Re: 4 questions

2008-04-04 Thread Wolf Blaum
Is there a 'bible' out there to read? Depending on you level of faith: learning perl by randal schwartz tom phoenix the camel book by Larry wall bless you, wolf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: a regular expression issue

2008-04-04 Thread Wolf Blaum
hi, #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $file; my @xfiles; @xfiles = (canada, cane, cane02, ca.e.02, canine, .hidden); foreach $file (@xfiles){ #want canada only for this iteration if ($file =~ /(canada)/){print $file\n - end first if - \n;} #wb: (expression) groups what

edit pdf

2008-04-03 Thread Wolf Blaum
hi there, I have a pile of pdf documents which may or may not contain email adresses. Now I do have to mask the [EMAIL PROTECTED] adresses into something like xyAT whereever.dot I looked at CAM::PDF and PDF::API2 - my CAM::PDF code would look like foreach my $file (@todo){ my

Re: Checking filenames? [:: ?Kinda Solved? ::]

2004-03-05 Thread wolf blaum
On Friday 05 March 2004 02:03, Sumit Kaur generously enriched virtual reallity by making up this one: Hi, Hi, I have to write my first Perl script . This scripts Searches for rare = codons in nucleotide sequence . The nucleotide sequence is entered by = the user in the format ATTGCAA.. and

Re: Perl IDE

2004-03-05 Thread wolf blaum
On Friday 05 March 2004 18:26, Alexander Douglas generously enriched virtual reallity by making up this one: Hello Hello I am new to perl and hence needs some help.. 1) Is there a good IDE to build perl forms for web. Emacs, VIM :-) Use the CGI module. 2) If i have to connect perl to

Re: Perl IDE

2004-03-05 Thread wolf blaum
On Friday 05 March 2004 18:26, Alexander Douglas generously enriched virtual reallity by making up this one: Hello Hello I am new to perl and hence needs some help.. 1) Is there a good IDE to build perl forms for web. Emacs, VIM :-) Use the CGI module. 2) If i have to connect perl to

Re: Passing Data Between Servers

2004-03-04 Thread wolf blaum
On Thursday 04 March 2004 22:26, Tim generously enriched virtual reallity by making up this one: Paul, Network Programming with Perl by Stein is a good place to start. It discusses forking children, blocking and non-blocking I/O, among others, which will be considerations you'll want to

Re: Checking filenames? [:: ?Kinda Solved? ::]

2004-03-04 Thread wolf blaum
On Friday 05 March 2004 02:03, Sumit Kaur generously enriched virtual reallity by making up this one: Hi, Hi, I have to write my first Perl script . This scripts Searches for rare = codons in nucleotide sequence . The nucleotide sequence is entered by = the user in the format ATTGCAA.. and

Re: Forking

2004-03-03 Thread wolf blaum
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 20:47, Price, Jason generously enriched virtual reallity by making up this one: Hi Thanks for the input - it's quite helpful. and nice:-) However, I don't fully understand some of the code - maybe you could help clear it up for me. The parts I'm unclear on

Re: Forking

2004-03-03 Thread wolf blaum
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 21:57, Bob Showalter generously enriched virtual reallity by making up this one: Hi, - 1 while wait() 0 That just reaps the exit statuses to prevent zombies; the children have already exited (otherwise the loop wouldn't have exited.) You might want the exit

Re: Help with Radio_group

2004-02-29 Thread wolf blaum
On Sunday 29 February 2004 17:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] generously enriched virtual reality by making up this one: Hi I have a script that processes a form input. What I want to do is this: I assume you are talking about a html form. I have form elements: -radio_group1 -radio_group2

Re: Help with Radio_group

2004-02-29 Thread wolf blaum
On Monday 01 March 2004 02:06, wolf blaum generously enriched virtual reality by making up this one: On Sunday 29 February 2004 17:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] generously enriched virtual reality by making up this one: Hi I have a script that processes a form input. What I want to do

Re: Pattern matching problem

2004-02-26 Thread wolf blaum
On Thursday 26 February 2004 12:28, Henry Todd generously enriched virtual reality by making up this one: On 2004-02-26 00:43:21 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wolf Blaum) said: As I understand Biology, there is 4 nucleotid acids which gives 4**2 combinaions for dupplets. So you need 8 vars

Re: Array question

2004-02-26 Thread wolf blaum
On Friday 27 February 2004 01:18, Chris generously enriched virtual reality by making up this one: Hi Guys, I have a problem with e-mail address's and an array. I have some code that will be a documentation spider to go through all our technical documentation, extract e-mail address's and

Re: Is there an etc. command in perl?

