Macintosh

Hi, On the Macintosh, I cannot get the program to open the indicated file for processing. Please help. Pc _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

chomp

If I type, $date = 19990417; chomp $date; - will every variable contain a newline after the semi-colon? Pc _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

EOF

What is the end of file command in Win2000? control z and control q do not work. control c exits the script Help! Pc _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROT

Using File System

I want to store data in the file directory for Windows, thus utilizing the system's directory entry locking mechanism, instead of having to build a file locking mechanism myself. This way I can have muliple users accessing the same data, without colliding with each other. How can I do this using

PerlDoc

I typed the command perldoc -u -f and it works. However, when I used the command: perldoc -u -f atan2 It doesn't work. why?? I am using Windows ME platform. Pc _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

.=

$fred[1] .= "whatsis"; Playing with this I have not found any difference between the .= (which I would expect to do concatenation), and the = (which I expect would do normal assignment.) Can someone explain what the .= is for? Pc _ Do

Loop

i was trying to work it out, for any kind of array. the following pseudo code doesn't seem to work for(.) { if(...) { .. } else { break; } } the break statement is not working. Even when it comes into the else part, it doesn't break the for loop. Suggestions? Pc __

CGI on a Novelle box

We have a Unix server for our internet applications, but I am reluctant to do development work on it, being so new to Perl and we do not have another Unix server. Can I write and test CGI applications on a Novelle server? If so, what would I need to do - just install Perl on the server and then ca

Help needed on parameters

perl -ipe "s/yak/bak/g" `dir *.yak` is supposed to allow me to do a search and replace on all the .yak files in the directory in which I am working. It doesn't; I get all sorts of errors. I've tried modifications of said string- I've tried pipes, I've tried separating the command line parameters

Parameters

I'd like some help running single line programs from the command line with the -e parameter. I keep having problems. Thanks. Pc _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Perl Versin

Is there a major difference between the Perl at Perl.com and Active Perl? Pc _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [E

Perl

Is there a major difference between the Perl at Perl.com and Active Perl? Pc _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

File Handlers

what may be the cause the filehandles don't work. I am using windows 98. Everything works fine exept the filehandles. Pc _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

@_

In the following subroutine, I do not understand why we need to use my ($n1, @n2) = @_;. Why are we using @_ if it is not used elsewhere. Can somebody throw some light on this please? # max($n1, @n2); # Returns the maximum of the arguments. sub max { my ($n1, @n2) = @_; foreach $m (@n2) { if ($n1

File Handlers

what may be the cause the filehandles don't work. I am using windows 98. Everything works fine exept the filehandles. Pc _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL