RE: New to Perl

2001-05-15 Thread ODoisnea
I have just finished my first "Perl Script" (actually I just adjusted a lot of other scripts to satisfy my needs), but I thought the combination of Learning Perl and Programming Perl from O'Reilley to be very good to get me into it. Although I am not a programmer, knowing Unix Shell Scripting ba

Very beginner question

2001-05-09 Thread ODoisnea
I feel strange putting such a simple question on this list, but then again, that is why I did not join the experts list. Any how, if I have a file called "try.txt" with the following line: (name = john) if I am trying to just extract "john" for the value $b, why would the following script not w

RE: I am a real begginer to perl......

2001-05-02 Thread ODoisnea
I am also a beginner and wondering if there are any other recommended books other than the camel book from O'Reilly. I have been asked to display information from the Oracle Database on the web using Perl and CGI. So far, I mostly know how to check for patterns. Gulp!! Thanks for any input. O