Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emergency Social this Saturday 7pm with Randal Schwartz

://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/13/1310/Approach_Tavern/Bethnal_Green I'm here already. They do have wi-fi. But I'm also told there's a number of large parties reserving tonight, although most of them at 8pm, so we might be a little crunched for space. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emergency Social this Saturday 7pm with Randal Schwartz

Randal == Randal L Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com writes: Randal I'm here already. They do have wi-fi. But I'm also told there's a Randal number of large parties reserving tonight, although most of them at 8pm, Randal so we might be a little crunched for space. The manager is letting me claim

Re: in town 28-30 nov - emergency meetup?

Does this still seem like the best spot? Approach Tavern http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/13/1310/Approach_Tavern/Bethnal_Green If so, I'll announce it on today's FLOSS Weekly as well. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer

Re: in town 28-30 nov - emergency meetup?

L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. Still trying to think of something clever for the fourth line of this .sig

in town 28-30 nov - emergency meetup?

: http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-camel-london-2 (Such an appropriate name!) Perhaps meet-up around 7pm. If I figure out they have wifi, I may be working with Captain Neil from the time they open at noon. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer

Re: in town 28-30 nov - emergency meetup?

of these places talk about wifi? Ugh. But yeah, the Approach looks fine. I'm now up for either... I'll leave it to the locals to select. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix consulting

Re: Open/Free BSD users -- help needed to fix Test::PostgreSQL

... insane. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. Still trying to think of something clever for the fourth line of this .sig

Re: Open/Free BSD users -- help needed to fix Test::PostgreSQL

version binary based upon environment variables. Yeah, but lib is for ... libraries. Not bins. Also, picking bins based on env is about as silly as writing #!/usr/bin/env perl. *My* env is not necessarily *yours*. Put the right path there, please. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting

Re: Open/Free BSD users -- help needed to fix Test::PostgreSQL

Toby == Toby Wintermute t...@wintrmute.net writes: Toby *throws hands in air* I'm not trying to defend the concept! you'd have Toby to ask the Debian developers what they were thinking. Part of why I steer far clear from Linux. Why use a pretend Unix when you can use a real one? -- Randal L

Re: emergency social meet June 11

Randal == Randal L Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com writes: Randal Shall we aim to begin around 6pm, and people can wander in as needed? Randal Or does someone have a better idea of where to meet nearby? And is this mic on? Or am I drinking by myself? :( -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge

Re: emergency social meet June 11

FLOSS Weekly as well. I know at least Dan Lynch (of Linux Outlaws fame as well as a regular co-host) is likely to come down, and maybe Simon Phipps if he's in town. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com

emergency social meet June 11

, but all the more reason to drink until I pass out. :) Shall we aim to begin around 6pm, and people can wander in as needed? Or does someone have a better idea of where to meet nearby? The place looks to be only a few blocks from the High Street Kensington tube stop. -- Randal L. Schwartz

Re: Main general Perl mailing list

of your question, most people here will just continue to ignore you. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. Still trying to think of something

Re: Assigning Classes

, back when Neil would actually ask attendees what they wanted to see. Now, it's entirely handcrafted. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc

Re: proposing an emergency social meeup July 15th

Thanks again for everyone who showed up last time, and taught me the proper way to drink JSON... err.. Jameson. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing

Re: proposing an emergency social meeup July 15th

David == David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk writes: David OK. Here, 6:30-ish onwards. I'll book the upstairs room. David http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Horse_And_Groom,_SW1X_7BA Ahh, good, almost walking distance. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1

proposing an emergency social meeup July 15th

I'll be in town at the Crowne Plaza London - St. James for the evening (after having done Yet Another InSightCruise). If anyone would like to join me in an emergency social meeting, I'd be up for it. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer

Re: jQuery

Mallory == Mallory van Achterberg stommep...@stommepoes.nl writes: Mallory (so you'll see lots of people do Mallory var $(this) = $this Mallory which looks weird until you know why). And backwards. I'm sure you meant: var $this = $(this); -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting

Re: New perl features?

