Re: More on perlfaq in CVS ...

2001-09-20 Thread Philip Newton
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 20:12:18 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ask Bjoern Hansen) wrote: > On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Nathan Torkington wrote: > > > Ask is creating a separate list for CVS commit messages. > > send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to subscribe. Will that list be mirrored via NNTP (read-only,

Re: Checking URLs in perlfaq POD

2002-04-07 Thread Philip Newton
On Sun, 07 Apr 2002 15:52:53 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (_brian_d_foy) wrote: > ==perlfaq2.pod > ftp://cpan.if.usp.br/pub/mirror/CPAN/ > ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/plan/perl/CPAN/ > ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/perl/CPAN/ Isn't mirror.aarnet.edu.au only accessible from

Re: perlfaq4: How do I process/modify each element of an array?

2002-05-13 Thread Philip Newton
On Mon, 13 May 2002 22:01:54 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nicholas Clark) wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:54:48AM -0500, _brian_d_foy wrote: > > > Joe Schaefer points out that values() now works in this case. > > As of 5.6. [...] > Otherwise people reading a current copy of the FAQ but program

Re: perlfaq5: [multiple answers affected]

2002-05-23 Thread Philip Newton
On Tue, 21 May 2002 23:11:54 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (_brian_d_foy) wrote: > -Or using the traditional idiom: > +Some idioms can handle this is a single statement: *in* a single statement > +Some modules offer object-oriented access to handles and their > +variables, although they may be overk

Re: perlfaq5: [multiple answers affected]

2002-05-26 Thread Philip Newton
On Fri, 24 May 2002 12:26:03 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (_brian_d_foy) wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Philip Newton ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > +If you want to create many anonymous handles, you should > > > +check out the Symbol, FileHand

Re: perlfaq7: How can I access a dynamic variable while a similarly named lexical is in scope?

2002-08-28 Thread Philip Newton
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 22:56:37 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (_brian_d_foy) wrote: > + require v5.6; # our() did not exist before that Shouldn't one use "require 5.006;" instead? After all, "v5.6" syntax is going to do something weird on older Perls -- and if you don't care about that, then you

Re: perlfaq4: How do I find yesterday's date?

2002-10-24 Thread Philip Newton
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 15:09:13 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (_brian_d_foy) wrote: > + use Date::Calc qw(Today Add_Delta_Days); > + > + my @date = Add_Delta_Days( Today(), -1 ); > + > + print "@date\n"; Hm, should we be teaching "@variable" in a FAQ? Maybe I'm paranoid, but I have the

Re: perlfaq3: NEW ANSWER: How do I find which modules are installed on my system?

2002-11-10 Thread Philip Newton
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 12:17:55 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (_brian_d_foy) wrote: > +If you want a list of all of the Perl module filenames, you > +can use File::Find::Rule. > + > + use File::Find::Rule; > + > + my @files = File::Find::Rule->file()->name( '*.pm' )->in( @INC ); Why not give

Re: perlfaq8: How can I call my system's unique C functions from Perl?

2002-12-29 Thread Philip Newton
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 02:56:42 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (_brian_d_foy) wrote: > * How can I call my system's unique C functions from Perl? >+ mentioned specific modules, Win32::API and Mac::Carbon. if >anyone knows of other modules i should mention, please let >me know. Inline::C? Thou