why oh why?

2002-09-18 Thread Jimmy George
Hello again World I am trying - half heartily right now - to get a DDMM or similar date back from a users server to write to a file when they fill in an order form. My first attempt of :- !--#config timefmt=%d%b%y-- input type=hidden name=submit_date value=lt;--#echo

Hotmail.com vs. MIME:Lite

2002-09-18 Thread Sven Bentlage
Hi everyone, (thanks for your tips, Scot). I managed to get my script working. It sends a HTML mail via MIME::Lite, with a.txt attachment. All mail clients I tested worked just fine. The only problem is Hotmail.com!! Hotmail.com neither displays the HTML mail, nor am I able to download the

Re: why oh why?

2002-09-18 Thread William McKee
On 18 Sep 2002 at 18:09, Jimmy George wrote: I am trying - half heartily right now - to get a DDMM or similar date back from a users server to write to a file when they fill in an order form. My first attempt of :- I'm not sure what you're doing with the SSI but here's some code to help

Creating thumbnails (Newbie Question)...

2002-09-18 Thread Yuen, Alex
Hi, Very newbie. I was wondering if it is possible to write a CGI (Perl) program to make a thumbnail page for my website. If so, how would I start and use for doing this? Thanks. Alex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Creating thumbnails (Newbie Question)...

2002-09-18 Thread fliptop
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 at 09:56, Yuen, Alex opined: YA:I was wondering if it is possible to write a CGI (Perl) program to make a YA:thumbnail page for my website. YA: YA:If so, how would I start and use for doing this? if you question is how to create a thumbnail from a regular image, then you

RE: Creating thumbnails (Newbie Question)...

2002-09-18 Thread Yuen, Alex
One part is to create a thumbnail image from a regular image. Second part is to create a web page or thumbnail page for viewing. Maybe 10 to 20 images per page. Thanks. Alex -- From: fliptop[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 10:52 AM To:

Re: Creating thumbnails (Newbie Question)...

2002-09-18 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Wednesday 18 Sep 2002 2:56 pm, Yuen, Alex wrote: Hi, Very newbie. I was wondering if it is possible to write a CGI (Perl) program to make a thumbnail page for my website. If so, how would I start and use for doing this? Thanks. Alex Hi Alex, Here's a script based on one I was

Date Question(s)

2002-09-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello everyone. I have a situation involving the DATE and DATE COMPARISON functions which I need some guidance on. The situation is this: 1. The end-users who visit my Site are allowed to ask a participating medical expert, one medical question per month. However, some are abusing this

Re: why oh why?

2002-09-18 Thread Michael Kelly
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 06:09:29PM +1000, Jimmy George wrote: Hello again World Hi Jimmy, I am trying - half heartily right now - to get a DDMM or similar date back from a users server to write to a file when they fill in an order form. My first attempt of :- !--#config timefmt=%d%b%y--

RE: Hotmail.com vs. MIME:Lite

2002-09-18 Thread Scot Robnett
It sounds like you solved the problem already by sending text/plain messages to Hotmail accounts. For some reason I've never had an issue with that, though - maybe it's because I don't actually attach the image that is placed inline; I import it from a location on my website. You could also try

Re: Date Question(s)

2002-09-18 Thread William McKee
I'd suggest checking out Date::Manip from CPAN. I use it to do date comparisons in some of my scripts. Why do you need to convert the date when writing it to the file. Just save the epoch time and use Date::Manip to eval the epoch time in the file to the current epoch time. William -- Lead

Re: Date Question(s)

2002-09-18 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Date::Calc is a wonderful thing. If that doesn't work however I would suggest just storing the number of seconds from epoch (aka time) in the log file. Then you simply subtract 30 days worth of seconds aka, 60*60*24*30 seconds - which you can just use the constant for whatever that comes out

Re: why oh why?

2002-09-18 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
I guess the question I have at this point is why pass the date to the form from the server and then back to a script when the end script could just as easily get the time using the *time* built in? Browser window could be opened with the time being set by the server, two days later when the

sort

2002-09-18 Thread Daniel Hurtado Brenner
Hi friend: I want know if is possible to do this: For example: If i have a flat data base myfile.txt with this info: 1|name|address| 2|name two|address two| 3|name three|address three| 4|name four|address four| . (etc, etc) If i execute: open(IN,$myfile.txt); while(IN){

Re: Creating thumbnails (Newbie Question)...

2002-09-18 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Second part: Depends on how complex you want your thumbnail page to be (of course). Simplest might be to store all your thumbnails to a directory, do an opendir, then while readdir, print your image tag changing only the file name in each case. To complicate matters, you can use the same

GPL - how does it work

2002-09-18 Thread Alex Agerholm
Hi, I am quite new to Perl and GPL, so I hope that someone can help me or direct me to where I can read about this. I am writing a CGI application/script in Perl which I am going to sell This application uses a few Perl modules (CGI.pm, Session.pm) which is covered by the GPL. How am I going to

RE: grouping regex match return values

2002-09-18 Thread Timothy Johnson
How about this? while($_ =~ /(\d{1,2}\/\d{1,2}\/\d{4})/g){ push @q,$1; } Perl assigns the variable $1 to the first match in parentheses. ($2 for the next match within the same regex, and so on) The regex above matches: One or two digits \d{1,2} followed by a backslash

What is a thread?

2002-09-18 Thread Angerstein
Hi, a simple question: if my program starts a thread, does it wait until the thread finishes or do it run futher? Other harder question: if I fill an array or other complex datastructure is it a pain in the neck to give it over to the main-prog, (like it is with processes...) or is it easy?

RE: grouping regex match return values

2002-09-18 Thread Rum Pel
That is okay, I dont want to do that way. I want to write stronger regular expressions. I would like to know if my regular expressions are correct. further, when I write something like /((a|A)(b|B))/g For aB I am getting, $1 = aB, $2 = a, $3 = B. and $4,5,6 .. have the next occurrences. But I do

Re: What is a thread?

2002-09-18 Thread Dharmender Rai
A thread is a flow of control through a program with a single execution point.Threads are one of the pieces of a process. Every process has at least one thread and, up until now, every process running Perl had only one thread. With 5.005, though, one can create extra threads. In one

Re: grouping regex match return values

2002-09-18 Thread Mohd Salman
Nope, Try cluster patterns , so rewrite $day,$month,$year as $day=(?:[12]?[0-9]|30|31); etc From: Rum Pel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: grouping regex match return values Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 00:17:44 -0400 I want to pick dates from a file, I did it the following

Breaking up a large source file into several pieces

2002-09-18 Thread Cricker
This seems like a stupid question... but I've looked in lots of places and can't figure it out. I'd like to break my perl script into several files (because it is getting awfully large, with all the callbacks from Tk), but still keep the lexical scope. Maybe I'm thinking too much like a C

nested subroutines and shared variables

2002-09-18 Thread Bernd Prager
Hi, I run into a problem and would appreciate some help. I'd like to write a subroutine that parses an XML file. I use XML::Parse and one way that works is to define subroutines with the name of an XML tag and every appearance of that tag calls the appropriate subroutine. Since I want to have

Re: Executing DOS copy command from perl script via web interface

2002-09-18 Thread Michael Kelly
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 08:00:06AM -0400, FlashGuy wrote: Hi, Hi FlashGuy, I have a web interface where I'm executing a compiled perl script. Within the perl script I'm trying to execute a DOS command but its not working properly. If I put my command in a batch file and execute the batch

Reguler expression????????

2002-09-18 Thread Javeed SAR
HI all, When i execute a command the output is like as follows: I want to grep for things which are highlighted in blue colour. How to do this??? Oplog IDs for row BLR_ComEPR_ADT ( blrk4005a): oid:d9782f3d.48f111d4.a2eb.00:90:27:cc:b7:c8=176502 (BLR_ComEPR_ADT)

grep for highlighted

2002-09-18 Thread Javeed SAR
HI all, When i execute a command the output is like as follows: I want to grep for things which are highlighted in blue colour. How to do this??? Oplog IDs for row BLR_ComEPR_ADT ( blrk4005a): oid:d9782f3d.48f111d4.a2eb.00:90:27:cc:b7:c8=176502 (BLR_ComEPR_ADT)

Re: Breaking up a large source file into several pieces

2002-09-18 Thread Sudarshan Raghavan
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Cricker wrote: This seems like a stupid question... but I've looked in lots of places and can't figure it out. I'd like to break my perl script into several files (because it is getting awfully large, with all the callbacks from Tk), but still keep the lexical scope.

Re: Timers?

2002-09-18 Thread mmaunder
Dan, Sounds like you're moving into the realms of threads. Perl 5.8.0 has stable threading support. Install it and type 'perldoc perlthrtut' for details. If you take a threaded approach to solving this problem, you'll probably have a main thread of execution that launches seperate threads for

How to grep

2002-09-18 Thread Javeed SAR
Hi All, I have a output as follows: I like to grep first two lines(it should be in loop) ==Line 1 ==Line 2 Oplog IDs for row ERL_ComEPR_Project_Management ( eh20417c): ==Line 1 oid:9534a99c.142611d4.a2d5.00:90:27:cc:b7:c8=5467

Re: Breaking up a large source file into several pieces

2002-09-18 Thread Cricker
Thanks, but I thought that modules were for submitting to CPAN. Don't I have to go through all the @ISA and Exporter:: stuff if I write a module? I would like to get away with something simpler. Thanks again. Sudarshan Raghavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL

Regexp

2002-09-18 Thread Panel Vincent - A53
I have a problem with a regular expression : I process a text file with a list of names. I would like to reformat names like Francois de la Varenne Macha Meril BuzzMac Cormack (there must be at least two words in the name) to something like this : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: One last question

2002-09-18 Thread Kipp, James
I have a text file with a list of about 56,000 filenames. Only the filenames are in this file. I have another 30,000 or so .cfm and .htm files. I want to use File::Find to cycle through EVERY file in EVERY directory line by line (about 2 million lines in all). Evertime it comes across

Question about Error

2002-09-18 Thread Anthony Saffer
Good Morning Everyone, Got another question: I wrote my first Perl script last night and it seemed to be error free on Windows. But when I uploaded it to Linux (RH 7.3) it threw an error that I don't understand. From a Google search it seems there could be a number of problems and I am not

creating modules

2002-09-18 Thread Mat Harris
i would reall like to start creating my own modules for all those regularly used bit and pieces, but i don't know where to start. i have read perldoc perlmod and sources of loads of other modules but nothing.. if i laid down a small scenario, could someone help me modulise it so i can get my

error

2002-09-18 Thread pravesh biyaNI
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at log.pl line no 17 is a for loop for ($i =0; $i $ line_number ; ++ $ i) the value of line_number is 1000 can somebody tell me what exactly is this error pointing to!! and how do you know about an error .. as in how to debug!

RE: Question about Error

2002-09-18 Thread Nikola Janceski
Are you sure you know what this 'if' statement is doing? It always evaluates true. and the m/$litem/$matchitem/i shouldn't be in quotes. if($litem, /$matchitem/){ ## always true $PNdString =~ m/$litem/$matchitem/i; ## not a pattern match if it's in quotes print (OUTFILE

Array of Hashes

2002-09-18 Thread Simon Tomlinson
Hi I want to put a hash into each element of an array. I do it like the following bit of code. When I iterate round my hash before putting it in the array of the hash values/keys are there. However, when I iterate through the hash after putting it in the array all i get is '4/8' as the

Re: Question about Error

2002-09-18 Thread Anthony Saffer
Apparantly not. What the 'if' statement was SUPPOSED to do is to check if it had found a hit and, if it did, replace the string. If it didn't, it is simply supposed to write the line out to the temp file and move on. That is obviously NOT what it is doing it seems. How would YOU structure this

RE: Array of Hashes

2002-09-18 Thread Nikola Janceski
you have a space that shouldn't be there: print THIS DOESN'T WORK: $key $newHash {$key}\n; ^ should be: print THIS DOESN'T WORK: $key $newHash{$key}\n; -Original Message- From: Simon Tomlinson [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Array of Hashes

2002-09-18 Thread Simon Tomlinson
Apologies, that was bad typing in my email. I rearrange the algorithm to make it easier to read. Here is my exact source and the exact output. Even without the space there, it still doesn't work!! Any ideas? Simon. sub getEvents { my @rows = getDBTable($tbl_events); my @colDefs =

Re: error

2002-09-18 Thread pravesh biyaNI
pravesh biyaNI wrote: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at log.pl line no 17 is a for loop for ($i =0; $i $ line_number ; ++ $ i) the value of line_number is 1000 can somebody tell me what exactly is this error pointing to!! and how do you know about an error

Fully Commented Code..

