On Tue Dec 01 2009 @ 1:09, Rene Schickbauer wrote:
Take a look at link removed
I highly recommend that you buy the Perl Cookbook, most of these
problems (or rather the solutions for them) for these kind of tasks
are in there ;-)
I agree that the Perl Cookbook is an excellent resource.
On Tue Nov 17 2009 @ 11:23, Parag Kalra wrote:
Now if want to again the loop through the contents of the file I was not
able to do the following again:
while ( FILE ) {
print $_\n;
}
Instead I had to first close the previous file handler and the again open
the file to loop through
On Sat Nov 07 2009 @ 8:27, Shawn H Corey wrote:
The cpan program is little more than a shell for CPAN.pm. When you
first start cpan, it says to install Bundle::CPAN and a newer version of
CPAN.pm. These modules do not play nice. Last time I installed them, I
could get cpan to work at all.
On Mon Nov 02 2009 @ 9:33, Parag Kalra wrote:
Hey Folks,
This thread was about book - 'Learning Perl Student Workbook' and not the
book - 'Learning Perl'
So is there a way we can buy genuine/official/legal ebook version of
'Learning Perl Student Workbook' from somewhere.
If yes then
On Mon Nov 02 2009 @ 7:14, tom smith wrote:
use strict;
use warnings;
$\ = \n;
my @book_types = ('hard cover book', 'soft cover book', 'ebook');
if ('soft cover book' eq 'ebook') {
print 'yes';
} else {
print 'no';
}
--output:--
no
Right. The original post in this
On Sun Nov 01 2009 @ 10:51, raphael() wrote:
Hi,
I just finished reading 'Learning Perl' I was wondering if someone
could point me to the book Perl Study Guide,
also called Learning Perl Student Workbook. It's a companion book to
Learning Perl but is not available in my country.
I
On Sun Nov 01 2009 @ 12:32, Parag Kalra wrote:
google doesn't turn up any soft copies ?? Is any electronic copy of this
book even there?
Even I am not sure if there is any soft copy available or not...Lets wait
till we get input from other members of the mailing list...
Cheers,
Parag
I'm
On Tue Oct 06 2009 @ 11:24, Jesus Fernandez wrote:
Dear friends,
I'm working in a genetic drift simulation and I want to add a second
population to my script, any suggestions how to do that?
Is this a follow-up to a previous question? Either way, please keep in mind
that we don't have any
On Sun Oct 04 2009 @ 3:28, Shawn H Corey wrote:
If you're on Linux, type: man ascii
Works on OSX, too. And thanks for the tip. That's handy, and I never knew
it was there.
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On Mon Oct 05 2009 @ 8:46, Charles Smith wrote:
I'm trying to install UR-v0.12 - and encountered a great wizard. But I don't
have root access on my machine. I get
You are not allowed to write to the directory
'/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8'
even though I'd entered
Your
On Tue Sep 22 2009 @ 10:56, Chas. Owens wrote:
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:40, Bryan R Harris
bryan_r_har...@raytheon.com wrote:
Can you explain how perl interprets this? I would've incorrectly thought:
1) () = func_that_return_list_value tries to assign the list to ()
which perl would
On Sun Sep 20 2009 @ 9:01, Shawn H Corey wrote:
Ajay Kumar wrote:
__
This communication contains information which is confidential. It is for the
exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended
On Sun Sep 20 2009 @ 10:13, Shawn H Corey wrote:
Telemachus wrote:
Ok, I'll bite: do you really mean to say that it's a crime somewhere to put
this bullshit drivel into an email and then send that mail to a public
list? Annoying, sure. Pointless, sure. Non-binding, sure. But a crime
On Sun Sep 20 2009 @ 12:17, Shawn H Corey wrote:
Rodrick Brown wrote:
These disclaimers are requirements for anyone working in the
securities industry. There isn't much the poster can do about this and
shouldn't be bashed for this. Many of these disclaimers are
automatically appended to
On Fri Sep 11 2009 @ 4:16, Chas. Owens wrote:
I love perldoc, but it does not document the language nearly as well
as Programming Perl. Of course, that might be why perldoc is free and
Programming Perl costs roughly $50 USD (and weighs a ton).
