Re: fork() question

rints. From what I understood fork creates two identical processes that become completely independent from each other. What am I missing? Peter It should print Test, but you should wait for a while .. [ ~ 1 sec ] Test is printed by the child process. -- Binish A R

Re: @ARGV

Hans Ginzel wrote: John W. Krahn napsal(a): arguments. Then how come I cannot access the first element with $ARGV[0]? Are tou not thinking on $0? HG I think @ARGV wont work in command line. Try to write the code in a script and check it out. #!/usr/bin/perl -w print $ARGV[0]; $ per

Re: problems with getpwent

Gerard Robin wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 08:20:55PM +0530 Binish A R wrote: Hello, I've a doubt with getpwent function. The following code [ getpwent in list context ] is getting into an infinite loop: #!/usr/bin/perl -l while

problems with getpwent

Hello, I've a doubt with getpwent function. The following code [ getpwent in list context ] is getting into an infinite loop: #!/usr/bin/perl -l while ($ref = [ getpwent() ]) { print $ref->[0]; } Actually its printing the list before going into infinite loop. when i tried the below cod

problem with Net::AIM

Hello, Has anyone tried sending aim messages with Net::AIM module? I am getting the following message while sending test messages? PARSE: how many args in '2'? I tried google'ing for this message but couldnt find a genuine fix for this. btw I used the test script [ with some modificaton like a

Re: Parsing and HTML file

Nath, Alok (STSD) wrote: Hi all, I want to read the data from an HTML file say Test.htm.For that I want to use HTML::TableExtract. Can anybody send me some pointers to write the script or give me some sample script ? Thanx, Alok. perldoc HTML::TableExtract :)

Re: catchDate

Christopher Spears wrote: I want to catch the various parts of the output of the date command. Here is my script: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $date = system("date"); $date =~ /(\w+)/; my $day = $1; print "Day: $day\n"; Here is my output: Thu Sep 8 10:22:14 CEST 2005 Day: 0 What i

Re: Need an explanation

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: while (<>) {   chomp;   next if /^#/;   next if /^$/;   $CONF{(split/=/)[0]}=(split/=/)[1]; } -Original Message- From: Binish A R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Perl Beginners Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need an explanation

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maybe this is brief: while (<>) {    chomp;    next if /^#/;    next if /^$/;    my ($var1,$var2)=split /=/;    $CONF{$var1}=$var2; } -Original Message- From: Binish A R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: System, shell question

steve tran wrote: Hello I am a beginner to perl and I have a question if I want to use system or open or backticks to execute a system command, like system("$cmd arg1"); ( with system for instance) and the $cmd which is a prog takes another program called in arg1 , and that program(arg

Need an explanation

I've a file, which has entries like the following ... IDENTIFIER1=value1; IDENTIFIER2=value2; IDENTIFIER3=value3; etc I've got to parse the above file and am using a hash to do the same ... Here is my code ... while (<>) { chomp; next if /^#/; next if /^$/; %CONF =

Re: Automatic Module install

Chris Devers wrote: On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Binish A R wrote: I've my script which uses Expect Module. But the problem is that Expect module isn't installed by default ( at least in the machines that I've checked, viz RH9 ) Can I write some code that will automati

Automatic Module install

I've my script which uses Expect Module. But the problem is that Expect module isn't installed by default ( at least in the machines that I've checked, viz RH9 ) Can I write some code that will automatically install a module from CPAN if there isn't one? --

Forcing array context

How can I force array context ... like # echo hello: world | perl -lne '$aref = split(/:/, $_); print $aref' but thatz giving the length of the array ... I want $aref to be a reference ... How is that possible ?? A workaround is to use the following # echo hello: world | perl -lne '@ar = s

Re: Fwd: perl one liiner

anu p wrote: Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Subject: perl one liiner

Re: How to change the date/time of PC

Xiaofang Zhou wrote: Hi, I can't find any perl function to change the date/time of PC. The only way I found is `cmd.exe /C date $today`, call DOS function. Any one can give me a clue? Thanks, Xiaofang Zhou [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't think there is any perl fu

Re: Find string ending with %

Timothy Johnson wrote: John W. Krahn wrote: [ message rearranged in chronological order. Please do not top-post ] No. If I'm responding to a message in this format, I'll use this format, but there's nothing illegitimate about top-posting. It is the email format that

Re: Emptying a log file....

Tony Frasketi wrote: Hello Listers Is there any way in perl to effectively clear the contents of an ***existing*** file  (making the file empty) ?  I have a log file that I'd like to empty out after it reaches a certain maximum file size. thanks in advance Tony just openin

Re: Analyze Log

Nick wrote: Hi There, I am trying to analyze a simple log file and pull 2 pieces of data from it. The log looks as follows: www.example.com 42f3ca1042f8c42f0 7338 0 3638 Where each valie is tab seperated. I want to create a hash with "www.example.com"

Re: help with pack/unpack

Binish A R wrote: I've a bit string something like 1100110100111 which is the bit representation of A and B together. How can I use unpack/pack to get this characters back? oops small mistake .. the bit representation for AB together is 01010110. Going thru perlpackt

help with pack/unpack

I've a bit string something like 1100110100111 which is the bit representation of A and B together. How can I use unpack/pack to get this characters back? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: reference to an array

David Baird wrote: On 8/8/05, Binish A R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am a bit confused whether this is possible or not? I would like to have an array reference, the command am using is something like : -- $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT * from tablename"); $sth->

reference to an array

I am a bit confused whether this is possible or not? I would like to have an array reference, the command am using is something like : -- $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT * from tablename"); $sth->execute; $aref = $sth->fetchrow_array; -- The last line, viz $aref = $sth->fetchrow_array; I am expec

Re: Compiling perl scripts

Larsen, Errin M HMMA/IT wrote: Larsen, Errin M HMMA/IT wrote: Binish A R wrote: Does anyone knows how to compile perl scripts to executables? I'm working on RH Linux and would like to know the details. I know that I can use perlcc to do that ... but it isn't compiling anyt

Compiling perl scripts

Does anyone knows how to compile perl scripts to executables? I'm working on RH Linux and would like to know the details. I know that I can use perlcc to do that ... but it isn't compiling anything other than a simple 'hello world' program :( Is there any other tools besides perlcc ?? Thanks i

Re: Simple question

Tony Marquis wrote: Very simple question. I'm reading a file and i want to remove all the in each lines. while(FIC) { $test = $_; #remove crlf. ... some code } How can i do that. Try $test =~ s/[\r\f]//g; to remove newlines, use $test =~ s/[\n]//g; -- To unsubscrib

Re: How to upgrade local module using -MCPAN?

Yu Wang wrote: Hi, All I am curious about how to upgrade local module in 'perl -MCPAN -e shell'? Thanks! Yu Hi, From the CPAN shell, try install MODULENAME force install MODULENAME like install DBI install DBD -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional command