Re: Nature of this list

2011-04-21 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Randal (and everybody), On Thursday 21 Apr 2011 19:25:40 Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > "Rob" == Rob Dixon writes: > Rob> As I mentioned in a previous post, you have softened recently. So > Rob> it is likely that your life has improved and you are better > Rob> provided for, and no longer h

Re: Nature of this list

2011-04-21 Thread Paul
On Thu, April 21, 2011 1:22 pm, Raymond Wan wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 01:25, Randal L. Schwartz > wrote: >>> "Rob" == Rob Dixon writes: >> To discredit this post, as well as your other claims, I'm actually going >> through the worst period in my life, exceeding my criminal arrest and >

Re: perl interview questions

2011-04-21 Thread Owen
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Luis Roca > wrote: >> Again, if you provided some more information about the position >> (the company's job description) I'm sure people can give you >> more specific help – good luck! > > Wouldn't it be nice though if the people conducting interviews > already

Re: perl interview questions

2011-04-21 Thread Brandon McCaig
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Luis Roca wrote: > Again, if you provided some more information about the position > (the company's job description) I'm sure people can give you > more specific help – good luck! Wouldn't it be nice though if the people conducting interviews already knew enough a

Re: Real Beginner

2011-04-21 Thread Tiago Hori
Thanks everybody. This gives me a lot of material to work on and think about. I am likely to come back with more questions as I move further into the book. Cheers, T. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.

Re: Real Beginner

2011-04-21 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Tiago Hori > Hey Guys, > > I am a real beginner so at the risk of being slammed by some, I wanted to > get some input. Don't worry, there are people here that will protect you and shout you were slammed even if you do not feel hurt at all. > 5. [10] Modify the previous program to tell ea

Re: perl interview questions

2011-04-21 Thread Luis Roca
On Apr 21, 12:49 am, jyoti.bans...@gmail.com (Jyoti) wrote: > Hello All, > > Please give me any link or any tutorial which will be helpful for > preparation of PERL interview. Do you have a job description of the position you're interviewing for? Is this a web development position? Is this a syste

Re: sample distribution

2011-04-21 Thread Jim Gibson
On 4/21/11 Thu Apr 21, 2011 11:26 AM, "Rob Dixon" scribbled: > On 21/04/2011 19:19, Jim Gibson wrote: >> On 4/21/11 Thu Apr 21, 2011 10:59 AM, "Rob >> Dixon"scribbled: >>> On 21/04/2011 18:09, ai nguyen wrote: I truly appreciate your responses. It is one of the interview quest

Re: Real Beginner

2011-04-21 Thread Karl Kaufman
- Original Message - From: "Tiago Hori" To: Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 2:03 PM Subject: Real Beginner I was trying to do exercise 5 of the 5th edition of learning perl: ... 4. [10] Write a subroutine, named greet, that welcomes the person you name by telling them the name of

Re: Real Beginner

2011-04-21 Thread Karl Kaufman
- Original Message - From: "Shlomi Fish" To: Cc: "Tiago Hori" Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 3:01 PM Subject: Re: Real Beginner On Thursday 21 Apr 2011 22:03:27 Tiago Hori wrote: print "Hi $name! "; You're missing a "\n". Naw, the original post indicates that they want a

Re: Real Beginner

2011-04-21 Thread Brian F. Yulga
Tiago Hori wrote: Hey Guys, I am a real beginner so at the risk of being slammed by some, I wanted to get some input. I'm a beginner, too. I've worked through this chapter somewhat recently, so my advice shouldn't be too hard to understand :-) Hopefully _I_ don't get slammed! I was tryi

Re: Real Beginner

2011-04-21 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Tiago, Welcome aboard. I'll supply some comments on how to improve your code: On Thursday 21 Apr 2011 22:03:27 Tiago Hori wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I am a real beginner so at the risk of being slammed by some, I wanted to > get some input. > > I was trying to do exercise 5 of the 5th edition o

Re: Unintended behavior: Range operator inside a while loop continues to pattern match on the subsequent file

2011-04-21 Thread Marc Perry
Thanks, Paul. A very thoughtful response--I will try this out (I don't recall every encountering the ?? operator, but if it works as advertised I will likely use it a lot). --Marc On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 01:42:42PM -0400, Marc Perry wrote:

Re: Unintended behavior: Range operator inside a while loop continues to pattern match on the subsequent file