Dave == Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk writes: Dave Does anyone pay for Perl articles these days? :-) I got paid for one a few years back. Nothing like the heyday of the 255 paid articles I wrote during the dotcom boom. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777

Re: Assign method call to hash value?

will return a list, or empty. And your hash will be messed up. Better written as: my $hashref = { foo = scalar somefunc(), bar = scalar otherfunc() }; Then you can be assured of a two-element hash. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer

Re: 25 Years of Perl

and for sharing. Uri yapc has yet to be properly copied. no one else delivers more bang for the Uri buck and fun as well. Uri mjd invented lightning talks and they are at many confs now, not just lang Uri ones. another perl invention with no credit given. YAML. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge

Re: 25 Years of Perl

. Indeed, he did this so often that posters began Andrew inserting No Perl please in their posts! As you might expect, Andrew that served only to increase the volume of Perl snippet Andrew responses. Those were good times. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503

Re: 25 Years of Perl

that. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion

Re: Brainbench perl test?

anyway. It's a red flag of lack of clue if a Joel prospective employer tries to use this to weed out candidates. Joel Basically, it's the sort of thing that people who don't know anything Joel about the subject use to try to pretend they can gauge someone's Joel knowledge. Hear hear. -- Randal L

Re: Brainbench perl test?

points, have it apply [list of transformations] if requested David via command line arguments Parsing HTML with XML::LibXML in http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col49.html would have been a good starting point for that. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503

Re: Regex help

Dave == Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com writes: Dave Or use a proper parser? What's the state of Perl6 grammars in Perl5 at the moment? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl

Re: Dim Sum tomorrow?

Dave == Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com writes: Dave Anyone round the West End fancy parcels of tasty goodness and Lo Dave Bak Gao tomorrow? How far west? :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com

Re: The ghost of Matt Wright rears its frightening head

there to NOT DO THAT, but I'm not David sure what the current state of affairs is in this area. Is NMS David still the way to go? Has it been revised within living memory? David :-) It's up to date. Not sure if it needs maintaining for that. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1

Re: Perl in shared hosting environments

* of those 14 stages. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion

Re: Perl e-commerce?

L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion

Re: Matching an array of strings to strings in a file.

Gianni == Gianni Ceccarelli dak...@thenautilus.net writes: Gianni my $rx = join '|',map { \Q$_\E } @$strings; No need for \E if you're already at the end of the string. And I'd change that to just quotemeta $_ to make it clearer, and avoid the one layer of copying. -- Randal L

Re: Writing About Perl

Kieren == Kieren Diment dim...@gmail.com writes: Kieren Writing about perl is like dancing about architecture. I dunno. It's been an enabler for pretty good living for a few of us. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http

Re: PHP

/php.html. (Click the image for a desktop version.) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http

Re: Any active Perl podcasts?

about Rakudo: http://twit.tv/floss140 -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com

Re: Perl on a smartphone?

a package for it now. :( -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion

Re: Auth URL on flickr?

/Simple.pm ? Did that one not work for you? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com

Re: Best practice for variables shared between processes?

Peter == Peter Edwards pe...@dragonstaff.co.uk writes: Peter http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?TheSchwartz I always do a doubletake when I see that module mentioned. I don't dare use it for any of my clients... they'll think I named it after me. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting

Re: Perl on the BBC

secrets. Not available in your area. Darn. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com

Re: Perl Christmas Quiz 2009

be perplexed. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion

Re: Perl Christmas Quiz 2009

about foreach. The loop variable is aliasing, not copying, so if there are lvalues in the list, they retain their lvalue-ness: $_ *= 3 for @somelist; multiplies each element by 3, for example. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com

Re: Perl Christmas Quiz 2009

. Not a Linux user. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside

Re: Perl Christmas Quiz 2009

Dave :) When did sort start returning lvalues? I bet if you did this on an older Perl, it'd return 0. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing

Re: Perl Christmas Quiz 2009

:-) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion

Re: git vs mercurial

, and when it doesn't, it's all out in the open as to what's happening. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http

Re: Sending $US to the US

now... travellers checks are a thing of the past. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com

Re: David Lester of London Stock Exchange

their testing. Indeed. Thanks for the followup. I'm still looking for a connection though. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc

David Lester of London Stock Exchange

LSE just went open source, and I suspect someone on this list is one or two phone calls away from David Lester. I'd like to arrange an interview for FLOSS Weekly... can anyone here help? Thanks. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer

Re: Unresponsive module authors

of the users of their code. Or any blind user. :( -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open

Re: [OT] accessors pragma

returned $new_foo, not $old_foo. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open

Re: Limiting process startup

Dean == Dean Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dean Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Damn. You made it, too. I also did a similar thing with POE as well, which might make more sense here... http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col41.html Dean Is it just me or does anybody else have trouble

Ob-buffy

http://www.reason.com/0308/cr.vp.why.shtml -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite

Re: Ob-buffy

know no other example of this on TV, except McGoohan and the Prisoner. B5? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See

Re: Ob-buffy

superior, and therefore the movie superior. :-) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open

Re: [OT] SQL woes

Peter == Peter Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter On 22 Aug 2003 06:45:21 -0700, (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: On the other hand, if you wanna be able to ask a question on a general mailing list, the MySQL community is probably ten times the size of the PostgreSQL community, and more

Re: [OT] SQL woes

have been written that presume MySQL's quirky SQL subset. That'd be the *only* reason in my mind to go with MySQL over Pg at this point. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security

Re: [OT] SQL woes

Randal == Randal L Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Randal MySQL is a fine junior SQL engine. But it really doesn't provide a Randal way to enforce business rules in the engine - that was not its initial Randal goal. And when data integrity is important, you want to ensure good Randal

Re: [OT] SQL woes

in action, I don't think I can deploy anything with a dozen tables or more without them. MySQL - fine for people who want a light subset-SQL interface to structured data PostgreSQL - Oracle without the price -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL

Re: OSX - Thanks everyone

system only as good as it resembles Unix in my opinion). In the Old Days of Unix, dot was in path, and people figured out how to exploit that, so no person who is seriously concerned about security includes it any more. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095

Re: [OT] SQL woes

); If your db doesn't offer subselects, you've got to create a temp table. (And people who use MySQL wonder what the value of subselects are! :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security

Re: Perl in Mac OSX

Alex == Alex Brewer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex I have had a look at your archives and can't see much reference to Alex this, and wonder if there are any users of the perl in Mac OSX out Alex there? They probably number in the thousands, these days. What's your real question? -- Randal L

Re: OSCON

Andy == Andy Wardley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andy So who is going to be at OSCON? oscon.kwiki.org/index.cgi?Attendees -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting

Re: OSCON - Featuring Wesley Crusher ?

. And then OSCON invited him to be a full attendee. And yes, he's learning Perl. He's up to chapter 4 of the llama. He also mentioned me on his audioblog - http://www.audblog.com/media/5496/17930.mp3 -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http

Re: mod_perl PerlTransHandler weirdness

you don't want $r-pathinfo (which won't be set during trans). you want $r-uri, which will be something like /THISBITHERE. Then again, it's early here, so this could all be wrong. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http

Re: weird eval

) }; # presuming SYS_exit is 1 -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!

Re: The joys of CPAN

, and you don't have it? I think that was introduced in 5.6, so you are probably running 5.5. Upgrade your Perl to something introduced within the last two years. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl

Re: CPAN site

site:stonehenge.com MINICPAN -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!

Re: use warnings and 5.005

. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!

Re: use warnings and 5.005

Struan == Struan Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Struan So, is just missing out the line the way forward or is there an Struan approved idiom that escapes my google foo? Put -w on the command line. Works all the way back to Perl 2.000 :-) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting

Re: message board software

-to-nntp gateway for a column. I won't offend y'all by including the precise URL or instructions on how to search for it. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting

Re: Starting Again

Paul == Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul ... is where you keep warez, pr0n and rootkits. No, I use . for that. Or maybe .\n :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix

Re: [OT] Magazines

Greg == Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greg (sorry folks that should have been a private email) Yeah, doesn't it suck when a list sets a reply-to? ... http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html Please fix this. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1

Re: regrouping lines of STDIN - hashtable algorithm?

