Re: the only difference is the 'x' after '/g'

2006-03-31 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
! Hans [bottom post order:] On Thursday 30 March 2006 05:15 am, Hans Meier (John Doe) wrote: tom arnall am Donnerstag, 30. März 2006 12.36: the following code: my (@main); $_= From a From: b From: c From: d ; @main = /From [^\n]*?\n.*?(From: .*?\n

Re: the only difference is the 'x' after '/g'

2006-03-30 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
tom arnall am Donnerstag, 30. März 2006 12.36: the following code: my (@main); $_= From a From: b From: c From: d ; @main = /From [^\n]*?\n.*?(From: .*?\n).*?/gx; print @main; print --\n;

Re: Counting specific elements in a XML object

2006-03-30 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Dave Adams am Donnerstag, 30. März 2006 21.12: If I have a xml file like the following: ?xml version='1.0'? employee nameJohn Doe/name age43/age sexM/sex departmentRecieving/department /employee employee nameBob Gordon/name age50/age

Re: Counting specific elements in a XML object

2006-03-30 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Gavin Bowlby am Donnerstag, 30. März 2006 21.45: How about: cat fn | grep string to be searched for | wc When I posted a cat | grep the first (and last) time, several people got a well known heart attack :-) grep string to be searched for fn | wc as a non-Perl approach to the problem...

Re: Counting specific elements in a XML object

2006-03-30 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Chas Owens am Donnerstag, 30. März 2006 22.35: cat fn | grep string to be searched for | wc [...] grep string to be searched for fn | wc [...] If we are going to pick nits then it should be grep -c employee fn too much work. c employee fn But your alias may be different ;-) Hans --

Re: Counting specific elements in a XML object

2006-03-30 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Bob Showalter am Donnerstag, 30. März 2006 23.32: Chas Owens wrote: If we are going to pick nits then it should be grep -c employee fn Note that grep -c counts matching *lines*. There is no formal requirement that these elements appear on separate lines. Dave, my first one-liner

Re: counting scalar array elements question

2006-03-09 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
John W. Krahn am Donnerstag, 9. März 2006 03.36: Hans Meier (John Doe) wrote: [...] my @array; #or: my @array=(); [v--- this sidenote is wrong] (sidenote: the second form must be used in contexts where the code is persistent/preloaded and used several times, to ensure that @array

Re: Does this script have the efficiency problems?

2006-03-09 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Practical Perl am Donnerstag, 9. März 2006 09.50: Hello, I have a script,which run well at most time.This day I use it to analyse the files of 1.7G,it become very slow and can't get executed continuely anymore.When I run 'strace -p ' (here is this script's PID),there is no output,it

[OT] sanitize/sanitise ? [was: [regexp] Speaking of the /s modifier...]

2006-03-08 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Adam W am Mittwoch, 8. März 2006 02.10: Hans Meier (John Doe) wrote: Adam W am Mittwoch, 8. März 2006 00.49: Sorry, I'm relatively new to programming in general (perl is my first programming language), so I'm not sure what you mean by sanitizing. Could also be sanitising, saw both

Re: multistring replacement

2006-03-08 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Eugeny Altshuler am Mittwoch, 8. März 2006 11.35: Hello! I have such problem, I need to make multistring replacement... How can I do this? I tried to make perl script which acquires file form STDIN and prints result into STDOUT cat file.html | ./myscript That's one way to pass the file

Re: counting scalar array elements question

2006-03-08 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
From: Graeme McLaren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 3:57 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: counting scalar array elements question Hi all, I have an array question: If I have a variable, $var, and it contains an array how would I be able to easily

Re: Directory issue

2006-03-07 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
DiGregorio, Dave am Dienstag, 7. März 2006 19.30: Ok, I am trying to run another perl script from a perl script and have had little luck in doing so. The main script is in one directory and the one it is controlling is in another directory. the main script starts and calls the other script

Re: [regexp] Speaking of the /s modifier...

