RE: Line Numbers and Posting Archives

2002-01-12 Thread Jim Millard
Hewlett, If you are on a *nix system try: a2ps -E -g -n script.pl This will print line numbers two pages per page with highlight formatting. Very nice. -- Regards, Jim Millard Sr. Software Engineer Pioneer Digital Technologies, Inc. == I think they use

RE: Line Numbers and Posting Archives

2002-01-12 Thread Hanson, Robert
Read the error carefully, it may have been giving you a line number in the Time::Local module in your script, and it will tell you that. Often you will get the line in the module that had the error as well as the line number in your script that called the subroutine in the module. As for tracki

RE: Line Numbers and...

2002-01-12 Thread ss004b3324
Gary Hawkins wrote: > navigation is slow, etc. There is probably a Windows port of vi, > but I prefer Notepad. Get yourself a copy of syn from: http://www.webattack.com/get/syn.shtml Extract from the About: This Program is a Fileeditor with Syntaxhighlight support for over 30 different Language

RE: Lists or hash

2002-01-12 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Hanson, Robert wrote: > > Hashes are slower than arrays, but I don't > > usually worry about those things unless > > performance is an issue. I recommend (others > > will no doubt have different opinions) that > > you use a hash when it makes your life easier... > > in this

Re: Switches

2002-01-12 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> Any site that provides details on the different > command line switches? You mean like www.perldoc.com? Also, try: perl -h Jonathan Paton __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Char

Re: Line Numbers and...

2002-01-12 Thread Briac Pilpré
In article <000701c19bba$0af78320$1f58a9cb@S7575530>, Leon wrote: > { > my $count = 0; > open FILE, 'perl_script.pl' or die "$!\n"; > while (){ > $count++; > print "Line $count: $_"; > }; > close FILE; > }; You could even do that in a one-liner: $ perl -pe'printf("%03i : ", $.)'

RE: Line Numbers and...

2002-01-12 Thread Gary Hawkins
Seems a good example of how every little question has some merit. You just never know. I've had the same problem on Windows 2000 and have been using edit.com to find line numbers in my scripts, and it isn't real handy; it opens a small window, navigation is slow, etc. There is probably a Window

Re: sorting in perl - help me

2002-01-12 Thread John W. Krahn
Sanilkumar wrote: > > Enyone can help me: > > how to do Quicksort , selection sort ,mergesort and > external merge sort in perl that programes are exactly the same way that > programes in C/C++ This book covers sorting in Perl: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/maperl/ J

Re: why does open()ing happen only at the line ?

2002-01-12 Thread Prahlad Vaidyanathan
Hi, On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 Michael Fowler spewed into the ether: [-- snip --] > Um, how do you figure? The sudo program prints out the "Password:" prompt, > and from your output you can clearly see "test" is after "Password:". So > sudo is being run before "test" is printed. Yes, I noticed that _

RE: How do I delete a file from Perl?

2002-01-12 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Randolph S. Kahle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 11:22 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: How do I delete a file from Perl? > > > I am writing my first perl program (copied from a magazine). > > The only line that is not wor

How do I delete a file from Perl?

2002-01-12 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I am writing my first perl program (copied from a magazine). The only line that is not working is system( rm -rf $file ); The error message is: Can't call method "rm" with a package or object reference. Any tips? Thanks -- Randy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additio

Re: rand() function

2002-01-12 Thread Roger C Haslock
You seem to have looked at Chart-Plot. You might try use Chart::Plot; my $img = Chart::Plot->new(400,400); my @data; for (1..1) { push @data, rand() } $img->setData (\@dataset, 'black noline points'); open (WR,'>plot.png') or die ("Failed to write file: $!"); binmode WR; print WR $img->d

Re: Line Numbers and...

2002-01-12 Thread zentara
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:47:08 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary Hawkins) wrote: >Seems a good example of how every little question has some merit. You just >never know. > >So Hewlett's question gave me an idea. Just print my scripts to the screen >with line numbers added. My life is now better. S

suidperl

2002-01-12 Thread Rich Quinn
Hi, I am able to install Perl 5.6.1 on my solaris box, but cannot get it to include SuidPerl in the installation. Do I have to enable something in the ""Configure"" script? ""d_dosuid"" maybe? Or is it something to do with SUID in my Solaris Kernel that I need to enable or disable. Am not sure.

RE: Line Numbers and Posting Archives

2002-01-12 Thread Hewlett Pickens
Rob, Thank you for the quick reply on the line numbers. You were right - the line number in the error message was in one of the "use xxx" modules. And my face is slightly red from embarrassment re the "how can line numbers be displayed": Your reply about using a different editor sent me to O'R

This Simple program won't work - why?

