help with substitution

Hi everyone, thanks for the help last time! if I have two strings $word="cows"; and another given string: $givenword="XXX-"; #with the same length as $word !!! what I want to do is transform "XXX_" --> "cow-" I have tried but cant figure out going characterwise, all I get in the end is like t

RE: Which package am I in ?

perldoc -q PACKAGE José. > -Original Message- > From: Trond Hagen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 7:09 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Which package am I in ? > > > Hi! > > I want to know which package I'm in? > Any help? > > package go > > prin

help with substitution

Hi everyone, thanks for the help last time! if I have the string $word="cows"; and another given string: $givenword="XXX-"; #with the same length as $word !!! what I want to do is transform "XXX-" --> "cow-" I have tried but cant figure out going characterwise, all I get in the end is like th

Re: help with substitution

Hello Erik It's not clear exactly what you want, but something like this should do the job: for (my $i = 0; $i < length $word; ++$i) { substr ($word, $i, 1) = '-' unless substr ($givenword, $i, 1) eq 'X'; } HTH, Rob - Original Message - From: "Erik Browaldh" <[EMA

Re: Using ssh for uptime?

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:37:50 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chad Kellerman) wrote: >Mark, >This is a pain to install. I would do it thru CPAN. >perl -MCPAN -e shell >cpan>install Net::SSH::Perl > I fyou don't have root access to install perl modules, try to use >Net::SSH. > >use strict; >use warni

manual bless

Hi all. I need to "cast" a scalar reference (SCALAR0x) into a reference to an object that I can use. (in other words, bless it). How can I do it? thanks, ruthie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Constants and Hash Question

I am declaring my constants like this. use constant SOURCE => "/path/folder/" Now how would I use this constant is a print statement or any statement for that matter. print "$SOURCE" does not work and of course print "source" will not work. I understand that this works but I do not understand wha

RE: Constants and Hash Question

print SOURCE; > -Original Message- > From: Paul Kraus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 9:17 AM > To: Perl > Subject: Constants and Hash Question > > > I am declaring my constants like this. > use constant SOURCE => "/path/folder/" > Now how would I use this

RE: Constants and Hash Question

ok but lets say I am doing this $copydir = `cp --preserve --recursive --update SOURCE/$ini{$section}{path} DEST/$ini{$section}{machine}`; > -Original Message- > From: Kipp, James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 9:29 AM > To: 'Paul Kraus'; Perl > Subjec

Re: Constants and Hash Question

- Original Message - From: "Paul Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Perl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 2:16 PM Subject: Constants and Hash Question > I am declaring my constants like this. > use constant SOURCE => "/path/folder/" > Now how would I use this constant

RE: Constants and Hash Question

$command="cp --preserve --recursive --update ". SOURCE ."/$ini{$section}{path}".. $copydir = `$command`; -Original Message- From: Paul Kraus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 2:38 PM To: 'Kipp, James'; 'Perl' Subject: RE: Constants and Hash Question ok b

RE: Constants and Hash Question

> > ok but lets say I am doing this > > $copydir = `cp --preserve --recursive --update > SOURCE/$ini{$section}{path} DEST/$ini{$section}{machine}`; > could use concatenation. $copydir = `"cp --preserve --recursive --update" . SOURCE . "/$ini{$section}{path} DEST/$ini{$section}{machine}"`

Re: Constants and Hash Question

Paul You can use SOURCE etc. roughly anywhere you could use the corresponding quoted string. $source = SOURCE."/$ini{$section}{path}"; $dest = DEST."/$ini{$section}{machine}"; $copydir = `cp --preserve --recursive --update $source $dest'; Cheers, Rob - Original Message - Fr

Re: manual bless

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 13:55, Ruth Albocher wrote: > I need to "cast" a scalar reference (SCALAR0x) into a reference to > an object that I can use. (in other words, bless it). > How can I do it? my $object = bless $scalar_reference, 'Your::Class'; -- Nigel Wetters, Senior Programmer, Develop

populating a hash key using a variable

Hello all, I'm obviously making a silly mistake here and would appreciate it if someone can point out my error. I am trying to populate a hash of a hash in a while() loop. Here is what I have: my $i = 0; my %hash = (); while () { $hash{SOMETHING}{$i} = $something; $hash{SOMETH

RE: populating a hash key using a variable

> > Hello all, > > I'm obviously making a silly mistake here and would appreciate it if > someone can point out my error. I am trying to populate a hash of a > hash in a while() loop. Here is what I have: > > my $i = 0; > > my %hash = (); > > while () { > $hash{SOMETHING}{$i} = $so