2002-09-18 Thread Anthony Saffer
Hello Again All, Perhaps if you all saw my logic during this script it would help you understand what I am trying to do and maybe see a bit better what is failing. Here is my code again, but fully commented... Thanks! Anthony my $PNdString = ; # Setting it to blank sub process_files{ #

RE: Array of Hashes

2002-09-18 Thread NYIMI Jose (BMB)
I rewrite our code like this and it works ! #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; my @array; my $count = 0; my $maxCount = 1; while ($count $maxCount){ $count++; my $myHash = getHash; foreach my $key (keys %$myHash ) { print THIS WORKS: $key $myHash-{$key}\n; }

RE: Array of Hashes

2002-09-18 Thread Sudarshan Raghavan
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Simon Tomlinson wrote: Apologies, that was bad typing in my email. I rearrange the algorithm to make it easier to read. Here is my exact source and the exact output. Even without the space there, it still doesn't work!! Any ideas? Simon. sub getEvents {

Re: Breaking up a large source file into several pieces

2002-09-18 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
You can obviously write your own package files you must seriously consider 'perldoc perlmod' Cricker wrote: Thanks, but I thought that modules were for submitting to CPAN. Don't I have to go through all the @ISA and Exporter:: stuff if I write a module? I would like to get away with

Re: nested subroutines and shared variables

2002-09-18 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
Why dont you just define the function outside and call them from inside your master function Bernd Prager wrote: Hi, I run into a problem and would appreciate some help. I'd like to write a subroutine that parses an XML file. I use XML::Parse and one way that works is to define

RE: Array of Hashes

2002-09-18 Thread Simon Tomlinson
Thank you so much - that has done the trick!! I guess this is a common mistake that people who don't take the time to read the manual on references make!! Thanks again, Simon.

Re: Breaking up a large source file into several pieces

2002-09-18 Thread Sudarshan Raghavan
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Cricker wrote: Thanks, but I thought that modules were for submitting to CPAN. No you can write modules for your own use too. Don't I have to go through all the @ISA and Exporter:: stuff if I write a module? I would like to get away with something simpler. That's

Re: Regexp

2002-09-18 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
This may not be the best way But I wud work fine sub remove_space { my($s)=@_; $s=~s/\s+//g; return $s; } while(FILE){ s/^(.*?)\s+(.*)$/$1.remove_space($2)/ print; } Panel Vincent - A53 wrote: I have a problem with a regular expression : I

RE: PERL over multiple source files

2002-09-18 Thread Robin Cragg
Hi, if you're a C programmer, then you use make with decent sized projects, I assume? If so, keep all your little source scaps in files with a particular suffix and then use make... SUFFIX = .pl.bit TARGET = myprog.pl all: @cat *${SUFFIX} ${TARGET } That will work fine, but

Newbie Question

2002-09-18 Thread James Parsons
Ok since I'm new to Perl I've written this fairly simple script to add number from a text file, I have about 20-30 of these file with different names and I would like to know how to add this to my script, I know how to do it korn shell but in a perl script I'm really now sure, can anyone point

Re: Regexp

2002-09-18 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
oops sorry put an 'e' after the regexp in the end Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote: This may not be the best way But I wud work fine sub remove_space { my($s)=@_; $s=~s/\s+//g; return $s; } while(FILE){ s/^(.*?)\s+(.*)$/$1.remove_space($2)/ print; }

RE: Regexp

2002-09-18 Thread Panel Vincent - A53
Why not splitting on whitespaces and joining the pieces together ? E.g. Because it won't work : michael mac douglas will give [EMAIL PROTECTED] not [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vincent. -Original Message- From: Thorsten Dieckhoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002

Re: error

2002-09-18 Thread drieux
On Wednesday, Sep 18, 2002, at 06:18 US/Pacific, pravesh biyaNI wrote: pravesh biyaNI wrote: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at log.pl line no 17 is a for loop for ($i =0; $i $ line_number ; ++ $ i) the value of line_number is 1000 [..] two sets of thing

how to initialise a two dimensional array

2002-09-18 Thread pravesh biyaNI
Hi I am using a two dimentional array!! but the script on running gives an error global symbol requires explicit package name. how to use my () with a two dimentional array help awaited pravesh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: Regexp

