Re: question on software development

ANJAN PURKAYASTHA wrote: Steve my man, Although I appreciate your taking the time to answer my question I must say the tone of you mail was immature and unprofessional. Firstly, you misunderstood my question and secondly not every question can be framed in terms of "code". Given that there are m

Strawberry Perl capabilities?

Shlomi Fish wrote: Actually, Strawberry Perl is preferable over AS Perl: http://strawberryperl.com/ From memory, AS makes (commercial) Perl tools for creating stand-alone Windows executables and single-file Windows Installer packages. I also recall a Perl .NET toolchain. Does Strawberry Per

RE: Controlling one process depending on the status of another

From: Jay Savage > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Bob McConnell wrote: > [snip] >> >> However, if the application is this complex, is Perl really the best >> language to use? It would not be my first choice. > > That is a very strange statement to make on a Perl beginners list, not > least becau

Re: Controlling one process depending on the status of another

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Bob McConnell wrote: [snip] > > However, if the application is this complex, is Perl really the best > language to use? It would not be my first choice. > That is a very strange statement to make on a Perl beginners list, not least because it's complete bosh. Wha

Re: question on software development

Hi David and Shlomi, Thank you very much for your feedback. I am indeed developing a Perl application for which I would like to give the user a short-cut icon on the desktop. I'll follow up on your helpful pointers. Most of my end-users are molecular biologists who are averse to doing anything on

Re: Can anybody explain me what this shebang line is doing?

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:12 PM, YAPH wrote: > I got a perl script that begins like this. > > - > #!/usr/bin/sh -- # -*- perl -*- > > eval 'ORACLE

FW: Can anybody explain me what this shebang line is doing?

-Original Message- From: sanket vaidya [mailto:sanket.vai...@patni.com] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 5:36 PM To: 'YAPH' Subject: RE: Can anybody explain me what this shebang line is doing? >From: YAPH [mailto:yet.another.perl.hac...@gmail.com] >Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 12:42 AM >To

Re: parsing numbers from grep

Uri Guttman wrote: Ruud: Shawn H Corey wrote: Uri Guttman wrote: that modifies @ARGV so it is a bad idea. also it bypasses grep's purpose of filtering a list. and as i posted, map is the correct solution map is not the correct solution since it does not filter out those which do not match

Can anybody explain me what this shebang line is doing?

Hi, I got a perl script that begins like this. - #!/usr/bin/sh -- # -*- perl -*- eval 'ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle; export ORACLE_HOME;LD_LIBRARY_PA

Re: question on software development

On Friday 05 Mar 2010 06:27:51 David Christensen wrote: > ANJAN PURKAYASTHA wrote: > > OK, suppose I develop a Perl application. I want to create an icon for > > the program so that a user may download the program and start it in the > > GUI by double-clicking on the icon. > > How does one go about