Modules

2003-01-24 Thread Ismar . Dupanovic
no name clashing in variables or function names. I can provide code if necessary. Just wondering if this is some common oversight on my part... Ismar Dupanovic WHI 847-964-7872

Binary chars

2001-10-30 Thread Ismar . Dupanovic
I have a text file that was created by a Windows application for reporting. I have to do some formatting on it so I FTP it to the UNIX box and want to use PERL and regexp to format the file. I had to use binary FTP option as this file seems to contain some binary characters. When I open the file

eval

2001-08-13 Thread Ismar . Dupanovic
A rather stupid question but I would appreciate a good answer What is the point of the eval function. What would be a reason to use it. >From what I gather it is a function that evaluates a piece of Perl code and returns the exit status of the code. What is the point. Why no just write c