2002-09-18 Thread Sudarshan Raghavan
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Panel Vincent - A53 wrote: I have a problem with a regular expression : I process a text file with a list of names. I would like to reformat names like Francois de la Varenne Macha Meril BuzzMac Cormack (there must be at least two words in the name)

RE: how to initialise a two dimensional array

2002-09-18 Thread NYIMI Jose (BMB)
-Original Message- From: pravesh biyaNI [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 3:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how to initialise a two dimensional array Hi I am using a two dimentional array!! but the script on running gives an error

RE: how to initialise a two dimensional array

2002-09-18 Thread Nikola Janceski
you only need to declare with my() the first array. all the other arrays are just references to anonymous arrays (if you create the 2-d array like most people do). ex: my(@arr); $arr[0] = [ qw( 1 2 3 4 5 ) ]; -Original Message- From: pravesh biyaNI [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: Newbie Question

2002-09-18 Thread Sudarshan Raghavan
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, James Parsons wrote: Ok since I'm new to Perl I've written this fairly simple script to add number from a text file, I have about 20-30 of these file with different names and I would like to know how to add this to my script, I know how to do it korn shell but in a

Re: how to initialise a two dimensional array

2002-09-18 Thread Chas Owens
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 09:56, pravesh biyaNI wrote: Hi I am using a two dimentional array!! but the script on running gives an error global symbol requires explicit package name. how to use my () with a two dimentional array help awaited pravesh First you must recognize that there

Re: Fully Commented Code..

2002-09-18 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Wednesday, September 18, 2002, at 08:22 AM, Anthony Saffer wrote: Hello Again All, Howdy. Perhaps if you all saw my logic during this script it would help you understand what I am trying to do and maybe see a bit better what is failing. Here is my code again, but fully commented...

Re: Breaking up a large source file into several pieces

2002-09-18 Thread drieux
On Wednesday, Sep 18, 2002, at 05:12 US/Pacific, Cricker wrote: Thanks, but I thought that modules were for submitting to CPAN. a reasonable approach, in the long run, since you will find it easier to install for both yourself and everyone else, IF you build them in a way that is CPAN 'ready'

Re: nested subroutines and shared variables

2002-09-18 Thread Bernd Prager
Why dont you just define the function outside and call them from inside your master function Bernd Prager wrote: I run into a problem and would appreciate some help. I'd like to write a subroutine that parses an XML file. I use XML::Parse and one way that works is to define

Help ! Newbie here :)

2002-09-18 Thread Federico, Chris
Hi List , I have a directory that I want to read . Lets say the name of the directory is my scripts (Windows platform ) . In this directory is text files . What I want to do is read the directory and extract 2 lines out of each text file . So far I'm able to create an Array but I'm not sure

RE: file execution from a perl file

2002-09-18 Thread Willem Pretorius
Hi, i am using a fax server from a perl webpage, but i cant send faxes because the file permitions is not correct, thus i want to run a chmod command eg. chmod 777 /usr/local/www/fax/* in order to enable the faxing to work, but my question is: How do you execute the command from a .pl file??

RE: Regexp

2002-09-18 Thread Jeff AA
-Original Message- From: Sudarshan Raghavan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 September 2002 23:57 To: Perl beginners Subject: Re: Regexp On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Panel Vincent - A53 wrote: I would like to reformat names like Francois de la Varenne Macha Meril

weird problem

2002-09-18 Thread Ron Woodall
Hi All: This is a convoluted problem and I hope I can describe it properly. I have about 90 html pages. I am extracting a small amount of information from each page and using that to create 90 more pages elsewhere in the site. What is happening is that I'm getting

RE: file execution from a perl file

2002-09-18 Thread Sudarshan Raghavan
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Willem Pretorius wrote: Hi, i am using a fax server from a perl webpage, but i cant send faxes because the file permitions is not correct, thus i want to run a chmod command eg. chmod 777 /usr/local/www/fax/* in order to enable the faxing to work, but my question is:

Final Code (I think it's gonna work!)

2002-09-18 Thread Anthony Saffer
Hello Everyone, Here is the final code for my replacement script. I am about to test it out but I think it will work. Thanks to all who helped!! #!/usr/bin/perl -w use File::Find; my $FileCount = 0; my $LineCount = 0; sub process_files { my $FinalString = ; my $ConvertedText = ; my

RE: file execution from a perl file

2002-09-18 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Willem Pretorius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 10:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: file execution from a perl file Hi, i am using a fax server from a perl webpage, but i cant send faxes because the file

AW: how to initialise a two dimensional array

2002-09-18 Thread Angerstein
just: $hereiam[0][0] = Things; $hereiam[0][1] = Eye ; $hereiam[0][2] = always; $hereiam[0][3] = wanted ; $hereiam[1][0] = blahhh; $hereiam[1][1] = blahh; $hereiam[1][2]= blah; -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Nikola Janceski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 18.

lots of numbers...

2002-09-18 Thread Angerstein
if you have a list of numbers: 67, 50, 78, 12, 19, 98, 33, 55, 10, 8, 39, 48, 13, 70, 36, 87, 82, 44, 32, 78, 9, let´s say you have 500 numbers of the range between 10 and 100. What you really want are groups each with 3 numbers. The summe of the numbers in a group should be near as

OT: PHP hosting

2002-09-18 Thread FlashGuy
Anyone know of a good PHP hosting company in Canada? --- Colonel Nathan R. Jessop Commanding Officer Marine Ground Forces Guatanamo Bay, Cuba --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Final Code (I think it's gonna work!)

2002-09-18 Thread Timothy Johnson
You might want to try one more thing before you put it away. Add 'use strict'. It's a bit of a pain at first, but it's a very good habit to get into. -Original Message- From: Anthony Saffer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 8:01 AM To: Perl Beginners List

Re: Breaking up a large source file into several pieces

2002-09-18 Thread dan
i have a source code for a bot which is extremely huge. i split it up into several files, i.e: source1.pl source2.pl source3.pl etc.. and in the main executable file.. require(source1.pl); require(source2.pl); require(source3.pl); then run the main executable file, and it'll load each other

RE: Breaking up a large source file into several pieces

2002-09-18 Thread nkuipers
You don't need to write anything as a module per se. You can write a library instead, which merely contains the vars, subs and the like that you re-use often. Name it with a .pl extenstion. Then all you have to do is require /path/libname.pl; at the start of your code. -- To

head as in unix

2002-09-18 Thread Jakob Kofoed
Hi there, Does Perl have a function like the UNIX head. e.g. I have a file with a header - and I only need the data from line 100 and forward where the single lines are put in to a array for further treatment. I know Perl can do it but how?? Thanks. Cheers, Jakob -- To unsubscribe,

Re: lots of numbers...

2002-09-18 Thread Janek Schleicher
Angerstein wrote at Wed, 18 Sep 2002 17:20:29 +0200: if you have a list of numbers: ... What you really want are groups each with 3 numbers. The summe of the numbers in a group should be near as possible on the average value. My simple idea: sort the numbers. put the first, the last

RE: Help ! Newbie here :)

2002-09-18 Thread nkuipers
#@files contains filenames, let's say with paths prepended for $name (@files) { if $name =~ m/.txt$/ { open FH, $name or die $!; do something... } } -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: head as in unix

2002-09-18 Thread Matt Simonsen
You could write your own function that is a for loop that counts until 100, putting each line into the array and quits would work. There may be a more elegant way, though... Matt On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 09:31, Jakob Kofoed wrote: Hi there, Does Perl have a function like the UNIX head.

RE: head as in unix

2002-09-18 Thread nkuipers
e.g. I have a file with a header - and I only need the data from line 100 and forward where the single lines are put in to a array for further treatment. If you are SURE of consistent formedness in your input file (data will always be at lines 100+) you could use the $. var, which holds the

Re: nested subroutines and shared variables

2002-09-18 Thread david
Bernd Prager wrote: Why dont you just define the function outside and call them from inside your master function Bernd Prager wrote: I run into a problem and would appreciate some help. I'd like to write a subroutine that parses an XML file. I use XML::Parse and one way that

RE: lots of numbers...

2002-09-18 Thread Jeff AA
-Original Message- From: Janek Schleicher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 September 2002 16:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lots of numbers... I think, it's better to weight the sorted numbers with their sum rank, in the above example it would be: Of course, you

Re: Regexp

2002-09-18 Thread John W. Krahn
Sudarshan Raghavan wrote: On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Panel Vincent - A53 wrote: I have a problem with a regular expression : I process a text file with a list of names. I would like to reformat names like Francois de la Varenne Macha Meril BuzzMac Cormack (there must

more regexp stuff, maybe?

