Re: help with array within another array

2007-03-04 Thread Chas Owens
On 3/4/07, Dr.Ruud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip Some evaluation is done first: perl -Mstrict -MData::Dumper -wle' $_ = {0b1_0 => "A", 01_0 => "B", 0x1_0 => "C", 1_0 => "D", _1_0 => "E", *_ => "F", \_ => "G"}; print Dumper $_ ' $VAR1 = { '8' => 'B', '_1_0' => 'E',

Re: Ascending numbers

2007-03-04 Thread Jeff Pang
> >Hi Jeff Ji, your program worked. But i couldn't understand the second >line.. That long print statement. What happened there? My 'simple' >sort arranged numbers in dictionary style.. Like 0 then 1 then 17 then >2 and then 29.. And how come in using strict module, that $a and $b >didnt make any

Re: private method

2007-03-04 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 14:31 +0100, D. Bolliger wrote: > Chas referred to a _convention_ - which does not enforce privacy. > IMO it's useful, otherwise it would not be widely used, and for example, > Test::Pod::Coverage would require subroutines starting with an underscore to > be documented. :-)

Re: private method

2007-03-04 Thread Chas Owens
On 3/4/07, Jeff Pang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip In fact nothing at all.I'm also using Perl's OO well.But when programming with Python,I sometime would like to declare a subroutine as private.For this private method,someone can't access it from out of the class.So I think that Perl doesn't ha

Re: Treating a split() as an array

2007-03-04 Thread Jay Savage
On 3/3/07, Rob Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jay Savage wrote: [snip] >> The LIMIT parameter can be used to split a line partially >> >> ($login, $passwd, $remainder) = split(/:/, $_, 3); >> >> When assigning to a list, if LIMIT is omitted, or zero, Perl >>

Re: Ascending numbers

2007-03-04 Thread Somu
Hi Jeff Ji, your program worked. But i couldn't understand the second line.. That long print statement. What happened there? My 'simple' sort arranged numbers in dictionary style.. Like 0 then 1 then 17 then 2 and then 29.. And how come in using strict module, that $a and $b didnt make any noise?

Re: private method

2007-03-04 Thread Jeff Pang
> >What are you trying to achieve Jeff? Are you concerned that someone may write >malicious code that calls package functions that are meant to be private? Or >are you more interested in avoiding coding mistakes caused by calling the >wrong function? > In fact nothing at all.I'm also using Perl's

Re: private method

2007-03-04 Thread Rob Dixon
Jeff Pang wrote: > > Chas Owens wrote: >> by convention any function, variable, or hash key that begins with an underscore, '_', is considered to be private. > > Seems not useful. > > $ cat t.pl > { > package A; > use strict; > > sub _foo { > print "hello,world\n"; > } >

Re: Ascending numbers

2007-03-04 Thread Tom Phoenix
On 3/4/07, Somu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm unable to arrange the numbers in an array in ascending order.. I tried the following @asc = sort{$a<=>$b} @list; but it didnt work. It works for me. What are you doing differently? Can you reduce your problem to a small test case that you can po

Re: Ascending numbers

2007-03-04 Thread Jeff Pang
> >I'm unable to arrange the numbers in an array in ascending order.. I >tried the following > >@asc = sort{$a<=>$b} @list; > >but it didnt work. I did a subroutine > What's your array's content? It do can work using Perl's sort (see below),also please see 'perldoc -f sort'. $ perl -le '@arr =

Ascending numbers

2007-03-04 Thread Somu
I'm unable to arrange the numbers in an array in ascending order.. I tried the following @asc = sort{$a<=>$b} @list; but it didnt work. I did a subroutine sub con{ my ($a,$b); $a<=>$b;} Then i tried @asc = sort con @list; #didnt work Can anyone please help? -- Love, Somu, http://lose.yourself

Re: help with array within another array

2007-03-04 Thread Dr.Ruud
"John W. Krahn" schreef: > Chas Owens: >> In Perl 5 the only difference between the '=>' and ',' operators is >> that the '=>' operator treats the word on the left like a string. >> The '=>' is preferred when working with hashes because it provides a >> visual cue that you are not dealing with a n

Re: private method

2007-03-04 Thread D. Bolliger
Jeff Pang am Sonntag, 4. März 2007 08:35: > >by convention any function, variable, or hash key that begins with an > > underscore, '_', is considered to be private. > > Seems not useful. [ example snipped] Hello Jeff Chas referred to a _convention_ - which does not enforce privacy. IMO it's usef

Re: Characters from encryption

2007-03-04 Thread Dr.Ruud
"Ned Cunningham" schreef: > The character is a right arrow? When I read it I only get up to that > character. The remaining characters are dropped. MSDOS-text-mode, Ctrl-Z? -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: