deleting elements of an array and push into new

2003-01-02 Thread Ramprasad
Hello all, I have to remove elements from an array if they match a particualr string and put it into another array eg if element matches index or default I want it to be in a new array I am trying this my @arr = qw( 01.html index.html aa.html bb.html cc.html dd.html ); # the following does

Re: toggle the case

2003-01-02 Thread John W. Krahn
Rob Dixon wrote: > > Once more my apologies. I was in a rush this morning and shouldn't have > posted in haste. Thanks to John I now understand the question :-/ FWIW my > solution is the same as John's but I put a subroutine around the tr//: > > sub SwapUL { (my $s = shift) =~ tr/A-Za-z/a-zA-

RE: Output PERL to E-mail

2003-01-02 Thread David H. Lynch Jr.
Below is a perlscript to do approximately what you asked. I found it somewhere else on the web. Unfortunately I do not remember where, and I have seen several similar. It is pretty basic anyway. I have a database application that outputs pay stubs to a text file. I then use another script to conv

Re: One liner If statements

2003-01-02 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Hi Dan, That is a very good question. It is quite possible to write Perl in a clear, readable manner. For all the fun the guys are having with the concept, it really akes sense only with a single statement, or a set of statements that is very tightly bound logically. A good test for whether

Re: Restarting at top of file

2003-01-02 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Thanks. That will be useful. ;:-) Joseph "Beau E. Cox" wrote: > Yes: > > seek HANDLE, 0, 0; > > Resets the file pointer to the beginning. > > Aloha => Beau. > > -Original Message- > From: Paul Kraus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 4:37 AM > To: Perl > Subje

Re: Brand new to Perl

2003-01-02 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
ActivePerl is free. http://www.activestate.com/Products/Download/Download.plex?id=ActivePerl Or you can brave the world of Cygwin. http://www.cygwin.com , but then you would be diving into Perl and Unix at the same time, all within the "safe" confines of Windows. http://danconia.org John Taf

Re: Clear command in perl?

2003-01-02 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Hi Rob, It's been awhile since my DOS days, but I believe ANSI.sys usually was loaded by default. You usually would have to make a small bartch file to set things like screen colors and such, though. Joseph Rob Dixon wrote: > If your terminal supports ANSI escape sequences (and I think that,

Re: Clear command in perl?

2003-01-02 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Hi Beau, It wouldn't work on DOS either. This does: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; system("cls"); Joseph "Beau E. Cox" wrote: > Well ... > > Nothing in Programming Perl > Perl Cookbook pointed me to CPAN, and I found > Term::Cap and Term::Screen > > This works on Linux: > > #!/usr/b

Re: Brand new to Perl

2003-01-02 Thread John Tafasi
but i am looking for free software. Does any body know where I can download one for my windows 98 - Original Message - From: "Kegs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Tafasi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Perlbeginners" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 1:59 PM Subject: Re: Brand n

Re: Name a Free PERL Campiler for Win2k

2003-01-02 Thread Mark Goland
Whoops, thanx 4 correction Jenda. I thought perl2exe was from Active... either way I have used it and found it to be pritty good, although not always perfict. Mark - Original Message - From: "Jenda Krynicky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "perl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 200

Re: Output PERL to E-mail

2003-01-02 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: "Derek Brinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have a PERL installed on a WinIIS box. This script queries a (SQL) > database, makes a few minor manipulations to that data, then builds a > small paragraph of text, from there. > > So, how do I send that text info to an e-mail address (gathered from >

Re: Name a Free PERL Campiler for Win2k

2003-01-02 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Mark Goland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Active has something called perl2exe ActiveState has something called PerlApp. It's part of the PDK (Perl Development Kit). http://www.activestate.com/Products/Perl_Dev_Kit/ perl2exe is from IndigoStar http://www.indigostar.com/ Neither is free. Jenda ==

Re: Determining if a service is logged on as a user (U)

2003-01-02 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: "Meidling, Keith, CTR, OSD-C3I" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello everyone. I need to be able to find out if a service is logged > in a user. I have found in the Win32::Lanman where I can change who > the service loggs in as and the password. > > What I would like to do is go through a list of se

Re: Use a hash or multi dimensional array?

