fork

2007-10-29 Thread Ryan Dillinger
Hello, I have this script here: #!/usr/bin/perluse warnings;use strict; print "PID=$$\n"; my $child = fork();die "Can't fork: $!" unless defined $child; if ($child > 0) { # parent process print "Parent process: PID=$$, child=$child\n";} else { # child process my $ppid = getppid(); print

Precedence?

2007-07-29 Thread Ryan Dillinger
Hello, I have written this script. I have a good understanding of all but line: $return = ($end - $start) / $start * 100; If I start with 1000, and end with say..900 or vise versa. You subtract first then? Thank You for your help! #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; $start = 0; $end = 0; $return =

Linux

2006-08-07 Thread Ryan Dillinger
Hello All, I just recently loaded linux onto my laptop. I hope this was not a bad move. But I cannot find the Activstate Perl I downloaded.I am using openSUSE Linux. I also am having trouble deciding which is the command line to open my scripts. There is the : Gnome Terminal, the Konsole, the x

lines?

2006-08-06 Thread Ryan Dillinger
Hello all, I was wondering if someone could explain lines: 14, 17, 18, 21, 27, and 43 please. I understand the bulk of the script. But to put it all together would better. Thanks so much! 1. #!/usr/bin/perl 2. # hangman.pl 3. use warnings; 4. 5. @words = qw(internet cyber groups information);

more concise

2006-07-29 Thread Ryan Dillinger
Hello All; I was hoping to write this script in a more concise manner, also eliminate the error I get with it, along with correcting it indexing at only one occurence. Thanks for your help! #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; print ($TargetString = <; chomp($SearchString); print "\nSearch begun for \"

print statement error

2006-07-20 Thread Ryan Dillinger
Hello All, I have here a script, which all runs well with the exception of the: print "value looks like a city, state, and zip code.\n";. I can type in Upper or Lowercase letters in any combination along with the zip, but I still get the error: "I couldn't figure out what that value is. Can you

pattern matching

2006-07-17 Thread Ryan Dillinger
Hello All, I was studying some pattern matching. And I ran into this piece of code. Now I believe I understand it up until the the last part \1. Can someone explain it for me please? Match lowercase a through z, uppercase A through lc z no more than three times, with white space zero or one times

pattern match

2006-07-11 Thread Ryan Dillinger
Hello, I had two scripts that were identical, well almost. I ran the two together, but straghtened them out. Anyway I have one here, that when ran say's: Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at headline.pl line 7 and 10. I have changed differernt things within, nothing worked. It i

Still getting errors

2006-07-11 Thread Ryan Dillinger
Hello again, I have rewrote this script I hoped the way you told me. And now I have just one error that states: Use of uninitialized value in hash element at names.pl line 24, <> line 1. Forgive me, but I'm not sure what's going on here. #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my %names

Which line?

2006-07-09 Thread Ryan Dillinger
Hello, I have a script here, I have been going over and over. Every time I run it I get several errors, and I have tried to fix them to no avail. Can someone tell me what line I missed, please? Thanks for your help! #!usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; %names = (); @raw = (); $fn = "";

subroutine

2006-07-02 Thread Ryan Dillinger
Hello, I have a script here, that when I run it, it gives me this: Can't return outside a subroutine at tire.pl line 14. Can someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong? Thank You very much for your help! #!/usr/bin/perl # tire.pl use warnings; package CreateTire; sub new { my $tire = {}

error after error

2006-07-01 Thread Ryan Dillinger
Hello, All I seem to be getting an error I don't quite understand. Can someone point out why I'm geeting this error? The first error states: unquoted string "subroutines" may clash with future reserved word at NPtest.pl line 6. after I quote "subroutines" I get an error that states: syntax err

subroutine?

2006-06-12 Thread Ryan Dillinger
Hello; I have a script here, that for some reason I cannot get to print out. Can someone please point out what I may be doing wrong? I know I am going to feel like a Dummy! Thanks so much for your help!! @array1 = (a, b, c,); @array2 = (1, 2, 3,); sub collect { ($value1, $value2) =