RE: parsing variable that contains a regex ("/findme/")

2002-10-20 Thread Timothy Johnson
I haven't tried, but couldn't you do this with an eval statement? if(eval{$ARGV[0]}) print "match found!\n"; -Original Message- From: John W. Krahn To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10/20/02 5:28 PM Subject: Re: parsing variable that contains a regex ("/findme/") K Pfeiffer wrote: > > Hi y'a

File comparison

2002-10-20 Thread Paul Van Dalen
Hi y'all, Some guidance and edification would be most appreciated. I have two files, built the same way: File1 File2 Col1Col2Col3Col4 Col1Col2 Col3Col4 222 rrrF;R 222 rrr 1;2;3111

Re: parsing variable that contains a regex ("/findme/")

2002-10-20 Thread John W. Krahn
K Pfeiffer wrote: > > Hi y'all, Hello, > I have a little script that lets me test some regexes. For example at the > prompt I type in: "\b(The|the)\b". I thought it would be better if I could > also include the slashes and then modifiers such as 'g' and 'i': > "/\bthe\b/i" (for example). > > So

set MAC address on ethernet

2002-10-20 Thread saffiot
Good Afternoon list! I'm look around for understand the techniques to manipulate hardware address of ethernet adpter and so know how people do cache poisoning for attack of type "man in the middle". Somebody know how perl manage those types of devices? and which modules if exist I need to know

upgrade to perl 5.8.0

2002-10-20 Thread Randy Perkins
hello, i would like to upgrade perl to 5.8.0 i currently have 5.6.1 i use redhat and perl was originally installed as a precompiled binary (.rpm) i started out with 5.6.0 and somehow it got updated to 5.6.1 maybe i updated the .rpm or it could have happened with CPAN? i have use 'perl -MCPAN -

RE: How to use a module located relative to the current script

2002-10-20 Thread Reinstein, Shlomo
The answer for the first question is, the scripts that use sos.pl do it using a "require", so they can determine (at run-time) the directory from which to require it, something like: if ($a) { require "$a/sos.pl"; } else { require "$b/sos.pl"; } sos.pl itself uses "use Module;", so

How do I know if a perl module is installed?

2002-10-20 Thread Jack Chen
Thought there is some easy way bu could not find. Thanks! Jack Jack Chen, Stein Lab, Cold Spring Harbor Labs 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 11724 Tel: 1 516 3676904; e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

File Comparison

2002-10-20 Thread Paul Van Dalen
Hi y'all, Some guidance and edification would be most appreciated. I have two files, built the same way: File1 File2 Col1Col2Col3Col4 Col1Col2 Col3Col4 222 rrrF;R 222 rrr 1;2;3111

parsing variable that contains a regex ("/findme/")

2002-10-20 Thread K Pfeiffer
Hi y'all, I have a little script that lets me test some regexes. For example at the prompt I type in: "\b(The|the)\b". I thought it would be better if I could also include the slashes and then modifiers such as 'g' and 'i': "/\bthe\b/i" (for example). So I modified it as below: --- m

Re: Nice

2002-10-20 Thread Larry Coffin
>Well as for monitoring, the nice value will not change unless it is >reset by a user. As for setting it you'll want to look into the >program /bin/nice. Also, look into 'renice' to change the priority of a running process, and look into 'top' for monitoring. And to c

RE: A better way to handle array index?

2002-10-20 Thread Timothy Johnson
And if you're really stuck with using arrays, you can always: my @bases = (); my $first = 0; $bases[$first] = 'who'; -Original Message- From: Johnstone, Colin To: 'chris' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: 10/19/02 5:47 PM Subject: RE: A better way to handle array index? That would be a ha

Re: Nice

2002-10-20 Thread Peter Scott
In article <006401c276db$8fe09250$0300a8c0@jessee>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jessee Parker) writes: >How do you monitor and change the "nice" value of your program? I'm = >running RH Linux 7.3. Thanks! http://search.cpan.org/author/DURIST/Proc-ProcessTable-0.35/Process/Process.pm Only you'll be using

MIME Base64 encoding and file transfer

2002-10-20 Thread zentara
Hi, Can someone please point out where my reasoning is flawed concerning base64 encoding. A question recently came up in the Tk newsgroup on how to display a jpg image with Tk, directly from a url. I could easily do it if I mirrored a temporary jpg file on the local harddrive, then displayed it;

RE: Join problem

2002-10-20 Thread Vincent Lee
Actually the problem was the following: I had wanted to set the array to NULL. I set it as follows: @array=""; This puts an empty string as the first array value. the correct way is: @array=(); Solved my problem. -Original Message- From: Beau E. Cox [mailto:beau@;beaucox.com] Sent: Th

Re: perl -pei *.txt > bigfile

2002-10-20 Thread Michael Fowler
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:07:20PM -0400, chris wrote: > Can I use wildcard to create a bigfile? > > # cannot open file > perl -pei *.txt > bigfile The line you're using doesn't make any sense. You might need to elaborate on what exactly you're trying to accomplish. However, if all you're tryin