Re: Benchmark for Scala, Ruby and Perl

2022-01-17 Thread Paul Procacci
ke(20).each do |s| puts "#{s[0]} -> #{s[1]}" end On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 3:48 AM Paul Procacci wrote: > Hey John, > > On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 3:04 AM Jon Smart wrote: > >> >> Hello Paul >> >> Do you mean by undef $/ and with <$fh> we can

Re: Benchmark for Scala, Ruby and Perl

2022-01-17 Thread Paul Procacci
Hey Jon, The most glaringly obvious thing I could recommend is that at least in your perl routine (and probably the other languages) most of your time is context switching reading from the disk. Now, my perl version is indeed faster, but one has to ask themselves, was .015193256 seconds really wor

Re: Benchmark for Scala, Ruby and Perl

2022-01-17 Thread Paul Procacci
Hey John, On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 3:04 AM Jon Smart wrote: > > Hello Paul > > Do you mean by undef $/ and with <$fh> we can read the file into memory > at one time? > In most cases the short answer is yes. I have problems with your wording however given the 'g

Re: Benchmark for Scala, Ruby and Perl

2022-01-17 Thread Paul Procacci
Sorry, it's 5:00am here and needless to say it's wy past my bedtime and I'm making mistakes. The comparison should have been between both ruby versions ugh. I'll let you play though. Have a great night. On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 4:57 AM Paul Procacci wrote: >

Re: Benchmark for Scala, Ruby and Perl

2022-01-17 Thread Paul Procacci
On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 5:03 AM Jon Smart wrote: > > Thanks Paul. I am surprised that mmap has that huge IO advantages > comparing to the classic way. So ruby take more benefit from this mmap > calling. Just get learned from your case. > > Regards > > It's not always

Re: function alias

2019-09-04 Thread Paul Johnson
for example, says() is alias to > print(). This is not possible. Though it is with some core functions. See https://perldoc.perl.org/CORE.html for details. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional com

Re: Syntax "||" before sub

2018-11-22 Thread Paul Johnson
me = shift; > >$name ||= 'Anonymous Person'; > > Which is usually written as: > >sub hello { >my $name = shift || 'Anonymous Person'; Or, nowadays, and if your perl version(s) support it, as: sub hello ($name = "Anonymous Person&

Re: return the list content

2018-06-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 06:07:59AM -0700, John SJ Anderson wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:38 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 04:17:53PM +0800, Ken Peng wrote: >> which one is the better way to return the list content? And if the >> method is an instance metho

Re: `$#array` vs `scalar @array`

2018-01-29 Thread Paul Johnson
2018, 13:39 Peng Yu wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > For the following two expressions, are they of the same speed or one > > of them is faster? > > > > `$#array` vs `scalar @array` -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginner

Re: OOP: a class using a class that is descended from it?

2017-08-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 05:45:08PM +0200, hw wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 08:44:45PM +0200, hw wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > suppose I have a class FOO and a class BAR. The parent of BAR is FOO. > > > &g

Re: OOP: a class using a class that is descended from it?

2017-08-04 Thread Paul Johnson
ally called traits in other languages. You can use roles within Moose or Moo, or by using other CPAN modules. You can read more about roles/traits at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trait_(computer_programming) -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beg

Re: perl -e 'my $i = 0; $i = defined($i) ? (!!$i) : 0; print "i: $i\n";'

2017-08-03 Thread Paul Johnson
ge, you will have an unsatisfying experience. The trick is to work with the language. Then programming becomes productive and enjoyable, the sun shines, ponies frolic through meadows, and unicorns graze contentedly beneath rainbows. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscri

Re: Module to extract patterns

2017-06-13 Thread Paul Johnson
ule which will probably do what you want: PPI. See https://metacpan.org/pod/PPI -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

DBI and hosts file entries

2017-06-01 Thread Paul M via beginners
I have a hosts entry that points to a specific IP address. It does not appear that DBI:Sybase:server uses the /etc/hosts file? Is this correct?Ping works fine in shell.How would I point a server name to different IP addresses locally?What does DBI use for name resolution? Thanks!

Re: How to delete multiple indices from array

2017-04-12 Thread Paul Johnson
But they're all fast enough. Or none of them are. So choose the solution which is the clearest. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: [OT] app (ncurses?) mechanizer?

