RE:Win32::Shortcut

2002-03-13 Thread Jorge Goncalvez
Hi, I use Win32::Shortcut with a perl /tk apllication to make a shortcut on the windows Desktop it works but when I double click my icon my application get a littele time to come and I wonder it is possible to add a hourglass when i double click my icon to make waiting the user. thanks . --

regex question

2002-03-13 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi i have a long text file. in this text file several strings of the form: ### filename.jpg ### are embedded. how should a regex look that takes following: ### filename.jpg ### and returns and the filename.jpg saved in a $ :o) martin -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: regex question

2002-03-13 Thread victor
Try this regexp. s/###.*?###//g; [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi > > i have a long text file. in this text file several strings of the form: ### >filename.jpg ### are embedded. > > how should a regex look that takes following: > > ### filename.jpg ### > > and returns > > > > and the filen

Re: regex question

2002-03-13 Thread Boris Zentner
Hi Martin, > > > i have a long text file. in this text file several strings of the form: > ### filename.jpg ### are embedded. > > how should a regex look that takes following: > > ### filename.jpg ### > > and returns > try this. s/### (\w+\.jpg) ###//; the filename is in $1 > > > and th

Save image to disk

2002-03-13 Thread Gary Hawkins
Would like to save images to disk using their URL's. Hoping someone can give me a jump start on it. Gary -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Save image to disk

2002-03-13 Thread victor
You probably don't need a perl script for this, there's this command call wget in linux which you can use to mirror a site, and using the -A option you can make it download file with specified extention (gif, jpg..etc). Tor. Gary Hawkins wrote: > Would like to save images to disk using their UR

RE: How long can $_ be?

2002-03-13 Thread Anette Seiler
Dear All, the script I'm using is really very simple: #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use strict; while (<>) { chomp; print "\n\n$_\n\n"; } >From the command line I start the script with "perl script.pl". Now I have to enter some text. I just enter any text, either by typing or by cutting an

RE:how to pass 2 variables

2002-03-13 Thread Jorge Goncalvez
Hi, I have this but it is a bit repeating I wonder how to pass 2 variables and use only function createScut.My code: my $path="$RegValue\\InstallOXE.lnk"; &createScut($path); my $path2="$RegValue\\remove.lnk"; &createScut2($path2);I

FW: Perldoc question

2002-03-13 Thread Collins, Joe (EDSI\\BDR)
If new to unix and you want to find perldoc (or any module), try this: find . -name perldoc* -print That will locate perldoc and show you the path to it. You could also try: whence perldoc That may also work (works for me under ksh) Hope that helps, Joe -Original Message- From: Tyl

RE: how to pass 2 variables

2002-03-13 Thread David Gray
Hi Jorge, It looks like you want to create a reference data structure to create your links from. I would suggest something like: # filename of link to create on disk my $path1 = "$RegValue\\InstallOXE.lnk"; # LINK attribute to set => value my %lnk1 = ( 'Path' => "$CMPath/Active_Perl/Bin/", 'W

Re: getOpt::long?

2002-03-13 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I am a true perl newbie. If you continue like this you will stay one. > I am supposed to: > > Write a program that finds lines in an input file and copies them to an > output file . The program takes the following arguments: > >an in

FW:

2002-03-13 Thread J . Hourihane
Hi guys I am having trouble trying to figure out how to do a match between two hashes basically I have the $login and $gid from the passwd file and the $gid and $gname fields from the group file. (I got these from getpwent and getgrent) #!/util/perl5.static -w # Build phash %phash = (); $gid =

"Use of uninitialized value" error message

2002-03-13 Thread Ho, Tony
Hi guys I was wondering if you could help me with the following problem. I am getting the following error message: Use of uninitialized value in string ne at format_imsi_msisdn.pl line 257. line 257 and beyond consist of the following: if ($result_value1 ne " ") { $a= substr($resu

Matching key values from more than one hash

2002-03-13 Thread J . Hourihane
--aplogies forgot Subject line Hi guys I am having trouble trying to figure out how to do a match between two hashes basically I have the $login and $gid from the passwd file and the $gid and $gname fields from the group file. (I got these from getpwent and getgrent) #!/util/perl5.static -w #

Reinitializing an Array

2002-03-13 Thread Barry Kingsbury
I have an array that I wish to reuse. Before I reuse it, I want to clear out all elements. Both of the following seem to work: @an_array = ""; and $#an_array = -1; I then go on to do something like: foreach (@foo_array) { push (@an_array, $_); } Neither seems complete

FW: How long can $_ be?