2002-01-12 Thread Richard.C.1
I am a total beginner to perl. I wrote the program below to open a program file, read it line by line, and write each line to an output file after first putting two string lines out there. It compiles without errors but the output is a filename with zero length. What did I do wrong? Thank you!

Re: Switches

2002-01-12 Thread Briac Pilpré
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Naveen Parmar wrote: > Any site that provides details on the different command line switches? No need to waste bandwidth when all the relevant infos are on your system! :) perldoc perlrun -- briac Bankei departs under an oak tree. Ten bears

Re: Line Numbers and...

2002-01-12 Thread Briac Pilpré
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Zentara wrote: > Hi, I found a nifty little perl module on Perlmonks.org. > It is called Filter::NumberLines > (...) > I can't find a url on the net for it, so here it is: Here's the URL of this filter: http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=125831 -- briac

Re: Pointers versus References

2002-01-12 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> It's taken me a while to wrap my head around > references, since I thought they were always > Perl-specific. (At least, the term 'reference' doesn't > show up in K&R!) > > Anyway, it finally occurred to me that the term > 'reference' might just be Perlish for what other > languages (C, I'm thin

Re: This Simple program won't work - why?

2002-01-12 Thread John W. Krahn
Richard C 1 wrote: > > I am a total beginner to perl. I wrote the program below to open a program > file, read it line by line, and write each line to an output file after > first putting two string lines out there. It compiles without errors but the > output is a filename with zero length. What

Re: How do I delete a file from Perl?

2002-01-12 Thread Steve Maroney
try using unlink instead. On 12 Jan 2002, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > I am writing my first perl program (copied from a magazine). > > The only line that is not working is > > system( rm -rf $file ); > > The error message is: > > Can't call method "rm" with a package or object reference. > > Any

Re: How do I delete a file from Perl?

2002-01-12 Thread Ahmed Moustafa
Randy, You can delete a file, or a list of files, using "unlink". Example: ## unlink $file; ## perldoc -f unlink Hope that helps. Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.photo.net/user/ahmed Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > I am writing my first perl program (copied from a magazine). > > The only li

Re: Another simple program which wont work.

2002-01-12 Thread John W. Krahn
Rabs wrote: > > Hi everyone Im trying to get this script to work, I am wondering if anyone > in this group can help me. > > #!/usr/bin/perl-w > use strict; > > @a= (1, 2, 3, 4); > foreach $word(@a){ > print $word ; > } > > When I run this script I get the following error messages, can you ex

Re: Lists or hash

2002-01-12 Thread Daniel Gardner
Friday, January 11, 2002, 3:12:19 PM, Scott wrote: > I am reading a file into a list and then formatting it to prepare it for a > mainframe. Currently I read the contents into a list as such: > my @fields = split(/\t/, $record) > and then I call them by $fields[0], etc. > Would it be more bene

RE: Changing the name of a sub item under a tree view list

2002-01-12 Thread Abhra Debroy
Hello James Thank you for our interest. My problem is as followed ; I have an application WinRunner which is used for Test case automation. It record all the GUI Object of the application in GUI Map ( in a tree view structure) which actually store details property of all object under a partic

Re: Line Numbers and...

2002-01-12 Thread Leon
- Original Message - From: "Gary Hawkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hewlett Pickens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Seems a good example of how every little question has some merit. You just > never know. I sure agree with you on this. > I've had the same problem on Windows

Another simple program which wont work.

2002-01-12 Thread rabs
Hi everyone Im trying to get this script to work, I am wondering if anyone in this group can help me. #!/usr/bin/perl-w use strict; @a= (1, 2, 3, 4); foreach $word(@a){ print $word ; } When I run this script I get the following error messages, can you explain in simple english they mean . A

RE: How do I delete a file from Perl?

2002-01-12 Thread Gary Hawkins
> system("rm -rf $file"); > > But if you copied this from another source, that source was totally > unaware that deletion of files like THAT is TOTALLY unsafe. A safer > approach is: > > system("rm", "-rf", $file); I'm not aware of the reason for it. What's a good way to find which perl doc

RE: Another simple program which wont work.

2002-01-12 Thread Wagner-David
SInce you are running with strict, then all your variables would need to be fully gualified(ie, $main::a, $main::word, etc) or if you add my to each variable, then it would work. Wags ;) -Original Message- From: rabs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 1

RE: Another simple program which wont work.

2002-01-12 Thread Mike Rapuano
#!/usr/bin/perl-w use strict; my @a= (1, 2, 3, 4); foreach my $word(@a){ print $word ; } try this... Mike -Original Message- From: rabs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 8:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Another simple program which wont work. Hi every

Re: Sorry for off topic, please reply as interested, and off list....

2002-01-12 Thread Daniel Gardner
Friday, January 11, 2002, 8:32:56 AM, Connie Chan wrote: > now, I am writing a script which to let user modify the password of > their email account automatically, but our email server will encrypy > the password in some ways. so it makes me unable to cmp or write. > such as, if I give "A"

Re: How do I delete a file from Perl?

2002-01-12 Thread Tanton Gibbs
The rm -rf $file should be in quotes system( "rm -rf $file" ) but make sure file isn't / !!! :) - Original Message - From: "Randolph S. Kahle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 11:21 AM Subject: How do I delete a file from Perl? > I am writi

Re: How do I delete a file from Perl?

2002-01-12 Thread Ahmed Moustafa
It's "perldoc -f system" not "perldoc system". --Ahmed Gary Hawkins wrote: >> system("rm -rf $file"); >> >>But if you copied this from another source, that source was totally >>unaware that deletion of files like THAT is TOTALLY unsafe. A safer >>approach is: >> >> system("rm", "-rf", $file);

Re: mail

2002-01-12 Thread Prahlad Vaidyanathan
Hi, On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 Pieter Blaauw spewed into the ether: > Hi guys > > How would I do the following. Platform is a Red Hat 7.2 Linux box with > Pine 4.44 as my mail client. Now pine stores all your mail in the usual > /var/spool/mail/ > > Can I use perl to extract all the mail from 2001 int

Re: mail

2002-01-12 Thread Prahlad Vaidyanathan
Hi, On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 Pieter Blaauw spewed into the ether: > Hi guys > > How would I do the following. Platform is a Red Hat 7.2 Linux box with > Pine 4.44 as my mail client. Now pine stores all your mail in the usual > /var/spool/mail/ > > Can I use perl to extract all the mail from 2001 int

Another simple program which doesnt work.

2002-01-12 Thread rabs
This newsgroup is great. I am learning alot from just reading the post here. I hope someone will be able to help with this query. - #!/usr/bin/perl-w print "please enter a word then press enter\n"; @a= ; $L =@a; for ($i=0; $i<=$L; $i++){ print $a[$i]; } print "\n there are $L varib

RE: How do I delete a file from Perl?

2002-01-12 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jan 12, Gary Hawkins said: >> system("rm -rf $file"); >> >> But if you copied this from another source, that source was totally >> unaware that deletion of files like THAT is TOTALLY unsafe. A safer >> approach is: >> >> system("rm", "-rf", $file); > >I'm not aware of the reason for it.

Re: How do I delete a file from Perl?

2002-01-12 Thread Elias Assmann
> system( rm -rf $file ); > Any tips? Try 'system("rm", "-rf", $file)'. The quotes are not really necessary here (I think), but you should use them, because otherwise "rm" and "rf" will be interpreted as barewords, and you might get in conflict with the reserved ones. HTH, Elias -- T

Re: How do I delete a file from Perl?

2002-01-12 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jan 12, Randolph S. Kahle said: >The only line that is not working is > >system( rm -rf $file ); You (or they) have forgotten the quotes: system("rm -rf $file"); But if you copied this from another source, that source was totally unaware that deletion of files like THAT is TOTALLY unsafe.

Re: Another simple program which doesnt work.

2002-01-12 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jan 13, rabs said: >#!/usr/bin/perl-w >print "please enter a word then press enter\n"; >@a= ; >$L =@a; >for ($i=0; $i<=$L; $i++){ >print $a[$i]; >} Your loop should be for ($i = 0; $i < $L; $i++) { ... } Notice <= should be <. It should also be noted that the idiomatic way of looping ove

Pointers versus References

2002-01-12 Thread patrick hall
Hi pholks, It's taken me a while to wrap my head around references, since I thought they were always Perl-specific. (At least, the term 'reference' doesn't show up in K&R!) Anyway, it finally occurred to me that the term 'reference' might just be Perlish for what other languages (C, I'm thinking

Re: rand() function

2002-01-12 Thread Roger C Haslock
There are a number of modules for plotting and drawing images: I am not an expert in this field. I think you will need GD, and I think that has a routine to plot a point - it might be called 'draw'. I would bow to the advice of the gurus on this point! - Roger - - Original Message - From:

