Hello,
I experienced similar error messages and found that the solution
involved the following steps:
1. visit www.cpan.org to download the missing module.
2. unarchive the module according to the prescribed instructions and
3. made sure that the module was in the perl directory.
So either you
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rogram runs slower with mod_perl?
I have also tried to put a:
PerlRequire f:/web/presafierbinte/perl/benchmark.pl
In the corresponding virtualhost section in httpd.conf, in order to preload
this program at the server start, but it didn't change anything.
Thank you.
Teddy
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2 => 5
);
my @res = &RANDOMSUB; #call a random subroutine
print "$hoh{1}{a} $hoh{2} \n";
sub RANDOMSUB {
my %hohcopy = %hoh;
$hohcopy{1}{a} = 2;
$hohcopy{2} = 2;
}
Search for "clone" on search.cpan.org
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uot; will get very confused if
you add or remove elements within the loop body, for example with
"splice". So don't do that.
The following seems to work for me:
@a = qw(a b /c d e);
shift @a while @a && $a[0] !~ m!/!;
print "@a";
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Can anyone suggest where to look?
hi,
try searching CPAN.
http://search.cpan.org/
alfred,
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How can we test if a user is allowed to login? How can we exec
programs as another user?
I'm writing a script to translate SASL usernames into UNIX usernames,
test if the user is a
Hi,
The CPAN module File and its various methods e.g Find comes in-built
with Perl distributions.
perldoc File::Find, etc. provide online documentation on how to use them.
Randal L. Schwartz has written some feature articles for Linux Magazine
showing how to use these modules.
See for instance:
ht
renard wrote:
Could someone point me to document(s) which describes how to use a dll in a
perl script.
I have a dll and information describing its function calls.
I have tried to google but unfortunately I did not use the appropriate search
words.
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Hi,
Could you provide more information on your problem.
Perl provides pack and unpack functions for handling binary data
but it is difficult to provide pointers as is, IMO.
Sorry pushed the Send button too fast the first time.
alfred,
renard wrote:
Could someone point me to document(s) which descri
return (@array1, @array2);
This will result in list flattening. One big list.
I read something about passing by reference
Take references to the arrays.
return (\array1,\array2)
Perl comes with extensive online tutorials/documentation.
but does not found anything on return by references.
See perld
t does not found
anything on return by references.
Help please. Thanks in advance.
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Hi,
Is there a code I can use in perl to check to see if it is the current dates
data or at least the last 3 days dates, if it is older than 3 days then
delete the data in the file it creates?
The following online references may be relevant for your project.
perldoc -f stat
perldoc -f -M
alfre
For a good intro. to perl internals, see the online documentation
perldoc perlembed
It's the first one you want. More specifically perlapi.
You might also want to check out SWIG
http://www.swig.org/
alfred,
renard wrote:
I have a .dll and the information on the functions available. The
informatio
my $templateFile="\home\anish\temp\client.html";
Are you on a Win32 box? *unix uses forward slashes for path names, if
that matters on your template.
alfred,
Anish Kumar K. wrote:
I use a perl template and getting this error
my $templateFile="\home\anish\temp\client.html";
$template->process($templ
10 my ($me, %hash )= @_;
11 my $type = %hash->{base_type};
In 10, is the structure of the hash preserved? What happens if you pass
the hash by reference?
In 11, you are using the hash as a reference. What you want is something
like:
my $type = $hashref->{base_type};
alfred,
Siegfried Heintze
perldoc -f substr
alfred,
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Hi Frnds,
If I have a number of 6 digits. How to get the last 2 digits. This
should be valid even when i have 2 digits as input.
i.e If input is 991041 then output shud be 41
if input is 41 then output shud be 41
May be junk and simple questio
When that happens, what happens with the error message?
The error message remains but it will be printed only if the file cannot be
opened
for some reason e.g. the file does not exist. That is what the or is there for.
but I am as much a *nix beginner as a Perl beginner
Stick with Perl and it will
Is there some documentation about how to make it work from my computer???
Check out this popular URL on a beginners guide to CGI programming.
http://www.lies.com/begperl/
If you provide some snip of your code, esp. the first few lines, you'll
get more help in troubleshooting your
problem.
alfred,
G
Hi,
Bring up command prompt and run cygwin.bat in it.
