Re: Learning perl libraries

2014-02-07 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: rakesh sharma Hi I am a new to perl. Wanted to know how to master some of the daily used perl libraries. Most of the examples are different in usage, some are OO and others are scalar. Some of the Perl modules offer just a functional interface, so no OOP, some of them are jus

Re: Learning perl libraries

2014-02-07 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi rakesh, thanks for your message. See below for my response. On Sat, 8 Feb 2014 10:53:21 +0530 rakesh sharma wrote: > Hi > I am a new to perl.Wanted to know how to master some of the daily used perl > libraries. I hope (and assume) that by “libraries” you mean the Perl modules (.pm/etc.) ava

Learning perl libraries

2014-02-07 Thread rakesh sharma
Hi I am a new to perl.Wanted to know how to master some of the daily used perl libraries.Most of the examples are different in usage, some are OO and others are scalar.I want to learn the OO way of perl.Any tips? Right now I open the file and see the usage or prod the net. But the learning remai

Re: Learning perl, understanding the basics.

2013-01-01 Thread Zachary Bornheimer
Really sorry I cannot bottom post with BBerry phone. > > Regards > > On 12/29/12, Om Prakash Singh wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am new to perl and while going through the chapters of Learning perl, > > i just came through one excessive, while i was able to com

Re: Learning perl, understanding the basics.

2013-01-01 Thread Goke Aruna
Hello Singh, Chomp the $string and test again. Really sorry I cannot bottom post with BBerry phone. Regards On 12/29/12, Om Prakash Singh wrote: > Hi All, > > I am new to perl and while going through the chapters of Learning perl, > i just came through one excessive, while i

Re: Learning perl, understanding the basics.

2012-12-29 Thread Om Prakash Singh
Hi Shlomi, On Saturday 29 December 2012 10:23 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi Omps, On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:12:14 +0530 Om Prakash Singh wrote: Hi All, I am new to perl and while going through the chapters of Learning perl, i just came through one excessive, while i was able to complete it, i just

Re: Learning perl, understanding the basics.

2012-12-29 Thread timothy adigun
Hi Om Orakash, but, when i use > $result = $number x $string; > I don't get any output at all, just wondering why this happens, any help > would be highly appreciable. > Binary "x" is the repetition operator. To get more please see this link http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Multiplicative-Ope

Re: Learning perl, understanding the basics.

2012-12-29 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Omps, On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:12:14 +0530 Om Prakash Singh wrote: > Hi All, > > I am new to perl and while going through the chapters of Learning perl, > i just came through one excessive, while i was able to complete it, i > just came across something that didn't work

Re: Learning perl, understanding the basics.

2012-12-29 Thread Danny Gratzer
t returns undef or "", can't remember which right now and when you print that you get nothing. On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Om Prakash Singh wrote: > Hi All, > > I am new to perl and while going through the chapters of Learning perl, i > just came through one exc

Learning perl, understanding the basics.

2012-12-29 Thread Om Prakash Singh
Hi All, I am new to perl and while going through the chapters of Learning perl, i just came through one excessive, while i was able to complete it, i just came across something that didn't work and i couldn't find any explanation for it. Would be great if i get some help in und

Re: Learning perl

2012-03-06 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 07:42:24PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 03/05/2012 07:19 AM, lina wrote: > >Which books are the best perl books you have ever read? > > 1. Learning Perl -- this book gets you up the initial learning > curve. Read it cover to cover, enter and pla

Re: Learning perl

2012-03-05 Thread lina
Thanks for all of you. I will take time to do those things. Best wishes, lina -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Learning perl

2012-03-05 Thread David Christensen
On 03/05/2012 07:19 AM, lina wrote: Which books are the best perl books you have ever read? 1. Learning Perl -- this book gets you up the initial learning curve. Read it cover to cover, enter and play with the example code, and do the exercises: http://shop.oreilly.com/product

Re: Learning perl

2012-03-05 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 12-03-05 10:19 AM, lina wrote: Which books are the best perl books you have ever read? The latest version of Modern Perl has just come out. http://www.onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/index.html -- Just my 0.0002 million dollars worth, Shawn Programming is as much about organization

Re: Learning perl

2012-03-05 Thread Shlomi Fish
is a good idea to read the information about what changed > between then and now as there are some changes that will usually not break > older code but will be the difference between a "Well written bit of code" > and a "Outdated bit of code" but in general most if not all

