2nd Ed. vs. 3rd Ed.

2001-07-16 Thread Chris
A friend recently gave me a copy of Learning Perl, 2nd Edition, and I was wondering how out of date it is. Is it useful in order to learn from (where I work, we use Perl 5.6) or should I save up and buy 3rd Edition? --Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands

2 simple questions - update:

2002-01-15 Thread Chris
On the path issue: What I need to do is to verify if a specific directory exists in the current directory: if exists($PWD/ThisDir) then print "WH00T" End If Type statement... TIA Chris Anderson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-ma

Win32 Question - Detecting floppy in drive...

2002-01-28 Thread Chris
if I need to pop up a message box letting the user know that he/she needs to insert a disk, if it is full, or needs to be formatted :) TIA! -- Chris Anderson CTO C&P Enterprises http://www.candp-ent.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mai

1-line text file with numbers, need to add to them

2010-02-04 Thread Chris
I need some help with this problem. I've got a text file datafile with 1 line of data comprised of 30 different numbers delimited with ~s. I need to open this file, grab this line of data, split it into individual numbers, perform some simple math (addition) on each number, and then put the new va

Re: 1-line text file with numbers, need to add to them

2010-02-05 Thread Chris
On Feb 4, 10:59 am, shlo...@iglu.org.il (Shlomi Fish) wrote: > Hi Chris! > > Have you visitedhttp://perl-begin.org/yet and read a good introductory book > or tutorial? > > On Thursday 04 Feb 2010 09:27:32 Chris wrote: > > > I need some help with this problem. > > I

Re: 1-line text file with numbers, need to add to them

2010-02-05 Thread Chris
On Feb 4, 2:27 am, cacogg...@gmail.com (Chris) wrote: > I need some help with this problem. > I've got a text file datafile with 1 line of data comprised of 30 > different numbers delimited with ~s. > > I need to open this file, grab this line of data, split it into > indi

Perl/Tk Scale replacement

2004-05-06 Thread Chris
Greetings, Im writing a simple audio player that is built into an application im developing, and need to find a control that would be suitable for a "Seek Bar". Right now im using the Scale widget, and obviously its not what I would want to use in a production enviroment since it shows all the

Passing an object to a subroutine via hash?

2005-02-19 Thread Chris
Greetings, I don't know what the proper terminology is for what I want to do, so if somebody can tell me what it is, that would be great. Basically I have my core code, then lots of subroutines. Right now I pass data to subroutines via a "parameter" hash. How can I pass an object that was crea

Perl and quickbooks?

2005-03-14 Thread Chris
Greetings, Has anybody done anything with perl and quickbooks? I simply need to export some data into quickbooks format where the user can take that exported quickbooks data and import it into quickbooks as a check. I have been looking around, but haven't found anything worthwhile. Any tips ar

Re: Perl and quickbooks?

2005-03-15 Thread Chris
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 09:28 am, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: > Chris wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > Has anybody done anything with perl and quickbooks? I simply need to > > export some data into quickbooks format where the user can take that > > exported quickbo

Re: Perl and quickbooks?

2005-03-15 Thread Chris
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 11:52 am, Siegfried Heintze wrote: > Chris, > What are you trying to do? I would like to automate the creation of > invoices with Quickbooks. Let me know how your project goes. > > Do you know how to apply QIF files? > > I know that Quick Books

Dump running source code?

2005-03-20 Thread Chris
Greetings, I'm not really sure how to explain it, or if it makes sense, but we provide a webservice written in perl. We have a number of modules for the software, and have designed the software to allow "plug-ins". We would like to be able to offer this "plug-in" feature to developers looking t

Re: Dump running source code?

2005-03-21 Thread Chris
> And more than that: > > my %sources; > local *ARGV; local $/; > @ARGV = ($0, values %INC); > while (<>) { > $sources{$ARGV} = $_; > } > > There. The entire source code for the application is now in %sources. > Every .pm, every require, and the top-level application. > > Enjoy. Thanks for the

Mechanize, testing and timing.

2005-05-07 Thread Chris
Greetings, We have written a web application utilizing mod_perl and MySQL. We have also written testing scripts using WWW::Mechanize that simulate a user. These scripts were first developed as test scripts to ensure actions were performed correctly, etc. We would now like to take these scripts

clamav stats script help

2006-05-24 Thread Chris
never picks up anything. Why it's looking for these specific strings, I don't know. because I don't know clamav" As I said, being a new subscriber to the list I'm not sure if I can attach the script or not. Any assistance will be appreciated. -- Chris Registered

Re: clamav stats script help

2006-05-24 Thread Chris
epted connection on port 1141, fd 8 Wed > May 24 18:50:26 2006 -> stream: Html.Phishing.Bank.Sanesecurity.06032100 > FOUND > My machine is clean, clamav is detecting the above on incoming spam. The log snips above are from my clamd.log which the script 'should' be parsing

Help with line length in script

2006-06-08 Thread Chris
print ""; print "$rec"; print ""; print $stats{virus}->{$rec} . "$percent". "%"; print "\n"; } } print ""

Re: Help with line length in script

2006-06-08 Thread Chris
ke the printout of $rec longer, add more of these: '<' to that > field. > > I thought that was it and I'm sure I'd made changes to that line earlier, but guess I didn't. Thanks for the help, lines look much better now. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 20:24:25 up 25 days, 8:24, 1 user, load average: 0.23, 0.26, 0.22 Mandriva Linux 10.1 Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk pgpXSme7Kt2PV.pgp Description: PGP signature

another clamstats.pl question

2006-06-10 Thread Chris
. ""; print ""; print $stats{year}->{$yr} . ""; print ""; print "\n"; } } print "" if $html;

TK::Text issue that I can;t figure out how to properly get formatted printout of...

2002-02-13 Thread Chris
The following code works great to put the text onto the screen: #*** #* #* Add the Summary Textbox #* #*** my $t = $f->Text( -width => 65, -height => 4, -wrap => 'word

Urgent - Getting the left most 3 characters from a string...

2002-02-14 Thread Chris
I am getting the HTTP result codes and trying to parse just the left most 3 characters: 500 Can't connect to www.1k2k3k4j.com:80 (Bad hostname 'www.1k2k3k4j.com') I only want 500 In VB I could use: if left($result,3) = "500" Then Do whatever Else Blah Blah Blah End If In Perl I

Re: Urgent - Getting the left most 3 characters from a string...

2002-02-14 Thread Chris
Brett W. McCoy wrote: > On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Chris wrote: > > >>if left($result,3) = "500" Then >>Do whatever >>Else >> Blah Blah Blah >>End If >> >>In Perl I want to do: >> >>if (left($result), 3) = 500 { >&

Re: Urgent - Getting the left most 3 characters from a string...

2002-02-14 Thread Chris
;value = $value\n"; > } > elsif( $value = 200 ) { > print "value = $value\n"; > } > > will print out > value = 100 > value = 200 > > because an assignment to a non zero value is true. > > HTH, > Tanton > - Original Message - > From: &qu

Getting the proper info from an INI file...

2002-02-15 Thread Chris
er 123test * DNS1 *1 tester 123.60.115.177 * DNS2 *1 tester 123.60.115.152 * * * Hostnames * * * IP *1 tester 1.2.3.4 * IP *1 tester 4.3.2.1 * IP *1 tester 128.32.154.233 * * Tester : 128.32.154.233 UserID : Password: DNS : TIA! Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Urgent - Getting the left most 3 characters from a string...

2002-02-15 Thread Chris
Andrea Holstein wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >>>... >>> >>Thanks! >> >>... >> my $newresult = $result; >> print "New Results - $$newresult\n"; &

Re: Getting the proper info from an INI file...

2002-02-15 Thread Chris
Jenda Krynicky wrote: > From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>I found some code, on the net, on access an INI file... >> > > There are about 10 different modules for INI files on CPAN. > I bet they'll be better than some code you found

Re: Getting the proper info from an INI file...

2002-02-15 Thread Chris
Chris wrote: > Jenda Krynicky wrote: > >> From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>> I found some code, on the net, on access an INI file... >>> >> >> There are about 10 different modules for INI files on CPAN. >> I b

Re: Getting the proper info from an INI file...

2002-02-15 Thread Chris
Chris wrote: > Jenda Krynicky wrote: > >> From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>> I found some code, on the net, on access an INI file... >>> >> >> There are about 10 different modules for INI files on CPAN. >> I b

Running Perl Scripts

2002-02-16 Thread Chris
I'm using redhat linux 7.2 and have a question about running perl scripts. How do you make it so you do not have to type "perl script.pl" every time you want to run a scripts. I just want to be able to type the name of my script. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additi

Re: Getting the proper info from an INI file...

2002-02-18 Thread Chris
Jenda Krynicky wrote: > From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Unfortunatly, any time I ty to PPM anything from CPAN, I get an >>error... :( >> > > You don't PPM from CPAN. You PPM from ActiveState or > someone else's

Re: Getting the proper info from an INI file...

2002-02-18 Thread Chris
Jenda Krynicky wrote: > From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Getting the proper info from an INI file... > > >>Jenda Krynicky wrote: >> >>>What do you get when you run >>> >>> PPM install Confi

Need help with if statement - please

2002-02-21 Thread Chris
#x27;Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),' How come my if statement is failing? What mistake did I make? TIA! Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need help with if statement - please

2002-02-21 Thread Chris
Nikola Janceski wrote: > don't use == for string comparison. Use eq in place of the == > > see: > perldoc perlop > > > -Original Message- > From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 10:22 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: Need help with if statement - please

2002-02-21 Thread Chris
David Wall wrote: > Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 21 Feb 2002: > > >>if ( substr(@result[$Pcount],0, 12) == 'Packets:' ) { >> > > How about > > if ( substr($result[$Pcount],0, 12) eq 'Packets:' ) { > >

Re: ping

2002-02-22 Thread Chris
saved. Leaving it open #* would allow it to be corrupted, in case of a problem. #* #*** close (DUMPFILE); } I am reading in a list of IPs/URLs via an INI file, and passing the IP/URL to it... I need the IPs/URLs

Re: Perl calling Visual Basic

2002-02-22 Thread Chris
t;should" be fairly straight, if it is local to the Perl program... @result = `myCompiledVBApp AnyArgs`; If the VB App returns anything, the @result should (hopefully???) catch it... Anyone think I have lost my mind, or did I get one right??? :P Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Question about EXE Versions...

2002-02-28 Thread Chris
Is there an easy way to get the version of an EXE with Perl? I know in VB I would just create a hook into an API, but am not sure how to do it in Perl. TIA! Chris Anderson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about EXE Versions...

2002-02-28 Thread Chris
Jenda Krynicky wrote: > From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Is there an easy way to get the version of an EXE with >>Perl? >> >>I know in VB I would just create a hook into an API, but >>am not sure how to do it in Perl. >> >

Does Perl have "Case" Statements?

2002-02-28 Thread Chris
matching string. Thus a Case Statement, IMHO, would be the best possible solution - with my current knowledge... :) TIA!! Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Does Perl have "Case" Statements?

2002-02-28 Thread Chris
Jenda Krynicky wrote: > From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>I have been looking in the Learning Perl book, and cannot find it. >> >>I am sure that it is just a terminology thing. >> >>In VB {Yeah the old VB again :P) I could do: >> >>

Syntax error?

2007-08-21 Thread Chris
I am working a script that is a solution to a problem in Intermediate Perl. Here is the script: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; sub check_items_for_all { my $all_ref = @_; my @who = keys %$all_ref; my @required = qw(preserver sunscreen water_bottle jacket); my @m

updating totals

2007-08-23 Thread Chris
I'm trying to solve another problem in Intermediate Perl. Here is the problem: The program from Exercise 2 in Chapter 5 needs to read the entire datafile each time it runs. However, the Professor has a new router logfile each day and doesn't want to keep all that data in one giant file that take

Re: updating totals

2007-08-23 Thread Chris
Ok I figured out a solution: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Storable; my %total_bytes; my $all = "**all machines**"; my $output_file = 'storage'; if (-e $output_file) { my $hashref = retrieve $output_file; %total_bytes = %$hashref; } else { print "$output_file has not

subroutine references

2007-08-25 Thread Chris
I'm working on yet another exercise from Intermediate Perl. I've been given a script that searches for files that fall between a two timestamps. For the exercise, I am supposed to write the gather_mtime_between subroutine that will return two references to two subroutines. One will use File::Fin

Re: subroutine references

2007-08-25 Thread Chris
Ok, if anyone is interested, here is my answer: #!/usr/bin/perl -w # Testing code for Exercise 6-1. Your task is to write the sub # gather_mtime_between. use strict; use File::Find; use Time::Local; my ($start, $stop) = @_; my @starting_directories = @_; my @found_items; sub gather_mtime_betw

Gilligan's troubles

2007-08-27 Thread Chris
Yet another problem from Intermediate Perl, I've been given a log file. Here is a sample of its contents: Gilligan: 1 coconut Skipper: 3 coconuts Gilligan: 1 banana Professor: 3 coconuts MaryAnn: 2 papayas Thurston: 2 mangoes I am supposed to read the log file and output its contents into a seri

IO::Scalar

2007-08-28 Thread Chris
I want to install IO::Scalar. However, I can't find it with the Active Perl's Perl Package Manager. Do this module still exist? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

conflicting errors

2007-08-28 Thread Chris
I'm writing a script that maps out a file system. Here is what I have so far: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; #use Data::Dumper; sub data_for_path { my $path = shift; if (-f $path or -l $path) { return undef; } if (-d $path) { my %di

Problem installing a module

2014-07-23 Thread Chris
et this installed so I can interface SpamAssassin with ClamAV. Any help or advice would be appreciated. This is being installed on a Ubuntu 14.04 LTS box. Thank you Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Problem installing a module

2014-07-23 Thread Chris
On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 00:28 +1200, Kent Fredric wrote: > > On 22 July 2014 06:05, Chris wrote: > I'm not a programmer so I apologize if I'm on the wrong list > but I'm > looking for some assistance in installing File::Scan::ClamAV. >

Re: Problem installing a module

2014-07-23 Thread Chris
On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 09:06 -0500, Sam wrote: > On 07/23/2014 07:53 AM, Chris wrote: > > On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 00:28 +1200, Kent Fredric wrote: > >> > >> On 22 July 2014 06:05, Chris wrote: > >> I'm not a programmer so I apologize if I&

Re: Problem installing a module

2014-07-23 Thread Chris
> KENTNL - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL > Kent, I've forwarded this to the person who assisted me with the changes. Hopefully he'll take up the challenge. I'll be posting the changes I made here in a few, however, there are still problems getting it to work. Chris

Re: Problem installing a module

2014-07-23 Thread Chris
gt; > KENTNL - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL > > Kent, here are the changes as attachments. The only changes were in the 't' folder. -- Chris 31.11°N 97.89°W (Elev. 1092 ft) 21:21:03 up 3 days, 3:35, 1 user, load average: 0.34, 0.22, 0.23 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, kernel 3.13.0-32-ge

Re: Problem installing a module

2014-07-23 Thread Chris
On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 21:25 -0500, Chris wrote: > On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 02:23 +1200, Kent Fredric wrote: > > > > > > > > On 24 July 2014 02:06, Sam wrote: > > > > > > Can you post those changes or a link to the mailing list

Objects in an object?

2005-09-14 Thread Chris
Greetings, I'm not exactly sure what its called but for example, when using mod_perl, I see the following: $r->prev->uri my $c = $r->connection; etc.. How do you create something like this? I was searching for a way to do the following psuedo code: my $fruits = new Fruit; $fruits->apples =

Re: Objects in an object?

2005-09-14 Thread Chris
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 04:25 am, Thomas Bätzler wrote: > Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: > > I'm not exactly sure what its called but for example, when > > using mod_perl, I see the following: > > > > $r->prev->uri > > > > How do you

Quick regex question

2006-01-24 Thread Chris
Hi list, I am not sure if there is a proper name for this but was having some difficulty searching for it. Basically I have data in a file that is between two different characters, for example: # data data data data data data * # more dataaa mor * Basically I want to slurp that file in, the

(I wish there was a) cpan user's guide

2004-01-06 Thread chris
I keep feeling I should learn more before I post here (lest I look like a lazy idiot who can't RTFM), but I'm getting too old to wait! Anyway, first post: Surely there's a module (or many) with a method to parse URL's down to TLD. I just can't find nice lists of them. I need to see if some files

Array question

2004-02-26 Thread Chris
Hi Guys, I have a problem with e-mail address's and an array. I have some code that will be a documentation spider to go through all our technical documentation, extract e-mail address's and attempt to sort and exclude certain e-mails/patterns. All documentation is in plain text, so no filters, et

Re: Run a perl script within perl....

