Re: Date::manip query

2007-12-17 Thread pauld
im importing data from an excel spreadsheet into an array of hashes. the date is initially converted using Date::Format::Excel. for this bit {START} = unix start time .{START_DS} = string that I use to convert to unixtime with my $var=0;my [EMAIL PROTECTED]; while ($var$va_length) { print

Re: regex, 1 off...

2007-12-17 Thread Todd
Seems it's related to a more general question stated as `Given 2 sequences, find longest common sub sequence'. Many algorithm books have materials about this one. -Todd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: regex, 1 off...

2007-12-17 Thread Todd
However much depends on the actual data and the variations that you are expecting. If you are searching for words like those used in the English language then you may want to look at how spell checking software works. Seems related to the algorithm like `find the longest common sub sequence

Can't use string as a symbol ref

2007-12-17 Thread ciwei2103
Can somebody enlighten me what I'm doing wrong? I have a list in a file , test.dat sh cat test1.dat 0039 0038 sh cat test1.pl #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $input = $ARGV[0]; my @devices = $input ; print devices = @devices \n; __END__ now run it with sh test.pl test1.dat Can't use

Re: Can't use string as a symbol ref

2007-12-17 Thread Tom Phoenix
On 12/17/07, ciwei2103 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can somebody enlighten me what I'm doing wrong? my $input = $ARGV[0]; my @devices = $input ; $input is a string, since it comes from @ARGV; but you're using it as if it's a filehandle. Do you need open()? Hope this helps! --Tom Phoenix

Re: Can't use string as a symbol ref

2007-12-17 Thread yitzle
Maybe tell us what you are trying to do? Try this: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $input = $ARGV[0]; # File handle my $FH; # Check the file is a normal file and exists die File does not exist\n if not -f $input; # Open the file handle for read only, file named by $input # Or die and

Re: Can't use string as a symbol ref

2007-12-17 Thread Chas. Owens
On Dec 17, 2007 10:19 AM, ciwei2103 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can somebody enlighten me what I'm doing wrong? I have a list in a file , test.dat sh cat test1.dat 0039 0038 sh cat test1.pl #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $input = $ARGV[0]; my @devices = $input ; print devices =

Re: regex, 1 off...

2007-12-17 Thread Jay Savage
On Dec 16, 2007 2:21 PM, namotco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's say I want to search some text for abc123. However, we know people can make typos and so they could have entered avc123 or abc223 or sbc123 or bc123 many other combinations... So I want to search for those possibilities as well.

Re: Date::manip query

2007-12-17 Thread davidfilmer
On Dec 17, 3:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pauld) wrote: my $var=0;my [EMAIL PROTECTED]; while ($var$va_length) { print ${$daylistsorted[$var]}{TH} ; print 'from '; print ${$daylistsorted[$var]}{START}; print ' to '.${$daylistsorted[$var]}{END_DS}; printduration ;print

Re: regex, 1 off...

2007-12-17 Thread Rob Dixon
namotco wrote: Let's say I want to search some text for abc123. However, we know people can make typos and so they could have entered avc123 or abc223 or sbc123 or bc123 many other combinations... So I want to search for those possibilities as well. So how would I go about creating the

Re: Date::manip query

2007-12-17 Thread John W . Krahn
On Monday 17 December 2007 15:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 17, 3:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pauld) wrote: my $var=0;my [EMAIL PROTECTED]; while ($var$va_length) { print ${$daylistsorted[$var]}{TH} ; print 'from '; print ${$daylistsorted[$var]}{START}; print ' to

Re: Date::manip query

2007-12-17 Thread Chas. Owens
On Dec 18, 2007 1:05 AM, John W. Krahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip printf ( %s from $s to %s duration %s %s\n, snip You missed the usage of $s instead of %s. I always get bitten by that. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL