Is there an alternative module that I can use. I need to query the existing rpm db and create a hash of all installed modules vs their version-release like %rpms = ( 'at

What is this doing ??

2003-06-03 Thread T.S. Ravi Shankar
Hi all : I see these lines at the very beginning lines of a perl program. Could anyone explain what this is doing ?? eval '(exit $?0)' && eval 'exec perl $PERL_OPTIONS $0 ${1+"$@"}' & eval 'exec perl $PERL_OPTIONS $0 $argv:q' if 0; In what way "eval" help here in traping the errors ??

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2003-06-03 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Hey! Has anyone heard from (or about) TCHRIST ? Is he alive and well? ???/Sx ? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: arrays and hashes

2003-06-03 Thread Stuart White
This does make it clearer, but not entirely. Is this what is happening: the loop starts, and goes immediately into the if statement. when the regex finds a line with "Jump Shot" it stores that in $2, and the player name in $1. The next thing it does, and I'm not quite sure how, is it populates a

Re: arrays and hashes

2003-06-03 Thread Stuart White
Ok, I think I get it. the $_ is printing the player name, (though I don't know why I'm not using $1 instead for that) and the $linehash{$_} means, in English, "the value of the key stored in $_" is that right? Thanks for all your help. --- James Edward Gray II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Print

Wirting to a log file with time

2003-06-03 Thread Vema, Venkata
HI The following pl pgm executes when the process "srvtst26.pl "is stopped. It gets started automatically started thru crontab by command "ahdxapi.init" what i want now is i want to write to a log file with time when it gets started "ahdxapi.init" can any one help me on this apprecitated ur

Re: arrays and hashes

2003-06-03 Thread James Edward Gray II
Print it like this, it's easier: print "$_ : $linehash{$_}\n" foreach (sort keys %linehash); James On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 07:03 PM, Stuart White wrote: One more thing, if I want to sort the hash alphabetically by key where do I put the sort function? I tried it before the while loop that

Re: arrays and hashes

2003-06-03 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 06:54 PM, Stuart White wrote: I don't understand this syntax: $linehash{$1}++; Could you explain it to me? Absolutely. This is a common Perl technique, often used with a hash named '%seen' because that's exactly what it's keeping track of. $1 is where you were ca

Re: arrays and hashes

2003-06-03 Thread Stuart White
One more thing, if I want to sort the hash alphabetically by key where do I put the sort function? I tried it before the while loop that does the printing and on the each function (sort(each(%linehash))) and that just gave me numbers first, colon, player names. and I figure that it wouldn't work

Wirting to a log file with time

2003-06-03 Thread Vema, Venkata
HI The following pl pgm executes when the process "srvtst26.pl "is stopped. It gets started automatically started thru crontab by command "ahdxapi.init" what i want now is i want to write to a log file with time when it gets started "ahdxapi.init" can any one help me on this apprecitated ur ear

Re: arrays and hashes

2003-06-03 Thread Stuart White
Hey, thanks that worked! --- James Edward Gray II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't seen any reason to use the array at all, so > I've removed it. > If you had one that I just didn't know about, send > it on back. That's how I tried to solve this piecewise, I thought an array was necessary,

Re: arrays and hashes

2003-06-03 Thread Stuart White
Hey, thanks that worked! --- James Edward Gray II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't seen any reason to use the array at all, so > I've removed it. > If you had one that I just didn't know about, send > it on back. That's how I tried to solve this piecewise, I thought an array was necessary,

writing to a log file with time

2003-06-03 Thread Vema, Venkata
HI The following pl pgm executes when the process "srvtst26.pl "is stopped. It gets started automatically started thru crontab by command "ahdxapi.init" what i want now is i want to write to a log file with time when it gets started "ahdxapi.init" can any one help me on this apprecitated ur ear

Re: arrays and hashes

2003-06-03 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 05:12 PM, Stuart White wrote: Hmm, this might actually be more productive I showed less abstract example lines. Not sure I understand perfectly yet, but I'll give it another go. I don't seen any reason to use the array at all, so I've removed it. If you had one that

Re: arrays and hashes

2003-06-03 Thread Stuart White
> You should probably use an array to keep the correct > order and a hash to > keep the count: > I don't really understand what you mean. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com -- To unsubscr

Re: arrays and hashes

2003-06-03 Thread Stuart White
Hmm, I'm not sure, but I don't want to keep rewriting my hash. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Shouldn't you only set the values of the array once > you have gone through > the entire file? Otherwise You keep rewriting your > hash. > > %linehash = @line; > > > > "The right word may be effective

Re: arrays and hashes

2003-06-03 Thread royce . wells
Shouldn't you only set the values of the array once you have gone through the entire file? Otherwise You keep rewriting your hash. %linehash = @line; "The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause." --Mark Twai

Re: arrays and hashes

2003-06-03 Thread Stuart White
Hmm, this might actually be more productive I showed less abstract example lines. (I couldn't do this before as I didn't have the code in front of me.) Here is an example of the lines that my code is selecting and then extracting a player name and jump shot attempt(working on this part) then putti

RE: Can I compile perl so I can run a perl script without having perl installed?