2002-11-06 Thread Chris (?)
die "Unable to connect to > $ftpHost [REASON: $@] {$!} - how does this works byethe way - is REASON a system variable - Original Message - From: "Dr. Poo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 12:31 AM Subject: Run a per

Need help to parse a message block

2002-11-07 Thread chris
I need some ideas for parsing a multi-line message block and reformat into columnar output 1. message block is bound by a begin and end tags {begin} {end} 2. within the message blocks are tags for column data :1: :34: sample message blocks with column data {begin} :1:some text 1 :34:1234,00 :33:

Can't use string as hash ref?

2002-11-21 Thread chris
How do I do the following without getting the message Can't use string as hash ref while strict refs in use use warnings; #use strict; my($a, @b, $c); $a = '20020603'; $b[1] = 'name1'; $b[2] = 'name2'; $b[3] = 'name3'; my %h; $h{$a} = $a; $h{$a}->{$b[1]}= 1; $h{$a}->{$b[2]}= 2; $h{$a}->{$b[3]}= 3;

Re: Can't use string as hash ref?

2002-11-21 Thread chris
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 07:42:55 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wiggins D'Anconia) wrote: > > >chris wrote: >> How do I do the following without getting the message >> Can't use string as hash ref while strict refs in use >> >> use warnings; >> #use stric

How to tally money datatype?

2002-11-22 Thread chris
I am retrieving rows with a money datatype from a database. These are written to a file with 2 decimal places. I also keep a running total. My problem is the total does not equal to the sum of details. I have tried using $amount = sprintf('%.2f', $amount); $total += $amount; # do this after all

Re: How to tally money datatype?

2002-11-23 Thread chris
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 21:21:42 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John W. Krahn) wrote: >Chris wrote: >> >> How do I tally money with perl? > >Assuming that you are tallying dollars like $12,345.67, convert to cents >(an integer) by removing all punctuation and convert back to dol

Re: How to tally money datatype?

2002-11-23 Thread chris
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 21:21:42 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John W. Krahn) wrote: >Chris wrote: >> >> How do I tally money with perl? > >Assuming that you are tallying dollars like $12,345.67, convert to cents >(an integer) by removing all punctuation and convert back to dol

Re: How to tally money datatype?

2002-11-23 Thread chris
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 18:44:58 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John W. Krahn) wrote: >Chris wrote: >> >> OK. I will try it. My amounts look more like this. >> >> @dollars = qw/ 12345.67 -12345.67 11555.99

Re: How to tally money datatype?

2002-11-23 Thread chris
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 19:42:21 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John W. Krahn) wrote: > >If rounding does what you want then that should be fine. However, if >you want to truncate this is one way to do it: > >my $amount = 11555.99; > >$amount =~ s/(?<=\.\d\d)\d+$//; > > > >John So to put it all togeth

Re: modification on hashes/unique values

2002-12-02 Thread Chris
ets from this hash to be a pointer to an array.) Best regards, Chris On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 08:38 AM, Ben Crane wrote: Hi, a slight change to the previous mail: if I've got a key (e.g. A, and I have 3 or 4 keys (which are all A) which correspond to different data... e.g. Acorn

Re: Help installing Perl and Perl Modules on Mac OS X

2003-01-30 Thread Chris
s at http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1059 for MacOS X installation of Perl 5.8, then take questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] where people who've traveled your road before can be found in numbers. Take care, Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Workaround needed for epoch time truncation with gmtime

2003-02-10 Thread chris
I need to work with epoch time past the year 2038. my $time = gmtime(2147483647 + 1); print $time; any ideas? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Workaround needed for epoch time truncation with gmtime

2003-02-10 Thread chris
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:42:43 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David) wrote: >Chris wrote: > >> I need to work with epoch time past the year 2038. >> >> my $time = gmtime(2147483647 + 1); >> print $time; >> >> any ideas? > >try: > >#!/usr/bin/perl

Re: Workaround needed for epoch time truncation with gmtime

2003-02-12 Thread chris
On 11 Feb 2003 10:59:09 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Felix Geerinckx) wrote: >on Tue, 11 Feb 2003 00:31:22 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris) wrote: > >> Nice. Do you know a hack? I am limited to a small perl 5.6.1 >> distro. > >The hack you are looking for can be found in the

How to change "20020706" to "July 6, 2002"?

