On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 13:53, Lance Prais wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
> How do you compare dates to see if dates are "between"?
> For example in SQL I would do it like this to find the values between now
> and seven days prior:.
> X is Between(sysdate-7) and sysdate
> Thank you,
>
Use a Date:: module
At 01:41 PM 2/12/2002, you wrote:
>I know there is a Win32::ODBC module, and I think there is a DBI::ODBC?
Well, there's DBD::ODBC.
DBI is the independent interface, that is, independent of any particular
database. On the back end of that, DBD::* modules plug in to provide
functionality for e
I've been trying to wrap my brain around this for a little while, and I
don't think I've been completely successful, but here's my stab at what's
wrong.
You stated, I think, that line 27 worked and line 29 did not. Line 27 was
properly escaped...
> 27 #chdir("/Volumes/Music\ Tun
At 03:15 PM 1/30/2002, you wrote:
Always check the return value of system calls to make sure they have
succeeded. I think your output file isn't getting opened.
>open(OUT, ">docs.out");
should be something like,
open OUT, "> docs.out" or die "Can't open output file: $!\n";
This way, if the
Wow, a Prodigy email address... I remember using them back in the day. I'm
kinda surprised they are still with us.
At 12:25 PM 1/28/2002, you wrote:
>In VB, I can make an API call (Can't remember what it is off the top of my
>head) that will basically look at the drive and detect if I need to p
At 05:55 AM 1/29/2002, you wrote:
>I have the Mail::Pop3Client module installed. I have it running with the
>debug option on, and it appears to me that the server (pop3.xtra.co.nz) is
>accepting the user and password that I send (it says OK please send PASS
>command, then OK /USER? is welcome)
At 04:54 PM 7/27/2001, you wrote:
>On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Sean O'Leary wrote:
>
> > ODBC is a low-level API for connecting to databases, and is designed to be
> > accessible from many a programming language. To my knowledge, there's no
> > module for using
>I need to resize a slew of jpgs I have in archive. They are 1024x768, way
>too big for web viewing. I need them smaller, around 300x200.
>
>Is there a module I should look into for graphic resizing? Is this
>possible with PERL? Where should I go to look at example scripts?
PerlMagick rawks.
At 01:56 PM 7/27/2001, you wrote:
>** Using ActiveState Build 522 (NT)
>
>I'm trying to decide on using DBI or an ODBC connection for moving data
>into or out of MS ACCESS 97 (or 2000) and back into the ACCESS table
>[yep, or change inside table].
>
>Given I need to perform all the usual extract a
At 10:53 AM 7/27/2001, you wrote:
>Try:
>
>my %data = ( %one, %two %three, %four );
This is a good solution, but be careful of one thing. If there are
duplicate keys in any of the hashes, the last in will win. Meaning, that
if you have a key of 'my key' in %one and in %four, the value of
At 01:51 PM 6/15/2001, you wrote:
>It is fairly unperlish to have large blocks of variable declarations at
>the top of a subroutine so throw away variables (like a one used only
>within a loop) tend to get declared as they are used. The only reason I
>can think of that would make it faster is th
Oops! Sorry! Wrong section of the documentation. I meant to grab the
paragraph a little further down. Still in perlop, still in the Regexp
Quote-Like Operators section:
The /g modifier specifies global pattern matching--that is, matching as
many times as possible within the string. How i
At 05:08 PM 6/14/2001, you wrote:
>Try:
>$result = $string =~ /a/g;
>The value will be in $result
>
>Carl
Close. You have to force list context for the result of the pattern match
to make it work. Like this:
$result = () = $string =~ /a/g;
(Thanks to Mark-Jason Dominus)
Check out perlop for
At 05:32 PM 6/13/2001, you wrote:
>I join this group, and I get discussions of regexes and XML, etc. I have
>no idea what a regex is! What books have you guys (who I assume are
>beginners too, since that's the name of this board) been reading? Turn
>me into a beginner too!
>
>Kirk
Despair not.
At 12:38 PM 6/7/2001, you wrote:
>Hi,
>if I do a search for Mail::Mailer I get back that its available from
>http://www.ActiveState.com/packages:
>when I do install Mail::Mailer I get the my previous error.
>
>Strange though, I do 'search Mail' as you suggest - but I do not get the
>list you menti
At 04:03 PM 6/6/2001, you wrote:
>if (!$ARGV[0]) {
> print "Enter the file\(s\) to search: ";
> chomp(@files = );
>}
>print "*";
>@files = glob($ARGV[0]);
Your problem appears to be right here. If the user didn't put the
filenames on the command line, then you ask them for them. Then
At 09:41 PM 6/5/2001, you wrote:
>Well i'm about to chuck perl out the window
>
>this is the command line from my index.htm file
>
^
| No space between the comment tag and the beginning of the
directive!