{$code} = [ $_ ]; TSchutzerWeissmann yup, [ ] was what I was looking for. But not needed. See my other post. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing

Re: regrouping lines of STDIN

{$code} } , $_; Luis }else{ Luis # First time for this array ref... Luis $seen{$code} = [ $_ ]; Luis } Luis } No, wrong, absolutely *not* needed, thanks to autovivification. See google site:stonehenge.com autovivification for further info. -- Randal L

Re: sshd on port 443

://www.lightlink.com/fors/ -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!

Re: sshd on port 443

Lusercop == Lusercop `the.lusercop'@lusercop.net writes: Lusercop In a parallel to UINE, EINI. I don't get either of those. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting

Re: sshd on port 443

will be warming up to this idea. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment

Re: perl website on CD

a grownup language like Perl, use a grownup opensource database - PostgreSQL. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See

Re: perl website on CD

in the desired direction! -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!

Re: Quick silly question

code or open curlies or close curlies. eval $string is almost Always the Wrong Way to do things. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc

Re: Quick silly question

Jasper == Jasper McCrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jasper $h = { $_ = $h || {} } for reverse @r; Autovivification makes the || {} mostly unnecessary. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl

Re: Perl CGI and PHP - with some TT thrown in

to that PHP application are PHP, not yours? Stacking templating engines will lead to nightmares, anyway. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy

Re: RMS seminars in London

a DVD of your presentation? I gave someone on #perl that task... it would put RMS in a double bind. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc

Re: HTML to PDF

Distiller?. Distiller can be approximated by Ghostscript. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com

Re: webmail

hardware, you need mod_perl. But that's not what was said here. S Just my $0.02, this isn't intended as a flame. Pay closer attention to context next time, please. That's not a flame either. That's just a whack upside the head. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1

Re: Usernames?

Why not allow (embedded) whitespace, punctuation, and so on? BasicAuth with htpasswd files would break. Otherwise, they're really a lot more flexible. But just try doing tech support with 31337D#d3 as a username. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777

Re: webmail

to Mason. Use that. Stop trying harder. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite

Re: webmail

or ticketmaster.com before? Oh wait, you're a brit. :) Paul I suspect more revenue is generated from PHP sites than Perl Paul sites. I don't. I suspect PHP runs more hobby sites. I suspect Perl does more of the e-commerce heavy lifting and pretty-lifting. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting

Re: webmail

of troff, and shell, and TCL, and languages which confuse the level with the meta-level too easily. It was this madness which Larry avoided with Perl having only one level (or two levels, in interpolated regexen) of interpretation at most. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc

Re: webmail

the corresponding left paren, and be done with it. XML is great for machine-to-machine. For me, XML sucks for human-to-machine, and is only marginally better at machine-to-human. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http

Re: webmail

. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!

Re: compiling perl

? GDBM_File cannot be installed after the fact. You'll need to install gdbm, then install Perl. Not the other way around. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical

Re: compiling perl

-Dprefix=/opt/perl/snap -Dlocincpth=/sw/include -Dloclibpth=/sw/lib [EMAIL PROTECTED] It finds things in /sw just fine when you do that. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security

Re: applying patterns

/ Thanks... I really appreciate it. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open

Re: applying patterns

{ return __PACKAGE__ } sub ... A class itself is always a singleton. If you want subclasses to share the same object, this works fine. To get subclasses to get their own individual object, change that to: sub new { return shift } Simple. Painless. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge

Re: better way to split text into a hash ?

but couldn't turn it off, you moved to a free email address and joined from there. Maybe that should be the policy here too. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting

Re: Please clean up our CPAN directory

. Watch the keys that are being added to %SEEN. Something is inconsistent between File::Spec's calculation and File::Find's calculation. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security

Re: Anyone up for a TPC6 skate jam?

and skiing snowboarding doesn't try to twist my knees, which is one motion I no longer can muscle against and yet will basically put me in some serious injury. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl

Re: Anyone up for a TPC6 skate jam?

wheels is all you ever needed. This inline fad will pass. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com

Re: Anyone up for a TPC6 skate jam?

running one night a week of roller, from what I saw last time I was there. Just another Roller Performance Skater, -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing

Re: the muppets

- heckling Randal - Ernie o/~ rubber duckie, you're the one... o/~ -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See

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