Re: MIME coding & flags for sending a .csv or Excel file (Question)

On Tuesday 13 July 2004 07:20, jason corbett wrote: > > Thanks John. This was my first PERL program that I wrote and I wasn't > sure when to use the my vs the our, but your points are well > respected. I need more practice to understand how the > functions/script work so that I can condense the pro

how to extract digit from a line in Perl

Hello:   I want to extract the digit from a line of text. For exmple, for a text line: TSC2101Net, how can I write a script to extract 2101 and print it?   Thank you very much in advance!   Bestwishes Franklin       IncrediMail - Emai

Re: how to extract digit from a line in Perl

On 14 Jul 2004, at 11:00, Franklin wrote: I want to extract the digit from a line of text. For exmple, for a text line: TSC2101Net, how can I write a script to extract 2101 and print it? There are number of techniques that spring to mind, the obvious being regular expressions and substring. The

RE: how to extract digit from a line in Perl

Title: Message   -Original Message-From: Franklin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 12:01 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: how to extract digit from a line in Perl Hello:   I want to extract the digit from a line

Re: how to extract digit from a line in Perl

Franklin wrote: > Hello: > I want to extract the digit from a line of text. For exmple, for a > text line: TSC2101Net, how can I write a script to extract 2101 and > print it? > Thank you very much in advance! > Bestwishes > Franklin > > > > >

RE: 2 Socket questions

Kelvin Wu wrote: > hello, > > > 1, how to use http 1.1 via IO::Socket? Create a tcp connection to the server using IO::Socket->new and send the HTTP request. Read the response and handle it appropriately. Better yet, use a higher-level module like LWP::Simple or LWP::UserAgent for this. > > 2,

RE: how to extract digit from a line in Perl

Franklin wrote: > Hello: > > I want to extract the digit from a line of text. For exmple, for a > text line: TSC2101Net, how can I write a script to extract 2101 and > print it? Use a regex to capture a series of digits: $_ = 'TSC2101Net'; my ($num) = /(\d+)/; print "Found $num\n" if def

Data File getting set to an empty file

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Re: perl POE

> > Ricardo SIGNES wrote: > > >* Anish Mehta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-07-07T04:49:30] > > > > > >>Does anyone knows about some good links on PERL POE, how it allows > >> > >> > >Perl > > > > > >>code to make asynchronous, non-blocking I/O calls and handle those I/O > >>calls on the basis

Extracting headers of a Table in Perl.

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Re: Reading a variable file name

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lee, Hello, A couple of questions: Ok, but please post to the list so everyone can share :) 1. I get an error on the use File::Slurp line. I have been looking in the "Camel" book and can't seem to find much. Is this a module that I need to download. Yes, perl -MCPAN -

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I have been using Getopt::Std for some time and I'm pretty happy with it. I've been reading about Getopt::Long and it seems to support everything in Getopt::Std and has some nice conveniences. Does anyone have experience converting scripts (or just development process) from Std to Long? Does any

Re: $^T inconsistant?

We can all breath a sigh of relief now that I believe I've identified this as my bug. I would say the true root cause is that Perl doesn't support prototyping properly and named parameters at all though... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Getopt::Std vs. Getopt::Long

> I have been using Getopt::Std for some time and I'm pretty happy with it. > I've been reading about Getopt::Long and it seems to support everything in > Getopt::Std and has some nice conveniences. Does anyone have experience > converting scripts (or just development process) from Std to Long?

Re: $^T inconsistant?

> We can all breath a sigh of relief now that I believe I've identified this as > my bug. I would say the true root cause is that Perl doesn't support > prototyping properly and named parameters at all though... > properly, huh? and huh? http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: $^T inconsistant?

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:05:45 -0600, Wiggins d Anconia wrote > > We can all breath a sigh of relief now that I believe I've identified > this as > > my bug. I would say the true root cause is that Perl doesn't support > > prototyping properly and named parameters at all though... > > > > properly

RE: $^T inconsistant?

perl.org wrote: > We can all breath a sigh of relief now that I believe I've identified > this as my bug. I would say the true root cause is that Perl doesn't > support prototyping properly and named parameters at all though... I second the "huh?" How did prototyping relate to the trouble with $

RE: $^T inconsistant?

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 13:26:36 -0400, Bob Showalter wrote > > I second the "huh?" > > How did prototyping relate to the trouble with $^T? > > How do you define "support prototyping properly?" Basically because of my implementation of named parameters. I was passing -value instead of -seed and th

Help a newbie to pick best version of Linux for Perl and perl/TK.

Hi, Could you tell me what version of Linux is the most stable and with most lib modules to do pearl and perl/TK? I really appreciate your experience. Marco. - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers!

