RE: how to remove a ^M charaters from a variable

tr/015//; -Tom Kinzer -Original Message- From: Randy W. Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 8:05 PM To: David Inglis Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to remove a ^M charaters from a variable On 12/20/2003 8:21 AM, David Inglis wrote: > I am reading in

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RE: how to remove a ^M charaters from a variable

Hai David, I don't where you tried this have you tried this in NT or in UNIX? $a="jaffer^"; $a=~s/\^M//; This works in NT print $a; But it wont works in Unix. Try this way in Unix $a=~s/\015//g; Let me know if any Thank you jaffer -Original Message- From: David Inglis [mailto:

Re: Term:ANSIColor and negative numbers

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Re: foreach

Eric Walker wrote: > > perlknucklehead > > > > On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 17:07, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 04:57:26PM -0700, Eric Walker wrote: > > > > > > Hello all > > > > While traversing a loop across and array, how can I access array > > > > positions further d

Re: how to remove a ^M charaters from a variable

Tom Kinzer wrote: > > tr/015//; This will do nothing to the string. It will just return the number of zero, one and five characters it finds. Control-M is "\cM" or "\x0D" or "\015" or "\r" To get 'tr' to delete the characters it finds you need the /d modifier. tr/\015//d will do the

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Re: REGEX: matching AFTER a specific character

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RE: foreach

Jeff Westman wrote: > Eric Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I got it so I need a counter which sends me to a for loop instead > > of a foreach. Thanks.. > > > > perlknucklehead > > I believe that 'for' and 'foreach' are completely > interchangable. I remember > reading somewhere that on

Re: foreach

Bob Showalter wrote: > > Jeff Westman wrote: > > Eric Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I got it so I need a counter which sends me to a for loop instead > > > of a foreach. Thanks.. > > > > > > perlknucklehead > > > > I believe that 'for' and 'foreach' are completely > > interchangable.

Re: Networking-perl problem

On 12/19/2003 7:15 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have to gather data from external devices and process it. There are 3 devices to be interfaced to the pc.One of the device is connected through the ethernet.The other two are connected through serial(com) ports. Are there any modules in perl t

RE: foreach

I am catching this thread late so this may have been covered. But can you give me some examples? I use foreach for arrays. For for loops where I need to maintain a count and have a criteria on the iterations. > -Original Message- > From: Rob Dixon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Frid

Re: foreach

On Dec 19, 2003, at 7:59 AM, Rob Dixon wrote: That's fair enough, as long as you have a consistent convention. I use for (EXPRESSION; EXPRESSION; EXPRESSION) and foreach (LIST) unless the list has only one element, when I use for (EXPRESSION) to alias $_ with the expression for the exte

Re: foreach

Thanks I was able to use a for loop and just do a $cnt + N to access any locations that I needed, that I have not iterated on. Thanks...all for your help perlknucklehead On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 07:24, James Edward Gray II wrote: On Dec 19, 2003, at 7:59 AM, Rob Dixon wrote: > That's f

Re: Term:ANSIColor and negative numbers

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RE: how to remove a ^M charaters from a variable

right - my bad. what i mean, not what i say! thanks rob. -Tom Kinzer -Original Message- From: Rob Dixon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 3:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to remove a ^M charaters from a variable Tom Kinzer wrote: > > tr/015//; T

RE: how to remove a ^M charaters from a variable

> Hai David, > > I don't where you tried this > have you tried this in NT or in UNIX? > > $a="jaffer^"; > $a=~s/\^M//; This works in NT > print $a; > > But it wont works in Unix. Sure it does: (unless you're talking goofy data of a binary hexy sort of thing, which you might be since I comple

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Re: how to remove a ^M charaters from a variable

> "\r" Caveat: Only on *nix systems. Otherwise \n is 0x1512 and not 0x12. -Dan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Preventing Accidentally Fork Bombing My Box

I'm creating an app that uses forks in a number of places to do things quicker. Unfortunately, I have a bad habit of accidentally fork bombing my box. Is there any way I can run a perl process (even if it's a Linux command) so that it wont eat up all available resources if I screw up? Or do I ju

Re: how to remove a ^M charaters from a variable

On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 11:54, Dan Anderson wrote: > > "\r" > > Caveat: Only on *nix systems. Otherwise \n is 0x1512 and not 0x12. That should read Otherwise \n can be 0x1512 -- i.e. on Windoze boxen. On Macs it's something different. -Dan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For ad

Re: how to remove a ^M charaters from a variable

I'd found this here http://www.unixblog.com/quick_unix_tips/remove_m_with_vi.php You can try this on multiple files perl -pi -e 's/\015//g' files On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 07:21, David Inglis wrote: > I am reading in a csv file and it has a control character ^M at the end

Fwd: foreach

drieux, This came just to me - I presume you meant to go to the list too? thanks paul... must have missed one step in the responding... On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 06:36:40PM -0800, drieux wrote: On Dec 18, 2003, at 4:43 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 04:31:20PM -0800, Jeff Westman