2002-07-06 Thread chris
How to change "20020706" to "July 6, 2002"? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to change "20020706" to "July 6, 2002"?

2002-07-07 Thread chris
gt; >Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 9:32 AM >Subject: Re: How to change "20020706" to "July 6, 2002"? > > >> Chris wrote: >> > >> > How to change "20020706" to "July 6, 2002"? >> >> >> One way: >> &g

Need timegm sample

2002-07-11 Thread chris
use Time::Local; my $TimeInSeconds; #convert broken-down time to seconds in UTC $TimeInSeconds = timegm($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday); #snip snip snip When I use the following in perl 5.6.1, the script terminates immediately. What is wrong? $TimeInSeconds = timegm(0,0,0,$mday,

How to translate "\\server\alias\*****\file\" with $folder?

2002-07-14 Thread chris
I have a mask in "\\server\alias\*\file\". The asterisks will be assigned the value of a variable. Any ideas? my $folder = "foldername"; my string1 = "\\server\alias\*\file\"; # how to make string1 = \\server\alias\foldername\file\ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For addit

Re: How to translate "\\server\alias\*****\file\" with $folder?

2002-07-14 Thread chris
I am learning day by day and managed to pick up some gems from this thread.. Please forgive my posts when they are too vague and the code snippets that are too loose. Thank you for all the wonderful help -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PRO

How to use one sub in a perl package?

2002-07-14 Thread chris
I have a large perl package and need just one small standalone subroutine in it. The use statement will lead to compile errors if I do not have all the dependencies in my perl install. A work around would be to copy and paste the sub inline. Is there another way to reference a standalone sub i

Re: How to use one sub in a perl package?

2002-07-14 Thread chris
Sounds like I am unable to reference the sub unless I make the necessary changes in the package. The use of %EXPORT_TAGS and @EXPORT_OK are considerations in the package's design. Am I understanding this correctly? On Sun, 14 Jul 2002 06:28:09 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drieux) wrote: >what you w

Re: How to use one sub in a perl package?

2002-07-14 Thread chris
I should have mentioned that the package does an import in main. This will make it harder if not impossible to work around. Using the sample provided > use DTK::WebAccess; This will cause the import to occur leading to compile errors. Am I reading this correctly? Thank you for your time

Re: Re[2]: How to use one sub in a perl package?

2002-07-14 Thread chris
"Require" works on the top level package but the thing is so nested I will end up with errors at the next level. I just needed a quick temporary work around. In this thread, I discovered a third option that works for me. Problem definition How to make easy use of some private subs in a package w

Re: Re[2]: How to use one sub in a perl package?

2002-07-14 Thread chris
I inherited these packages and trying to find nice ways to steal some code until I am able to rewrite the whole thing. You are providing valuable guidance and I will try the 'use lib' variation that you mentioned. On Sun, 14 Jul 2002 14:55:28 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drieux) wrote: >this is w

How to get folder name of current script running?

2002-07-18 Thread chris
How to get folder name of current script running? This may or may not be the current active folder but the folder where the script is stored. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to get folder name of current script running?

2002-07-18 Thread chris
Just the thing I am looking for. I will try to read the docs first. Thanks. On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 16:27:06 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John W. Krahn) wrote: >Chris wrote: >> >> How to get folder name of current script running? >> >> This may or may not be the current a

Need help with package

2002-07-22 Thread chris
Here is what I am doing use A; my $this = {}; bless $this; my $result = $this->A::sub1 (my $args); Package A; sub1 { my $this = shift my ($data) = @_; my $result = $this->sub2($data); $this->sub2($data) does not load return "$result"; } sub2 { ... } I think I can understand why sub2 canno

How to make @array2 use values of @array1?

