how to update my @INC (can't find .pm's after upgrading perl)

Hi, I'm currently running perl-5.8.7, my modules are located in site_perl/5.8.7 however, after upgrading to 5.8.8, all of programs using perl modules, suddenly breaks because it cannot find those modules into its new supposed to be @INC (site_perl/5.8.8.. what can I do with this? Thanks. __

printing a range of ip addresses

Hi, Can you tell me why this loop doesn't work??? #!/usr/local/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; our $hostpart = 1; our $networkpart = 128; $|=1; while ($networkpart <= 158){ while ($hostpart <= 256){ print "202.90.".$networkpart.".".$hostpart, "\n"; ++$hostpar

Re: spreadsheets to ldif (trouble looping through array)..

Hi John! --- "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is one way to do it: > > my @array = qw( favorite lessfavorite worstfavorite > ); > > while ( ) { > chomp; > my @fields = map length() ? $_ : 'NA', split > /:/, $_, -1; > > next unless @fields == @array; > > my %pa

spreadsheets to ldif (trouble looping through array)..

Good day! I'm about to transfer our ip allocation table from openoffice spreadsheet into an ldif format. The spreadsheet has 19 columns, some cells are empty though. So far this is what I got: #!/usr/local/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my $input = shift @ARGV; my $output = shift @ARGV; our

A sript to delete programs installed from source

Hi, It seems that whatever software manager an operating system has, still, programs installed manually from their sources are difficult to removed. Do you have a script that will accomlish this job without further hassle? Thanks ___

Computing elapsed time in this format hh:mm:ss.

I need to compute the total elapsed time with this format: start end Total 06:30:17 09:00:14 2.50 hours Do you know any shortcut to this instead of splitting each number in between colons? Discover Yahoo! Get on-the-go sports scores, stock quotes, news an

This is weird: Pop works but shift doesn't

Hi, I'm parsing a log file that contains this format: 1112677214 31388202 181264589 1112677214 8843 59460 8843 59460 1112676919 10728 59045 10728 59045 1112676900 10617 59006 10728 59045 1112676600 8693 58389 9531 59661 These logs are in unix timestamp format: I'm trying to convert the first

Returning to my program after exiting vi.

Hi, I wrote a script with a line, system('vi ./config.txt'); which when encountered by the perl compiler, pops up the vi editor and open the config.txt in the current directory. What if I would just want the user the view the very long text file, let's say, a list of something, and his answer to

Returning to my program after exiting vi.

Hi, I wrote a script with a line, system('vi ./config.txt'); which when encountered by the perl compiler, pops up the vi editor and open the config.txt in the current directory. What if I would just want the user the view the very long text file, let's say, a list of something, and his answer to

Appending constant string to variable inside a here-document

Hi, I'm trying to loop into printing a series of lines so I used here document. Substitution of variables, e.g., $_ works inside the HERE-Document but appending a string won't work For example: if the current content of $word is the word "big", and I would want to print a here document appending

Text formatting in perl (do I always have to open the txtfile in landscape view?)

Hi, I wrote a perl script that will parse a log file and output it into a text file. I made its filename to end in .swx so that it will by default open in openoffice.org. My problem is that, when you open the file, each line cannot accomodate the default margin settings of openoffice.org such tha

Editing config file entries in between brackets{ } Ex. define host{ hostname value... }

Hi, I'm editing a software(nagios)configuration files and I thought it would be much easier if I could just create a perl script to edit such files. Though I have very little ideas coming on how to accomplish this task. I need some tips for this one. The config file format is like this: define h

Perl waits for while to finish before printing if on the same line, why?(countdown prog)

Hi, I'm new to perl and i'm trying to create a simple program that will act like a time bomb but will print a dot(something like a progress bar every second until the specified time arrives. Here's my code. my $countdown = 5; while ($countdown > 0){ print "\."; sleep 1; $countdown--; } print "Ka

simple substitution question

Hi, There is something that's bothering me for so long regarding the use of $_ variable. for example: here is my string: $_ = "but"; s/u/a/g; print $_; This will simply print "bat" My problem is using a variable in place of $_. how will I tell that the one i'm going to substitute is the $strin

Regex to extract numbers between "[ ]"

Hi, I'm parsing a log file that contains numbers enclosed by []. Ex. [1108702375] I need to extract them so that I can convert them to `date -r` format. Any help is apreciated. __ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! ht

RE: Is there a regexp that will match two or more expressions???

@LinesIWantToKeep,$_; > my $line = ; > push @LinesIWantToKeep,$line; >}else{ > ; >} > } > > print @LinesIWantToKeep; > > ### > > > -Original Message- > From: Harold Castro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sen

Is there a regexp that will match two or more expressions???

Hi, I'm looking for a regexp that will match two expressions. Each line of the file I'm reading contains different months and years. I'm only after those lines with particular year and month. All those lines with january and 2005 for example. Any idea? Thanks! here's a portion of the file. Wed Ja

Can perl produce a huge-sized file for download testing?

Hi, Our company is involved in internet service providing, and as such, troubleshooting our partner's links is one of our day to day activities. We have our own network monitoring system using mrtg and other stuffs. On some occasions with intermittent links, the mrtg is not acting as accurate a

Transforming a space-separated string to an array for words.

Good day, This would be quick and simple. I need to write a script that will prompt the user(using ) to enter a series of numbers separated by white space and then push each of those numbers into an array and then do anything such as sorting it from highest to lowest. I've tried doing it as: p

Transforming a space-separated string to an array for words.

Good day, This would be quick and simple. I need to write a script that will prompt the user(using ) to enter a series of numbers separated by white space and then push each of those numbers into an array and then do anything such as sorting it from highest to lowest. I've tried doing it as: p

cpan>install NET::SSH ----> Can't install NET::SSH don't know what it is?

Good day! This is the first time I'll be using the cpan to install modules. I run: perl -MCPAN -e shell and answer the questions one by one. When its done, I issued install NET::SSH at the cpan> prompt and I got the message: Can't install NET::SSH Don't know what it is. Question: How will I m

Re: Client-server with perl?(need some useful progs for squid proxy)

Thanks a lot! I will look into this right away. see ya! -- "JupiterHost.Net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Harold Castro wrote: > > Good day! > > Hello, > > > >I'm new to perl but not that much of a newbie. > In > >

Client-server with perl?(need some useful progs for squid proxy)

Good day! I'm new to perl but not that much of a newbie. In fact I was in the peak of learning perl but then I have to focus my concentration with work when I got my first job. I will be a trainee for 3 months and my first assignment is to administer our squid proxies(4). I line with this, t