Re: strange string match

2009-02-15 Thread John W. Krahn
org chen wrote: Hi, Hello, I am coding a script to read a pure txt fiel and show it. I can't understand why any lines in the file match the word of "[DIED]". Thanks Org the txt file is like this: Fri Feb 13 14:31:26 2009 [PROCESS]: Welcom

RE: strange string match -- thanks

2009-02-15 Thread org chen
Dear Chas, Thanks so much, The problem fixed now. It has annoyed me for two days. Cheers Org > Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:56:51 -0500> Subject: Re: strange string match> > From: chas.ow...@gmail.com> To: org.c...@live.com.au> CC: beginners@perl.org> > > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 20:32, org ch

Re: strange string match

2009-02-15 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
[ Please post from an email client/service that preserves newlines. ] org chen wrote: I am coding a script to read a pure txt fiel and show it. I can't understand why any lines in the file match the word of "[DIED]". Probably because of the typo I pointed out below. while(my $line =

Re: strange string match

2009-02-15 Thread Chas. Owens
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 20:32, org chen wrote: snip >while(my $line = <>){chomp( $line ); > print "current line is $line"; >if($line =~ /^[Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Wed|Fri|Sat|Sun]/){ >#push old data into array

strange string match

2009-02-15 Thread org chen
Hi, I am coding a script to read a pure txt fiel and show it. I can't understand why any lines in the file match the word of "[DIED]". Thanks Org the txt file is like this: Fri Feb 13 14:31:26 2009[PROCESS]: Welcome to our system![ERROR]: Please

Win32::SqlServer

2009-02-15 Thread kenTk
Win32::SqlServer I can't get the connection timeout to be any shorter than 45 seconds. for example $sqlsrv->setloginproperty('ConnectTimeout',5); doesn't seem to change anything. Does anyone have any experience with this? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional

Re: Add Line break when first of a line changes

2009-02-15 Thread Telemachus
On Sun Feb 15 2009 @ 9:48, Jack Butchie wrote: > I used a tab, then a pipe, both produced the same results. > > LAWNS|123|GOOD > > LAWNS|12|GOOD The results are the same because the test is for the whole line. If you only want to test one field, you need a different script. For example, this will

Re: Add Line break when first of a line changes

2009-02-15 Thread Jack Butchie
I used a tab, then a pipe, both produced the same results. LAWNS|123|GOOD LAWNS|12|GOOD - Original Message - From: "Gunnar Hjalmarsson" To: Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 9:16 AM Subject: Re: Add Line break when first of a line changes Jack Butchie wrote: I did some fiddling wit

Re: Add Line break when first of a line changes

2009-02-15 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Jack Butchie wrote: I did some fiddling with the list. I noticed if the second or third or whatever column wasn't exactly the same as the previous, even though the tex in the first field was the same, line was being added. What's the field separator? -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson Email: http://www.

Re: Add Line break when first of a line changes

2009-02-15 Thread Telemachus
On Sun Feb 15 2009 @ 8:56, Jack Butchie wrote: > I did some fiddling with the list. I noticed if the second or third or > whatever column wasn't exactly the same as the previous, even though the > tex in the first field was the same, line was being added. I then tested > with only the first

Re: Add Line break when first of a line changes

2009-02-15 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Telemachus wrote: On Sun Feb 15 2009 @ 7:25, Jack Butchie wrote: I have a txt file of products that I would like to be able to insert a blank line whenever the name of the product changes, to make it easier to read. I found this srcipt hunting about but I don't know how to apply it to the te

Re: Add Line break when first of a line changes

2009-02-15 Thread Jack Butchie
I did some fiddling with the list. I noticed if the second or third or whatever column wasn't exactly the same as the previous, even though the tex in the first field was the same, line was being added. I then tested with only the first field in the list and it worked perfectly. The script see

Re: Add Line break when first of a line changes

2009-02-15 Thread Jack Butchie
Wow, fast response. Thanks everyone. I keep getting a space where there shouldn't be. I am running this on our test server with windows 2000. Is Mr. Windows being bad? FENCES WHITE BAD FENCES WHITE BAD FENCES WHITE BAD FENCES WHITE BAD LAWN SEED GOOD BAD LAWN SEED GOOD BAD LAWN SEED GOOD BA

Re: perl deprecated functions and alike

2009-02-15 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
John W. Krahn wrote: Kevin wrote: Could someone please direct me to some web pages where I can go through all deprecated perl functions and/or ways of writing perl script? It is not easy for me to figure out whether an on-line example is deprecated or not. I once saw: @files = <$path_to_di

Re: perl deprecated functions and alike

2009-02-15 Thread Octavian Râsnita
From: "Telemachus" On Sun Feb 15 2009 @ 9:45, Octavian Râsnita wrote: From: "John W. Krahn" Kevin wrote: Could someone please direct me to some web pages where I can go through all deprecated perl functions and/or ways of writing perl script? It is not easy for me to figure out whether an

Re: Add Line break when first of a line changes

2009-02-15 Thread Telemachus
On Sun Feb 15 2009 @ 7:25, Jack Butchie wrote: > I have a txt file of products that I would like to be able to insert a > blank line whenever the name of the product changes, to make it easier to > read. I found this srcipt hunting about but I don't know how to apply it > to the text file. I'v

Add Line break when first of a line changes

2009-02-15 Thread Jack Butchie
I have a txt file of products that I would like to be able to insert a blank line whenever the name of the product changes, to make it easier to read. I found this srcipt hunting about but I don't know how to apply it to the text file. I've tried all kinds of different things but just don't get

Re: perl deprecated functions and alike

2009-02-15 Thread Telemachus
On Sun Feb 15 2009 @ 9:45, Octavian Râsnita wrote: > From: "John W. Krahn" >> Kevin wrote: >>> Could someone please direct me to some web pages where I can go >>> through all deprecated perl functions and/or ways of writing perl >>> script? It is not easy for me to figure out whether an on-lin

Re: perl deprecated functions and alike

2009-02-15 Thread John W. Krahn
Octavian Râsnita wrote: From: "John W. Krahn" Kevin wrote: Could someone please direct me to some web pages where I can go through all deprecated perl functions and/or ways of writing perl script? It is not easy for me to figure out whether an on-line example is deprecated or not. I once s