Re: Learning perl

2012-03-05 Thread Mike Burns
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Mike Burns wrote: > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:19 AM, lina wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Which books are the best perl books you have ever read? >> >> How did you start learning perl? >> >> Is the books wrote before 2006 a

Re: Learning perl

2012-03-05 Thread Rob Coops
eneral most if not all of the things you find in a good book from 2006 should still work now in 2012. As for a good book to begin with learning: "Learning Perl" (ISBN: 1-4493-0358-7) also known as the camel book would be a good place to start. Other things like websites such as: perl.c

Re: Learning perl

2012-03-05 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 12-03-05 10:19 AM, lina wrote: Is the books wrote before 2006 a bit older, are there much changes in the last 10 years for perl? All changes to Perl are available via perldoc. `perldoc perl` and search for /delta/. `perldoc pelrdelta` gives the latest. -- Just my 0.0002 million dolla

Learning perl

2012-03-05 Thread lina
Hi, Which books are the best perl books you have ever read? How did you start learning perl? Is the books wrote before 2006 a bit older, are there much changes in the last 10 years for perl? I am keen to learning it, but so clumsy, Thanks with best regards, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail

Re: Learning Perl ex8-5

2011-09-26 Thread Jim Gibson
At 9:57 PM -0500 9/26/11, Chris Stinemetz wrote: I am having some difficulty completing this exercise from llama book. Maybe someone can explain memory variables to me when working with regular expressions. The exercise: Modify the program from the previous exercise so that immediately follow

Learning Perl ex8-5

2011-09-26 Thread Chris Stinemetz
I am having some difficulty completing this exercise from llama book. Maybe someone can explain memory variables to me when working with regular expressions. The exercise: Modify the program from the previous exercise so that immediately following the word ending in "a" it will also capture up

RE: one question about an exercise in 'Learning Perl 4th Edition'

2011-02-11 Thread Alex Wang02
Hi, I just found the solution and reason in Chapter 8. Thanks & Regards, Alex Wang -Original Message- From: Alex Wang02 Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 12:42 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: one question about an exercise in 'Learning Perl 4th Edition' Hi, I hav

one question about an exercise in 'Learning Perl 4th Edition'

2011-02-11 Thread Alex Wang02
Hi, I have one question about the exercise No. 4 in chapter 7 . Here is the exercise : Make a program that prints each line with a word that is capitalized but not ALL capitalized. Does it match Fred but neither fred nor FRED? As suggested in the exercise, I created a small text file adhered be

Re: basename question from "learning perl"

2010-01-19 Thread Jim Green
Thank you all! I figured it out! Jim 2010/1/18 Alexander Koenig : > Hi Jim, > > Jim Green wrote on 01/17/2010 05:25 PM: >> my $name = "/usr/local/bin/perl"; >> (my $basename = $name) =~ s#.*/##; # Oops! >> >> after substitution $basename is supposed to be >> perl >> >> but why it is not /local/bin

Re: basename question from "learning perl"

2010-01-18 Thread Jim Green
Thank you all! I figured it out! JIm 2010/1/18 Alexander Koenig : > Hi Jim, > > Jim Green wrote on 01/17/2010 05:25 PM: >> my $name = "/usr/local/bin/perl"; >> (my $basename = $name) =~ s#.*/##; # Oops! >> >> after substitution $basename is supposed to be >> perl >> >> but why it is not /local/bi

Re: basename question from "learning perl"

2010-01-18 Thread Alexander Koenig
Hi Jim, Jim Green wrote on 01/17/2010 05:25 PM: > my $name = "/usr/local/bin/perl"; > (my $basename = $name) =~ s#.*/##; # Oops! > > after substitution $basename is supposed to be > perl > > but why it is not /local/bin/perl? will .*/ matches longest possible string? Yes it will match the longe

Re: basename question from "learning perl"

2010-01-17 Thread Shawn H Corey
Jim Green wrote: > my $name = "/usr/local/bin/perl"; > (my $basename = $name) =~ s#.*/##; # Oops! > #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use File::Basename; my $name = "/usr/local/bin/perl"; my $basename = basename( $name ); print "$basename\n"; -- Just my 0.0002 million dollars wo

Re: basename question from "learning perl"

2010-01-17 Thread Parag Kalra
Hi Jim, >>but why it is not /local/bin/perl? will .*/ matches longest possible string? . means any character * means preceding character any number of times (zero or more), so .* means any character (but not a new line) any number of times Now .*/ means any number of characters but should e

basename question from "learning perl"

