Re: Getting last key from a file

2008-01-19 Thread Rob Dixon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a quick and easy way that I can get the last key from a file. For example, If I have this in my file (see below) how can I get the line 20<\val2>, with out reading through the entire file 0<\val1> 0<\val2> 0<\val3> 10<\val1> 10<\val2> 10<\val3> 20<\val1> 20<\

Re: Getting last key from a file

2008-01-19 Thread Tom Phoenix
On Jan 19, 2008 11:35 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a quick and easy way that I can get the last key from a file. Do you have answers to Randal's questions when you asked this question the other day, or are you changing the problem? http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.beginners/

Re: Getting last key from a file

2008-01-19 Thread reader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > For example, If I have this in my file (see below) how can I get the > line 20<\val2>, with out reading through the entire file > > 0<\val1> > 0<\val2> > 0<\val3> > 10<\val1> > 10<\val2> > 10<\val3> > 20<\val1> > 20<\val2> > 20<\val3> If you are on a unix like machine

Getting last key from a file

2008-01-19 Thread paul_0403
Is there a quick and easy way that I can get the last key from a file. For example, If I have this in my file (see below) how can I get the line 20<\val2>, with out reading through the entire file 0<\val1> 0<\val2> 0<\val3> 10<\val1> 10<\val2> 10<\val3> 20<\val1> 20<\val2> 20<\val3> -- To unsu

perl 5.8 CGI DBM Oracle and ?

2008-01-19 Thread burrell . john
Hello, I need to run a basic sql, query select "5 colums" from db.table where columnx = 123. Need to present this data to the user in html scrolling list (because there might be hundreds of rows). I guess there must be an easish way of doing this as perl 5.8 is quite modern. Please can someone sug

Perl libs polluting root directory

2008-01-19 Thread Daniel D Jones
I'm running Gentoo, which does not yet have version 5.10 in the tree. I downloaded and installed version 5.10 from source. (I'm not certain that this is the cause of the issue, but it's the only thing I can think of.) Now, Perl/CPAN appears to be putting packages into my root directory: root

Re: Can't Install Perl as Non-Root

2008-01-19 Thread Tom Phoenix
On Jan 18, 2008 4:11 PM, Liam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was trying to install a personal version of Perl to my own user > folder. I am running on a remote webserver that uses Apache. I have > succeeded with the following steps: > > wget http://perl.com/CPAN/src/stable.tar.gz > tar zvxf stab

Re: Hash of hashes?

2008-01-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Jan 18, 11:06 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Viel) wrote: > This I cannot get my mind around... > > My data: > > SNP Genotype > 1 CC > 1 CT > 1 TT > 1 NN > > It seems to me that I need a hash of hashes. > > Inner hash: > > $inner{ $Genotype }++ ; > > Since the value of the