Hi ml, I find you hard to understand, but I'll try.
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 03:06:27 +0100 ml <m...@smtp.fakessh.eu> wrote: > hello the list > hello "the" perl guru > hello this > > I want to know how to work on slices of lists. > I has 3 slices of the form. > $t[0] = user; > $t[1] = ip; > $t[2] = time(); First of all, $t[0], $t[1] and $t[2] are not slices of a list, but *elements* of the *array* variable "@t". Slices are something like @arr[4 .. 10] or @arr[@indexes]. Otherwise, you should generally avoid using arrays for such data of heterogeneous types and kinds, and instead use objects or at least hashes. See: * http://perl-begin.org/topics/object-oriented/ * http://perl-begin.org/topics/hashes/ > > the registration of the list are checked by me Do you mean that you check that the list is properly populated. > I know what the file contains > and recording are separated by a space (/\s+/) Should it be "records" instead of "recording"? > I would like to test on how many times a user or an ip c is connected > via the time value and authorize or not the execution of the following > function > > I'd like to explain to me how to do testing on lists and list slices > You can use any of the Perl operators and functions that operate on lists and arrays like "foreach", http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/grep.html , http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/map.html or http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?List::Util , http://search.cpan.org/dist/List-MoreUtils/ , http://search.cpan.org/dist/List-UtilsBy/ , etc. There's more information about it in the books and tutorials on http://perl-begin.org/ and on http://perl-tutorial.org/ . Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Rethinking CPAN - http://shlom.in/rethinking-cpan Chuck Norris is the ghost author of the entire Debian GNU/Linux distribution. And he wrote it in 24 hours, while taking snack breaks. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/