RE: Date Functions

-Original Message- From: David Gilden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 5:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Date Functions Hi, I am updating an old Script. Are there any problems or 'Y2k' bugs, in the following change? No. Looks like the old

Perl as *.EXE under Windows

Hi all, I''m not a gifted programmer, but I have this ambitious plan. I run a non-commercial site about search engines and I have a lot of Perl scripts running doing all sorts of search things, f.e. one section searches Google-documentes in Dutch at

RE: shebang line that works for multiple Perl binary locations

If you are happy to have all your perl run with the same flags (e.g. -wT), you can configure Apache to ignore the shebang line and use registry associations Either with a global ScriptInterpreterSource registry or on a per-directory basis Directory C:/blah/cgi-bin ... other

Yesterday-How obtain?

this statement ($sec,$min,$hour,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(); i obtain the date of today, but i need the $day,$mon,$year of yesterday How? Thank you -- Nunca creas feliz a nadie que esté pendiente de la felicidad. Se apoya en una base frágil quien pone su alegría en lo

doing work on the side

I have a CGI script that downloads data from MySQL and provides a hyperlink to download the zipped file. The problem arises when the data download takes too long, and the script times out. Is there a way to have the download part of the script split off into the background, show the link, and

help with script

can you review this script and see if you can spot any errors? no errors appear in the log, but the lines that are NOT quoted do not process correctly Chris -Original Message- From: Chris klein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 10:07 AM To: Klein,

Re: doing work on the side

You're dealing with the web server timeout and nothing that has to do with Perl. Even if you fork, you'll have the same problem. We upload some pretty bigs files here at work and we just bumped up Apache's timeout and we were cool... Here is the Apache timeout we have in our httpd.conf

cache

I had a cgi program, and it will dynamically draw a image and load into the cgi program, but because the web browser cache always remember the image file, so it will not update the image unless I quit the browser, restart the browser, then tue image will update. please help me with this

RE: cache

I believe nocache is for Netscape only. For IE you should use expires. (or was it the other way around) ...So you should use both. I don't have any references handy, but a value of 0 for expires might work. Alternatively you could use a scheme that a lot of ad agencies use. They append a

Re: Yesterday-How obtain?

Argenis Perez wrote: this statement ($sec,$min,$hour,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(); i obtain the date of today, but i need the $day,$mon,$year of yesterday look into the date::calc module. it's very handy for many date calculations.

Matching text

Hi I have a really simple problem that I could solve easily with a strstr() call in c but cannot get my head around in perl. I have have the following input. Active Accounted actions on tty57, User fred Priv 1 Task ID 35176, Network Accounting record, 02:04:00 Elapsed what I want to do is

Re: Matching text

Kevin wrote: Hi I have a really simple problem that I could solve easily with a strstr() call in c but cannot get my head around in perl. I have have the following input. Active Accounted actions on tty57, User fred Priv 1 Task ID 35176, Network Accounting record, 02:04:00 Elapsed

Re: perl database access

I'm not sure i follow you but if you use localhost or leave the host blank it'll try localhost... /Jon Jefferson Ryan Lee wrote: Hi, Are there any way to access a database (SQL Server) not using the ODBC? It is possible for a perl script to query a database not on a local

Re: Matching text

- Original Message - From: Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 10:15 PM Subject: Matching text I have have the following input. Active Accounted actions on tty57, User fred Priv 1 Task ID 35176, Network Accounting record, 02:04:00 Elapsed

fastCGI Perl memory

that is full script. it is fastCGI and problem is memory used by this script. after yester run is used memory by script bigger and bigger :( i ned absolute flushing memory from added modul (sorry for my english) #!/usr/bin/perl use FCGI; use Mysql; require default.conf; require default.def;

Re: More Economic Use of Hash

Do you want a lexical sort or a numeric sort? foreach my $key ( sort keys %freq ) # lexical foreach my $key ( sort ($a=$b) keys %freq ) # numeric - Roger - - Original Message - From: Balint, Jess [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Roger C Haslock' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

translation of logical operators

Dear perl mongers. I need to know if I can translate symbols in a text file into logical operators like AND|OR|NOT and so forth. The thing is that I'm trying to build a simulator for digital cuircuts, with input files in 3DML style (ascii graphix style) like this: =A-N =O A- Hrm, a little