2003-06-03 Thread De Joe, Jackie
Thank you for the information. I'm looking forward to trying out this new find! Ms. Jackie :-) > -Original Message- > From: De Joe, Jackie > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 6:31 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Can I compile perl so I can run a perl script without hav

Re: arrays and hashes

2003-06-03 Thread John W. Krahn
Stuart White wrote: > > I am reading in a file of one line sentences, and then > selecting to store several sentences into an array > based upon the presence of some key words. I then > want to assign the array to a hash. The output of the > array will look something like this: > > Player1: 1 >

Re: arrays and hashes

2003-06-03 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 04:02 PM, Stuart White wrote: Also, to get the numbers to the right of the colon, I'd have to have a count for each occurrence of each player, how might I do that? Perhaps with something like: my %hash; $hash{ (split /:/, $_)[0] }++ foreach (@array); That just walks t

arrays and hashes

2003-06-03 Thread Stuart White
I am reading in a file of one line sentences, and then selecting to store several sentences into an array based upon the presence of some key words. I then want to assign the array to a hash. The output of the array will look something like this: Player1: 1 Player2: 1 Player3: 1 Player1: 2 Playe

Re: pseudohash

2003-06-03 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 11:55:54AM -0700, Gupta, Sharad wrote: > Hi All, > > I was looking for a pointer on the web to understand them, something like a tutorial. > Any help is appreciated. Unless it is for purely academic interest, just forget you ever heard about them. They were always experi

Re: pseudohash

2003-06-03 Thread James Edward Gray II
I'll leave it to others to point out a good tutorial, since the ones I can name are in books. However, just FYI, this is a quote from the changes document of Perl 5.8.0: The current user-visible implementation of pseudo- hashes (the weird use of the first array element) is deprecated starting f

Re: Error

2003-06-03 Thread lobach
Through much digging I found AddScrollbars was defined in Tk::Frame.. #!perl -w # Pchopler.pl use strict; use Tk 800.000; # These are all the modules that we are using in this script. use Tk::Frame; use Tk::TextUndo; use Tk::Text; use Tk::Scrollbar; use Tk::Menu; use Tk::Menubutton; use Tk::Adjust

pseudohash

2003-06-03 Thread Gupta, Sharad
Hi All, I was looking for a pointer on the web to understand them, something like a tutorial. Any help is appreciated. Thanx, -Sharad

Re: Reading string "00" from a file

2003-06-03 Thread Sockmonkey
> > The problem is one of my strings is "00". It gets written out fine, but gets > > read in as "0". How can I stop this from happening? > > > > Perl has no problem reading a string like this. Are you sure you don't add > it with 0 or do something else numeric in between? It works for me. Ah, you

Re: Reading string "00" from a file

2003-06-03 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Sockmonkey wrote: > My program writes string to a text file and reads them back in. I do it like > this: > > print OUT "$str\n"; > > and then > > $str = ; > chomp($str); > > The problem is one of my strings is "00". It gets written out fine, but gets > read in as "0". How can I

Reading string "00" from a file

2003-06-03 Thread Sockmonkey
My program writes string to a text file and reads them back in. I do it like this: print OUT "$str\n"; and then $str = ; chomp($str); The problem is one of my strings is "00". It gets written out fine, but gets read in as "0". How can I stop this from happening? Thx -- To unsubscribe, e-ma

Re: How do I market scripts and what should I be aware of.

2003-06-03 Thread Motherofperls
In a message dated 6/2/03 10:10:40 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > -T > Thanks, I will put this post in my notes

Re: How do I market scripts and what should I be aware of.

2003-06-03 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Also I'm using -t switch and it doesn't throw an error on my win98 box > but on the Unix server it does. And when I check the error file it > doesn't record the error. -t Like -T, but taint checks will issue warnings rather than fatal e

Fwd: How do I market scripts and what should I be aware of.

2003-06-03 Thread Motherofperls
I use a BEGIN{open(STDERR, "./error.txt"} in my script to track errors and trace variables etc.  But I think a friend has pointed the error out to me. I'm checking now. --- Begin Message --- I use a BEGIN{open(STDERR, "./error.txt"} in my script to track errors and trace variables etc.  But I think

RE: How do I market scripts and what should I be aware of.