2003-01-02 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Paul" == Paul Kraus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> use a hash for many reasons. Speed the best. Paul> your main statement would be Paul> %hash{$variable}++; No it wouldn't. Unless you're coding in Perl6 already. :) Maybe you meant $hash{$variable}++; -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehe

Re: Name a Free PERL Campiler for Win2k

2003-01-02 Thread Mark Goland
Active has something called perl2exe - Original Message - From: "LRMK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "K Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 1:16 PM Subject: Re: Name a Free PERL Campiler for Win2k > Yes I Mean to Creat Binary .EXEs > not

Output PERL to E-mail

2003-01-02 Thread Derek Brinson
I have a PERL installed on a WinIIS box. This script queries a (SQL) database, makes a few minor manipulations to that data, then builds a small paragraph of text, from there.So, how do I send that text info to an e-mail address (gathered from that same database)? How about several e-ddresse

Determining if a service is logged on as a user (U)

2003-01-02 Thread Meidling, Keith, CTR, OSD-C3I
UNCLASSIFIED Hello everyone. I need to be able to find out if a service is logged in a user. I have found in the Win32::Lanman where I can change who the service loggs in as and the password. What I would like to do is go through a list of servers and the services on each server and see what ser

RE: Restarting at top of file

2003-01-02 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jan 2, Paul Kraus said: >I don't think your solution will work. >Since the count being taken is going to be sparadic. > >somelements only = 1 at the BOF but by EOF it equals 4. Since you tested >per line your results will be bad because at test time for that line >somelement only = 1 when actua

RE: Use a hash or multi dimensional array?

2003-01-02 Thread Dan Muey
Or $file_data{$id}++; Like someone else said! Duh sorry, brain dead Dan -Original Message- From: Dan Muey Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 4:13 PM To: Ray Seals; Perl Subject: RE: Use a hash or multi dimensional array? %file_data = (); # open file @lines = ; # close file foreach $li

RE: Use a hash or multi dimensional array?

2003-01-02 Thread Dan Muey
%file_data = (); # open file @lines = ; # close file foreach $line(@lines) { $line =~ s/\n|\r//g; ($id, $ct) = split(/,/, $line); if($id =~ m/^\w\w$/) { $ct++; $file_data{$id} = $ct; } $id = ''; $ct = ''; } Dan --

RE: Use a hash or multi dimensional array?

2003-01-02 Thread Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO
Use a hash with the two digit code as key and then add to the hash. (untested) #!perl -w my %MyHash = (); my @MyWorka = (); open(MYDATAIN,">" . 'datafilenamehere') || die "Unable to open file: $!"; while ( ) { @MyWorka = split(/,/

RE: Use a hash or multi dimensional array?

2003-01-02 Thread Paul Kraus
use a hash for many reasons. Speed the best. your main statement would be %hash{$variable}++; have $variable = the two digitcode read from the file. This statements will make create an a new element if it doesn't exist and it will set the count to 1. Since it would be normally created as undef o

Use a hash or multi dimensional array?

2003-01-02 Thread Ray Seals
DISCLAIMER: I'm new to programming other than a little bit of scripting for cron jobs. I'm parsing a comma delimited file for a specific 2 letter code on each line in the file. Once I find that 2 letter code I want to increment a count value and store it. I've thought about putting it into a 2

Re: Brand new to Perl

2003-01-02 Thread Rob Dixon
Kegs, John ASPN Perl is a professional tool that you have to pay for. It includes Komodo and the Dev Kit - very nice but very expensive. If you have no budget then you want just ActivePerl from here: http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/ Click on 'Download' at the top left to fetch