2010-01-17 Thread Jim Green
my $name = "/usr/local/bin/perl"; (my $basename = $name) =~ s#.*/##; # Oops! after substitution $basename is supposed to be perl but why it is not /local/bin/perl? will .*/ matches longest possible string? Thank you list! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional

Re: learning perl scripting

2009-12-06 Thread Dermot
2009/12/6 Agnello George : > Hi Welcome > i am basically a  a system administrator, and i have just joined this new > company where my entire team are a group pf developers + system admins and i > am the only system admin with out programming knowledge . i know a little of > shell scripting from

Re: learning perl scripting

2009-12-06 Thread Shawn H Corey
Shlomi Fish wrote: > I agree that people are allowed to speak and write in sub-optimal or not > perfectly native English. It is assumed that if a post is not in proper English, then the poster's mother tongue is not English. Writing correctly in a language you are only vaguely familiar with is d

Re: learning perl scripting

2009-12-06 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sunday 06 Dec 2009 13:10:58 Erez Schatz wrote: > 2009/12/6 Shlomi Fish : > > Hi Agnello! > > > > That put aside, you really should work on writing your English text > > better. While one can understand it, the style (punctuation, > > capitalisation, spelling, etc.) is horrible. > > Not as horri

Re: learning perl scripting

2009-12-06 Thread Shawn H Corey
Agnello George wrote: > Hi > > i am basically a a system administrator, and i have just joined this new > company where my entire team are a group pf developers + system admins and i > am the only system admin with out programming knowledge . i know a little of > shell scripting from my previous

Re: learning perl scripting

2009-12-06 Thread Erez Schatz
2009/12/6 Shlomi Fish : > Hi Agnello! > That put aside, you really should work on writing your English text better. > While one can understand it, the style (punctuation, capitalisation, spelling, > etc.) is horrible. Not as horrible as the tone of this comment. In Perl we accept that different l

Re: learning perl scripting

2009-12-06 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Agnello! On Sunday 06 Dec 2009 11:51:10 Agnello George wrote: > Hi > > i am basically a a system administrator, and i have just joined this new > company where my entire team are a group pf developers + system admins and > i am the only system admin with out programming knowledge . i know a

Re: learning perl scripting

2009-12-06 Thread Rene Schickbauer
mentioned above, the book "Learning Perl" should get you started. But don't try to learn all the language at once. After you get a basic grip on on variables, loop and conditionals, start coding right away. Start simple, and then go read some more and improve your skills. Perl does

Re: learning perl scripting

2009-12-06 Thread Parag Kalra
led with the Perl for first couple of months and felt the same... > but my aim is to learn perl scripting ... i mean how > does one get a real hold of this language ... !! > > Different people will have different viewpoints but a major credit behind I being able to understand and enjoy Per

learning perl scripting

2009-12-06 Thread Agnello George
Hi i am basically a a system administrator, and i have just joined this new company where my entire team are a group pf developers + system admins and i am the only system admin with out programming knowledge . i know a little of shell scripting from my previous company and i thought shell script

Re: Learning Perl Student Workbook

2009-11-04 Thread brian d foy
In article , raphael() wrote: > I just finished reading 'Learning Perl' & I was wondering if someone > could point me to the book "Perl Study Guide", > also called "Learning Perl Student Workbook". It's a companion book to > "Learn

Re: Learning Perl Student Workbook

2009-11-02 Thread Telemachus
and I quote: "[the book] is not available in my country." My responses have been directed at that. The book is available from Amazon, and I believe (still - all these posts later) that Amazon ships books all over. That said, an e-book would probably be even easier (and possibly significantly

Re: Learning Perl Student Workbook

2009-11-02 Thread tom smith
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Telemachus wrote: > On Mon Nov 02 2009 @ 9:33, Parag Kalra wrote: > > Hey Folks, > > > > This thread was about book - 'Learning Perl Student Workbook' and not the > > book - 'Learning Perl' > > > >

Re: Learning Perl Student Workbook

2009-11-02 Thread Telemachus
On Mon Nov 02 2009 @ 9:33, Parag Kalra wrote: > Hey Folks, > > This thread was about book - 'Learning Perl Student Workbook' and not the > book - 'Learning Perl' > > So is there a way we can buy genuine/official/legal ebook version of > 'Learning

