RE: dealing with dates

change and I would like to find a way for my program to automagiclly deal with it. If Pcalc can do this then I haven't been able to figure it out. thanks -Original Message- From: Harter, Douglas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 11:58 AM To: Steve Main; [EMAIL PROT

dealing with dates

Hello list, I am having a problem coming up with a solution to compare and find the difference between two dates. One of the dates is a GMT date while the other is PST(or PDT) so my first Problem is converting the local date to GMT which is fine unless I want to automagically "detect" the hour

RE: persisting environment variables

s piece as is Thanks for your help everyone. -Original Message- From: Kipp, James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 9:15 AM To: 'Steve Main'; perl beginners Subject: RE: persisting environment variables > It's a utility that allows user

RE: persisting environment variables

does this but I was trying to rewrite it in Perl. Working on Solaris. -Original Message- From: Kipp, James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 8:52 AM To: 'Steve Main'; perl beginners Subject: RE: persisting environment variables > > Hello l

persisting environment variables

Hello list, Does anyone know how to set an environment variable in Perl and then have that variable persist after the Perl script has ended? I'm working in Unix. Thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Regex

Thanks Gang, I ended up with "if ( $line =~ m/^(ORA-\d+):/ ) {" -Original Message- From: Paul Kraus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 11:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Perl Subject: RE: Regex Ummm no your are correct. I assumed it was imbedded in other text

Regex

Hello list, I am trying to code a regex to pull out the number part of "ORA-600" or 600. I have started with "if ($line =~ m/^(ORA-)(\-[0-9]*)$/) {" but this is obviously wrong. Anyone out there willing to get me on the right track? thanks Steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTEC

File::Find ?

Hello list, I am trying to find a way in Perl to select all files in a directory but the most current. In shell I can do `find . -name *.arc | sort | tail -1` to get the most current file and then exclude it from processing. I was hoping someone could point out a way to do it entirely in Perl.

SUID and getting the basename

Hello list, I have a script that will run with the SUID bit set. This of course has generated a bunch of problems. As I have been working through them I have come across one that I just can't seem to figure out. I want to get this ( or some equivalent) to work: $oraProgName = `/usr/bin/ba

RE: Environment setup

tober 04, 2002 8:29 AM To: 'Steve Main'; Kipp, James; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Environment setup Another thing you might want to try is making a small module to house your variables. You should be able to do something like this: ### #ora.pm -- houses global varia

RE: Environment setup

Thanks for the quick reply James, How would I set this up in a script and have all the other scripts be able to use it? -Original Message- From: Kipp, James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 7:33 AM To: 'Steve Main'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: E

Environment setup

Hello list, I have an Oracle framework written in Korn shell scripts that I am attempting to re-write in Perl. I am having trouble figuring out how to "source" in environment variables. For the shell scripts, I have a script that sets all of the global variables and then each script in the fram