RE: Which books to buy?

2001-12-05 Thread Robinson, Josh
I'm presently learning the language for more general purpose (eg. File parsing, OO development, DB programs) and, believe it or not Perl for Dummies got me writing simple programs pretty quickly. Frankly, the book cut away all of the complexities that you don't need when learning a new language an

regexp again

2001-12-05 Thread North, Wesley J
I seem to have uncovered a flaw in Perl's regex function, if not than I'm freakin clueless. Notice the following code: #! /usr/sbin/perl $foo = qq!wes/wes/wes!; print "$foo\n"; # returns wes/wes/wes ($foo = $foo) =~ s/\/\//g; print "$foo\n"; # returns wes/wes/wes even though I told it to repl

RE: Which books to buy?

2001-12-05 Thread Marco Nanni
Title: RE: Which books to buy? Hi Andrew,   For web development, I bought “CGI Programming with Perl” – O’Reilly’s – Scott Guelich – ISBN: 1-56592-419-3.   I find good. The examples are quite easy to understand and not so long (short appletts). If you develop C

RE: perlsvc

2001-12-05 Thread sunil matte
hi u can also install it using my.exe -install and then open the services console (located in administrative tools for win nt ,2000)..in there u can start your service sunil --- Eric Logeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks, exactly the info I needed > > > -Original Message

Re: system() function behaves different in build 630 from 629 behaviour

2001-12-05 Thread Dirk Bremer
I just noticed this same problem this morning after upgrading from 629 to 630. I use the system for certain DOS commands and found that the DOS Copy command was failing. After over an hour of experimentation, I too narrowed it down to the system call. Originally, I used it as: system('copy','fi