2004-02-25 Thread wolf blaum
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 21:52, Joel generously enriched virtual reality by making up this one: Hi, Is there an et cetera type command in perl? Specifically, what I want to do is to go from is there an etc command in any other programing language? while (1) { my $num = shift

Re: Pattern matching problem

2004-02-25 Thread wolf blaum
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 17:35, Henry Todd generously enriched virtual reality by making up this one: Hi, I'm having trouble counting the number of specific substrings within a string. I'm working on a bioinformatics coursework at the moment, so my string looks like this: $sequence =

Re: can't bind a reference using Tk

2004-02-24 Thread wolf blaum
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 04:29, Michael Ragsdale generously enriched virtual reality by making up this one: .. However, dont pass the object - pass a refernece to it in line 2, like: my $go = $right-Button(-text='Get Data',-command=sub{compute(\ $ent)})-pack(-side='top'); and use

Re: Perl Newbie

2004-02-24 Thread wolf blaum
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 15:49, Peterson, Darren - Contractor.Westar generously enriched virtual reality by making up this one: Hello, all. I'm as green a Perl programmer as can be. As a matter of fact, I am green in OO programming and network communications. I spent 12 years

Re: can't bind a reference using Tk

2004-02-23 Thread wolf blaum
On Monday 23 February 2004 18:31, Michael Ragsdale generously enriched virtual reality by making up this one: .. Hi Mike, my $ent =$right-Entry(-width=8,-background='white')-pack(-side='left'); ^line 1 my $go = $right-Button(-text='Get

Re: Checking for calling context

2004-02-13 Thread wolf blaum
Hey there, Hi I have a set of functions that send an XML element, wait for a response, parse the response, and return it. However, there are often cases where the resulting XML is never used, and so parsing it is pointless. Is there a way that a sub can tell where the result is going to go,

Re: Which is better, opening and closing, or a massive file opening and a massive closing?

2004-02-12 Thread wolf blaum
For Quality purpouses, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 's mail on Wednesday 11 February 2004 22:08 may have been monitored or recorded as: Hi, I'm still working on the script, though it is cleaning up even better, I even have it running cleaner by dumping anything not matching some specs. What I am

Re: How to Implement a BNF syntax in perl?

2004-02-07 Thread wolf blaum
For Quality purpouses, Balaji Thoguluva 's mail on Friday 06 February 2004 18:49 may have been monitored or recorded as: Hi, Hi I have a long BNF (Backus-naur form) for parsing a protocol message. Suppose I want to implement a BNF like this Response = Status-line

Re: Script to parse files

2004-02-06 Thread wolf blaum
For Quality purpouses, LoneWolf 's mail on Friday 06 February 2004 16:57 may have been monitored or recorded as: I've been working with this since wolf and jeff and john sent me some stuff, I think I actually based everything on wolf's code excerpts. I'm sure my final code is going to not be

Re: Reg. string matching using reg-exp

2004-02-06 Thread wolf blaum
For Quality purpouses, Balaji Thoguluva 's mail on Friday 06 February 2004 20:44 may have been monitored or recorded as: Hi, I am a novice to perl programming. When I execute the following code, I get always No Match. I guess my reg-exp is correct. I also tried changing $line= INVITE

Re: Script to parse files

2004-02-06 Thread wolf blaum
For Quality purpouses, wolf blaum 's mail on Friday 06 February 2004 20:15 may have been monitored or recorded as: easy: (notice: thats the same script as priviously but has the parse in a sub:) ---snip--- #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my (@fields, $lng); ... and that my

Re: Remote script execution

2004-02-05 Thread wolf blaum
For Quality purpouses, Thind, Aman 's mail on Thursday 05 February 2004 06:24 may have been monitored or recorded as: Hello Friends, Hi I want to write a script that when executed will get lots of details from 10 different Unix(AIX) and Windows(XP) boxes and generate a report. The details

Re: Make this into a script to parse?

2004-02-04 Thread wolf blaum
For Quality purpouses, Lone Wolf 's mail on Thursday 05 February 2004 00:52 may have been monitored or recorded as: I'm back to dealing with the main issue of a badly formatted file being brought down from an archaic system and needing to be cleaned up before being passed to another user or a

Re: (U) What are the best Perl books out there ... More than 1 is fin e ... list as many as you like

2004-02-04 Thread wolf blaum
Hi, I like: Learning Perl by Randal Schwartz Tom Phoenix as a good introduction with tons of further references Programing Perl by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen and Jon Orwant as the ultimate refernce and pillow Mastering Perl/Tk by Steve Lidie and Nancy Walsh for times when I dont have

Re: removing all elements in an array

2004-02-04 Thread wolf blaum
For Quality purpouses, Markham, Richard 's mail on Thursday 05 February 2004 04:27 may have been monitored or recorded as: How can I simply remove all elements in an array, given that the array is global and a procedure defines the elements to where the total number of elements in this array

Re: Make this into a script to parse?

