On Sat, 07 Sep 2002 09:27:48 +0100, Daniel Schwedler Kofoed wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Learning Perl is a good and easy one - here is a link to some of the
> perl books:
[ removed ]
You might want to reconsider whether it's a good idea advertising a site
where illegal copies of books are distributed. Pa
On Wed, 22 May 2002 06:01:14 +0100, Troy May wrote:
> A friend of mine has a task he wants to do daily, so I told him to check
> into cron but he said he doesn't have it. His server is running RedHat
> 6.1 Cartman. I've never used cron before but I'm assuming that it is
> not available to him f
On Tue, 21 May 2002 19:23:06 +0100, Barry Jones wrote:
> How can I sort a hash's keys in reverse order?
Two options would be
@keys = reverse sort keys %hash; # reverse ASCII ordering
@keys = sort { $b <=> $a } keys %hash; # reverse numeric ordering
There are many other possibilities. It reall
On Tue, 21 May 2002 15:17:03 +0100, Barry Jones wrote:
> Yes but you have to write it like this:
>
> (@main) = (@data1,@data2,@data3);
No you don't.
@main = (@data1,@data2,@data3);
works just fine.
Dave...
--
Shoot some of those missiles, think of us as fatherless scum
It won't be for
On Mon, 08 Apr 2002 02:04:10 +0100, Troy May wrote:
> What's the easiest way to get yesterday's date from localtime? I need
> it in this format: (for today) "070402".
>
> Here is the code used for today's date:
>
> ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,undef,undef,undef) = localtime();
> $mon++;
5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/perl/pod/perlfaq2/Perl_Books.html
>
> Though that book isn't mentioned specifically, I recall that Dave Cross
> helped to improve the book immensely and is a good book from what I've
> heard.
No. The book I worked on was "Perl and CGI for the World Wide We
On Sat, 02 Feb 2002 17:11:12 +, Timothy Johnson wrote:
> -Original Message-
> > From: Dave Cross
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: 2/2/02 1:01 AM
> > Subject: Re: Dates in file or directory names ?
> >
> > On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:20:16 +
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:20:16 +, Mark Richmond wrote:
> Ok, so I'm confused
> What I want to do is create a directory where the name is the current
> date say mkdir(2002131)
> What Can't figure out is how to build the date string. I'm sure I'm
> just missing something.
> Any thoughts.
[can yo
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 05:34:29PM -0400, David Gilden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> How about a an example or 2 where you would use this,
>
> $hash{$_}++
# count the occurences of values in an array
my %hash;
$hash{$_}++ foreach @array;
# and display the results sorted
print map { "$_: $hash{
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 01:45:00PM -0700, Peter Cornelius
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >
> > open (FILE_IN, "pslbingocard.dat")|| die "failed to open file\n";
> You really want an 'or' here ---^^ not '||'. The operator precedence
> can bite you.
Only if you miss out the parenthesis around
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 04:43:26PM -0400, Michael Wolfrom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> Dave Cross wrote:
>
> >
> > > #! usr/bin/perl
> > > use strict;
> > >
> > > open (FILE_IN, "pslbingocard.dat")|| die "failed to open file
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 01:33:30PM -0700, Greg Meckes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> First :
> Your assigning a newline to the "$/" scalar: $/ = "\n";
> Why? Get rid of it.
>
> Second:
> The split: split (/|/, $/);
> Should be : split (/\|/, $_);
>
> Third:
> You should escape the pipes in the pri
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 01:37:51PM -0700, Crystal Gruetzmacher
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> what is $_ for?
It's the "default" variable an is used for a great many things in Perl.
In this case, it's where each line of a file ends up when you use the
construction:
while () {
# each line of f
Crystal,
Some comments interspersed with your code below.
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 01:25:59PM -0700, Crystal Gruetzmacher
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I'm trying, really I am, but I can't get this thing to work (yet). Here's
> what I have so far. Am I missing something crucial that doesn't give
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:12:45PM +0200, Evgeny Goldin (aka Genie)
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> Check up my catalog at :
> [url removed]
>
> It's only a catalog but I upload titles from it upon request.
He does, indeed, happily distribute pirate copies of Perl (and other) books
to anyone wh
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 02:45:40PM -0400, Brett W. McCoy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Esrar Chowdhury wrote:
>
> > my question is...how do I make the read pointer read every 10th line
> > from my input file? (After reading one line, does the read pointer stay
> > on the same
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:30:07PM -0700, Esrar Chowdhury ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I just started using perl and have a question. Let say I have an inputfile
> with 100 lines. Each of these lines contain a name...first name and
> last name.
>
> I need to be able to read the 1st name.
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 06:33:21PM -0500, Karen Cravens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On 9 Jun 2001, at 16:21, William wrote:
>
> >if (($L) = ($_) =~ m/\b([0-9.0-9.0-9.0-9]+)\b/ ) {
>
> A valid IP address is going to look like four groups of one to three
> digits separated by dots.
>
> So i
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