Re: Replace words in a file using perl script

2011-12-16 Thread Brandon McCaig
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 07:36:37AM -0800, Melvin wrote: > Hi, Hello: > I was trying to write a script to replace baby to bigboy in a file:- > However the below script doesn't work Could someone help me??? > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > use strict; > > open (FILE_IN , $ARGV[0]) || die ("ERROR: Gimme I

Re: split function

2011-12-16 Thread Chris Stinemetz
> > However I think it's more likely that you need /all/ of the data to be > output, so I suggest something like my program below. > > HTH, > > Rob > > > use strict; > use warnings; > > my @headers; > > while () { >  if (@headers) { >    my @data = split; >    for my $i (0 .. $#headers) { >      pr

Re: Guidance for a New Programmer/Perl User

2011-12-16 Thread David Christensen
On 12/15/2011 11:34 PM, abhay vyas wrote: Which book of Llama are you reading? pls tell me the title as I am also on same page as yors. I read "Learning Perl", 2 e., ~13 years ago. David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h.

Re: Replace words in a file using perl script

2011-12-16 Thread Uri Guttman
On 12/16/2011 03:23 PM, Chris Stinemetz wrote: Hello Melvin, Give this a try. I used the advice Jim gave and this is what I came up with. It seems to do what you are asking for. #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my $inFile = "input.txt"; my $outFile = "output.txt"; open my $fin, '<',

Re: Replace words in a file using perl script

2011-12-16 Thread Chris Stinemetz
Hello Melvin, Give this a try. I used the advice Jim gave and this is what I came up with. It seems to do what you are asking for. #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my $inFile = "input.txt"; my $outFile = "output.txt"; open my $fin, '<', $inFile or die "ERROR opening $inFile: $!"; open

RE: Replace words in a file using perl script

2011-12-16 Thread Kronheim, David (Contr)
Hi Melvin, It looks like you're editing each line but not writing back to the file, add some print's or say's for $line to see what's happening. Sincerely, David Kronheim Production Support Tier II Gateway Error Correction, VZ450 EDI, EDI Billing, & Metakey/LIA 484-213-1315 __

Re: Replace words in a file using perl script

2011-12-16 Thread Jim Gibson
On 12/15/11 Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:36 AM, "Melvin" scribbled: > Hi, > > I am a Perl baby :-) > > I was trying to write a script to replace baby to bigboy in a file:- > However the below script doesn't work Could someone help me??? The problem with your script is that you are not writing out the

Replace words in a file using perl script

2011-12-16 Thread Melvin
Hi, I am a Perl baby :-) I was trying to write a script to replace baby to bigboy in a file:- However the below script doesn't work Could someone help me??? #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; open (FILE_IN , $ARGV[0]) || die ("ERROR: Gimme Input pleease"); my @array_of_lines = ; foreach my $line

Re: ipc question

2011-12-16 Thread thebarn...@gmail.com
On Dec 14, 6:42 pm, oiss...@gmail.com (Tessio Fechine) wrote: > Hello, > I have a cgi application that has a two way communication with a ldap > application via open2: > > |home.cgi|  <===>  |ldap.pl| > > I need to keep communicating with the same ldap.pl process as other cgi > scripts are launched

Re: split function

2011-12-16 Thread thebarn...@gmail.com
split() splits on whitespace by default. so the "\s+/" is optional. $_ = "3 element array"; @words = split; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Guidance for a New Programmer/Perl User

2011-12-16 Thread Chankey Pathak
On Dec 16, 3:39 pm, short...@gmail.com (Ken Peng) wrote: > 2011/12/16 Shlomi Fish : > > > Regarding Perl 6 - you are right that it is taking a long time, and that > > some > > people feel its implementations are not usable for them yet. But it doesn't > > mean you can't use Perl 5 now, or that Per

Re: Custom Perl on Debian

2011-12-16 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 16/12/11 14:55, "Shlomi Fish" wrote: > On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:41:52 + > Phil Dobbin wrote: >> Has anybody have any experiences of installing a dev version of Perl into >> /usr/local on Debian (I'm running Squeeze)? >> >> My custom version on OS X works just fine & after Googling the mat

Re: Custom Perl on Debian

2011-12-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Phil, On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:41:52 + Phil Dobbin wrote: > Hi, all. > > Has anybody have any experiences of installing a dev version of Perl into > /usr/local on Debian (I'm running Squeeze)? > > My custom version on OS X works just fine & after Googling the matter of > doing the same on

Custom Perl on Debian

2011-12-16 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. Has anybody have any experiences of installing a dev version of Perl into /usr/local on Debian (I'm running Squeeze)? My custom version on OS X works just fine & after Googling the matter of doing the same on Debian there isn't really any consensus on the subject. Any help appreciated.

Re: Guidance for a New Programmer/Perl User

2011-12-16 Thread John SJ Anderson
On Friday, December 16, 2011 at 09:18 , Mark Tiesman wrote: > Not to sound like I am complaining, but aren't we kind of wondering of > my original topic? I will say that Perl 5 is the road I need to travel > since it is heavily utilized here at the University. > Yes, parts of the discussion ha

Re: Guidance for a New Programmer/Perl User

2011-12-16 Thread Mark Tiesman
Not to sound like I am complaining, but aren't we kind of wondering of my original topic? I will say that Perl 5 is the road I need to travel since it is heavily utilized here at the University. I do want to say thank you for the links at other reading recommendations that have been provided

Re: split function

2011-12-16 Thread shawn wilson
On Thursday, December 15, 2011, Chris Stinemetz wrote: > > It isn't a company policy just circumstance. The unix box I'm using > doesn't support DNS nameserver lookup or a C compiler. > > I'm currently using Perl 5.6.1 which doesnt' support local::lib and I > can't install perlbrew to upgrade my

Re: Guidance for a New Programmer/Perl User

2011-12-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Rob, On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:27:22 + Rob Dixon wrote: > Decades of programming in many languages have convinced me that Perl > excels in every aspect. But I have to agree with Rajeev that Perl 6 has > become a theory and needs evidence of practical application. > > In my mind there is no

Re: Guidance for a New Programmer/Perl User

2011-12-16 Thread Ken Peng
2011/12/16 Shlomi Fish : > Regarding Perl 6 - you are right that it is taking a long time, and that some > people feel its implementations are not usable for them yet. But it doesn't > mean you can't use Perl 5 now, or that Perl 6 will never be ready, or that it > didn't have a positive influence

Re: Guidance for a New Programmer/Perl User

2011-12-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:53:33 -0800 (PST) Rajeev Prasad wrote: > Shlomi, > all of you said is correct, but some may get a negative impression. it shows > as if perl5 and perl 6 are two very different. Well, Perl 5 and Perl 6 are very different. > perl5 is dead end (coz perl 6 is not like 5), p

Re: error on Net::SSH::perl ---- [ weaken is only available with the XS version of Scalar::Util ]

2011-12-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Agnello, On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:36:00 +0530 Agnello George wrote: > >> Compilation failed in require at download_db_4_syncscript.pl line 7. > >> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at download_db_4_syncscript.pl line 7. > >> > >> any idea what went wrong .. thanks for all the help .. > >> > > >

Re: split function

2011-12-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Chris, On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:29:08 -0600 Chris Stinemetz wrote: > > > > Is that your company's policy, or do you just lack root access? If it's the > > latter, then see the various resources at > > http://perl-begin.org/topics/cpan/ , > > so you can see how to install Perl modules from CPAN