Re: populating a hash key using a variable

I am not populating from a file, actually. I'm populating from the output of $sth->fetch from DBI. The $something and $something_else variables in this case are numbers which have been defined by the output of that method. If I do $hash{SOMETHING}{0} = $something; Then my hash is populated

file time

Hi! I am trying to get the current file time by the following: $file_datetime = ctime( stat( "$file_name" )->mtime ); All I get is the time that the file was created. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Jerry

RE: populating a hash key using a variable

> > If I do $hash{SOMETHING}{0} = $something; > > Then my hash is populated correctly. I am only not getting > results if I > do $hash{SOMETHING}{$i} = $something. The key here is how I am using > the variable $i in my hash. > > I tried this on my machine and it worked fine: my $i; for ( 1

Re: file time

@stat = stat $file; $time = @stat[10]; print $time; -- Bob Erinkveld (Webmaster Insane Hosts) www.insane-hosts.net MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Jerry Preston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Beginners Perl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: file time Date: We

Re: help with substitution

Hi! no, its still not changing the letters (but thanks Rob).. I have a string: $givenword="YY-" and another string (the original) $word="not" now I want $givenword to look like this: $givenword="no-" ? thanks in advanced! Erik Rob Dixon wrote: Hello Erik It's not clear exactly what you

Re: Return Status

Use eval and check $@ for error checking. -- Bob Erinkveld (Webmaster Insane Hosts) www.insane-hosts.net MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Paul Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Perl'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Return Status Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:27:36 -0500 instead of setti

Re: populating a hash key using a variable

Quite. What you've written looks fine Ian. But you've probably shown us what you /meant/ rather than what you've actually coded :-} Cheers, Rob - Original Message - From: "Kipp, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Ian Zapczynski'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, D

Re: populating a hash key using a variable

Yes, Rob, you are absolutely correct. Unfortunately, I still lack confidence in my coding abilities, so when something doesn't work, I seem to assume I just don't know how to do it properly. In reality, I just made a dumb mistake, which is partially where this lack of confidence comes from. :

Locking files before delivery

Hi everybody !! Thanks a lot for the references about e-mail manipulation script at perlmonks , ...It works great ... but I have another problem ... look the thing is that I need to run the script over every mail in the queue, I'm using sendmail but it generates a flat text file under /var/spo

Re: help with substitution

Hi Erik You might like this! $givenword =~ s/[a-z]/substr $word, pos $givenword, 1/egi; Cheers, R - Original Message - From: "Erik Browaldh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 4:01 PM Subject: Re: help with substitution > Hi! > > no,

Config::Ini

When I run my program I get this error at this line. [root@fileserver pdkbackup]# ./backup exists argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element at ./backup line 29. if (exists %{$ini{$section}}, email){ print "$ini{$section}{email}\n\n"; } This statement is taken verbatim from the perldoc Conf

RE: Config::Ini

You use "exists" on a hash key, not an entire hash... if (exists $ini{$section}{email}){ ... } Rob -Original Message- From: Paul Kraus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 11:51 AM To: Perl Subject: Config::Ini When I run my program I get this error at this l

RE: file time

stat array -- 1. dev 2. ino 3. mode 4. nlink 5. uid 6. gid 7. rdev 8. size 9. atime 10.mtime 11.ctime 12.blksize 13.blocks @array = stat(filename); print "$arary[10]"; #prints mtime. Buy learning perl and programming perl. Worth every single penny. > -Original Message- > From: J

Searchable archive?

Greetings! Is there a searchable archive of this list? I'd like to be able to see if my questions have been answered before I ask them, as I'm sure most of them have been, including this one. Thanks! Rob __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Pow

RE: first row of database

> -Original Message- > From: Robbie Staufer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 12:22 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: first row of database > > > Hi, > > Is there a way to refer to the first row of a database (row 0?) ? > > For example, the first row of m

RE: Searchable archive?

Try this: http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search?group=perl.beginners José. > -Original Message- > From: Rob Richardson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 6:02 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Searchable archive? > > > Greetings! > > Is there

Re: Config::Ini

You just need to index the hash element: if ( exists $ini{$section} ) { .. } Not sure about that " , email " though! Rob - Original Message - From: "Paul Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Perl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 4:51 PM Subject: Config::Ini > Whe

RE: Searchable archive?

