Hello beginners, I'm a bit lost: I just installed perl yesterday and so far it seems to have massive and appealing potential, I can hardly belive what I am seeing.
I'm very, very rusty in any sort of coding having been away from it for over 15 years. I've been working at learning all about 3d model making in that time. I want to use Blitz3D to display some 3d representations of weather. It can't get the data I seek as far as I can tell, but perl can it seems, and from what I've seen in 48 hours it's very good at it indeed. I'm now stuck: I've so far got perl to use Net::FTP I can get perl to log in to weather.noaa.gov and drill down to /data/observations/metar/decoded I can get single files from there if I know their names, but I'd like to write a bit of code (which I am calling freshen.plx at this point) The idea is that it would freshen my local copy of that directory, but only for files starting with "EG" for example. I'm thinking I need some way to do the equivalent of mget (I think that is the regular ftp type command) and I'd like to mget "EG*.TXT" as far as I can figure out. I've no idea how I'd do the wild card bit, so far it hasn't worked out as I'd hoped it might. It seems that mget isn't implemented so I next thought that a directory listing of that directory as a file might be a good way to try next. How might I do that? I guess I could then pick lines off that file one line at a time to get these files one at a time? Although I'm not at all clear how I'd manage that bit just yet! ;O) If anyone can help me figure this out I'd be really glad. I've been working through some examples in "Beginning Perl" and it's fairly slow going and rather dry reading in places and some of it is a bit out of date too it would seem. I think this is as a result of me having .8 and it being written with .6 as the latest and greatest at the time, I get the feeling some stuff has changed to this books detriment perhaps. Mostly by scanning through some remarks in the latest release notes (I think that was where I saw them). I've no idea yet if it's trivial to patch up older code so it would work once again. Also I got that impatience thing going on too as I've waited a couple of years to get at this thing, I'd started to feel it was never going to happen but then perl happened to me, making my weekend into a minor bedlam!! ;O) -- Best regards, Zasinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