PERL and XML Parser

Hi list. I'm currently doing a perl project involving XML parser. given this xml snippet: albums ownerPercy/owner categories=rock artistAlice in Chains/rock artistThe Pixies/artist /categories categories = reggae artistBob Marley/artist artistPeter Tosh/artist

Re: PERL and XML Parser

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 21:04:54 +0800 P0R0NG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |how can i get the PCDATA for the element owner? i want to get just |the owner elements and the content of the owner. | |i've created a code that will trap for the start and end tags of |the element owner as well as the handlers

Re: [ma-linux] Just when you thought you are done, the - is there - appears

Thanks to all who responded to my mail, especially Geoff. The best solution, I think, will be for me to throw in a login screen, but this has been ruled out. The IP range solution has lots of question marks, including what Geoff pointed out. I am basically stuck and will need any suggestion

RE: html entity conversion... one liner?

Just because tmtowtdi (even if it is not very efficient): $item = join '', map { s//lt;/ or s//gt;/; $_ } split //, $item; On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 09:51, Chas Owens wrote: On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 09:39, John Edwards wrote: Why *must* it be a one liner. I think my suggestion is easier to

Re: [ma-linux] Just when you thought you are done, the - is there - appears

I guess geoff is in the ma-linux list, not in here since the only things i can find in this thread is 3 posts by you. Kinda hard to offer better(tm) sollutions when you don't know what's been suggested before...Perhaps you should try NOT cross-posting? /Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to

RE: PERL and XML Parser

There are tons of XML modules, many of which make that sort of thing easy... but it depends on exactly what you want to do. Here are some snippets: use XML::EasyOBJ; my $obj = new XML::EasyOBJ('killme.xml'); foreach ( $obj-albums ) { print $_-owner-getString . \n; } -- OR -- use

Re: testing for a dir

Well, I'm not sure about rsh, but with ssh: ssh www.journalistic.com perl -e 'print ( (-d \data\) ? \DIR\n\ : \Not DIR\n\ );' Change data to whatever your dirname is... Jason If memory serves me right, on Friday 01 February 2002 10:18, Alex Harris wrote: What is the best way, using rsh, to

Re: change all files in directory

From: Booher Timothy B 1stLt AFRL/MNAC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I am trying to change all files in a directory that contain the strings Satellite satellite and SATELLITE that I need to change to target, Target and TARGET. Because many of these are C++ source files I need to

RE: change all files in directory

Yeah, here is an easy solution, run it right at the command line... (Make a backup of the files first!!) perl -pi -e 's|satellite|target|' *.cpp *.hpp *.asc perl -pi -e 's|Satellite|Target|' *.cpp *.hpp *.asc perl -pi -e 's|SATELLITE|TARGET|' *.cpp *.hpp *.asc Rob -Original Message-

difference between MSI and AS package

One more while I am at it . . . what is the difference between the MSI and the AS package distribution of ActivePerl 5.6.1 on the active state web-site? I don't know which one to download . . . Tim

RE: change all files in directory

From: Jenda Krynicky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] If you keep your code do not forget to add the /g option Oops! perl -pi -e 's|satellite|target|g' *.cpp *.hpp *.asc perl -pi -e 's|Satellite|Target|g' *.cpp *.hpp *.asc perl -pi -e 's|SATELLITE|TARGET|g' *.cpp *.hpp *.asc Rob -- To

RE: difference between MSI and AS package

The MSI uses the Microsoft installer, which means you can uninstall it. Use that one if you can. The AS package does not include an installer (well maybe a batch script, but I'm not sure). Rob -Original Message- From: Booher Timothy B 1stLt AFRL/MNAC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: change all files in directory

On Feb 1, Booher Timothy B 1stLt AFRL/MNAC said: Hello, I am trying to change all files in a directory that contain the strings Satellite satellite and SATELLITE that I need to change to target, Target and TARGET. Because many of these are C++ source files I need to preserve the case. I was

RE: change all files in directory

Somewhat related question: I want to ADD a file extension (there currently none)to all files that start with FOO so they will be named FOO.txt Is there a one liner that can accomplish this? -Original Message- From: Hanson, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01,

Re: change all files in directory

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Booher Timothy B 1stLt AFRL/MNAC wrote: Hello, I am trying to change all files in a directory that contain the strings Satellite satellite and SATELLITE that I need to change to target, Target and TARGET. Because many of these are C++ source files I need to preserve the

UFO (Unidentified Formatting Observation) on the web....

