In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote "Geoffrey F. Green"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
> my %table = (
> "key1" =>
> {search=> "alpha",
> shortname=> "beta",
> },
> "key2" =>
> {
How about Berkely DB?
"Hughes, Andrew" wrote:
> I have been given the task to create a contest for which appox. 90,000
> people might be signing up(collected info: name, company, email, phone,
> address1, address2). Due to various reasons, I am not able to use a true
> database like mySQL to st
> > How do I truncate a string to a particular number of characters?
> >
> You can use the substr() function, or optimize your regex:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> use strict;
>
> my $string;
>
> # with substr
> $string = "hello word";
> $string = substr($string,0,4);
> print "substr: $string\n";
>
>
Jeff 'Japhy' Pinyan wrote:
>
> On Feb 17, jimf said:
>
> >This little script is one of my first attempts with perl, it works ok
> >but I would also like to capture the output to file. Help appreciated.
> >Would also appreciate constructive criticism of the script
> >itself.(oh,oh!)
> >
> >The sc
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 at 22:34 GMT, Gary Hawkins wrote:
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> How do I truncate a string to a particular number of characters?
>
> This is expensive:
>
> $shortdesc
How do I truncate a string to a particular number of characters?
This is expensive:
$shortdescription =~
s/(
).*/$1/;
Gary
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Hi all,
In the recent past, I've noticed that several participants of this list have
asked
about the meaning / background / derivation of the commonly used variable:
$foo.
Now, those making this inquiry have had a more than reasonable basis for
their
confusion. Other than being just a variable,
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 20:31:29 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon
K. Chan) wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I'm not new to perl, however I would like to pick up some object-oriented perl.
>Can anyone out there recommend a good BEGINNER'S tutorial out there? I've spent
>some time searching on Google, couldn't
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 20:23:02 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig Eberly) wrote:
>Hey, any help would be appreciated.
>I just wanted to make a simple backup script to backup any file i
>specified quickly.. and eventually let it accept options and whatnot for
>directories, but right now, I'm just tryin
On Feb 15, Russ Foster said:
>> As of Perl 5.6.2 (not released yet), /^(.*?):/ and
>> /^([^:]*):/ will have the same efficiency (read: speed). If
>> you're curious, currently /^.*?:/ and /^[^:]*:/ have the same
>> speed -- it's the capturing that killed .*?, but I have fixed that.
>
>Just to
On Feb 17, jimf said:
>This little script is one of my first attempts with perl, it works ok
>but I would also like to capture the output to file. Help appreciated.
>Would also appreciate constructive criticism of the script
>itself.(oh,oh!)
>
>The script basically takes a named file, and searche
This little script is one of my first attempts with perl, it works ok
but I
would also like to capture the output to file. Help appreciated. Would
also
appreciate constructive criticism of the script itself.(oh,oh!)
The script basically takes a named file, and searches the file for a
specified
> "Simon" == Simon K Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Simon> I'm not new to perl, however I would like to pick up some
Simon> object-oriented perl. Can anyone out there recommend a good
Simon> BEGINNER'S tutorial out there? I've spent some time searching
Simon> on Google, couldn't find much
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