Re: fork() on win32

2001-06-25 Thread Bill Moseley
At 01:20 PM 06/25/01 -0400, Weidong Wang wrote: >Tried it. No. > >Well, not exactly, as I am also using another perl module, SOAP, to send the >data back. So it dos not help for me to close STDOUT before doing a return, >as the data is sent back after my code returns by the SOAP module. What happ

RE: How to find the position of the first occurrence of a pattern in a string

2001-06-25 Thread Lee Goddard
In answer to one question: I use Textpad.com 's shareware editor to capture output from perldoc, and I can then use it to search whatever came back, save it, edit it, etc. In answer to the other pont: perlre. Lee --- Obligatory perl schmutter .sig: perl -e "print rand > 0.5 ? q/\\/ : q\/\ while

Re: fork() on win32

2001-06-25 Thread Weidong Wang
> > > What I really wanted to do was to fork a new process to run another daemon > > (which waits for connection, and does not exit). The parent "process" prints > > out a line and just exit. But on win32, the program does not > > exit. The new daemon does start though. > > I see. You will have to

RE: How to find the position of the first occurrence of a pattern in a string

2001-06-25 Thread Snyder, Christopher
I'm not sure about the perl doc question, sorry. Try this for the first occurence thing though: ### $value = "any old value"; while ($bool = ($value =~ /a/g)) { if ($bool) {last;} } print pos $value; ### Of course there is probably a simpler, more efficient way to do i

RE: How to find the position of the first occurrence of a pattern in a string

2001-06-25 Thread Arthur Cohen
: : : Hi, : How to find the position of the first occurrence of a pattern : in a string. I believe you're looking for the index function. : I could not find any function in the perl doc. Did you check the perlfunc manpage? : : Is there any simple way to get all the string fun

How to find the position of the first occurrence of a pattern in a string

2001-06-25 Thread Ben Goswami
Hi, How to find the position of the first occurrence of a pattern in a string. I could not find any function in the perl doc. Is there any simple way to get all the string function in perl doc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Shawn Sen

Re: fork() on win32

2001-06-25 Thread Weidong Wang
Tried it. No. Well, not exactly, as I am also using another perl module, SOAP, to send the data back. So it dos not help for me to close STDOUT before doing a return, as the data is sent back after my code returns by the SOAP module. Weidong - Original Message - From: "Bill Moseley" <[E

Re: fork() on win32

2001-06-25 Thread Bill Moseley
At 12:36 PM 06/25/01 -0400, Dr. Weidong Wang wrote: >This is a problem as my perl program is called from web server. In certain >case, I fork a new daemon. But if the daemon does not exit, the perl program >does not exit. No data is sent back to the browser. Does it help to close STDOUT? Bill

Re: fork() on win32

2001-06-25 Thread Jenda Krynicky
> Thanks for the reply. > > Since fork() for win32 is really emulated with threads, I suppose it is true > that unless both parent and child "processes" exit, the program will not > finish? Right. > What I really wanted to do was to fork a new process to run another daemon > (which waits for co

Re: fork() on win32

2001-06-25 Thread Dr. Weidong Wang
Thanks for the reply. Since fork() for win32 is really emulated with threads, I suppose it is true that unless both parent and child "processes" exit, the program will not finish? What I really wanted to do was to fork a new process to run another daemon (which waits for connection, and does not

RE: DLL-Access under Windows

2001-06-25 Thread Franziskus Scharpff
Thank you, I'll have a look. > -Original Message- > From: Jenda Krynicky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Montag, 25. Juni 2001 18:57 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: DLL-Access under Windows > > > > as a Perl-Newbie I wounder wehter there exsist a Modul > which helps me to > >

RE: winnt perl get localtime

2001-06-25 Thread Lee Goddard
Maybe sily question, but have you seen the perldoc -f localtime perldoc -f time ? I believe there is POSIX support, but maybe in a module from search.cpan.org. Lee --- Obligatory perl schmutter .sig: perl -e "print rand > 0.5 ? q/\\/ : q\/\ while 1" > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL

RE: winnt perl get localtime

2001-06-25 Thread Lee Goddard
> how about > > my $Time = (time); scalar time > # epoch seconds > or > > my $Time = localtime(); scalar localtime > # real world time > > Shawn > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chunbo > > Shao > > Sent: Monday, June

RE: winnt perl get localtime

2001-06-25 Thread Shawn
how about my $Time = (time); # epoch seconds or my $Time = localtime(); # real world time Shawn > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chunbo > Shao > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 8:57 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sub

winnt perl get localtime

2001-06-25 Thread Chunbo Shao
How can i get time/timezone in perl on Winnt? On unix, i use "use POSIX qw(strftime); $zone = strftime "%Z", localtime;", and it works well. But this does not work under Winnt because of POSIX. Please help, thanks Chunbo ___ ActivePerl mailing list [E

Re: DLL-Access under Windows

2001-06-25 Thread Jenda Krynicky
> as a Perl-Newbie I wounder wehter there exsist a Modul which helps me to > access ALL the DLL's in my System. > > I have a Custom-dll which I need to use, but do not want to learn VB for it. If it is an OLE/COM object you use Win32::OLE, if it's an ordinary DLL you use either Win32::API or FFI

DLL-Access under Windows

2001-06-25 Thread Franziskus Scharpff
Hello List, as a Perl-Newbie I wounder wehter there exsist a Modul which helps me to access ALL the DLL's in my System. I have a Custom-dll which I need to use, but do not want to learn VB for it. Any sugestions ? Thank you Franziskus ___ A