Re: [Perl-unix-users] how to convert a text file to db file?

2003-07-23 Thread $Bill Luebkert
Hong Wang wrote: > We like to convert db files between liux platform and solaris platform. for > example, on solaris, we read the db file and print it to a text file. Then > convert the text file to db file on Linux platform. > > Read db file and print it to a text file, it is ok. But how to co

RE: [Perl-unix-users] Learning perl

2003-07-23 Thread FC_Yoong
I started Perl with "Beginning Perl" from WROX. Good book. Did all the exercises. Took me about 3 weeks to finish the book. Realise Perl is not something you can master in monthsmay take years! Really depends on what you need to do with Perl and how often you use it. I'm still learning after

[Perl-unix-users] how to convert a text file to db file?

2003-07-23 Thread Hong Wang
We like to convert db files between liux platform and solaris platform. for example, on solaris, we read the db file and print it to a text file. Then convert the text file to db file on Linux platform. Read db file and print it to a text file, it is ok. But how to convert the text file to a db

RE: [Perl-unix-users] Learning perl

2003-07-23 Thread Andrew Timberlake-Newell
I'm a bigger fan of the perldocs (especially the HTML version that the ActiveState install generates) than of any Perl book. Searching the perldocs for a way to do whatever you're trying to do...makes a good learn-by-using method. Can't remember the name, but I've seen at least one book that was

Re: [Perl-unix-users] Learning perl

2003-07-23 Thread Anthony Ettinger
doing the exercises and writing little scripts as exercises definitely helps. depends on what you want to use perl for. I like the CGI Programming book by O'Reillyand also Object Oriented Perl by Damian Conway, if you want to get into it. Personally, I think the Programming Perl book is too m

[Perl-unix-users] Learning perl

2003-07-23 Thread Danny L. Brow, Jr.
Hi everyone, I am reading learning perl 3rd edition. I like the book, but I am wondering how long it should take to learn perl and should I be abel to do all the exercises at the end of each chapter, with out problems? Any comments are welcome. Dan. ___

[Perl-unix-users] How to use pod2... to recursevly generate perl documentation ?

2003-07-23 Thread EXTERN Chakirov Timour (TZ CIS; DS/ESQ3)
This message was by mistake first sent to Perl-XML mailing list. I think this is a more correct place for it. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Hello All, Could anybody help me to generate, for example, html pages for XML::LibXML library? So I'm in ~/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/sun4-solaris/XML a