I have a very beginner's question. I've just been looking at the code for a library file and noticed some, to me, very peculiar things. First, there is text that is not commented, it is just typed in place. Why does this not interfere with the script? Second, there are expressions like =pod

RE: change all files in directory

When I try to run the one-liners I get: Can't open *.cpp: Invalid argument. Can't open *.hpp: Invalid argument. But when I do a dir command I get: target_functions.cpptarget_modules.cpp global_constants.hpp global_header.hpp class_functions.cpp S2b_4.opt Clearly these files

Re: UFO (Unidentified Formatting Observation) on the web....

On Feb 1, Ron Goral said: I have a very beginner's question. I've just been looking at the code for a library file and noticed some, to me, very peculiar things. First, there is text that is not commented, it is just typed in place. Why does this not interfere with the script? Second, there

Re: UFO (Unidentified Formatting Observation) on the web....

it's pod, do 'perldoc module' and 'perldoc perldoc' /jon Ron Goral wrote: I have a very beginner's question. I've just been looking at the code for a library file and noticed some, to me, very peculiar things. First, there is text that is not commented, it is just typed in place. Why

Re: UFO (Unidentified Formatting Observation) on the web....

On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 10:44, Ron Goral wrote: I have a very beginner's question. I've just been looking at the code for a library file and noticed some, to me, very peculiar things. First, there is text that is not commented, it is just typed in place. Why does this not interfere with the

RE: Access Transmitted Data On Server Side Of A TCP Socket

Received an off-list reply that solved the problem. Replaced $client-recv with: $dataIn = $client); There's no way I would have figured that out on my own. Hew Hewlett M. Pickens BIM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

RE: change all files in directory

Oh, you're on Windows, it may not work because of the shell (cmd). In Windows the single quotes around the code usually need to be double quotes, and it doesn't seem to be expanding *.cpp when on Unix (types) it will expand that to all of the individual file names. I guess you need to write a

simple commenting question ...

Can I comment an entire block of code with comments at just the beginning and end of the block instead of having to put a # at the beginning of each line? If so, what is the symbol? Thank You! -Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

why doesn't this error

First, I read perldoc -f exec() and did as follows: exec rsh $plant /u1/bin/forkit 'work.pl' or print STDERR Couldn't fork it.\n $!\n; BUT, even though the file it should be exec - ing 'work.pl' does NOT exist on the remote system, the error doesn't get kicked off. The only error I've

RE: simple commenting question ...

Here is what you do blank line =pod blank line code block . blank line =cut blank line -Original Message- From: Pfeiffer, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 11:02 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: simple commenting question ... Can I

RE: simple commenting question ...

Yes. ...Sort of. =pod $x = 1; ... $y = 2; =cut The =pod and =cut are usually used for documentation but works for commenting out chunks of code as well. Currently there are no other mechanisms (unless you want to put it all in a if(0){} block :). Rob -Original Message- From:

Re: PERL and XML Parser

oh yes thanks for that! thanks. i overlooked that. my big... anyways, here's the correct xml version: ? xml version=1.0 standalone=yes ? albums ownerPercy/owner category name =rock artistAlice in Chains/artist artistThe Pixies/artist artistPercy and the Test Tube Babies/artist

Writing to Multiple Files

Does anyone know the best way to write a really long form into two seperate flat files, which then can be polled using a generated ID# into HTML? Thanks Guys... -- /_/_/ Aaron K. White _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ GeSE Program Office _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ Web

Include file

I have a set of program to do which is using always same var. So I would like to defined a small file where I defined my var (like $database=toto $host=localhost etc..) and then include it in my other program, but How to do that ? I try use but it's seems that is for complete module. require

Re: why doesn't this error

Alex Harris wrote: First, I read perldoc -f exec() and did as follows: exec rsh $plant /u1/bin/forkit 'work.pl' or print STDERR Couldn't fork it.\n $!\n; BUT, even though the file it should be exec - ing 'work.pl' does NOT exist on the remote system, the error doesn't get

RE: why doesn't this error

-Original Message- From: Alex Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 11:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: why doesn't this error First, I read perldoc -f exec() and did as follows: exec rsh $plant /u1/bin/forkit 'work.pl' or print STDERR

Get IP address from ifconfig

Richard, the bash shell script I used to do that was the following: /sbin/ifconfig eth0 |grep inet |cut -d ' ' -f12 | cut -d ':' -f2 This may not be generic, and you may have to fine-tune it to work for you, but it should give you the basic premise... Chris Weyn, Austin TX -- To

still not catching error

I took out the exec and placed system. But even though work.pl doesn't exist on the remote system, still getting no error. Help! if (system(rsh $plant /u1/bin/forkit '/u1/bin/work.pl') 0) { excep( $!\n); } _

Win32::GUI - Getting rid of console Window?

