RE: Comparing Arrays

2002-07-24 Thread Merritt Krakowitzer
> > In the "quick and dirty" category, you can do something like this: > > > > (I'm trying to remember off the top of my head) > > > > ## > > > > my $result = ArrayCmp(\@array1,\@array2); > > #pass two array references > > > > sub ArrayCmp{ > > my($ref1,$r

Re: Hi, newbie question

2002-07-24 Thread Marco Antonio Valenzuela Escárcega
On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 14:41, Desmond Lee wrote: > Hi guys > > I'm trying to read a file, but it's just one massive line. I think that the > ^M is suppose to be an indication that that's wehre teh newline is suppose > to be. I've tried to replace ^M with a newline by executing something that i

Re: Please help with Database issue

2002-07-24 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Wiggins d'Anconia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Could you ask them if they would install (or have already installed) > > DBI and DBD::CSV or DBD::File? You could then convert your database > > to flat files or CSVs on your side (by a Perl script that would just > > connect the Access via D

RE: Comparing Arrays

2002-07-24 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Merritt Krakowitzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 4:19 AM > To: Bob Showalter; 'Timothy Johnson'; 'Beginners ' > Subject: RE: Comparing Arrays > > > I just found out I can shorten my one-liner to: > > > >@foo==@bar && "@{{map

Re: How to expand Unix command in echo statement?

2002-07-24 Thread drieux
On Tuesday, July 23, 2002, at 03:43 , kent ho wrote: > Please help. I want to expand the "date" command in the echo command: > > Ex: > > $log="/tmp/ito.log" > `echo Warning: some text > $log` > > I need to expand the "date" command somewhere in this echo command, please > show me how. why go ou

please help with CPAN

2002-07-24 Thread Dinakar Desai
Hello: I have an account on linux box but I am not root. I would like to install some module like Bioperl in my own directory using CPAN. Is it possible to do this. if so, what do I configure to install in my own directory or what is command? Please help me with CPAN. I tried the documents abo

PM installation problem

2002-07-24 Thread Connie Chan
I 've just downloaded a "Imager" module, however, that's a .tar.gz file and I am using Win Me. After I extract the file, there are quite sort of files and dirs. So... how can I install it to my Perl lib or site/lib ? Rgds, Connie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional com

That seems interesting ? but I don't know why ?

2002-07-24 Thread Connie Chan
In normal case, when we want to swap 2 var, , say $x and $y, we do in this way : $z = $x; $x = $y; $y = $z; # Swapped today, I suddenly found a code like this : $x ^= $y ; $y ^= $x ; $x ^= $y; # Swapped It works !! but how that works ? Could anybody tell me ? Rgds, Connie -- To unsubscr

C Beginners List? question, sorry,...

2002-07-24 Thread david
please forgive this su*perl*flu*ous question. This board is a great resource to try, ask, study and learn. Does anyone here know if there is such a board (a 'high' volume, daily archive, not just google groups/usenet) for the C Language and 'new' users in particular. I know, depending on who

threads in perl

2002-07-24 Thread rohana
Hello All, I want to execute same perl procedure with different parameters at the almost same time in a perl program indefendantly. (next process should be started without waiting for the end of previous one) The procedure is located in .pm file. How can I use thread in perl to get my work d

trouble comparing dates from two different modules

2002-07-24 Thread Ian Zapczynski
Hello all, I am using add_delta_workdays() from Date::Calendar to determine whether yesterday was or was not a business day. In order to do this, I am trying to compare it with a date output from Add_Delta_Days from Date::Calc. What I'd *like* to do is stringify the output from both of these fu

Re: That seems interesting ? but I don't know why ?

2002-07-24 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jul 25, Connie Chan said: >In normal case, when we want to swap 2 var, >, say $x and $y, we do in this way : > >$z = $x; $x = $y; $y = $z; # Swapped Perl allows you to do ($x, $y) = ($y, $x); >$x ^= $y ; $y ^= $x ; $x ^= $y; # Swapped > >It works !! but how that works ? Because of the w

RE: threads in perl

2002-07-24 Thread Akens, Anthony
perldoc thread This turned up a library on how to thread processes in perl. Seemed fairly straightforward. (though it did say it was experimental, so there may be a better module out there?) -Tony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday,

RE: That seems interesting ? but I don't know why ?

2002-07-24 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Connie Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 12:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: That seems interesting ? but I don't know why ? > > > In normal case, when we want to swap 2 var, > , say $x and $y, we do in this way : > >

RE: PM installation problem

2002-07-24 Thread Akens, Anthony
If you're using activestate perl on your windows box, just use ppm. Just type ppm to enter the package manager, then install package:name and it does the work for you. -Tony -Original Message- From: Connie Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 11:04 AM To: [E

Re: C Beginners List? question, sorry,...