2006-03-07 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Adam W am Dienstag, 7. März 2006 23.16: Hans Meier (John Doe) wrote: just to sum up: $test =~ s{ (.*?) \( (.*?) \) } {a href=$2 alt=$2$1/a}xsg; - \( instead of [(]: more readable - no /m modifier : unnecessary without ^/$-anchors - /s : may

[getting OT?] Re: [regexp] Speaking of the /s modifier...

2006-03-07 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
JupiterHost.Net am Mittwoch, 8. März 2006 00.29: - \( instead of [(]: more readable not according to best practices Hi JupiterHost.Net I think there are more than one best practices, although not several books carrying this title. I can't - and don't want to - diskuss based on According to

Re: [regexp] Speaking of the /s modifier...

2006-03-07 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Adam W am Mittwoch, 8. März 2006 00.49: Hans Meier (John Doe) wrote: Adam W am Dienstag, 7. März 2006 23.16: Hans Meier (John Doe) wrote: [...] (this dies on empty lines etc. too, and of course the input file's lines should be sanitizes before, and to be on the secure side

Re: How to display database records in a web page !!!!

2006-03-06 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Madhu Kumar am Montag, 6. März 2006 09.57: Hi , Hi Madhu Kumar your problem is not perl, but html related, see below: I want to display database records as web page my database contains some entries and which i wanna write as a report in web page. I have written a code for it which

Re: [regexp] Warnings on Backreferences

2006-03-06 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
John W. Krahn am Dienstag, 7. März 2006 00.12: Adam W wrote: JupiterHost.Net wrote: $text =~ s!(.*?)\((.*?)\)!a href=$2 alt=$2$1/a!g; [...] Same exact regex as above: $test =~ s{ (.*?) [(] (.*?) [)] } {a href=$2 alt=$2$1/a}xmsg; [...] Can you tell me what the

Re: problems with logical (and) statement

2006-03-04 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Angus am Freitag, 3. März 2006 17.40: Yes, I did have that typo in my script. I fixed it but I am still never seeing anything print out that says I have a match as the first if control should do. Have you ensured that the compared data structures meet the conditions for a match? The

Re: hash of hashes arrays

2006-03-04 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
regatta am Freitag, 3. März 2006 21.29: Good morning/evening everyone, I have a hash of data , this hash is very big with dynamic elements (strings, numbers, hashes, arrays) Here is an example $info{'system'}{'load'}{'1'} $info{'system'}{'load'}{'5'} $info{'system'}{'load'}{'15'}

Re: problems parsing a DHCP.leases file.

2006-02-27 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Angus am Montag, 27. Februar 2006 08.25: Hi all, I am having some problems filling a variable based on the contents of a dhcpd.leases file. All I want at this time is the hostname and ip address. My eventual goal is to create hash of hashes with this information but for now I just want to

Re: alternating bgcolor in rows

2006-02-25 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Bob Showalter am Samstag, 25. Februar 2006 15.03: henry chen wrote: I can't seem to figure out how to alternate the bgcolor for each row that i'm printing from arrayref. Is there a 'foreveryother' function that would allow me to put two lines in the loop? Or is there someway I can put

[rather OT] Re: alternating bgcolor in rows

2006-02-25 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
henry chen am Samstag, 25. Februar 2006 07.07: I can't seem to figure out how to alternate the bgcolor for each row that i'm printing from arrayref. Is there a 'foreveryother' function that would allow me to put two lines in the loop? Or is there someway I can put two rows of information and

Re: simple references question

2006-02-24 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Bryan R Harris am Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2006 19.30: Responding to your references to modules, we haven't used them because we can't count on them being there. Obviously my problem, not yours. =) [...] There is no must to have them installed in default locations. You can install them in any

Re: tar command

2006-02-24 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Irfan J Sayed am Freitag, 24. Februar 2006 16.36: Hi All, I need to execute unix tar command thru perl file can somebody helps me out in this regard http://search.cpan.org/~kane/Archive-Tar-1.28/lib/Archive/Tar.pm hth Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: tar command

2006-02-24 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Irfan J Sayed am Freitag, 24. Februar 2006 19.13: Hi , I already tested with /vobstg.tar in the gzip command but still it's hanging and i am executing this perl script from / partition only. Main thing is that it's creating /vobstg.tar.gz file but not coming to shell prompt or not executing

Re: alternating bgcolor in rows

2006-02-24 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Chas Owens am Samstag, 25. Februar 2006 07.17: [...] Use the module operator (%) with an if statement to do different things in a loop: my $rows = $dbhandle-selectall_arrayref($sql) || die $dbhandle-errstr; if (@$rows) { print centertable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3

Re: alternating bgcolor in rows

2006-02-24 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Chas Owens am Samstag, 25. Februar 2006 08.18: [...] Aye, I am an idiot. No, your help on this list is very valuable, and, imho, typos are not proof for idiocy... Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Extract multiple lines

2006-02-23 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Jack Daniels (Butch) am Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2006 10.30: It's driving me bonkers and can't afford any more psychiatic bills. The data is a saved .txt file when viewing from a website. The vendor will not give us an actual file even though we payed a montly fee for use of the database. I

Re: Extract multiple lines

2006-02-23 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Hans Meier (John Doe) am Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2006 13.07: [...] sorry for replying to myself... The script is only extracting the first line of the heading.. Yes, with every loop trough @lines, you overwrite your variables $title to $dewey. this doesn't matter since you print the contents

Re: simple references question

2006-02-23 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Bryan Harris am Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2006 16.41: Hi Bryan It's a bit lengthy, but I hope it motivates you a bit to look around... You mention larger projects, and I've heard about reusable code... Is that generally done by copy/paste into the script you're working on? Code copiedpasted

Re: Type globs of subroutines?

2006-02-22 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Angerstein am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2006 11.05: Short Question: Is type globbing of subroutines possible or not? yes, perl -le 'use warnings; use strict; \ sub sub1{1}; \ *sub2=\sub1; \ warn sub2(); \ ' for something like supersub(\smallsub); This (passing a subroutine reference as argument

Re: A problem with apache installation http://localhost issue

2006-02-22 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
zhou jian am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2006 22.40: Hello perl fellows: Hi Paul This is the wrong list for this question (see your subject) but: I encountered a problem when I was installing a perl module. The httpd server related module was hanging overnight when it was trying to test

Re: Why does my inheritance hierarchy get screwed up?

2006-02-22 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Johannes Ernst am Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2006 00.19: [Blogged about it here: http://netmesh.info/jernst/Technical/perl- inheritance-problem.html ] There are three very simple classes in the following code: C is a subclass of B, which is a subclass of A. If I try to instantiate B (see last

Re: simple references question

2006-02-22 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Bryan Harris am Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2006 03.46: Thanks! Regarding your note, out of curiosity, how will it help a lot in the end? I've been scripting for almost 5 years now, and have produced 100 scripts that are used in data analysis work by ~15 people, and have never used use strict,

Re: Error in the if block

2006-02-19 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Ron Smith am Sonntag, 19. Februar 2006 18.47: Hi all, Hi Ron This page accepts a series of numbers, separated by spaces, and gives the values listed bellow. I'm getting the following error, No information about the input that causes the error; are there also inputs not causing an

Re: Error in the if block

2006-02-19 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Ron Smith am Sonntag, 19. Februar 2006 21.27: I changed this too. Thanks, Hans! [irrelevant parts snipped away] The irrelevant was not quite true... As always, John W. Krahn looked closer into the code, finds simpler solutions and does not miss to point to the appropriate documentation - if

[OT] Re: perl with databases

2006-02-19 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Owen Cook am Sonntag, 19. Februar 2006 22.21: I suggest you use Matt Sergeant's DBD::SQLite a Self Contained RDBMS in a DBI Driver. It rocks Owen, thanks a lot for this tip!!! The aggregate function feature looks very promising :-) Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: Process large file with hash

2006-02-18 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Andrej Kastrin am Samstag, 18. Februar 2006 14.08: Dear Perl users, I try to parse 20.000.000 records file but... To solve my recent Perl problem I collect my previous posts on this list. I have bar separated file (FILE_A): name1|10 name2|20 name3|5 name4|30 etc. I processed it with

Re: populating a Hash

2006-02-18 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
David Gilden am Samstag, 18. Februar 2006 16.29: Good morning, Good evening here ;-) I would like to populate a hash from a csv text file, then test for the existence of a value in the hash. If not found return an error message and exit. ithe text file will have the format of: # whitelist