An other option is to check first the FAQ: 1) FAQ from this list http://learn.perl.org/beginners-faq 2) FAQ from perldoc perldoc -q Type perldoc perldoc For more info. HTH, José. > -Original Message- > From: Rob Richardson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 20

Newbie question

Hello all, I am a complete newbie and am trying to do a couple of things but was not able to. Any assitance is welcome. If I have a dir structure G:\abc\efg\qrs.txt: 1) How can I list the entire structure under G:\abc along with all the dirs. under G:\abc\ right upto the file qrs.txt ? In th

Re: output help

Does Word2000 understand Unicode? Does it default to trying to read Unicode, rather than ASCII or the like? I have used jEdit with success to read/write Unicode files. --Chris On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 02:30 PM, Raghupathy, Ramesh . wrote: Hi, I am using perl 5.8.0 for windows to

Last Line in Packages

Often, but not always, I see the last line in a perl module as 1; Is this to force the module to exit 'true', forcing it to compile? Thanks! Jeff _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join

Re: Super Newbie Q

John, You went way out of your way in helping me here. I really appreciate it. I will try to remember these rules. The checking is a great idea. I also tend to over complicate things, I have to remember that. Thanks again, Al Moote --- "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan moote

What did people do before qr//

I have recently discovered qr// and it seems to be the only way to cut and paste a functioning regex literal into a variable assignment. Notice below I had to do little more than cut and paste the regex literal from Method 3 into the qr expression in Method 1. Nifty. That is PRECISELY what I want

Spreadsheet::ParseExcel date problem (year is being reformatted)

When I read an Excel file in, ParseExcel reformates the year to dd-mm-*yy* (for example 10 dec 2002 is 10-12-*02*). I don't want this to happen, the format should stay the way it was dd-mm-** (10-12-*2002*). Here is the code: use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel;

include .pl in html

Hi, can anyone help me, i want to include the ouput of a perl file within an html file, without using a seperate frame. I am familiar with php, is there a way to include like there is in php? Or do i have to output the HTML from the perl script? Any help very much appreciated... i left my book

including perl in html

Hi, can anyone help me, i want to include the ouput of a perl file within an html file, without using a seperate frame. I am familiar with php, is there a way to include like there is in php? Or do i have to output the HTML from the perl script? Any help very much appreciated... i left my books a

RE: Last Line in Packages

See this archive : http://archive.develooper.com/beginners%40perl.org/msg38109.html José. > -Original Message- > From: popeye _ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 11:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Last Line in Packages > > > Often, but not always, I

FORK USE ?

Hi i want to execute an linux command as atotally separeted from the = father process Is this going to work? Is it wrong? my script. fork ("perl anotherscript.pl"); . my script go on... Thanks

What is \000?

What/when/where/how might one come across the ?character? '\000' -> that's backslash followed by three zero's. I ask because i've just come acress a regex for parsing valid directories and it has that as an m/...[^\000].../ (as in, we don't want to find this...) Thanks -

Re: Which package am I in ?

Trond Hagen wrote: > Hi! > > I want to know which package I'm in? > Any help? > > package go > > print "Now I'm here: ??PACKAGE??\n" # <- ??PACKAGE?? can be replaced by? > > > Thanks! :-) > > trond try: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; print "I am in ",__PACKAGE__,"\n"; package Paris; pri

RE: Last Line in Packages

> -Original Message- > From: NYIMI Jose (BMB) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 1:00 PM > To: popeye _; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Last Line in Packages > > > See this archive : > > http://archive.develooper.com/beginners%40perl.org/msg38109.html > >

RE: FORK USE ?

> -Original Message- > From: Andre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 9:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: FORK USE ? > > > Hi i want to execute an linux command as atotally separeted > from the = > father process > Is it wrong? > my script. > fork (

Re: What is \000?

Cool... Thanks a bundle -Chris On Wednesday 11 December 2002 12:45 pm, Kevin Meltzer wrote: > \000 is a null character. > > Cheers, > Kevin > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:38:49PM -0600, Dr. Poo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > > What/when/where/how might one come across t

Re: What is \000?

From: "Dr. Poo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What/when/where/how might one come across the ?character? '\000' -> > that's backslash followed by three zero's. > It's an escape sequence for a character with code 0. The escape seqences have on of these formats: backslash plus one letter ba

Re: help with classes...