2002-07-24 Thread Francis Henry
hi david: try cprogramming.com. regards, francis david wrote: > please forgive this su*perl*flu*ous question. > > This board is a great resource to try, ask, study and learn. Does anyone here > know if there is such a board (a 'high' volume, daily archive, not just > google groups/usenet) for

trouble comparing dates from two different modules

2002-07-24 Thread Ian Zapczynski
Hello all, I am using add_delta_workdays() from Date::Calendar to determine whether yesterday was or was not a business day. In order to do this, I am trying to compare it with a date output from Add_Delta_Days from Date::Calc. What I'd *like* to do is stringify the output from both of these fu

RE: C Beginners List? question, sorry,...

2002-07-24 Thread Kipp, James
yep, [EMAIL PROTECTED] just got to yahoo and yahoo groups and sign up for it. C is very much alive > -Original Message- > From: david [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 1:53 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: C Beginners List? question, sorry,... > > > please

Re: PM installation problem

2002-07-24 Thread Connie Chan
Thanks a lot =) but this method don't work for me... because the cpan server ( I guess ) don't carry this module.. so, both ppm and ppm3 not work. So have to download it by myself, but ... dunno how to install. Any else further advise ? Rgds, Connie - Original Message - From: "Akens,

Re: That seems interesting ? but I don't know why ?

2002-07-24 Thread Michael Lamertz
Warning: lots of 0 and 1 ahead. Typos are lurking... On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 12:08:09AM +0800, Connie Chan wrote: > In normal case, when we want to swap 2 var, > , say $x and $y, we do in this way : > > $z = $x; $x = $y; $y = $z; # Swapped > > today, I suddenly found a code like this : >

Re: trouble comparing dates from two different modules

2002-07-24 Thread drieux
On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at 09:05 , Ian Zapczynski wrote: [..] > What I'd *like* to do is stringify the output from both of these > functions, as they both return objects. Is this possible? If I do > something like: > > ($year,$month,$day) = Today(); > $yesterday = Add_Delta_Days($year,$mo

Fw: Checking if a file is downloading

2002-07-24 Thread Connie Chan
> Content-type: application/octet-stream > Content-Disposition: attachment\; filename=$file This seems IE way, if I don't remember it wrongly, this does not work at NS Anyway, how about this ? $| = 1; my $file = 'yourfile.ext'; print "Content-type: application/(your file type)\r\n\r\n";

another sort question (flame away)

2002-07-24 Thread nkuipers
Hello all, My hash keys look something like this: >1234 x5 So I am thinking a cmp, as opposed to <=> is best. What I want is for the keys to be sorted as follows: >1 x >2 x >3 x .. .. .. >n x This is what I have in my script at the moment: my @sort_this = keys %final_list; m

RE: another sort question (flame away)

2002-07-24 Thread David . Wagner
If you want ascending numeric then <=> vs cmp ( ascii ) and you have it. Wags ;) -Original Message- From: nkuipers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 10:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: another sort question (flame away) Hello all, My hash keys look som

RE: another sort question (flame away)

2002-07-24 Thread Nikola Janceski
not a dumb question... I actually have the same problem. I have version numbers that look like this: V1.2.3 V1.2.20 V1.2.23 and it sorts it wrong with cmp and <=> soo.. I had to come up with my own sort subroutine here is very generic one that breaks up the elements by \w (word types [a-Z0-9]

RE: another sort question (flame away)

2002-07-24 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: nkuipers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 1:39 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: another sort question (flame away) > > > Hello all, > > My hash keys look something like this: > > >1234 x5 > > So I am thinking a cmp, as oppos

RE: another sort question (flame away)

2002-07-24 Thread Janek Schleicher
Nikola Janceski wrote at Wed, 24 Jul 2002 19:45:54 +0200: > not a dumb question... I actually have the same problem. I have version numbers that >look like > this: > > V1.2.3 > V1.2.20 > V1.2.23 > > and it sorts it wrong with cmp and <=> > > soo.. I had to come up with my own sort subroutine

Re: threads in perl

2002-07-24 Thread Janek Schleicher
rohana wrote at Wed, 24 Jul 2002 08:57:17 +0200: > I want to execute same perl procedure with different parameters at the almost same >time in a perl > program indefendantly. (next process should be started without waiting for the end >of previous > one) The procedure is located in .pm file. H

RE: another sort question (flame away)