RE: $^T inconsistant?

perl.org wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 13:26:36 -0400, Bob Showalter wrote > > > > I second the "huh?" > > > > How did prototyping relate to the trouble with $^T? > > > > How do you define "support prototyping properly?" > > Basically because of my implementation of named parameters. I was > pa

Re: Help a newbie to pick best version of Linux for Perl and perl/TK.

Marco Perl wrote: Hi, Could you tell me what version of Linux is the most stable and with most lib modules to do pearl and perl/TK? I really appreciate your experience. Marco. What exactly are you talking about? Almost all Linux distributions are "stable" and come with Perl. Usually, the version

RE: Help a newbie to pick best version of Linux for Perl and perl /TK.

Marco Perl wrote: > Hi, Could you tell me what version of Linux is the most stable and > with most lib modules to do pearl and perl/TK? http:/www.freebsd.org I couldn't resist... :~) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Date module

Hi all, I'm in search of a module that will give me the day of a week for a particular date. So for example, July 21 would return Wed I checked CPAN but nothing jumped out at me. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Pam -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [

Re: Help a newbie to pick best version of Linux for Perl and perl/TK.

Marco Perl said: > >Hi, Could you tell me what version of Linux is the most stable and > >with most lib modules to do pearl and perl/TK? > Hi Marco, Hmmm, how to start a flame war :) I use debian myself, which has a reputation for stability. So what. They're all good. I reccomend using whatever

RE: Date module

Pam Derks wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm in search of a module that will give me the day of a week for a > particular date. > So for example, July 21 would return Wed > > I checked CPAN but nothing jumped out at me. > There are a number of modules, but for what you want, it would be just as ea

RE: $^T inconsistant?

> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 13:26:36 -0400, Bob Showalter wrote > > > > I second the "huh?" > > > > How did prototyping relate to the trouble with $^T? > > > > How do you define "support prototyping properly?" > > Basically because of my implementation of named parameters. I was passing > -value ins

Re: $^T inconsistant?

> "Perl" == Perl Org <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Perl> I mistyped on my last post - I have seen suggestions that Perl> prototypes should not even be used. Is there a difinitive Perl> answer on this? Yes. Don't use prototypes. :-) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, In

Re: Date module

> Hi all, > > I'm in search of a module that will give me the day of a week for a > particular date. > So for example, July 21 would return Wed > > I checked CPAN but nothing jumped out at me. > Nothing at all? http://search.cpan.org/modlist/Data_and_Data_Types/Date http://search.cpan.org/~stb

Re: Extracting headers of a Table in Perl.

Hello, Jason Corbett! You need to learn about $sth->{'NAME'}. Use perldoc dbd::mysql. I want to query a database and get data, but the headers don't come back. Is there a way that I can extract the headers of a table using Perl? Would it be easier to create a format, or should this be done in my

RE: $^T inconsistant?

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 13:06:24 -0600, Wiggins d Anconia wrote > > Yikes, funny I see this as a feature. You were still passing the wrong > value, your sub should validate the parameters itself, presuming > thorough code, it would still have caused an error. No comprende. > Typed return value, yi

RE: $^T inconsistant?

perl.org wrote: > I would like to use them if just for documentation purposes - it is > just slightly more clear to me to see > > sub something( $$$ ) > { > > than > > sub something > { Except that those are different in much more that just "documentation". Don't go that way... -- To unsubscr

RE: $^T inconsistant?

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:33:21 -0400, Bob Showalter wrote > > Except that those are different in much more that just "documentation". > Don't go that way... I still don't understand the reasoning for this - how could adding more to the sub signature be worse than not having any? Is there a URL tha

Re: $^T inconsistant?

On Jul 14, 2004, at 2:27 PM, perl.org wrote: I would like to use them if just for documentation purposes - it is just slightly more clear to me to see sub something( $$$ ) { than sub something { In Perl, we write that: sub something { my($param1, $param2, $etc) = @_; # } Jame

RE: $^T inconsistant?

perl.org wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:33:21 -0400, Bob Showalter wrote > > > > Except that those are different in much more that just > > "documentation". Don't go that way... > > I still don't understand the reasoning for this - how could adding > more to the sub signature be worse than not h

RE: $^T inconsistant?

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:45:52 -0400, Bob Showalter wrote > perl.org wrote: > > > > I still don't understand the reasoning for this - how could adding > > more to the sub signature be worse than not having any? > > This is explained in perldoc perlsub. What section are you referring to? The versi

Re: $^T inconsistant?