There's also the problem that Programming Perl
On Tue Sep 01 2009 @ 10:44, Steve Bertrand wrote:
A good place to reference regex is [1].
[1]: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlretut.html
I will throw in my two cents and mention that if you are starting regular
expressions, you may find perldoc perlrequick a little more gentle, as an
I've been following Perl6 via these links. You may find some good reading
at one or another of these:
http://szabgab.com/perl6_tricks_and_treats.html
http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-5-to-6/
http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-6/
You can also find some interesting projects on Github that are using
On Thu Aug 27 2009 @ 4:55, Shawn H. Corey wrote:
Nowadays, Linux comes with Perl but not its documentation. To
download it, start your favourite package manager and download the
package perl-doc Also, since some of it refers to the Syscalls,
you may want its documentation. Its package is
On Thu Aug 27 2009 @ 2:40, heyi xiao wrote:
I knew perl is written in C, but I am still interested in
checking the C source for some builtin function directly. Is there any good
way
to go?
If you browse to this site, you can download the source code for whatever
version of Perl you're
On Sun Aug 23 2009 @ 9:06, Andrew Steinborn wrote:
Shawn H. Corey wrote:
Andrew Steinborn wrote:
I need to know how to get the arguments passed to Perl. I'm
using the ActiveState built version of Perl on Windows Vista.
Perl loads the command-line arguments into the special variable @ARGV
On Mon Aug 24 2009 @ 4:45, Tony Esposito wrote:
perl -p -i.bak -e 's/CONSTANT/VARIABLE/' C:\test.txt
Trying to replace a string with this one line perl ... in Windows it does not
seem to work ...
File test.txt contents is ...
CONSTANT 100
CONSTANT 200
nothing changes ... acts as
On Mon Aug 24 2009 @ 8:08, Tony Esposito wrote:
Looks good but it bombs ... the Perl interpreter crashes from the DOS prompt
... using version 5.10.0 build 1005 from ActiveState.
But it was better than what I had, that's for sure
This makes for a bit of a mind teaser thanks to it being
On Sat Aug 22 2009 @ 10:30, Rick Bragg wrote:
Hi,
As far as I can tell, this perl module returns bogus numbers that have
nothing to do with the real prices from UPS and should be done away with
or fixed. If you use this, beware, check out your prices, will all be
low.
Rick
Thanks for
On Mon Aug 17 2009 @ 4:09, Uri Guttman wrote:
I == Ian pcs...@gmail.com writes:
I Unfortunately I'm not an expert. I just read a few books and this list
etc.
a couple of things. it is good that you are offering to help but as you
claim not to be an expert, it can hurt more than
On Tue Aug 18 2009 @ 7:55, Mihir Kamdar wrote:
I dont have Datetime module installed. Is there a way without using
DateTime??
I don't want to be glib, but I can see at least two broad possible options:
(1) Install DateTime (it's very worth it).
(2) Rewrite all the relevant code from DateTime
On Wed Aug 12 2009 @ 11:27, Philip Potter wrote:
If $fh goes out of scope, will the file be automatically closed?
Yup. From perldoc perlopentut:
Another convenient behavior is that an indirect filehandle
automatically closes when it goes out of scope or when you undefine it:
On Fri Aug 07 2009 @ 4:03, jet speed wrote:
Hi,
I would like to join the $abc with ':' the final desired output 1:2:3:4:5
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $abc = 1 2 3 4 5;
my $out = join ':', $abc;
print $out;
The function join works on lists not scalars. This would
On Fri Aug 07 2009 @ 2:55, Admin wrote:
Hi there,
is there a page that explains the ||= operator and similar operators?
google is not quite finding the special characters in the first 10 hits.
Google and punctuation don't mix well, apparently.
In any case, try perldoc perlop in a terminal
On Thu Aug 06 2009 @ 2:29, sys adm wrote:
I do hate to write s/^\s+|\s+$//g for each and each time,just got tired of it.
