Re: need to include and install CPAN modules as part of application stack

2011-02-01 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Shawn H Corey" why is programming easy? Because computers so exactly what you tell them to and no more. Unless you use Windows... :-) Octavian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: need to include and install CPAN modules as part of application stack

2011-02-01 Thread Rob Dixon
On 01/02/2011 23:00, Uri Guttman wrote: if you think that was unfriendly, you need to see more stuff on the net. It is not a defense to imply that anything you say is fine, as long as somebody else does something worse. - Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For ad

Re: Behavior of minimal when applied to - {1,}? ot to - {0,}?

2011-02-01 Thread Rob Dixon
On 01/02/2011 02:30, Chris Charley wrote: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; $_ = "[][12/21/10 18:39:22] [oasetup] [oasetup] [INFO] Installing the HPOvXpl package..."; for my $re (qw{ ^\[(.+?)\] ^\[(.*?)\] }) { my ($dt) = /$re/ or die "Horrible death\n";; print $re, ' ', "'$dt'", "\n";

Re: need to include and install CPAN modules as part of application stack

2011-02-01 Thread Uri Guttman
> "RK" == Robin Kenyon writes: RK> I would say, as a beginner: RK> Programming is easy because it's all about telling the computer what you RK> want it to do (though you might think you've told it what you want it to RK> do, it may do something else based on what you've actually told

how do make certain that no input (keyboard + mouse paste) is outside of 7-bit ASCII in a perl script?

2011-02-01 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
Hi; how do make certain that no input (keyboard + mouse paste) is outside of 7-bit ASCII in a perl script? Since I have no intention of correctly or completely handling input that is outside of 7-bit ASCII, I thought it would be best to prevent any characters outside of 7-bit ASCII from being inp

Re: need to include and install CPAN modules as part of application stack

2011-02-01 Thread Robin Kenyon
On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:36 -0500, "Uri Guttman" wrote: > > "RK" == Robin Kenyon writes: > > RK> As a teacher, I'd disagree...My experience leads me to believe > bluntly > RK> shooting down beginners discourages them. I wouldn't be surprised > if > RK> the poster has left the list a

Re: need to include and install CPAN modules as part of application stack

2011-02-01 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 11-02-01 06:36 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: why is programming easy? Because computers so exactly what you tell them to and no more. and why is programming hard? Because computers so exactly what you tell them to and no more. -- Just my 0.0002 million dollars worth, Shawn Confusion is

Re: need to include and install CPAN modules as part of application stack

2011-02-01 Thread Uri Guttman
> "RK" == Robin Kenyon writes: RK> As a teacher, I'd disagree...My experience leads me to believe bluntly RK> shooting down beginners discourages them. I wouldn't be surprised if RK> the poster has left the list and perhaps even gone as far as leaving RK> perl well alone, depending o

Re: need to include and install CPAN modules as part of application stack

2011-02-01 Thread Robin Kenyon
On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:00 -0500, "Uri Guttman" wrote: > > "RK" == Robin Kenyon writes: > > RK> With all due respect Uri, you're not being particularly friendly. > RK> This is a list for beginners, people are going to say things you > RK> think are stupid from time to time, but you sho

Re: need to include and install CPAN modules as part of application stack

2011-02-01 Thread Uri Guttman
> "RK" == Robin Kenyon writes: RK> With all due respect Uri, you're not being particularly friendly. RK> This is a list for beginners, people are going to say things you RK> think are stupid from time to time, but you should either stay RK> your hand or be more constructive. Looking

Re: need to include and install CPAN modules as part of application stack

2011-02-01 Thread Robin Kenyon
With all due respect Uri, you're not being particularly friendly. This is a list for beginners, people are going to say things you think are stupid from time to time, but you should either stay your hand or be more constructive. Looking at your last few posts the quoted text below isn't an isolat

Re: Behavior of minimal when applied to - {1,}? ot to - {0,}?

