Re: Parsing Data

2013-07-23 Thread Omega -1911
Thanks Michael!! Between you and Rob, I have been able to transfer my contacts from my old cell phone to a text file on a local machine and then upload them to my database. It is a shame to have a cell company not provide a better service during an phone upgrade. You guys have helped me come up wit

Re: Parsing Data

2013-07-23 Thread John SJ Anderson
Okay, enough. This thread derail ends now. Shlomi, Rob, if you feel you need to continue this discussion in front of witnesses, feel free to continue CCing me on your private discussion -- but leave perl-beginners out of it. This type of nitpicking and sniping back and forth does not foster a welc

Re: Parsing Data

2013-07-23 Thread Rob Dixon
On 23/07/2013 19:00, Shlomi Fish wrote: Why do you feel that I've been "promoting" XML::LibXML in this thread? Because you say Instead one should use [XML::LibXML] I call that promotion. Why does the fact that I'm affiliated with it, prevent me from recommending it over a different alter

Re: Parsing Data

2013-07-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Rob, On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 18:15:07 +0100 Rob Dixon wrote: > On 23/07/2013 14:39, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Hi Rob, > > > > I recommend against using XML::XPath because it's been undermaintained, is > > slower than XML::LibXML's XPath support, may be more incomplete and I > > believe it has poorer

Re: Parsing Data

2013-07-23 Thread Rob Dixon
On 23/07/2013 14:39, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi Rob, I recommend against using XML::XPath because it's been undermaintained, is slower than XML::LibXML's XPath support, may be more incomplete and I believe it has poorer support for XML namespaces. Instead one should use https://metacpan.org/module/X

Re: cpan App::cpanminus

2013-07-23 Thread Andy Bach
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:59 AM, *Shaji Kalidasan* wrote: > You might be behind a firewall which blocks http or https requests > originating from non browsers. You can test this by using a tool like wget, curl or even telnet to try and connect to the strawberry perl site from the command line.

Re: Parsing Data

2013-07-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Rob, On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 21:48:33 +0100 Rob Dixon wrote: > On 22/07/2013 10:55, Omega -1911 wrote: > > > > Hello all - I am working on a small address book conversion where I need > > to convert a text file in where I dumped the addresses and post them to > > my database/website using the Mec

Re: cpan App::cpanminus

2013-07-23 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 8:59 AM, *Shaji Kalidasan* wrote: > Rohit, > > You might be behind a firewall which blocks http or https requests > originating from non browsers. This type of blocking will be typically be > categorized into Dos attack (denial-of-service attack). Your network > administrat

Re: cpan App::cpanminus

2013-07-23 Thread *Shaji Kalidasan*
Rohit, You might be behind a firewall which blocks http or https requests originating from non browsers. This type of blocking will be typically be categorized into Dos attack (denial-of-service attack). Your network administrator can temporarily grant you access. In our environment we encount