So I hope perl can have that a string operator, since many script languages
have that, and it's used universally.
Write the subroutine once, and then you won't have to do
On Thu Aug 06 2009 @ 11:19, jet speed wrote:
@array1 = ( D_101 D_102 D_103 D_104);
@array2 = (0 1 2 3);
How can i convert both of these arrays into %hash, assigining the
@array1 as keys and @array2 as values.
use warnings;
use strict;
my @array1 = qw/D_101 D_102 D_103 D_104/;
On Fri Jul 17 2009 @ 3:18, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
From: Shawn H. Corey shawnhco...@gmail.com
Octavian Rasnita wrote:
Well, in PHP that calculation is made well, so I think there is a bug
in perl.
No, it's not. PHP rounds off the number before printing. In Perl:
printf %.2f, $x;
or
On Fri Jul 10 2009 @ 9:26, Dermot wrote:
The algorithm works perfectly but my understanding of it's workings is amiss.
When I look at this I see $E initialised and then concatenate with the
the modulus of
37 % 2 =1
18 % 2 = 0
9 % 2 = 1
4 % 2 = 0
2 % 2 = 0
That by my reckoning is
On Mon Jul 06 2009 @ 7:00, Harry Putnam wrote:
Can anyone tell me how printing of $mode = 0755 turns into 493?
Yup: what's in $mode is an octal number. Its decimal equivalent is 493. What
you really want to print out is the string '0755', but the string and the
octal number are not the same
On Mon Jul 06 2009 @ 3:31, Harry Putnam wrote:
Thanks to all ...
Now I'm curious about something else:
Is the mode in a stat(file) readout something still different
than octal or decimal?
As John answered, there's more there than just the permissions. If you
check perldoc -f stat, there's
On Wed Jun 24 2009 @ 2:16, Daryl Styrk wrote:
I've purchased Learning Perl to finally give picking up perl a fair
shot. However in the beginning of the book it suggest that I should have
an understanding of basic programming concepts such as variables, loops,
subroutines, and arrays... Well,
On Mon Jun 22 2009 @ 11:10, Steve Bertrand wrote:
I've got a relatively decent understanding of how references work in
Perl (syntax-wise, especially when/how to de-ref), but I'd now like to
ask when to use them.
Obviously memory allocation isn't an issue anymore, so when exactly
should refs
On Sun Jun 21 2009 @ 7:40, AndrewMcHorney wrote:
Hello
I have written a perl script and I am in the debugging and imroving the
code. The first improvement is want to make is to replace the
system(Dir c:/s) call because it is not portable. So I was told to use
the File package.
I think
On Wed Jun 17 2009 @ 3:42, Ajay Kumar wrote:
Hi Irfan
You can do all four task like below
1: open FILE ,filename.txt or die$!;
2: my @lines=FILE
3: do changes through sed
Like sed -e 's/original pattern/new pattern/p' filename
4:if you did changes it automatically get saved
5:
On Fri May 29 2009 @ 10:00, sanket vaidya wrote:
Kindly provide a list of perl functions that work on LINUX but not on
windows. Also provide the list of functions that behave differently on
Windows LINUX. This not project requirement. I just want to explore the
functions on LINUX. So far I
the wrong file.'
Consider this:
use strict;
use warnings;
opendir(my $dh, '/home/telemachus/practice') || die can't opendir: $!;
my @contents = readdir($dh);
my @files = grep { -f /home/telemachus/practice/$_ } @contents;
my @noprepend = grep { -f $_ } @contents;
print
On Wed May 20 2009 @ 1:50, pa...@compugenic.com wrote:
I have the following data structure defined:
my @clients = (
{
name= 'joe',
count = [ qw( one two three ) ]
}
);
Then I try running the following routine:
for my $client (@clients) {
for my $i
On Wed May 13 2009 @ 9:22, Steve Bertrand wrote:
Jim Gibson wrote:
The first argument of push should be an array, not a scalar (even if that
scalar is a reference to an array).
push( @{$graph_data-[0]}, $x_axis );
I'll have to do a bit of reading, because I can't remember why the
On Wed Apr 08 2009 @ 1:08, Richard Hobson wrote:
But, what's the advantage of Programming Perl when we have perldoc?