Re: property definition

2006-02-17 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Kenneth Moeng am Freitag, 17. Februar 2006 07.21: Hello there, I have a problem with property definition of this code, please have a look. #!/usr/bin/perl -w Hello, What is the property definition in your code and what problems do you have with it? Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [RESOLVED (workaround?)] Re: Strange Can't locate Module.pm in @INC error after chaning from 'use lib' to PERL5LIB

2006-02-15 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Tom Phoenix am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2006 01.59: On 2/14/06, Hans Meier (John Doe) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm fine with that, but still don't understand how a path present in @INC is ignored. It sure looks like it's in @INC, from the message. (You may know that PERL5LIB is sometimes

Strange Can't locate Module.pm in @INC error after chaning from 'use lib' to PERL5LIB

2006-02-14 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Dear list It's very strange: My apache doesn't start with [error] Can't locate SMF/Config.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /opt/smf/lib [...]) at /opt/smf/apconf/backend/httpd_startup_smf.pl line 228. But why? The file is there: # ls /opt/smf/lib/SMF/Config.pm /opt/smf/lib/SMF/Config.pm and the

[RESOLVED (workaround?)] Re: Strange Can't locate Module.pm in @INC error after chaning from 'use lib' to PERL5LIB

2006-02-14 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Hans Meier (John Doe) am Dienstag, 14. Februar 2006 19.08: It's very strange: My apache doesn't start with [error] Can't locate SMF/Config.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /opt/smf/lib [...]) at /opt/smf/apconf/backend/httpd_startup_smf.pl line 228. But why? The file is there: # ls /opt/smf

Re: regexpressions help

2006-02-14 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Gerald Wheeler am Dienstag, 14. Februar 2006 21.03: I am trying to allow input of a person's first and last name in one form field, nothing more, nothing less There should be only one uppercase A-Z character followed by one or more lowercase a-z characters followed by one space followed by

Re: regexpressions help

2006-02-14 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Hans Meier (John Doe) am Dienstag, 14. Februar 2006 21.35: if (/^\s*([A-Z][a-z])+\s*([A-Z][a-z])+\s*$/) { # input is ok, so now we format: my $formatted=$1 $2; do_something_with($formatted); } Sorry, this is completely bullshit, shuld have tested before hitting send. my $userinput

Re: Stopping a Service with cgi

2006-02-14 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
nishanth ev am Dienstag, 14. Februar 2006 17.56: hello Friends, Have anyone tried stopping a service say httpd usng a cgi script ? I have set a setuid for the cgi script and the script is in the root cgi-bin directory namely /var/www/cgi-bin/ with ownership root and have the following

Re: substitution

2006-02-13 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Bowen, Bruce am Sonntag, 12. Februar 2006 22.31: I have a text string = ^0176 ^0176 I have set $a = ^0176 ^0176; I have set $b = ^0176 ; I'm using text =~ s/$a/$b/g; And the text string doesn't change. I expected it to come out as ^0176 after the substitution. What is wrong with my

Re: single step - debug mode

2006-02-13 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Stephen Mayer am Montag, 13. Februar 2006 17.25: Bruce, What you want to use is `perl -d file.pl arguments` ...and especially the manuals provided with every perl installation, which is a very valuable source for information. Some tips: $ perldoc perl # lists manuals. # search if a

Re: BerkeleyDB

2006-02-13 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
Tom Allison am Dienstag, 14. Februar 2006 02.28: I was trying out some jobs with the Berkeley DB and decided to move up from DB_File to BerkeleyDB. I don't need a lot of features, just speed. But I keep running into a dumb error that doesn't make any sense to me. untie attempted while 1

Re: text file to xml to database

2006-02-11 Thread John Doe
I BioKid am Samstag, 11. Februar 2006 17.47: hi all, Hi There are reasons why you didn't get answers you like. I need technical advice from all perlbuddies, There are quite a lot of perlbuddies... I have 2 text files and I want to convert it to XML and then to a database. It will be

Re: text file to xml to database

2006-02-11 Thread John Doe
I BioKid am Samstag, 11. Februar 2006 20.39: Dear All, Hi again We have a text based database, now we want to implement web services for the for people around the world for a programmatic access to our server. This is a quite general task. I think the people on this perl list would help

Re: Checking a list for a value

2006-02-11 Thread John Doe
David Gilden am Samstag, 11. Februar 2006 21.54: I would like to loop through 'all' acceptable values in an array (my white list) then assign a pass or fail value. In the following code does not accomplish this, it needs to go through the entire list before assigning a value.

