Re: What are the brackets used for

2007-03-14 Thread Jeff Pang
my $timeworked = {}; Hello, This defined a hash reference. See: perldoc perlref -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Accessing packed data structures

2007-03-14 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Dharshana Eswaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was going thro the topic Accessing packed data structures in the Perl Complete Reference Book. I came across this example: struct utmp { char ut_user[8]; /* User login name */ char ut_id[4]; /* /etc/inittab id */ char ut_line[12]; /* device name

how to use require??

2007-03-14 Thread Umar Draz
HI dear members! I have a file called dbcon.pl into include directory. #!/usr/local/bin/perl use DBI; # Database Username, Password and Driver settings my $user=konsole; my $pass=send; my $host=localhost; my $driver=mysql; my $db=treat; my $tnt=xyz; # Connect Database my $dsn =

Re: how to use require??

2007-03-14 Thread Jeff Pang
-Original Message- From: Umar Draz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mar 14, 2007 6:37 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: how to use require?? HI dear members! I have a file called dbcon.pl into include directory. #!/usr/local/bin/perl use DBI; # Database Username, Password and Driver settings

Re: how to use require??

2007-03-14 Thread Mumia W.
On 03/14/2007 05:37 AM, Umar Draz wrote: HI dear members! I have a file called dbcon.pl into include directory. #!/usr/local/bin/perl use DBI; # Database Username, Password and Driver settings my $user=konsole; my $pass=send; my $host=localhost; my $driver=mysql; my $db=treat; my $tnt=xyz; #

Re: Accessing packed data structures

2007-03-14 Thread Chas Owens
On 3/14/07, Dharshana Eswaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The data which i need to pack and unpack to these elements are in hex format(0x0B 0x1C 0x34 etc). It is a string of hex bytes. Can i know about the format in which i need to supply the input? Coz i am unable to accept the hex

Re: how to use require??

2007-03-14 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Mumia == Mumia W mumia.w.18.spam writes: Mumia $dsn and $dbh are lexical variables that are restricted to dbcon.pl. You might Mumia want to consider using package variables. e.g: Or, just figure out how to break apart your program properly. Export behavior, not data. Create a package that

Re: Sorting an Array of Arrays

2007-03-14 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Mumia == Mumia W mumia.w.18.spam writes: Mumia On 03/13/2007 07:44 PM, Hardly Armchair wrote: Hello List, I have a data structure containing a bunch of strings in different groups: [...] I want these sorted first alphabetically within the group, and then according to the number of member

Matching the domain of a URL

2007-03-14 Thread Grant
Hello, I need to do some special processing if the domain of a URL string matches a set of possible values. I'd like to catch http and https. What is the best way to do that? - Grant -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Matching the domain of a URL

2007-03-14 Thread Jeff Pang
Hello, I need to do some special processing if the domain of a URL string matches a set of possible values. I'd like to catch http and https. What is the best way to do that? Hello, I just think regex is the best way since you choose to use Perl doing this work. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Matching the domain of a URL

2007-03-14 Thread yitzle
regex. if ( m/^https?\/\/:blah\.com/) On 3/14/07, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I need to do some special processing if the domain of a URL string matches a set of possible values. I'd like to catch http and https. What is the best way to do that? - Grant -- To unsubscribe,

Re: Matching the domain of a URL

2007-03-14 Thread Grant
regex. if ( m/^https?\/\/:blah\.com/) Ok, how can I pass in the value I want evaluated? Sorry I'm such a beginner. - Grant Hello, I need to do some special processing if the domain of a URL string matches a set of possible values. I'd like to catch http and https. What is the best way

How to revinent wget?

2007-03-14 Thread siegfried
I'm downloading a lot of debian images using wget these days. Can anyone suggest where I might look to find a little perl script that will download a web page, look for all the links containing .iso and then reinvent wget to download them all? Assuming such a script does not exist, can someone

precision

2007-03-14 Thread louis fridkis
Why does Perl say 10.2 is 10.199 Here is example code and output: #!/usr/bin/perl -w $add = 10.2; print $add\n; printf $add\n; printf (%40.35f\n, $add); perl add1.pl 10.2 10.2 10.19928945726423989981413 -- Lou Fridkis Human Genetics 57920

Wanted: perl script to download iso files from web page

2007-03-14 Thread siegfried
I'm looking at http://cpan.org/scripts/Networking/index.html and I don't see any obvious scripts that would meet my need. I'm looking for a script that would scrape a web page for all the downloadable iso files and download them. Can someone recommend such a script? Are there some other good

Re: Matching the domain of a URL

2007-03-14 Thread Igor Sutton Lopes
On 2007/03/14, at 15:55, Jeff Pang wrote: Hello, I just think regex is the best way since you choose to use Perl doing this work. Regexp::Common::URI may be what you're looking for. -- Igor Sutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: How to revinent wget?

2007-03-14 Thread Igor Sutton Lopes
On 2007/03/14, at 16:10, siegfried wrote: I'm downloading a lot of debian images using wget these days. Can anyone suggest where I might look to find a little perl script that will download a web page, look for all the links containing .iso and then reinvent wget to download them all?

