perltidy on windows - error

2005-01-24 Thread Absolut Newbie
When running perltidy on windows i get the following error. I uninstalled/reinstalled from PPM and looked at the perltidy site but no luck. Any ideas ? D:\Perl\bin>perl perltidy -b foo.pl Subroutine Cwd::cwd redefined at D:/Perl/lib/Cwd.pm line 518. Subroutine Cwd::getcwd redefined at D:/Perl/lib

dynamically calling a subroutine

2005-01-18 Thread Absolut Newbie
I have a program that generates a random number between 1 and 6. based on the outcome I want to run a subroutine that corresponds to the result. i.e if the result is 1 then the program should run sub F1. my question is how can I dynamically call the subroutine. i tried this but obviously it didn't

[SOLUTION] how can i generate 10 unique (non repeating) numbers

2004-07-25 Thread Absolut Newbie
greets to Peter Scott for pointing to Randal Schwartz's answer on C.L.P.M. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=86hds1fa6n.fsf%40blue.stonehenge.com [SOLUTION] use List::Util from CPAN http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/Scalar-List-Utils-1.14/lib/List/Util.pm basically you use the

(repost) how can i generate 10 unique (non repeating) numbers

2004-07-22 Thread Absolut Newbie
Hi, (reposting this since i did not see the original in my newsreader or google) I want to generate 10 numbers from 1..15 and put them in an array. easy ? while ($fill < 10){ $foo = int(rand(15)); unshift(@array, $foo); $fill++; } print "the [EMAIL PROTECTED] is --> @array\n"; my problem is

generating non repeating numbers.

2004-07-22 Thread Absolut Newbie
Hi, I want to generate 10 numbers from 1..15 and put them in an array. easy ? while ($fill < 10){ $foo = int(rand(15)); unshift(@array, $foo); $fill++; } print "the [EMAIL PROTECTED] is --> @array\n"; my problem is that many times the numbers repeat themselves in the array. how can i generat

writing back to a file

2003-08-20 Thread Absolut Newbie
Hi, Newbie here. I am writing a program that takes a file that has two columns of words, extracts the second column, then saves the original file with only the data in the first column. Question #1 - would it be better to do this w/ the split or s/// functions ? Question #1 - how do I write back