2002-03-13 Thread Richard Smith
Hi Folks, This got me wondering. Is the behavior you see caused by limitations for $_, or by limitations of the print function? You might try: print strlen( $_ ), "\n"; Thanks, Smiddy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Reinitializing an Array

2002-03-13 Thread Nikola Janceski
proper way: @an_array = (); or undef @an_array; # doesn't really free up the memory it used but the array is uninitialized -Original Message- From: Barry Kingsbury [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Reinitializing an Array

Re: getOpt::long?

2002-03-13 Thread michael
- Original Message - From: "Jenda Krynicky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 7:10 AM Subject: Re: getOpt::long? > From: Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I am a true perl newbie. > > If you continue like this you will stay one. > :-)

RE: "Use of uninitialized value" error message

2002-03-13 Thread Jason Larson
> -Original Message- > From: Ho, Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Subject: "Use of uninitialized value" error message > > Hi guys > I was wondering if you could help me with the following problem. > > I am getting the following error message: > > Use of uninitialized value in string

RE: "Use of uninitialized value" error message

2002-03-13 Thread Nikola Janceski
that actually won't get rid of the warning. but you are right the declaration at the top of the script of the varible goes out of scope when it reaches the if. you are using -w or use warnings; in your script that is causing the warning. perhaps attaching the code would help but we can't tell w

Processing Large Files

2002-03-13 Thread RArul
Friends, I need to process 300+ MB text files. I tried to open one such file; read 10 lines (line by line) and output those 10 lines to a new text file. Despite reading line by line, it was taking a very long time for processing. Is there anything that I can try to speed it up!! Here is my pront

RE: Processing Large Files

2002-03-13 Thread Nikola Janceski
I cut and paste your code. Used a file 1070725103 (~1 Gb) bytes big with about 100 bytes per line. and it ran in split second. Are the lines in your file giant sized (>1Mb/line)? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 11:20 A

Re: getOpt::long?

2002-03-13 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: "michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > :-) Thanks for all the feedback. I had intended to send the assignment as an > attachment and ask about: > 1) Configuring my win2k box so that I could use the command line to run a > perl program without having to type 'perl' before the name

Re: How long can $_ be?

2002-03-13 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Anette Seiler [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>>From the command line I start the script with "perl script.pl". Now I *>have to enter some text. I just enter any text, either by typing or by *>cutting and pasting. I do not enter any strange characters or *>newlines. I just type in some text. I e

RE: getOpt::long?

2002-03-13 Thread Jason Larson
> -Original Message- > From: michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Subject: Re: getOpt::long? > > > > > I am a true perl newbie. > > > > If you continue like this you will stay one. > > > :-) Thanks for all the feedback. I had intended to send the > assignment as an > attachment and ask ab

RE: getOpt::long?

2002-03-13 Thread Nikola Janceski
try $ perldoc Getopt No documentation found for "Getopt". However, try perldoc Getopt::Long perldoc Getopt::Std perldoc Getopt::Long.html perldoc Getopt::Std.html -Original Message- From: Jason Larson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2

RE: Processing Large Files

2002-03-13 Thread RArul
One of the primodial reasons for me to chop the file and see it was to see what it looks like! Since it worked for you for a 1GB sized file, within a wink of the eye,I am sure that I have strong suspicion in the line length. I guess, it might be one large 300 MB file with a single line content! Th

RE: "Use of uninitialized value" error message

2002-03-13 Thread Jason Larson
Original Message- From: Ho, Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Subject: RE: "Use of uninitialized value" error message Hi Nikola/Jason Thanks for the help. The variable $result_value1 is declared within the subroutine and is never used outside the subroutine. I originally had the follow

Mail::Sender

2002-03-13 Thread gkhgkh
I am using Mail::Sender on AIX 4.3.3 and encounter the following error when running a script. Use of uninitialized value at /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.005/Mail/Sender.pm line 944, chunk 5. Can't use an undefined value as filehandle reference at /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.005/Mail/Sen

RE: "Use of uninitialized value" error message

2002-03-13 Thread Ho, Tony
Hi Nikola/Jason Thanks for the help. The variable $result_value1 is declared within the subroutine and is never used outside the subroutine. I originally had the following piece of code (which I forgot to show you guys in the previous email): $result_value1 = $database1{$input_key1} But I change

uploading multiple files over http

2002-03-13 Thread A Taylor
Can anyone help me - I am new to perl (and I love it) and I am trying to write a script that alows me to upload pictures for the web (.jpg and .gif) over http. Any advice would be greatly appreciated Thanks in advance Anadi _ Get y

Re: Mail::Sender

2002-03-13 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I am using Mail::Sender on AIX 4.3.3 and encounter the > following error when running a script. > > Use of uninitialized value > at /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.005/Mail/Sender.pm > line 944, chunk 5. > Can't use an undefined value as filehandle r

RE: How long can $_ be?

