Removing all newline characters in a string

Is there a simple search and replace command I can do to remove all the newline characters from a string? (besides splitting the string based on \n and then joining the elements) This seems pretty basic but the below commands don't seem to work: s/\\n//g s/\n//g -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: begi

getting nth column of a string

is there a way to get the "nth" column of a string in perl, similar to awk '{print $col_no}' in awk ? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: split based on n number of occurances of a character

On Oct 26, 3:51 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Pang) wrote: > using a regex is may suitable. > > $ perl -e '$x= "a;b;c;d;e;f;g;h";@re=$x=~/(\w+;\w+);{0,1}/g;print "@re"' > a;b c;d e;f g;h > > On 10/26/07, Mahurshi Akilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

split based on n number of occurances of a character

Is there an easy way (without writing our own proc) to split a string based on number of occurances of a character ? for example: $my_string = "a;b;c;d;e;f;g;h" @regsplitarray = split (/;/, $my_string) splits based on every 1 occurance of ";" what if i want it to do 2 at a time ? e.g. $regsp

get a column out of a 2d array

is there an easy way (without iterating through the array) to get a specified column out of a 2d array? lets say i have @array2d 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 what i am looking for is something like @my2ndcolum = // magic // i know you can get it with rows using ( $my2ndrowref = @array[1] ) but i don't wa

average and standard deviation

is there an easy way to get the average and standard deviation in perl (given an array of numbers). i don't want to reinvent the wheel and write my own functions. i saw something for the average (see below). it works fine. is there a similar quickie for std deviation (or perhaps, the median) us

peek next line in file

would be nice to know if this can be done. Mahurshi Akilla -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Debugg in PERL

EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you tried perl -d switch ? Read about perl debuggers here: http://debugger.perl.org/ Mahurshi Akilla -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: spliting

If you're trying to split a long string into smaller strings of 60 characters each, you can take a look at the substr function and build a loop around it. http://www.perlmeme.org/howtos/perlfunc/substr.html Mahurshi Akilla On Sep 4, 5:29 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pedro Soto) wrote: > Hi, &g

Appending 1 D array into a 2 D array

I am trying to read a csv file into a 2D array matrix I am having a hard time trying to get the array returned by split function to "attach" to a 2D array. See the code below for further info on what I'm trying to do ## initialize $row = 0; $col = 0; ## go thru each line of file while () {

Perl script to build a forum

Does anyone know if there's a perl script available that can run a simple forum? I tried searching on google but any combination of "perl" and "forum" in the search words are giving me results on perl forums :-) but not the forums being run by perl. Thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PRO