Re: Learning Perl Student Workbook

2009-11-02 Thread Parag Kalra
Hey Folks, This thread was about book - 'Learning Perl Student Workbook' and not the book - 'Learning Perl' So is there a way we can buy genuine/official/legal ebook version of 'Learning Perl Student Workbook' from somewhere. If yes then please redirect us to the s

Re: Learning Perl Student Workbook

2009-11-02 Thread Peter Scott
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:07:19 +0900, Raymond Wan wrote: > Perhaps the blame should be equally leveled at the web site and maybe it > should be brought to the attention of O'Reilly? You can bet O'Reilly knows about it. Those .ua sites have been going for years. Hard for a little US company to get

Re: Learning Perl Student Workbook

2009-11-02 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Monday 02 Nov 2009 07:19:30 Uri Guttman wrote: > > "RW" == Raymond Wan writes: > > RW> Uri Guttman wrote: > >>> "mb" == mahesh bhasme writes: > > mb> Hi, > mb> below link might help to u > > >> that is exactly what randal said he didn't want to see, a bootleg copy > >> o

Re: Learning Perl Student Workbook

2009-11-01 Thread Uri Guttman
> "RW" == Raymond Wan writes: RW> Uri Guttman wrote: >>> "mb" == mahesh bhasme writes: >> mb> Hi, mb> below link might help to u >> >> that is exactly what randal said he didn't want to see, a bootleg copy >> of his book. you won't be getting any more help from him and

Re: Learning Perl Student Workbook

2009-11-01 Thread Raymond Wan
Uri Guttman wrote: "mb" == mahesh bhasme writes: mb> Hi, mb> below link might help to u that is exactly what randal said he didn't want to see, a bootleg copy of his book. you won't be getting any more help from him and probably most of the experts here. that copy is illegal and takes i

Re: Learning Perl Student Workbook

2009-11-01 Thread Uri Guttman
> "mb" == mahesh bhasme writes: mb> Hi, mb> below link might help to u that is exactly what randal said he didn't want to see, a bootleg copy of his book. you won't be getting any more help from him and probably most of the experts here. that copy is illegal and takes income out of randa

Re: Learning Perl Student Workbook

2009-11-01 Thread mahesh bhasme
Hi, below link might help to u http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/perl/learn/ On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 10:51 AM, raphael() wrote: > Hi, > >I just finished reading 'Learning Perl' & I was wondering if someone > could point me to the book "Perl Study Guide",

Re: Learning Perl Student Workbook

2009-11-01 Thread Parag Kalra
ill we get input from other members of the mailing list... > > > > Cheers, > > Parag > I'm not entirely sure, but I think that this book was only every for sale > as a softcover. In any case, Amazon does have softcovers: > > > http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Perl-Stud

Re: Learning Perl Student Workbook

2009-11-01 Thread Telemachus
e mailing list... > > Cheers, > Parag I'm not entirely sure, but I think that this book was only every for sale as a softcover. In any case, Amazon does have softcovers: http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Perl-Student-Workbook-brian/dp/0596009968/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&am

Re: Learning Perl Student Workbook

2009-11-01 Thread Telemachus
On Sun Nov 01 2009 @ 10:51, raphael() wrote: > Hi, > > I just finished reading 'Learning Perl' & I was wondering if someone > could point me to the book "Perl Study Guide", > also called "Learning Perl Student Workbook". It's a companio

Re: Learning Perl Student Workbook

2009-11-01 Thread Parag Kalra
you. Thanks a lot. >> >> I am expecting it to be as good as the 'Learning Perl' book. >> >> Now even I am want to buy the soft copy of it. I checked amazon.com but >> they seem to sell the hard copy so that won't solve our purpose. >> >>

Re: Learning Perl Student Workbook

2009-10-31 Thread Parag Kalra
Hi Raphael, This is a good find. I was not knowing this. I have been posting from 1 forum to other forum for books on Perl exercises and today I came to know one from you. Thanks a lot. I am expecting it to be as good as the 'Learning Perl' book. Now even I am want to buy the soft cop

Learning Perl Student Workbook

2009-10-31 Thread raphael()
Hi, I just finished reading 'Learning Perl' & I was wondering if someone could point me to the book "Perl Study Guide", also called "Learning Perl Student Workbook". It's a companion book to "Learning Perl" but is not available in my country.

