What search string do I use on google or perldoc so that I know how to display a specified range of lines from a file (like sed -n 24, 48p filename)?

2004-10-22 Thread Ken Wolcott
A fishing pole question rather than a fish question :-) What search string do I use on google or perldoc so that I know how to display a specified range of lines from a file (like sed -n 24, 48p filename)? s2p no longer operates the way I used to use it back in perl 3x days :-) man s2p really di

Re: could not find ParserDetails.ini in /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/XML/SAX; also need some advice about XML parsing modules on CPAN

2004-10-14 Thread Ken Wolcott
Wiggins d Anconia wrote: See if I can actually get somewhere with this. XML::Simple is just a wrapper around one of the lower level XML parsers. Essentially any parser can be used. XML::DOM and XML::SAX are two examples, within these examples they can/do wrap lower level C libs, such as expat[1] o

Re: how/where to install xyz.pm from CPAN (no perl Makefile.PL; make; make test; make install)??

2004-10-11 Thread Ken Wolcott
Randy W. Sims wrote: On 10/11/2004 11:01 PM, Ken Wolcott wrote: Hi; I see several very interesting CPAN modules regarding Rational/IBM ClearCase. These are just *.pm files. How/where do I install these? I have root privs. I want the modules to be available in the standard place(s). I

how/where to install xyz.pm from CPAN (no perl Makefile.PL; make; make test; make install)??

2004-10-11 Thread Ken Wolcott
Hi; I see several very interesting CPAN modules regarding Rational/IBM ClearCase. These are just *.pm files. How/where do I install these? I have root privs. I want the modules to be available in the standard place(s). I guess I should just look at the %INC hash and place it in a "good" l

Re: could not find ParserDetails.ini in /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/XML/SAX; also need some advice about XML parsing modules on CPAN

2004-10-11 Thread Ken Wolcott
Ken Wolcott wrote: I suppose it is in bad taste to reply to one's own posting, but I have an update. After reading some in the O'Reilly Perl & XML book, reading the email archives of this mailing list, several FAQS that some people mentioned from the mailing list archives and a

Re: could not find ParserDetails.ini in /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/XML/SAX; also need some advice about XML parsing modules on CPAN

2004-10-06 Thread Ken Wolcott
Ken Wolcott wrote: Hi; I have a Fedora Core 2 full install to which I installedXML::Simple manually (ie: download, extract, perl Makefile.PL, make, make test, sudo make install). Some of the tests did not run since I did not have Tie::IxHash (?) installed. The error message (could not find

could not find ParserDetails.ini in /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/XML/SAX; also need some advice about XML parsing modules on CPAN

2004-10-06 Thread Ken Wolcott
g XML tag is not strictly compliant (as " value " is "correct" while " value " is not). I need to preserve the XML output in ClearCase that remains in a human "readable" form, ie: well-formatted... Thanks in advance for your comments and advice, Ken Wolcott

Re: how do I handle filenames that have parens?

2004-08-17 Thread Ken Wolcott
Randal; Thanks for answer I really needed to hear. Ken On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 18:36, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > "Luke" == Luke Bakken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Luke> The simple solution is to be sure that single quotes are around the > Luke> strings passed to the "describe" comman

how do I handle filenames that have parens?

2004-08-13 Thread Ken Wolcott
Hi; I have two perl scripts. Once calls the other via a ClearCase setview context (like a subshell). The problem: The current scripts do not handle filenames that have parens properly and the parens are obviously mishandled by the shell. The overall goal: What I'm really trying to do is to ge

Re: finding Makefiles which containing a backslash continuation character where the next line is blank or whitespace

2004-08-04 Thread Ken Wolcott
John; Thank you very much for the help...works like a charm...now I'll try to study it carefully to understand how to use this the next time I need something like this... Cool... Ken Wolcott On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 20:20, John W. Krahn wrote: > Ken Wolcott wrote: > > Hi; > &g

finding Makefiles which containing a backslash continuation character where the next line is blank or whitespace

2004-08-03 Thread Ken Wolcott
so the regex is wrong? The second one incorrectly reports that all Makefiles have one or more lines with continuation (\) characters at the end of the line followed by a blank (or whitespace only) line. Please help, Thanks in advance, Ken Wolcott -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>

Re: How do you invoke a Clearcase View?

2004-05-20 Thread Ken Wolcott
tem call or backticks. I do all kinds of ClearCase things with perl, but not via the ClearCase CPAN module(s) such as what can be found at: http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/search?query=clearcase&mode=dist But I'll be looking into those as I find time. Hope this helps, Ken Wolcott -- To

Re: Weekly list FAQ posting

2004-04-05 Thread Ken Wolcott
On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 11:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > NAME > beginners-faq - FAQ for the beginners mailing list ...nice FAQ snipped for brevity... Could you please add something to the subject line stating that this email message is pertinent to the beginners perl list...something like: Su