Re: Dynamic Array Re-Allocation

2001-06-08 Thread John Joseph Trammell
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 11:03:50AM -0400, Chris Rogers wrote: > The subject line may not correctly describe the problem but that is probably > because I don't really understand the problem myself. Here's a brief > rundown of what I am trying to do: > I have a string that is delimited by pipes

Re: regd Pl/Sql blocks in DBI

2001-06-08 Thread John Joseph Trammell
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 06:13:25PM -0700, Prabaharan Dorairajan wrote: > Hi, > > I am unable to pass values from perl to Oracle using DBI. > > > Could any one help me? > > Here is the program: > #!/depot/perl/rel/bin/perl #!/depot/perl/rel/bin/perl -w use strict; > use DBI; > my (dbh,sth)

Re: Gurus Wanted!!

2001-06-07 Thread John Joseph Trammell
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:50:01PM +, scott lutz wrote: > I have a this fancy bit of recursive search and replace code that I picked > up somewhere, but I would greatly appreciate it if one of the gurus could > explain it in English for me: > > find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 perl -pi -e

Re: $ENV

2001-06-07 Thread John Joseph Trammell
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 07:51:50PM -0400, Luinrandir Hernson wrote: > I have tried > perldoc -f env > perldoc -f http > perldoc -f %env > perldoc -f $env > > to find documentation on %ENV. no luck > anyone??? perldoc perlvar -f is for builtin functions -- Just Another Perl Hacker.

Re: external hash tables

2001-06-07 Thread John Joseph Trammell
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 05:45:23PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've been looking all over for examples of external hash tables. I know I was > reading about them just last week, but now I can't remember where. I belive the > commands (functions?) are openhash() and closehash(), or some

Re: fetchhash question

2001-06-07 Thread John Joseph Trammell
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 04:34:48PM -0400, Bradshaw, Brian wrote: > You guys have been so nice.. I have another question :) > > What does fetchhash do? > > I have the code : > $return_hash = $dbh->query($query) or print "$query\n\n"; > %result = $return_hash->fetchhash(); > But I am u

Re: grep and regular exp.

2001-06-06 Thread John Joseph Trammell
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 02:02:33PM -0500, David Blevins wrote: [snip] >my @list1 = grep(/$year_$month_.*01\.txt/, @allFiles); >my @list2 = grep(/$year_$month_.*01a\.txt/, @allFiles); [snip] These regexes look for variables $year_ and $month_. Let me guess -- you're not using warnings, r

Re: i'm warning you, this is a toughie!

2001-06-04 Thread John Joseph Trammell
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 04:33:13PM -0500, Nichole Bialczyk wrote: > the bossman has requested the following: > > he wants my logfiles written to our server in the /tmp directory. my > scripts are in the cgi-bin of our afs account. even though the files are > set with 777 permissions, the outsid

Re: ONE LINE PERL COMMAND

2001-06-04 Thread John Joseph Trammell
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 11:46:00AM -0400, Pedro A Reche Gallardo wrote: > Hi, please have a look to this perl one line command. > perl -ne 'BEGIN{$/=">"}if(/^\s*(\S+)/){open(F,">$1")|| warn"$1 write > failed:$!\n";chomp;print F ">", $_}' > > This command will take a file like this: > > >name1:

Re: printf and other stuff

2001-06-01 Thread John Joseph Trammell
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:05:59PM -0400, David Gilden wrote: [snip -- was there a question about '?:' ?] > printf question-- > > ### get time > my($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $month, $year) = (localtime)[0..5]; > $year += 1900; > $mday = "0" . $mday if $mday < 10; > $month++; # perl counts fr

Re: Just Started to learn Perl a week ago

2001-05-31 Thread John Joseph Trammell
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:05:55AM -0400, Swappan Das wrote: > Please help and advice me the steps to learn Perl programming quickly. > I just bought the book "Learning Perl" by Randal L. Schwartz & Tom > Christiansen. > > I am learning Perl on AIX platform and I have Perl 5.0.3. I did not >

Re: help with script

2001-05-30 Thread John Joseph Trammell
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:57:44PM -0700, Peter Lemus wrote: > Hi guys, I keep getting errors on the followin script. > I need the script to logout all users other then root > or ipl. > > 1 #!/usr/bin/perl > 2 # > 3 #Purpose: To logout users off the system > during after hours.

Re: iinfinite loop

2001-05-30 Thread John Joseph Trammell
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:25:07PM -0400, David Gilden wrote: > The following seems to never break out of the loop, > any comments? > Thanks > > Dave > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > > > $data = 'some > multi line > string'; > > > while($data){ > >push(@everyline, $_); >

Re: REVIEW: please review the following

2001-05-18 Thread John Joseph Trammell
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 02:15:05PM -0400, Yacketta,Ronald J wrote: > #!/usr/local/bin/perl #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use strict; [snip] -- Never hit anyone with glasses. Instead, use your fist.