2011-02-01 Thread Uri Guttman
> "CC" == Chris Charley writes: CC> #!/usr/bin/perl CC> use strict; CC> use warnings; CC> $_ = "[][12/21/10 18:39:22] [oasetup] [oasetup] [INFO] Installing the CC> HPOvXpl package..."; CC> for my $re (qw{ ^\[(.+?)\] ^\[(.*?)\] }) { CC>my ($dt) = /$re/ or die "Horrible deat

Behavior of minimal when applied to - {1,}? ot to - {0,}?

2011-02-01 Thread Chris Charley
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; $_ = "[][12/21/10 18:39:22] [oasetup] [oasetup] [INFO] Installing the HPOvXpl package..."; for my $re (qw{ ^\[(.+?)\] ^\[(.*?)\] }) { my ($dt) = /$re/ or die "Horrible death\n";; print $re, ' ', "'$dt'", "\n"; } __END__ C:\Old_Data\perlp>perl t5

Re: problem getting multiple values returned from a subroutine

2011-02-01 Thread loan tran
--- On Tue, 2/1/11, Uri Guttman wrote: > From: Uri Guttman > Subject: Re: problem getting multiple values returned from a subroutine > To: "loan tran" > Cc: beginners@perl.org > Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 10:59 AM > > "lt" == loan > tran > writes: > >   lt> I'm having problem gett

Re: problem getting multiple values returned from a subroutine

2011-02-01 Thread Rob Dixon
On 01/02/2011 18:51, loan tran wrote: I'm having problem getting multiple values returned from a subroutine. Thanks in advance for pointers. My codes: sub parse_title{ # Determine what company, month, and year to load by parsing the report title open IN, '<', $po_file or die "c

Re: problem getting multiple values returned from a subroutine

2011-02-01 Thread Uri Guttman
> "lt" == loan tran writes: lt> I'm having problem getting multiple values returned from a subroutine. lt> lt> # Get required subroutines which need to be included. # lt>

problem getting multiple values returned from a subroutine

2011-02-01 Thread loan tran
I'm having problem getting multiple values returned from a subroutine. Thanks in advance for pointers. My codes: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; # Get required subroutines which need to be included.

Re: sorting report

2011-02-01 Thread Rob Dixon
On 01/02/2011 14:02, Chris Stinemetz wrote: #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use IO::Handle; RAW->format_lines_per_page(100); # I will change this once I get strict pragma to work. format RAW_TOP = @|||

RE: sorting report

2011-02-01 Thread Chris Stinemetz
I bottom posted. Any help is greatly appreciated. Chris -Original Message- From: Chris Stinemetz [mailto:cstinem...@cricketcommunications.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 8:03 AM To: Shlomi Fish; beginners@perl.org Subject: RE: sorting report Shlomi, See far bottom for my updated

Re: Renaming with a specific spec

2011-02-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Jim Gibson writes: [...] "John W. Krahn" writes: [...] Rob Dixon writes: [...] I had roughed out something that worked (sort of) and so found some of the problems that come up (such as overwriting). With the excellent input provided from the above cited posts, I can now manage a pretty ni

RE: sorting report

2011-02-01 Thread Chris Stinemetz
Shlomi, See far bottom for my updated code. Chris Stinemetz -Original Message- From: Shlomi Fish [mailto:shlo...@iglu.org.il] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 4:18 AM To: beginners@perl.org Cc: Chris Stinemetz Subject: Re: sorting report Hi Chris, a few comments on your code: On T

Re: Renaming with a specific spec

2011-02-01 Thread Rob Dixon
On 01/02/2011 02:41, Harry Putnam wrote: Looking for a renaming tool with certain capabilities, but when googling or searching cpan its quite hard to tell if the tool can or not satisfy them. So, I hope someone can tell me right off the top of their head if there is a renaming tool on cpan or an

Re: sorting report

2011-02-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Chris, a few comments on your code: On Tuesday 01 Feb 2011 06:43:43 Chris Stinemetz wrote: > I would like to sort my final report in the following order: > > $data[31],$data[32],$data[38] > > How would I add this into my following program to get the report sorted > this way? > > Thanks in a