Is there anyway to get a Win3::GUI app to not display the DOS console when running, so it runs just like any other GUI app? Agustin Rivera Webmaster, Pollstar.com http://www.pollstar.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: still not catching error

Try $result = `rsh $plant /u1/bin/forkit '/u1/bin/work.pl'`; print $result; You are storing the output of the rsh... command into the variable. You can now run a regex on that to check for success/failure. I don't know what the output should be but as an example... $result = `rsh $plant

Re: Win32::GUI - Getting rid of console Window?

Is there anyway to get a Win3::GUI app to not display the DOS console when running, so it runs just like any other GUI app? Yuppers. use Win32::GUI; # hwnd is a handle to a window - basically, window's # way of keeping track of it's program windows... $hwnd =

Perl DBI - using parameters

Hi, This is my first effort at perl scripting so forgive my innocence. What I am trying to do is extract schema and data info from a proprietary database into flat files, format those files and import the data and schema into an Oracle database. The initial part of this is capturing the table

Re: Get IP address from ifconfig

Hi Chris, Thanks for the tip. My script works like a charm now! Cheers, Richard On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Chris Weyn wrote: Richard, the bash shell script I used to do that was the following: /sbin/ifconfig eth0 |grep inet |cut -d ' ' -f12 | cut -d ':' -f2 This may not be generic, and you

RE: PERL and XML Parser

I not sure how more experienced Perl developers feel but in addition to XML::Parser, I found XML::SimpleObject a great way to start parsing XML. Here's a link: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/04/18/perlxmlqstart1.html Additionally, you can model the data anyway you want, but here's a little

Hash Question

Since this is a beginners list, I thought I would be allowed to ask this question. Can there be multiple values for hash keys, or just one? The reason I am asking is that I am working on a statistical program and would need to use multiple hashes as values of another hash. If this is possible,

Re: Perl DBI - using parameters

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 12:13:41PM -0500, McElwee, Shane wrote: foreach $i (@table_arr){ $content = $i; # print (table name is: $i \n); open( CONTENT, $content ) || die Can't open file $content; my $sth = $dbh-prepare(select * from ?); $sth-bind_param(1, $i);

RE: Hash Question

Just one unless you use references. Here is an example with references... %hash = ( one = 1, two = 2 ); $hash{oneagain} = \$hash{one}; foreach my $key ( keys %hash ) { my $value = (ref $hash{$key}) ? ${$hash{$key}} : $hash{$key}; print $key = $value\n; } And when you

Re: Hash Question

Hashes cannot store multiple values (to the best of my knowledge), although they can store arrays or additional hashes which can of course, contain more values. Balint, Jess wrote Since this is a beginners list, I thought I would be allowed to ask this question. Can there be multiple values

Re: Hash Question

Keys are unique in a hash; what you put in them is up to you. the new value will overwrite the old value, unless you append it during assignment, using the . operator. Yes, you can store a hash in a hash in a hash... :) try perldoc perldsc for stuff on data structures. deen On Fri, 1 Feb

RE: Hash Question

The example I gave could also be expanded to include a subroutine to simplify getting a hash value... %hash = ( one = 1, two = 2 ); $hash{oneagain} = \$hash{one}; foreach my $key ( keys %hash ) { # Either will work, but I prefer the second print $key = .getVal(\%hash, $key).\n;

soft reference

Hi, I need help about soft referencing or extract value of array var. Can some one get a look to code bellow : Have a good week-end. asma. foreach(@articles) {

Formats

Why does the following not work for me? format NAME = TEST @ $test .. $test = asdfjkl;; select(NAME); write(); __END__ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FW: Formats

-Original Message- From: Anthony Bhagwandin Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 1:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Formats Why does the following not work for me? format NAME = TEST @ $test $test = asdfjkl;; select(NAME); write(); __END__ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Formats

On Feb 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Why does the following not work for me? format NAME = TEST @ $test .. $test = asdfjkl;; select(NAME); write(); That tries writing to the filehandle NAME, too. Instead of select(NAME), do: $~ = NAME; That will set STDOUT's default format name to

Tr: soft reference

-Message d'origine- De : mb [EMAIL PROTECTED] À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date : vendredi 1 février 2002 19:13 Objet : soft reference Hi, I need help about soft referencing or extract value of array var. Can some one get a look to code bellow : Have a good week-end.

