Re: Another Perl Question

2001-05-24 Thread Piers Cawley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I know, I know, this makes a grand total of three posted to the list in one > day :-) > > I have what will usually be a list of objects, but on occasions nasty > programmers (including me) do things to annoy me like inserting a hashref, > so I end up with a data stru

Re: Another Perl Question

2001-05-24 Thread jduncan
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:16:44PM +0100, Richard Clamp wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:13:35PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Any suggestions? > > use Scalar::Util qw( blessed ); that was what I was looking for --james PGP signature

Re: Another Perl Question

2001-05-24 Thread Richard Clamp
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:13:35PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Any suggestions? use Scalar::Util qw( blessed ); -- Richard Clamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Another Perl Question

2001-05-24 Thread Mike Wyer
On Thu, 24 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I know, I know, this makes a grand total of three posted to the list in one >day :-) > >I have what will usually be a list of objects, but on occasions nasty >programmers (including me) do things to annoy me like inserting a hashref, >so I end up with

Another Perl Question

2001-05-24 Thread jduncan
I know, I know, this makes a grand total of three posted to the list in one day :-) I have what will usually be a list of objects, but on occasions nasty programmers (including me) do things to annoy me like inserting a hashref, so I end up with a data structure that looks like: [ bless({

Re: [HELP] Quick question about Red Hat and gb keyboards

2001-04-13 Thread Chris Benson
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:43:56AM +0200, Merijn Broeren wrote: > looked with jwz's [1] xkeycaps. Xmodmap seems to make no difference. > [1] Correct single quote usage? Yup :-) -- Chris Benson

Re: [HELP] Quick question about Red Hat and gb keyboards

2001-04-06 Thread Leon Brocard
Merijn Broeren sent the following bits through the ether: > Anybody got an easy answer? One of the more annoying RH bugs. Just do: xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = BackSpace" in a relevant startup script (.bashrc will do). HTH, Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/

[HELP] Quick question about Red Hat and gb keyboards

2001-04-06 Thread Merijn Broeren
Hi, My experience with Red Hat is none existant, and I haven't installed a n desktop Linux system in ages, so turn to you lot to ask a quick question about something that isn't immediatley obvious to me. If I change in /etc/X11/XF86config the keyboard setting to 'gb' from

RE: Question

2001-04-04 Thread dcross - David Cross
From: Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 04 April 2001 10:32 > I guess 3 months experience in Perl programming would mean working for a > newmedia agency... ITYM "working for a newmedia agency would give you three months experience in Perl programming (before it goes bust). HTH, HAND. Dave

Re: Question

2001-04-04 Thread Leon Brocard
james_h sent the following bits through the ether: > In a (possibly vain) attempt to think ahead, I am looking for some > info on London-based Perl jobs. I have about 3/4 months experience > in Perl programming, and ideally would like to stay in the city > area. Anyone know of some good places

Question

2001-04-03 Thread james_h
Hi Folks - In a (possibly vain) attempt to think ahead, I am looking for some info on London-based Perl jobs. I have about 3/4 months experience in Perl programming, and ideally would like to stay in the city area. Anyone know of some good places to start? Thanks James -- insert [sig] her

Re: Debian question ...

2001-03-24 Thread Marty Pauley
On Thu Mar 22 14:48:48 2001, Marcel Grunauer wrote: > > David Cantrell writes > > >is there an easy way of getting a list of all the packages which are > >currently installed? I dislike dselect intensely, and the docs for > >dpkg et al don't say anything useful. > > dp

Re: Debian question ...

2001-03-22 Thread Simon Cozens
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:43:28PM +, David Cantrell wrote: > is there an easy way of getting a list of all the packages which are > currently installed? I dislike dselect intensely, and the docs for > dpkg et al don't say anything useful. dpkg -l -- "Life sucks, but it's better than the a

Re: Debian question ...

2001-03-22 Thread Struan Donald
* at 22/03 14:29 + David Cantrell said: > mallum and others wrote: > > > dpkg -l > > OK, so how did I manage to miss that? Answers on a postcard. i suspect it's the well known phenomona of managing not to read the one line of the manual that was relevant. struan

Re: Debian question ...

2001-03-22 Thread David Cantrell
mallum and others wrote: > dpkg -l OK, so how did I manage to miss that? Answers on a postcard. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david The voices said it's a good day to clean my weapons.

Re: Debian question ...

2001-03-22 Thread mallum
on Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:43:28PM +, David Cantrell wrote: > is there an easy way of getting a list of all the packages which are > currently installed? I dislike dselect intensely, and the docs for > dpkg et al don't say anything useful. > > -- dpkg -l Useful pa

Re: Debian question ...

2001-03-22 Thread Roger Burton West
On or about Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 02:48:48PM +, Marcel Grunauer typed: >dpkg -l | grep '^ii' Will truncate long package names. Roger

Re: Debian question ...

2001-03-22 Thread Roger Burton West
On or about Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:43:28PM +, David Cantrell typed: >is there an easy way of getting a list of all the packages which are >currently installed? I dislike dselect intensely, and the docs for >dpkg et al don't say anything useful. To make a loca

Re: Debian question ...

2001-03-22 Thread Marcel Grunauer
David Cantrell writes >is there an easy way of getting a list of all the packages which are >currently installed? I dislike dselect intensely, and the docs for >dpkg et al don't say anything useful. dpkg -l | grep '^ii' Marcel -- We are Perl. Your table will be assi

Debian question ...