On Jul 14, 2004, at 2:50 PM, perl.org wrote: This does kindof make me laugh though: "Alphanumerics have been intentionally left out of prototypes for the express purpose of someday in the future adding named, formal parameters" Sorry in advance to anyone who will inform me that's copyrighted conte

RE: $^T inconsistant?

perl.org wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:45:52 -0400, Bob Showalter wrote > > perl.org wrote: > > > > > > I still don't understand the reasoning for this - how could adding > > > more to the sub signature be worse than not having any? > > > > This is explained in perldoc perlsub. > > What sectio

RE: $^T inconsistant?

> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:33:21 -0400, Bob Showalter wrote > > > > Except that those are different in much more that just "documentation". > > Don't go that way... > > I still don't understand the reasoning for this - how could adding more to the > sub signature be worse than not having any? Is t

RE: $^T inconsistant?

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:55:35 -0400, Bob Showalter wrote > >It's probably best to prototype new functions, not retrofit > prototyping >into older ones. OK, unless I'm missing something, I will only prototype my functions, not the legacy code here. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMA

Re: $^T inconsistant?

On Jul 14, 2004, at 3:18 PM, perl.org wrote: OK, unless I'm missing something, I will only prototype my functions, not the legacy code here. We're trying to teach you Perl. Please remember that. It's why you are here. Most of us Perl users aren't big on prototyping. As far as I'm concerned,

Help a newbie to fix a TK GUI script with toolbar children.

Hi Team , I am always grateful for your help. in a TK-GUI how to show grand-children of a child from toolbar. I developed a TK-module for ActivePerl in Win-2000 env. this script has a toolbar with 5 toolbar-items. one of these items called "Tests" has a child called "Child...>" who has grand

Re: $^T inconsistant?

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:31:00 -0500, James Edward Gray II wrote > > We're trying to teach you Perl. Please remember that. It's why you > are here. This sure can be an unfriendly list... > Most of us Perl users aren't big on prototyping. As far as I'm > concerned, it creates more issues than

RE: $^T inconsistant?

From: "perl.org" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 13:06:24 -0600, Wiggins d Anconia wrote > > Typed return value, yikes, you have just cut out half of the value > > of using a 4GL... Back to C with you! ;-) Let's see if we can get > > P5P to implement pointer arithmetic for references...u

Re: $^T inconsistant?

On Jul 14, 2004, at 3:39 PM, perl.org wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:31:00 -0500, James Edward Gray II wrote We're trying to teach you Perl. Please remember that. It's why you are here. This sure can be an unfriendly list... That was my Nice Voice, actually. Ask the list. I ran off some guy usi

Re: Data File getting set to an empty file

From: "Nigel Peck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have a (possible) problem with a script that records the number of > page views for various pages on a site (full script below). > > Every so often (60 days or more) the data file (data.xml) loses all > it's data and is still there but empty. Waitasecond

Re: $^T inconsistant?

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:53:45 -0500, James Edward Gray II wrote > On Jul 14, 2004, at 3:39 PM, perl.org wrote: > > That was my Nice Voice, actually. Ask the list. I ran off some guy > using my Mean Voice recently. No problem, I tend to upset a lot of people in a lot of forums. People seem a li

RE: $^T inconsistant?

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 22:49:42 +0200, Jenda Krynicky wrote > > And does the language-that-should-not-be-named support this? > > ($x, $y) = some_function( $some, $params); Sure, a method can return an array (or a Hash, depending on your object types). It's just generally considered bad progr

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RE: $^T inconsistant?

From: "perl.org" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 22:49:42 +0200, Jenda Krynicky wrote > > > > And does the language-that-should-not-be-named support this? > > > > ($x, $y) = some_function( $some, $params); > > Sure, a method can return an array (or a Hash, dependi

Breaking up a large text stirng

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RE: Breaking up a large text stirng

David Clarke wrote: > Hi, I have a string of text that is thousands of characters in > length. And I want to break it up into smaller records of say 500 or > 600 characters. Is there a Perl command to help to do this or am I > stuck with looping through the large input record and counting field > p

Re: Breaking up a large text stirng

On Jul 15, David Clarke said: >Hi, I have a string of text that is thousands of characters in length. >And I want to break it up into smaller records of say 500 or 600 >characters. Is there a Perl command to help to do this or am I stuck with >looping through the large input record and counting fi

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Need to write a pop3 attachment fetch program

Hello all, Although I have done this same thing in PHP and Java before I have an urgent need to accomplish it in Perl due to specific requirements. What I need is to write an application that: - Access a pop3 remote account - Iterate through the list of messages on the server - Download the attac

Re: Need to write a pop3 attachment fetch program

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Re: $^T inconsistant?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 15 July 2004 07:08, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > Yes. Don't use prototypes. Why not? And is there another way to ensure things like lists are passed as references? - -- Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> JabberID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>