Re: array iteration problem

2006-02-08 Thread John Doe
Graeme McLaren am Mittwoch, 8. Februar 2006 14.53: Hi all, I have the following code: Hi Graeme # code use strict; # forces declaring variables use warnings; @cpv_codes=('a','a','a','a','b','b','b','c','c','d'); my @letters=(qw{ a a a a b b b c c d }); # qw

Re: array iteration problem

2006-02-08 Thread John Doe
JupiterHost.Net am Mittwoch, 8. Februar 2006 15.51: use strict; # forces declaring variables use warnings; yep yep :) @cpv_codes=('a','a','a','a','b','b','b','c','c','d'); my @letters=(qw{ a a a a b b b c c d }); No neeed for the (), which also make sit easier to write and to look at

Re: how to get filehandle-lock effective accross multi-process

2006-02-07 Thread John Doe
Jeff Pang am Dienstag, 7. Februar 2006 10.47: hello,lists, Hello Jeff I open a file and obtained a filehandle.then I fork a child and access this file in child (via the duplicate filehandle from parent).If both parent and child are writting to the file at the same time,the things should become

Re: On Focus

2006-02-06 Thread John Doe
On 2/5/06, Ron Smith wrote: Hi all, I've been looking for this all over, but can't seem to find a link. Is there a Perl or PerlScript equivalent to the JavaScript or vbscript on-focus function? If there is, could someone please, point me in the right direction. Omega -1911

Re: Duplicates elements in an array

2006-02-06 Thread John Doe
anand kumar am Montag, 6. Februar 2006 08.34: Hi all I have an array with hundreads of elements in it. Can anyone suggest the easiest way to keep only the duplicate elements in the array. Hi Anand Depends a bit if you want to keep all duplicates of a duplicate element or just

Re: dbm again

2006-02-06 Thread John Doe
Anders Stegmann am Montag, 6. Februar 2006 12.30: Hi! Hi Anders Can anyone tell me why this script doesn't work? use strict; use warnings; my %hash = (); my $key1 = 'nul'; my $en = 'en'; my $to = 'to'; my $tre = 'tre'; $hash{$key1} = [$en, $to, $tre]; dbmopen(my

Re: Fwd: Re: dbm again

2006-02-06 Thread John Doe
deprecated things. Please read perldoc -f dbmopen and follow the advice there :-) hth, joe [top post history:] John Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/06/06 12:55 pm Anders Stegmann am Montag, 6. Februar 2006 12.30: Hi! Hi Anders Can anyone tell me why this script doesn't work? use strict; use

Re: Saving Content of HTTP::Response Directly To Disk

2006-02-04 Thread John Doe
Stephen Le am Sonntag, 5. Februar 2006 04.09: I'm writing a download manager in Perl and using the LWP library of Perl modules. Is there any way I can save the contents of a HTTP::Response object directly to disk? I don't want particularly large requests to be cached into memory. Storable

Re: How to compare hashes to find matching keys with conflicting values.

2006-02-03 Thread John Doe
Angus am Freitag, 3. Februar 2006 10.13: Joe, Thank you for taking the time to explain this bit of code. I have spent some time trying to understand the ternary operator (?:) this evening and I think it is making more sense. In the past I have seen this operator and moved on in favor of

Re: How to compare hashes to find matching keys with conflicting values.

2006-02-02 Thread John Doe
(ref($e)) { print $e is ok\n; } else { print $e differs:actual @{[$e-[0]]} - register @{[$e-[1]]}\n; } } -Original Message- From: John Doe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 2:45 AM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: How to compare hashes to find

Re: Closing and Re-Opening the Same File Problem

2006-02-02 Thread John Doe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] am Donnerstag, 2. Februar 2006 19.35: Here's my problem: I am writing a program that opens one file (pricedata.csv) as input, does some processing, and opens a new file (PriceDataRfrmtd1.txt) for ouput. Subsequently I close both files. So far so good. Now, within the

Re: How to compare hashes to find matching keys with conflicting values.