2017-03-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 12:20:29AM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Paul! > > On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 22:21:06 +0200 > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 04:04:22PM +0200, Luca Ferrari wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > I've to run a very old

Re: [OT] app (ncurses?) mechanizer?

2017-03-27 Thread Paul Johnson
launch the application with a file name, do a couple > of menu interactions and exit, then do it again for a hundred or so > files. > Is there any kind of "app-mechanize" similar to www::mechanize? Nothing to do with perl, but you could try xdotool http://www.semicom

Re: deprecated idiom to simulate state variables

2017-01-10 Thread Paul Johnson
ears). As you note, the correct way to get this behaviour nowadays is to use the "state" keyword. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: XML::Simple Umlaute

2016-07-28 Thread Paul Johnson
f the problems go away. > Also, this answer on StackOverflow by tchrist (Tom Christiansen, who I > would say knows the most about the intersection of Perl and Unicode) > is a good resource: http://stackoverflow.com/a/6163129/78259 Quite. And utf8::all tries to encapsulate as much of th

Re: Are there (non-obvious) differences in string quoting methods?

2016-04-06 Thread Paul Johnson
sts/perl5-porters/2008-08/msg00390.html You'll notice that I disagree with Uri. You should follow the coding guidelines of any existing project you are working on, and make up your own mind about what to do when you get to decide the guidelines. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: returning arrays

2016-01-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 12:24:04AM +0100, lee wrote: > Paul Johnson writes: > > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 05:44:14PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > >> Hi lee, > >> > >> On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 13:11:37 +0100 > >> lee wrote: > >> > >&g

Re: returning arrays

2016-01-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 05:44:14PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi lee, > > On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 13:11:37 +0100 > lee wrote: > > > Paul Johnson writes: > > > > > > In scalar context the comma operator evaluates its left-hand side, > > >

Re: uniq array creation

2015-11-29 Thread Paul Johnson
you're working far too hard! my @array = qw(11 2 3 4 55 4 3 2); my %seen; my @unique = grep !$seen{$_}++, @array; This method is mentioned in the Perl Cookbook that was linked to earlier in the thread. But I doubt that link should have been online, so get hold of a legal copy if this is

Re: To use signatures or not to use?

2015-07-22 Thread Paul Johnson
efore it is brought out of experimental status. But there might be larger changes that wouldn't be completely backwards compatible. Or the feature may be completely scrapped. That's the risk you take with experimental features. But there is certainly a will to make this feature stic

Re: Devel::Cover Use case

2015-07-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 08:17:18PM +0530, Piyush Verma wrote: > Thanks Paul, this solved me some part of problem. I was using Devel::Cover > in wrong place of .pl file. > Now putting this on start of .pl script works for me but not completely. > > There are 20 .pm modules presen

Re: Devel::Cover Use case

2015-07-22 Thread Paul Johnson
program doesn't require any input, you will need to run it multiple times with varying input to get proper coverage information. And the way to do this is also in the synopsis that Shlomi pointed you to. Coverage without tests is hard though. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http:/

Re: How to check the index positions of an array element in perl in case of multiple occurance

2015-06-16 Thread Paul Johnson
t; etc. Or, if you can't be bothered writing all that code: $ perl -E 'push @{$pos{$_}}, $i++ for map split, ; say "$_: @{$pos{$_}}" for @ARGV' bccd sdcch < data bccd: 8 98 188 278 368 458 548 638 728 818 908 998 1088 1178 1268 1358 sdcch: 81 171 261 351 441 53

Re: Debug when script WILL NOT RUN

2015-02-01 Thread Paul Johnson
ror. So something is still going on somewhere > else. That may well be, but the semi-colon is an error, and the only one we can see in the code you have posted. $ perl -ce 'find ( sub {}, $tdir; )' syntax error at -e line 1, near "$tdir;" -e had compilation errors $ perl -c

Re: ignoring bad Prompt argument Warning.

