Re: Still pondering working with hashs

2010-05-04 Thread Philip Potter
On 3 May 2010 22:06, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Philip Potter philip.g.pot...@gmail.com writes: [...] Both you and Uri are right to a degree.  I have to respect Uris' experience, but in fact I have presented goals at every step in this thread.  Uri just doesn't want to recognize

Re: Teaching Perl

2010-05-04 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Monday 03 May 2010 19:39:35 Samuel Williams wrote: Dear Shlomi, Are you able to write a version that uses a function called doors? I've already written two versions which I've posted to the list in a different post (and which I, and other people, can testify for their quality). They are

Directory sizes

2010-05-04 Thread HACKER Nora
Hi list, Maybe someone can help me with this, I have two strange directory size calculating issues: I do a my ( $rc2, $backupsizetrans ) = rexec( $backuphost, 'du -k ' . $backupdir\/$backdir2

RE: Still pondering working with hashs

2010-05-04 Thread Bob McConnell
From: Uri Guttman HP == Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: HP Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com writes: nope. been doing this for 35 years and it is solid advice. you can't do a proper program unless you have a proper goal which is what the specification is. HP Some of

Re: Still pondering working with hashs

2010-05-04 Thread Philip Potter
On 4 May 2010 13:45, Bob McConnell r...@cbord.com wrote: From: Uri Guttman HP == Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:   HP Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com writes:   nope. been doing this for 35 years and it is solid advice. you can't do   a proper program unless you have a proper

Re: Still pondering working with hashs

2010-05-04 Thread Akhthar Parvez K
On Tuesday 04 May 2010, Philip Potter wrote: On 3 May 2010 22:06, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: That is the kind of `always true' thing one might say.  I forgot what the term is but it means its fairly meaningless and mainly sounds good. But none the less true. A tautology? No,

RE: Still pondering working with hashs

2010-05-04 Thread Bob McConnell
From: Philip Potter On 4 May 2010 13:45, Bob McConnell r...@cbord.com wrote: From: Uri Guttman HP == Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:   HP Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com writes:   nope. been doing this for 35 years and it is solid advice. you can't do   a proper program unless

Re: Still pondering working with hashs

2010-05-04 Thread Dr.Ruud
Harry Putnam wrote: Yes, files that exist on multiple paths, but there are also many matched names that are not actually the same file. Then use md5, or a similar tool. -- Ruud -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org

Re: Still pondering working with hashs

2010-05-04 Thread Dr.Ruud
Harry Putnam wrote: But could I have started there not a chance. So please engage some shred of common sense before routinely posting constant karping and even seriously wrong headed advice like this. You are very wrong here. Just put in a sentence what you really try to achieve. Not

Re: Still pondering working with hashs

2010-05-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Philip Potter philip.g.pot...@gmail.com writes: haven't explained *why* you are doing this comparison in this thread. [You might have done elsewhere, but I don't read every thread.] Uri actually did (most of) it for me at one point in a recent post on this thread. Message-ID:

Re: about substr

2010-05-04 Thread Petr Šabata
On Sat, 28 Nov 2037 10:04:37 +0800, billy wrote: when i user substr,i find Tab key is calculated as 1,but i want to set it as 8,what will i do? thks. Tab doesn't mean a fixed space between the content before and after it on a line. If you want that, use spaces instead. -- Petr -- To

Re: Still pondering working with hashs

2010-05-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Bob McConnell r...@cbord.com writes: I would expect his short range goals to be adjusted as he learns what is possible and what it takes to accomplish it. That does require some Thank you sir for a decent summary of how this has gone so far. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Still pondering working with hashs

2010-05-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Philip Potter philip.g.pot...@gmail.com writes: You have to start with *some* goal. Even in agile, you start with stories to work out in what direction you are headed. You formalise your requirements into tests and then you start coding. Yes, you revise your stories, requirements and tests as

RE: beginners Digest 4 May 2010 07:42:13 -0000 Issue 3941

2010-05-04 Thread FRASER, KAREN R.
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Re: Still pondering working with hashs

2010-05-04 Thread Philip Potter
On 4 May 2010 15:19, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Philip Potter philip.g.pot...@gmail.com writes: haven't explained *why* you are doing this comparison in this thread. [You might have done elsewhere, but I don't read every thread.] Uri actually did (most of) it for me at one point in

Re: beginners Digest 4 May 2010 07:42:13 -0000 Issue 3941

2010-05-04 Thread Jeff Pang
2010/5/4 FRASER, KAREN R. karen.fra...@dfps.state.tx.us: How do I unsubscribe from this? I've sent at least three emails to beginners-digest-unsubscr...@perl.org following the instructions in If you want to quit from this list (perl beginners) you should write a message to:

how to denote the like symbol % in perl program

2010-05-04 Thread Pam Wampler
How do you add the % sign in a perl program, if you are doing an oracle query in the program? Example select date, name from my_table where name like upper(?)% The question mark would allow the user to enter the name - and I need to append the % sign so that oracle will know to do a like

Re: how to denote the like symbol % in perl program

2010-05-04 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.05.04 11:21, Pam Wampler wrote: How do you add the % sign in a perl program, if you are doing an oracle query in the program? Example select date, name from my_table where name like upper(?)% The question mark would allow the user to enter the name - and I need to append

