Re: if condition question

2008-10-16 Thread Tom Yarrish
On Oct 16, 2008, at 8:08 AM, "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: sanket vaidya wrote: Hi all, This is the exact same question you asked 16 days ago. Did you not like the answer you got then? (Which is the same as the answers you are getting now.) John -- Perl isn't a toolbox

Struggling with a regex

2008-08-04 Thread Tom Yarrish
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, I'm trying to pull some machine names out of a CSV file, and I'm using the Pattern Test Program from Learning Perl 4th ed, but I don't think I have the logic right. Here's a sample line from the CSV file: TAP0SMITHJ | smithj (192.168.1

Re: Usenet messages are appearing on beginners@perl.org [perl #43141]

2007-06-07 Thread Tom Yarrish
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jun 7, 2007, at 3:42 AM, Mumia W. wrote: Only part is on my end*. I have to apologize again. I was right the first time. Something of significance with respect to Google Groups and beginners[at] perl.org happened on May 25th. Before May

OT: Duplicate messages

2007-05-10 Thread Tom Yarrish
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, Is it me or are there multiple copies of the same message going to the list? I've received either two or three copies of the same message a lot today (just today though). Thanks, Tom -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5

Re: Downloadable Perl Manual

2006-08-03 Thread Tom Yarrish
You can get the Perl CD bookshelf from O'Reilly and then copy it to your laptop. It's all HTML. I put it on all of my computers for reference. Tom On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Is there a downloadable manual for perl? I would like to download the manual onto my laptop

Re: You've read the Llama, now what?

2005-11-28 Thread Tom Yarrish
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: "Tom" == Tom Yarrish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> So it makes it difficult for me to apply what I've read from the Tom> O'Reilly books to real world problems (and I've read the Ll

You've read the Llama, now what?

2005-11-27 Thread Tom Yarrish
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, I've been reading this list for a while, and I've been trying to learn perl on my own for quite some time. However, my job doesn't really (from my vantage point at least) "allow" me to do any sort of programming (by that I mean my day

Re: Searching tecknical documentation

2004-11-16 Thread Tom Yarrish
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There's also a section on http://learn.perl.org that has books online on it. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBmkXKZWzkfeDiTw4RAk29AJ9I3T1E3Gbc1DY+R1xMmmDn5wUfCACffQe5 HY4RprdalRZX2MbUd1oB/sU= =n/wv -END PGP S

Re: hash comparisons...

2001-07-20 Thread Tom Yarrish
Didn't Randall do a voting script for an article in Linux Journal/Mag or TPJ recently? You might want to look at that. Thanks, Tom -- #!/usr/bin/perl -w # 526-byte qrpff, Keith Winstein and Marc Horowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # MPEG 2 PS VOB file on stdin -> descrambled output on stdout # argume

Still can't get this !@#$%^&* to work

2001-07-18 Thread Tom Yarrish
Hey all, Okay, I'm still trying to get this log file script to work. The end result should just be, if it's the 18th, the log file should be 09FIMSOM090Aevent-20010717.log. However, I keep getting it to produce the same day, instead of the previous. This script is set to run on an NT server

Log File move script revisited

2001-07-11 Thread Tom Yarrish
Hey all, Okay, I have this script that I asked about a few days ago, that allows me to move some log files and put a date on the filename when they are moved. This is a script that runs daily (currently) on two machines. One server is a test server, the other is a backup production server. Now,

Re: Some help with a script

2001-07-09 Thread Tom Yarrish
I do have one additional question with the suggestion for the @days array. How does this affect the month. Localtime returns the month-1, so I would have to adjust for that during the month, and then leave it alone at the end of the month. Or was this a suggestion to replace the if/else part? T

Re: Some help with a script

2001-07-09 Thread Tom Yarrish
Thanks for the help. Just as a side note, the check for $days being less than one was after I put the first version in production. I had the day value being subtracted somewhere else, so the first of the month because 0 instead of 28, 30, or 31. Which is where the subroutine came to be. On Mon

Some help with a script

2001-07-09 Thread Tom Yarrish
Hey all, Okay, here's some background on this. I wrote a script (to replace an older batch file) for an NT server. The purpose of this script is to shut down a service, then move three files to another directory, and add the date to the end of the filename (ex. foo-20010709.log). Now, when I te

Date in NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Tom Yarrish
Hey all, Okay, new script, quick question. On Windows NT (comments aside), how would one accomplish the following? (this would be on Unix) $date = `date +"%Y%m%d"; I need to pass the current date to a variable to use later in a script. Thanks, Tom #!/usr/bin/perl -w # 526-byte qrpff, K

Re: My mis-understanding of if/else?

2001-06-26 Thread Tom Yarrish
71)) [$_]^(($h>>=8)+=$f+(~$g&$t))for@a[128..$#a]}print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+/g;eval On 26 Jun 2001, Chas Owens wrote: > On 26 Jun 2001 10:23:13 -0500, Tom Yarrish wrote: > > Well, if the tail filehandle acts like a regular tail on the command line, > > then

Re: My mis-understanding of if/else?

