Re: perl equivelent of which in bash

Thank you! I should have searched cpan. Jim. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

perl equivelent of which in bash

Greetings! basically I need a perl equivalent in bash that does which and gives me the binary path. I need this because I run my script in different systems I want the binary automatically adjusted. Thanks! Jim. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands

Re: perl memory issue

pls ignore this post, it has nothing to do with perl itself. the sender is basically overwhelming the receiver que and receiver couldn't handle fast enough.. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.

perl memory issue

Hello! I have the following code which is giving me trouble, basically I was tesing the Tibco::Rv module this was just a test program. what it does is it creates a listener and calls a simple callback when the listener sees a message. I ran this script but the memory use gets larger and larger as

Re: edit_file and edit_file_lines

On May 15, 1:28 am, u...@stemsystems.com ("Uri Guttman") wrote: > hi all, > > As with other releases of File::Slurp I think this list should be told > about it since this module is so easy to use and makes your Perl much > simpler and also faster. > > uri > > Have you ever wanted to use perl -pi in

Re: edit_file and edit_file_lines

On May 15, 7:13 pm, u...@stemsystems.com ("Uri Guttman") wrote: > >>>>> "PJ" == Paul Johnson writes: > >   PJ> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 01:31:47PM -0400, Jim Green wrote: >   >> this is very nice, don't need to call perl in perl an

Re: memory doesn't free after lexical block

On 18 May 2011 20:39, Shawn H Corey wrote: > On 11-05-18 08:36 PM, Jim Green wrote: >> >> is this the same for other language like c++ or java? > > For all processes.  That's why deamons periodically respawn; to clean up > messes like this. Thank you! I just wish thi

Re: memory doesn't free after lexical block

On 18 May 2011 20:30, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 05:16:23PM -0700, Jim Green wrote: >> Hello List! >> I have a quick question about memory release in perl: >> >> { >>     my @array; >> >>     foreach my $n (1..1e7 ) { >&

memory doesn't free after lexical block

Hello List! I have a quick question about memory release in perl: { my @array; foreach my $n (1..1e7 ) { push @array, $n; print "$n\n"; } } print "sleeping\n"; sleep 600; after the code block, I epxect memory usage to drop to almost zero because @array went out of sc

Re: edit_file and edit_file_lines

On 15 May 2011 01:28, Uri Guttman wrote: > > hi all, > > As with other releases of File::Slurp I think this list should be told > about it since this module is so easy to use and makes your Perl much > simpler and also faster. > > uri > > Have you ever wanted to use perl -pi inside perl? did you h

Re: yaml file conversion

Thanks Brandon, YAML should get some functions to manipulate it.. On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Brandon McCaig wrote: > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Brandon McCaig wrote: >> I don't know if I'd call it easier. I'm not personally familiar with >> YAML so I only bothered to parse the example

Re: yaml file conversion

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Jim Gibson wrote: > On 3/3/11 Thu  Mar 3, 2011  3:11 PM, "Jim Green" > scribbled: > >> On Mar 3, 5:44 pm, shawnhco...@gmail.com (Shawn H Corey) wrote: >>> On 11-03-03 05:40 PM, Jim Green wrote: >>> >>>> But

Re: yaml file conversion

On Mar 3, 5:44 pm, shawnhco...@gmail.com (Shawn H Corey) wrote: > On 11-03-03 05:40 PM, Jim Green wrote: > > > But is there a easier way of > > doing this I might not be aware of? > > Given your brief description, no.  The problem is that you can't output > the firs

yaml file conversion

Hello: I have a yaml file key1: a: value1 b: value1 key2: a: value2 b: value2 I want it converted to a: key1:value1 key2:value2 b: key1:value1 key2:value2 I could use YAML module to load the first yaml file to a hash and manually populate another hash and dump. But is th

encapsulate static data

Hello: I have some static data I want to wrap in a Data.pm, what is the best way of doing this. package data; use strict; use warnings; my $data=1; 1; I tried use data; print $data; but it doesn't work, also I tried print data::$data and still doesn't work. Thanks for helping! Jim -- To unsu

config file modules confusion

Hello I searched cpan and was overwhelmed by the number of modules available. I want a config module that can do updates well, preserving formats of original file, preserving blank lines, comments, etc. which one should I use..? Config::General, Config::Simple, Config::Inifiles, just to name a fe

cgi or new stuff?