2002-07-22 Thread chris
I have two variables (@array1 and @array2). @array1 will be initialized with a list of values. Is it possible to declare @array2 in such a way that it will reference @array1? I am trying to avoid looping through the elements and copying over. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For ad

Re: How to make @array2 use values of @array1?

2002-07-23 Thread chris
pkga; print @{$this->{"pkg_variable1"}}; # this prints array of HASH values $this->sub1(); package PkgA; sub1 { my $this = shift; print @{$this->{"pkg_variable1"}}; # this prints contents of array } On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 05:11:52 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David T-G) wrote: &

Re: Need help with package

2002-07-23 Thread chris
You are correct. I will follow your advice. Maybe I am making things more difficult for myself. On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 07:26:28 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drieux) wrote: >why pass in an uninitialized value??? that is >scoped to pass out of existence > >also this blessed "object" gambit should

How to parse a full pathname into dir, file, ext?

2002-07-23 Thread chris
Given a full pathname c:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll I need to parse this into a directory, file, and extension my $fullfilename = "c:\\windows\\system32\\kernel32.dll"; breaks down into the following my $dir = "c:\\windows\\system32\\"; my $file = "kernel32"; my $ext = "dll"; -- To unsub

Re: How to parse a full pathname into dir, file, ext?

2002-07-23 Thread chris
I get it. Thank you use File::Basename; my $os_string = "MSWin32"; fileparse_set_fstype($os_string); my $fullfilename = "c:\\windows\\system32\\kernel32.dll"; my ($name,$path,$suffix) = fileparse($fullfilename, '\..*'); $suffix =~ s/\.//g; print "$name\n" . "$path\n" . "$suffix\n"; -- To unsubs

What does PPM do to install a package?

2002-07-27 Thread chris
I have two perl distribution on the same computer. The ActiveState distribution has PPM. I used this to install Win32::TaskScheduler package and all is well. For my other perl distribution, I thought I would just copy the files in the two packing lists to the appropriate directories but perl i

Re: What does PPM do to install a package?

2002-07-27 Thread chris
just copied the files to the target directories. My manual install was OK except for the perl56.dll incompatibility issue. Sorry for any confusion I may have caused. On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 20:07:16 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris) wrote: >I have two perl distribution on the same computer. >

perl parser for crontab files?

2002-07-27 Thread chris
Before I re-invent the wheel. Is there a perl parser routine for crontab format files? I have cron.pl written by Scott McMahan. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Calculate previous hour?

2002-07-29 Thread chris
my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(time - (1 * 60 * 60)); print sprintf("%02d%02d%02d", $hour,$min,$sec); On 29 Jul 2002 11:33:19 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Old) wrote: >Basically I just want to find the previous hour in one of my scripts. -- To unsubscr

Re: Any better way to make 1000000 becomes 1,000,000 ?

2002-07-30 Thread chris
This works for me http://search.cpan.org/doc/WRW/Number-Format-1.44/Format.pm use strict; use warnings; use Number::Format qw(:subs :vars); $THOUSANDS_SEP = '.'; $DECIMAL_POINT = ','; my @number = (123456789,123); foreach my $number (@number) { print format_number($number) . "\n"; } use Nu

Re: chr help

2002-07-31 Thread chris
The display character for ASCII text depends on the font selected. If you are using Times New Roman or New Courier, there is a longer dash at chr(151). Sounds like Word will save the doc as entered and do the changes on the fly. On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 23:49:12 -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Beau E. Cox)

Regexp to match by hash key and replace with hash value?

2002-08-01 Thread chris
Can I do the following with a single replace? my %hash = ("1","abc", "2","xyz"); my $line = '12'; while( my($key, $val) = each(%hash) ) { $line =~ s/$key/$val/g; } print $line . "\n"; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Regexp to match by hash key and replace with hash value?

2002-08-01 Thread chris
ob Showalter) wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 12:58 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Regexp to match by hash key and replace with hash value? >> >> >> Can I do th

Re: Regexp to match by hash key and replace with hash value?

2002-08-01 Thread chris
ok now how to build this on the fly using %hash ([12]) On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:01:24 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shishir K. Singh) wrote: >You forgot to put the brackets () around [12] >$line =~ s/([12])/$hash{$1}/g; > >-Original Message- >From: chris [mailto:[EMAIL PR

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