Re: truncating a string

2001-05-18 Thread John Joseph Trammell
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 12:08:25PM -0400, David Merrill wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working on my very first perl application, which is a front end to > a database for the LDP. I am trying to truncate a string, using: > > $title =~ s/\s*$//; > > where $title = "The Linux Programmer's Guide " >

Re: matching question (real newbie...not like you fake newbies out there...)

2001-05-17 Thread John Joseph Trammell
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:25:53PM -, Stout, Joel R wrote: > > I want to get the file names of all "EDI" files from a certain directory. I > do not want "ENT" (or encrypted) file names. > > Example: > > The directory contains: > a001.edi > a002.edi > a003.edi.ent > a004.EDI > > After ge

Re: Very beginner question

2001-05-09 Thread John Joseph Trammell
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 01:50:24PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > #!user/local/bin/perl -w > > open TRY , "try.txt"; > > while () { > (my $b=$_) =~ s/^(\() (\w+)/$2/; > print $b; > } > > Thank you for humiliating me with this simple question. Any time. #!/usr/bin/perl -w use st

Re: mv'ing a file from within perl (w/out /bin/mv)

2001-05-09 Thread John Joseph Trammell
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:13:54PM -0500, Shawn wrote: > I just want an efficient mv subroutine or module which has such a thing, > but none of the File::* things seem to have mv. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised if you look in File::Copy. -- I don't know what the hell is going on dude, b

Re: what's wrong in systax

2001-05-08 Thread John Joseph Trammell
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 05:24:10PM -0400, Anshu Anshu wrote: > 22 while () { > 23 if (/$LOCTAG/i) { > 24 ($curloc) = /VALUE="([^"]+)"\s*\w*>/i; > 25 $location .= "${curloc}::"; > 26 } > 27 > 28 if (/$TYPETAG/i) { > 29 ($curtyp

Re: Outputting content to the web

2001-05-01 Thread John Joseph Trammell
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:28:02AM -0400, Dale Owens wrote: > I am completely new to perl and this question may seem really lame, > but I can't get the most basic script to work. I am trying to run > this on my web host's server: > > #!usr/bin/perl > > print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; > pri

Re: DBI tutorial

2001-04-30 Thread John Joseph Trammell
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 02:01:47PM +0800, Andrew Teo wrote: > Hi all, > I am interested in self-learning the DBI module for database > manipulation. Are there any good online tutorials available? Try dbi.symbolstone.org. -- If the organizational structure is threatening in any way, nothing is g

Re: unexpected re output

2001-04-30 Thread John Joseph Trammell
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:06:55PM +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote: > Hi all, > > can anyone tell me why the following code does not come out with > '-123.45'. It actually comes out with '123.45-'. > > I think that it is because it's treating it as a number at some point, > but I can't see when/w

Re: Error opening file?

2001-04-26 Thread John Joseph Trammell
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:44:42AM +0700, Billy Joedono wrote: > Hi all, > > Below is a piece of code central to my problem. [snip] > #!/usr/bin/perl That should read "#!/usr/bin/perl -w" Just after that should be a line with "use strict;". Best of luck, J -- Rule #0: Spam is theft.

Re: don't understand error message on print line

2001-04-26 Thread John Joseph Trammell
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 02:49:41PM +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote: > Hi all, > > Using the following code:- > > 63 foreach (@fieldmap) { > 64 my ($dbfield,$field)=(split(/:/))[0,$fieldno]; > 65 print "dbfield='$dbfield' field='$field'\n"; > 66 &addtext($dbfield,$fields{$field}) if ( $field n

Re: Help on Date Format

2001-04-24 Thread John Joseph Trammell
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 01:09:13PM -0400, Kevin Meltzer wrote: > Hi Susan, > > I get what you expect: > > perl -wle '$y=2001;$m=4;$d=5;printf("\%s%02s%02s.doc",$y,$m,$d)'; > 20010405.doc [snip] Well I'll be damned. [ ~ ] perl -e 'printf "%04s\n", 1' 0001 [ ~ ] perl -e 'printf "%04s\n", "1"' 0

Re: Help on Date Format

2001-04-24 Thread John Joseph Trammell
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:00:40AM -0500, Arante, Susan wrote: > Could someone tell me why this is happening? When I use this command, it > used to give me 20010405.doc (mmdd.doc), now it's giving me 2001 4 5.doc > - I'm losing the leading zeros. > Command is on Perl 5 - printf("\%s%02s%02s

Re: print with => ??

2001-04-23 Thread John Joseph Trammell
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 12:33:00PM -0400, David Gilden wrote: > Hello, > Sorry to ask this, as I am quite new at this. > And the online class that I am just now finishing has > lots of bad code for examples! > > >From this list: > > print "'$file' => '$newfile'\n"; > ^ >

Re: renaming files in a directory....

2001-04-20 Thread John Joseph Trammell
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 06:08:47PM -0400, McCormick, Rob E wrote: [snip] One thing I find confusing about your example is that you're using the same variable ($msds_files) twice, for different things. How about something like: #!c:/perl/bin/perl -w use strict; my $dir = "c:/winnt/profiles/mypro