Re: Brand new to Perl

2003-01-02 Thread Kegs
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 20:41, John Tafasi wrote: > Hi group, > > I am quite new to perl. I will use "Learning Perl, 3rd edition" and my laptop that >is running windows 98. Is that the O'Reilly book with the Llama on the cover? If so that is one of the best books for starting Perl with IMHO. > W

Brand new to Perl

2003-01-02 Thread John Tafasi
Hi group, I am quite new to perl. I will use "Learning Perl, 3rd edition" and my laptop that is running windows 98. What exactly the name of the file i should download to install perl into win98? Where can I download it? Any other recommended tutorials for beginners Thanks

RE: One liner If statements

2003-01-02 Thread david
Jensen Kenneth B Sra Afpc/Dpdmpq wrote: > Can else statements be added? > > print (hi), $somevar++ if( condition ) else print (bye); good idea but it doens't work that way. try: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $var = 1; $var ? ( print("hello world\n"), $var++, print("

RE: Restarting at top of file

2003-01-02 Thread david
Paul Kraus wrote: > so foreach dumps the entire file into memory before iterating over the > lines. Good to know. Thanks. > > I don't think your solution will work. > Since the count being taken is going to be sparadic. > > somelements only = 1 at the BOF but by EOF it equals 4. Since you tested

Re: One liner If statements

2003-01-02 Thread Rob Dixon
"Tanton Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 010501c2b292$2ff54e10$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:010501c2b292$2ff54e10$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > also: > print (hi), $somevar++ if( condition ); Yes, but you have to be careful with parentheses as print "hi", $somevar++ if condition; is the same

RE: One liner If statements

2003-01-02 Thread Dan Muey
cool , makes sense, just wondering -Original Message- From: Jensen Kenneth B SrA AFPC/DPDMPQ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 1:29 PM To: Dan Muey; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: One liner If statements No specific reason why, was just exploring other ways to

RE: One liner If statements

2003-01-02 Thread Jensen Kenneth B SrA AFPC/DPDMPQ
No specific reason why, was just exploring other ways to do the same thing. Messing around with the benchmark module and seeing which ways of doing things are actually faster. Before reading this list, I had never seen statements like that without the brackets. -Original Message- From: Dan

RE: One liner If statements

2003-01-02 Thread Dan Muey
Is there a specific reason you need to do it that way? If you need to run a bunch of code why not use sub routines if($hi eq $low) { &hi_is_low; } else { &hi_is_not_low; } What's wrong with using brackets? if($hi eq $low) { print "hi"; $so

Re: One liner If statements

2003-01-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:56:46PM -0600, Jensen Kenneth B SrA AFPC/DPDMPQ wrote: > In reading messages on this list I've picked up some snippets like > > 'do some code here' if (condition); > > Can the same be done if you have an if statement like this > > If (condition){ > print "hi"; > $s

RE: One liner If statements

2003-01-02 Thread Jensen Kenneth B SrA AFPC/DPDMPQ
Can else statements be added? print (hi), $somevar++ if( condition ) else print (bye); -Original Message- From: Tanton Gibbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 1:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: One liner If statements also: print (hi), $somevar++ if( co

Re: One liner If statements

2003-01-02 Thread Tanton Gibbs
also: print (hi), $somevar++ if( condition ); - Original Message - From: "Rob Dixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 1:04 PM Subject: Re: One liner If statements > do { > print "hi"; > $somevar++; > } if condition; > > (

Re: One liner If statements

2003-01-02 Thread Rob Dixon
do { print "hi"; $somevar++; } if condition; (You don't need to parenthesize the conditional expression in this format.) HTH, Rob "Jensen Kenneth B Sra Afpc/Dpdmpq" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > In reading messages on

One liner If statements

2003-01-02 Thread Jensen Kenneth B SrA AFPC/DPDMPQ
In reading messages on this list I've picked up some snippets like 'do some code here' if (condition); Can the same be done if you have an if statement like this If (condition){ print "hi"; $somevar++; } Or can you only have 1 command preceding the if? I tried Print "hi" $somevar++ if (co