2003-06-03 Thread Bob Showalter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... > Also I'm using -t switch and it doesn't throw an error on my win98 > box but on the Unix server it does. And when I check the error file > it doesn't record the error. What's the error message? Did you read perldoc perlsec? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROT

RE: How do I market scripts and what should I be aware of.

2003-06-03 Thread Dan Muey
> I am new to marketing. I know how to sell on ebay and that's about > it. I > don't know how to protect myself with legal jargon. Can anyone point > me in the > right direction? Hire a lawyer? Google.com search for gnu license > > I've written a script that installs a Flash file on the users

Re: How do I market scripts and what should I be aware of.

2003-06-03 Thread George Schlossnagle
What does the first paragraph have to do with the rest of them? On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 12:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to marketing. I know how to sell on ebay and that's about it. I don't know how to protect myself with legal jargon. Can anyone point me in the right direct

Re: converting arrayname to string or vice-versa

2003-06-03 Thread Rob Dixon
Rob Dixon wrote: > Tassilo Von Parseval wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 07:53:06AM -0400 zentara wrote: > > > > > This one is puzzling me. > > > I know it's in the faq, to not use variables for variable > > > naming, but I find it odd that I can't get a "stringified" form > > > of a variable nam

How do I market scripts and what should I be aware of.

2003-06-03 Thread Motherofperls
I am new to marketing. I know how to sell on ebay and that's about it. I don't know how to protect myself with legal jargon. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I've written a script that installs a Flash file on the users server using LWP and gathers info for the text files that the

Re: converting arrayname to string or vice-versa

2003-06-03 Thread Rob Dixon
Tassilo Von Parseval wrote: > On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 07:53:06AM -0400 zentara wrote: > > > This one is puzzling me. > > I know it's in the faq, to not use variables for variable naming, > > but I find it odd that I can't get a "stringified" form of a > > variable name, maybe from the symbol table?

Reset installation environment?

2003-06-03 Thread Michael Muratet
Greetings I had to reinstall perl5 when I had problems with the version bundled with RedHat 9.0. I made a bone-head mistake with directory specifications, and now any perl module install will try to put man pages in /usr/bin/man (which is the executable for man, not a directory). Can someone point

RE: Error

2003-06-03 Thread Steve Lobach
None that I can remember, but I am open to making necessary changes.. >>> "Paul Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/02/03 11:45AM >>> No changes to the system? Perl upgrade? System reload? Anything at all that you can remember? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: SQL row number

2003-06-03 Thread Dan Muey
> Thank you, What i meant is that > If i search in a table all people that speaks English. > I want mysql to search for the first 10 people that matche the query, then have an > option next to go from the last person > to the next 10 people. Or something better > would be SELECT FROM tablex START

RE: cgi LWP::Simple script and Apache

2003-06-03 Thread Dan Muey
> much more user-friendly IIS instead of Apache. User friendly? IIS? You mean the one Microsoft does? Boo to that IIS sucks, and is a costly sucker to run. Ok enough ranting, no flames intended ;p > Testing with mutliple unknown factors in the mix causes an exponential increase in > the diffi

RE: cgi LWP::Simple script and Apache

2003-06-03 Thread Dan Muey
> The following script works for all > pages store locally, and it works for out internet IP > (if I type in our companies IP address I get their homepage...but I can't go further > afield) Can you get anythign returned if you get('216.239.51.100')? Is that "company ip address" a public IP addre

RE: Error

2003-06-03 Thread Paul Kraus
No changes to the system? Perl upgrade? System reload? Anything at all that you can remember? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 9:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Error Can't locate Tk/AddScrollbars.pm in @INC (@INC cont

Re: SQL row number

2003-06-03 Thread Anthony Ward
Hi, Thank you, What i meant is that If i search in a table all people that speaks English. I want mysql to search for the first 10 people that matche the query, then have an option next to go from the last person to the next 10 people. Or something better would be SELECT FROM tablex START FROM PER

Error

2003-06-03 Thread lobach
Can't locate Tk/AddScrollbars.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:/Perl/lib C:/Perl/site/lib .) at C:/Perl/lib/Tk/Widget.pm line 261. I was using this perl script without problems, then all of the sudden I am getting this error... I googled it and go nowhere.. any ideas? I tried to re-install TK from

RE: SQL row number

2003-06-03 Thread Dan Muey
> Hi, Howdy, > I would like to know if it is possible with perl, when we search for a general > 'thing'( i.e search in the database all > people that speaks english) in a MySQL database, what is the row number of the last > row that matches the SELECT statment? > If so can someone show me an