Re: Behavior of Regex modifier /x

2010-12-27 Thread Uri Guttman
> "SHC" == Shawn H Corey writes: SHC> On 10-12-27 07:11 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: >>> "SHC" == Shawn H Corey writes: SHC> On 10-12-27 06:30 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: >> >> yes, you have misunderstood it. where did you read or learn that /x >> >> ignores whitespace in the data? >>

Re: Behavior of Regex modifier /x

2010-12-27 Thread C.DeRykus
On Dec 27, 2:34 pm, paragka...@gmail.com (Parag Kalra) wrote: > Hi, > > I was under the impression that regex modifier '/x' ignores the white > space. So in following script both the if-else blocks should print > "Match" since the strings differ only in white space and '/x' should > ignore the whit

Re: New Document: "How to Start Contributing to or Using Open Source Software"

2010-12-27 Thread Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez
Hi, I think it is not fair to pointing the reader out directly to Linux. There are other systems out there more Open Source than Linux like OpenBSD (for example). I think a briedfly review of these other OS would be good for the article and, after that, let the reader to choose between Linux

Re: Behavior of Regex modifier /x

2010-12-27 Thread Dr.Ruud
On 2010-12-27 23:34, Parag Kalra wrote: I was under the impression that regex modifier '/x' ignores the white space. So in following script both the if-else blocks should print "Match" since the strings differ only in white space and '/x' should ignore the white space. See perlre: x Exten

Re: Behavior of Regex modifier /x

2010-12-27 Thread Mark
On Dec 27, 2:34 pm, paragka...@gmail.com (Parag Kalra) wrote: > I was under the impression that regex modifier '/x' ignores the white > space. It ignores white space in the regular expression, not in the text you are matching. For example, the following are equivalent: if($str =~/$str3/x){

Re: Behavior of Regex modifier /x

2010-12-27 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 10-12-27 07:11 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: "SHC" == Shawn H Corey writes: SHC> On 10-12-27 06:30 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: >> yes, you have misunderstood it. where did you read or learn that /x >> ignores whitespace in the data? SHC> He probably got the idea since other non-alphanum

Re: Behavior of Regex modifier /x

2010-12-27 Thread Uri Guttman
> "SHC" == Shawn H Corey writes: SHC> On 10-12-27 06:30 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: >> yes, you have misunderstood it. where did you read or learn that /x >> ignores whitespace in the data? SHC> He probably got the idea since other non-alphanumeric characters in a SHC> variable must be

Re: Behavior of Regex modifier /x

2010-12-27 Thread Parag Kalra
Thanks All. With all these examples, now I see how /x works. Cheers, Parag On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Tim Mitchell wrote: > Try my $str = "HelloWorld"; > > On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Parag Kalra wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I was under the impression that regex modifier '/x' ignores t

Re: Behavior of Regex modifier /x

2010-12-27 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 10-12-27 06:30 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: yes, you have misunderstood it. where did you read or learn that /x ignores whitespace in the data? He probably got the idea since other non-alphanumeric characters in a variable must be escaped; un-escaped ones act like meta-characters. $ perl -e'$v=

Re: New Document: "How to Start Contributing to or Using Open Source Software"

2010-12-27 Thread Katie T
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently finished working on a new document titled "How to Start > Contributing to or Using Open Source Software" intended to get more people > involved in the world of free and open source software (FOSS). You can find it > here:

Re: Behavior of Regex modifier /x

2010-12-27 Thread Uri Guttman
> "PK" == Parag Kalra writes: PK> I was under the impression that regex modifier '/x' ignores the PK> white space. So in following script both the if-else blocks should PK> print "Match" since the strings differ only in white space and PK> '/x' should ignore the white space. /x only

Behavior of Regex modifier /x

2010-12-27 Thread Parag Kalra
Hi, I was under the impression that regex modifier '/x' ignores the white space. So in following script both the if-else blocks should print "Match" since the strings differ only in white space and '/x' should ignore the white space. But looks like my understanding of '/x' is wrong. Could someone

Re: Writing 3D games with Perl... How's the Performance?

2010-12-27 Thread U.N.
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Re: Fwd: Re: Writing 3D games with Perl... How's the Performance?

2010-12-27 Thread C.DeRykus
On Dec 25, 2:21 am, shlo...@iglu.org.il (Shlomi Fish) wrote: > --  Forwarded Message  -- > > Subject: Re: Writing 3D games with Perl...  How's the Performance? > Date: Friday 24 December 2010, 12:43:11 > From: Shlomi Fish > To: beginn...@perl.org > CC: "U.N." > > [snip] > > > I

Re: parsing data from txt file

2010-12-27 Thread Uri Guttman
> "JH" == Jugurtha Hadjar writes: JH> Hello, JH> On 12/24/2010 06:45 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: >>> "JH" == Jugurtha Hadjar writes: >> JH> my @data =0; JH> my @fields =0; JH> my @val=0; >> >> that has to be wrong. that is setting the arrays to a list with the >> e

Re: parsing data from txt file

2010-12-27 Thread Jugurtha Hadjar
Hello, On 12/24/2010 06:45 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: "JH" == Jugurtha Hadjar writes: JH> my @data =0; JH> my @fields =0; JH> my @val=0; that has to be wrong. that is setting the arrays to a list with the element 0, not an empty list. Exactly. I tried to do something like m

Re: New Document: "How to Start Contributing to or Using Open Source Software"

2010-12-27 Thread Jugurtha Hadjar
Hello, I visited the page, and bookmarked it. It's funny, it's like you're describing almost the exact process I'm going through.. About the programming part, I'm in Control/Feedback Systems, but I think that every person has something to benefit from learning to program.. I used to be ver

New Document: "How to Start Contributing to or Using Open Source Software"

2010-12-27 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all, I recently finished working on a new document titled "How to Start Contributing to or Using Open Source Software" intended to get more people involved in the world of free and open source software (FOSS). You can find it here: http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/How_to_start_contri

Re: Syntax Errors

2010-12-27 Thread Erez Schatz
On 12/27/2010 06:11 AM, Sisyphus wrote: > > - Original Message - From: "Randal L. Schwartz" > > To: > Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 1:57 PM > Subject: Re: Syntax Errors > > >>> "Bill" == Bill Casey writes: >> >> Bill> Syntax error at import_track.pl line 11, near ") {" >> Bill

Re: Perl Books

2010-12-27 Thread Erez Schatz
> On 26/dic/2010, at 19:54, SERIER wrote: > >> What are some of the best books for newbies to perl? For a programming beginner in general, Learning Perl (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520106/ by Randal Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and Brian D. Foy, aka the Llama book) is an excellent book. For som