CPAN cannot install modules locally

2011-07-22 Thread Alok
Hi I am trying to install MediaWiki::Bot module locally on my server (I am not the admin). I am trying to use cpan command line interface for this. I used following options before beginning installation: o conf makepl_args "LIBS=-L/home/foo/local/lib INC=-I/home/foo/local/include PREFIX=/home

send email with perl 587 and startssl

2011-07-22 Thread m...@smtp.fakessh.eu
hello folks when is it the easiest solution to email 587 startssl and authentication I arrived by writing this but the email sent does not contain the headers of the authentication ]$ cat emailsender1.pl #!/usr/bin/perl use Email::MIME; my $message = Email::MIME->create(

Re: s/// and \n question

2011-07-22 Thread JPH
Are you familiar with chomp( $str ) ? Often you will want to use chomp to get rid of trailing newlines on your input lines. On 07/21/2011 11:11 PM, Mike McClain wrote: Given the following snippet of code could someone explain to me why the linefeed gets included in $num? mike@/deb40a:~/perl>

Re: s/// and \n question

2011-07-22 Thread Rob Dixon
On 22/07/2011 16:05, Mike McClain wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 02:11:33PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: Given the following snippet of code could someone explain to me why the linefeed gets included in $num? mike@/deb40a:~/perl> perl -e' $str = "asdfggfh 987321qwertyyy\n"; ($num = $str) =~ s/^

Re: first post

2011-07-22 Thread Rob Dixon
On 21/07/2011 16:52, Shawn H Corey wrote: On 11-07-21 11:41 AM, Rob Dixon wrote: I am pretty sure that the original code is a perversion of split /\t|\n/; which is a lazy way of losing a trailing newline without chomping first. It also seems excessive. This is the same thing: split /[\t\n]/

Re: s/// and \n question

2011-07-22 Thread Mike McClain
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 02:11:33PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > Given the following snippet of code could someone explain to me > why the linefeed gets included in $num? > > mike@/deb40a:~/perl> perl -e' > $str = "asdfggfh 987321qwertyyy\n"; > ($num = $str) =~ s/^.*?(\d+).*$/$1/; > print $num; > '

Re: s/// and \n question

2011-07-22 Thread Rob Dixon
On 22/07/2011 15:25, Mike McClain wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 01:54:57AM +0100, Rob Dixon wrote: As others have noted, /./ without the /s modifier matches any character but newline, so the regex matches only up to just before the "\n". But your code would be better written as use strict; us

Re: s/// and \n question

2011-07-22 Thread C.DeRykus
On Jul 21, 6:06 pm, shawnhco...@gmail.com (Shawn H Corey) wrote: > On 11-07-21 08:54 PM, Rob Dixon wrote: > ... > I think part of the confusion is also in what does $ match?  According > to perlre, under "Regular Expressions", > >     $        Match the end of the line (or before newline at the end

Re: perl's -M

2011-07-22 Thread Feng He
Thank you all for the kind info. On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Feng, > > On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:47:09 +0800 > Feng He wrote: > >> What's the meaning of Perl's "-M" operator? >> which perldoc document is it get descripted in? >> > > If you mean the -M operator inside P

Re: perl's -M

2011-07-22 Thread Alan Haggai Alavi
Hi Feng, > What's the meaning of Perl's "-M" operator? `-M` is a command switch. It is used to load a module and is equivalent to `use`-ing a module within the script. `-M` is different from `-m` in that the former executes `import` function of the module whereas the latter does not import any

Re: perl's -M

2011-07-22 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Feng, On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:47:09 +0800 Feng He wrote: > What's the meaning of Perl's "-M" operator? > which perldoc document is it get descripted in? > If you mean the -M operator inside Perl code see: http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/-X.html (Accessible as "perldoc -f -X" - "-f" for f

perl's -M

2011-07-22 Thread Feng He
What's the meaning of Perl's "-M" operator? which perldoc document is it get descripted in? Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: What's new on http://perl-begin.org/

2011-07-22 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Jennifer, replying in public. Thanks for not top posting. On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:21:38 -0430 Jennifer Maldonado wrote: > 2011/7/21 Shlomi Fish > > 11. We're now maintaining the sources of the Perl Beginners' Site in [a > > bitbucket.org repository](http://perl-begin.org/source/#vcs) and the

"automagic" that enables a little code to do a lot I find challenging to learn

2011-07-22 Thread goldtech
Hi, What i find challenging in perl is the "automagic" that enables a little code to do a lot. I was looking at a book "Data Munging with Perl" by David Cross. I've used perl in the past but I forget most of it after a while and then relearn it when I need to use it again...In any event (I wish I