2001-06-26 Thread Tom Yarrish
Well, if the tail filehandle acts like a regular tail on the command line, then no. The first line in the tail does not contain the pattern, the second line does. Here's what the tail on that log looks like: INFOR 05:02:00AuthData=() WARNG 05:02:00 VCI_Login : TECH_VCI_ERROR 0

Re: My mis-understanding of if/else?

2001-06-25 Thread Tom Yarrish
mation.com/~perl/tut for some tutorials about this) > > last, you dont want to use 'exit' in that else statement, seeing that will > not only exit the loop, but will exit the entire program > you're probably looking for 'last' > > hth, > > Jos BOumans >

My mis-understanding of if/else?

2001-06-25 Thread Tom Yarrish
Hey all, Okay, I'm still working on my little Net::Telnet project, but a different section of the code is giving me a problem. I thought I had an understanding of regex an if/else, but apparently not. Here's the code snippet: open(TAIL, "tail $glmiss_log|") or die "Can't tail on $glmiss_log: $

RE: :Telnet

2001-06-22 Thread Tom Yarrish
anks in advance for any and all suggestions. My aim is to be able to > telnet to a site, and once there work allow the user to work at the > site, > till the time when the user might wish to telnet to another site. If > the > second site is connected to the first, the program shoudl

Net::Telnet

2001-06-21 Thread Tom Yarrish
Hey all, Okay, I'm playing with Net::Telnet, and I've gotten to the point where I connect to the other machine. What I wanted to know is, can I run and interact with a program just using the cmd() part of that module? Or do I need to use another module to do that. Basically what I'm going is te

Re: Advice for Perl Class

2001-06-21 Thread Tom Yarrish
Dave, I live in Chicago as well. I just finished taking Sun's perl class, and it was pretty good. However, if you can afford it, you should probably look into taking Randal's classes @ Stonehenge. From what I understand it basically goes through the Learning Perl book. If you can't afford it, I

Re: I feel like an idiot...

2001-06-20 Thread Tom Yarrish
try: > > while () { $users{$1} = "Offline" if (/^(\d{3})/) } > > or the more verbose > > while () { > #if this line has a key > if (/^(\d{3})/) { > #then add it to the hash > $users{$1} = "Offline" > }

Re: I feel like an idiot...

2001-06-20 Thread Tom Yarrish
builtin data > # match line of at least 3 digits at beginning of line > /^(\d{3})/; # or more visually $_ =~ /^(\d{3})/; > $hash{$1} = "Offline"; # set $hash{matched char} = "Offline" > } > > while ( (my $key, my $value) = each %hash ) { > p

Re: I feel like an idiot...

2001-06-20 Thread Tom Yarrish
3 digits in the first > three characters and set $hash{digits} to "Offline". After executing the > above code, I get the following 'keys' from %hash: > > 305 > 113 > 307 > > You might want to be more restrictive in your regex, if you don't want > s

I feel like an idiot...

2001-06-20 Thread Tom Yarrish
Hey all, Well, the subject says it all. Four days removed from a Perl class, and I feel like I'm forgetting everything (guess that's what happens when you don't take Randal's class ;p). Anyway, here's what I'm trying to do. I have a file that I'm reading into the program with an open command. E

SunEd Perl Class - Day 1

2001-06-11 Thread Tom Yarrish
Well, if anyone is interested, my first day at Sun's Perl Class went pretty well. However, I do have a couple of questions that came up during the course of the day. I'm hoping someone can clarify. 1) Okay, with array slices...they give you an example of doing this: ($f[0], $f[1], $f

Re: Sun Education Perl Training

2001-06-08 Thread Tom Yarrish
Take the Sun Education class which is only 10 minutes from my house. ;p Tom *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 6/8/2001 at 7:40 PM Peter Scott was rumored to say: >At 11:56 AM 6/8/01 -0500, Tom Yarrish wrote: >>Randal, >>I actually looked at Stonehenge (I would have

Re: Sun Education Perl Training

2001-06-08 Thread Tom Yarrish
=($m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])&110;$t ^=(72,@z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16-2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)[$_%8]}(16..271)) [$_]^(($h>>=8)+=$f+(~$g&$t))for@a[128..$#a]}print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+/g;eval On 8 Jun 2001, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > >>>&

Sun Education Perl Training

2001-06-08 Thread Tom Yarrish
Hey all, Just a throw out question. My company is paying for me to go to a Sun Ed Perl class next week. I'm excited to go, since I haven't had a lot of time to learn on my own (wife has a problem when I'm at the computer too much). Anyway, I was wondering if anyone has ever taken this class, an

Re: Perl Programming Question

2001-05-23 Thread Tom Yarrish
^=(72,@z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16-2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)[$_%8]}(16..271)) [$_]^(($h>>=8)+=$f+(~$g&$t))for@a[128..$#a]}print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+/g;eval On Wed, 23 May 2001, Adam Turoff wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:59:13PM -0500, Tom Yarrish wrote: > &

Perl Programming Question

2001-05-23 Thread Tom Yarrish
Hey all, Been reading the list for a little while, and had sort of a philosophy question for the group. I've been trying to learn Perl for some time (in fact, my company has offered to pay for me to take a Sun course on it). In the mean time I've been reading through the standard Perl books (Lear