2002-07-24 Thread Nikola Janceski
yeah.. but that's not all I use it for =P > -Original Message- > From: Janek Schleicher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 1:22 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: another sort question (flame away) > > > Nikola Janceski wrote at Wed, 24 Jul 2002 19:45:54

RE: another sort question (flame away)

2002-07-24 Thread nkuipers
Bob wrote: <=> should probably still work, because when evaluating a string as a number, Perl will evaluate up to the first character that doesn't look like part of a number. so "1234 x5" evalutates as the number 1234 (stops at the space char). * I didn't know that. What I did after reading

RE: another sort question (flame away)

2002-07-24 Thread nkuipers
>Would trapping it an eval be what the doctor ordered? To answer my own question, no, it would not. #use warnings; would be better. =D Hope y'all got a good chuckle out of it anyway. "I think for my lunch tomorrow I'll make a tuna and pickle triangle bunwich." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [

RE: another sort question (flame away)

2002-07-24 Thread Mark Anderson
>From: nkuipers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >>Would trapping it an eval be what the doctor ordered? > >To answer my own question, no, it would not. > >#use warnings; > >would be better. It would probably be best to use no warnings; before the sort line in your script and use warnings; on the f

RE: another sort question (flame away)

2002-07-24 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: nkuipers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 3:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: another sort question (flame away) > > > >Would trapping it an eval be what the doctor ordered? > > To answer my own question, no, it would no

RE: another sort question (flame away)

2002-07-24 Thread Nikola Janceski
or just use my subroutine =P > -Original Message- > From: Bob Showalter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 3:11 PM > To: 'nkuipers'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: another sort question (flame away) > > > > -Original Message- > > From: nkuipers [mailto

Re: threads in perl

2002-07-24 Thread Chas Owens
On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 02:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello All, > > I want to execute same perl procedure with different parameters at > the almost same time in a perl program indefendantly. (next process > should be started without waiting for the end of previous one) The > procedure is l

RE: threads in perl

2002-07-24 Thread Nikola Janceski
It is possible to change vars in the main script with fork if you use IPC::Shareable But be forewarned it's gets pretty cumbersome when you have 2+ processes sharing vars. > -Original Message- > From: Chas Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 3:29 PM > To: [EM

Using Cwd; in practice how have you used...

2002-07-24 Thread McCormick, Rob E
I read (ok, skimmed...) the results from perldoc -m cwd. I don't understand cwd (current working directory). My questions apply to this general scenario: In practice, I'd like to work with my .pl or .plx files in say, /myhome/bin/ Suppose I want to do some looping on some files in /data/path

RE: PM installation problem

2002-07-24 Thread Timothy Johnson
Do you have a C compiler? -Original Message- From: Connie Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 9:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PM installation problem Thanks a lot =) but this method don't work for me... because the cpan server ( I guess ) don't car

Re: That seems interesting ? but I don't know why ?

2002-07-24 Thread John W. Krahn
Bob Showalter wrote: > > Well, it only works for integers. It's because of the way ^ > (bitwise xor) works. Given x=0 and y=1, for instance: > >x = x ^ yy = y ^ x x = x ^ y >x = 0 ^ 1y = 1 ^ 1 x = 1 ^ 0 >x = 1y = 0 x = 1 Actually in perl it works with strin

Re: another sort question (flame away)

2002-07-24 Thread John W. Krahn
Nkuipers wrote: > > Hello all, Hello, > My hash keys look something like this: > > >1234 x5 > > So I am thinking a cmp, as opposed to <=> is best. > > What I want is for the keys to be sorted as follows: > > >1 x > >2 x > >3 x > .. > .. > .. > >n x > > This is what I have i

RE: another sort question (flame away)

2002-07-24 Thread David . Wagner
This should not matter what the size is but would expect a number at the beginning: foreach my $MyKey (sort {$a->[1] <=> $b->[1]} map{[ $_, /^(\d+)/ ]} keys %final_list) { printf "%-s\n", $MyKey->[0]; } Wags ;) -Original Message- From: Jo

Re: Using Cwd; in practice how have you used...

2002-07-24 Thread Sudarshan Raghavan
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, McCormick, Rob E wrote: > > I read (ok, skimmed...) the results from perldoc -m cwd. I don't > understand cwd (current working directory). My questions apply to this > general scenario: > > In practice, I'd like to work with my .pl or .plx files in say, /myhome/bin/ > >

del files

2002-07-24 Thread Javeed SAR
I want to delete files. I am not able to delete , what is the wrong thing I am doing here. I am able to see the file in @privates I am getting following output: 0 deleted Attempting to delete M:\jav_test\train\k k k.mkelem.mkelem #!c:\perl\bin\perl @privates =`cleartool lsprivate -ta