Re: is_int

2005-07-23 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jul 23, Mads N. Vestergaard said: I'm trying to check weather a variable is an integer, i have tried the following: use Math::BigRat; my $x = 42; print "$x is an integer\n" if $x->is_int(); Using Math::BigRat doesn't automatically make numbers into objects. You'd have to say my $x =

memory leaks

2005-07-23 Thread Tom Allison
I'm running some very long tests using Test::More and after ~20K iterations I am getting ~200MB of memory usage. It's really slowing things down. Are there any pointers on how to track down or eliminate memory leakage? Anything at all would probably help some. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EM

send a HUP signal

2005-07-23 Thread dan
me again ;) i don't even know if this is going to be possible, but i'll ask anyway. my perl program runs as a constant process in the background. is there anyway i can make another program/script send a HUP, or any kind of, signal to the process, to say, force a re-read of a database or something,

is_int

2005-07-23 Thread Mads N. Vestergaard
Hi everybody, I'm trying to check weather a variable is an integer, i have tried the following: use Math::BigRat; my $x = 42; print "$x is an integer\n" if $x->is_int(); But it doesn't work, it gives me the error: Can't call method "is_int" without a package or object reference at test.pl l

Re: search and replace

2005-07-23 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jul 23, Tom Allison said: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: The /o modifier tells the internal regex compiler that, after this regex has been compiled 'o'nce, it is never to be compiled again. "Well, what good is that?" you ask. For your average regex, there is absolutely no difference, no cha

Re: search and replace

2005-07-23 Thread Tom Allison
Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: On Jul 23, Tom Allison said: ($lineExtract, $_) = /(^\w+\.dat\|)(.+)$/o; (I like to add the regex option 'o' at the end to improve performance.) This is a common misconception. The purpose and effects of the /o modifier (as well as the /s and /m modifiers) are u

Re: File Management

2005-07-23 Thread Tom Allison
Joel Divekar wrote: Hi All We have a windoz based file server with thousand of user accounts. Each user is having thousand of files in his home directory. Most of these files are duplicate / modified or updated version of the existing files. These files are either .doc or . xls or .ppt files whi

Re: wildcard matching

2005-07-23 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jul 23, dan said: i wasn't planning on using ? to match a single character, i figured that would be getting too complicated. how would that be done anyway? i must say my regex skills aren't very good :/ The ? metacharacter would map to Perl's . regex metacharacter. $temp1 =~ s{([^\w\s]

Re: search and replace

2005-07-23 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jul 23, Tom Allison said: ($lineExtract, $_) = /(^\w+\.dat\|)(.+)$/o; (I like to add the regex option 'o' at the end to improve performance.) This is a common misconception. The purpose and effects of the /o modifier (as well as the /s and /m modifiers) are unclear to a lot of Perl prog

Re: wildcard matching

2005-07-23 Thread dan
this worked a treat. thank you so much. i wasn't planning on using ? to match a single character, i figured that would be getting too complicated. how would that be done anyway? i must say my regex skills aren't very good :/ dan "Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMA

Re: File Management

2005-07-23 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Also... You can use Digest::MD5 module and create an MD5 signature for comparing the files that have the same size. Teddy - Original Message - From: "Xavier Noria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "beginners perl" Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 10:46 AM Subject: Re: File Management > On Jul

Re: File Management

2005-07-23 Thread Xavier Noria
On Jul 23, 2005, at 7:56, Joel Divekar wrote: We have a windoz based file server with thousand of user accounts. Each user is having thousand of files in his home directory. Most of these files are duplicate / modified or updated version of the existing files. These files are either .doc or . xl