RE: if Question

2005-09-28 Thread Luke, David
Hi Vance, This sounds silly, but Why do you need to know? If your operation is as simple as trying to decide whether or not to insert a comma or other separator, you can do that with the JOIN command without checking the individual values. $result = join(',' ($var1, $var2)); $result will be:

Re: how to use perl modules

2005-09-28 Thread Jabir Ahmed
--- test.pm --- package test; sub ReturnValue() { my $a=10; return ($a); } 1; # as a module usually has a return value --- call.pl

RE: how to make charts using GD

2005-09-28 Thread Thomas Bätzler
Hello, Aditi Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked: I have a perl code that generates a sequence of values which i want to plot on y-axis against 1,2,3... on x-axis. I've read that GD::Graph could be used for it. But I've never done modular programming. Also, I don't know how to install

RE: how to make charts using GD

2005-09-28 Thread Dan Klose
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 08:10 +0200, Thomas Bätzler wrote: Hello, Aditi Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked: I have a perl code that generates a sequence of values which i want to plot on y-axis against 1,2,3... on x-axis. I've read that GD::Graph could be used for it. But I've never done

File Existance

2005-09-28 Thread gustav
Hi there! I have a lot of experience in programming, but WHAT command do I use for checking if a file exists... Have searched google, but can't seem to find any good answers... /G http://www.varupiraten.se/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: File Existance

2005-09-28 Thread ganesh
-e filename Regards, Ganesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there! I have a lot of experience in programming, but WHAT command do I use for checking if a file exists... Have searched google, but can't seem to find any good answers... /G http://www.varupiraten.se/ -- To unsubscribe,

Re: File Existance

2005-09-28 Thread Robin
(Bringing this back to the list) On Wednesday 28 September 2005 21:09, you wrote: I don't get this to work. What am I doing wrong? Must the path be included? My program is like this: my $program = ls; if (-e $program) { #execute program } yes, it must include the full path: foreach

RE: general retry function

2005-09-28 Thread Bob Showalter
Chris Devers wrote: while ( $tries 10 ) { my $result = do_something_risky(); break if ( $result != 0 ); last, not break -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response

Re: WELCOME to beginners@perl.org

2005-09-28 Thread dmitrik
Any idea how to install Spreadsheet::ParseExcel? I've downed loaded the required modules, but it still does not seem to work. Are there clear instructions anywhere? tia, dk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sep 28, 2005 11:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: WELCOME to beginners@perl.org

2005-09-28 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any idea how to install Spreadsheet::ParseExcel? Yes. I've downed loaded the required modules, but it still does not seem to work. Bummer. Are there clear instructions anywhere? Yes. -- Chris Devers 9™wkö¦QC½lD“ -- To unsubscribe,

RE: WELCOME to beginners@perl.org

2005-09-28 Thread Gomez, Juan
Just something for to start looking for info on the module http://search.cpan.org/~kwitknr/Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.2602/ParseExcel.pm Armando Gomez Guajardo Process Engineer Work Ph 956 547 6438 Beeper956 768 4070 -Original Message- From: Chris Devers [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: WELCOME to beginners@perl.org

2005-09-28 Thread Ryan Frantz
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 12:08 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: WELCOME to beginners@perl.org Any idea how to install Spreadsheet::ParseExcel? Just for giggles, I'm gonna assume that you're

Re: eval without warnings

2005-09-28 Thread Bryan R Harris
On Sep 27, Bryan R Harris said: 2*(3+2) == 10 2*dog == 2*dog mysquarefunction(2) == 4 3*mysquarefunction(2) == 12 some guy == some guy Here's a solution that works for the cases you've provided: sub try_eval { local $@; my $warning; local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub {

Re: WELCOME to beginners@perl.org

2005-09-28 Thread Dave Gray
On 9/28/05, Ryan Frantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just for giggles, I'm gonna assume that you're using PPM (you gave nothing else to go on)... I've only installed this particular module using ActiveState's 'ppm' myself; it seems to have problems with the '::' in module names. If ppm can't

Re: general retry function

2005-09-28 Thread Ing. Branislav Gerzo
Wiggins d'Anconia [Wd], on Tuesday, September 27, 2005 at 17:51 (-0600) contributed this to our collective wisdom: Wd You haven't shown us what you have tried, or where it failed, only Wd suggested something about eval and recursive subs, which neither of Wd which should be pertinent here. Show

Anonymous Reference Question

2005-09-28 Thread Dave Adams
When I do this: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Data::Dumper; my $grades = {tom= 50, sally= 60, harry = 70}; print Dumper($grades) ; And perl gives me this: $VAR1 = { 'harry' = 70, 'sally' = 60, 'tom' = 50 }; QUESTION: Does this mean that $grades is

a little help...

2005-09-28 Thread FamiLink Admin
Hello all. Please let me know if this is a good place for my questions. I am trying to read a log file and get a list of how many times an IP address get blocked each hour by category PO. An example line in the log with a block is: - [2005-09-28 10:05:03 -7:00] 127.0.0.1

Re: a little help...

2005-09-28 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Sep 28, FamiLink Admin said: I am trying to read a log file and get a list of how many times an IP address get blocked each hour by category PO. An example line in the log with a block is: - [2005-09-28 10:05:03 -7:00] 127.0.0.1 71.32.59.249 216.163.137.3 -

question about # of files in a directory

2005-09-28 Thread ZHAO, BING
Hi, first, I want to thank all who viewed my first question days before, especially to those who took time to answer it. It was trenmendous encouragement for a beginner perlee like me. Thanks again. My question: Is there a way to call or maybe get the # of

Re: question about # of files in a directory

2005-09-28 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
ZHAO, BING wrote: Hi, first, I want to thank all who viewed my first question days before, especially to those who took time to answer it. It was trenmendous encouragement for a beginner perlee like me. Thanks again. My question: Is there a way to call or

Re: a little help...

2005-09-28 Thread FamiLink Admin
Jeff , Thanks for all your help! This is what I have now (below and this time the whole thing): I think I have included all that you talked about plus others: The sub scanlog does write the information to the files but it does not return anything back to the main program and I also get

RE: a little help...

2005-09-28 Thread Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO
FamiLink Admin wrote: Jeff , Thanks for all your help! This is what I have now (below and this time the whole thing): I think I have included all that you talked about plus others: The sub scanlog does write the information to the files but it does not return anything back to the main

Re: a little help...

2005-09-28 Thread FamiLink Admin
I am only concerned about the IP. The rest is just to verify the data for now. What code would I use to key the $IP in to hash for counting?. Most of the IP's are not static but are from broadband and don't change too often. An example log is: - [2005-09-28 10:05:03 -7:00]

RE: a little help...

2005-09-28 Thread Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO
FamiLink Admin wrote: I am only concerned about the IP. The rest is just to verify the data for now. What code would I use to key the $IP in to hash for counting?. Most of the IP's are not static but are from broadband and don't change too often. An example log is: -