2014-12-29 Thread Paul Johnson
his at every match. > > ignoring bad Prompt argument "'/>>/'": missing opening delimiter of match > operator at linux_diagnostics.pl line 189 Guessing: You are using Net::Telnet and your prompt should be "/>>/" rather than "'/>>/'&quo

Re: Make scalar tainted

2014-12-06 Thread Paul Johnson
is done in the perl core. You would normally take the substr from the original string before splitting it, unless you wanted to taint $foo even if its source wasn't tainted. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For

Re: Problem with regex

2014-10-06 Thread Paul Johnson
at is the case then you need to add the /s flag so that . will also match a newline. And for style, you can pull out the duplicated parts of the regex and use another delimiter to avoid Leaning Toothpick Syndrome. Putting it together you get: my $start = qr!mailto:|ldap:///!; while ($str =~ /$

Re: Difference between list and arrays.

2014-09-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 02:43:28PM -0500, Andy Bach wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > The comma operator evaluates its LHS, throws it away, evaluates its RHS > > and returns that. The comma operator is left associative (see perlop). > &

Re: Difference between list and arrays.

2014-09-16 Thread Paul Johnson
3 :) See also perldoc -q 'difference between a list and an array' -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: returning arrays

2014-09-09 Thread Paul Johnson
scalar context. In scalar context the comma operator evaluates its left-hand side, throws it away and returns the right-hand side. This means that the value of (1, 2, 3) in scalar context is 3, and this is what gets assigned to $list. What is not happening at all is the creation of a list of n

Re: return the list content

2014-08-18 Thread Paul Johnson
y opinion, because it does exactly what you want. The second does extra work and might cause someone to wonder why you haven't just returned a reference to the array. The second version is necessary when the array might persist between subroutine calls and you effectively need to

Re: Please check my logic

2014-07-21 Thread Paul Johnson
res lines which differ only in case. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Apologetic request for simple one-off script

2014-07-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 06:44:18PM -0400, ESChamp wrote: > Paul Johnson has written on 7/13/2014 5:00 PM: > > perl -nale 'print $F[-1]' < original_file.txt > just_email.txt > > e:\Docs\>perl -nale 'print $F[-1]' < 4sam.txt > just_email.txt > Ca

Re: Apologetic request for simple one-off script

2014-07-13 Thread Paul Johnson
erl -nale 'print $F[-1]' < original_file.txt > just_email.txt perldoc perlrun if you want to see why that works. Take a look at the -a option. The -1 index into @F says use the last element of the array. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mai

Re: List-AllUtils-0.07

2014-03-18 Thread Paul Johnson
1.31 in CPAN distribute. As I write this, the latest version seems to be 1.38: https://metacpan.org/pod/List::Util Depending on the distribution you are using you might have a tool to automate the process of recursively installing dependencies. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj

Re: Fail to match mixed quote pattern

2014-03-14 Thread Paul Johnson
; > > I would expect the output match three of them, however, it only matches: > -- > 'okay i know now' > "from time to time" > > --- > leaving '

Re: Delete key-value pair in perl

2014-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
erating over it using each(), because this may confuse Perl: This is true in general, but the documentation explicitly states that it is safe to use delete on the key most recently returned from each, as Alex is doing here. This is good because, as we see here, it can reasonably be expected to wo

Re: match not matching

2014-03-01 Thread Paul Johnson
nd = $project =~ m|$$_|; > $dump = Data::Dumper->Dump([$_, $project, $$_, $found]); > $logger->trace(qq(dump=$dump)); > } > > I can't explain why $found is not true on the 3rd pass. Does this > have something to do with the way I'm dereferencing the blessed > object

Re: file edit

2014-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
7}[a-f0-9]{2})\b/ ? "$1\n" : $_' < file You should probably try and understand it before trusting it. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Not mapping into a hash

2014-02-13 Thread Paul Johnson
= map {$_ => 1} split(" ", $params->{direction}); > } > elsif (ref($params->{direction}) eq 'ARRAY') > { > %hDirection = map {$_ => 1} @{$params->{direction}}; # <-- HERE > } > else -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Test::More is_deeply failed data

2014-02-11 Thread Paul Johnson
($bar);' which just > doesn't seem like the right thing to do to figure out why a test is > failing? Perhaps you are looking for Test::Differences ? https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Differences -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginne

