multi line comments

I believe there are no multi-line comments in Perl. Do any of you have a good hack to fake these? Thanks Matt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: query a ph nameserver plus backtick question

On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 12:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Are backticks bad, and if so what are the alternatives if I need to > return information to a variable? They're not as "cross platform" as using pure Perl, but that's not always possible (or at least easy) so sometimes it's "better" to u

Write hash of hashes to disk?

I've tried using DB_File open a hash and write a hash of hashes to disk, but this failed. I read in Perl Cookbook to "just use it as a regular hash" but from what I can tell this is not possible when speaking of complex structures like a hash of hashes. I'm currently dumping this structure to disk

query string into hash?

I need to get all the words in a query (q=___) out of a (URL, I think) encoded string. Example line and my current plan: $queryString = 'pp=20&q=Finance/Banking/Insurance&qField=All&qMatch=any&qSort=smart&view=1' my %querys = $queryString =~ /(\S+)=(\S+)&?/g ; #Here I could use a tip on how to

Re: Time CHange Regulatr expression for 2am Crons ?

On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 19:44, Scot wrote: > Anybody figured out a good regular expression to match all > 2am crons ? match 0,10,20,30,40,50 2 * * * and 0 2 * * * Wouldn't \S+\s2\s\S\s\S\s\S.* or something like that work? In other words, just search for 5 fields where the second one was "2" No

Re: Parse data file

On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 05:34, Janek Schleicher wrote: > Matt Simonsen wrote at Tue, 01 Oct 2002 01:00:41 +0200: > > > I need to get 2 fields out of a file which has the following format: > > I put a real clip below ... should be more helpful. > What is the exact data you

Parse data file

I need to get 2 fields out of a file which has the following format: #FIELD [tab]NAME=name to put into hash[newline] [tab]DATALINE=value to put with data[newline] [tab]EXTRA=several fields to ignore... [NEWLINE] #NEXTFIELD [tab]NAME ... I have thought of a couple ways I *could* do it, but I th

Preferred way to move and compress a file

I need to move several files and compress them - what's the preferred way to do this? I don't think Zlib::Compress is what I want, it seems more geared towards dealing with small streams... although I suppose I could look over each line and write that out. The files to compress are all several h

Re: head as in "unix"

You could write your own function that is a for loop that counts until 100, putting each line into the array and quits would work. There may be a more elegant way, though... Matt On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 09:31, Jakob Kofoed wrote: > > Hi there, > > Does Perl have a function like the UNIX head.

Best way to split log

I'm wondering what people would suggest as the best way to split this so it respects the "" and [] as fields yet doesn't kill performance? 1.2.3.4 - - [15/Aug/2002:06:43:39 -0700] "GET /usr/123 HTTP/1.0" 200 38586 "http://www.careercast.com/js.php"; "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98

Best way to split log

I'm wondering what people would suggest as the best way to split this so it respects the "" and [] as fields yet doesn't kill performance? 1.2.3.4 - - [15/Aug/2002:06:43:39 -0700] "GET /usr/123 HTTP/1.0" 200 38586 "http://www.careercast.com/js.php"; "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98

Re: perl graphics editing

This isn't a Perl solution (unless you run it from a perl script...) but it'll work. Use mogrify, part of the imagemagic software suite one command will do the whole trick. Matt On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 11:56, David Gerler wrote: > Hi, > I have searched cpan using ppm looking for a packag

Re: How to get single scalar to function cleanly

On Tuesday 21 May 2002 17:01, Eric Beaudoin wrote: > You can pass more than one parameter to ParseDate. > > my $date = ParseDate(@secureFields[0..2]) > Doh! Yes, that's exactly what I want. I was trying @secureFields[1-3] - my obvious (now) mistake was not using the .. Thanks Matt -- To unsubs

How to get single scalar to function cleanly

I have the following code to parse the line at the bottom of the email. Basically I want to take the date and convert it into something easy to say "is this within the last _ days" - the part of this that I think is particularly sloppy is the whole parsing below the split. Any tips (in particu

proper way to start daemon

I have a script to monitor servers which is basically an infinate loop that sleeps and runs again. I start from a ssh session by the command: ssh -f $server "~/script &" It seems to be dieing on some of our busier servers. I'm guessing this is because I'm not doing it properly... but I'm not

proper way to start daemon

I have a script to monitor servers which is basically an infinate loop that sleeps and runs again. I start from a ssh session by the command: ssh -f $server "~/script &" It seems to be dieing on some of our busier servers. I'm guessing this is because I'm not doing it properly... but I'm not su