From: "Todd W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Think about this: > > my($frank) = Person->new(); # class method -- $_[0] eq 'Person'; > > my($jimmy) = Person::new(); # plain 'ol function call -- $_[0] eq ''; Well $_[0] does eq '', but so does $_[78548654]. In this case $_[0] is undef and scalar(@_) == 0.

Re: How to get the biggest integers from an array?

Paul, I am a Perl newbie, but I am employed as a Visual C++ and Visual Basic programmer. I'm having trouble figuring out what your construct is doing. For reference, here it is: > @website[ > map $_->[0], > sort { $b->[1] <=> $a->[1] } > map [ $_, $array[$_

Re: How to get the biggest integers from an array?

Paul, I am a Perl newbie, but I am employed as a Visual C++ and Visual Basic programmer. I'm having trouble figuring out what your construct is doing. For reference, here it is: > @website[ > map $_->[0], > sort { $b->[1] <=> $a->[1] } > map [ $_, $array[$_

Opinions - First Perl Script.

This is my first real Perl program outside of the learning to Perl exercises. Any thoughts, opinions, or suggestions are greatly appreciated. I used system copy rather file::copy for simplicity. It seems like doing the same kind of recursive copy with file::copy would have made this a very large p

Removing a name from a list - advanced regexp - TIMTOWTDI

I have a list of names, separated by the '/' character in a variable, $list, and a name in the variable $name. If the name appears in the list, I want to remove it and clean up $list. It takes me 4 calls to s///, and it looks clunky. I have a feeling that someone out there on this list will k

Centered Justified Text

How can I justify text. For example lets say I want a 50 character line that contains "TITLE", and I want it centered. Can this be done with printf? Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company 216.267.5775 Voice 216-267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Removing a name from a list - advanced regexp - TIMTOWTDI

What about just $list =~ s|/?$name/?|| But you should be careful about that in case $name appears in the middle of a word e.g., cat and catmandu perhaps $list =~ s|/?\b$name\b/?||; Tanton - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 11,

Re: Removing a name from a list - advanced regexp - TIMTOWTDI

.--[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (2002/12/11 at 14:49:15) ]-- | | I have a list of names, separated by the '/' character in a variable, | $list, and a name in the variable $name. If the name appears in the | list, I want to remove it and clean up $list. It takes me 4 calls to |

Re: Removing a name from a list - advanced regexp - TIMTOWTDI

In a message dated 12/11/2002 11:54:48 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > What about just > $list =~ s|/?$name/?|| If $name appears in the middle of the list, this removes both '/' characters. This was my first guess as well. > But you should be careful about that in case

Re: Removing a name from a list - advanced regexp - TIMTOWTDI

> In a message dated 12/11/2002 11:54:48 AM Pacific Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > What about just > > $list =~ s|/?$name/?|| > > If $name appears in the middle of the list, this removes both '/' characters. > This was my first guess as well. Ah, didn't think about that one :)

Re: Removing a name from a list - advanced regexp - TIMTOWTDI

Forget that...this works in all cases: $list =~ s|((?!.)/)\b$name\b/?||; - Original Message - From: "Tanton Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 3:06 PM Subject: Re: Removing a name from a list - advanced regexp - TIMT

Re: Removing a name from a list - advanced regexp - TIMTOWTDI

ARRR Typo $list =~ s|((?!.)/)?\b$name\b/?||; - Original Message - From: "Tanton Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tanton Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 3:09 PM Subject: Re: Removing a name from a list - advance

RE: Centered Justified Text

You might try Damian Conway's Text-Autoformat from CPAN: Template::Plugin::Autoformat Interface to Text::Autoformat module Template-Toolkit-2.08 - 30 Jul 2002 - Andy Wardley Text::Autoformat Automatic and manual text wrapping and reformating formatting Text-Autoformat-1.04 - 04 Dec 2

Re: Removing a name from a list - advanced regexp - TIMTOWTDI

In a message dated 12/11/2002 12:00:43 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > How about this: > > $list =~ s|/$name||; > $list =~ s|^/||; > > If it's at the end, it will remove the last /. > If it's in the middle it will fill in correctly. > If it's

Re: Removing a name from a list - advanced regexp - TIMTOWTDI

> If it's on the front, it won't remove it because it doesn't have a preceeding > / in that case. I'm confused...according to your first post: >$list =~ s|$name||; # remove $name from the list if it's in the list >$list =~ s|//|/|; # if $name was in the middle of the list, it would have >left beh

Re: Spreadsheet::ParseExcel date problem (year is being reformatted)

