A question I assume can be answered using regexp, unfortunately I am
just starting my way into it. I have a bunch of words that I want to
split, so that the first letters (minus n) and the last n-letters are
seperated.
n is user defined and therefore not static.
How can I have Perl split at the
Hi William and all,
Most Useful Perl Modules
-strict
-warnings
why is it everyone keeps suggesting use warnings when you could use
diagnostics and get a whole lot of more info?
I'd go for the diagnostics instead of the warnings module. Does this
have any negative side effects (besides working to
Hi Brent and all,
well wort it, I i was quite sad to see how PHP performed
http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/index2.shtml
Hmm, the index.html pages states, that the last update to the results
was performed in 2001. I might think PHP is by now a little more mature
(=faster). I wouldn't be too
Hello list,
I tried to dig my way through my newly acquired Perl ina nutshell and
Learning Perl, but I couldn't find a satisfying solution to my problem:
How can I print the last modification date of a file? It should work on
different systems (*nix and OS X, Win32 is nice to have but not a mu
Just wondering what IDE/editor folks use for their Perl work ?
I am on OS X but I use a Java-based editor called jedit, which is
available on W32 as well, I guess.
http://www.jedit.org/
It supports syntax highlightning, plus it's Freeware and there are lots
of nice add-ons!
Stephan
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To unsub
Hello list!
I am starting to dig deeper into Perl, after having successfully
written my first working script :-)
I am trying to install modules on my Mac OS X 10.3 Server machine, but
I usually end up getting errors like this for the GD package (1) or
this for the Bundle::LWP (2). I did inst
Hello Bob,
thanks a lot for your help!
read the documentation and you'll see that the basename() function can
remove extensions as well.
Done that :-)
The final app looks like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use diagnostics;
use File::Basename;
fileparse_set_fstype( 'Unix' );
#HTML blah blah
The while() reads a line into the $_ variable, but you're not
printing
that; you're printing the filename itself. So you'll get one line of
(the
same) output for each line in the file.
Ah, I should have seen that in the first place
Then to show just the 'perl.txt' part, use:
print basename($
Hello list,
I am trying to write my very own first "useful" program and I am in
need of some help. I do have a lot of ressources (a book by Andrew
Johnson, the yellow book for dummies and lots of hypertexts) but I
cannot seem to get things done the way they're supposed to work. I am
completely
