Re: Chromatics - Why is funding Perl So Hard

2011-11-23 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Randal L. Schwartz" ""Octavian" == "Octavian Rasnita" writes: Octavian> It would be nice to have a Perl with strict and warnings Octavian> enabled by default that could be disabled on request This way Octavian> the maintained old projects could be easily modified to Octavian> continue

Re: Chromatics - Why is funding Perl So Hard

2011-11-23 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> ""Octavian" == "Octavian Rasnita" writes: Octavian> It would be nice to have a Perl with strict and warnings Octavian> enabled by default that could be disabled on request This way Octavian> the maintained old projects could be easily modified to Octavian> continue to work but the unmaintai

Re: string into a unique index

2011-11-23 Thread shawn wilson
On Nov 23, 2011 4:50 AM, "Arvind" wrote: > > I have to write a perl script that keeps track of tcp connections. I > plan to keep track of this in an array of the form > tcp_connection[source address][dest address] > I would just use a db for this if not only for the audit trail. I do believe tha

Re: string into a unique index

2011-11-23 Thread John W. Krahn
Petite Abeille wrote: On Nov 23, 2011, at 4:24 AM, Arvind wrote: To do this I want to convert an IP address of the form A.B.C.D into a number that will serve as an index of the array. Well, IP4 addresses can simply be represented as a decimal. So, 127.0.0.1 is 2130706433. Or as a four byt

Re: using WWW::Mechanize why am i getting this proxy issue?

2011-11-23 Thread Rajeev Prasad
In my WWW:Mechanize script below, can someone please advice why am i getting proxy issue. when the same proxy is working fine with LWP::UserAgent in a different script. (both scripts are given below) thank you. Rajeev From: Rajeev Prasad To: perl list Sent

Re: Safely updating a file

2011-11-23 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 11-11-23 03:31 PM, Mark Wagner wrote: That would work, but it would introduce the need to periodically prune the file, and would make reading the file much more complicated: if the disk fills up, the final line could well be a fractional timestamp, so I'd need to verify that what I'd just read

Re: Safely updating a file

2011-11-23 Thread Mark Wagner
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 15:33, tshtatland wrote: > On Nov 22, 4:27 pm, carni...@gmail.com (Mark Wagner) wrote: >> I want to update a status file, similar to this: >> >> open OUTFILE, ">", "status.txt"; >> print OUTFILE "$last_date\n"; >> close OUTFILE; >> >> However, if something goes wrong (e.g.

Re: string into a unique index

2011-11-23 Thread Uri Guttman
On 11/22/2011 10:24 PM, Arvind wrote: I have to write a perl script that keeps track of tcp connections. I plan to keep track of this in an array of the form tcp_connection[source address][dest address] To do this I want to convert an IP address of the form A.B.C.D into a number that will serve

Re: Safely updating a file

2011-11-23 Thread Uri Guttman
On 11/22/2011 06:33 PM, tshtatland wrote: Have you considered appending? he seems to want a single timestamp in the file. appending would add one timestamp for each call. how would this do what the OP wanted? and File::Slurp has an append_file sub which also makes appending much easier an

Re: string into a unique index

2011-11-23 Thread Petite Abeille
On Nov 23, 2011, at 4:24 AM, Arvind wrote: > To do this I want to convert an IP address of the form A.B.C.D into a > number that will serve as an index of the array. Well, IP4 addresses can simply be represented as a decimal. So, 127.0.0.1 is 2130706433. Example on how to calculate it: http:

string into a unique index

2011-11-23 Thread Arvind
I have to write a perl script that keeps track of tcp connections. I plan to keep track of this in an array of the form tcp_connection[source address][dest address] To do this I want to convert an IP address of the form A.B.C.D into a number that will serve as an index of the array. I want to do

Re: Safely updating a file

2011-11-23 Thread tshtatland
On Nov 22, 4:27 pm, carni...@gmail.com (Mark Wagner) wrote: > I want to update a status file, similar to this: > > open OUTFILE, ">", "status.txt"; > print OUTFILE "$last_date\n"; > close OUTFILE; > > However, if something goes wrong (e.g. the disk is full), this code > will replace "status.txt" wi