I've started writing some perl and it is hard to learn, but once you learn, it can do some great things. And if you learned it from the Larry Wall book like I did, then it's even harder.
The thing I've discovered about perl it that it may be the only language (computer or otherwise) that is easier to write than it is to read. I'm sure a "perl expert" would gasp at my code, it's far too readable. Keith ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 10:09 AM > please don't take umbridge, but I feel enticed to quote > > "what you don't know, dosn't (really) matter" > Larry Wall, programming with perl, O'Reilly. > > just for a giggle. > > sorry > > apologies for any typos overlooked > > kr mr > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/28/03 12:22 PM >>> > I've managed to successfully avoid learning Perl for a while now... my > reaction, while not quite so dramatic as yours, was that it made my > head hurt to try to understand it! :) > > > --- Robert Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > unix time conversion functionCary.... I once thought I wanted to do > > some > > Perl coding... So I bought a book and started to play with it. It > > made my > > head bleed... literally I had little droplets of blood emerging from > > my > > head.... They rushed me to the hospital and put me in the Perl ward > > where I > > languished for days on IV's of Mountain Dew and pulverized Ritz > > crackers..... it was close. > > > > In my mind there is nothing obvious about Perl, this coming from and > > old C > > coder who did pointers and linked lists in his sleep years ago. I > > don't > > know, maybe I was having a bad day and it's time to get my "learning > > Perl" > > book out again.... > > > > Anyone else feel that way about Perl or am I a lone wolf in a Perl > > world? > > > > RF > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Cary > > Millsap > > Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 4:29 PM > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > Subject: RE: unix time conversion function > > > > > > At the risk of stating the obvious, doing it in Perl looks like > > this: > > > > > > > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > > > use Date::Format qw(time2str); > > > > my $t = 1043447100; # for example > > > > print time2str("%T %A %d %B %Y", $t), "\n"; > > > > > > > > Cary Millsap > > Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. > > http://www.hotsos.com > > > > Upcoming events: > > - 2003 Hotsos Symposium on OracleR System Performance, Feb 9-12 > > Dallas > > - RMOUG Training Days 2003, Mar 5-6 Denver > > - Hotsos Clinic 101, Mar 26-28 London > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Post, > > Ethan > > Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 3:30 PM > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > Subject: RE: unix time conversion function > > > > > > > > Kinda...you can change the year to 1970 if you want, this also > > converts to > > minutes, not seconds. It is a really ugly function but it seems to > > work. > > You could always use perl. > > > > > > > > function f_minutes { > > # Funky function I use to calculate the number of minutes since > > 2000 > > MIN_YEAR=$( date +"%Y" ) > > MIN_YEAR=$( expr ${MIN_YEAR} - 2000 ) > > MIN_YEAR=$( expr ${MIN_YEAR} \* 525600 ) > > MIN_DAYS=$( date +"%j" ) > > MIN_DAYS=$( expr "${MIN_DAYS}" - 1 ) > > MIN_DAYS=$( expr "${MIN_DAYS}" \* 1440 ) > > MIN_HOURS=$( date +"%H" ) > > MIN_HOURS=$( expr "${MIN_HOURS}" \* 60 ) > > MIN_MINS=$( date +"%M" ) > > MIN_TOTAL=$(( ${MIN_YEAR} + ${MIN_DAYS} + ${MIN_HOURS} + > > ${MIN_MINS} )) > > print ${MIN_TOTAL} > > } > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Adams, Matthew (GECP, MABG, 088130) > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 1:14 PM > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > Subject: unix time conversion function > > > > Anybody got a handy little function to > > convert a standard unix seconds-since-Jan-1970 epoch > > time (stored as a number) to a readable date? > > > > It would save me a lot of time not having to re-invent the > > wheel. > > > > Matt > > > > ---- > > Matt Adams - GE Appliances - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > My computer beat me at chess, but I won > > when it came to kick boxing. > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! 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