Re: Perl XS vs perl

2003-01-02 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: "Pavle Lukic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > what is perl XS in relation > to perl: extension, subset, > or something else? > Is it possible every perl code > to 'convert' into perl XS, and how? > I am asking for a generic working concept. From perldoc perlxs XS is an interface descripti

Re: Restarting at top of file

2003-01-02 Thread Rob Dixon
May I be finicky? Nothing wrong with your code Jeff, but I prefer: while () { chomp; s/ +//g; my ($value, $field) = split /,/; if ( $dup{field}++ ) { delete $vend{$field} } else { $vend{$field} = $value }; } Thank you :oD Rob "Jeff 'Japhy' Pinyan"

Re: Clear command in perl?

2003-01-02 Thread Rob Dixon
If your terminal supports ANSI escape sequences (and I think that, in general, Unix terminals do but Windows has to have the ansi.sys driver loaded) you can do: my $clear = "\e[2J"; print $clear; HTH, Rob "Jensen Kenneth B Sra Afpc/Dpdmpq" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PRO

Re: toggle the case

2003-01-02 Thread Rob Dixon
Something about 'red rags' and 'bulls' comes to mind ... :) /R -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: :Handle, fdopen, and file descriptor #

2003-01-02 Thread wiggins
I have resolved this now, see inline for comments and description. Thanks for your help Jim and others, looks like stepping away from the problem and the code probably helped me the most, but your thoughts were definitely appreciated. On Thu, 2 J

Re: accessing com port

2003-01-02 Thread Rob Dixon
Hi, erm, "Admin-Stress / meerkapot" There is a Win32::SerialPort module here: http://search.cpan.org/author/BBIRTH/Win32-SerialPort-0.19/lib/Win32/SerialP ort.pm but there my knowledge ends! Let us know what you find... Rob "Admin-Stress" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: toggle the case

2003-01-02 Thread Rob Dixon
Hi John See in-line "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Rob Dixon wrote: > > > > "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > > Prasad K M wrote: > > > > > > > > I want to

Re: toggle the case

2003-01-02 Thread Rob Dixon
Once more my apologies. I was in a rush this morning and shouldn't have posted in haste. Thanks to John I now understand the question :-/ FWIW my solution is the same as John's but I put a subroutine around the tr//: sub SwapUL { (my $s = shift) =~ tr/A-Za-z/a-zA-Z/; $s; }; my $text = 'aa

RE: Restarting at top of file

2003-01-02 Thread Paul Kraus
so foreach dumps the entire file into memory before iterating over the lines. Good to know. Thanks. I don't think your solution will work. Since the count being taken is going to be sparadic. somelements only = 1 at the BOF but by EOF it equals 4. Since you tested per line your results will be ba

RE: Clear command in perl?

2003-01-02 Thread Beau E. Cox
Or REALLY silly: (sleep 1 && print "\n") for (1..100); Aloha => Beau. PS: Been up all night getting a project ready - I;m getting 'punchy' - going to bed... -Original Message- From: Jensen Kenneth B SrA AFPC/DPDMPQ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 4:26 AM

RE: Clear command in perl?

2003-01-02 Thread Beau E. Cox
Is this too messy for you? print "\n" for (1..100); (at lease it's portable!) Aloha => Beau. -Original Message- From: Jensen Kenneth B SrA AFPC/DPDMPQ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 4:26 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Clear command in perl? Is the

RE: Restarting at top of file

2003-01-02 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jan 2, Paul Kraus said: >As you can see I am building a hash on the first pass. Then on the >second pass I am building a second hash but I am checking the first hash >to see if it had a count greater then two. I don't see any other way to >do this except two passes through the file. Correct me

RE: Restarting at top of file

2003-01-02 Thread Paul Kraus
That was partial code. Here is the completed script. At least the pertinent portion. As you can see I am building a hash on the first pass. Then on the second pass I am building a second hash but I am checking the first hash to see if it had a count greater then two. I don't see any other way to d

Re: Restarting at top of file

2003-01-02 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jan 2, Paul Kraus said: >I want to read through a file and the read through it again. However the >only way it seems to work for me is if I open the file, Read the file, WHY do you want to read the file twice? Is there some way you can do two things at once? >foreach (){ > chomp; > @temp=s

RE: Clear command in perl?

