Re: regex help

2007-08-02 Thread Ricky Zhou
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tony Heal wrote: > Why doesn't this work? I want to take any leading or trailing white spaces > out. If I remove the remark it works, but I > do not understand why it requires the second line For reference, perldoc perlre and search for greedy. Basic

Re: Precedence?

2007-07-29 Thread Ricky Zhou
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ryan Dillinger wrote: > Hello, > I have written this script. I have a good understanding of all but line: > $return = ($end - $start) / $start * 100; If you start with 1000 and end with 900, you have: (900 - 1000) / 1000 * 100 = -100 / 1000 * 100 = -0.

Re: Beginner needs help

2007-06-27 Thread Ricky Zhou
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rick wrote: > Ok so the boss wants me to create two scripts in perl and I don't even > know where to begin. > > > > One is to copy a log file to a backup server every hour. > > > > And the second is to restore the backup from one server from the

Re: Substituting string in many files

2007-04-07 Thread Ricky Zhou
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mário Gamito wrote: > My question is how do i change all ocorrences of the string ".html" to > ".php" inside all the files to change the links for all pages in a snap ? Awww, use Perl to change the links, but use PHP for server-side scripting, huh? :(

Re: Not Sure how to start or what to use

2007-02-28 Thread Ricky Zhou
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gladstone Daniel - dglads wrote: > I have a text file that can be anywhere from 40,000 lines to 120,000 > Lines, > > I want it to split the file so that no file is larger then 20,000 lines > > 1) run a line count > 2) split the file into pieces No

Re: Remote directory

2007-01-11 Thread Ricky Zhou
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dukelow, Don wrote: > Does anyone have a favorite method the checks for existence of a file or > directory on remote system. I know it can be done with a system call, but > can Perl do it within its self? If you look in perldoc -f -X, there is a list

Re: Perl script to search and replace a string in a file

2006-05-31 Thread Ricky Zhou
On 5/31/06, Nishi Bhonsle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have the following script that takes in an input file, output file and replaces the string in the input file with some other string and writes out the output file. I want to change the script to traverse through a directory of files ie instea

Re: Perl OS system equivalence or Perl scripts for UNIX-and-Windows

2006-05-25 Thread Ricky Zhou
On 5/25/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Lots of these scripts have system "" on them which of course I can't run on Windows. Can anyone suggest how to get around this? Or any white papers on how to do this? If you have sufficient access to the windows computers (and you want abs

Re: file list

2006-05-22 Thread Ricky Zhou
On 5/22/06, SkyBlueshoes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Which module would be best to build an array of all files within a directory and all subdirectories matching the extension? I will need the full path to those files included with the filename in the array... I'm not sure if there's a more fitti

Re: ssi and Perl/CGI

2006-05-14 Thread Ricky Zhou
On 5/14/06, Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If, however, I have the markup with which I want to wrap my Perl output defined in foo.shtml, and bar.pl only outputs the stuff that needs to be dynamically generated by the Perl script, I get this output in my browser: [an error occurred

Re: to open a gnome file browser

2006-04-22 Thread Ricky Zhou
> how can i open a gnome file browser through perl ? Try this: system("/usr/bin/nautilus --browser --no-desktop ."); Or: system("/usr/bin/nautilus --browser --no-desktop . &"); If you want to run it in the background (and let your Perl program continue). Hope that helps, Ricky -- To unsubscribe,