Re: Overriding CORE:: functions?

2002-04-05 Thread jjore
Jenda, Thanks for the tip. I'm posting to let the archives and others know about this nifty feature. I eventually solved my problem by using Filter::Handle somewhat thusly: package main; use Filter::Handle 'subs'; Filter \*STDOUT, sub { map { uc } } package It works nicely. I've just coer

RE: WinZip in PerlWin32

2002-04-05 Thread Craig B. Nakata
You can use the WinZip command line support or the module Archive::Zip. Craig -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Kevin Smith Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 5:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: WinZip in PerlWin32 Hi All,   If I've download

Re: dumb-ass question re exponents

2002-04-05 Thread Chris Snyder
Dumber answer than I thought. As someone pointed out, it is actually '**' not '^'. Cosmic brain fart, my apologies. Chris At 10:32 AM 4/5/2002 -0500, David Mintz wrote: >On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Chris Snyder wrote: > > > Dumb-ass answer: > > > > print "Number to square: "; > > $num = ; > > > > pr

Re: dumb-ass question re exponents

2002-04-05 Thread David Mintz
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Chris Snyder wrote: > Dumb-ass answer: > > print "Number to square: "; > $num = ; > > print $num ^ 2, "\n"; > > I haven't tested this, but you get the idea. Aaaah! Excellent. Many thanks. David ___ ActivePerl mailing

Re: dumb-ass question re exponents

2002-04-05 Thread brianr
Chris Snyder writes: > > Dumb-ass answer: > > print "Number to square: "; > $num = ; > > print $num ^ 2, "\n"; > > I haven't tested this, but you get the idea. That operator is bit-wise exclusive or. I think the OP was looking for exponentiation which is rather different (** operator

Re: dumb-ass question re exponents

2002-04-05 Thread Chris Snyder
Dumb-ass answer: print "Number to square: "; $num = ; print $num ^ 2, "\n"; I haven't tested this, but you get the idea. Chris At 09:55 AM 4/5/2002 -0500, David Mintz wrote: >I'm sure this question deserves sneers and chortles, but I can't find an >answer in the Perl docs. > >What's the Perl

Re: search.pl

2002-04-05 Thread Cameron Dorey
> Joost Rust wrote: > > hi all, > > i hope someone can help me with the following issue. > > I am not very new at Perl but let's say.. just started since a few > weeks. > > I want to create a CDrom with about 1000 HTML documents. There's a > HTML page with a complete menustructure with which y

RE: DBI and Blobs

2002-04-05 Thread Jeff Urlwin
> > Thanks for the help Jeff, I will certainly try it. > > I couldn't find the latest DBD::ODBC (0.39) on CPAN though, the latest I > saw is 0.38. I'll attach it here, just in case. .39 should have made it as I've seen a few patches for building with it already...:( > > One question, can you

Re: WinZip in PerlWin32

2002-04-05 Thread Evan Morris
I use Archive::Zip package to zip up files, and I'm pretty sure you can use it to unzip files as well. It should all be in the documentation.   Evan Morris[EMAIL PROTECTED]+ 27 11 792 2777 (tel)+ 27 11 792 2711 (fax)   - Original Message - From: Kevin Smith To: [EMAIL P