Re: Probably silly question about loop

2007-09-06 Thread Rob Dixon
Mike Martin wrote: Its actually a word wrap function, because I couldn't get Text::Wrap or Gtk wrap to work right. Like this: use strict; use warnings; use Text::Wrap; my $string="ffmpeg -v 2 -i \"/home/mike/vcr58uc.avi\" -itsoffset -0.1 -i \"/home/mike/vcr58uc.avi\" -target dvd -y -s 3

Re: Probably silly question about loop

2007-09-05 Thread Mike Martin
On 05/09/07, Tom Phoenix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/5/07, Mike Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am having a problem with looping a string. > > Have you tried stepping through your code in the debugger? > > > while ($count lt $str_length){ > > That looks like a place where you used a

Re: Probably silly question about loop

2007-09-05 Thread Tom Phoenix
On 9/5/07, Mike Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having a problem with looping a string. Have you tried stepping through your code in the debugger? > while ($count lt $str_length){ That looks like a place where you used a string comparison ('lt') but maybe meant a numeric comparison ('<

Re: Probably silly question about loop

2007-09-05 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Mike Martin wrote: I am having a problem with looping a string. This is my code my $count=0; my $str_length=length($string1); while ($count lt $str_length){ This code only runs once not any more You are using the wrong operator to compare numbers. See "perldoc perlop". --

Probably silly question about loop

2007-09-05 Thread Mike Martin
I am having a problem with looping a string. This is my code my $string="ffmpeg -v 2 -i \"/home/mike/vcr58uc.avi\" -itsoffset -0.1 -i \"/home/mike/vcr58uc.avi\" -target dvd -y -s 352x288 -qscale 5 -bf 2 -g 15 -acodec mp2 -ac 2 -ab 64kk -me_range 63 -aspect 4:3 -map 1:0 -map 0:1 \"/home/mike/vcr