Regex? $var =~ s/\b\**\**\b//; # deletes * -- Bob Erinkveld (Webmaster Insane Hosts) www.insane-hosts.net MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Spreadsheet::ParseExcel date problem (year is being reformatted) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002

Re: Centered Justified Text

How about using HTML? $var Put that in a var and print it out. Ofcourse, set content-type to text-html. -- Bob Erinkveld (Webmaster Insane Hosts) www.insane-hosts.net MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Paul Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Perl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Center

Re: include .pl in html

Hmm. You could try to declare a variabele on STDOUT... Any more, I dunno... -- Bob Erinkveld (Webmaster Insane Hosts) www.insane-hosts.net MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Adam Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: include .pl in html Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002

RE: Centered Justified Text

You can do this? Perl will output the text to a file using html? Meaning that just the text as it should be and not the tags will print? Cool :) I did not know that. Where would I sent the content-type and can I set it only for a section? > -Original Message- > From: Mystik Gotan [mailto:[

RE: Formats

Please disregard, after a day of hair-pulling and hacking I managed to figure it out. Dave C. -Original Message- From: Dave Chappell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 11:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Formats Attached is one of a few (work in progre

RE: Searchable archive?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bob Erinkveld (Webmaster Insane Hosts) www.insane-hosts.net MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "NYIMI Jose (BMB)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Searchable archive? Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 18:34:41 +0100 An other opt

RE: include .pl in html

This works where I am at, you could give it a try -Original Message- From: Adam Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 11:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: include .pl in html Hi, can anyone help me, i want to include the ouput of a perl file within an h

Re: Removing a name from a list - advanced regexp - TIMTOWTDI

In a message dated 12/11/2002 12:27:41 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > If it's on the front, it won't remove it because it doesn't have a > preceeding > > / in that case. > > 'm confused...according to your first post: I apologize for the confusion, that was in response

Sound

Hi friends. I'd like to know how can I play a sound from a perl script, i mean when i need. Thanks a lot. Atentamente Sr. Jose Vicente Paredes Loor Dpto. Tecnico ESPOLTEL S.A. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Centered Justified Text

Paul, >From what little I have learned of Perl, no. It knows nothing about HTML. It will write whatever you tell it to. If you happen to tell it to write something that is in correct HTML format, you can use a web browser to view the resulting file. The purpose of the cgi.pm module is to help

Re: Centered Justified Text

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:34:07PM -0500, Paul Kraus wrote: > You can do this? No. > Perl will output the text to a file using html? Meaning > that just the text as it should be and not the tags will print? Cool :) > I did not know that. Where would I sent the content-type and c

RE: Searchable archive?

Mystik, Thanks, but that's not what I'm looking for. That's the first archive of this group I found. You can get a list of threads or a list of postings arranged by date, but I don't see a way to type in, say, "regular expression" and get back all of the posts that contain the phrase "regular ex

RE: Centered Justified Text

perfect thanks. That html message through me for a loop :) > -Original Message- > From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Paul Johnson > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 4:02 PM > To: Paul Kraus > Cc: 'Mystik Gotan'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Centered Justified

Re: Removing a name from a list - advanced regexp - TIMTOWTDI

> I apologize for the confusion, that was in response to Frank's suggestion > that didn't have the leading '/' question-marked. Sorry...I misunderstood your OP...here is a solution that should work $list =~ s!(/)?\b$name\b(/)?!$2 ? ($1||'') : ($2||'')!e; Tanton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EM

Re: How to get the biggest integers from an array?

From: Rob Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I am a Perl newbie, but I am employed as a Visual C++ and Visual Basic > programmer. I'm having trouble figuring out what your construct is > doing. For reference, here it is: > > > @website[ > > map $_->[0], > > sort { $b->[1]

Re: How to get the biggest integers from an array?

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:31:25AM -0800, Rob Richardson wrote: > Paul, Hello Rob, > I am a Perl newbie, but I am employed as a Visual C++ and Visual Basic > programmer. I'm having trouble figuring out what your construct is > doing. For reference, here it is: > > > @website[ > > m

Re: Removing a name from a list - advanced regexp - TIMTOWTDI

Hi, Mark, :) On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a list of names, separated by the '/' character in a > variable, $list, and a name in the variable $name. If the name > appears in the list, I want to remove it and clean up $list. It > takes me 4 calls to s///, and it looks clu

RE: How to get the biggest integers from an array?

