reg-ex match - reverse looking assertion?

2006-08-04 Thread Paul Beckett
I'm trying to pattern match the beginning of a SQL string like: INSERT INTO `rwikiobject` VALUES ('0b5e02f308c5341d0108fca900670107','2006-03-06 23:36:41','/site/ec07580d-1c66-469f-80be-c0afd616cedf/alembert, d \'','/site/ec07580d-1c66-469f-80be-c0afd616cedf' My expression so far looks like: my ($

regex matching multiple occurances

2006-08-02 Thread Paul Beckett
I would like to match multiple occurrences of the same pattern: /\'([a-z0-9]{32})\'/ This could appear 0 - to many times on a line. I need the actual text match, not just the occurrence frequency. Any suggestions as to how I could catch these would be appreciated. Cheers, Paul -- To unsubscribe,

Creating a word document

2004-09-29 Thread paul beckett (JIC)
I've been trying to find a perl module that can create microsoft word documents and failed. Does anyone know of one? Cheers, Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Send binary file along socket conection

2002-04-08 Thread paul beckett (JIC)
I would like to send an excel file (binary file) down a socket connection. I'm at a loss as to how to do this. I've looked in a number of books (O'reilly, Programming perl , Advanced Perl etc.) but haven't seen any non-text examples. Can anyone tell me how I can do this? Regards, Paul -- To u

Send binary via socket connection

2002-04-05 Thread paul beckett (JIC)
Does anybody know if you can send a binary file (eg. excel spreadsheet) via a socket connection (I'm using the IO::Socket::INET module); and if so how? Thanks in advance, Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Socket Server

2002-03-27 Thread paul beckett (JIC)
I want to write a perl socket server app to communicate with a java TCP client. I've tried looking in the (O'Reilly) Programming Perl, which I've found quite overwhelming. Can anyone suggest a good place to find more information on this topic (starting with the real basics of listenting for and ac

Fuzzy Matching

2002-03-21 Thread paul beckett (JIC)
I am attempting to do a "fuzzy match" with the String::Approx (v.3) module, with very limited success. I am working with biological genome sequence, this is a 30136242 character long string (which I load into $seq), each character is either an A , T , G or C (or in some cases more rarely an N to d

Send e-mail attachment

2001-11-27 Thread paul beckett (JIC)
Does anybody know how I can send a smallish binary file as an e-mail attachment, from perl (running on UNIX (OSFv.4.0)) Thanks Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

need to ouput excel / PDF file

2001-11-26 Thread paul beckett (JIC)
I need to write some data out in two different formats: 1) As a microsoft excel file 2) As an adobe acrobat PDF file Does anybody know if there are modules that can do this? I've tried looking at http://www.cpan.org without much success. Thanks Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Outputing data for Excel / PDF

2001-11-26 Thread paul beckett (JIC)
I need to write some data out in two different formats: 1) As a microsoft excel file 2) As an adobe acrobat PDF file Does anybody know if there are modules that can do this? I've tried looking at http://www.cpan.org without much success Thanks Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]