Re: package block

2014-02-09 Thread Paul Johnson
le. Also, you'll want to delete the semicolon on the package declaration line. What you have currently is an old-style package declaration and then an ordinary block, meaning that anything after the block is also in package Hello. Finally, 1 is a boring value to return. Be creative! See ht

regex headache

2014-02-03 Thread Paul Fontenot
Hi, I am attempting to write a regex but it is giving me a headache. I have two log entries 1. Feb 3 12:54:28 cdrtva01a1005 [12: 54:27,532] ERROR [org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLogger] 2. Feb 3 12:54:28 cdrtva01a1005 [12: 54:27,532] ERROR [STDERR] I am using the following "^\w+\s+\d{1,2

Re: Using Files in Chronological Order

2014-01-27 Thread Paul Johnson
your understanding of your requirements, don't let anyone without that understanding tell you otherwise. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: regexp as hash value?

2014-01-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 06:41:00PM +0100, Luca Ferrari wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > $ perl -E '$h = { a => qr/y/ }; say $_ =~ $h->{a} for qw(x y z)' > > Thanks, but then another doubt: having a look at > http://perl

Re: regexp as hash value?

2014-01-25 Thread Paul Johnson
nto account something special? Yes, this is possible. You need to use qr// to construct your RE: $ perl -E '$h = { a => qr/y/ }; say $_ =~ $h->{a} for qw(x y z)' 1 $ -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org

Re: Problem setting $= (Format Lines Per Page Special Variable)

2013-11-07 Thread Paul Johnson
tively, you could call a method on the FileHandle: REPORT->format_lines_per_page(10); -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: hello from a newbie

2013-10-26 Thread Paul Johnson
h Perl will make you a better developer. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Problem rewinding the __DATA__ filehandle

2013-10-25 Thread Paul Johnson
until you encounter the '__DATA__' line. Then start reading the data > lines. The first choice is the correct one. Ideally, you should use the SEEK_SET constant from Fcntl. perldoc Fcntl for details. And for your third approach, you need C< $. = 0; > -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: checking for file existence

2013-09-25 Thread Paul Johnson
n PERL; however, is seems > not to work. It always returns "The file $file_seqs does not exist!!!". > > Do you know where I am making a mistake? I don't know. How are you calling your program? Because it seems to work correctly for me. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net htt

Re: negate, !!$a, $a!!, flip-flop

2013-09-10 Thread Paul Johnson
'say $|-- for 1 .. 5' 0 1 0 1 0 [ If it's not obvious, my tongue was in my cheek for half of this post. ] -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: how to retrieve the keys from hash in the sequence in which data is inserted

2013-04-23 Thread Paul Johnson
e simple solution is good enough. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Any alternative for substr() function

2013-04-12 Thread Paul Johnson
rom thousand to millions of lines. > If I use perl in-built function substr() to data extraction, it has huge > impact on performance. Compared to what? > Is there any alternative for this? Perhaps unpack() or regular expressions, but I doubt either would be much faster, if at all. -- Paul

Re: .profile not being read

2013-02-17 Thread Paul Anderson
Odds are good that the original poster needs to use .bash_profile instead. Sent from my iPhone On 2013-02-18, at 2:24 AM, Luca Ferrari wrote: > I suspect this has something to do with the PATH variable and alike. > And it could have been set up at system wide level, for instance on > /etc/prof

Re: obfuscating code

2013-02-13 Thread Paul Johnson
han sufficient for most purposes. It's probably also more than sufficient for this list. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: obfuscating code

2013-02-12 Thread Paul Anderson
Simple, step by step directions: 1. Obtain large gun. 2. Load with ammunition. 3. Fire squarely into foot. 4. Reload if necessary and repeat. Sent from my iPhone On 2013-02-12, at 12:01 PM, Rajeev Prasad wrote: > freinds, > > what is the advice just for obfuscating code? platform is solari

Re: Abbreviating ordinals only in the middle of an address

2013-01-28 Thread Paul Anderson
I'm thinking {2,}\w to match two or more words after north. Sent from my iPhone On 2013-01-28, at 2:57 PM, Angela Barone wrote: > Hello, > >I'm trying to abbreviate ordinals(?) that occur only in the middle of an > address and I'm having a problem. The line below works: > > $test_data

Re: Regex issue

2013-01-03 Thread Paul Johnson
> Any better suggestion ? Depends on how you define better, but perhaps $ perl -ne 'print if /BEGIN$/ .. /END$/' < file > /tmp/a $ perl -ne 'print if /BEGINDL$/ .. /ENDDL$/' < file > /tmp/b -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: substitution: interpolate capture buffer into variable?