Hello, I wrote simple cgi scripts before but want to go further, I want to learn a little bit systematic web programming, I found catalyst and ORMs, do you guys think with those I don't need to learn javascript, ajax etc? Thanks! Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For

manipulating configuration files package, object oriented? moose?

Hello: I am confronted with a task of creating a package to manipulate a set of configuration files. for example I need to setup up a server and need to change lots of configuration files and create necessary sections, change values in the file etc. Also sometimes I modify the server set up and n

Re: parse arguments passed to subroutines

this will work, Thank you! On 30 January 2011 22:00, wrote: > Jim Green writes: >> >> Hello, >> I usually use my ($arg1, $arg2) = @_; >> to get the arguments parsed to a subroutine. >> I want this to be smarter. Sometimes I want to pass $start, $end to >

parse arguments passed to subroutines

Hello, I usually use my ($arg1, $arg2) = @_; to get the arguments parsed to a subroutine. I want this to be smarter. Sometimes I want to pass $start, $end to the sub, sometimes I want to pass $start, $count to the sub. but in this case my ($arg1, $arg2) = @_; will get confused, it doesn't know i

perl dbi question

Hello Perl community, here is a question I encountered dbi and till now I use brute force to solve it, but I figured I may see better way to do it here. in orable sqlplus If I do select * from table, it will print out the results nicely, all aligned. in dbi what I do now my $body = sprintf("mark

file::fild with awk?

Hi, I used to use find, a for loop and awk to extract data from a list of files returned by find. Now I want to use file::find and perl to this. use vars qw/*name *dir *prune/; *name = *File::Find::name; *dir= *File::Find::dir; *prune = *File::Find::prune; my $directories_to_seac

hash reference question

i have a question for the following perl code, by changing the value in %h3, the script also changes the value for %h4, I vaguely understand it is because %h3's key is reference to %h2, %h2's key is reference to %h1, so by changing value in %h3, the script also changes the value for %h4, I was wo

Re: basename question from "learning perl"

Thank you all! I figured it out! Jim 2010/1/18 Alexander Koenig : > Hi Jim, > > Jim Green wrote on 01/17/2010 05:25 PM: >> my $name = "/usr/local/bin/perl"; >> (my $basename = $name) =~ s#.*/##; # Oops! >> >> after substitution $basename is supposed t

Re: basename question from "learning perl"

Thank you all! I figured it out! JIm 2010/1/18 Alexander Koenig : > Hi Jim, > > Jim Green wrote on 01/17/2010 05:25 PM: >> my $name = "/usr/local/bin/perl"; >> (my $basename = $name) =~ s#.*/##; # Oops! >> >> after substitution $basename is supposed t

basename question from "learning perl"

my $name = "/usr/local/bin/perl"; (my $basename = $name) =~ s#.*/##; # Oops! after substitution $basename is supposed to be perl but why it is not /local/bin/perl? will .*/ matches longest possible string? Thank you list! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional

regex question

Hi, I have a text file with lines like this · Experience in C/C++ realtime system programming · Experience in ACE, FIX Could anybody tell me which regex to use to get rid of the dot and the leading spaces before each Line? Thanks for any help! Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-ma

Re: regex question

2009/12/22 Jim Gibson : > s/^\.\s*//; Thanks Jim, I will figure out as I read "learning perl". > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr

Re: regex question

2009/12/21 Uri Guttman : >>>>>> "JG" == Jim Green writes: > >  JG> I have a text file with lines like this > > >  JG> ·         Experience in C/C++ realtime system programming > >  JG> ·         Experience in ACE, FIX > > >  JG&

regex question

Hi, I have a text file with lines like this · Experience in C/C++ realtime system programming · Experience in ACE, FIX Could anybody tell me which regex to use to get rid of the dot and the leading spaces before each Line? Thanks for any help! Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail