Re: Hash of Arrays, p. 276

2005-05-28 Thread Peter Rabbitson
> Please look at the definition and initialization of the hash. It is a hash > of array references, isn't it? Why does > $HoA{"flintstone"}[0] work, why is not it: $HoA{"flintstone"}->[0] > perldoc perlref Section: Using References Paragraph 3 $array[$x]->{"foo"}->[0]

Re: remove duplicate lines

2005-05-28 Thread Dale
Hi John Doe, you wrote : *snip* To learn perl, you have to spend hours and hours studying books/docs/examples, thinking, trying etc. Depends on your own individual learning style. Some folk would breeze through the perldocs. Personally, I feel that they read like stereo instructions. I've

Hash of Arrays, p. 276

2005-05-28 Thread Matthew Sacks
Greetings: I am continuing to read the Camel Book. I am reading about complex data structrures. On page 276, there is an example of a HoA. (I am typing from memory so this may not be exactly correct) $HoA{"flintstone"}[0] = "fred"; Please look at the definition and initialization of the hash.

Database independent code

2005-05-28 Thread Peter Rabbitson
Hello, I need to implement some database access in my code, and my knowledge of databases is pretty basic (mostly MySQL ans flat un-indexed tables). Can somebody point me to advanced tutorials on database independent code? For example I can't find a way to tell what methods from DBI and family can

Re: absolute path of current process

2005-05-28 Thread Peter Rabbitson
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 02:26:29PM +0300, Offer Kaye wrote: > On 5/26/05, Peter Rabbitson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is this: > > > > my $path = [File::Spec->splitpath (File::Spec->rel2abs ($0))]->[1]; > > > > the only OS independent (unix/win32) way to determine the absolute path of > > the

Re: count rows without count(*)

2005-05-28 Thread Bob Showalter
Ing. Branislav Gerzo wrote: Hi all, I get data from DB with: while (my ($id, $post_text) = $getpost->fetchrow_array) { is there a way how much columns are selected wihout select (fetch) them all, or using count(*) function ? In the general case, no. DBI provides the rows() method: my $row

count rows without count(*)

2005-05-28 Thread Ing. Branislav Gerzo
Hi all, I get data from DB with: while (my ($id, $post_text) = $getpost->fetchrow_array) { is there a way how much columns are selected wihout select (fetch) them all, or using count(*) function ? Thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROT