Re: Getting Started.

2013-06-26 Thread Frank Vino
Thank you All -Vino On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Chankey Pathak wrote: > John is right. > > You should go for "Beginning Perl by Ovid". It's really a nice book for a > beginner in Perl. > > -Chankey > > > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:27 PM, John SJ Anderson > wrote: > >> Hi Frank. >> >> Based

Re: Getting Started.

2013-06-26 Thread Chankey Pathak
John is right. You should go for "Beginning Perl by Ovid". It's really a nice book for a beginner in Perl. -Chankey On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:27 PM, John SJ Anderson wrote: > Hi Frank. > > Based on your "Dear all" salutation, I suspect you meant to send this > to the whole list, not just me --

Re: Getting Started.

2013-06-26 Thread John SJ Anderson
Hi Frank. Based on your "Dear all" salutation, I suspect you meant to send this to the whole list, not just me -- so I'm replying to the whole list. IMO the best Perl "beginner" book at the moment is Curtis "Ovid" Poe's "Beginning Perl". chrs, john. On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Frank Vino

Re: Getting started

2009-06-24 Thread Telemachus
On Wed Jun 24 2009 @ 2:16, Daryl Styrk wrote: > I've purchased "Learning Perl" to finally give picking up perl a fair > shot. However in the beginning of the book it suggest that I should have > an understanding of basic programming concepts such as variables, loops, > subroutines, and arrays...

Re: Getting started

2009-06-24 Thread Scott
Daryl Styrk wrote: I've purchased "Learning Perl" to finally give picking up perl a fair shot. However in the beginning of the book it suggest that I should have an understanding of basic programming concepts such as variables, loops, subroutines, and arrays... Well, I don't. I was hoping that

Re: Getting started in Perl for OSX

2003-10-02 Thread R. Joseph Newton
James Edward Gray II wrote: > On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 04:34 PM, McMahon, Chris wrote: > > > But Perl doesn't come with OSX by default. You may or may not have > > an install CD called "Developer Tools" or some such, and Perl is on > > that. > > At the risk of sounding like a brok

Re: Getting started in Perl for OSX

2003-10-01 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 04:34 PM, McMahon, Chris wrote: But Perl doesn't come with OSX by default. You may or may not have an install CD called "Developer Tools" or some such, and Perl is on that. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, this still isn't true. Perl has shipped

RE: Getting started in Perl for OSX

2003-10-01 Thread McMahon, Chris
TED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 6:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Getting started in Perl for OSX Do you know how to bring up a terminal on your mac? If not, that's where to start. Find the utilities directory and you'll see the Terminal utility.

Re: Getting started in Perl for OSX

2003-10-01 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 04:57 AM, Dillon, John wrote: I got an iBook recently with OSX 10.2.4. It's UNIX based. Allegedly 10.1+ has Perl pre-installed but I couldn't find it. All versions of Mac OS X have shipped with Perl installed and ready to go. Perl is a command line UNIX app

Re: Getting started in Perl for OSX

2003-10-01 Thread deborah
Do you know how to bring up a terminal on your mac? If not, that's where to start. Find the utilities directory and you'll see the Terminal utility. Then just click on it and a new terminal window should open. Then enter any perl command, such as whereis perl and voila, you should see perl

Re: Getting started in Perl for Windows

2003-09-25 Thread R. Joseph Newton
"Dillon, John" wrote: > When I am in a black command.com screen with CPAN> prompt, where am I? Why > can't I cd to c:\? > > John You are in a CPAN shell, which you asked for in the command perl use_module(CPAN) execute(SHELL) or *something like that* :-) that you typed into the command line. Jo

Re: Getting started in Perl for Windows

2003-09-25 Thread R. Joseph Newton
"Dillon, John" wrote: > Is there a gobble-di-gook looker-upper for perl. For instance, if I don't > know what '@_' is saying, as in: > > my($email, $orig_email) = @_; You should read a Perl reference if you are going to use Perl. perldoc perlvar Joseph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROT

Re: Getting started in Perl for Windows

2003-09-25 Thread Owen
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:05:28 +0100 "Dillon, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 'Can't locate Email/Find.pm in @INC <@INC contains: C:/Perl/lib > C:/Perl/site/lib.> at F:\getemails.ph line 1' > > Indeed line 1 does say: > > 'use Email::Find;' > > Hm. It seems I haven't installed Email::Find,

RE: Getting started in Perl for Windows

2003-09-25 Thread Thomas Bätzler
Dillon, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] asked: > Is there a gobble-di-gook looker-upper for perl. For > instance, if I don't > know what '@_' is saying, as in: > > my($email, $orig_email) = @_; Look at the perlvar manpage. @_ is the array that has the parameters passed to a function. The above

RE: Getting started in Perl for Windows

2003-09-25 Thread Thomas Bätzler
Dillon, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] asked: > When I am in a black command.com screen with CPAN> prompt, > where am I? Why can't I cd to c:\? That would be the CPAN prompt. Try "help" for a terse command listing, "quit" to exit back to the DOS prompt. CPAN is the Perl module installer. Check

RE: Getting started in Perl for Windows

2003-09-25 Thread Dillon, John
to check this? John -Original Message- From: Stephen Hardisty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 September 2003 11:43 To: Stephen Hardisty; Dillon, John; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Getting started in Perl for Windows > If ppm d

