Perl Tk questions

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splitting a number to include commas

Is there an easy way or some format option that allows one to display an arbitrary number with commas: 12345678910 = 1,234,567,890 Or do I need to set up a looping structure to split the number and insert commas??? Thanks, Tom -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional comma

perlTk, using fork

I am trying to run a script from a program created in perlTk. When I hit the RUN button, it runs this run_program function. It runs through the process fine and prints out the Process complete line and then gives me some weird messages: Process complete X Error of failed request: BadIDChoice (

Tk::FileDialog -FPat question

Is there a way to show upper and lower case pattern match for the -FPat option for a dialog box default pattern: sub browse_files { my $save_name = $b_file; $status->configure(-text=>"Browse directories"); if ($base ) { $b_file = $file_dialog->Show( -Path => $base, -FPat => "*

using a window while process is running in pTk

I created a program in ptk that basically takes a file in, splits it up and runs a process on each file, these can be run simultaneously or on after another. I'm using system( ) to kick off each process. The problem is that once I RUN this, I can't use the window until the processing is complete!!