The contents of cygwin.bat should be [for my setup]
@echo off
C:
chdir C:\cygwin\bin
bash --login -i
If you want the Linux GUI feel, then you need to load X-Windows.
The cygwin URL is:
http://www.cygwin.com/
alfred,
Zapa Perl wrote:
Hello,
I in
run cmd.exe or command.com and after that run cygwin.bat from cmd.exe
He was directed previously on this list to try this option.
He has not reported whether this option actually works.
But that is besides his problem which is to get the cygwin command prompt
by clicking on the cygwin icon on the d
so that the code is not seen by the client ?
Is shroud any good?
http://cpan.cbn.net.id/scripts/
Distributors of indigoperl provide a tool for doing what you want in
Windows.
Haven't tried it on Linux though.
http://www.indigostar.com/
alfred,
Manas Kulkarni wrote:
Hi,
I would like to convert my
That looks like a pirated copy of one of O'Reilly's bookshelf CDs.
Thank you for pointing this out. I have been an O'Reilly customer
on all things Unix and Perl and was shocked to see the online collection.
In fact when I visited the site, I was greeted by a pop up banner in what
looked like
Russi
Hi,
The information not sufficient. You need to tell Apache that your
scripts have the extension .pl. I hope you are doing that.
Then you need to tell Apache to use a PerlHandler to process the
scripts otherwise Apache will not process it and I think you haven't do
this is your httpd.conf. Again ca
You can use regular expression
Eh? You mean a regular construct?
alfred,
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Hi Mallik
You can use regular expression
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$i=0;
foreach $temp (@arr)
{
if ( $temp eq 'pqr' )
{
print "index is == $i \n";
last;
}
$i++;
}
Hi,
Try the PostScript modules.
http://search.cpan.org/search?query=PostScript&mode=all
In particular, PostScript::Simple.
BasicTypeSetter may work but the module on CPAN is reported to have
failed for Win32.
Also try posting to the Win32 Perl subscribers list.
Some of the experts subscribe to bo
And the PostScript-MailLabels module could be a candidate. The author
describes the module as flexible enough to handle any printing task. An
example is given on printing the labels but could the code be adjusted
for your needs?
alfred,
Alfred Vahau wrote:
Hi,
Try the PostScript modules.
http
Hi,
My workaround in Windows to the space in file names (which the *nix
don't allow) are the following:
(1) Use an underscore instead of space in file names
(2) Surround the file name with quotes if spaces are retained
(3) Use the hex representation of space (%20) in file names
HTH,
alfred,
Yw Ch
> Unix allows spaces in file names.
Agree. But for a Unix-centric person like me operating in an otherwise
all Windows environment, I've found that the use
of space in Windows filenames is more liberal than in Unix in so far as
the use of commands go. So for anyone starting with
Windows and headi
Hi,
perldoc -f unlink
alfred
Gerard Robin wrote:
Hello,
I am new on the list and I am sorry if my question is irrelevant with the list.
In a program I have to remove a file. I did "perdoc perlfunc" and I found
Functions for filehandles, files, or directories
"-X", "chdir", "chmod", "chown", "chro
Hi,
perldoc -f substr
alfred,
Hawkes, Mick I wrote:
All,
Could someone please tell me the Perl equivalents of the following string
functions
Mid$
Left$
Right$
I have found that len$ = length but have not been successful with any of the
others
Any help is appreciated.
Cheers
Mick H
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look at the 'susbtr' function.
you mean substr
Clearly a typo. :-)
alfred
Toby Stuart wrote:
look at the 'susbtr' function. it will do what you require
-Original Message-
From: Hawkes, Mick I [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 31 January 2005 3:32 PM
To: beginners@perl.org
Subject:
Hi,
use the File::Find module and its methods. An example of usage may be
found at this URL.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/10/14/file_editing.html
You can modify the last example to delete recursively.
alfred,
Kamalraj Singh Madhan, Noida wrote:
Hi All,
Kindly let me know if this possible, de
ut their positions in the program.
What is the Perl idiom for doing such a calculation?
For the sample data:
id 386, $gpa = 35/25 = 1.40
id 216, $gpa = 92/53 = 1.73
Thanks in advance for the help.
Alfred Vahau
- One of my codes which does not produce correct results
---
Thank you for the pointer. I will check the calculation again for GPA of
1.98 against id 216.
Clearly there is no problem for allowed grades so 1.40 has been
confirmed for 386.
