Garbled debug prompts

2001-09-27 Thread T. William Schmidt
Hello fellow Perl hackers, I sent the following question directly to Active State and got a response that led me to subscribe to this mailing list. I have not found any references to this problem in the archives but there must be other Windows 2000 users out there who have encountered the same pr

RE: FileName Pattern Matching

2001-09-27 Thread Toby Stuart
> >>By the way, what does the m#. do in the statement: if (m#.+\\ulog#i)? > > u can use any char as the match/subst delimiter as long as you keep em the > same > > eg.. > > m/.../.../; > m/?...?...?; [t0by] whoops. that should be: m?...?...?; > m#...#...#; > s-...-...-; > s!...

RE: FileName Pattern Matching

2001-09-27 Thread Toby Stuart
>>By the way, what does the m#. do in the statement: if (m#.+\\ulog#i)? u can use any char as the match/subst delimiter as long as you keep em the same eg.. m/.../.../; m/?...?...?; m#...#...#; s-...-...-; s!...!...!; > -Original Message- > From: Steven&Alison Chu

RE: FileName Pattern Matching

2001-09-27 Thread Steven&Alison Chua
Hi Jeff, Thanks for the pointer. You gave me an idea which worked. I noticed the extra "\" on your code and I mucked around with my code and the code below worked as well! (-f $_ && $_=~/\\ULOG\./i) Now we have 2 pieces of code that works! By the way, what does the m#. do in the statement: if

RE: FileName Pattern Matching

2001-09-27 Thread Jeffrey
# test input @names = ("C:\\ba\\log\\ULOG.20010101", "C:\\ba\\log\\ULG.20010101", "C:\\ba\\log\\ULGO.20010101", "C:\\ba\\log\\ulog.20010101"); foreach (@names) { if (m#.+\\ulog#i) { print "Yep\t$_\n"; } else {

Re: FileName Pattern Matching

2001-09-27 Thread Bill Luebkert
Steven&Alison Chua wrote: > > Thanks Tom and James for your help. > > Sorry I forgot to mention that the filename has the filename "path" in it. > Hence the caret "^" wouldn;t work. > Eg of filename:"C:\ba\log\ULOG.20010101" > > I did have a look at the perlre manpage. Tried the options but I

RE: FileName Pattern Matching

2001-09-27 Thread Steven&Alison Chua
Thanks Tom and James for your help. Sorry I forgot to mention that the filename has the filename "path" in it. Hence the caret "^" wouldn;t work. Eg of filename:"C:\ba\log\ULOG.20010101" I did have a look at the perlre manpage. Tried the options but I could'nt get it to work. Do you or anyone

Re: Font::TTF for 5.6 not in repository?

2001-09-27 Thread Clinton
Brilliant! Many Thanks CCJ - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Clinton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 8:43 PM Subject: Re: Font::TTF for 5.6 not in repository? > > The file you cite is pretty old. > > I'd suggest you get Font::TTF from CPAN. Curre

Child pid from fork

2001-09-27 Thread Java Ed
Hi,   I am running v5.6.1 under win2k. I have been having problem getting the correct child pid.   The child $pid is always a negative number for some reason. $pid gives the same negative as $$ in the child process code but that is not the real child pid.   $$ in parent code did

Re: Domain Registrations?

2001-09-27 Thread Russel Olinger
Sorry allhahahahaha   I subscirbe to serveral mailing liststhis one was intended for another groupbut nonetheless, your help is appreciated. - Original Message - From: Harry Holt To: Russel Olinger ; activeperl Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2

RE: Domain Registrations?

2001-09-27 Thread Tom Gioconda
Title: Message I suggest a company called www.enom.com.  Very slick and cheap, and they give you a web interface with all sorts of options for making different entries.  They're what I use for my personal domain name (for my home LAN). -Original Message-From: Russel O

RE: GD on winNT

2001-09-27 Thread Jason Vincent
Title: RE: GD on winNT Thanks Jeremy - I installed the Chart:: package - and it seems to work great.  Thanks for saving me a lot of headaches. -Original Message- From: Jeremy Wadsack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 6:30 PM To: Vincent, Jason

RE: FileName Pattern Matching

2001-09-27 Thread Thomas Bätzler
> From: Steven&Alison Chua [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] asked: > I'm having some difficulty matching files starting with a name. [...] > I've tried using the following line but it is not accurate as > it retuens > files with ULOG at the end of the filename as well: > > (-f $_ && $_=~/\ULOG

RE: FileName Pattern Matching

2001-09-27 Thread James . Herbert
u need to use the ^ (caret) in your regex, to say "starts with". $_ =~ /^ULOG/i; HTH jim -Original Message- From: beebzz Sent: 27 September 2001 09:31 To: activeperl Cc: beebzz Subject: FileName Pattern Matching Hello everyone, I'm having some difficulty matching

FileName Pattern Matching

2001-09-27 Thread Steven&Alison Chua
Hello everyone, I'm having some difficulty matching files starting with a name. For example, I'm trying to match filenames that STARTS with "ULOG." I'm not bothered about the extension name as it varies. Any ideas? I've tried using the following line but it is not accurate as it retuens files

Domain Registrations?

2001-09-27 Thread Russel Olinger
Anyone know of a any easy and "cheap" place to register domains at?  I loathe networksolutions, especially since they are now owned by Verisign.  Bastards.