2011-04-21 Thread Marc Perry
Beautiful; I should've known that brian d foy would have come up with a solution--I even have a copy of that book! Thanks, --Marc On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Brian Fraser wrote: > http://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/blog/314 > > Brian. > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Marc Perry w

Re: Real Beginner

2011-04-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 04:33:27PM -0230, Tiago Hori wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I am a real beginner so at the risk of being slammed by some, I wanted to > get some input. I certainly hope you don't get slammed, but I understand the trepidation. > Hi Betty! I've seen: Fred Barney Wilma > So I work

Re: Unintended behavior: Range operator inside a while loop continues to pattern match on the subsequent file

2011-04-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 01:42:42PM -0400, Marc Perry wrote: > Hi, > > I was parsing a collection of HTML files where I wanted to extract a certain > block from each file, like this: This is where everyone will tell you to use some dedicated HTML parsing module. > > ./script.pl *.html > > my $ac

Re: Unintended behavior: Range operator inside a while loop continues to pattern match on the subsequent file

2011-04-21 Thread Brian Fraser
http://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/blog/314 Brian. On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Marc Perry wrote: > Hi, > > I was parsing a collection of HTML files where I wanted to extract a > certain > block from each file, like this: > > > ./script.pl *.html > > my $accumulator; > my $capture_coun

Real Beginner

2011-04-21 Thread Tiago Hori
Hey Guys, I am a real beginner so at the risk of being slammed by some, I wanted to get some input. I was trying to do exercise 5 of the 5th edition of learning perl: It is based on exercise 4, so I will paste both here: 4. [10] Write a subroutine, named greet, that welcomes the person you name

Re: Nature of this list

2011-04-21 Thread Karl Kaufman
- Original Message - From: "Rob Dixon" To: "Randal L. Schwartz" Cc: Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 12:21 PM Subject: Re: Nature of this list On 21/04/2011 17:25, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: People come online to learn Perl. Yes! But you have succumbed to Germanic syntax where as

Re: sample distribution

2011-04-21 Thread shawn wilson
On Apr 21, 2011 2:27 PM, "Rob Dixon" wrote: > > On 21/04/2011 19:19, Jim Gibson wrote: >> >> On 4/21/11 Thu Apr 21, 2011 10:59 AM, "Rob Dixon"scribbled: >>> >>> On 21/04/2011 18:09, ai nguyen wrote: I truly appreciate your responses. It is one of the interview questions at go

Re: time format conversion

2011-04-21 Thread Karl Kaufman
- Original Message - From: "Rob Dixon" To: Cc: "shawn wilson" Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 1:14 PM Subject: Re: time format conversion On 21/04/2011 10:52, shawn wilson wrote: If its always in that format, just split and define a hash and pass it to dt. Otherwise, use dt:forma

Re: sample distribution

2011-04-21 Thread Rob Dixon
On 21/04/2011 19:19, Jim Gibson wrote: On 4/21/11 Thu Apr 21, 2011 10:59 AM, "Rob Dixon"scribbled: On 21/04/2011 18:09, ai nguyen wrote: I truly appreciate your responses. It is one of the interview questions at google research! We like to know how someone could approach a problem ? Why beg

Re: sample distribution

2011-04-21 Thread Jim Gibson
On 4/21/11 Thu Apr 21, 2011 10:59 AM, "Rob Dixon" scribbled: > On 21/04/2011 18:09, ai nguyen wrote: >> >> I truly appreciate your responses. It is one of the interview >> questions at google research! We like to know how someone could >> approach a problem ? >> >> Why begin perl forum? I lik

Re: File::path the option keep_root => 1 does not seem to work

2011-04-21 Thread Rob Dixon
On 19/04/2011 10:42, Agnello George wrote: File::path the option keep_root => 1 does not seem to work for me use File::Path; rmtree( '/temp/auto', { verbose =>1 , keep_root => 1}); it throw me the output unlink /temp/auto/test6 unlink /temp/auto/test5 unlink /temp/auto/test4 rmdir

Re: time format conversion

2011-04-21 Thread Rob Dixon
On 21/04/2011 10:52, shawn wilson wrote: On Apr 21/04/2011 5:38 cc wrote: In PHP, there's strtotime(), but there isn't one in Perl that I can find. Why would I want to bloated my core to mess with dates when half of what I do doesn't need that functionality? Because the 'bloat' is very tiny

