smart matching

2011-10-05 Thread Chris Stinemetz
trying to learn smart matching in an exercise. Why does this program output "odd" when I input an even number? Thank you, Chris #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use 5.010; say "Checking the number <$ARGV[0]>"; my $favorite = 62; given( $ARGV[0] ) { when( ! /^\d+$/ ) { say

Re: Inviting ideas for Personal database

2011-10-05 Thread Zachary Zebrowski
Any database system will react differently under different file systems... On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Lubos Kolouch wrote: > Parag Kalra, Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:49:00 -0700: > > > >> > >> > >> Finally, I should note that you shouldn't prefix your replies with > >> "PK>" or > >> > >> > > Agreed.

Re: Inviting ideas for Personal database

2011-10-05 Thread Lubos Kolouch
Parag Kalra, Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:49:00 -0700: >> >> >> Finally, I should note that you shouldn't prefix your replies with >> "PK>" or >> >> > Agreed. My mistake. Thanks for bringing it to my notice. BTW I have > started using sqllite and I am really enjoying it. Thanks to all. > > Parag Hi Para

Re: Inviting ideas for Personal database

2011-10-05 Thread Parag Kalra
> > > > Finally, I should note that you shouldn't prefix your replies with "PK>" or > > Agreed. My mistake. Thanks for bringing it to my notice. BTW I have started using sqllite and I am really enjoying it. Thanks to all. Parag

Re: Inviting ideas for Personal database

2011-10-05 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Parag, On Tue, 4 Oct 2011 16:10:06 -0700 Parag Kalra wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Brandon McCaig wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Shawn H Corey > > wrote: > > > If the database is small, I would consider using SQLite. It stores the > > > entire database in a single

Re: Introducing myself...

2011-10-05 Thread Dermot
On 4 October 2011 20:44, John SJ Anderson wrote: > Hi everybody -- > > As Casey announced the other day, I recently volunteered to take over > list moderation duties. I think this list is a really important > resource for the Perl community, and I think it's important that > people new to Perl can