Re: Need some advice on learning perl

2009-08-11 Thread Xu Peter
ng > open-source developers. > > Regards, > >Shlomi Fish > > > > > Anyway, I'll go on my study. > > 2009/8/11 Ian > > > > > Xu, > > > > > > I'm a Mainframe Systems Programmer. Assembler and JCL is the only >

Re: Need some advice on learning perl

2009-08-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
t; > Xu, > > > > I'm a Mainframe Systems Programmer. Assembler and JCL is the only > > languages I knew. > > > > When I decided to learn perl, I looked for some application I need in my > > daily routine, > > bought Randal Schwartz's "Learn

Re: Need some advice on learning perl

2009-08-11 Thread Chas. Owens
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:22, Xu Peter wrote: snip > I really want to take part in the programs Shlomy mentioned, but I don't > think I'm capable now, since I found that still don't know how to use "git". > Maybe I have to do more study before I get to know how to take part in it? snip For now al

Re: Need some advice on learning perl

2009-08-11 Thread Xu Peter
, I looked for some application I need in my > daily routine, > bought Randal Schwartz's "Learning Perl" to get the basics down and just > started coding. > > I ended up writing an application that collects statistics, put them in > MySQL and show me nice graphs. &g

Re: Need some advice on learning perl

2009-08-10 Thread Ian
Xu, I'm a Mainframe Systems Programmer. Assembler and JCL is the only languages I knew. When I decided to learn perl, I looked for some application I need in my daily routine, bought Randal Schwartz's "Learning Perl" to get the basics down and just started coding. I

Re: Need some advice on learning perl

2009-08-09 Thread Shlomi Fish
t to do network jobs > rather than system APIs), and I want to get deeper in learning perl. Does > anyone can give me some advice on HOW? > > My rough idea is : > 1. What I need now is more code reading, and maybe write a module of my > own? Is there any suggested modules to lear

Re: Need some advice on learning perl

2009-08-09 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
ELNET(which is really poor ... ). Xu> I really liked perl since it's really convenient in programming(not only Xu> the syntaxs, but also CPAN, e.g. we can use IO::Socket to do network jobs Xu> rather than system APIs), and I want to get deeper in learning perl. Does Xu> anyone ca

Re: Need some advice on learning perl

2009-08-09 Thread Octavian Râsnita
Xu Peter wrote: I am a newbie of perl. I have got through some classic perl books, such as and , ... I want to get deeper in learning perl. You are probably interested in perl for some specific tasks, like creating web apps, or desktop aps with a GUI, or other things. Most features offered

RE: Need some advice on learning perl

2009-08-09 Thread David Christensen
Xu Peter wrote: > I am a newbie of perl. I have got through some classic perl books, > such as and , ... > I want to get deeper in learning perl. I learn Perl primarily though reading books and writing code. STFW, RTFM, studying other people's code, participating in mailing

Need some advice on learning perl

2009-08-09 Thread Xu Peter
search engine works under TELNET(which is really poor ... ). I really liked perl since it's really convenient in programming(not only the syntaxs, but also CPAN, e.g. we can use IO::Socket to do network jobs rather than system APIs), and I want to get deeper in learning perl. Does anyone can gi

RE: How to Read Files? [was: Re: learning perl 3rd vs 4th]

2008-05-25 Thread Thomas Bätzler
AndrewMcHorney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: > The spec does not allow for carriage returns or line feeds > making it a long line. Is there a way to read "x" number of bytes? $ perldoc -f read read FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET read FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH Attempts to read LENGTH

Re: How to Read Files? [was: Re: learning perl 3rd vs 4th]

2008-05-25 Thread AndrewMcHorney
Hello The spec does not allow for carriage returns or line feeds making it a long line. Is there a way to read "x" number of bytes? Andrew At 11:10 AM 5/25/2008, Rob Dixon wrote: Hi Andrew (If you are asking a new question of this group please make a fresh post with an appropriate subject

Re: How to Read Files? [was: Re: learning perl 3rd vs 4th]

2008-05-25 Thread Rob Dixon
Hi Andrew (If you are asking a new question of this group please make a fresh post with an appropriate subject line rather than replying to the end of an old thread. Many of us have email clients that correctly display the flow of threads, and using reply makes it look as if you have something mor

Re: learning perl 3rd vs 4th

2008-05-25 Thread Matthew Whipple
On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 10:07 -0700, AndrewMcHorney wrote: > Hello > > I have been reading files with the following command: > > @source_lines = (); > You'd want to use $source_line = to get a single record at a time from the handle > This has worked until I started reading some very large f