2003-01-02 Thread Beau E. Cox
Well ... Nothing in Programming Perl Perl Cookbook pointed me to CPAN, and I found Term::Cap and Term::Screen This works on Linux: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; require Term::Screen; my $scr = new Term::Screen; unless ($scr) { die " Something's wrong \n"; } $scr->clrscr();

RE: Restarting at top of file

2003-01-02 Thread Beau E. Cox
Yes: seek HANDLE, 0, 0; Resets the file pointer to the beginning. Aloha => Beau. -Original Message- From: Paul Kraus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 4:37 AM To: Perl Subject: Restarting at top of file I want to read through a file and the read through it ag

RE: Clear command in perl?

2003-01-02 Thread Jensen Kenneth B SrA AFPC/DPDMPQ
Mostly for portability. Also just like to stray away from using system commands when at all possible. -Original Message- From: Beau E. Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:35 AM To: Jensen Kenneth B SrA AFPC/DPDMPQ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Clear command

Restarting at top of file

2003-01-02 Thread Paul Kraus
I want to read through a file and the read through it again. However the only way it seems to work for me is if I open the file, Read the file, Close the file, and the reopen it. Is there a way to do this with out having to run the open command twice? Does not work -- open PEL, "vend.c

RE: Clear command in perl?

2003-01-02 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - Yes: system ("clear"); :) I don't really know, but what is wrong with the 'system' approach? The overhead should be minimal since 'clear' is embedded in the shell. Are you worried about portability? system ($^O =~ /win32/i ? 'cls' : 'clear'); (tested OK Win 2000 and Linux) Aloha => Beau.

RE: :Handle, fdopen, and file descriptor #

2003-01-02 Thread Kipp, James
> > > > I am making a call to gpg on the command line, a couple of > > > the parameters that gpg will accept are file descriptor > > > numbers that it then writes to, and I would like to capture > > > that output and then read from it. > > > > > > I have successfully made it read directly from a f

Clear command in perl?

2003-01-02 Thread Jensen Kenneth B SrA AFPC/DPDMPQ
Is there a perl command equivalent to: system ("clear"); ? Thanks, Ken

accessing com port

2003-01-02 Thread Admin-Stress
Hi, Anyone know which perl module can be used for COM Port communication? I have a device that need to be accessed via COM1 for example. It can be tested using HyperTerminal in Windows. If connected, it will give 'a prompt' then I need to type 'some commands' and the device will return somethin

RE: Perl editors

2003-01-02 Thread Paul Kraus
Alas the latest windows version of Emacs does not have the cperl-db the only thing it has is cperl-mode. Is there a way I can add the feature? > -Original Message- > From: Kieren Diment [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 11:05 PM > To: Paul Kraus > Cc: [EMAIL PR

Weekly list FAQ posting

2003-01-02 Thread casey
NAME beginners-faq - FAQ for the beginners mailing list 1 - Administriva 1.1 - I'm not subscribed - how do I subscribe? Send mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You can also specify your subscription email address by sending email to (assuming [EMAIL PROTECTED] is your email address):

Perl XS vs perl

2003-01-02 Thread Pavle Lukic
Hi to all what is perl XS in relation to perl: extension, subset, or something else? Is it possible every perl code to 'convert' into perl XS, and how? I am asking for a generic working concept. Thanks Pavle _ Protect your PC -

Re: Log maintanence prblem...

