How to write a page break character.

2003-12-20 Thread chetak.sasalu
Hi, I want to search for the word status in a group of files in a directory and replace it with status\n^L where ^L is a page break chatacter, In vi I can type it in using cntrl+l. I want to do this by perl -p -i.old -e 's/^STATUS$/STATUS\n(page break character)/' * How can I write the page

Re: How to write a page break character.

2003-12-20 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 12/20/2003 2:37 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to search for the word status in a group of files in a directory and replace it with status\n^L where ^L is a page break chatacter, In vi I can type it in using cntrl+l. I want to do this by perl -p -i.old -e 's/^STATUS$/STATUS\n(page

RE: Win32 Registry

2003-12-20 Thread Tim Johnson
Win32::TieRegistry will do what you want. use Win32::TieRegistry (delimiter = '/'); my $run = $Registry-{'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run'}; $run-{'MyApp'} = My Application; etc., etc. -Original Message- From: Jeff Westman

Re: How to write a page break character.

2003-12-20 Thread Robert Brown
Randy W. Sims writes: On 12/20/2003 2:37 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to search for the word status in a group of files in a directory and replace it with status\n^L where ^L is a page break chatacter, In vi I can type it in using cntrl+l. I want to do this

Re: How to write a page break character.

2003-12-20 Thread John W. Krahn
Chetak Sasalu wrote: Hi, Hello, I want to search for the word status in a group of files in a directory and replace it with status\n^L where ^L is a page break chatacter, In vi I can type it in using cntrl+l. I want to do this by perl -p -i.old -e 's/^STATUS$/STATUS\n(page break

where to look for modules?

2003-12-20 Thread christopher j bottaro
on my system, perl looks for modules in /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/. how can i specify an additional path to look for modules in? say for instance, /home/cjb/perlmodules/ in addition to the aforementioned path. thank you, -- christopher -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: where to look for modules?

2003-12-20 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 12/20/2003 5:33 AM, christopher j bottaro wrote: on my system, perl looks for modules in /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/. how can i specify an additional path to look for modules in? say for instance, /home/cjb/perlmodules/ in addition to the aforementioned path. set the PERL5LIB environment

Re: where to look for modules?

2003-12-20 Thread Owen
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 04:33:24 -0600 christopher j bottaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on my system, perl looks for modules in /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/. how can i specify an additional path to look for modules in? say for instance, /home/cjb/perlmodules/ in addition to the aforementioned path. I

Re: Preventing Accidentally Fork Bombing My Box

2003-12-20 Thread George Schlossnagle
On Dec 20, 2003, at 12:58 AM, R. Joseph Newton wrote: Dan Anderson wrote: I'm creating an app that uses forks in a number of places to do things quicker. Unfortunately, I have a bad habit of accidentally fork bombing my box. This is a pretty good sign that you are over-using the fork command.

'unpipe' STDIN

2003-12-20 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - I have a perl 'filter' script that relies on piped input from STDIN, i.e.: find /etc/ | ./myfilter.pl etc... I have a need to interact with the user later in this script (or in a forked script), and , hence need STDIN to again accept input from the keyboard device after I process all of

Re: debugger

2003-12-20 Thread Peter Scott
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Walker) writes: Hello all, When using the perl debugger, is there a way to load in the breakpoints and watch variables that I want from a file. I am using it now and as I am debugging I am finding problems but when I start the program over I

Re: 'unpipe' STDIN

2003-12-20 Thread Steve Grazzini
On Dec 20, 2003, at 10:44 AM, Beau E. Cox wrote: but I can't seem to figure out how to reopen STDIN to the keyboard device. Any hints? You could use: open STDIN, '/dev/tty' or die open: /dev/tty: $!; Or you could just open another filehandle (e.g. TTY) and read the user input from that,

Re: Calling another perl file

2003-12-20 Thread Peter Scott
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drieux) writes: On Dec 18, 2003, at 10:12 PM, Tushar Gokhale wrote: How do I call another perl script from my current perl script? I'm working on one perl testing harness, currently my bin/run.pl has a control and now I want to call script

Re: When to USE shift or @_

2003-12-20 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Daniel == Daniel Staal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel The difference with using shift or assigning it directly is shift Daniel removes the value from the array, assigning it directly does not. This Daniel may not make much difference, but occasionally it does. I generally prefer shift: 1) it

Re: 'unpipe' STDIN

2003-12-20 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Saturday 20 December 2003 06:02 am, Steve Grazzini wrote: On Dec 20, 2003, at 10:44 AM, Beau E. Cox wrote: but I can't seem to figure out how to reopen STDIN to the keyboard device. Any hints? You could use: open STDIN, '/dev/tty' or die open: /dev/tty: $!; Or you could just

RE: Win32 Registry

2003-12-20 Thread Jeff Westman
Tim Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Win32::TieRegistry will do what you want. use Win32::TieRegistry (delimiter = '/'); my $run = $Registry-{'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run'}; $run-{'MyApp'} = My Application; etc., etc. Suppose I had some DATA

Re: where to look for modules?

2003-12-20 Thread drieux
On Dec 20, 2003, at 2:33 AM, christopher j bottaro wrote: on my system, perl looks for modules in /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/. how can i specify an additional path to look for modules in? say for instance, /home/cjb/perlmodules/ in addition to the aforementioned path. first off, if I may recommend

Re: diff between packages and modules

2003-12-20 Thread drieux
On Dec 19, 2003, at 8:30 PM, christopher j bottaro wrote: thanks for the reply. i think i'm understanding it a little better now. but i haven't really got a firm grasp on OO perl, so that example is a bit over my head still. Not a problem - save it for some time later. As I said, pick up

Simple string API question

2003-12-20 Thread glidden, matthew
Just started working on scripts and wanted to compare strings yesterday, but using strEQ (or strcmp) gets me an undefined method error. What library should I use in my script to get those API? Couldn't find the answer in any on-line tutorials. Thanks, Matthew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: Ending a compound statement

2003-12-20 Thread drieux
On Dec 19, 2003, at 8:46 PM, Kenton Brede wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:37:33PM -0800, drieux wrote: [..] I've worked with the examples you have shown and I have to admit I'm just not advanced enough to follow your approach. I'll ask a few questions in hopes of getting a little closer to

RE: Simple string API question

2003-12-20 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
glidden, matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : Just started working on scripts and wanted to compare : strings yesterday, but using strEQ (or strcmp) gets me : an undefined method error. What library should I use : in my script to get those API? Couldn't find the answer : in any on-line tutorials.

Re: Calling another perl file

2003-12-20 Thread drieux
On Dec 20, 2003, at 8:06 AM, Peter Scott wrote: [..] You are missing a '|' in there. thanks for the catch... [..] No reason not to make that much simpler using backticks: sub run_cmd { my $cmd = shift; my $args = shift || ''; my @output = `$cmd $args 21`; $? 0 and return ERROR: problem

deallocating?

2003-12-20 Thread christopher j bottaro
just for practice, i made a class BinaryTree. its just a blessed reference to a hash that contains two things: size and root. root gets assigned to a BinaryTree::Node which is just a bless reference containing: key, value, left, right. perl deallocates according to reference counts. so if

Re: diff between packages and modules

2003-12-20 Thread R. Joseph Newton
christopher j bottaro wrote: ahh thank you. so saying package CJB; is like saying namespace CJB { I was afraid of this when you said that you knew C++, therefore you know what classes are. It is good to see the parallels between languages, but it can also cause problems. Perl has

Re: diff between packages and modules

2003-12-20 Thread R. Joseph Newton
drieux wrote: On Dec 19, 2003, at 1:16 PM, christopher j bottaro wrote: i'm reading Programming Perl and i'm on the chapter about packages. it says that packages and modules are very similar and that novices can think of packages, modules, and classes as the same thing, but i wanna know

generating GIFs

2003-12-20 Thread Andrew Gaffney
I want to write a Perl program that will auto generate GIF images. The images that I want to generate will be about 30x80. It will be a black rectangle starting in the bottom-right with a few pixels border on the top and left. There will be a light blue rectangle starting in the top-left with a

Re: generating GIFs

2003-12-20 Thread Daniel Staal
--As off Saturday, December 20, 2003 2:23 PM -0600, Andrew Gaffney is alleged to have said: I want to write a Perl program that will auto generate GIF images. The images that I want to generate will be about 30x80. It will be a black rectangle starting in the bottom-right with a few pixels

RE: deallocating?

2003-12-20 Thread NYIMI Jose (BMB)
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/08/07/proxyobject.html?page=3 José. -Original Message- From: christopher j bottaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 8:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: deallocating? just for practice, i made a class BinaryTree. its just a

RE: deallocating?

2003-12-20 Thread NYIMI Jose (BMB)
Did you read this ? http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/2002/08/07/proxyobject.html José. -Original Message- From: christopher j bottaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 8:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: deallocating? just for practice, i made a class BinaryTree.

Re: Win32 Registry

2003-12-20 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Tim Johnson wrote: Win32::TieRegistry will do what you want. use Win32::TieRegistry (delimiter = '/'); my $run = $Registry-{'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run'}; $run-{'MyApp'} = My Application; etc., etc. That looks like a good example of the crap that we

Re: diff between packages and modules

2003-12-20 Thread drieux
On Dec 20, 2003, at 12:31 PM, R. Joseph Newton wrote: [..] It might be worth a trip to the archives to review this thread. Joseph for those following along at home: http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Perl/perl.beginners/2003-10/ 0708.html being the thread I think Joseph is referring to...

Re: deallocating?

2003-12-20 Thread drieux
On Dec 20, 2003, at 1:14 PM, NYIMI Jose (BMB) wrote: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/08/07/proxyobject.html?page=3 José. [..] worth while Read - thanks! But back to christopher's query On Dec 20, 2003, at 11:46 AM, christopher j bottaro wrote: just for practice, i made a class BinaryTree.

Re: generating GIFs

2003-12-20 Thread agftech lists
You might want to look at Image::Magick at www.imagemagick.com HTH On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 14:23, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I want to write a Perl program that will auto generate GIF images. The images that I want to generate will be about 30x80. It will be a black rectangle starting in the