RE: grouping regex match return values

2002-09-18 Thread Rum Pel
not want a or B, only aB's. I cannot remove inner parentheses as it would be /(a|Ab|B)/ which is not what I want. Is my problem clear? >From: Timothy Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "'Rum Pel'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE:

grouping regex match return values

2002-09-17 Thread Rum Pel
I want to pick dates from a file, I did it the following way: - $day = "([12]?[0-9]|30|31)"; $weekday = "(Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat|Sun)"; $month = "([1-9]|10|11|12|Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec)"; $year = "(1999|2000|2001|2002)"; $query = "$month\/$day\/$year"; @q = "Today

return types again

2002-09-17 Thread Rum Pel
I installed MailTools, and want to use Mail::Util->read_mbox($file) THe documentation says: "Read $file, a binmail mailbox file, and return a list of references. Each reference is a reference to an array containg one message." But nothing is said about the type of message, I cannot even guess

Re: return type of $ua->request

2002-09-17 Thread Rum Pel
> >Yes. You can even find out what the caller is expecting. Well, to an >extent anyway. > >peldoc -f wantarray > Wow! thats new and interesting. I looked at a couple of examples on it. It seems to be true if a return value is expected by the caller context. Is this that? or it is true only when

Re: return type of $ua->request

2002-09-17 Thread Rum Pel
> >the request method of LWP::UserAgent returns a HTTP::Response object. Even >though this isn't explicitly documented in the LWP::UserAgent docs >(accessible via perldoc LWP::UserAgent), it seems like a reasonable first >guess. A function definition in Perl doesnt require you to specify t

return type of $ua->request

2002-09-16 Thread Rum Pel
use HTTP::Request::Common; $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; my $res = $ua->request(GET 'http://www.sn.no/'); if ($res->is_success) { ... Now, what is the type of 'res' variable? In the html documentation that comes with perl, I can see a list of packages, modules, the methods within but they dont

qq/qw

2002-09-16 Thread Rum Pel
hello perl -e "print qq(@INC)" prints the library paths. Can somebody tell me what does "qq" do here? Also, what does "qw" do in the following statement? use HTTP::Request::Common qw(GET POST); --rp _ Send and receive Hotmail on

Packaging my perl program

2002-09-12 Thread Rum Pel
I have written a perl program which I want to give to my friends to try out. But the program uses a few libraries that are normally not installed by default. So how do I ship my program? What is the general way of doing this? In java, when I give my program I also give the libraries ie., the ja