Re: perl dd

2011-03-30 Thread Uri Guttman
> "JWK" == John W Krahn writes: JWK> Uri Guttman wrote: >> foreach my $i ( 1 .. 1 ) { JWK> ITYM: JWK> foreach my $i ( 1 .. ) { yes. and i also did 1 .. 9 later on. numerical typos is my excuse. uri -- Uri Guttman -- u...@stemsystems.com http://www.

Re: perl dd

2011-03-30 Thread John W. Krahn
Uri Guttman wrote: "O" == Owen writes: O> This will generate 1 files in less than a second. They are 0 size, O> so just write something into them if you don't wont zero sized files might as well clean this up. O> #!/usr/bin/perl O> use strict; O> my $file = "/some/whe

Re: perl dd

2011-03-30 Thread Uri Guttman
> "O" == Owen writes: O> This will generate 1 files in less than a second. They are 0 size, O> so just write something into them if you don't wont zero sized files might as well clean this up. O> #!/usr/bin/perl O> use strict; O> my $file = "/some/where/writeable/a1"; O> m

Re: Programmatically check for syntax errors without compiling the code

2011-03-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Magnus Woldrich, please can you send NON-ENCRYPTED messages please? Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack -- # Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ## Development of Intranet and Embedded Systems with Debian GNU/Linux itsystems@tdne

Re: perl dd

2011-03-30 Thread Owen
> Thanks all!! > > Can someone tell me if you have any experience in generating files > quickly(not sparse) in unix? > > I want to generate millions of files under some directory > This will generate 1 files in less than a second. They are 0 size, so just write something into them if you don't

Re: Building an image one pixel at a time

2011-03-30 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 11-03-30 03:29 PM, Bryan R Harris wrote: I don't have any yet. I was just wondering if there was a module that would write out .png files reliably... There's a number of them. Try GD to start. http://search.cpan.org/~lds/GD-2.45/GD.pm -- Just my 0.0002 million dollars worth, Shawn

Re: Building an image one pixel at a time

2011-03-30 Thread Bryan R Harris
> On 11-03-30 11:36 AM, Bryan R Harris wrote: >> >> >> All, >> >> Is it possible to build an image one pixel at a time, e.g. to have a data >> structure that looks like this: >> >> $i{channel}[x][y] >> >> ... where channel is r,g,b, or a, and x and y are the pixel coordinates. >> Then, once

Re: How to not hard code ?

2011-03-30 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 11-03-30 12:58 PM, siegfr...@heintze.com wrote: Can you explain to me why the camel book uses all caps for file handles that are not preceded by a "@", "%", "$" or "*" and you use "$fh"? What are the rules for declaring file handles? I thought file handles were wierdo's and had to be declared

Re: How to not hard code ?

2011-03-30 Thread John W. Krahn
siegfr...@heintze.com wrote: I apologize if this appears twice. Since I sent it once and forgot to abandon HTML in favor of plain text, I'm sending it again. This works: $ perl -e ' $s = ; print "$s\n"; ' I don't like it because is hard coded. What if I want to conditionally read from a fil

Re: Building an image one pixel at a time

2011-03-30 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 11-03-30 11:36 AM, Bryan R Harris wrote: All, Is it possible to build an image one pixel at a time, e.g. to have a data structure that looks like this: $i{channel}[x][y] ... where channel is r,g,b, or a, and x and y are the pixel coordinates. Then, once I have the data filled out, call so

Re: How to not hard code ?

2011-03-30 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 11-03-30 11:10 AM, siegfr...@heintze.com wrote: I apologize if this appears twice. Since I sent it once and forgot to abandon HTML in favor of plain text, I'm sending it again. This works: $ perl -e ' $s = ; print "$s\n"; ' I don't like it because is hard coded. What if I want to cond

Building an image one pixel at a time

2011-03-30 Thread Bryan R Harris
All, Is it possible to build an image one pixel at a time, e.g. to have a data structure that looks like this: $i{channel}[x][y] ... where channel is r,g,b, or a, and x and y are the pixel coordinates. Then, once I have the data filled out, call some module and write out a .png file? - Bryan

How to not hard code ?

2011-03-30 Thread siegfried
I apologize if this appears twice. Since I sent it once and forgot to abandon HTML in favor of plain text, I'm sending it again. This works: $ perl -e ' $s = ; print "$s\n"; ' I don't like it because is hard coded. What if I want to conditionally read from a file? Here is my attempt to s

Re: Programmatically check for syntax errors without compiling the code

2011-03-30 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 11-03-30 08:34 AM, Katie T wrote: "perl -c" will check your script without executing it. Not exactly. From `perldoc perlrun`: -c causes Perl to check the syntax of the program and then exit without executing it. Actually, it will execute "BEGIN", "UNITCHECK", "CHECK", and "use" blocks,

Re: Programmatically check for syntax errors without compiling the code

2011-03-30 Thread Katie T
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Magnus Woldrich wrote: > > "perl -c" will check your script without executing it. Katie -- CoderStack http://www.coderstack.co.uk/asp-jobs The Software Developer Job Board

Re: transposing %d values to %x output

2011-03-30 Thread Chas. Owens
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 00:28, Brian Fraser wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Chas. Owens wrote: >> >> If you are dealing exclusively with ASCII, then you should be using >>  the [bytes][0] pragma; > > It's nitpicky, but I'd advice against ever recommending use bytes in the > beginners l

Re: perl dd

2011-03-30 Thread a b
Thanks all!! Can someone tell me if you have any experience in generating files quickly(not sparse) in unix? I want to generate millions of files under some directory Thanks in Advance! On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Filip Sneppe wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:57 PM, a b wrote:

Re: transposing %d values to %x output

2011-03-30 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Jim Gibson > At 9:18 PM -0400 3/29/11, Chas. Owens wrote: > > >It is important to note that \d > >doesn't match what you think it does. Starting with Perl 5.8, \d > >matches and digit character. This includes characters such as > >"\x{1815}" (Mongolian digit five). To match the ASCII dig