2002-03-13 Thread Peter_Farrar
I've seen this effect when using data I copied off the internet (using Explorer) into a text file in a Unix environment. In my case the problem was definitely a control character within the string causing a line return without a line feed. It didn't show up when I viewed the file with less or c

the scope of BEGIN {}

2002-03-13 Thread Nikola Janceski
BEGIN { if ($^O =~ /^(ms)?(win|dos)(32|nt)?$/i){ eval q{ use lib "N:/xxx/perl_lib"; use Win32::Process; use Win32::Event 1.00 qw(wait_any); $follow = 0; # used in find command

net::telnet and read eof error

2002-03-13 Thread Craig Williams
In my first attempt at telneting into sun box from win98, i've been receiving the error message : pattern match read eof at scriptName.pl line xx-- where xx is the login line. Unable to resolve that error through the usual methods I tried executing the rainmaker sample in the documentati

PERL522 for Windows XP

2002-03-13 Thread Mandy F Lucas
Could someone help me with PERL522? Thank you in advance. Is there a certification process for PERL on supported platforms? We have PERL522 image on all our Clients (NT 4.0 with SP6, more than 8000 clients) and Servers (NT 4.0 with SP6a; HP, AIX). We are wondering if 522 is compatible/or cer

RE: the scope of BEGIN {}

2002-03-13 Thread Jason Larson
> -Original Message- > From: Nikola Janceski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Subject: the scope of BEGIN {} > > > BEGIN { > if ($^O =~ /^(ms)?(win|dos)(32|nt)?$/i){ > eval q{ > use lib "N:/xxx/perl_lib"; > use Win32::Process;

Microsoft Word Documents

2002-03-13 Thread Michael D. Risser
I have searched CPAN, but so far no luck. Does anyone know of a module or Perl script that can parse MS Word .doc files? I'm trying to add the ability to display these files in a web browser to a document managment system I found on the web. Thanks in advance -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAI

RE: :telnet and read eof error

2002-03-13 Thread Craig Williams
solved my own problem reinstalled the net::telnet module, somebody screwed with the module code -Original Message- From: Craig Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 12:31 PM To: Beginners@Perl. Org (E-mail) Subject: net::telnet and read eof error In m

Mail::Sender Timeout

2002-03-13 Thread gkhgkh
Where in the Sender.pm file can I find the parameter for timeout to the mail server? I need to increase this. I keep getting a cannot connect error. Thanks Grant -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mail::Sender Timeout

2002-03-13 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Where in the Sender.pm file can I find the parameter for > timeout to the mail server? I need to increase this. I > keep getting a cannot connect error. > > Thanks > > Grant Sorry, there is no such parameter. I'm using plain socket()s with conn

RE: TAIL

2002-03-13 Thread Nikola Janceski
grep in perl doesn't work exactly same way as grep in *nix. It functions differently in perl, and has better uses in perl that the *nix's grep can't do. perldoc -f grep > -Original Message- > From: James Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 3:06 PM > To: [EM

Re: the scope of BEGIN {}

2002-03-13 Thread Michael Fowler
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 01:27:08PM -0500, Nikola Janceski wrote: > Here is my question, $follow and $follow_skip I want to be a global variable > in the scope of the perl script I am running. > If I put a my in front of the declaration wouldn't it only be in the scope > of BEGIN or would it be in

Re: Microsoft Word Documents

2002-03-13 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Michael D. Risser [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>I have searched CPAN, but so far no luck. Does anyone know of a module or *>Perl script that can parse MS Word .doc files? *> *>I'm trying to add the ability to display these files in a web browser to a *>document managment system I found on the web

Re: "Use of uninitialized value" error message

2002-03-13 Thread John W. Krahn
Jason Larson wrote: > > I'm still new to Perl myself, so I can't tell you exactly what's happening, > but it looks like $result_value1 is undef when it gets to the if statement. > I think a better way to accomplish what you're trying to do is simply: > > my $result_value1; > if ($result_valu

Re: Reinitializing an Array

2002-03-13 Thread John W. Krahn
Barry Kingsbury wrote: > > I have an array that I wish to reuse. Before I reuse it, I want to clear out all > elements. Both of the following seem to work: > > @an_array = ""; This does not clear out all elements, it assigns one element to @an_array with the value of "". > and > > $#

tie/bless interactions?