2003-01-02 Thread John W. Krahn
Tim Martin wrote: > > I have run into a small problem with the script we have been working on for > log management. > Problem 1 - The script must be in the same sub directory as all the logs. What makes you think that it must? > How can I get the script to run from /var/tmp/gatelog a

Re: toggle the case

2003-01-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:32:34AM -0800, John W. Krahn wrote: > Rob Dixon wrote: > > > > "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > > $ perl -le'$_ = "This Is A Mixed Case Sentence."; tr/a-zA-Z/A-Za-z/; > > > print' > > > tHIS iS a mIXED cASE sENTENCE. > > > > Hmm. Sometimes there

Re: toggle the case

2003-01-02 Thread George P.
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, John W. Krahn wrote: > Rob Dixon wrote: > > > > "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > > Prasad K M wrote: > > > > > > > > I want to read a file and print all the text , but reverse the case. > > > > So all sma

Re: Broken Pipe on Input?

2003-01-02 Thread John W. Krahn
Jess Balint wrote: > > Thank you for the advice. > > > > open( STATES, "sort $hotline |" ) > > > or cust_die( "Cannot open files to get states > > > ($hotline,$newtofile,$newmover): $!\n" ); > > > > What does the $hotline variable contain? Is there any reason > > to use an external sort

Re: toggle the case

2003-01-02 Thread John W. Krahn
Prasad K M wrote: > > From: "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Prasad K M wrote: > > > > > > I want to read a file and print all the text , but reverse the case. > > > So all small will become CAPS and CAPS will be small . > > > The problem is toggling the case. Any idea as how to accompli

Re: toggle the case

2003-01-02 Thread John W. Krahn
Rob Dixon wrote: > > "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Prasad K M wrote: > > > > > > I want to read a file and print all the text , but reverse the case. > > > So all small will become CAPS and CAPS will be small . > > > The pro

Re: toggle the case

2003-01-02 Thread Rob Dixon
Ah, my apologies. To apply the translation explicitly to a variable, do: $var =~ tr/a-zA-Z/A-Za-z/; but if no variable is specified, then $_ is used implicitly. Also, if you specify the name of the input file on the command line you can simply write: while (<>) { tr/a-zA-Z/A

Re: toggle the case

2003-01-02 Thread Prasad K M
thanks... i am trying to search a pattern and replace that pattern with its toggled version... eg: s/pattern//g the prob is i can't embed 'tr/a-zA-Z/A-Za-z/' in the part or atleast i dont know how to do it !! --prasad - Original Message - From: "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: toggle the case

2003-01-02 Thread Rob Dixon
Hmm. Sometimes there's only one way to do it :) /R "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Prasad K M wrote: > > > > Hi, > > Hello, > > > I want to read a file and print all the text , but reverse the case. > > > > So all small will bec

Re: toggle the case

2003-01-02 Thread Rob Dixon
Assuming we're not using unicode here, tr/A-Za-z/a-zA-Z/ Cheers, Rob "Prasad K M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 013101c2b23b$68b45ae0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:013101c2b23b$68b45ae0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hi, I want to read a file and print all the text , but reverse the case. So all s

Re: toggle the case

2003-01-02 Thread John W. Krahn
Prasad K M wrote: > > Hi, Hello, > I want to read a file and print all the text , but reverse the case. > > So all small will become CAPS and CAPS will be small . > > The problem is toggling the case. Any idea as how to accomplish it ? $ perl -le'$_ = "This Is A Mixed Case Sentence."; tr/a-zA

toggle the case

2003-01-02 Thread Prasad K M
Hi, I want to read a file and print all the text , but reverse the case. So all small will become CAPS and CAPS will be small . The problem is toggling the case. Any idea as how to accomplish it ? Thanks in advance --prasad

Re: glob subtlety question

2003-01-02 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Hi, If I get the concept of globbing properly, I have been able to prevent it in Unix by quoting my parameter list. I'm not sure how this works for spaces, but it helps a lot with CGI stuff. When I do this, I use an test for STDIN, and if its not preloaded, take @ARGV from the command-line as