> "AM" == Andreas Moroder writes:
>> then why did you ask here, on a list aimed at teaching perl to
>> beginners? this is not the place to ask for help on how to fix horrible
>> old perl4 code. and you don't seem to get it, that code is nasty and
>> bugridden. you haven't even tried t
AM> I did not ask because I want to learn perl, but because I need the
AM> functionality of this application. I did not find anything else that
AM> does a similar job.
then why did you ask here, on a list aimed at teaching perl to
beginners? this is not the place to ask for help on how to f
> "AM" == Andreas Moroder writes:
JWK> 5) It is Perl4 code from 8 years ago.
>>
>> that code is an abomination. one quick bug is the GetDir recursive
>> descent sub to get all dirs doesn't check for symlinks so it can easily
>> fall into an infinite recursion. the abuse of undef()
JWK> 5) It is Perl4 code from 8 years ago.
that code is an abomination. one quick bug is the GetDir recursive
descent sub to get all dirs doesn't check for symlinks so it can easily
fall into an infinite recursion. the abuse of undef() is beyond bad nor
needed. and as john said, it is perl4 cod
Andreas Moroder wrote:
a clean way in perl to convert all the umlaute to ascii
standard characters
Text::Unidecode
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> "JWK" == John W Krahn writes:
JWK> Andreas Moroder wrote:
>> Hello,
JWK> Hello,
>> I have found a nice utility
>> http://www.novell.com/communities/node/389/adm+file+utilities+2+5
>> that has two problems:
JWK> has *many* problems.
s/many/a gazillion/ ;
JWK> 3) No use
Andreas Moroder wrote:
Hello,
Hello,
I have found a nice utility
http://www.novell.com/communities/node/389/adm+file+utilities+2+5
that has two problems:
has *many* problems.
1) It creates directories and files but it uses the \ backslash so it
does not work on a linux machine.
Is ther
Andreas Moroder wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have found a nice utility
> http://www.novell.com/communities/node/389/adm+file+utilities+2+5
> that has two problems:
>
> 1) It creates directories and files but it uses the \ backslash so it
> does not work on a linux machine.
>
> Is there a constant or a
Hello,
I have found a nice utility
http://www.novell.com/communities/node/389/adm+file+utilities+2+5
that has two problems:
1) It creates directories and files but it uses the \ backslash so it
does not work on a linux machine.
Is there a constant or a function that give back the right charac