Re: learning perl 3rd vs 4th

2008-05-25 Thread AndrewMcHorney
Hello I have been reading files with the following command: @source_lines = (); This has worked until I started reading some very large files. Is there a better way to read files? The files I am trying to read now are about 300 megabytes in size. The bad news is that the spec has no carriage

Re: learning perl 3rd vs 4th

2008-05-17 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Jerald" == Jerald Sheets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jerald> On May 17, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> >> ... and shuffle a bit of content between the >> llama and alpaca to reflect the corresponding changes we've made in our >> courseware. Jerald> Courseware... Jerald>

Re: learning perl 3rd vs 4th

2008-05-17 Thread Jerald Sheets
On May 17, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: ... and shuffle a bit of content between the llama and alpaca to reflect the corresponding changes we've made in our courseware. Courseware... Do tell. I'm interested. --jms -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additi

Re: learning perl 3rd vs 4th

2008-05-17 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Richard" == Richard Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> I was going to order 5th version in june but does anyone in here know Richard> the different between 3rd and 4th version? Is there a big Richard> difference? As I recall, the big changes between 3rd and 4th were to finally ackno

Re: learning perl 3rd vs 4th

2008-05-17 Thread Richard Lee
Rob Dixon wrote: Richard Lee wrote: Currently I own a 'learning perl' 3rd edition and I noticed that 5th version is coming out in june. What I didn't realize was that learning perl 4th edition's been out since 2005. I was going to order 5th version in june but does

Re: learning perl 3rd vs 4th

2008-05-17 Thread Rob Dixon
Richard Lee wrote: > Currently I own a 'learning perl' 3rd edition and I noticed that 5th > version is coming out in june. > What I didn't realize was that learning perl 4th edition's been out > since 2005. > > I was going to order 5th version in ju

learning perl 3rd vs 4th

2008-05-17 Thread Richard Lee
Currently I own a 'learning perl' 3rd edition and I noticed that 5th version is coming out in june. What I didn't realize was that learning perl 4th edition's been out since 2005. I was going to order 5th version in june but does anyone in here know the different between

Re: questions from Learning Perl

2008-04-14 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Chas" == "Chas Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chas> I remember in Learning Perl 2nd edition AKA "the version that never existed". In other words, please consider anything in that book "non-canonical", as the Sc

Re: questions from Learning Perl

2008-04-13 Thread Chas. Owens
utine calls. Most of > the progression goes from the general rule to the usual case. snip I remember in Learning Perl 2nd edition it never calling functions with & (it had a footnote stating something to the effect that func's name was really &func, but that you normally didn'

Re: questions from Learning Perl

2008-04-13 Thread brian d foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chas. Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 5:36 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > snip > > my $user_total = &total(); > snip > > First off, don't call functions with &*. The is _Learning Perl_, and he hasn't got to the point where we tell t

Re: questions from Learning Perl

2008-04-13 Thread brian d foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't understand what you mean. However, the code below confuses me > for another reason. > > > use strict; > > use warnings; > > my @fred = qw/1 3 5 7 9/; > > my $fred_total = &total(@fred); > > print "The total o

Re: questions from Learning Perl

2008-04-07 Thread Jay Savage
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 5:36 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am doing some homework from the book Learning Perl chapter 4 excercise 1, > Looking at the script below, I wonder why line 6 (print "Enter some numbers > on separate line: ";) is not printed im

Re: questions from Learning Perl

2008-04-06 Thread Chas. Owens
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 5:36 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip > my $user_total = &total(); snip First off, don't call functions with &*. The problem here is that you are evaluating in list context. That means it will read from STDIN until it is closed. To close a STDIN on UNIX use control-

Re: questions from Learning Perl

2008-04-06 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am doing some homework from the book Learning Perl chapter 4 excercise 1, Looking at the script below, I wonder why line 6 (print "Enter some numbers on separate line: ";) is not printed immediately after the previous print. I don't understan

questions from Learning Perl

2008-04-06 Thread itshardtogetone
Hi, I am doing some homework from the book Learning Perl chapter 4 excercise 1, Looking at the script below, I wonder why line 6 (print "Enter some numbers on separate line: ";) is not printed immediately after the previous print. Thanks use strict; use warnings; my @fred = qw/1 3

Re: Learning Perl

2007-10-11 Thread Paul Lalli
On Oct 11, 2:30 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Pang) wrote: > 9 Oct 2007 17:59:42 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Another book that I've been using recently is Perl by Example 3rd > > Edition > > Perl by Example? do you mean the "perl cookbook"?. Uh. Call it a hunch, but I'm gues

