Re: Iffor

2006-04-20 Thread $Bill Luebkert
Glenn Linderman wrote: > The whole session is there in my message... I don't know how either, it > was my first use of Benchmark, I cloned it from Rob & changed his 1 > (which produced a warning) to 10 (which didn't). And added a couple new > cases. > > Clearly you got different results from

Re: Help with DBD::DB2

2006-04-20 Thread D D Allen
Apparently, the esoftmatic site is down again. I received the following from Michael Hoy who posted the latest DBD:DB2 bundle on CPAN recently. >I have received many emails re trouble obtaining and installing the >binaries for the DB2 perl driver, so I have uploaded them to CPAN. > >http://ww

Re: Help with DBD::DB2

2006-04-20 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 2:11 AM Subject: Help with DBD::DB2 Hi Perlers, We are moving some scripts to a new server (Win2k3) and are getting some errors with DBD::DB2 (can't locate DBD:DB2:Constants). I am trying to reinstall bu

Re: Question about pattern matching

2006-04-20 Thread Lyle Kopnicky
Craig Cardimon wrote: I'm looking for patterns where the sign "%" or the word "percent" are preceded by a group of one or more digits and zero or more spaces. if( $line =~ /\%|\bpercent\b/i ) { if( $line =~ /\d+\s*(\%|\bpercent\b/i ) { # magic happens } } The outer if is re

Question about pattern matching

2006-04-20 Thread Craig Cardimon
I'm looking for patterns where the sign "%" or the word "percent" are preceded by a group of one or more digits and zero or more spaces. if( $line =~ /\%|\bpercent\b/i ) { if( $line =~ /\d+\s*(\%|\bpercent\b/i ) { # magic happens } } Am I on the right track here? In the tex

RE: SIGINT

2006-04-20 Thread Ng, Bill
I'm already using build 817. I'm going to try it on a Win2K box and see what happens. Bill in Brooklyn -Original Message- From: Octavian Rasnita [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 2:53 PM To: Ng, Bill; perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com Subject: Re: SIGINT

Re: SIGINT

2006-04-20 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Ng, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Anyone play with signal handlers on the Win32 platform? Specifically, > I'm trying to print a message when is pressed but I'm getting > nowhere: > > This works on my linux box. CTRL-C (while waiting for user input) > prints "This works". However, this doe

RE: Opening an Excel workbook with links to other data sources

2006-04-20 Thread Jarvis, John
[Sorry for the top post, only got a few seconds to get this in...] For what it's worth, the Excel 2003 VBA Help offers this clue to the 'UpdateLinks': UpdateLinks Property Returns or sets an XlUpdateLink constant indicating a workbook's setting for updating embedded OLE links. Read/write. XlU

RE: Opening an Excel workbook with links to other data sources

2006-04-20 Thread Jarvis, John
[Sorry again, left out the most important part] Const xlUpdateLinksUserSetting = 1 Const xlUpdateLinksNever = 2 Const xlUpdateLinksAlways = 3 -Original Message- From: Jarvis, John Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 11:03 AM To: 'Lynn. Rickards'; Suresh Govindachar Cc: perl-win32-users@listse

RE: SIGINT

2006-04-20 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Ng, Bill Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 8:10 AM > Anyone play with signal handlers on the Win32 platform? > Specifically, I'm trying to print a message when is > pressed but I'm getting nowhere: > > This works on my linux box. CTRL-C (while waiting for user > input) prints "This

Re: Error: No valid repositories: Error: 500 Can't connect

2006-04-20 Thread Chris Wagner
You need to make perl a trusted app that has full access through the firewall. I don't have XP so I don't know the exact procedure. At 11:17 AM 4/20/2006 +0200, Reinhard Pagitsch wrote: >The only thing you can do ist to deactivate the XP firewall for the time >to use the ppm. -- REMEMBER

Re: Programming Contests...

2006-04-20 Thread Hugh Loebner
Well, I sponsor the Loebner Prize. You might check it out. There have been a number of talented programmers who have entered. HL On 4/20/06, bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi.. > > Has anyone heard of compaines who hold programming contests as a way of > finding potential programming talent

Help with DBD::DB2

2006-04-20 Thread dkazatsky
Hi Perlers, We are moving some scripts to a new server (Win2k3) and are getting some errors with DBD::DB2 (can't locate DBD:DB2:Constants). I am trying to reinstall but the ppm site that used to exist (esoftmatic) doesn't appear to be operational. This machine does not have a C compiler so I ca

Re: Iffor

2006-04-20 Thread Chris Wagner
At 09:19 AM 4/20/2006 -0400, John Deighan wrote: >And is there some reason that the compiler couldn't optimize that >away by checking to see if there are any my's, labels, etc. and avoiding the >setup in that case? I don't know exactly what the compiler is doing with the code blocks. From what

Re: Programming Contests...

2006-04-20 Thread David Kaufman
Hi bruce, bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi.. > > Has anyone heard of compaines who hold programming contests as a way > of finding potential programming talent?? [snip] Looking through > google hasn't really provided a great deal of information on this > topic. That's odd, since Google u

SIGINT

2006-04-20 Thread Ng, Bill
Anyone play with signal handlers on the Win32 platform? Specifically, I'm trying to print a message when is pressed but I'm getting nowhere: This works on my linux box. CTRL-C (while waiting for user input) prints "This works". However, this doesn't work at all on my Win32 (XP) Platform (norma

Programming Contests...

2006-04-20 Thread bruce
Hi.. Has anyone heard of compaines who hold programming contests as a way of finding potential programming talent?? Any experiences, good or bad? We're considering constructing a contest, with the user/applicant responsible for developing a specific, well defined application. We'd then judge the

Re: Iffor

2006-04-20 Thread John Deighan
At 12:44 AM 4/20/2006, Chris Wagner wrote: At 10:42 AM 4/20/2006 +1000, Sisyphus wrote: >On the subject of replacing brackets with modifiers (which I think was also >raised earlier on), I was surprised to find that using a modifier is about >25% faster than brackets: >'modifier' => 'for(@x) {$z1+

Re: Iffor

2006-04-20 Thread $Bill Luebkert
Glenn Linderman wrote: > On approximately 4/19/2006 5:42 PM, came the following characters from > the keyboard of Sisyphus: > >>- Original Message - >>From: "Glenn Linderman" >>. >>. >> >>>I think that the >>> >>>for( grep ($_ != 3, @a)) >>> >>>is quite clear in bundling the element sel

Re: Error: No valid repositories: Error: 500 Can't connect

2006-04-20 Thread Reinhard Pagitsch
Hello Philip, The only thing you can do ist to deactivate the XP firewall for the time to use the ppm. Here in my office I have deactivated the XP firewall, because we are behind a hardware firewall. And as I know software firewalls are not secure enough to avoid hacking of the PC, only a good