What does the book give me that perldoc does not?
One thing that nobody has mentioned is that Programming Perl hasn't been
updated since Perl 5.6. There have been two major
One other thing: http://perldoc.perl.org/ is an excellent way to read the
docs online (searchable too), and it provides pdf versions of almost
everything.
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On Wed Apr 08 2009 @ 3:22, ANJAN PURKAYASTHA wrote:
I have a file stored at a location: http://parent_dir/file
Which among gazillion LWP options can I use to download and store the file
on my machine?
TIA
Anjan
If you just want to grab the file, you can use LWP::Simple to grab it:
use
On Wed Apr 08 2009 @ 10:29, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
Telemachus wrote:
On Wed Apr 08 2009 @ 3:22, ANJAN PURKAYASTHA wrote:
I have a file stored at a location: http://parent_dir/file
Which among gazillion LWP options can I use to download and store the file
on my machine?
If you just
On Mon Apr 06 2009 @ 2:44, Irfan Sayed wrote:
please adivce / help
Regards
Irfan
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On Tue Mar 31 2009 @ 3:32, Richard Hobson wrote:
It works, but is there a way of combining these lines:
my $piece = $ref-[$_];
$piece =~ /.*(..$)/;
It feels like this could be done in one step. Is this correct? I'm
finding that I'm doing
On Tue Mar 31 2009 @ 11:08, Octavian Râşniţă wrote:
Do you know if du has a parameter that lets us see the size of the files
from chosen directories?
I've seen that it shows the disk usage only.
From man du:
-a, --all
write counts for all files, not just directories
On Wed Mar 25 2009 @ 12:19, Rodrick Brown wrote:
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Rick Bragg li...@gmnet.net wrote:
I need a quick regex to strip out the following:
example:
change remove-all-this (Keep This) into just Keep This
$s =~ s/.*\((.*)\)/$1/;
something like:
s/
On Wed Mar 25 2009 @ 3:10, Chas. Owens wrote:
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 13:21, Telemachus telemac...@arpinum.org wrote:
snip
my $string2 = 'remove-all-this (Keep this) remove this too';
$string2 =~ s/.*\((.*)\)/$1/;
snip
If $string2 may contain more than one pair of parentheses
On Thu Mar 19 2009 @ 10:41, Chas. Owens wrote:
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 06:11, Raheel Hassan raheel.has...@gmail.com wrote:
Can anybody explains this piece of code, i have difficulties in
understanding it,
snip - long, careful, generous explanation of ugly, ugly code removed
You're much nicer
On Tue Mar 10 2009 @ 4:13, Meghanand Acharekar wrote:
Hi,
Need some help
How can I parse a file line by line using perl.
I want to parse a test file having following data format
*File : user_stats.txt*
20GB Larry
14.5MB Bob
3MBJohn
so that I can send this data to a
On Tue Mar 03 2009 @ 10:21, Lauri Nikkinen wrote:
Ok, thanks. Now I notice that I did not understand correctly what this
script does. I was trying to print sizes of all directories in the directory
tree. But anyway, I appreciate your kind help!
The line find( sub { #code here}, $dir ) simply
On Tue Mar 03 2009 @ 4:03, Telemachus wrote:
find( sub { -f and ( $size += -s _ ) }, $dir );
That line tests if each item in $dir is a *file* (-f).
Sorry: hit send too quickly. What I meant to say there is that the
subroutine tests for files - starting from whatever directory you specify
On Fri Feb 27 2009 @ 8:24, Susan wrote:
If my data looks like this:
word 1: 100101 101102102 102106106
word 2: 101104 106110113 129131148
word 3: 101153 175180381
word 4: 106110 113122131 137142
On Mon Mar 02 2009 @ 7:54, Sarsamkar, Paryushan wrote:
Ohh ... sorry ... after rethinking over it ... I think it converts the
$normal to lower case before comparison
Right, which is a standard and smart thing to do since you can't count on
your users to correctly type 'y-e-s'. Damn users.
On Sun Mar 01 2009 @ 1:04, Octavian Râsnita wrote:
From: prasath_linux prasath@gmail.com
Hi,
Is there any possible function to print the associative array. We
have print_r() function in PHP to display the associative array.
Likwise is there any function in perl to print associative
On Mon Feb 23 2009 @ 6:27, r...@goto10.org wrote:
problem with below
@linearray prints - but just prints an array of array references (i think
thats
what it is anyway!) i tried to flatten it to @array but i dont really know
what
i am doing.
i need to have all the data in @linearray
On Fri Feb 20 2009 @ 3:02, ramesh.marimu...@wipro.com wrote:
Thanks Thomas. Actually when is give use Expect;, the error I get is Can't
locate Expect.pm in @INC Is there anything that I'm missing or should I
check something?
-ramesh
As a start, you can run this command to see what
On Fri Feb 20 2009 @ 10:28, Dermot wrote:
2009/2/19 mritorto mrito...@gmail.com:
guys
more questions
isn't built in. I am using active state perl
can u recommend any good perl books the ones I have aren't make for
beginers like perl cookbook or perl in a nutshell
I'd say
On Fri Feb 20 2009 @ 1:29, mrito...@gmail.com wrote:
I have that one
I need one for perl dummies like me
If you want an alternative, take a look at Beginning Perl by Simon Cozens:
http://www.perl.org/books/beginning-perl/
It's written for Perl 5.6 (I think), but the core of the syntax
On Sun Feb 15 2009 @ 9:45, Octavian Râsnita wrote:
From: John W. Krahn jwkr...@shaw.ca
Kevin wrote:
Could someone please direct me to some web pages where I can go
through all deprecated perl functions and/or ways of writing perl
script? It is not easy for me to figure out whether an
', enter the name of the file you want to work on. The
two files should be in the same directory for this to work. Otherwise, you
will need to enter the full path of the file,
perl new_liner /path/to/filename
You should get output like this:
telemachus ~ $ perl new_liner feed
LAWN
On Sun Feb 15 2009 @ 8:56, Jack Butchie wrote:
I did some fiddling with the list. I noticed if the second or third or
whatever column wasn't exactly the same as the previous, even though the
tex in the first field was the same, line was being added. I then tested
with only the first
On Sun Feb 15 2009 @ 9:48, Jack Butchie wrote:
I used a tab, then a pipe, both produced the same results.
LAWNS|123|GOOD
LAWNS|12|GOOD
The results are the same because the test is for the whole line. If you
only want to test one field, you need a different script. For example, this
will
On Wed Feb 11 2009 @ 4:04, kevin liu wrote:
Hi everybody:
I have two arrays(@nwarray0 and @nwarray1) in my program and i want
to make sure that all the elements in @nwarray0 could be found in @nwarray1.
Check 'perldoc -q array' - two or three of the FAQ answers touch on
different
On Thu Feb 05 2009 @ 11:17, stuforman wrote:
i want to use perl to end each line with a '~'. i would really
appreciate any syntax that would help me do this...
thanks in advance
Here's one quick version. This will work and ignore lines without any text
or spaces:
perl -ple '$_ = $_~
On Wed Feb 04 2009 @ 5:49, Dermot wrote:
Hi,
I have until recently used a widows box and Activestate's perl. I now
use a *nix box. Something I am missing a lot is the html documentation
tree that Activestate builds when it's installed and keeps up to date
with it ppm.
Is there a way to
On Fri Jan 30 2009 @ 5:34, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
Hello,
Does anyone have some recommendations for some tutorials/documentation
for using perlscript as a client-side language in browsers?
Thank you.
Octavian
Never knew that there was such an animal. A quick Google search offers
this:
On Sun Jan 18 2009 @ 6:31, Steven Sankaran wrote:
Hm. I have spent the last hour or so attempting to get this to work,
but I cannot seem to get Perl to update. I have located the 5.10
directory under /usr/local/ActiveState-5.10 but I cannot get Eclipse
to recognize it. I even tried Eclipse
On Mon Jan 19 2009 @ 2:13, Sarsamkar, Paryushan wrote:
Hi All,
snip
How can I work with / and \ here?
My suggestion would be to use File::Spec rather than hardcode the \ or / as
a path separator. See perldoc File::Spec for more information, but in a
nutshell, it's a core module built to
On Mon Jan 19 2009 @ 4:21, dolphin_sonar wrote:
Again, you answered my question. You should be teaching Perl as your
responses are very clear and that's not easy for people to do...give
clear, concise responses.
Actually, I had a big goof in my response. The program and the print
statement
(say as
running_sum( 2, 7 );) If I add that call, here's my output:
telemachus ~ $ perl sum
The sum of (5 6) is 11
The sum of (5 6 2 7) is 31
That appears to say that perl has added 5, 6, 2, and 7 up to 31. What
actually happened was that you added 5, 6, 2 and 7 (20) to 11 (the sum from
On Sun Jan 18 2009 @ 4:35, Steven Sankaran wrote:
Hello,
So, I was going through a tutorial and I realized that my Eclipse
install is using an older version of Perl that does not recognize the
say command. I have attempted updating Perl to 5.10 using the
ActivePerl-5.10.pkg ,however, as far
From: Telemachus telemac...@arpinum.org
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:17:27 -0500
To: beginners@perl.org
Subject: Re: Newbie question about variables, arrays and where they all go
On Sun Jan 18 2009 @ 7:54, Telemachus wrote:
The arguments to a subroutine go into the @_ array. The @numbers array
On Wed Jan 14 2009 @ 8:17, dolphin_sonar wrote:
Hi,
I bought the O'Reilly 5th edition Learning Perl the other day and it's
great. I am new to programming and Perl as well. I do know my way
around Linux but I am having problems upgrading from the version that
was on my OS (Cent OS 5.2) to
On Thu Jan 15 2009 @ 1:12, Kammen van, Marco, Springer SBM NL wrote:
Looking at all his posts below with the exact same format just different
questions...
Is this guy for real... or is this a spam bot??
A real guy with a lot of homework?
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On Mon Jan 12 2009 @ 7:56, Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote:
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 18:40 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
I'm in the middle of some administrative type of scripting and my
skill level is pretty low. I ran up on a need to pass two different
kinds of chunks of into to a sub function.
snip
On Thu Jan 08 2009 @ 11:56, Taylor, Andrew (ASPIRE) wrote:
# In a number of places, I have code that looks like the following.
my $default_type;
if( $split_line[0] eq DEFAULT_INPUT )
{
$default_type = INPUT;
}
snip
This works OK, but I'm trying to avoid
On Sat Jan 03 2009 @ 11:00, John W. Krahn wrote:
David Newman wrote:
I always found it cleaner, and have heard others say it's preferable,
to declare all variables at the top of the program (although admittedly
I didn't do that even in this short script).
It is always better to limit the
On Sat Jan 03 2009 @ 9:21, David Newman wrote:
On 1/2/09 5:22 PM, Rob Dixon wrote:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
You should also use the warnings pragma instead of the command-line switch.
use warnings;
OK. Why is this better?
My understanding is that the pragma (use
On Mon Dec 08 2008 @ 7:17, itshardtogetone wrote:
Hi,
My website is hosted in 110mb.com and they do not have this module installed
Algorithm::Numerical::Shuffle qw /shuffle/;
So what can I do to use that module.
Thanks
You should be able to create a directory in your $HOME, say
On Wed Dec 03 2008 @ 10:46, Rex wrote:
In order to ramp up quickly on the nitty-gritty of Regular Expressions
in Perl, what will be a good book to start with? I do have moderate
familiarity with RegEx, but am still not using all that Perl's RegEx
engine has to offer. Hence the question.
On Mon Dec 01 2008 @ 12:04, Chas. Owens wrote:
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 08:23, Jeff Pang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Message du 01/12/08 11:38
De : howa
A : beginners@perl.org
Copie à :
Objet : How to make two perl work together?
Hello,
I have one perl (5.10) installed by my
On Mon Dec 01 2008 @ 7:13, blake askew wrote:
Thanks for the help John. I have made the changes you suggested and managed
to get everything working properly. One more question though that is
completely different, how do I allow users to specify switches on the
command line in any order to be
On Tue Nov 25 2008 @ 9:29, Sharan Basappa wrote:
Hi,
Would like to know if perl has native (without using special modules)
for generating random numbers?
Shawn already pointed you in the right direction, but here's a good tip. If
you want to check if you something Perl-ish, try 'perldoc -q
On Tue Nov 25 2008 @ 12:45, Telemachus wrote:
If you want to check if you something Perl-ish
Something clearly went wrong here. I got caught between to check if you can
do something with Perl and to check something Perl-ish. What I sent was
neither. Feh.
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On Tue Nov 25 2008 @ 3:27, Chas. Owens wrote:
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:26, Rob Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chas. Owens wrote:
I need to look up why they call apartments flats.
'Flat' came from old english 'flet', and that from old german 'flaz' and
'flezzi' meaning 'flat',
reference?!?)
Sorry if this is very long. I wanted to make sure to include enough
information to make the questions clear.
Thanks in advance, Telemachus
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On Mon Nov 17 2008 @ 10:21, John W. Krahn wrote:
Set paragraph mode.
while () {
Read a paragraph into $_. In your example a paragraph is:
field:value
field:value
field:value
my @fields = split /^([^:]+):\s*/m;
Since there are multiple lines in a paragraph they use
On Sun Nov 09 2008 @ 1:31, JC Janos wrote:
I've read that Perl (which I don't know yet at all) is best for Text
processing like this.
The thing is that I need to do this from within a Bash script, and
assign the comma-separated list to a variable in that Bash script.
Can I even use Perl
On Thu Nov 06 2008 @ 3:42, Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO
wrote:
I need an environment variable from my .profile on Solaris and having
troubles getting at it. I have a Perl script which executes fine outside of
cron and now am trying to do via cron. I wanted to
On Tue Nov 04 2008 @ 4:11, Rob Dixon wrote:
Rob Dixon wrote:
If I had things my way there would never be any use of Perl as a command-line
tool.
Isn't this throwing out the baby with the bathwater? Here's a random, real,
recent example of why I'm not giving up Perl on the command line. I
On Mon Oct 27 2008 @ 12:35, John W. Krahn wrote:
The fewer lines of code to read and/or write, the easier it is to spot
mistakes, the less chance for action at a distance.
I find that there's a point, however, where compression and understanding
cross paths. After that, the fewer lines and
On Mon Oct 27 2008 @ 5:05, Brian wrote:
An example of something confusing me is in the sample below
find sub {
return unless -f;
open my $FH, '', $_ or die Cannot open '$_' $!;
while ( $FH ) {
/\Q$string/ print $REPORT $File::Find::name\n and
return;
On Wed Oct 22 2008 @ 4:32, protoplasm wrote:
I ran find2perl to give me some output that I included below (in
Sub_directory). If I have no network shares mounted it runs fine. But
I have some shares mounted (sftp, or smb, etc.) via Nautilus, the
below script really takes a long time. It
On Tue Oct 14 2008 @ 3:58, Rob Dixon wrote:
Chas. Owens wrote:
[...] if for some reason you don't have access to perldoc
Are there any installations of perl that don't include the manual?
In Debian (and so probably many of its children), perl-doc is a distinct
package and not installed
On Sun Jul 06 2008 @ 5:58, loody wrote:
BTW, do you know where I can find the whole list after substitution
and pattern matching, m/,?
Check out these three parts of the documentation:
perldoc perlrequick
perldoc perlretut
perldoc perlre
That goes in increasing order of complexity, detail,
On Sun Jul 06 2008 @ 8:09, loody wrote:
Dear all:
I try to read the last line of a file directly instead of using
while() or something else to read each line until undef bumped to
me.
If you know some build-in functions or another modules for me to use,
please help me.
My first thought is
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