2002-09-18 Thread Scott Taylor
Hey all, I have a small array with field names that I would like to store them in a string so that I can include it in an SQL string later. ie: @Fields = (field1,field2,field3); I want $SQLFields = field1,field2,field3; of course $SQLField = @Fields; returns the list field1 field2 field3,

Re: creating modules

2002-09-18 Thread david
Mat Harris wrote: i would reall like to start creating my own modules for all those regularly used bit and pieces, but i don't know where to start. i have read perldoc perlmod and sources of loads of other modules but nothing.. if i laid down a small scenario, could someone help me

RE: more regexp stuff, maybe?

2002-09-18 Thread nkuipers
my $SQLfields = join ',', @Fields; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Array of Hashes

2002-09-18 Thread david
Simon Tomlinson wrote: Hi I want to put a hash into each element of an array. I do it like the following bit of code. When I iterate round my hash before putting it in the array of the hash values/keys are there. However, when I iterate through the hash after putting it in the array

Re: Question about Error

2002-09-18 Thread John W. Krahn
Anthony Saffer wrote: Good Morning Everyone, Hello, Got another question: I wrote my first Perl script last night and it seemed to be error free on Windows. But when I uploaded it to Linux (RH 7.3) it threw an error that I don't understand. From a Google search it seems there could be a

simple problem

2002-09-18 Thread pravesh biyaNI
Hello Here is a very simple prblem which unfortunatly i am not able to solve. I want to compare a character to a variable and do accordingly. I am using an if loop for this!! but it seems that even if the variable is not equal to that character, it is entering the loop.. i am not able to

Re: simple problem

2002-09-18 Thread James Edward Gray II
You're confusing = which means assign to with == which asks the question, are these equal (numerically) or its cousin eq which asks are these the same characters. James On Wednesday, September 18, 2002, at 12:48 PM, pravesh biyaNI wrote: Hello Here is a very simple prblem which

RE: simple problem

2002-09-18 Thread Nikola Janceski
See in-line comments: -Original Message- From: pravesh biyaNI [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 1:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: simple problem Hello Here is a very simple prblem which unfortunatly i am not able to solve. I want to

Re: Please...Help me. How to arrange my widget with pack

2002-09-18 Thread zentara
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 22:53:12 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prabu Subroto) wrote: Dear my friends, Any body would be so kind to teach me how to put label and input of a form in one row. I am meaning like this : Name of person : [input column with entry widget] Try this one:

Re: Help ! Newbie here :)

2002-09-18 Thread david
Chris Federico wrote: Hi List , I have a directory that I want to read . Lets say the name of the directory is my scripts (Windows platform ) . In this directory is text files . What I want to do is read the directory and extract 2 lines out of each text file . So far I'm able to

Re: Newbie Question

2002-09-18 Thread John W. Krahn
James Parsons wrote: Ok since I'm new to Perl I've written this fairly simple script to add number from a text file, I have about 20-30 of these file with different names and I would like to know how to add this to my script, I know how to do it korn shell but in a perl script I'm really

Re: Help ! Newbie here :)

2002-09-18 Thread John W. Krahn
Chris Federico wrote: Hi List , Hello, I have a directory that I want to read . Lets say the name of the directory is my scripts (Windows platform ) . In this directory is text files . What I want to do is read the directory and extract 2 lines out of each text file . So far I'm able to

Re: simple problem

2002-09-18 Thread pravesh biyaNI
thanks.. prblm solved!!! regards pravesh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hotmail.com vs. MIME:Lite

2002-09-18 Thread Anthony E.
do you want to send a text attachment in addition to an html embedded email? or do you want to show one or the other, ie - if the person has their email client to only accept text msgs, it'll show just the plain text message, otherwise it shows the html...if this is the case, you can send a mime

RE: head as in unix

2002-09-18 Thread david
Nkuipers wrote: e.g. I have a file with a header - and I only need the data from line 100 and forward where the single lines are put in to a array for further treatment. If you are SURE of consistent formedness in your input file (data will always be at lines 100+) you could use the $. var,

RE: head as in unix

2002-09-18 Thread Janek Schleicher
Nkuipers wrote at Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:53:44 +0200: e.g. I have a file with a header - and I only need the data from line 100 and forward where the single lines are put in to a array for further treatment. If you are SURE of consistent formedness in your input file (data will always be at

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