Re: precision

2007-03-14 Thread Mumia W.
On 03/14/2007 11:19 AM, louis fridkis wrote: Why does Perl say 10.2 is 10.199 Here is example code and output: #!/usr/bin/perl -w $add = 10.2; print $add\n; printf $add\n; printf (%40.35f\n, $add); perl add1.pl 10.2 10.2 10.19928945726423989981413 If you have the

Re: precision

2007-03-14 Thread Tom Phoenix
On 3/14/07, louis fridkis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why does Perl say 10.2 is 10.199 Because it is. Within the limits of precision of your floating point format, you're talking about the same number. This isn't just Perl; every programming language has _something_ like this. Some

Re: [SPAM] Re: Accessing packed data structures

2007-03-14 Thread Vincent Li
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Dharshana Eswaran wrote: On 3/13/07, Tom Phoenix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/13/07, Dharshana Eswaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was going thro the topic Accessing packed data structures in the Perl Complete Reference Book. I came across this example: struct

Perl-based content managers

2007-03-14 Thread Tom Smith
I've been trying to find a good Perl-based content manager. There are a myriad of PHP ones available, complete with site design templates and such (like phpWebSite and Joomla)--but Perl-based ones seem to be pretty sparse. I was really hoping to go Perl-based with the CMS, but if I can't... I

Re: Perl-based content managers

2007-03-14 Thread Igor Sutton Lopes
On 2007/03/14, at 17:13, Tom Smith wrote: I've been trying to find a good Perl-based content manager. There are a myriad of PHP ones available, complete with site design templates and such (like phpWebSite and Joomla)--but Perl-based ones seem to be pretty sparse. I was really hoping to

Re: Matching the domain of a URL

2007-03-14 Thread Grant
regex. if ( m/^https?\/\/:blah\.com/) Can you correct my syntax? I can't get this to match: if ($Scratch-{url} =~ /^https?\/\/:images\.google\./) { The value of referrer is exactly: http://images.google. - Grant Hello, I need to do some special processing if the domain of a URL string

Re: Perl-based content managers

2007-03-14 Thread Tom Smith
Igor Sutton Lopes wrote: On 2007/03/14, at 17:13, Tom Smith wrote: I've been trying to find a good Perl-based content manager. There are a myriad of PHP ones available, complete with site design templates and such (like phpWebSite and Joomla)--but Perl-based ones seem to be pretty sparse.

Re: Perl-based content managers

2007-03-14 Thread Igor Sutton Lopes
On 2007/03/14, at 17:43, Tom Smith wrote: Thank for the reply... I actually use Twiki internally, for our Corporate Intranet. I have looked at Bricolage, but I don't think it suites my needs (though it looks like an awesome piece of software). The bottom line is that I'm not very

polling a directory

2007-03-14 Thread Beginner
Hi, I am trying to find a means of monitoring a directory for activity. I would like a perl process to aware if a file has been dropped into a specific folder and then take some action. In the past I have used cron for this but I was thinking this isn't the best choice because 1) You have to

Re: Matching the domain of a URL

2007-03-14 Thread Igor Sutton Lopes
On 2007/03/14, at 16:00, yitzle wrote: regex. if ( m/^https?\/\/:blah\.com/) code my @possible_values = qw{ http://www.google.com https://my.domain. http://some.other.domain.net }; my @urls = qw{ http://www.google.com/?some_bizarre_args https://my.domain.com

Re: polling a directory

2007-03-14 Thread Igor Sutton Lopes
On 2007/03/14, at 17:55, Beginner wrote: Hi, I am trying to find a means of monitoring a directory for activity. I would like a perl process to aware if a file has been dropped into a specific folder and then take some action. In the past I have used cron for this but I was thinking this

Re: Matching the domain of a URL

2007-03-14 Thread yitzle
My fault. The reason it does not match is the colon placement. It will match http//:images.google. Can you correct my syntax? I can't get this to match: if ($Scratch-{url} =~ /^https?\/\/:images\.google\./) { The value of referrer is exactly: http://images.google. -- To unsubscribe,

Re: How to revinent wget?

2007-03-14 Thread Yitzchok Good
I did something similar... What I would do it wget the webpage, go through the page with RegEx and look for a href [^] [^].iso and stick the URLs into a text file. Then feed the textfile to wget (-i switch) and you're done ;) On 3/14/07, siegfried [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm downloading a lot

RE: polling a directory

2007-03-14 Thread Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO
-Original Message- From: Beginner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 10:56 To: beginners@perl.org Subject: polling a directory Hi, I am trying to find a means of monitoring a directory for activity. I would like a perl process to aware if a file has

Re: Matching the domain of a URL

2007-03-14 Thread Grant
My fault. The reason it does not match is the colon placement. It will match http//:images.google. Thanks, I really should have noticed that myself. - Grant Can you correct my syntax? I can't get this to match: if ($Scratch-{url} =~ /^https?\/\/:images\.google\./) { The value of

What are the brackets used for

2007-03-14 Thread Mathew Snyder
my $timeworked = {}; Mathew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Matching the domain of a URL

2007-03-14 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Grant == Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Grant Hello, I need to do some special processing if the domain of a URL Grant string matches a set of possible values. I'd like to catch http and Grant https. What is the best way to do that? Keep in mind that www.stonehenge.com can be written as

Re: What are the brackets used for

2007-03-14 Thread John W. Krahn
Mathew Snyder wrote: my $timeworked = {}; In this context they represent an anonymous hash, the reference of which is assigned to the scalar variable. It is usually not necessary because of autovivification. John -- Perl isn't a toolbox, but a small machine shop where you can special-order

Re: What are the brackets used for

2007-03-14 Thread Mathew Snyder
Thanks. That's what I thought it was doing but wasn't sure. Mathew John W. Krahn wrote: Mathew Snyder wrote: my $timeworked = {}; In this context they represent an anonymous hash, the reference of which is assigned to the scalar variable. It is usually not necessary because of

Re: Wanted: perl script to download iso files from web page

2007-03-14 Thread Bill Jones
On 3/14/07, siegfried [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking at http://cpan.org/scripts/Networking/index.html and I don't see any obvious scripts that would meet my need. I'm looking for a script that would scrape a web page for all the downloadable iso files and download them. I would suggest