RE: Getting started in Perl for Windows

2003-09-25 Thread Stephen Hardisty
> When I am in a black command.com screen with CPAN> prompt, where am I? Why can't I cd to c:\? Because you're in the CPAN shell. You can ues this to download and install CPAN Perl modules. If you type: install Email::Find You can go back to the command prompt by typing 'exit' and get help by t

RE: Getting started in Perl for Windows

2003-09-25 Thread Dillon, John
When I am in a black command.com screen with CPAN> prompt, where am I? Why can't I cd to c:\? John    http://www.cantor.com CONFIDENTIAL: This e-mail, including its contents and attachments, if any, are confiden

RE: Getting started in Perl for Windows

2003-09-25 Thread Dillon, John
y; Dillon, John; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Getting started in Perl for Windows > If ppm doesn't work, try 'perl -MCPAN -s shell'. Oops, it's 'perl -MCPAN -e shell'. This email has been

RE: Getting started in Perl for Windows

2003-09-25 Thread Stephen Hardisty
> If ppm doesn't work, try 'perl -MCPAN -s shell'. Oops, it's 'perl -MCPAN -e shell'. This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information on a proactive email security s

RE: Getting started in Perl for Windows

2003-09-25 Thread Stephen Hardisty
Sent: 25 September 2003 11:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Getting started in Perl for Windows What I am eventually trying to do is get the email addresses from my Outlook into a list. I found the following example for Eudora which I want to adapt, unless you know an easier way: perl -Mema

RE: Getting started in Perl for Windows

2003-09-25 Thread Dillon, John
What I am eventually trying to do is get the email addresses from my Outlook into a list. I found the following example for Eudora which I want to adapt, unless you know an easier way: perl -Memail::find -ne 'email::find->new(sub { print shift->address, "\n" })->find(\$_)' file.mbx > output.txt

Re: Getting started in Perl for Windows

2003-09-24 Thread R. Joseph Newton
marcel wrote: > > > Where do I get this list ? I used the term list here as shorthand for listserv, orf mailing list. The beginners-perl mailing list is open to the public to subscribe. It is also pus;ished on a web-site and newsgroup that anyone can subscribe to. Given this, any claim to c

Re: Getting started in Perl for Windows

2003-09-24 Thread marcel
== Quote from R. Joseph Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])'s article > "Dillon, John" wrote: > > > I've spent ages looking to find the front door into Perl. > > > > I have downloaded the Win32 version and installed that using > > MSI on Windows NT. It doesn't create an icon on the desktop. > > Why should

RE: Getting started in Perl for Windows

2003-09-24 Thread Stephen Hardisty
> Why should it? Desktops are for the least sophisticated users, only. Ooh, handbags! This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information on a proactive email security

Re: Getting started in Perl for Windows

2003-09-24 Thread R. Joseph Newton
"Dillon, John" wrote: > I've spent ages looking to find the front door into Perl. > > I have downloaded the Win32 version and installed that using > MSI on Windows NT. It doesn't create an icon on the desktop. Why should it? Desktops are for the least sophisticated users, only. > > The only .e

Re: Getting started in Perl for Windows

2003-09-24 Thread R. Joseph Newton
"Charles K. Clarkson" wrote: > > It sounds like you may have installed Activestate perl. > If you installed it in the C:\Perl directory, try pasting > this link into a browser window to get to the documentation > on your computer. > > file:///C:/Perl/html/index.html > Not necessary. The

RE: Getting started in Perl for Windows

2003-09-24 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
Dillon, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : : I've spent ages looking to find the front door into Perl. : : I have downloaded the Win32 version and installed that using : MSI on Windows NT. It doesn't create an icon on the desktop. : The only .exe's I find open into a window with a black : ba

RE: Getting started in Perl for Windows

2003-09-24 Thread Stephen Hardisty
Hi, you need to give it some code to compile. Create a plain text file and put some code into it, for example: print "hello\n"; Save it somewhere. Then on the command line (the DOS thingy), cd to where you made this file and type: perl myperlscript.pl Where 'myperlscript.pl' is the name you'v

Re: Getting Started

2001-06-24 Thread K Hendricks
you should visit <http://www.perl.org> Original Message Follows From: "Ron Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Getting Started Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 20:21:19 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [24.130.

Re: Getting Started

2001-06-23 Thread Ron Smith
You can find a suitable 'perl' binary to install on your system at 'activestate.com'. Also, I've found the following two books a great deal of help: Perl A Beginner's Guide R. Allen Wyke & Donald B. Thomas Published by: Osborne Learning Perl by: Randal L. Schwartz & Tom Christiansen Published

Re: getting started

2001-06-19 Thread Michael McKee
Hi all. As another true programming beginner, I have to say that the O'Reilly books can be a bit intimidating. I worked with Beginning Perl from Wrox for a couple of months before Learning Perl started making any sense to me. Don't know about the Win 32 book. Sometimes the pros at this can fo

RE: Getting Started

2001-06-19 Thread Gary L. Armstrong
It's not too late, we can save you, use UNIX... come to the Dark Side, Luke... I'm only sort of kidding but hey, I use a PC as well. Dang Microsoft. I started trying to learn Java a few years ago having no prior coding experience (except of course BASIC, but that was pretty unhelpful in translat