I've been bitten by this one. I hope you haven't been tearing your hair
ou
At 12:01 PM 5/3/2001, you wrote:
>I have looked through the Programming Perl book and tried the system
>command. But it only opens the ftp session and waits for input. I also
>tried the Net::FTP module. But it displays a warning during
>install. Afterwards, it gives me an error when I try
Also, drop by
http://search.cpan.org/
It does a body good. : ) You can really easily find many a cool module
here. Pertaining to this specific question, you have two things that could
be of way-much use.
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel
Just throw Excel into the search box
At 06:44 PM 5/2/2001, you wrote:
>Can anyone help me understand why the following code is being ignored?
>
>$my_graph->set_x_label_font(GD::Font->Giant);
>
>Kevin
Need more code! It's like saying "Why doesn't this print?"
print 'Print this!';
What I didn't show you was that earlier in my progr
At 08:42 AM 5/2/2001, you wrote:
> I am working on automating some file imports from a file that are
> saved on a server to a database on a local machine. It gets a bit ugly
> because we need to run the text file through a conversion program from a
> vendor before it gets imported into
At 07:57 AM 5/2/2001, you wrote:
>Hi,
>Iam reading flat text file of 10 lines. Each line has got data of
>maximum 10 characters.
>I want to eliminate duplicate lines and blank lines out of that file.
>i.e. something like sort -u in unix.
>
>
>
>Is there any easy way of doing it in perl???
>th
At 07:07 AM 5/2/2001, you wrote:
>I've written a script to FTP files. I've included the Net::FTP package but
>when I run the script in 2 different machines, I get these 2 error messages:
>
>machine 1
>Can't locate object method "new" via package "Net::FTP::A" at
>/usr/local/lib/per
>l5/5.00503/Net
At 03:03 PM 5/1/2001, you wrote:
>Does anyone know of a way to use perl and CGI to have the following:
>
>html page w/ form to get stdin from the user for username and
>password.(basic),
>pass the variables to the perl script which then modifies permissions for a
>specific folder on NT
>and allows
At 12:28 PM 5/1/2001, you wrote:
>sub wanted {
> @FILES = ();
> if ( $File::Find::name =~ /_boot\.js$/ )
> {
>push @FILES, "$File::Find::name\n";
> }
>
> print (@FILES);
>
> open(BOOT_FILES,">boot_files.txt");
>
At 06:11 AM 4/27/2001, you wrote:
>Hi,
Hello there. : )
>I have managed to get a blob(a jpeg file) from a local file on the
>linux box into the database, but I can't seem to get the thing back
>out and onto a webpage! I have scanned numerous lists and books,
>but seem to be unable to find any re
At 02:50 PM 4/25/2001
> > Well, it's not obvious. To tell you honestly, I was initially
> > shocked that split didn't complain about the string, demanding a
> > pattern instead.
>
>"split ' '" is a pretty common idiom, though it still confuses me.
>I suppose it's hardcoded?
Yes. Check the bottom
At 01:07 PM 4/25/2001, you wrote:
>Such as, for example, if the limit was 4, the fourth variable would
>contain the remainder of the string, rather than the fourth part of the
>split.
>
>perldoc -f split(again)
>
>:-)
>
>--
>Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dude, you're cool. : )
I may not
At 03:06 PM 4/25/2001, you wrote:
>Hi, All
>
>I'm having some trouble mapping a network drive
>through my perl script.
>the mapping looks like this:
>
>system ("net use \\mypc\reports");
>
>Pls let me know if this is not the correct syntax.
>
>thanks,
>
>
>=
>Peter Lemus
'\' is an escape char
At 10:48 AM 4/25/2001, you wrote:
> > I believe if you add the (g)lobal modifier and optionally(i), Paul's
> > line of code may work:
> >
> > $line =~ /(\b\w+\b).*\1/ogi;
You don't need /o, because there are no variables in the pattern, so Perl
will compile the regex at compile time anyway. I
At 10:48 AM 4/25/2001, you wrote:
>Thanks for that Steven,
>
>I knew it was obvious
>
>Gary
Well, it's not obvious. To tell you honestly, I was initially shocked that
split didn't complain about the string, demanding a pattern instead. Then
I looked more at and played a bit, and found the Pe
Sorry!
Bad link in my last post. ( It figures it's the only one I haven't checked
all day! )
Anyway, for the Cygwin project, which now appears to be fully subsumed by
RedHat, check out:
http://sources.redhat.com/
Thank you for your time,
Sean.
At 11:06 PM 4/24/2001, you wrote:
>2) Is there a pre-compiled version of this module available? I didn't find
>one on CPAN, but perhaps someone has one...? I'm working on a WinME machine,
>but I would be happy to try anything compiled on Win95 or up.