2012-12-26 Thread Paul Johnson
s/$rx/$r/e; > } > > Can anybody think of a straightforward way to do this? This is a situation where string eval is warranted: eval "\$s =~ s/\$rx/$r/"; Three points: - make sure you trust your input - be sure to check $@ - there's no need to check if the pattern matche

Re: grouping in regex

2012-12-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 08:01:11PM +, Rob Dixon wrote: > On 24/12/2012 13:08, Paul Johnson wrote: > >On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 06:57:38PM +0530, punit jain wrote: > >>I am seeing which lines have both POP and Webmail as below :- > >> > >>if( $line =~ /

Re: grouping in regex

2012-12-24 Thread Paul Johnson
d. The only reason I can see for doing that would be to find out in which order you found the items. In any case, the easiest way to find out whether two substrings appear in the same same string is to program the way you define the problem: if (/WebMail/ && /POP/) { ... } -- Paul John

Re: Regex help

2012-12-22 Thread Paul Johnson
lso prints the text between the two instances, right? > Any suggestions ? You need a non greedy match .*? instead of the greedy match .* that you are using. Then you'll need to use while instead of if. Or perhaps you'd prefer: $ perl -ne 'print if /BEGIN:VCARD/ .. /END:VCARD/' <

Re: Need a Perl Book for Beginner

2012-12-05 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
* David Christensen [2012-12-04 18:36:13 -0800]: > On 12/04/12 14:56, Asad wrote: > > Would you guidance to start develop logic for perl programming . > >Also I am looking for a book to start with . > > Which explains the basic of perl programming with examples also > >how

Re: Fwd: Is this code which is using Switch.pm safe?

2012-11-22 Thread Paul Johnson
nna > update it. I heard that we'll use 5.12 in the next update of our product > though. > > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:37:15AM +0530, Chankey Pathak wrote: > > > In our company we were using this co

Re: Is this code which is using Switch.pm safe?

2012-11-22 Thread Paul Johnson
your perl version. It's unsuported, buggy and I'm sure it has security problems which have been fixed in the last eight years. (That's always a good case to make to management folk.) -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Regex one-liner to find several multi-line blocks of text in a single file

2012-11-01 Thread Paul Johnson
between... I believe that the ".*", > combined with the "s" modifier, in the regex is causing this match to be > made. > > What I'm not sure how to do is tell Perl to search from START to the next > END and then start the search pattern over again with the nex

Re: changing $/ for recognising empty line

2012-10-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:48:33PM +0100, Hermann Norpois wrote: > But still: What is wrong with $/="^\s+$" ? >From perldoc perlvar: Remember: the value of $/ is a string, not a regex. awk has to be better for something. :-) -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.

Re: perl interpreter output meaning?

2012-09-22 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ 'lesleyb' wrote on Sat 22.Sep'12 at 9:22:09 +0100 ] > On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 09:45:08AM +0200, Anne Wainwright wrote: > > Hi, > > > > this is the output. > > > > Use of uninitialized value $9 in concatenation (.) or string at > > pg_delim2htm_01.pl line 89, <> line 1. > > Use of uninitialize

Re: My long script

2012-09-16 Thread Paul Anderson
On 2012-09-15, at 11:25 PM, jmrhide-p...@yahoo.com wrote: > It would be WONDERFUL to get an email every time it glitched! Does anybody > have > a > > > sub written for that? Just bear in mind that you need to add logic to the while(1) loops to determine that they are running too long. If it

Re: Clarification re Perl Script out of control

2012-09-14 Thread Paul Anderson
On 2012-09-14, at 1:56 AM, jmrhide-p...@yahoo.com wrote: > I can see from the responses so far that I was unclear in the way I phrased > my > question, so please let me emphasize the following: MY SCRIPT, THOUGH COMPLEX > (500 LINES), PRODUCES EXACTLY THE OUTPUT I EXPECT EVERY TIME I RUN IT. I

Re: My script is OUT OF CONTROL!

