RE: if something equals nothing

2001-07-17 Thread daniels tashi robert
It's worth mentioning that there are a few different kinds of nothings. The ones I know that apply to ordinary (scalar) variables are the number zero, the empty string, with or without a null character to terminate it, boolean false, and undef, the value of variables that don't exist yet. A lot

Re: one last problem...

2001-06-07 Thread daniels tashi robert
It looks like there is a single space between each data value; if so, you can split on whitespace rather than all the nasty pattern matching; did this not work for you? On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Brent Buckalew wrote: > Hello all, > > I tried putting the following into the program but it doesn't rea

Re: perl compiler and editor for windows

2001-06-06 Thread daniels tashi robert
You need an interpreter; you can use any text editor you want. There are some IDEs (if you don't know what that is, think of it as a word processor that knows Perl), most notably ActiveState's Komodo (it's in a Beta version now) -- on my computer (1GHz Athlon) it's slow as molasses. I use Notepa

Re: Fwd: 'use' question

2001-06-05 Thread daniels tashi robert
No, but seriously. Put the # before the ! ("she-bang" is, if nothing else, a good mnemonic) On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, M.W. Koskamp wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: Bob Mangold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 9:28 PM > Subject: Re: Fwd: 'u

Re: one last problem...

2001-06-04 Thread daniels tashi robert
Nope. It breaks down like this: open (FILEHANDLE, "filename") opens for reading--can't be changed open (FILEHANDLE, "filename") write to filename, writing over current contents open (FILEHANDLE, ">>filename") write to filename, appending to current contents Your changes will be sav

Re: one last problem...

2001-06-04 Thread daniels tashi robert
How about something like this? # Get rid of all the lines up till the Nitrogen ones start: do { $discard_line = ; } until ($line =~ /Log 10 Mean Ionisation/) # Then, process lines until no more Nitrogens: while () #Current line becomes the variable $_ { break unless (/Nitrogen/); #if n

Re: while loop seems to loop through file more than once.

2001-06-04 Thread daniels tashi robert
In the first line, $remtag == "1" should either be a string match $remtag eq "1" or a numerical one $remtag == 1 I don't know if that's your problem, but I'm sure it's not doing what you want it to . . . . Good luck! On Mon, 4 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > } elsif ( $remtag == "1" ) {