FW: Time arithmetics...

This is a problem for us historians. I would hope that perl designers, among others, are thinking about wide date ranges... Thanx, Smiddy ( About that log message from AD 61, ... ) -Original Message- From: Michael Kelly [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 11:42

FW: How to thread in Perl?

Actually, it is a *NIX thing. There are non-blocking ways to reap children, at least in most modern *NIX systems. You probably also want to look at the documentation for the wait() function. It may explain why your experiment appeared to work. Anybody know how to do non-blocking waits in

RE: nice, perl, fork and exec

In *nix, he child process inherits the nice value of the parent process, and, unless the process owner is the super-user, the child process cannot be given a higher priority. This would also apply to calls to system() and backticks, since they all basically use the same mechanism. It also

How long can $_ be?

My Perl doesn't know what strlen is. Is it part of a module? Oops. Don't get your perl mixed up with your C, Smiddy. I meant length($_) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FW: How long can $_ be?

Hi Folks, This got me wondering. Is the behavior you see caused by limitations for $_, or by limitations of the print function? You might try: print strlen( $_ ), \n; Thanks, Smiddy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: sort order of hash keys

Try the fields module. This sounds like an ideal place to use a pseudo-hash Thanx, Smiddy .. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Sockets in an array

$newsocket[$i] = IO::Socket::INET-new($address) or die $@; How are you declaring newsocket? I would probably decare it as local rather than as my. Worth a try anyway. Unfortunately I can't try it here. Thanks, Smiddy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

RE: Sockets in an array

Hi Jenda, I have had problems using my when refering to File Handles, especially when I wish to pass them to subroutines. I have also had problems declaring them with $ or @, and have been forced to use: local *logHandle; Is this because I am declaring the actual filehandle, and not a

RE: Caching Large Data Structures To Disk

Hi Jess, Tied variables might work, but I was also browsing CPAN this afternoon, and I noticed that there is a whole SAS module under Commercial Software. I have no idea what it does, but you might find it interesting to look at. Thanx, Smiddy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Parsing a .csv file

You might try splitting on quotes first., e.g. my @quotes_array = spilt //, $input; my @final_array; # Array members with odd idices will be quoted strings, split others on comma. for ( my $index = 0; $index @quotes; $index++ ) { if (

flock() failure - possible Perl compile problem?

Hi Folks, I posted this awhile back, but then had problems with my mailer and saw no responses. I have also attempted to clarify the froblem. When I run the following program under Linux ( Red Hat 7.1, Perl 5.6.0 ) it works fine. If I run the program under Solaris, it fails with Bad File