Re: Hash Question

On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 12:42, Balint, Jess wrote: Since this is a beginners list, I thought I would be allowed to ask this question. Can there be multiple values for hash keys, or just one? The reason I am asking is that I am working on a statistical program and would need to use multiple

RE: Hash Question

Better yet you could use 'tie' and create your own hash implementation like the code below. You will be able to set and retreive values normally except for the fact that if you want a single value to be linked to two keys you will need to store the value in one key and reference that key in

directory file rename

I have a directory full of mp3s with various names, but I want to convert each mp3 to the file name 1.mp3 and continuing up to the last file in the directory - I would also like it to generate a text file that is setup like older mp3 file name - new numbered mp3 file name) any ideas or

Re: directory file rename

Hmmm ... seems pretty simple ... here's my baby-talk approach: # note: I would tar up your directory b4 running this program, just # in case it doesn't work (not in the mood to test this w/ my mp3's ;)) # backup backup backup! :) use File::Copy; # first, read in the dir/files opendir (DIR,

RE: Perl DBI - using parameters

I misunderstood the example from the book. Thanks for clearing that up. @table_arr is reading from a file now but I can use your suggestion if I have to make the process more interactive. Thanks Shane -Original Message- From: Michael Fowler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday,

Formats, cont'd

I have two arrays, @array_a and @array_b, that contain info I want formatted. I would like to have the output look something like: dataset A dataset B -- a1 b1 a2

Re: Include file

You could use the module that I am trying to use but having problems: AppConfig or you could use this (it works but is to limited for what I need): #/usr/bin/perl my $file = /dir/somefile.txt; open (CONFIG, $file) or die Can't open $file; while (CONFIG) { chomp; #no

Tr: soft reference

-Message d'origine- De : mb [EMAIL PROTECTED] À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date : vendredi 1 février 2002 19:01 Objet : soft reference Hi, I need help about soft referencing or extract value of array var. Can some one get a look to code bellow : Have a good week-end.

Tr: soft reference

-Message d'origine- De : mb [EMAIL PROTECTED] À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date : vendredi 1 février 2002 19:01 Objet : soft reference Hi, I need help about soft referencing or extract value of array var. Can some one get a look to code bellow : Have a good week-end.

Tr: soft reference sorry I think that there is a pb of transmit

Hi, I need help about soft referencing or extract value of array var. Can some one get a look to code bellow : Have a good week-end. asma. foreach(@articles) { ##($code,$article,$codeFamil,$uniteVent,$idDepot,$quantite) my @row1; push(@row1, $q - td({align = 'center'},$article), ...

RE: change all files in directory

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Booher Timothy B 1stLt AFRL/MNAC wrote: When I try to run the one-liners I get: Can't open *.cpp: Invalid argument. Can't open *.hpp: Invalid argument. But when I do a dir command I get: target_functions.cpptarget_modules.cpp global_constants.hpp

Re: pulling file name into perl

I don't think this is the right way to approach this. I suggest you look at opendir, readdir in perlfunc. opendir DIR, '/' or die $0: no top level directory $!; my @dirlist = readdir DIR; - Roger - - Original Message - From: Russell Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: Formats, cont'd

Maybe one of the guru's can help us, but here is one way: #!perl -w use strict; my @a1 = ();# leaving out $a1[1] so undefined and can use the check of undefined in loop $a1[0] = 1; $a1[2] = 3; $a1[3] = 4; $a1[4] = 5; $a1[5] = 6; my @b1 = (2,3,4,5,6,7); my $Mya1; my $Myb1; my

RE: Please point me to a language (perl I hope)

Please stop making life difficult for yourself. If you need just a small part of a large image to animate, chop up the large image so the animated part can be isolated, place all the parts in a table to unite them and animate the needed part. As for the person walking, either use the above

help with script

can you review this script and see if you can spot any errors? no errors appear in the log, but the lines in red do not process correctly see example 57 for the code that I got most of these problem spots from Chris -Original Message- From: Chris klein [mailto:[EMAIL