2006-02-01 Thread John Doe
Angus am Mittwoch, 1. Februar 2006 10.04: Hello, I am trying to write a little script that will compare two hashes with the same keys but conflicting values. I have found some great examples of how to compare hashes and locate common keys or missing keys (in the cookbook). I have also

Re: How to compare hashes to find matching keys with conflicting values.

2006-02-01 Thread John Doe
Sorry for another mail, but there are too many typos: Also untested: # If no conflict, value is hostname. # If conflict, value is arrayref with the two different IPs # my @res = map { ($actual{$_} eq $register{$_}) ? $_ : [$actual{$_}, $register{$_}] } sort keys %register;

Re: Escaping large chunk of text for insertion into mysql

2006-02-01 Thread John Doe
Kevin Old am Mittwoch, 1. Februar 2006 13.44: Hello everyone, I have a large chunk of data that I need to insert into a text or blob field in mysql. I've tried all the usually escaping it, but nothing seems to work. I'm even using dbh-quote as I thought it might help. Here's my code: my

Re: Hash problem

2006-01-30 Thread John Doe
Andrej Kastrin am Montag, 30. Januar 2006 10.14: Dear all, I have bar separated file: name1|345 name2|201 ... I store it into a hash; while (FILE_A) { chomp; ($name,$score) = split (/\|/,$_); $hash{$name} = $score; } Let's assume the resulting hash is %scores. Then I have

Re: Hash problem

2006-01-30 Thread John Doe
Andrej Kastrin am Montag, 30. Januar 2006 16.50: John Doe wrote: Andrej Kastrin am Montag, 30. Januar 2006 10.14: Dear all, I have bar separated file: name1|345 name2|201 ... I store it into a hash; while (FILE_A) { chomp; ($name,$score) = split (/\|/,$_); $hash{$name

Re: Simple RegEx expresion

2006-01-25 Thread John Doe
George Homorozeanu am Mittwoch, 25. Januar 2006 16.12: I need it with RegEx, that's my problem. Thanks, George. Xavier Noria [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jan 25, 2006, at 12:23, George Homorozeanu wrote: I am very new in RegEx and I want to be

Re: Quick regex question

2006-01-24 Thread John Doe
Chris am Dienstag, 24. Januar 2006 22.35: 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

Re: File Parsing

2006-01-22 Thread John Doe
William Black am Sonntag, 22. Januar 2006 15.33: Hello, I'm reading from a file. I'm trying to read in five lines at a time where each line has a newline and then process the lines into separare variables. For example, Input File - Stevens, Craig A Triangle Family Care PA

Re: Array problem

2006-01-22 Thread John Doe
Andrej Kastrin am Montag, 23. Januar 2006 07.55: I wrote simple script, which have to concatenate multiple lines into array and then print each element of tihis array: I don't know where is the problem, Please, help! The basic problem is that you try to print the result within the (while)

Re: problems with subroutine prototype checking

2006-01-20 Thread John Doe
Hello Gavin Gavin Bowlby am Freitag, 20. Januar 2006 01.43: [...] I probably wasn't clear in my original posting, the problem I'm having is that the code sample I gave *does* compile successfully, I don't think so, because you try to use packages that are not declared. without errors. I

Re: Transform column into row

2006-01-19 Thread John Doe
Dr.Ruud am Donnerstag, 19. Januar 2006 00.49: John Doe schreef: In constrast to the other presented solutions using a a hash slurping all data from the intput file, the advantage of my solution is that it is *capable to handle 300GB input files* even with 128MB RAM. Also in contrast

Re: Using XML::Simple [SORRY - correction]