2012-09-13 Thread Paul Anderson
Just checked on my machine, looks like it produces a floating point number between 0 and 1. Paul Anderson -- VE3HOP On 2012-09-13, at 8:07 PM, Jim Gibson wrote: > > (I am not sure exactly what rand(0) returns). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.o

Re: Recommendations for emacs customizations for editing Perl

2012-09-12 Thread Paul Anderson
I haven't had any trouble. I think IIRC it may be confused a little by given/when, but not badly. Paul Anderson -- VE3HOP On 2012-09-12, at 12:20 PM, Vic Sage wrote: > > On Sep 12, 2012, at 5:59 AM, Paul Anderson wrote: > >> Install PDE from CPAN and it'

Re: Help with the can() method

2012-09-12 Thread Paul Anderson
Did you copy and paste that code? Do you know that when calling can() you are using $ojb instead of $obj? Paul Anderson -- VE3HOP On 2012-09-12, at 9:17 AM, pangj wrote: > Hi, > > Today I wrote a script for validate a dns record from the specified DNS > server, the s

Re: Recommendations for emacs customizations for editing Perl

2012-09-12 Thread Paul Anderson
run perltidy on the entire buffer. I recommend editing the templates that PDE uses with vi, it has stuff that emacs interprets. Created something of a nuisance when I tried using emacs to edit them. Paul Anderson -- VE3HOP On 2012-09-12, at 9:42 AM, Vic Sage wrote: > On Sep

Re: Recommendations for emacs customizations for editing Perl

2012-09-12 Thread Paul Anderson
Install PDE from CPAN and it'll work alright. It works fine for me on 5.16.1. Paul Anderson -- VE3HOP On 2012-09-12, at 12:08 AM, Vic Sage wrote: > I'd like to hear some recommendations from this list for customizations to > emacs for coding Perl. > > One se

Re: Perl Code

2012-08-31 Thread Paul Anderson
I smell homework:p Paul Anderson -- VE3HOP On 2012-08-29, at 12:46 PM, Ashwin Rao T wrote: > 1)Check if IP address is in the range 172.125.1.0 and 172.125.25.0 using only > return functions & regular expressions in Perl. > 2)Check if the name is valid (has atleast 3 le

Re: greater circle

2012-08-30 Thread Paul Anderson
Works great until you start using a coordinate system that places points on a sphere:) Paul Anderson -- VE3HOP On 2012-08-30, at 2:31 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: > On 08/30/2012 12:20 PM, Paul Anderson wrote: >> It looks like 2*10^-13 miles is about twice the inter atomic di

Re: greater circle

2012-08-30 Thread Paul Anderson
It looks like 2*10^-13 miles is about twice the inter atomic distance in diamond:) Paul Anderson -- VE3HOP On 2012-08-30, at 4:22 AM, Chris Stinemetz wrote: >> >> >> Because floating-point arithmetic as done by limited precision computers is >> always an ap

Re: greater circle

2012-08-29 Thread Paul Anderson
That is 99.99780441116897988% error. 16 9's is better than any measuring instrument in existence. I think it'll do:) ---- Paul Anderson -- VE3HOP On 2012-08-30, at 1:29 AM, Jim Gibson wrote: > > On Aug 29, 2012, at 5:53 PM, Chris Stinemetz wrote: > >&

Re: array match- help !

2012-08-17 Thread Paul Anderson
Isn't this basically the format of YAML? Couldn't a YAML CPAN module handle this data? On 2012-08-17, at 10:10 AM, jet speed wrote: > Hi Shomi, > > Appreciate your comments.Thanks > > I find it difficult to understand, if i convert into has. i.e keys and > corresponding values. if my keys

Re: Unable to change pos in regex match

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Anderson
Well, now I feel sufficiently stupid:) Thanks! On 2012-08-14, at 6:19 PM, Jim Gibson wrote: > >> > > Have you tried printing out the values of ($1,$2,$3,$4,$5), $cur, and pos > $numb for each iteration? I think you will find it most informative to do so. > > Hint: you should be using a whil

Unable to change pos in regex match

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Anderson
o "that " . $foo, and the warning will refer to the concatenation (.) operator, even though there is no . in your program. I've copied and pasted the code below, for those who don't want to trek over to github: #!/usr/bin/myperl -w # euler8.pl --- Euler Problem 8 #