Re: Align Text

On Dec 19, 2003, at 8:29 AM, Bill Jastram wrote: James: A coupe of things. #1. Pardon my ignorance, but I'm not sure how to use the list where I found the reply button to e-mail you directly. I could not find a way to add to the already existing 'thread'. Your help would be appreciated. The lis

RE: how to remove a ^M charaters from a variable

Also to address the root cause, the OP said it was on the end of every line. I would check the whole system - depending on the journeys and gyrations the CSV file goes through before you get it. An intelligent use of ASCII ftp (binary bad) and/or chomp will usually take care of any of the cross-pl

RE: Align Text

yes, and if that won't work for you, check out the 'format' command, you can do lots of slick stuff with it, like centering. -Tom Kinzer -Original Message- From: James Edward Gray II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 9:16 AM To: Bill Jastram Cc: Perl List Subject:

RE: Internal -e escape char

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RE: Preventing Accidentally Fork Bombing My Box

use safe ? just a guess if it will work for this problem. check it out. -Tom Kinzer -Original Message- From: Dan Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 8:56 AM To: Perl Beginners Subject: Preventing Accidentally Fork Bombing My Box I'm creating an app that

RE: Preventing Accidentally Fork Bombing My Box

nope, looks like it's no safety net for CPU or anything, just compartmentalized namespace and such. -Tom Kinzer -Original Message- From: Tom Kinzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 9:27 AM To: Dan Anderson; Perl Beginners Subject: RE: Preventing Accidentally Fork

RE: Align Text

We're getting closer. But lets say the first name of the first field in the first row is 'Bill'. And the first name of the first field in the second row is 'Lanette'. This command will not compensate for the difference in the length of the two first names. So, the alignment of the second fields

RE: Align Text

Bill Jastram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can you give an example of what you want your output to look like? >From what I am hearing you say, you probably should be using 'format', as one already responded. -Jeff > We're getting closer. But lets say the first name of the first field in the > fi

Re: Align Text

On Dec 19, 2003, at 12:04 PM, Bill Jastram wrote: We're getting closer. But lets say the first name of the first field in the first row is 'Bill'. And the first name of the first field in the second row is 'Lanette'. This command will not compensate for the difference in the length of the two f

RE: Align Text

say wha? show me, please. -Original Message- From: Bill Jastram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 10:04 AM To: Tom Kinzer Cc: James Edward Gray II; Perl List Subject: RE: Align Text We're getting closer. But lets say the first name of the first field in the first

Re: Preventing Accidentally Fork Bombing My Box

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Re: reading formated report, excel, OLE::32

On 12/19/2003 11:24 AM, William Martell wrote: Hello All, I was wondering if anyone could offer some pointers on extracting data from a text file that is formated. I need to extract the data that is under the column headers. I have attached a sample of the printed report. The real report repeat

Re: reading formated report, excel, OLE::32

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Re: reading formated report, excel, OLE::32

[It's best to reply to the list so that others can contribute and learn.] On 12/19/2003 12:11 PM, William Martell wrote: OK. What about the trash that the substring will collect from the headers of the printed report? I didn't look very closely before, but it looks like this report has multilin

Re: reading formated report, excel, OLE::32

On Friday, December 19, 2003, at 11:24 AM, William Martell wrote: I need to extract the data that is under the column headers. I have attached a sample of the printed report. The real report repeats the same format over and over again until completion. I would like to extract the data and plac

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Given this in $_ Most popular title searches:"Enterprise" (2001)" why would this regex not put digits in $1 ? $data2 =~ /popular title searches:<\/p>/ Thanks in advance... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: RegEx Troubles

>Given this in $_ >Most popular title searches:HREF="/title/tt0244365/">"Enterprise" (2001)" > >why would this regex not put digits in $1 ? > >$data2 =~ /popular title searches:<\/p>HREF=\"\/title\/tt(\d*)\/\">/ > Hi, Snip--- $data2='Most popular title searches:"Enterprise" (2001)"'; $data2 =~

RE: RegEx Troubles

>Given this in $_ >Most popular title searches:"Enterprise" >(2001)" > >why would this regex not put digits in $1 ? > >$data2 =~ /popular title searches:<\/p>/ Then "$datas =~ "should be removed and just use /popular title searches:<\/p>/ You are going vs $data2 when you state the valu

Re: RegEx Troubles

* Jeremy Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-19T13:47:26] > Given this in $_ > Most popular title searches: HREF="/title/tt0244365/">"Enterprise" (2001)" > > why would this regex not put digits in $1 ? > > $data2 =~ /popular title searches:<\/p> HREF=\"\/title\/tt(\d*)\/\">/ This code: $da

Re: Preventing Accidentally Fork Bombing My Box

drieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Dec 19, 2003, at 8:55 AM, Dan Anderson wrote: > [..] > > I'm creating an app that uses forks in a number of places to do things > > quicker. Unfortunately, I have a bad habit of accidentally fork > > bombing > > my box. > > I'm not sure I get this phrase '

