Profiler for Windows

Does dprof work on Windows? Does any profiler? How do you know from CPAN if a module is windows compatible or not? ___ Stephan Gross Loral Skynet 908-470-2388 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Off-Topic (200%) - Where are you from?

Metuchen, NJ, USA ___ Stephan Gross Loral Skynet 908-470-2388 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Increment & Decrement Strangeness

The following script: $a ="X"; $a++; print $a; $a--; print $a; prints Y -1 Why does the autoincrement work in the + direction but not in the -? How do I get the letter before "Y" back? Is this a Perl bug? ___ Stephan Gross Loral Skyn

Set Excel Print Area from Perl?

I have a Perl program that creates an Excel spreadsheet. I need to set the print area from within my program. According to what I can dig up on VB, the command is ActiveSheet.PageSetup.PrintArea = Selection.Address How do I translate that into Perl? _

RE: Why doesn't RETURN work?

nesday, October 24, 2001 9:59 AM To: 'Gross, Stephan'; 'Beginner Perl' Subject: RE: Why doesn't RETURN work? Hi, 'if ($a = $b)' is not comparing $a to $b, it is assigning the value of $b into $a If you want to test for numeric equivalence, use two '=

Why doesn't RETURN work?

I have a subroutine sub xyz { if ($a = $b) { return; } } When I run this in the debugger, it stays frozen on the RETURN statement. Shouldn't the RETURN break out of the xyz subroutine? Also, this used to work until I made some changes. Am I missing something obvious?

Regular Expression Help

I'm matching a SQL date like this: $ftime =~ /(\d+)-(\d+)-(\d+)\s+(\d+):(\d+):(\d+)/; If $ftime is "2001-05-13 11:53:00", then $1 is "2001", $2 is "05", etc. However, I also want to match if the user types in a partial string. For example, if $ftime is "2001-12-18", I want $1, $2 and $3 to

What OLE-excel command do I use from Perl to change the font?

What OLE-excel command do I use from Perl to change the font? ___ Stephan Gross Loral Skynet 908-470-2388 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: cleaning up forwarded, inline email messages with Perl?

Text::Autoformat was featured in the last issue of The Perl Journal (which is unfortunately not on-line at the moment). For a third-party (and free!) tool, try eCleaner at http://members.tripod.com/schin26/index.htm. ___ Stephan Gross Lo

Perl & Outlook/Exchange

I'd like to write a Perl application that will tell me how many messages are sitting in an Exchange mailbox. Implementations of both POP3 and IMAP can query a mailbox given the username and password. The problem is that I have several mailboxes all using the same user account. Outlook can do th

Arrow Notation Question

I'm using Win32::GUI. I create a text field and call it $TextField. The user inputs some text, say "abc". If I say print "$TextField->Text"; I get Win32::GUI::Textfield=HASH(0x23762b0)->Text If instead I say $x = $TextField->Text; print "$x"; I get abc Why the differenc

Perl Style Question

Why is this style if ($x) { do this; do that; } typically preferred over if ($x) { do this; do that; } I like the latter example because it's easier to cut and paste the braces and everything in between. I also think it looks better. But none of the top programmers ever see

When to use "my"?

One of the things I've been struck by on this list is how often the "my" declaration is used. For example, I never would have thought of foreach my $i (@data) What are the advantages to doing this? A while back someone showed that it could speed up execution. Why would this be? Just curious,

RE: Win32::MsgBox syntax

from http://www.le-berre.com/perlxtd.htm MsgBox function Display a message box. Syntax MsgBox($Message,$Type,$Caption); $Message Text to be displayed in the dialog box. $Type Defines the type (Icon & Buttons) of the message box. To define the value sum the desired

Multiple email addresses

I figured out how to look at email through the Net::IMAP::Simple module. I now have a deeper question. I have one account that several different email accounts are tied to. For example, user account 'xyz' has mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] , but there are other Exchange e

Email question

I'd like to a write a program that would tell me, for several specific accounts/mailboxes on a Microsoft Exchange server, how many emails are there. I can use either POP3 or IMAP protocols. Any suggestions or pointers? ___ Stephan Gross

Regexp Question Again

I wasn't clear last time. I wrote: >I want to match the following: >1) the letters "PT" >2) a space or nothing >3) a word that may or may not be in parentheses or even not exist >and return item #3 (which may be null) >Example: >PT (XYZ) or PT XYZ or PTXYZ or PT >should return "XYZ" except the la

Regexp Question

I want to match the following: 1) the letters "PT" 2) a space or nothing 3) a word that may or may not be in parentheses or even not exist and return item #3 (which may be null) Example: PT (XYZ) or PT XYZ or PTXYZ or PT should return "XYZ" except the last case, which should return "". I can do