2004-02-04 Thread wolf blaum
For Quality purpouses, Lone Wolf 's mail on Thursday 05 February 2004 04:23 may have been monitored or recorded as: Hi Thank goodness I never said I had perfect code, because I would definitely be lying. no worries - I post code to get feedback. Thats the whole ideaof learning it. I

Re: Make this into a script to parse?

2004-02-04 Thread wolf blaum
For Quality purpouses, wolf blaum 's mail on Thursday 05 February 2004 06:07 may have been monitored or recorded as: The script reads all files in the sql subdir of your home dir and produces the corrosponding filname.out in your homedir. shame on me: of course it reads all the files

Re: Perl/Tk and portability

2004-01-30 Thread wolf blaum
For Quality purpouses, Gary Stainburn 's mail on Friday 30 January 2004 16:26 may have been monitored or recorded as: Hi folks, Hi Gary, As I've never looked at Tk before I would appreciate people's opinions on it. Specifically, how easy is it to develop, and how portable is it between the

Re: Running Perl CGI from Windows

2004-01-30 Thread wolf blaum
For Quality purpouses, Jan Eden 's mail on Friday 30 January 2004 20:01 may have been monitored or recorded as: Hi all, Hi .. But accessing the script from a Windows machine gives me the prepared error message. From the log I can see that all parameter values end up in the $name variable,

Re: Running Perl CGI from Windows

2004-01-30 Thread wolf blaum
For Quality purpouses, Jan Eden 's mail on Friday 30 January 2004 20:17 may have been monitored or recorded as: Hi Jan Like this: form action=cgi-bin/mail_form.pl method=post enctype=text/plain accept-charset=iso-8859-1 ... /form Try enctype=application/x-www-form-urlencoded instead. I

Re: A little help please?

2004-01-30 Thread wolf blaum
For Quality purpouses, Joel 's mail on Saturday 31 January 2004 00:26 may have been monitored or recorded as: Hi, I'm interested in learning to program perl, and I just got ActivePerl for Windows. I am running XP and have a few questions. First off, how do I run the interpreter under

Re: Regarding Text Widget in Perl/Tk

2004-01-30 Thread wolf blaum
For Quality purpouses, zentara 's mail on Friday 30 January 2004 16:22 may have been monitored or recorded as: Hi, neat trick! Great. However, I have a, well, couriosity? My script looks pretty much the same, except the print in dosomething (since it is acctually your script:-)) Here is a

Re: goto command

2004-01-29 Thread wolf blaum
For Quality purpouses, Thomas Browner 's mail on Thursday 29 January 2004 18:46 may have been monitored or recorded as: Does perl have a goto command. For example if you tell scrip to do something and it returns a 1 then it should go to a block of code that does something else. Not talking

Re: Use and Require

2004-01-29 Thread wolf blaum
For Quality purpouses, Mallik 's mail on Thursday 29 January 2004 18:57 may have been monitored or recorded as: Dear Perl Gurus, that must be someone else What is the difference between Use and Require. try perldoc -f use on your box (or www.perldoc.com): use Module VERSION LIST

Re: New Perl User needs help with POST in perl

2004-01-29 Thread wolf blaum
For Quality purpouses, PerlDiscuss - Perl Newsgroups and mailing lists 's mail on Thursday 29 January 2004 23:49 may have been monitored or recorded as: I have written my HTML code to where it uses POST to collect information. Where do I start to write a script that collects the data from the

Re: array push

2004-01-27 Thread wolf blaum
For Quality purpouses, Rob Dixon 's mail on Tuesday 27 January 2004 12:42 may have been monitored or recorded as: Didn't you mean to put spaces before the last three records? This will be the result of .. well - in Anthonys original mail there were spaces - i just copied that. Or did I

Re: array push

2004-01-27 Thread wolf blaum
For Quality purpouses, Rob Dixon 's mail on Tuesday 27 January 2004 00:30 may have been monitored or recorded as: The right conclusion for the wrong reasons Wolf! The spaces are the result of interpolating the array into a string, and the presence of a newline on each array element is

Re: array push

2004-01-26 Thread wolf blaum
For Quality purpouses, Anthony J Segelhorst 's mail on Monday 26 January 2004 17:17 may have been monitored or recorded as: How come when I push a variable to an array it puts one whitespace before the variables on all the lines except the first one?  I would except all the lines not to have

Re: Slices

2004-01-26 Thread wolf blaum
@arary[3...] but this doesn't work?. What about @array[3..$#array] PS: @arary = typo? Wolf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response

Re: complex data file parsing

2004-01-23 Thread wolf blaum
Hi, As far as your follow up question on the B lines, only line with a B in the beginning in set?, I'm not sure if I understand. If you mean that there will only be 1 line per order (set of lines A-T) with a B in the first position, you are correct. yes, thats what I meant. Sorry about my

Re: can i do it with perl ?