Re: RegEx Troubles

On Dec 19, 2003, at 12:47 PM, Jeremy Mann wrote: Given this in $_ Most popular title searches:"Enterprise" (2001)" why would this regex not put digits in $1 ? $data2 =~ /popular title searches:<\/p>/ Because the regex targets the $data2 variable instead of $_, possibly. I don't seen anything wr

Re: RegEx Troubles

Jeremy Mann wrote: > > Given this in $_ > Most popular title searches: HREF="/title/tt0244365/">"Enterprise" (2001)" > > why would this regex not put digits in $1 ? > > $data2 =~ /popular title searches:<\/p> HREF=\"\/title\/tt(\d*)\/\">/ If the text is in $_ then that should be: $_ =~ m|popul

RE: Preventing Accidentally Fork Bombing My Box

Dan Anderson wrote: > I'm creating an app that uses forks in a number of places to do things > quicker. Unfortunately, I have a bad habit of accidentally > fork bombing > my box. Is there any way I can run a perl process (even if > it's a Linux > command) so that it wont eat up all available reso

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Re: Align Text

Bill Jastram wrote: > We're getting closer. But lets say the first name of the first > field in the first row is 'Bill'. And the first name of the > first field in the second row is 'Lanette'. This command will > not compensate for the difference in the length of the two > first names. So, the ali

Re: Align Text

I have use the FORMAT function in perl. Its pretty nice. perldoc -f format. Hope that helps perlknucklehead On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 14:20, Rob Dixon wrote: Bill Jastram wrote: > We're getting closer. But lets say the first name of the first > field in the first row is 'Bill'. And t

RE: diff between packages and modules

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Re: how to remove a ^M charaters from a variable

David Inglis wrote: I am reading in a csv file and it has a control character ^M at the end of each line how can I remove these charaters, I have tried the following and had no success. $a=~s/\^M//; $a=~s/^M//; Any help appreciated thanks. This is an MS-DOSsy file, where each line is terminate

Re: how to remove a ^M charaters from a variable

if its a unix file,.open in vi :%s/ctrl+v ctrl+m//g (where ctrl+v and ctrl+m gives the ^M character.) cheers On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Douglas Lentz wrote: > David Inglis wrote: > > >I am reading in a csv file and it has a control character ^M at the end > >of each line how can I remove these char

Re: Preventing Accidentally Fork Bombing My Box

On Dec 19, 2003, at 11:33 AM, Dan Anderson wrote: [..] I'll do something dumb, like fork in a loop while $number_forks < $fork_this_many. [..] You might want to have a WAY different strategy! Remember both sides of the fork get a copy of the code space - and as such the first f

Re: Calling another perl file

On Dec 18, 2003, at 10:12 PM, Tushar Gokhale wrote: How do I call another perl script from my current perl script? I'm working on one perl testing harness, currently my "bin/run.pl" has a control and now I want to call script files one by one from "tests/" folder. I also want to pass an argument

Re: Timing an operation

On Dec 18, 2003, at 4:22 PM, HENRY,MARK (HP-Roseville,ex1) wrote: [..] Any other recommendations? [..] cf perldoc time my $starttime = time; cmd_foo_here my $stoptime = time; ciao drieux --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EM

Re: diff between packages and modules

On Dec 19, 2003, at 1:16 PM, christopher j bottaro wrote: i'm reading "Programming Perl" and i'm on the chapter about packages. it says that packages and modules are very similar and that novices can think of packages, modules, and classes as the same thing, but i wanna know exactly what the d

Re: Align Text

Bill Jastram wrote: > We're getting closer. But lets say the first name of the first field in the first > row is 'Bill'. And the first name of the first field in the second row is 'Lanette'. > This command will not compensate for the difference in the length of the two first > names. So, the al

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Re: When to USE shift or @_

--As off Saturday, December 20, 2003 1:57 PM +1100, Colin Johnstone is alleged to have said: Gidday all, I want to pass a boolean value as a parameter to a subroutine what should I use shift or @_ and whats the difference please. e.g mySubRoutine(0); sub mySubRoutine{ my $booleanPara

Re: diff between packages and modules

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Re: diff between packages and modules

thanks for the reply. i think i'm understanding it a little better now. but i haven't really got a firm grasp on OO perl, so that example is a bit over my head still. On Friday 19 December 2003 05:40 pm, drieux wrote: > ok, I bite, what is a vbulletin, I'm an OldGuy > and use to do this with u

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Re: Preventing Accidentally Fork Bombing My Box

Dan Anderson wrote: > I'm creating an app that uses forks in a number of places to do things > quicker. Unfortunately, I have a bad habit of accidentally fork bombing > my box. This is a pretty good sign that you are over-using the fork command. Efficiently designed programs can usually run pret

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