Re: [META] [Essay] How to Handle Criticism + Encouraging People to Criticise and Offend You

2014-08-28 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:12:16PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all, like the title mentions this a short essay with a two-fold message. It is posted only to beginners@perl.org (for now) and is about criticism. 1. Handling criticism: -- People like to criticise

Re: suppress the warnings output

2014-05-20 Thread 'lesleyb'
} ) or croak $DBI::errstr;     1; } catch {     _write_log($_);     return undef; }; if ($success) {     ... } Youghua Thank you for posting an interesting problem and the solution you found to it. Regards lesleyb -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org

Re: split an html file

2014-04-21 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:01:35AM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: Hi, My brother Rick, a windrider, put together a webpage, http://www.photographers1.com/Sailing/NauticalTermsNomenclature.html about sailing and wind surfing that has grown too large and should be split into smaller sections to

Re: use sys::virt module to manage VM in kvm

2014-03-28 Thread lesleyb
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 01:41:53PM -0400, PJ wrote: I’m new to perl too…but do they have a concept of abstract classes in perl? On Mar 27, 2014, at 3:27 AM, lesleyb lesl...@herlug.org.uk wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 06:43:47PM -0700, Jim Gibson wrote: On Mar 26, 2014, at 6:30 PM

Re: use sys::virt module to manage VM in kvm

2014-03-27 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 06:43:47PM -0700, Jim Gibson wrote: On Mar 26, 2014, at 6:30 PM, Benjamin Fernandis benjo11...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am new with perl and we have virtual machines in our infra. i want to use perl sys::virt module to manage them, means to shutdown / start vm

Re: exception handling

2014-02-14 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 02:43:03PM -0600, Bill McCormick wrote: I have a Perl module that calls a function from in a Swig generated module, which in turn calls a function in a shared library. It's been a while since I put it all together and made it work, so I'm kind of hazy on the technical

Re: OO perl programming

2014-02-06 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 11:52:39PM -0600, Sam wrote: On 02/05/2014 04:30 PM, kavita kulkarni wrote: Can somebody suggest me good book to learn/practice object oriented Perl programming. Regards, Kavita :-) Beginning Perl by Curtis Poe is a really good read. Also there are many

Re: Help on saving and retrieving data structures

2013-09-13 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 07:10:58PM +0800, *Shaji Kalidasan* wrote: Dear Perlers, I am saving the data structure to a file and retrieving it back again, but, when I 'use strict' it is giving the following error message Global symbol %game requires explicit package name This message means

Re: Help on saving and retrieving data structures

2013-09-13 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 01:31:47PM +0100, David Precious wrote: On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 19:10:58 +0800 (SGT) *Shaji Kalidasan* shajiin...@yahoo.com wrote: I am saving the data structure to a file and retrieving it back again, but, when I 'use strict' it is giving the following error message

Re: Is there a way to generate HTML reports?

2013-07-08 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 10:43:30PM +0800, *Shaji Kalidasan* wrote: Greetings, As I understand, Perl has excellent report-generation capabilities. By using formats, we can actually visualize how our output will look because the definition of a format in Perl is very similar to what you see

Re: Perl and Web Development

2013-06-03 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 05:52:02PM -0400, Rich Johnson wrote: Can anyone recommend a good book to use for building a website using Perl? Specifically, I'm looking to build a backend to a mobile app. Everything I've been trying to search for seems dated (2005 and earlier). As mentioned by

Re: recover data generated by jqurety from a form

2013-05-29 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 03:09:51PM +0200, Pau Marc Muñoz Torres wrote: Hi guys i have a problem recovering from data using my cgi, lets says i got the following form form action=getCSV.pl method =post input type=hidden name=csv_text id=csv_text input name=submit type=submit value=Get

Re: perl interpreter output meaning?

2012-09-22 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 09:45:08AM +0200, Anne Wainwright wrote: Hi, this is the output. Use of uninitialized value $9 in concatenation (.) or string at pg_delim2htm_01.pl line 89, line 1. Use of uninitialized value $9 in concatenation (.) or string at pg_delim2htm_01.pl line 89, line

Re: xml parsing

2012-08-16 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 04:55:33AM -0700, Irfan Sayed wrote: hi, i need to parse the xml file and store the data in array : here is the code: use XML::Simple; my $ItemGroup = XMLin('C:\Users\bvcontrolbuild\Desktop\data.xml'); foreach my $BuildProject (@{$ItemGroup-{BuildProject}}) {

PerlSchool

2012-07-26 Thread 'lesleyb'
Hi Just to let people know this is a happening http://perlschool.co.uk/ The first course on 4th August is fully booked but a second is coming up in October. It's run by Dave Cross who has a great deal of knowledge to share. Kind Regards Lesley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: mod_perl for n00bs

2012-06-05 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 08:37:33AM -0400, Mark Haney wrote: On 06/04/2012 09:25 PM, pangj wrote: I want to understand why Mark thinks he needs mod_perl. If it's just because he wants to speed up his app (soup up the engine) there might be things he can do that don't require rewriting a lot

Re: perl based shopping cart

2012-05-08 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 07:44:43PM +0530, Chankey Pathak wrote: Hi folks, One of my friend is having a problem, he is not in the mailing list so I am posting this problem on his behalf. Please check how can this problem be solved and let me know, I'll let him know the answer, thanks :)

Re: Template toolkit issue [SOLVED]

2012-05-05 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 01:30:41PM -0500, Bill Stephenson wrote: I use CGI.pm to build web apps all the time. I think the notion that CGI and CGI.pm is out dated is kind of silly in fact. Using CGI.pm with HTML::Template is still a very fast and efficient way to develop web apps. And I

Re: and subroutine

2012-04-17 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 04:20:35PM +0200, Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 06:53:53AM -0700, Paul.G wrote: Hi All Have a question, is it good coding practice to use a when calling a subroutine, or it is not required, or it doesn't matter? It's good practice not to use it

Re: How Can I find all kinds of methods a Object support?