2004-01-23 Thread wolf blaum
I there, Hi, I need to write a web database application using perl, and i need a way that when the users logs into the system i download all the information regarding to the user to its local computer and make all the transaction locally. After that, when the user logs out of the

Re: can i do it with perl ?

2004-01-23 Thread wolf blaum
Give me a little bit of time with a soldering iron, some wire, and a laptop connected to your home network and your dishwasher and that can be rectified. :-D I new that was a gentle list! I just dont have a dishwasher :( But given the traffic here I happily dont get much time to use dishes at

Re: From 5.6.1 to 5.8.2: how preserve installed modules?

2004-01-23 Thread wolf blaum
Hi, i ont want to get involved in the religios questions: for the rest: use PPM or CPAN.pm? - How can I get PPM to tell me everything that's installed? ppm query * #gives you the list of installed modules ppm properties Mo::Dule #gives you a detailed discriptio of that installed module

Re: String concatenation qn

2004-01-23 Thread wolf blaum
For Quality purpouses, Ajey Kulkarni 's mail on Saturday 24 January 2004 17:52 may have been monitored or recorded as: hi,. hi i would like to quickly append a string to a variable. open NEWFH, $filename.new or die new procmailrc err; where $filename has /tmp/xyz Anything really silly

Re: How to take command line argument and use it to run an upgrade script.

2004-01-22 Thread wolf blaum
I'm a perl newby. me too:-) Right list, I assume. I'm looking on taking a command line argument from STDIN and use it for input to a script that upgrades software. Any examples would be greatly appreciated. @ARGV holds your command line arguments. call: scriptname.pl Universe 42 douglas

Re: complex data file parsing

2004-01-22 Thread wolf blaum
hi, I know that each block always starts with and A in the first position of the first line and ends with a T in the last position of the last line. isnt it a T in the first position of the last row of the set? I know that the second line starts with a B, and the data in the 5th space on

Re: How to take command line argument and use it to run an upgrade script.

2004-01-22 Thread wolf blaum
My Compliments on a well done piece. OT: see, a logical problem I have with newsgroups is that you learn most (at least I do) by trying to explain things you think you understood to others - beginning explainers however make mistakes - Thats of course not what you want in a newsgroup,

Re: Need help comparing lines in two files

2004-01-22 Thread wolf blaum
This very green newbie would like to compare two files, let's say File1 and File2. I want to put the difference from File2 only, into a new file, File3. I had a very simliar problem about a week ago, which James answerd here: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Perl+looping+(a+lot+of)

Re: IO File Problems

2004-01-21 Thread wolf blaum
hi there, hi | servus, 2) now i have to merge this strings with strings from a file. in this file there are many configuration sections. the section i need looks like this: [WHITELIST] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] so i need to get all adresse under the

looping through (a lot of) files

2004-01-19 Thread wolf blaum
Hi there, I do have one type A file, that holds about 25.000 A-ids, one per line. Furher I have 500 type B files in a dir that hold 10-500 B-ids each, one per line. All files are -T Now i want to generate 500 type C files, corrosponding to the b files: each B-id, that occours in a B-type file

Re: Reading/Writing Hash to Excel

2004-01-06 Thread wolf blaum
Hi, I have successfully extracted the data I need and I am attempting to write the data into rows in excel. well, there is wonderful (as most of them:-) CPAN Module called: Spreadsheet::WriteExcel that allows you to write in excel files, create additional worksheets and that sort of stuff.

wannabie asks Mail::POP3Client Mail::Audit

2003-12-30 Thread wolf blaum
Hi, Im new (here|to perl) and would like to start of with that: My script should replace attachmends in mails: however, i cant find any atts. Script first: -- #! /usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Mail::POP3Client; use Mail::Audit qw(Attach); my $pop=new Mail::POP3Client(USER =

Re: wannabie asks Mail::POP3Client Mail::Audit

2003-12-30 Thread wolf blaum
Follow-up: The problem: even though a print join (\n,[EMAIL PROTECTED]); shows me there are Content-type: multipart\mixed headers my first attempt to find them manually fails and gives me only the Content-type: text/plain or ..application/blabla lines from the mail body of multi part

Re: printf

2003-12-22 Thread wolf blaum
Am Montag, 22. Dezember 2003 20:17 schrieb Perl: i know what %9.1f would have done in this case. but how does %9.2g round off ? the FORMAT notation used by prinf, sprintf, ... can be found on http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/func/sprintf.html which gives: %e  a floating-point

RE: RegEx Troubles

2003-12-19 Thread Wolf Blaum
Given this in $_ pMost popular title searches:/pollia HREF=/title/tt0244365/Enterprise (2001)/a/li why would this regex not put digits in $1 ? $data2 =~ /popular title searches:\/pollia HREF=\\/title\/tt(\d*)\/\/ Hi, Snip--- $data2='pMost popular title searches:/pollia