Re: Pointers versus References

2002-01-12 Thread Ahmed Moustafa
I believe the two terms, reference and pointer, are equivalent. By the way, In Java, they call it reference also, I think. --Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.photo.net/users/ahmed Patrick Hall wrote: > Hi pholks, > > It's taken me a while to wrap my head around > references, since I thoug

Script Idea

2002-01-12 Thread Roger Morris
I've got a laptop running Linux. When I go to work, the laptop gets it's IP address via DHCP, at home I have a private IP address that I use (for a home network that uses dial up for Internet), and at my other place of employ I have a third IP address that is used. I've created a shell script

Re: Pointers versus References

2002-01-12 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> It's taken me a while to wrap my head around > references, since I thought they were always > Perl-specific. (At least, the term 'reference' doesn't > show up in K&R!) > > Anyway, it finally occurred to me that the term > 'reference' might just be Perlish for what other > languages (C, I'm thin

RE: Another simple program which doesnt work.

2002-01-12 Thread Gary Hawkins
> This newsgroup is great. I am learning alot from just reading the post > here. I hope someone will be able to help with this query. Me too. But I learned a new word yesterday, pedantic. Just wanted to try it out, here goes. :< Listserves: Email lists are read in an email program or on the

Re: File::Basename, linux, and extensions

2002-01-12 Thread Michael Fowler
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:16:29AM -0500, zentara wrote: > I've been playing with File::Basename and > the docs are not absolutely clear on whether > you can get an extension on a linux system. > I have had no success trying, so does this mean > that linux is not capable of dealing with extensions

RE: Another simple program which doesnt work.

2002-01-12 Thread Wagner-David
It should be $i<$L and just 0 and not $0 ( $0 is the script name ); Wags ;) ps You should realize that the c/r remains with each line. -Original Message- From: rabs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 17:52 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Another simple pro

Re: Switches

2002-01-12 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jan 12, Naveen Parmar said: >Any site that provides details on the different command line switches? You have the documentation on your computer: perldoc perlrun -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.

RE: why does open()ing happen only at the line ?

2002-01-12 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Prahlad Vaidyanathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 4:52 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Michael Fowler > Subject: Re: why does open()ing happen only at the line ? > > > Hi, > > On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 Michael Fowler spewed into th

Re: This Simple program won't work - why?

2002-01-12 Thread Alfred Wheeler
You have an extra angle bracket. Should be: open (INFILE, "> means append. < means read. << is just confusing... ;-) - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 1:16 PM Subject: This Simple program won't work - why? > > I am a

Re: Line Numbers and...

2002-01-12 Thread morris_r
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Leon wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Gary Hawkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Hewlett Pickens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I've had the same problem on Windows 2000 and have been using edit.com to > find > > line numbers in my scripts, and it i

Re: This Simple program won't work - why?

2002-01-12 Thread Curtis Poe
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am a total beginner to perl. I wrote the program below to open a program > file, read it line by line, and write each line to an output file after > first putting two string lines out there. It compiles without errors but the > output is a filename with zero len

RE: Another simple program which doesnt work.

2002-01-12 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jan 12, Gary Hawkins said: >> This newsgroup is great. I am learning alot from just reading the post >> here. I hope someone will be able to help with this query. > >Me too. But I learned a new word yesterday, pedantic. Just wanted to try it >out, here goes. :< There is a newsgroup interf

Re: Another simple program which doesnt work.

2002-01-12 Thread Jason Leonard
Gary wrote: > Listserves: Email lists are read in an email program or on the web and are > handled by SMTP. > Newsgroups: Hosted on news servers, they are read by newsgroup software or on > the web, and are handled by NNTP. > > So this is a listserve. Forgive me, I'm a Virgo. > > Listserve, we

Re: Another simple program which doesnt work.

2002-01-12 Thread John W. Krahn
Jeff 'Japhy' Pinyan wrote: > > On Jan 12, Gary Hawkins said: > > >> This newsgroup is great. I am learning alot from just reading the post > >> here. I hope someone will be able to help with this query. > > > >Me too. But I learned a new word yesterday, pedantic. Just wanted to try it > >out,

Re: Quoting Hash Keys; should I or shouldn't I?

2002-01-12 Thread John W. Krahn
Mark Ross wrote: > > Hi all, Hello, > I'm wondering if there is a difference between: > > $foo{'bar'} > and > $foo{bar} No difference (depending on which version of Perl you are using.) > Is there any important difference? I prefer to use > single quotes (my editor handles color coding bett