The only note would be that Jenda use alpha numeric data(a,b,c) and referenced <=> which is numeric( where cmp does the alphanumeric ) within the sort routine. Just a heads up. Wags ;) -Original Message- From: Jenda Krynicky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11

HOWTO use system call on windows with a space in the path

I would like to write a perl script for windows that in the right situation fires off another program, the problem is I can't get it to work using system or exec calls. The file is in the program files directory I tried system("c:\program files\etc...") and some variations but I can't get it to wo

Re: How to get the biggest integers from an array?

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:52:53PM +0100, Jenda Krynicky wrote: > From: Rob Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > @website[ > > > map $_->[0], > > > sort { $b->[1] <=> $a->[1] } > > > map [ $_, $array[$_] ], > > > 0 .. $#array > > > ] =

RE: How to get the biggest integers from an array?

From: "Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The only note would be that Jenda use alpha numeric data(a,b,c) and > referenced <=> which is numeric( where cmp does the alphanumeric ) > within the sort routine. Just a heads up. You got

Re: HOWTO use system call on windows with a space in the path

From: Ken Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I would like to write a perl script for windows that in the right > situation fires off another program, the problem is I can't get it to > work using system or exec calls. The file is in the program files > directory I tried system("c:\program files\etc...")

Re: Constants and Hash Question

Paul Kraus wrote: > > I am declaring my constants like this. > use constant SOURCE => "/path/folder/" > Now how would I use this constant is a print statement or any statement > for that matter. > print "$SOURCE" does not work and of course print "source" will not > work. The constant pragma crea

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Gidday All, I have written a perl cgi mailing list subscription application. How do I preserve funny characters in email addresses for example one subscriber's email address is sorcha.o'[EMAIL PROTECTED] but when written to the textfile where I store subscribers names it is written as [EMAIL

multi line comments

I believe there are no multi-line comments in Perl. Do any of you have a good hack to fake these? Thanks Matt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Searchable archive?

Rob Richardson wrote: > > Thanks, but that's not what I'm looking for. That's the first archive > of this group I found. You can get a list of threads or a list of > postings arranged by date, but I don't see a way to type in, say, > "regular expression" and get back all of the posts that contai

obtaining a process ID.

Looking for a simple method of getting a single process ID (for a process such as syslogd) and store it in a scalar. I've found a few methods of doing so but they haven't been pretty. I'm taking suggestions :) -gomes -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mai

RE: multi line comments

Check out 'perldoc perlpod' and look for the documentation on =cut. That shows one way. -Original Message- From: Matt Simonsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 3:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: multi line comments I believe there are no multi-line com

RE: multi line comments

perldoc perlpod -Original Message- From: Matt Simonsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 3:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: multi line comments I believe there are no multi-line comments in Perl. Do any of you have a good hack to fake these? Thanks Matt

Please help !! Locking mail before delivery

Hi people , I want to modify the headers of the mails in the /var/spool/queue before delivery, something like an antivirus scan that lock the incoming mail in the queue until the mail is scanned and then sendmail makes the delivery ...I have the script to modify the header ... then I can open t

Re: Newbie question

Ashutosh Jog wrote: > > Hello all, Hello, > I am a complete newbie and am trying to do a couple of things but was > not able to. Any assitance is welcome. > > If I have a dir structure G:\abc\efg\qrs.txt: > > 1) How can I list the entire structure under G:\abc along with all the dirs. > unde

Re: Removing a name from a list - advanced regexp - TIMTOWTDI

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have a list of names, separated by the '/' character in a variable, $list, > and a name in the variable $name. If the name appears in the list, I want to > remove it and clean up $list. It takes me 4 calls to s///, and it looks > clunky. I have a feeling that some

Re: Centered Justified Text

Paul Kraus wrote: > > How can I justify text. For example lets say I want a 50 character line > that contains "TITLE", and I want it centered. > Can this be done with printf? This is what formating is designed to do. perldoc perlform perldoc -f format perldoc -f write John -- use Perl; prog

Re: multi line comments

Matt Simonsen wrote: > > I believe there are no multi-line comments in Perl. Do any of you have a > good hack to fake these? http://search.cpan.org/author/KANE/Acme-Comment-1.02/ John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mai

Re: How to get the biggest integers from an array?

On Dec 11, Paul Johnson said: >On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:52:53PM +0100, Jenda Krynicky wrote: > >> From: Rob Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > >> > > @website[ >> > > map $_->[0], >> > > sort { $b->[1] <=> $a->[1] } >> > > map [ $_, $array[$_] ], >> > >

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