2006-01-19 Thread John Doe
John Doe am Donnerstag, 19. Januar 2006 12.43: $VAR1-{LayerList}-{LayerDetails}= [ map {%$_} @{$VAR1-{LayerList}-{LayerDetails}} ]; This should be: $VAR1-{LayerList}-{LayerDetails}= [ map {values %$_} @{$VAR1-{LayerList}-{LayerDetails}} ]; (The 'values' omits the repeated 'Name

Re: Transform column into row

2006-01-18 Thread John Doe
Andrej Kastrin am Mittwoch, 18. Januar 2006 10.49: Dear Perl users, what's the best way to transform column table in row format. I know how to split each line according to delimiter and than put it separately into array, but I have more complicated problem (with multiple equal records in

Re: Transform column into row

2006-01-18 Thread John Doe
Paul Johnson am Mittwoch, 18. Januar 2006 13.53: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 01:34:01PM +0100, John Doe wrote: Andrej Kastrin am Mittwoch, 18. Januar 2006 10.49: Dear Perl users, what's the best way to transform column table in row format. I know how to split each line according

Re: Transform column into row (correction)

2006-01-18 Thread John Doe
John Doe am Mittwoch, 18. Januar 2006 15.30: [...] Another way (I don's say a better :-) ) could be not using a data structure, but doing the transformation on the fly: - read a line of the input data - record the first or a new field name while scanning (id001 etc.) - if the field name

Re: Transform column into row

2006-01-18 Thread John Doe
Andrej Kastrin am Mittwoch, 18. Januar 2006 10.49: Dear Perl users, what's the best way to transform column table in row format. I know how to split each line according to delimiter and than put it separately into array, but I have more complicated problem (with multiple equal records in

Re: about the var's scope

2006-01-16 Thread John Doe
Shawn Corey am Montag, 16. Januar 2006 04.12: [...] Ok, it would be interesting to look deeper into the mess of different variables all named with the same name $q, exported across the modules, overwritten by several imports... What do you want to achieve with your code? It looks really

Re: Combine multiple lines into one line

2006-01-16 Thread John Doe
Andrej Kastrin am Montag, 16. Januar 2006 14.32: Hi all, I have the file, which looks like: *RECORD* *ID* 001 *TITLE* Here is title number one. *ABSTRACT* First sentence of the abstract. Second sentence of the abstract... Second line of the abstract. *RECORD* *ID* 002 *TITLE*

Re: interpolation

2006-01-16 Thread John Doe
Shawn Corey am Montag, 16. Januar 2006 16.55: John Doe wrote: The Ghost am Montag, 16. Januar 2006 06.34: I am storing text stings in a database. when I have the string: 'some perl $variable' which would print as: some perl $variable how can I force interpolation of '$variable

Re: interpolation

2006-01-15 Thread John Doe
The Ghost am Freitag, 13. Januar 2006 21.23: I know I could do that, but what if I don't know the variable names in the string? $sql=~s/\$Status/$Status/; could I do: $sql=~s/\$(\S+)/${$1}/; On Jan 10, 2006, at 5:57 PM, John Doe wrote: The Ghost am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2006 21.57: I

Re: about the var's scope

2006-01-15 Thread John Doe
[reordered to bottom style posting] -Original Message- From: Shawn Corey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jan 15, 2006 10:58 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: about the var's scope Jeff Pang wrote: Hello,lists, Seeing these code below please.I can't know why the var defined in

Re: about the var's scope

2006-01-15 Thread John Doe
Shawn Corey am Montag, 16. Januar 2006 04.12: John Doe wrote: [reordered to bottom style posting] Jeff Pang am Montag, 16. Januar 2006 01.59: Thanks for Shawn.The main script can see the global var $q coming from module,since the main script import this symbol via 'use My::HTML qw($q

Re: interpolation

2006-01-15 Thread John Doe
The Ghost am Montag, 16. Januar 2006 06.34: I am storing text stings in a database. when I have the string: 'some perl $variable' which would print as: some perl $variable how can I force interpolation of '$variable'? one idea I thought of was: #!/usr/bin/perl my $var='variable';

Re: the 'tail' problem

2006-01-14 Thread John Doe
Jeff Pang am Samstag, 14. Januar 2006 12.52: Thanks for Adriano.I have tried the way that mentioned by you,and found it's no use for me. should the '-F' option have no effect for symlinks maybe? -Original Message- From: Adriano Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jan 14, 2006 7:23

