Re: Multi-demensional, multi-key hash : Help :(

2003-11-15 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Jason Normandin wrote: Hey Group I am new to hashes, so please be kind : ) I am trying to create a hash of hash's with the following characteristics: 1. The outer hash has a unique key called $ELEMENT Back off here. You haven't yet described the problem you are trying to solve, and you

Re: Help with UNIX commands

2003-11-15 Thread Tore Aursand
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 20:36:54 -0500, Mame Mbodji wrote: I am researching some unix commands and I would like to know if someone knows where I can find them online. What does this have to do with Perl? The obvious answer, though, is to tap twice on the TAB key, write down what you see, and then

What $| actually does?

2003-11-15 Thread John
Why the $I is required in a perl script? ( Does it help the perl to handle dynamically the memory?)

Re: Capturing system call output value

2003-11-15 Thread Ravi Malghan
http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/perl/pod/perlfaq8/How_can_I_capture_STDERR_from_an_externa.html --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone help me with capturing an output of a system() call? ie ($a)=system(uname -n); where $a would have the output value. thanks

Re: What $| actually does?

2003-11-15 Thread Tore Aursand
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 14:35:12 +0200, John wrote: Why the $I is required in a perl script? It isn't. (Does it help the perl to handle dynamically the memory?) No. Read the documentation 'perldoc perlvar'; If set to nonzero, forces a flush right away and after every write or print on the

Re: What $| actually does?

2003-11-15 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
John wrote: Why the $I is required in a perl script? ( Does it help the perl to handle dynamically the memory?) Special variables like these can be looked up in perldoc perlvar, from that doc: $OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH $? If set to nonzero, forces a flush right away and after every write

Re: What $| actually does?

2003-11-15 Thread John
I have seen that special variable in CGI scripts, mostly. Well, i started unstartanding what that actually does. Thanks for your help John - Original Message - From: Wiggins d'Anconia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Perl Beginners [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday,

Some 'System Calls' was Re: Capturing system call output value

2003-11-15 Thread drieux
On Friday, Nov 14, 2003, at 18:39 US/Pacific, Jerry Rocteur wrote: Beautiful drieux, what a sexy way to do a system call!! And I never knew about $host = hostname;.. What a neat trick.. Keep 'em comin... Wiggins is the one who deserves the point, since he was the one with the reference to

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-15 Thread drieux
On Friday, Nov 14, 2003, at 08:06 US/Pacific, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: [..] Luckily, with the modern Learning Perl book, there's no need for a separate version. O'Reilly continues to sell it though, simply because it's selling. :) We've come a long way from that first series of books. [..] For

Re: references and objects [Solved]

2003-11-15 Thread drieux
On Friday, Nov 14, 2003, at 07:19 US/Pacific, angie ahl wrote: [..] I changed my code so the variables aren't references; sub EventList { my ($class, %arg) = @_; # load of code here return ([EMAIL PROTECTED], $startdate, $enddate); } And then called it like so: my @tempres =

Re: Using Net::FTP for chmod (help needed ASAP)

2003-11-15 Thread Rob Dixon
Jeff Westman wrote: Subject: Using Net::FTP for chmod (help needed ASAP) Jeff. This isn't a pitstop. It's a place for 'beginners' to learn. Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

rendering html from perl

2003-11-15 Thread drieux
On Friday, Nov 14, 2003, at 02:29 US/Pacific, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When writing HTML in perl can you interpolate the html with perl code or do you have to write the whole script in perl with each tag within a prel print() function. The importance of this is layout, nested tables, design

mech-dump...