Re: sample distribution

2011-04-21 Thread Rob Dixon
On 21/04/2011 18:09, ai nguyen wrote: I truly appreciate your responses. It is one of the interview questions at google research! We like to know how someone could approach a problem ? Why begin perl forum? I like perl and We are looking for a perl developer, or perl thinker. Welcome all quest

Unintended behavior: Range operator inside a while loop continues to pattern match on the subsequent file

2011-04-21 Thread Marc Perry
Hi, I was parsing a collection of HTML files where I wanted to extract a certain block from each file, like this: > ./script.pl *.html my $accumulator; my $capture_counter; while ( <> ) { if ( //.../labelsub/ ) { $accumulator .= $_ unless /labelsub/; if ( /labelsub/ && !$cap

Re: Nature of this list

2011-04-21 Thread Raymond Wan
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 01:25, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> "Rob" == Rob Dixon writes: > To discredit this post, as well as your other claims, I'm actually going > through the worst period in my life, exceeding my criminal arrest and > conviction in 1995, which I had hoped would be the "forev

Re: Nature of this list

2011-04-21 Thread Rob Dixon
On 21/04/2011 17:25, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "Rob" == Rob Dixon writes: Rob> As I mentioned in a previous post, you have softened recently. So Rob> it is likely that your life has improved and you are better Rob> provided for, and no longer have the need to abuse. I am very happy Rob> f

Re: sample distribution

2011-04-21 Thread ai nguyen
All, I truly appreciate your responses. It is one of the interview questions at google research! We like to know how someone could approach a problem ? Why begin perl forum? I like perl and We are looking for a perl developer, or perl thinker. Welcome all questions/answers! -- To unsubscribe,

Re: time format conversion

2011-04-21 Thread shawn wilson
On Apr 21, 2011 12:17 PM, "Karl Kaufman" wrote: > > Alternatives to shawn's response (w/o commenting on relative benefits)... You won't mention the benefits, but I will... :) > > - Original Message - From: "cc" > To: > Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 4:37 AM > Subject: time format conver

Re: Nature of this list

2011-04-21 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Rob" == Rob Dixon writes: Rob> As I mentioned in a previous post, you have softened recently. So Rob> it is likely that your life has improved and you are better Rob> provided for, and no longer have the need to abuse. I am very happy Rob> for you, and for the rest of the world who would r

Re: sample distribution

2011-04-21 Thread Rob Dixon
On 20/04/2011 08:21, Jenda Krynicky wrote: From: Peter Scott Is this a question on a quiz or test you're taking? Do the people giving the test have the expectation that your answer is a measure of your abilities or those of people you've asked for help? How far have you gotten with a solution

Re: time format conversion

2011-04-21 Thread Karl Kaufman
Alternatives to shawn's response (w/o commenting on relative benefits)... - Original Message - From: "cc" To: Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 4:37 AM Subject: time format conversion Hi, I have two strings that shows different times and I want to find the difference in # of hours.

Re: Nature of this list

2011-04-21 Thread Rob Dixon
On 19/04/2011 22:10, Shawn H Corey wrote: Some people are intimidated by the smallest of criticism. It usually can be traced back to a math or science teacher they hate. The way to overcome this is to use gentle persuasion. Erm, Shawn, please don't tell us about the science teacher that you ha

Re: Nature of this list

2011-04-21 Thread Rob Dixon
On 19/04/2011 23:25, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > Here (and on monks and usenet and now StackOverflow), I'm (often) > reacting to bad code. And I make no apologies for saying code is bad > or wrong or illpurposed or a security threat, if that's indeed what > it is, and I also believe that the p

Re: time format conversion

2011-04-21 Thread shawn wilson
On Apr 21, 2011 5:38 AM, "cc" wrote: > > Hi, > > I have two strings that shows different times and I > want to find the difference in # of hours. > DateTime? search.cpan.org/~drolsky/DateTime-0.66/lib/DateTime.pm > In PHP, there's strtotime(), but there isn't one > in Perl that I can find. > Why

time format conversion

2011-04-21 Thread cc
Hi, I have two strings that shows different times and I want to find the difference in # of hours. In PHP, there's strtotime(), but there isn't one in Perl that I can find. The string format is: mm/dd/ hh:mm:ss So if t1 and t2 are of the aforementioned format, I just do a t2 - t1 and it sho