Re: Matching the first string

2006-01-13 Thread John Doe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] am Freitag, 13. Januar 2006 18.28: [...] i`ve written a script whose purpose is to put files in different directories by its first later, the problem is that every file begins with different chars for example 01 - Eminem Encore.mp3 my question is how can i get to the

Re: Matching the first string

2006-01-12 Thread John Doe
alex litvak am Donnerstag, 12. Januar 2006 21.11: Hello all im new in perl and i need some help i`ve written a script whose purpose is to put files in different directories by its first later, the problem is that every file begins with different chars for example 01 - Eminem Encore.mp3 my

Re: Help with my thought process...parsing a log

2006-01-11 Thread John Doe
Robert Hicks am Mittwoch, 11. Januar 2006 17.00: John Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Robert Hicks am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2006 18.16: I have an application log that shows the time, id and type for a user logging in. A short except looks like

Re: Byte array

2006-01-10 Thread John Doe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2006 14.08: I'm new to Perl and am trying to set a variable length byte array that is passed to a socket as a string for output. I have the following which works, but the commented out code doesn't. What am I doing wrong? Thanks. Don't forget to put

Re: Byte array

2006-01-10 Thread John Doe
John Doe am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2006 15.06: [EMAIL PROTECTED] am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2006 14.08: I'm new to Perl and am trying to set a variable length byte array that is passed to a socket as a string for output. I have the following which works, but the commented out code doesn't. What

Re: Help with my thought process...parsing a log

2006-01-10 Thread John Doe
Robert Hicks am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2006 18.16: I have an application log that shows the time, id and type for a user logging in. A short except looks like this: 19/12/2005 07:28:37 User (guest) logging in from (LIMS-CIT) - Assigned Userno (7045) 19/12/2005 07:32:06 User (guest) logging

Re: Understanding Benchmark results

2006-01-10 Thread John Doe
Steve Bertrand am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2006 18.24: Hi all, Hi Steve I've a project on the go, where I must compare a single field of more than 3 million database records, then sort them largest to smallest. The field will contain up to a 6 digit integer. (I think you must have a reason not

Re: Add comment to a pattern matched file line

2006-01-10 Thread John Doe
Vincent Li am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2006 19.59: Hi List: Hi Vincent I have two files like this: file1: score CN_SUBJ_PROMOTE3.100 # [0.000..3.100] score CN_SUBJ_PROMOTION 3.600 # [0.000..3.600] score CN_SUBJ_PROVIDE3.000 # [0.000..3.000]

Re: string interpolation when reading from a file

2006-01-10 Thread John Doe
Dan Huston am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2006 21.40: Greetings -- I am reading text sql commands) from a file, chopping it into sections and then writing each section out to a different file. Within the text are perl variables that I had expected to be interpolated as they were written out to the

Re: interpolation

2006-01-10 Thread John Doe
The Ghost am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2006 21.57: I want to pull some text from a database: RxNumber in (select RxNumber FROM restoreReports WHERE Status in $Status) then I want perl to use this string and interpolate the variables ($Status). so: my $Status= ('New','Old'); my

Re: exectuable to code

2006-01-07 Thread John Doe
S Khadar am Samstag, 7. Januar 2006 12.30: hi all i have a perl executable - now i want to edit the program... any help *Any* help? Use an editor of your choice and have fun! Or get the source, if perl executable means a compiled binary and program the corresponding source code. hth, joe

Re: new for reading file containing multiple records

2006-01-06 Thread John Doe
chen li am Freitag, 6. Januar 2006 11.27: Hi Xicheng, Hi Chen Thanks. I search the list before I post the question but I can't find similar topics. Could you please tell me some ealier posts? Also I try to use your code to read a very small file containing only these two records. Here is

Re: arguments in closure

2006-01-06 Thread John Doe
root am Freitag, 6. Januar 2006 13.15: Hello, about closure I read the Perl literacy course lecture #9 Closures Shlomo Yona http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shlomo/ The explanations are clear but in this example: (it's an excerpt of an example of Shlomo) #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use

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