2003-11-15 Thread Vincent A. Primavera
Hello, Using the mech-dump utility I get the error listed below when trying to access this page. I do have the login information. Does anybody know how I can supply it and get around this? -- Thank you, Vincent A. Primavera. M.I.S. Manager. Ralph Pill

Getting last element of anonymous array

2003-11-15 Thread Paul Harwood
I am trying to get the last element of the anonymous array below. Using $# I keep getting the 1st element (or so it seems anyway). What am I doing wrong? $server {TED0} = ['SERVER1', 'SERVER2', 'SERVER3']; push @{$server{TED0}}, SERVER4; push @{$server{TED0}}, SERVER5; print \nFull array is:

RE: external sub routine

2003-11-15 Thread Rajesh Dorairajan
I've a similar need. However, I do not want to create a module, since the function I need to call is already inside a module. All I want to do is: #Create a logger object and log a message using log4perl #call the function and check the $retval #if $retval == 1 $logger-info(Test succeded) #else

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-15 Thread Bob X
Randal L. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chris == McMahon, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chris You *are* the one who wrote Learning Perl on Win32 Systems, yes? I wrote the Learning Perl parts yes. Eric Olsen (I'm probably mangling the spelling of his

Re: Getting last element of anonymous array

2003-11-15 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Nov 14, 2003, at 12:25 PM, Paul Harwood wrote: $last = ${$server{TED0}}[$#]; Replace $# with -1. James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Getting last element of anonymous array

2003-11-15 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
Paul Harwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : : I am trying to get the last element of the anonymous : array below. Using $# I keep getting the 1st element : (or so it seems anyway). What am I doing wrong? : : $server {TED0} = ['SERVER1', 'SERVER2', 'SERVER3']; : push @{$server{TED0}}, SERVER4; :

Localization problems - Re: How do you dynamically assign array names?

2003-11-15 Thread drieux
On Friday, Nov 14, 2003, at 09:07 US/Pacific, Wiggins d Anconia wrote: Douglas Houston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : : WHY do I need to explain why I want to do this? Because no one wants to give a loaded gun to someone who hasn't demonstrated a good grasp of gun safety. That is a very ironic

Re: Pivoting Data for use with gnuplot (solved)

2003-11-15 Thread Chuck Fox
Chuck Fox wrote: Fellow perl coders, I am having trouble wrapping my head around how to accomplish the following: Given a dbi result set that consists of datetime, servername, databasename, procedurename and average elapsed time. Convert this into an data structure suitable for export to a

Re: When is Perl 6 coming out?

2003-11-15 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Rob == Rob Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Km i am just curious -- is perl 6 coming with a compiler ? Why would they remove a feature already available since Perl 1? Rob [snip] Rob I think you and I both know what Km means by a 'compiler'. No. I don't we can possibly know precisely what

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-15 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Bob == Bob X [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob So, by your comment, I can take it to mean that the book can now Bob cover both *nix and Windows and that you have either told the Bob Windows people to use .pl or .plx correct? Yes, I seem to recall that is what we did. We spent a lot of work making

Re: How do you dynamically assign array names?

2003-11-15 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Charles == Charles K Clarkson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles : WHY do I need to explain why I want to do this? Charles Because no one wants to give a loaded gun to Charles someone who hasn't demonstrated a good grasp of Charles gun safety. Well said! It's like you've asked How do I

Re: When is Perl 6 coming out?

2003-11-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 11:19:44AM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Rob == Rob Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Km i am just curious -- is perl 6 coming with a compiler ? Why would they remove a feature already available since Perl 1? Rob [snip] Rob I think you and I both know what

Re: writing excel files

2003-11-15 Thread Dan Anderson
I'm pretty sure the newest versions of Excel support the same XML spreadsheet format that OpenOffice does. Of course, if I remember correctly Microsoft was charging more for it (i.e. in Pro version or Enterprise -- not home edition). -Dan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: Counting (easy!) - select???

2003-11-15 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Rob Dixon wrote: Not exactly a transparent piece of code though is it. Especially if your base system isn't Unix! Works jusat fine on Windows, although it helps to have a longer list, since this gets p[rocessed really fast, too fast to see what's going on. Try increasing the loop count to