Re: Net::NNTP inconsistent article retrieval

2012-08-11 Thread Paul Anderson
hat leafnode basically does everything you're trying to write, right? ---- Paul Anderson -- VE3HOP On 2012-08-11, at 5:21 PM, Chris Knipe wrote: > Hi Paul, > > I will be inclined to disagree - it depends on whether or not the content > was encoded to begin with (perhaps I sho

Re: Net::NNTP inconsistent article retrieval

2012-08-11 Thread Paul Anderson
Umm... Are you aware that binary attachments on usenet aren't actually *in* binary? They're encoded in ASCII using one of a number of different methods. They're just text, until decoded on the receiving end. I recommend looking into File::Slurp and CHI. CHI basically implements the entire cach

Re: Catfile function not working on windows 7 machine

2012-08-09 Thread Paul Anderson
Per the message by Mr. Adigun, using a single quote instead of double quotes tells perl not to interpolate the string. That will prevent it from eating all those backslashes. Paul Anderson -- VE3HOP On 2012-08-09, at 8:53 AM, Sandip Karale wrote: > Hi Shlomi, > > Thanks

Re: system command not working in different versions

2012-08-09 Thread Paul Anderson
Silly question: Does submit_now.pl have its execute bit set? Paul Anderson -- VE3HOP On 2012-08-09, at 3:17 AM, venki neeli wrote: > hi Midhun/Hal > > Shebang lines of Script-1 and Script-2 and perl location are same. > Where as Script one is executing and Script-2 is n

Re: Concatenation in Perl

2012-07-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:09:10PM +0200, Jenda Krynicky wrote: > From: Paul Johnson > > You need a mixture of the two approaches: map to prepend "not in:" and > > join to join them. > > > > my $query = join " and ", map "not in:$_",

Re: Concatenation in Perl

2012-07-19 Thread Paul Johnson
;"; > foreach my $folder ( @folders ) > { > $query = join "and" "not in:$folder" "$query"; > } > > but still same result and this time extra "and" in beginning. > > Any idea how to do this ? You need a mixture of the two approaches: map to p

Re: Regex character classes: n OR m

2012-07-06 Thread Paul Johnson
at) you can see the basis for a solution. So, to match either three or five "a"s for example, you could do this: /^(?:a{3}|a{5})$/ -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: How to create a user manual window

2012-06-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 07:11:57PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > OK. For Windows there is now http://dwimperl.com/ which is open-source and is > considered better than Activestate Perl. [citation needed] -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beg

Re: subroutine returning data

2012-06-04 Thread Paul Johnson
hank you, > > Chris > > sub site_offAir { > for (values %{$href->{$_[0]}}) { > return 1 if $_ eq 'ND'; #need to test all values are eq to 'ND' > } > return ''; > } I would imagine it to be much easier to look at it from the other w

Re: Using perlbrew to change Perl version for scripts

2012-06-03 Thread Paul Johnson
ver perl you've "switch"ed to? If you are, I don't think you really want that (some important programs on your system may stop working). If not, what are you asking? Are you actually looking for this? $ perlbrew exec perl my_snazzy_program.pl -- Paul Johnson - p...@pj

Re: Help required to extract multiple text fields from a text string

2012-05-26 Thread Adams Paul
Sent from my LG phone Jim Gibson wrote: > >On May 26, 2012, at 5:51 AM, pa...@fsmail.net wrote: > >> split is slower than the correct regex matching. >> > >Did you know that split uses a regular expression to find the separators on >which to split the string? So your claim is unlikely to be t

Re: shift vs @_

2012-05-21 Thread Paul Johnson
sessment correctly? Please don't care about this until your code is running correctly but too slowly and profiling has determined that this is the bottleneck. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Perl preprocessor

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Johnson
nds like something that Mason could do. And I expect there are a number of other modules on CPAN that could also manage that. But take a look at https://metacpan.org/module/Mason Good luck, -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Updating Perlbrew

2012-05-03 Thread Paul Johnson
f you run "perlbrew" or "perlbrew help" you'll see the main commands. The one you want is "perlbrew self-upgrade". Just run that and it'll do the rest. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubs

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