Alfred,
Ankur Gupta wrote:
#!/usr/bin/perl
# This is the GPA calculation routine for the
# Eduadmin system again.
Jay wrote:
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:52:48 +1000, Alfred Vahau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I've been struggling with what should be a trivial problem. Perl is such
a rich language that in formulating the logic, I've actually
became confused. Partly because I took a C approach wh
Jay wrote:
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 06:06:30 +1000, Alfred Vahau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
$inputfile = 'gpa.dat';
open (INF, "<$inputfile") || die "can't open file $inputfile $!:\n";
But this is another problem that I can address later.
*
for the 30,000 records that had to be processed.
I'm satisfied that 'The Camel' challenge had been met.
Thanks to all Perl folks who follow the Sun.
Alfred,
Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
"Alfred" == Alfred Vahau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alfred> $wcp = (
Like:
perl -e "print \"Hello World!\n\";"
alfred,
renard wrote:
I am running ActivePerl 5.8.6 on Windows XP.
I am unable to execute a statement like -- perl -e '' --
I always get this response: Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere
before EOF at -e line 1.
Does not matter if I use (', ", or
my ($var1, $var2, $var3... arbitrary number of vars) = 1,
which obviously doesn't work, but I hoped it's only due to my lack of syntax
knowledge.
my $var1 = my $var2 = my $var3 = 1;
works. Still ugly?
alfred
Peter Rabbitson wrote:
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 04:09:12PM -0500, Todd W wrote:
"Peter
my ($var1, $var2, $var3) = (1) x 3;
Now that is neat! This usage of the repetition operator (x) is actually
described in 'The Camel' book, p. 94
Alfred
Peter Scott wrote:
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:20:50 -0500, Peter Rabbitson wrote:
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 04:09:12PM -0500, Todd W wrote:
"Pe
The Spreadsheet::ParseExcel will dump all the worksheets one after the
other into one big file. Is this your observation.
The first line of the file will be the first row of worksheet 1. From
this the last column can be extracted which contains the
file name.
If the user still insists on the fil
Hi,
In windows you use nmake which you can download from the MS site.
Alfred,
Walter A Poor Jr wrote:
Hello.
I am trying to install a CPAN module (Spreadsheet::ParseExcel) on a
Windows PC. My difficulty is that the author had unix in mind, and is not
sure how the makefile should be run in Window
Michael,
I noted from your original posting that you quoted from a URL which is
controversial
in that the Perl-related books from O'Reilly are actually pirated
copies. This was pointed out by one of the
subscribers to this list in a recent thread.
Alfred,
Michael Gale wrote:
Hello,
I fi
find error such
as ParseRecDescent.pm not found, then visit CPAN and download it. In any
case, there is ample documentation and examples on how to use the
modules.
Good luck.
Alfred Vahau
Project Breeze Coordinator
School of Natural and Physical Sciences
University of Papua New Guinea
Papua
l forum and the matter
closes here.
Alfred Vahau
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Salute Franck,
1. To convert windows file to unix:
perl -pe 's/\xd\xa/\xa/g' < windowsfile > unixfile
2. To convert unix to windows
perl -ps 's/\xa/\xd\xa/g' < unixfile > windowsfile
Hope this is of some help
Alfred Vahau
Project Breeze
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Hi Rune,
Try Robert Pepper's win32 perl tutorial. You will need ActivePerl from
ActiveState.
http://www.netcat.co.uk/Rob/perl/win32perltut.html
Alfred Vahau
Project Breeze
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Hi
I'm trying to learn perl. Are ther
;;
@arr = split (//,$a);
Then you can use join like:
$line = join ":", @arr;
$/ = ":"; # input record separate;
Now reading the line should read character by character.
Hope this helps.
Alfred Vahau
Project Breeze
SNPS
Is
Hi,
Probably have PPT (Perl Power Tools) project in mind? Check under
scripts directory at CPAN.
Alfred Vahau
Project Breeze
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I agree. As an extention, the one liner can be used to insert a period.
For example
011001 to 01.1001
perl -pi -e's/^(\d{2})/\1\./' yourfile.txt
Alfred Vahau
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Date
Assuming that the array has been converted to a scalar, then the
following "Lookaround Assertion" works:
#!/usr/bin/perl
$_ = 'a a a b b c c';
1 while s/\b(\w+) \s (?= \1\b ) //gxi;
print $_, "\n";
The scalar can be reconverted to an array.