2002-03-13 Thread Dave Storrs
I've got a class called APC::Event. The idea is that when you instantiate one of these objects, you are signalling that a particular event has happened; ergo, it takes the information you specified, deduces a bunch more stuff, and logs all of it to a database. Afterwards it sticks around and pr

HP-UX 10.2 Tk install error

2002-03-13 Thread john . shea
I'm trying to install Tk (Tk800.024) but it fails with the text at the end of this e-mail. I looked and /usr/lib/X11R6 and /usr/lib/X11R6/libX11.2 both exist. So my question is what am I missing? Or what am I doing wrong? Thanks, John T. Shea jshea@cahp9>perl Makefile.PL perl is inst

Re: write to an Excel document

2002-03-13 Thread Garyl Erickson
The link is at: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pexcel/ (l not I) "Tirthankar C. Patnaik" wrote: > > An excellent link for the task you have in mind, is: > > http://www-106..ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/I-pexcel/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Reinitializing an Array

2002-03-13 Thread luke
you can always set it to undef also: @an_array=undef; --- Luke Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 2:59 PM Subject: Re: Reinitializing an Array > Barry Kingsbury wrote: > > > >

Re: tie/bless interactions?

2002-03-13 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Dave Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've got a class called APC::Event. The idea is that when you > instantiate one of these objects, you are signalling that a particular > event has happened; ergo, it takes the information you specified, > deduces a bunch more stuff, and lo

extracting elements from arrays of arrays of arrays ;-)

2002-03-13 Thread Simon K. Chan
Hiya All, I hope you'll forgive this oo perl rookie for asking a routine question. I'm not new to perl, but the bioperl module I'm working on is giving me a headache! ;-) Let's say I have this: my @array = qw(12 56 41 23); my $array_ref = \@array; # where $var1, $var2, and $var3 are other

Re: tie/bless interactions?

2002-03-13 Thread Peter Scott
At 02:19 AM 3/14/02 +0100, Jenda Krynicky wrote: > > 3) If I bless %self out of the "Tie::Hash" space and into the > > "APC::Event" space, are the "Tie::Hash" functions going to stop > > working? (I assume so.) > >You can't bless a hash, you can only bless a reference. > >What you end up with aft

Re: extracting elements from arrays of arrays of arrays ;-)

2002-03-13 Thread Peter Scott
At 06:38 PM 3/13/02 -0800, Simon K. Chan wrote: >Hiya All, > >I hope you'll forgive this oo perl rookie for asking a routine >question. I'm not new to perl, but >the bioperl module I'm working on is giving me a headache! ;-) > > >Let's say I have this: > >my @array = qw(12 56 41 23); > >my $arra

RE: Reinitializing an Array

2002-03-13 Thread Timothy Johnson
If you're having this kind of trouble, chances are you might not be properly scoping your array. Try declaring the array using my() inside of the scope you wish to use, for example inside of a loop. Then you won't have to worry about whether you remembered to undef your array. -Original M

Re: TAIL

2002-03-13 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> Is there a perl function equivalent to the *nix command > 'tail'? Here is a basic Perl implementation of tail: #!/usr/bin/perl @a=<>;print@a[-10,-1]; IIRC there is a shorter way to do it, but that'd mean going back over the FWP mailing list archives. > I don't mean like, a workaround throug

Re: TAIL

2002-03-13 Thread Jim Conner
I suggest: File::Tail if you are wanting to something like tail -f, though. Works like a champ. - Jim At 06:09 03.14.2002 +, Jonathan E. Paton wrote: > > Is there a perl function equivalent to the *nix command > > 'tail'? > >Here is a basic Perl implementation of tail: > >#!/usr/bin/perl

Re: net::telnet and read eof error

2002-03-13 Thread nyec
On Wednesday 13 March 2002 10:30 am, Craig Williams wrote: > In my first attempt at telneting into sun box from win98, i've been > receiving the error message : pattern match read eof at scriptName.pl line > xx-- where xx is the login line. Unable to resolve that error > through the usua

Re: FW: How long can $_ be?

2002-03-13 Thread Anette Seiler
Hi Smiddy, you wrote: > This got me wondering. Is the behavior you see caused by limitations > for $_, or by limitations of the print function? You might try: > print strlen( $_ ), "\n"; My Perl doesn't know what strlen is. Is it part of a module? I don't think, it is a limitation of the pr