evaluating expressions in here documents

2002-10-08 Thread Jim Ockers
Is there any concise method of fully evaluating the arithmetic expressions in here documents, rather than just one level of substitution?: sub RotationMatrix { my $theta = $_[0] * 3.14159265 / 180.0; my $m = cos($theta); my $n = sin($theta); my $T = Math::MatrixReal->new_from_stri

Re: Perl Graphs

2002-03-14 Thread Jim Ockers
Perhaps you would like the graphic visualization capability in PDL: http://pdl.perl.org Good Luck. On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 19:24, Daniel Falkenberg wrote: > G'day all, > > Just wondering how I would go about graphing with Perl. I have used > GD::Graph before, but I am now looking for something

running commands in bkgd

2002-01-15 Thread Jim Ockers
I'd like to make a perl script that runs queues up jobs. Using the backticks works well except that if I attempt to run something in the background (i.e. `foobar &`) the script pauses until the job is complete. Is this limitation due to the shell rather than perl? Thanks, -Jim -- To unsu