Wade through a file and grab titles

I have a bunch of files in the form below and I want to go through the list and extract only the file name. The only way I can consistently see this is to take the next line after the ). ahmad73 __ exist: 0 K. Ahmad and I. J. Smalley, Powder Technol. 8, 69 (1973). Observation of particle

Dates

this statement ($sec,$min,$hour,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(); i obtain the date of today, but i need the $day,$mon,$year of yesterday How? Thank you Argenis Perez -- Nunca creas feliz a nadie que esté pendiente de la felicidad. Se apoya en una base frágil quien pone su alegría

Re: Hash Question

Balint, Jess wrote: Since this is a beginners list, I thought I would be allowed to ask this question. Can there be multiple values for hash keys, or just one? The reason I am asking is that I am working on a statistical program and would need to use multiple hashes as values of another

RE: Please point me to a language (perl I hope)

The rule of thumb for animated images: Flashing, blinking, rotating, jumpy-bumpy effects are distracting. If you must use animated images, keep it small, tasteful, and to a bare minimum. Studies have found that users have actually gone so far as to 'cover' annoying animations and blinking text

RE: Please point me to a language (perl I hope)

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Nikola Janceski wrote: The rule of thumb for animated images: Flashing, blinking, rotating, jumpy-bumpy effects are distracting. If you must use animated images, keep it small, tasteful, and to a bare minimum. Studies have found that users have actually gone so far as to

RE: Dates

use Date::Calc module; man Date::Calc (if it's installed). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 2:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Dates this statement ($sec,$min,$hour,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(); i

RE: Hash Question

I think I will go ahead and use something like the multi-dimensional hash example below. What I need to do is create hashes dynamically based on how many are needed for this particular instance of the program. Any ideas on dynamic hash creation multi-dimensionally? Thanks -jess

Checking an existing instance of a process

What is the most cautious way to see if I am already running an instance of a program and kill that said process? I'm setting up a shell that will be launched from a cronjob and want to make sure that if there was an instance of the same process running, that it was killed up front, before

RE: Dates

Try this: ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(time -86400); #86400 seconds in a day print join -,(($mon + 1),$mday,($year + 1900)); BTW, that's an interesting quote. If you don't mind my asking, who is Lucio Anneo Séneca? -Original Message- From: Argenis

RE: Hash Question

Where might one find this 'tutorial'? -Original Message- From: Dave Benware [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 2:44 PM To: Beginners perl Subject: Re: Hash Question Balint, Jess wrote: Since this is a beginners list, I thought I would be allowed to ask this

RE: Win32::GUI - Getting rid of console Window?

The only downside to this method is that an errant Perl Window can linger around long after you think it's been closed (i.e. it won't show anywhere expect under Task Manager). I prefer making a copy of perl.exe (in C:\Perl\bin) and call it something like perlw.exe. Then register perlw.exe as a

RE: Hash Question

how will you know how many keys are needed? On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 14:42, Balint, Jess wrote: I think I will go ahead and use something like the multi-dimensional hash example below. What I need to do is create hashes dynamically based on how many are needed for this particular instance of the

RE: Win32::GUI - Getting rid of console Window?

The only downside to this method is that an errant Perl Window can linger around long after you think it's been closed (i.e. it won't show anywhere expect under Task Manager). Russ, I had noticed that a while too. Somehow or another, with the Windows.pl file in the AmphetaDesk [1] source,

RE: Hash Question

On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 15:23, Balint, Jess wrote: A scalar value based on the number of command line arguments put into an array. if( $ARGV[$_] =~ /^-f/ ) { # PARSE TABULATION VALUES if( $table ) { $table = $ARGV[$_];

RE: Problem with format command

Ok, Did I ask a dumb question? or is there just no answer? -Original Message- From: Michael Eggleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 8:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem with format command Hello All, Here is the code for the format command: use

RE: Hash Question

The way I have the argument parsing set up is for ( 0..$#ARGV ) { . . . When a -f n is presented on the command line, n will be the field number for the first hash. So if I use -f 1 -f 2 -f 3, there will be three levels of hashes. The top level will contain all unique values in the first field of

generate variable names

Hi all, I 'm asking if there a dynamic way to generate variable names. $id; foreach(@_){ my($var1 in the second time my($var2 - my($varn Thanks a lot in advance, asma

RE: generate variable names

If you need something like that, you would be better off using a hash to hold the information vs a number of unknown variable names. I believe that this will be confirmed by the list helpers. Wags ;) -Original Message- From: mb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday,

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