Scope issue

2005-01-19 Thread B McKee
Hi All I seem to have a problem with scope and/or handling objects here. If I use 'my worksheet = $workbook->add_worksheet("$branchNumber") or die "Couldn't add worksheet $branchNumber \n" ;' then I get 'use of uninitialized variable' when I try to add to the worksheet outside the innermost if {

Re: beginners Digest 18 Jan 2005 12:52:35 -0000 Issue 2433

2005-01-18 Thread B McKee
Apologies for the layout and busted thread - I'm on digest mode From: "JupiterHost.Net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I believe this will do what you want: next if grep { $rawreport_item =~ /$_/ } @possibleMatches; Just make sure the regexes in @possibleMatches are not user supplied or they may try sneaky

replacing multiple matches with an array

2005-01-17 Thread B McKee
Hi All I have this bit of code in a program I'm working on. while () { next if /\f/ ; next if /^DATE : / ; next if /^\s{15,}PART / ; next if /^COUNTER QTY/ ; next if /^\s+$/ ; print ; # debugging purpo

Default FTP agent for CPAN

2004-05-06 Thread B McKee
CPAN wants to use Net::FTP but it doesn't work behind our corporate firewall. Ncftp or wget works fine, once the endless timeout wait is over. I found this on a perl list, but it's not working for me. I'm using perl 5.6 on OSX. Suggestions? With perl 5.8 having libnet as standard and the generall

Comments on this suggestion

2004-04-27 Thread B McKee
I tripped over this chunk of code today - #!/usr/bin/perl -w BEGIN { use File::Basename; unshift @INC, dirname($0); } use strict; use module_whatever; ... if I'm reading this right it would let you include a required module your users may or may not have with your own script. No

Perl from Terminal in OSX

2004-03-18 Thread B McKee
From: David Gilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu Mar 18, 2004 12:27:57 PM Canada/Eastern To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: running PERL from CMD line OSX Trying to run a perl script in OSX shell, and It is not working, what am I missing? here is what I am typing: perl -e test.pl #!/usr/bin/perl #

subroutine placement (Layout conventions)

2004-02-26 Thread B McKee
Hi All, I'm slowly creating my Perl Masterpiece (tm) I'll let ya all giggle over it when I'm done :-) At any rate - It's done what I believe you call "top-down". I declare the subs, then have the code for the main program, then the subroutine code blocks. My question is what order should t

Re: beginners Digest 20 Jan 2004 21:20:31 -0000 Issue 1978

2004-01-22 Thread B McKee
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 16:20, Jan Eden wrote: > > I had a similar problem passing a filehandle to a sub and learned that I had to use > the typeglob instead. > HTH,Jan > > B McKee wrote: > >Hi All, > >I'm having trouble understanding what use strict is tryin

Re: use strict and filehandles

2004-01-21 Thread B McKee
On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, at 10:34 AM, B McKee wrote: Hi All, I'm having trouble understanding what use strict is trying to tell me. If I have run this program ...snipped open(MESSAGE, "$datafile") or die "Cannot open datafile: $!"; while (!eof(MESSAGE)) {

use strict and filehandles

2004-01-20 Thread B McKee
Hi All, I'm having trouble understanding what use strict is trying to tell me. If I have run this program -CODE--- #!/usr/bin/perl -wT # use warnings and turn on data tainting use CGI qw(:standard); $CGI::POST_MAX=1024 * 100; $CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS = 1; use stric