2012-04-11 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 04:12:22PM +0800, Zapp wrote: How Can I find all kinds of methods a Object support? For example: my $fh = IO::File-new(/path/to/file); how manny kinds of methods does the $fh have ? I try perldoc IO::File , but didn't find what I want. My local copy of the

Re: a question about @ISA

2012-04-09 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 04:13:36PM +0800, xiaolan wrote: Hi, I just want to send email using MIME::Lite with Net::SMTP::SSL. But MIME::Lite is going only with Net::SMTP by default. So I searched and found a hack: use Net::SMTP::SSL; BEGIN { @MIME::Lite::SMTP::ISA = qw(Net::SMTP::SSL); }

Re: a question about @ISA

2012-04-09 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 12:59:04PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi xiaolan, On Mon, 9 Apr 2012 16:13:36 +0800 xiaolan practicalp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I just want to send email using MIME::Lite with Net::SMTP::SSL. But MIME::Lite is going only with Net::SMTP by default. So I

Free Fundamentals of Perl Programming course

2012-03-27 Thread 'lesleyb'
Hi Came across this http://alison.com/courses/Perl-Programming?utm_source=outbound+marketingutm_medium=emailutm_campaign=new_courses_11_perl_programming A Fundamentals of Perl Programming course by Mark Berman. Seems to cover the basics but I haven't exactly gone through it with a fine

Re: Undefined subroutine main::subs

2012-03-07 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 12:41:01AM +0800, lina wrote: Hi, $ ./substr_accessing_examples.pl Undefined subroutine main::subst called at ./substr_accessing_examples.pl line 15. #!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; # # get a 5-byte string, skip 3 bytes, # then grab two

Re: Learning perl

2012-03-06 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 07:42:24PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: On 03/05/2012 07:19 AM, lina wrote: Which books are the best perl books you have ever read? 1. Learning Perl -- this book gets you up the initial learning curve. Read it cover to cover, enter and play with the example code,

Re: Taint mode CGI problem

2011-11-12 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 08:24:52AM -0300, Tessio Fechine wrote: But why the same code works fine at command line? That's what bothers me most. And.. there is no code duplication. search.pl is a normal script that I use at command line. I just want to output the result in a web page. Thanks!

Re: Validating input

2011-10-02 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 07:14:00PM +0300, Octavian Rasnita wrote: From: Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org On Sun, 2 Oct 2011 00:07:34 +0300 Octavian Rasnita orasn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Does anyone have some suggestions for what restrictions should be used on a site to be

Re: Need help getting data from a structure..

2011-09-28 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 09:33:50AM -0500, Frank Kleinburg wrote: Hello list, I've been playing with perl going back to the 4.x days, mostly simple scripts to monitor server or application daemons, kick off and manage backups, or read log files.. While some of these programs are fairly

Re: /usr/lib/perl5/auto/Cwd/Cwd.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr

2011-09-21 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 07:24:51AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: argh ... after just skipping the component that was causing the earlier error, i got further and then this: Probably a good idea to unskip it and fix the problem there first. perl: symbol lookup error:

Re: /usr/lib/perl5/auto/Cwd/Cwd.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr

2011-09-21 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 08:31:10AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, 'lesleyb' wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 07:24:51AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: argh ... after just skipping the component that was causing the earlier error, i got further

Re: /usr/lib/perl5/auto/Cwd/Cwd.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr [SOLVED?]

2011-09-21 Thread 'lesleyb'
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:13:13AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 08:31:10AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: ... snip ... p.s. is there a way to identify which perl module supplies the Perl_Gthr_key_ptr symbol?

Re: cpan or perl -MCPAN ?

2008-04-04 Thread LesleyB
Thanks for the reply Yitze. I simply wondered whether there was any benefit. I haven't yet tried the perl -MCPAN approach but have spent most of the day in cpan. I would expect to see perl -MCPAN in an anutomated approach somewhere I guess. I have successfully updated some modules locally

cpan or perl -MCPAN ?

2008-04-03 Thread LesleyB
Hi I'm using Linux for some perl play. Which method is considered better - using cpan as a command at the command line or using 'perl -MCPAN -e ..'' ? Does using CPAN by either method above ensure the latest version of any given module or does it give the latest module for the particular

Re: copy array

2008-03-25 Thread LesleyB
Sharan Basappa wrote: Hi, Is there a way I can copy only part of an array into another array. For example, I want to copy only first 8 elements of source array into destination array. Regards I think you might need this technique #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; # my @arr1 =

Question about CGI.pm

2008-03-25 Thread LesleyB
Hi I have been exploring CGI.pm and am of course interested in the HTML escaping procedure. perldoc CGI thrwos up this By default, all HTML that is emitted by the form-generating functions is passed through a function called escapeHTML(): $escaped_string = escapeHTML(unescaped string);