Re: Is GOTO evil?

2005-01-06 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > "Chris" == Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Chris> In Perl, the most common legit use of `goto` seems to be jumping out > of > Chris> loops, > > Really? Where have you even seen that? I can show you an entire > decade-spanning

Re: Trouble Calling Modules...

2005-01-06 Thread Ron Wingfield
You could use the "use lib" construct, e.g., use lib qw(/Spreadsheet/ParseExcelSimple); Of course, specify paths as your applications require. - Original Message - From: Owen Cook To: beginners@

Re: Trouble Calling Modules...

2005-01-06 Thread Owen Cook
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Sam Pinizzotto wrote: > > I'm very new to the Perl Scene...I have an application that was developed > for Perl TK and we are now trying to convert it for use through the web. > > I can pass the info from a web form to the script, but when the script runs, > it says it can't

Re: Dates

2005-01-06 Thread Owen Cook
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Tim Wolak wrote: > I am in need of a quick way to get the current date in the MMDD > format. This is something I would like to understand better on how to > get the date with perl. Any suggestions would be most welcome. You need to read up on localtime.

Re: Dates

2005-01-06 Thread Jeff Eggen
>>> Tim Wolak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/01/2005 3:59:26 pm >>> >Hello all, >I am in need of a quick way to get the current date in the MMDD >format. This is something I would like to understand better on how to >get the date with perl. Any suggestions would be most welcome. As per the perlch

Re: Dates

2005-01-06 Thread Markus Mayr
Tim Wolak wrote: Hello all, I am in need of a quick way to get the current date in the MMDD format. This is something I would like to understand better on how to get the date with perl. Any suggestions would be most welcome. Tim Hi. You're probably looking for localtime? > perldoc -f local

Dates

2005-01-06 Thread Tim Wolak
Hello all, I am in need of a quick way to get the current date in the MMDD format. This is something I would like to understand better on how to get the date with perl. Any suggestions would be most welcome. Tim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Trouble Calling Modules...

2005-01-06 Thread Sam Pinizzotto
Hi, I'm very new to the Perl Scene...I have an application that was developed for Perl TK and we are now trying to convert it for use through the web. I can pass the info from a web form to the script, but when the script runs, it says it can't find the modules I am calling. How do I tell where i

RE: Is GOTO evil?

2005-01-06 Thread Burns, Edwin G.
I thought it stood for 'Repugnant Piece of Garbage'.. From: Ron Wingfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 7:27 AM To: Perl Beginners List; Charles K. Clarkson Cc: Dan Sturgill; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Kerry Townsend; Burns

Re: Perl and JavaScript's "onsubmit"

2005-01-06 Thread JupiterHost.Net
Ron Wingfield wrote: Can a JavaScript instruction, executed per the custom "CheckForm" subroutine as called -onsubmit (see below) assign the value of the Perl $ap_name var that is associated with the -action argument of start_form( )? (BTW, I'm on my way to Barnes & Noble to buy yet another $50 b

Design Question

2005-01-06 Thread Ron Wingfield
I have an application scenario where for example, four programs are stacked as follows pgm-a -- login/passwd/default database selection pgm-b -- Application Menu pgm-c -- specific application browser interface pgm-d -- uses DBI_API.pm (custom Perl module) Pgm-d is totally generic and

Perl and JavaScript's "onsubmit"

2005-01-06 Thread Ron Wingfield
Can a JavaScript instruction, executed per the custom "CheckForm" subroutine as called -onsubmit (see below) assign the value of the Perl $ap_name var that is associated with the -action argument of start_form( )? (BTW, I'm on my way to Barnes & Noble to buy yet another $50 book, . . .thought I

Re: Choosing between Regexp and Substr

2005-01-06 Thread John W. Krahn
Edward Wijaya wrote: Seems that John's regex approaches are (much) faster: Rate HD_string HD_jkrahn2 HD_jkrahn1 HD_string 203251/s -- -18% -76% HD_jkrahn2 247033/s22% -- -71% HD_jkrahn1 848840/s 318% 244% -- [snip] sub h

Re: Is GOTO evil?

2005-01-06 Thread Dave Gray
On 6 Jan 2005 16:11:40 -, Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only times I've used goto in Perl have been the > "goto &sub" form, which isn't much of a goto in > the first place :-) I use it the most when I'm debugging. For example, if I'm hacking on a webpage with a bunch of redirect

Re: Is GOTO evil?

2005-01-06 Thread Peter Scott
This thread can't finish without mention of the classic paper at http://www.acm.org/classics/oct95/ . The only times I've used goto in Perl have been the "goto &sub" form, which isn't much of a goto in the first place :-) -- Peter Scott http://www.perldebugged.com/ *** NEW *** http://www.perlmed

Re: Is GOTO evil?

2005-01-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Zentara" == Zentara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Zentara> When you use "last" to get out of a loop, it only takes you Zentara> out of the loop you are in, And this is just wrong. You need to read "Learning Perl", because two pages after we introduce "last", we talk about labeled loops. Z

Re: Is GOTO evil?

2005-01-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Chris" == Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> In Perl, the most common legit use of `goto` seems to be jumping out of Chris> loops, Really? Where have you even seen that? I can show you an entire decade-spanning career of Perl programming where "goto" was never used to jump

Re: Is GOTO evil?

2005-01-06 Thread Ron Wingfield
Don't know if anyone in the discussion has ever written any of IBM's early RPG (note that the options are still in the RPG/400 for the ILE, too, . . .DO NOT USE THEM!), but RPG instructions (known as "calculation" or "C" specs. -- nothing to do with the C programming language) have a throw-back

Re: Is GOTO evil?

2005-01-06 Thread Ron Wingfield
I guess I'm really old, too (55 yrs); however, I actually saw a book (I didn't touch it though), "The Art of Assembly Language Programming" at Barnes & Noble this afternoon. Hopefully, I've forgotten everything that I've ever known about 370 Macro Assembler. . . .And it is true that to get aro

Re: Is GOTO evil?

2005-01-06 Thread Robin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 January 2005 00:17, zentara wrote: > Like in this contrived example. > > foreach my $x (1..100){ > foreach my $y (1..500){ > foreach my $z (1..1000){ > if( $x + (2 * $y) - $z = 0 ) {goto END} > } >

RE: Is GOTO evil?

2005-01-06 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Charles K. Clarkson wrote: > Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : In [brief] defense of GOTO, for some programming it is > : essential. Assembly language programming, for example. > > Since this is a perl list, we can safely assume the > OP was not asking about a

Fw: works when printing to screen, not when printing to file! - SOLUTION!?

2005-01-06 Thread Adrian Farrell
Hi, got chatting to a colleague about this and he mentioned file buffering. A quick look on the net turned up this page, looks like what I need. I've not tried it yet, but thought others may find it useful: http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol3_3/tpj0303-0002.html rgds, Adrian - Forwar

Re: Choosing between Regexp and Substr

2005-01-06 Thread Edward Wijaya
Seems that John's regex approaches are (much) faster: Rate HD_string HD_jkrahn2 HD_jkrahn1 HD_string 203251/s -- -18% -76% HD_jkrahn2 247033/s22% -- -71% HD_jkrahn1 848840/s 318% 244% -- __BEGIN__ #!/usr/bin/perl -w us

works when printing to screen, not when printing to file!

2005-01-06 Thread Adrian Farrell
Hi, I have an issue that makes me think there maybe something fundamental I'm misunderstanding about how perl operates. The code below simply replaces the ASCII SOH character \001 with a space in real time on a logfile. And it works great if the output is printed to screen, BUT, if it's printed