Not sure if this is any faster.
Alfred,
Project Bree
Hello
Try xampp for Windows for development purposes. Has Apache, MySql and PHP.
Great for testing out CGI scripts using Perl on the same box.
http://www.xampp.org/
Alfred Vahau
Tony Frasketi wrote:
Hello
I would appreciate it if you would steer me to one or more of those
groups you
Hi,
The newly released book "Perl Best Practices" by Dr. Damien Conway may
be helpful in addition to those recommended already.
Alfred,
Steve Bertrand wrote:
Hi everyone,
This question may seem odd, but here goes anyway.
I've been working at an ISP for a few years now, and have been adding
Hi,
Is Inline::Java module from CPAN any help? Besides there are others at
http://search.cpan.org/
Enter Java as the keyword to search for.
Alfred,
ZHAO, BING wrote:
Hi,
I knew there are many ways to call java in perl or call
perl in java, but I have been searching, still got no
Thanks Jeff. Apologies to Dr. Conway and the Perl community for the mistake.
Alfred,
Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
On Oct 23, Alfred Vahau said:
The newly released book "Perl Best Practices" by Dr. Damien Conway
may be helpful in addition to those recommended already.
If you are using ActiveState Perl, then install the module via PPM.
Manual installation on the WinXP is time consuming and you will have to
do a lot of googling on the solutions to the error messages you get or
post to the relevant Mysql mailing list. The installation of the module
itself is o.
nt.
If you deal with Excel data a lot, then learning Perl can help automate
some of the tasks. It's addressing problems in one
particular computing environment but it's still Perl. Perhaps a hands on
approach.
Alfred Vahau
IT Services
University of Papua New Guinea
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-pexcel/
Alfred,
Timothy Johnson wrote:
If you are on a Windows system, the Win32::OLE module will work
beautifully for this. As a matter of fact, the documentation for the
Win32::OLE module uses Excel as an example.
-Original Message-
See Win32::OLE::Variant on ActiveState Perl Documentation on how to read
the date correctly.
Alfred,
swayam panda wrote:
Hi ALL,
I am reading some values from the Excel file by using
Win32::OLE,I am able to read all fields bur not able able read if the
date is in dd/mm/yy( i.e / s
Try
http://snake.cs.tu-berlin.de:8081/~schwartz/pmh/
Alfred Vahau
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Has anyone seen a module that will help me output a document in
Microsoft
Word format? Any hint in the right direction will be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks,
Chris
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perl -p -i '.bak' -e 's/(?:!|SUB-TOTAL)//' yourfile.txt.
The back up will be to the file yourfile.txt.bak.
You will sometimes see the -p -i switches shown as -pi which has the
same effect.
I use these oneliners a lot to make quick changes on the fly.
the usage of the push function.
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string.
CPAN should have a module to your problem (I'm sure).
This is Perl so no doubt other suggestions will be posted.
Good luck,
Alfred Vahau
IT Services
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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:38:23
5.6.1 and
cygwin in Windows. You can run Perl in Windows using the ActiveState
version if that's what you prefer.
Best Wishes
Alfred Vahau
Principal Breeze Developer
Discipline of Physics
School of Natural and Physical Sciences
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University PO,
Have you checked out http://www.cshl.edu?
Lincoln Stein's site may provide some leads.
http://stein.cshl.org
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I had been puzzled about this too in the past when I replied to some of
the help requests.
Similar experience too with modperl mailing list.
Out of curiosity I visited the naver.com site. It looked like from Asia?
One of the colleagues here suggested that I unravel the screwy
characters using a
Here's one I had sent to me after postage in reply to Eric's email on naver.com.
This's expected to bounce.
Alfred,
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Hi, Bruno:
>
> Unfortunately, I don't have one laying around in
question will avoid your problem
in the first place. What database are you using?
Is it that the first entry is deliberately left null as
is deemed to be the case?
Let the list know on the outcome.
Alfred Vahau
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Subject: Join problem
Date: Thu, 17 Oct
>shift @columns if not defined $column[0];
^
Thanks for the correction. It seemed
almost like a natural extension of
defined which I tried before posting.
Alfred,
Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
> On Oct 18, Alfred Vahau said:
>
> >
on the PPM which comes with the installation.
If in doubt, ask your Win32 systems administrator on how to access the relevant documentation(I assume that you are not alone.)
Good luck,
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