Re: executing an application within a perl script

2001-10-20 Thread Ray Barker
use system or exec system ('c:\Program Files\Accessories\wordpad.exe'); perldoc -f system perldoc -f exec note that system doesn't work as expected on windows apps. it returns immediately after the app starts OK. -Original Message- From: phumes1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How can i use Sybase with Perl ??

2001-09-11 Thread Ray Barker
http://dbi.perl.org/ -Original Message- From: Mcgregory Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Perl Beginners [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: September 11, 2001 3:04 AM Subject: How can i use Sybase with Perl ?? Hello ... How can i use sysbase with perl ?? Any information, sites, tutorials, etc ... are

Re: Accessing an oracle database with a DBI

2001-08-29 Thread Ray Barker
You could use ODBC if you have the ODBC driver installed for oracle (I'm just assuming that oracle has an ODBC driver.) You would need the Win32::ODBC module, which you could get Win32::ODBC using ppm from the ActiveState site. *I* think a better way is to use DBI. You'll need DBD::Oracle and

Re: perl GUI

2001-08-21 Thread Ray Barker
You can use glade to build your Gnome interface: http://glade.gnome.org/ and then use glade-perl to link to perl http://www.glade.perl.connectfree.co.uk/index.html I've used glade with C and it works pretty well. Trying it with perl is on my things to do list. also look at wxWindows

Re: PERL IS NOT A HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGE

2001-08-18 Thread Ray Barker
Hi all-- Please add my 32 years of programming experience to the perl is a high level language side. Good thing will didn't suggest that some python experience would be adequate for entrance to the class! I don't think that it will be profitable for you to argue with a professor on this

Re: DBI question (again)

2001-08-02 Thread Ray Barker
Extracted from the perl cookbook use DBI; $dbh = DBI-connect('DBI:driver:database', 'username', 'auth', { RaiseError = 1, AutoCommit = 1}); $dbh-do($SQL); $sth = $dbh-prepare($SQL); $sth-execute(); while (@row = $sth-fetchrow_array) { # ... } $sth-finish(); $dbh-disconnect();

Re: Which DBD -Module do I need??

2001-06-08 Thread Ray Barker
Unless you want to use DBD in particular, since you're using an MS database, you might be happier with using: WIN32::OBDC I've used it and am pretty happy with it -Original Message- From: Paul Counsell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: June 08, 2001 2:53 AM

Re: Tables help

2001-06-06 Thread Ray Barker
-Original Message- From: Diego RiaƱo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: June 06, 2001 9:15 PM Subject: Tables help Hi everybody I am working on some kind of files and i have to change the format and get a table. thes files had the following form: c1