Re: Learning Perl

2007-10-10 Thread Jeff Pang
9 Oct 2007 17:59:42 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Another book that I've been using recently is Perl by Example 3rd > Edition Perl by Example? do you mean the "perl cookbook"?. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Learning Perl

2007-10-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Oct 9, 11:37 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Francisco Valladolid) wrote: > Hi. > > On 10/9/07, Paul Lalli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Oct 9, 9:17 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob McConnell) wrote: > > > My experience was that "Learning Pe

Re: Learning Perl

2007-10-09 Thread Francisco Valladolid
Hi. On 10/9/07, Paul Lalli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 9, 9:17 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob McConnell) wrote: > > My experience was that "Learning Perl" was the introduction that > > prepared me to tackle "Programming Perl". That combination g

Re: Learning Perl

2007-10-09 Thread Paul Lalli
On Oct 9, 9:17 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob McConnell) wrote: > My experience was that "Learning Perl" was the introduction that > prepared me to tackle "Programming Perl". That combination gave me a > very good general understanding of the language and how to apply

RE: Learning Perl

2007-10-09 Thread Bob McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: kilaru rajeev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 8:50 AM > To: Paul Lalli > Cc: beginners@perl.org > Subject: Re: Learning Perl > > I think "Learning perl" is a better choice as per my > know

Re: Learning Perl

2007-10-09 Thread kilaru rajeev
I think "Learning perl" is a better choice as per my knowledge. You can go for the remaining after this. Thanks, Rajeev Kilaru On 10/9/07, Paul Lalli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 9, 7:28 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bhargav Purohit) wrote: > > Instead to of start

Re: Learning Perl

2007-10-09 Thread Paul Lalli
On Oct 9, 7:28 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bhargav Purohit) wrote: > Instead to of starting directly with Camel Book(Learning Perl) The Camel Book is Programming Perl. It is a reference. Effectively a paper-back version of the perldoc documentation you mentioned. Learning Perl is known as the Ll

RE: Learning Perl

2007-10-09 Thread Purohit, Bhargav
Instead to of starting directly with Camel Book(Learning Perl) I would suggest to see the perldoc first and then move to book as perldoc gives more understanding in simple way (learning perl is nothing but just the rearrnaged form of perldoc) How to access perldoc Type perldoc from your

Re: Learning Perl

2007-10-08 Thread Petra Vide Ogrin
8:27 PM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi I do not have any experience in programming at all. How do i start learning Perl language. Can some one here point me to the right direction to learn Perl Language http://learn.perl.org HTH. dwu Or you can buy Beginning Perl 2nd Ed

Re: Learning Perl

2007-10-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Oct 7, 7:39 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dyana Wu) wrote: > On 07 Oct 2007, at 8:27 PM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > > > Hi > > > I do not have any experience in programming at all. How do i start > > learning > > Perl language. Can some one here point me to the righ

Re: Learning Perl

2007-10-07 Thread Jeff Pang
Your message's subject has expressed the correct way.Buy the book "Learning Perl" for beginning. 2007/10/7, Kaushal Shriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi > > I do not have any experience in programming at all. How do i start learning > Perl language. Can some one her

Re: Learning Perl

2007-10-07 Thread Dyana Wu
On 07 Oct 2007, at 8:27 PM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi I do not have any experience in programming at all. How do i start learning Perl language. Can some one here point me to the right direction to learn Perl Language http://learn.perl.org HTH. dwu -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Learning Perl

2007-10-07 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi I do not have any experience in programming at all. How do i start learning Perl language. Can some one here point me to the right direction to learn Perl Language Thanks in Advance Thanks and Regards Kaushal

Re: learning perl llama if I have never programmed

2007-06-19 Thread gavino
file with your favorite text editor." > We don't spend any time explaining those concepts. We're pleased that > we've had many reports of people successfully picking up Learning Perl > and grasping Perl as their first programming language, but we can't > promis

Re: Learning Perl with shells operations

2007-03-28 Thread Rob Dixon
Rodrigo Tavares wrote: Hello, With this line the script run, no errors. system "su postgres -c '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start -D /opt/@bancos[$i]'"; two things : I use of stricts and warnings, and come this error compilation when i wrote into my code. Global symbol "$x" requires explicit

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