RE: how to denote the like symbol % in perl program

2010-05-04 Thread Pam Wampler
Here's the code -- I'm just learning perl so any help is greatly appreciated It will work if I have the user input something like pam% with the percent sign...but I really just want the user to have to enter pam and have the program append the %percent sign #!/usr/bin/perl -w use DBI;

Re: how to denote the like symbol % in perl program

2010-05-04 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.05.04 12:11, Pam Wampler wrote: Here's the code -- I'm just learning perl so any help is greatly appreciated It will work if I have the user input something like pam% with the percent sign...but I really just want the user to have to enter pam and have the program append the

RE: how to denote the like symbol % in perl program

2010-05-04 Thread Pam Wampler
That worked Thank you so very much...I have been beating my head against the wall on this one. Thanks for helping while I am trying to learn perl!!! Have a great day! Pam -Original Message- From: Steve Bertrand [mailto:st...@ipv6canada.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 12:19

Perl LWP::Simple

2010-05-04 Thread Tony Esposito
Cheers! New to LWP and downloading file/copying file from Web to local box.  Had a go at it and failed horribly...  On Solaris 10 with Perl 5.10. #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use LWP::Simple qw($ua get); my $webpage =https://www.mywebpage.com/Documents.zip;; $ua-timeout(20); my $content = get

Re: Perl LWP::Simple

2010-05-04 Thread Shawn H Corey
Tony Esposito wrote: Cheers! New to LWP and downloading file/copying file from Web to local box. Had a go at it and failed horribly... On Solaris 10 with Perl 5.10. #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use LWP::Simple qw($ua get); my $webpage =https://www.mywebpage.com/Documents.zip;;

Re: Perl LWP::Simple

2010-05-04 Thread Tony Esposito
Bravo!  I am in ... but I need to traverse many links over multiple pages to get to the one that points to the file I want to download.  Would follow_link() be the answer? Cheers!! From: Shawn H Corey shawnhco...@gmail.com To: Tony Esposito

Re: Still pondering working with hashs

2010-05-04 Thread Dermot
On 3 May 2010 19:47, Dr.Ruud rvtol+use...@isolution.nl wrote: Harry Putnam wrote: Yes, files that exist on multiple paths, but there are also many matched names that are not actually the same file. Then use md5, or a similar tool. Seconded. If you want to find duplicate files you will need

Re: Perl LWP::Simple

2010-05-04 Thread C.DeRykus
On May 4, 9:46 am, tony1234567...@yahoo.co.uk (Tony Esposito) wrote: Cheers! New to LWP and downloading file/copying file from Web to local box.  Had a go at it and failed horribly...  On Solaris 10 with Perl 5.10. #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use LWP::Simple qw($ua get); my $webpage

Array, foreach problem

2010-05-04 Thread Paul Fontenot
Hi, I'm stuck on using an array to determine the out come of a foreach loop. The script is below. #!/usr/bin/perl # @conditions = (NET, eth); $hostname = (`/bin/hostname`); $logfile

Re: Array, foreach problem

2010-05-04 Thread Jim Gibson
On 5/4/10 Tue May 4, 2010 4:52 PM, Paul Fontenot wpfonte...@cox.net scribbled: Hi, I'm stuck on using an array to determine the out come of a foreach loop. The script is below. -- --

Re: Array, foreach problem

2010-05-04 Thread Shawn H Corey
Jim Gibson wrote: You need to reset LOGFILE to the beginning for subsequent iterations over the @conditions array. As written, the nested foreach will never be executed except for the first condition. Add the indicated seek call. The actual command is seek. See `perldoc -f seek` or

Re: Array, foreach problem

2010-05-04 Thread Paul Fontenot
Thank you very much On 5/4/2010 6:12 PM, Shawn H Corey wrote: Jim Gibson wrote: You need to reset LOGFILE to the beginning for subsequent iterations over the @conditions array. As written, the nested foreach will never be executed except for the first condition. Add the indicated seek call.

Re: Perl LWP::Simple

2010-05-04 Thread Shawn H Corey
Tony Esposito wrote: Bravo! I am in ... but I need to traverse many links over multiple pages to get to the one that points to the file I want to download. Would follow_link() be the answer? Yes, but it's up to you to figure out how to navigate them. :) -- Just my 0.0002 million

Re: Array, foreach problem

2010-05-04 Thread Uri Guttman
JG == Jim Gibson jimsgib...@gmail.com writes: JG On 5/4/10 Tue May 4, 2010 4:52 PM, Paul Fontenot wpfonte...@cox.net JG scribbled: JG You need to reset LOGFILE to the beginning for subsequent JG iterations over the @conditions array. As written, the nested JG foreach will never be

Re: Still pondering working with hashs

2010-05-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Dr.Ruud rvtol+use...@isolution.nl writes: Harry Putnam wrote: But could I have started there not a chance. So please engage some shred of common sense before routinely posting constant karping and even seriously wrong headed advice like this. You are very wrong here. Just put in a

Re: about dispatch tables

2010-05-04 Thread Harry Putnam
A mock up of dispatch table. No dispatching done here... only a test of passing values. What am running into here? one sub function called (dispt('hello',@ar); ) containing a dispatch table. A third sub function is called in the dispatch table ( N(@_); ) but the variables don't survive to be

Re: about dispatch tables

2010-05-04 Thread Uri Guttman
HP == Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: HP A third sub function is called in the dispatch table ( N(@_); ) but HP the variables don't survive to be use there. there are no variables to survive in a sub, just passed arguments in @_ HP The output from the script below: HP Shows 6