2001-03-22 Thread David Cantrell
is there an easy way of getting a list of all the packages which are currently installed? I dislike dselect intensely, and the docs for dpkg et al don't say anything useful. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david The voices said it'

Re: xemacs / cperl question

2001-03-19 Thread jduncan
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 06:23:27PM +, James Powell wrote: > Anyone know how to stop xemacs cperl-mode to stop knackering it's > auto-tab indentation after you confuse it with a line like > > my $dbh = ${$self->{params}->{dbh}}; > > (doesn't seem to like the curly braces). my $dbh = $

xemacs / cperl question

2001-03-19 Thread James Powell
Anyone know how to stop xemacs cperl-mode to stop knackering it's auto-tab indentation after you confuse it with a line like my $dbh = ${$self->{params}->{dbh}}; (doesn't seem to like the curly braces). jp

Re: TT2 Question

2001-02-08 Thread Struan Donald
* at 08/02 13:00 -0500 Andy Williams said: > I'm installing TT2. > The problem. the installation says that I need XML::DOM ver 1.27 > installed > > I've hunted high and low but all I can find is version 1.25! > > Anyone know where I can get it? libxml-enno is what you want. struan

TT2 Question

2001-02-08 Thread Andy Williams
I'm installing TT2. The problem. the installation says that I need XML::DOM ver 1.27 installed I've hunted high and low but all I can find is version 1.25! Anyone know where I can get it? TIA Andy "Pub: ah, yes, a meeting place

Re: CGI.pm Question

2001-01-30 Thread Andy Williams
> You can't properly - I think there is a rant on : > > http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/www/ > > about this matter but I dont have the time to check the whole lot. The > best way to achieve the effect is to use LWP to submit the request and > then display the resulting output. > > This m

Re: CGI.pm Question

2001-01-30 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Andy Williams wrote: > Hi, > > I know how to redirect using the GET method > print $q->redirect("$url?$query_string"); > but how do I do it for POST? > You can't properly - I think there is a rant on : http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/www/ about this matter bu

CGI.pm Question

2001-01-30 Thread Andy Williams
Hi, I know how to redirect using the GET method print $q->redirect("$url?$query_string"); but how do I do it for POST? TIA Andy "This sounds like a twelve-change-of-underwear trip." =

Re: Dumb-assed question

2001-01-25 Thread Struan Donald
* at 25/01 11:26 + James Powell said: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:05:49AM +, Struan Donald wrote: > > * at 25/01 10:37 + Michael Stevens said: > > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:02:25PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Dreamweaver (I know, don't ask) nicely escapes the spac

Re: Dumb-assed question

2001-01-25 Thread James Powell
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:05:49AM +, Struan Donald wrote: > * at 25/01 10:37 + Michael Stevens said: > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:02:25PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Dreamweaver (I know, don't ask) nicely escapes the spaces to %20 but when > > > I try and download

Re: Dumb-assed question

2001-01-25 Thread Michael Stevens
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:05:49AM +, Struan Donald wrote: > the number of times i've sent stuff to people that works fine, had > them run it through dreamweaver and then complain that it's broken > makes me wonder what the bad gui tools are like. Much much worse. Trust me on this. Michael

Re: Dumb-assed question

2001-01-25 Thread Struan Donald
* at 25/01 10:37 + Michael Stevens said: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:02:25PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dreamweaver (I know, don't ask) nicely escapes the spaces to %20 but when > > I try and download these, the %20 appears in the Netscape file save as box > > inste

Re: Dumb-assed question

2001-01-25 Thread Dave Cross
At Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:37:07 +, Michael Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dreamweaver is by far the best GUI html development tool I'm aware of. Maybe, but calling something the 'best' in that product category is probably damning with faint praise. Dave...

Re: Dumb-assed question

2001-01-25 Thread Michael Stevens
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:02:25PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dreamweaver (I know, don't ask) nicely escapes the spaces to %20 but when > I try and download these, the %20 appears in the Netscape file save as box > instead of spaces. Dreamweaver is by far the best GUI htm

Re: Dumb-assed question

2001-01-24 Thread Robin Houston
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:42:58PM -0600, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > Exercise: Implement the "except the last" in a regex :-) > Extra points for squeezing it into a single regex rather than > a while / $' solution s/\.(?=.*\.)/_/g; .robin. -- Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to

Re: Dumb-assed question

2001-01-24 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:17:45PM +, Robin Houston wrote: > I suppose you were hoping for a simpler procedure, but this is > the simplest I've found. Possibly IE doesn't have that problem. It has others, it'll s/\./_/g for all except the last. Exercise: Implement the "except the last" in a

Re: Dumb-assed question

2001-01-24 Thread Robin Houston
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:02:25PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dreamweaver (I know, don't ask) nicely escapes the spaces to > %20 but when I try and download these, the %20 appears in the > Netscape file save as box instead of spaces. > > Does anyone know how or i

Dumb-assed question

2001-01-24 Thread Simon_Wilcox
OK I'm sure I should know this but I don't ! I have lusers who want to publish M$ Word templates on my site. That's fine, once I'd sorted out mime types but these file names have spaces in them. Dreamweaver (I know, don't ask) nicely escapes the spaces to %20 but when