Problem moving from Data::Dumper to YAML

2006-05-30 Thread Rob Chanter
Hi List, I'm having a little trouble with YAML. The current version of a script uses Data::Dumper to keep running totals over multiple runs of the script in a nested hash, as well as a couple of arrays to give other programs hints about how to order the data (for, say, graphing). I'd very much lik

Re: file tests

2001-06-20 Thread rob chanter
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 03:41:40PM -0500, Jeff Wagg wrote: > > Hi, > I was just wondering if there were any file test operators (or > modules containing these operators) which tested files for their type. For > example, is there a way to test a file to see whether or not it's in FITS > form

Re: combine STDERR and STDOUT

2001-06-13 Thread rob chanter
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:53:48AM -0400, Charles Lu wrote: > How do I direct the messages destined for STDERR and redirect them to > STDOUT? > > > > I have a perl script A that calls another program B. If there is bad input, > Program B dumps out a lot of error messages through STDERR. I w

Re: readline fails on Sun machines?

2001-06-11 Thread rob chanter
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:42:47PM -0400, McIntyre, Terry wrote: > THe following code works on my AIX machines, > but not on Solaris machines. All are running Perl 5.005_03. > > What's the story? > > Thanks! > > #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w > > print "account = " ; > $account = readline STDIN ; >

Re: [META] Rants (was:Re: space)

2001-06-11 Thread rob chanter
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:57:36AM +0200, Aaron Craig wrote: > At 01:22 11.06.2001 -0800, you wrote: > > >If the reply issue is really difficult for new users to deal with, why is it > >everyone who is complaining about it has already found a workaround? > > My whole issue with the thing is that

Re: Perl Templates?!

2001-06-08 Thread rob chanter
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 09:46:18AM -0700, Matt Lyon wrote: > I was wondering... > if there are any one-page perl-script-templates that're pre-done > that handle typical perl issues, where the header has all the use-strict / > debugging stuff in it... that you can edit and morph into your own scrip

[META] Rants (was:Re: space)

2001-06-08 Thread rob chanter
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:55:28PM -0500, Karen Cravens wrote: > On 7 Jun 2001, at 19:49, Mark S wrote: > > > Please reply to the list for the benefit of others. > > Is there a standard rant about lists that don't use a reply-to, or do I > have to write my own? > Nah. Just get a Mail UA that

Re: multilingual capabilities of perl

2001-06-07 Thread rob chanter
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 07:23:59PM +0530, Saritha_Vinod wrote: > Hi > > Can we use perl to show multiple languages on the browser? > Sure. Perl may not be the cleanest way to do it, but you could. Use CGI.pm, and look for an "Accept-Language" header coming from the user agent. You could then f

Re: Problem with getting a file to open

2001-06-07 Thread rob chanter
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:39:33PM -0400, Andrew Nelson wrote: > You can open a file via open() for reading or writing, but not both. Try > > open (FILE, $file); > print FILE; > close(FILE); > > And see if that doesnt help. > Not quite true. To read and write, try open (FILE, "+<$file"); N

Re: Sorting a hash by value, and displaying the key

2001-06-07 Thread rob chanter
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 06:13:04PM +1000, iain truskett wrote: > Rob talked about > > foreach $value(sort {$a <=> $b} (values(%hash)) { > print $value; > } > > vs. > > foreach $value(sort byNum (values(%hash)) { > print $value; > } > > sub byNum { > $a <=> $b; > } > > > Am I corr

Re: Regular Expression

2001-06-06 Thread rob chanter
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 01:48:15PM -0400, Jeff Pinyan wrote: > > 2. use a regex to get the key and value: > Just a tiny refinement. My usual config file stuff is: > while () { chomp; s/\s+#.*//; #strip trailing comments > next if /^#/; # skip commented lines next if /

Re: how to wait 50 second ?

2001-06-01 Thread rob chanter
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:53:17PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to use a commando in Perl that will wait for example 50 > seconds an then will continue ? > sleep 50; That's assuming you meant "command"; a commando could probably do whatever the hell he wanted on my

Re: Sorting a hash by value, and displaying the key

2001-05-31 Thread rob chanter
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:41:32PM -0500, David Michael wrote: > Hello, > I have a hash that needs to be displayed in a certain order. I tried > > foreach $key (sort (keys %HASH)) { > print $key; > } > > that sorts alphabetically. I need it in the order it was inserte