RE: Renaming Files Help

2001-07-26 Thread jbarry
Nevermind, I figured it out. I'm only passing the file name in the rename script, I had to add the whole path to it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 1:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Renaming Files Help I keep gett

Renaming Files Help

2001-07-26 Thread jbarry
I keep getting an error when I run this script - No such file or directory. What am I missing? #!/usr/bin/perl -w #rename use File::Find; $DIRLIST = ('D:\PATH\To-Be Model\Data'); find(\&process_file, $DIRLIST); rename_files(); sub process_file{ push (@files, $_); }; sub rename_files{

RE: basename ?

2001-07-24 Thread jbarry
Why add another module when one regexp can do it? ;) -Original Message- From: Mel Matsuoka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 5:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: basename ? At 01:48 PM 07/24/2001 -0500, Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1 wrote: >Why not just use a r

RE: Cleanest way to split this

2001-07-24 Thread jbarry
There's also the procedure in Mastering Regular Expressions: (lifted from The Perl Cookbook) [CODE FOLLOWS] sub parse_csv{ my $text = shift; #record containing comma sep values my @new = (); push(@new, $+) while $text =~ m{ #the first part groups the phase

RE: stupid question (Use strict)

2001-07-20 Thread jbarry
it's a pragma. It forces explicit declaration of variables, among other things. One of the smarter people here can tell you the exact details of it. -Original Message- From: Tom Malone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 1:42 PM To: Perl List Subject: RE: stupid quest

Format questions

2001-07-20 Thread jbarry
I need to develop an output format for a report. The issue is that it's a one to many relationship in terms of reporting. I.e. FIRST TERM --- FIRST MATCH TO FIRST TERM SECOND MATCH TO FIRST TERM SECOND TERM -- FIRST MATCH TO SECOND TERM THIRD TERM ---

RE: Printing a hash - weird behavior

2001-06-08 Thread jbarry
"safe", though? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 10:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Printing a hash - weird behavior >>>>> "jbarry" == jba

Printing a hash - weird behavior

2001-06-08 Thread jbarry
The code is below; what's pertinent is really the last line. When I drop the ."\n" the hash prints as expected, but with no line breaks between records. Assuming concactenating the \n would do it, I threw it into the print command. Now it returns a value of 2/8 instead of the hash values. . . what

A little confused

2001-06-01 Thread jbarry
OK first of all, I'm a total perl newbie. I've been programming in VB for a couple years, but I'm "gradutating" into perl. May god have mercy on us all. My question is more conceptual: I have two comma delimited text files, that are essentially database tables. One is materials, one is orders. Th