Just use Perl Package Mmanager, if you have t
At 05:08 PM 4/24/2001, you wrote:
>I had a pm that used to be working and is called using "use ABC::Test;". I
>deleted (for some stupid reasons) the perl directory and didn't realize I
>also deleted the ABC subdirectory below site\lib. I took another copy from
>another machine and placed it back
At 10:27 AM 4/24/2001, you wrote:
>Another possible solution is to use Brian Ingerson's Inline.pm and code
>the reads &c. with C's lower level IO. I think a C getc() would do
>it
>
>But be warned that, while it's actually quite friendly, a raw beginner
>might have some trouble with the Inline
At 11:17 AM 4/24/2001, you wrote:
>so...this is suposed to count the words in FILE and return how many
>occourances of each word there were...its not working for me thoughits
>only returning the count for the last word in the file...help
>
>#!/usr/local/bin/perl
>
>open (FILE,"../www/main.ph
At 05:25 PM 4/23/2001, Janet Lee wrote:
>Hi all.
>
>I'm trying to do what I think is a very simple thing. I want to read
>keyboard input char by char and time the difference between each keystroke.
>I've tried using
>
>while (sysread STDIN, $key, 1) {
> dostuff
>};
>
>but that seems to be
ning going to know that they have to head their messages a
certain way.
Thank you for your time,
Sean O'Leary
At 07:33 PM 4/22/2001, you wrote:
>Sean O'Leary -- Damn that was a good explaination! I
>felt like I understood $_ very well before, but I
>understand it even better now. A very perlish post
>indeed. Larry the linguist would be proud!
>
>Matt
Thanks. : ) I'm glad
At 06:23 PM 4/19/2001, you wrote:
>I have a question about the Perl documentation I find on the web that
>explains the usage of Perl modules. I come across this situation somewhat
>frequently where I need to do something, find a module that can do it, but
>just can't figure out from the basic info
At 02:28 AM 4/23/2001, you wrote:
>Hello !
>
>
>I would like to know if i could develop Palm OS
>applications using Perl.
>Is there any package out there to do that?
>Thanks for your attention.
>
>
>H3li0
The short answer is no.
The slightly longer answer is that so far no one has made perl run
At 02:47 PM 4/22/2001, you wrote:
>i have read about it in 3 books and even used it in scripts i have made
>but i still dont truly know how to be sure what $_ contains...can anyone
>clear this up for me? Thanks
>Chris Brown
I think the best way to talk about $_ is to speak about it
linguistica
At 10:57 AM 4/20/2001, you wrote:
>Both approaches will work equally well for most general applications. You
>start to see differences when you get into more specialized applications.
>For example, if you're writing a Perl module, and you want to export
>variables using Exporter.pm, you can't use
At 04:27 PM 4/19/2001, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am very new to perl. I have two pst (personal folder files) that I want
>to combine into one.
>
>I know how to use cat in Linux. How do do this
>same operation in perl under windows?
>
>Thank You,
>
>Frank Drain
Well, you could do this:
copy infile
At 12:06 PM 4/19/2001, you wrote:
>How can html help files be generated automatically from the makefile such
>that documentation can be installed in ActivePerl with the ppm command ?
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Leo De Wael
Take a look at Make::Maker, and in the ActiveState documents,
ActivePerl-faq2, t
At 10:47 AM 4/19/2001, you wrote:
>This is no doubt a real newbie question. Every time I run perl I get
>the following warnings:
>
>perl: warning: Setting Locale failed.
>perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> LANGUAGE = "en",
> LC_ALL = "en",
> LANG = "
At 03:33 PM 4/18/2001, you wrote:
>Check out my other note about grepping dirs on Win32. The same would apply.
>Using File::Find is good if you want all the files from a tree, but if you
>just want to read a single dir, and not all of the dirs below it, use
>opendir and readdir. Check out perl
At 03:08 PM 4/18/2001, you wrote:
>I wrote this code to email me attachments of any files found at a certain
>ftp site. It works but... since I'm new at Perl I know there's got to be a
>better way. In particular the handling the file transfer by parsing out the
>output from DIR seems hinky. Le
At 02:44 PM 4/18/2001, you wrote:
>I have their full name and path. The only thing I know is they end with
>"09.html". Is perl the right tool to use to find all my 09 files and place
>their fully qualified names in a file?
>
>If I can get all my 09 filenames in a file, reading them in and parsin
will get assigned to $_ as
the foreach loops over it. Then print, conveniently, when not supplied
with any arguments will print the contents of $_. You could say:
print $_;
but saying just 'print;' is the same.
Hope this helps.
Sean O'Leary
BTW - If anyone wants to see th
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