Re: Passing arguments by value

2005-12-15 Thread DZ-Jay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been following this debate all week and noticed one thing missing... No-one has mentioned that it's bad programming practice to rely on a sub to modify an argument. If you want to modify a value, it should be explicitly returned, viz.: sub add_one { my $in_var =

RE: Problems with fork

2005-12-15 Thread Jan Dubois
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Américo Albuquerque wrote: > the spawn method does the fork. if it can't it return 0 and the server > shutsdown. After about 20 successeful forks, I get "Resource temporarily > unavailable" error. I've tried waitpid but it didn't work, after several > forks I still get the same

RE: Problems with fork

2005-12-15 Thread Am�rico Albuquerque
Thank you all for your replies. My problem isn't with the connection itself. I can connect without problems. The problem is with the fork call. I did a little research and this seams to only happen in windows. Windows does not support fork, so perl uses threads instead, IThreads to be more

Re: Help splitting fields with regexp

2005-12-15 Thread DZ-Jay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok. well i don't have formal reg exp training,. i've used an oreilly pres book to teach myself and have been told by others that i seem really good with them. considering what i've seen here, Brian Raven and Bill Luebkert are both much better and also explain VERY well.

RE: Invoking perl scripts automatically based on time of day

2005-12-15 Thread Mittal, Manish
I guess the windows task scheduler is the best way to approach this for my simple code. Thank you all for the guidance. Manish -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 2:23 AM To: Mittal, Manish

RE: Invoking perl scripts automatically based on time of day

2005-12-15 Thread Ari.Wilen
Hi Manish, for clarification, Perl script along with Perl is a aplication - not a service which is always running. There must be something else that will wake and trick the script going. There is no point as KJW wrote try to do it in perl. It could be done but it is an other story, a long one. Tr