RE: "use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel" question

2005-08-01 Thread Cliff Bamford
Looks like a DBCS problem --- somewhere, the original single-byte text is being promoted to its double-byte equivalent. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted Yu Sent: Tue 02 Aug 2005 06:22 To: perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com Subject

RE: Change in "goto" behavior

2005-07-14 Thread Cliff Bamford
Oh puleeze. Edsger was a very nice guy, but he was hardly one of the most brilliant minds in computer science --- and he certainly would have disapproved of Perl, whose author truly is a giant. Djiskstra hated "one-liners" -- since his main interest was mathematical proof of correctness, he promot

RE: Change in "goto" behavior

2005-07-14 Thread Cliff Bamford
goto some code which does its thing and then exits, never trying to re-enter the nest. The alternative to goto in this one case is artificially contrived blocks that amount to structure for structure's sake. That's just an elaboratiuon of what $Bill said. Now can we end this religiou

Re: Not matching a dot

2003-03-10 Thread Cliff
unless ($_ =~ .) {} -~.-~.-~.-~.-~.-~.-~.-~.-~.-~ -~ -~ Cliff Frensley -~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~ Seattle, WA -~ -~ -. On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Andrew Mansfield wrote: > I want to match files that have no period in their filename. > > So far I have: > > use strict; > use

RE: Schrodinger's cat

2003-02-27 Thread Cliff
n, but it is also necessarily *non-functionally* marketing driven. :) -~.-~.-~.-~.-~.-~.-~.-~.-~.-~ -~ -~ Cliff Frensley -~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~ Seattle, WA -~ -~ -. On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Stovall, Adrian M. wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Cliff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, Fe

RE: Need to call java class and pass in args to its main

2003-01-24 Thread Cliff
capacio.j.paula.MailResponse "\"I\'m not a java pgr, but ...\"" -~.-~.-~.-~.-~.-~.-~.-~.-~.-~ -~ -~ Cliff Frensley -~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~ Seattle, WA -~ -~ -. On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Capacio, Paula J wrote: > >-Original Message- > >Scott Purcell wrote

Re: Need to call java class and pass in args to its main

2003-01-24 Thread Cliff
ss.name" "$arg1" ... etc. One can use a list/array with exec, etc. -~.-~.-~.-~.-~.-~.-~.-~.-~.-~ -~ -~ Cliff Frensley -~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~ Seattle, WA -~ -~ -. On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Scott Purcell wrote: > Hello, > I have a perl script that gathers data that is needed to cal

RE: Is there any other way to easily determine directories from filesother than using -d

2000-12-07 Thread Cliff Lloyd
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ppm problems

2000-10-05 Thread Cliff Lloyd
Can anyone tell me what is wrong with ppm? I get this error message?   Global symbol "%Config" requires explicit package name at C:/Perl/lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm line 21.BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at C:/Perl/lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm line 241.BEGIN failed--compilation abor