Re: unable to use perl script with post on university wireless network

2007-09-17 Thread perllearner
On 16 Sep, 19:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chas Owens) wrote: On 9/16/07, perllearner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16 Sep, 03:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mumia W.) wrote: On 09/15/2007 01:17 PM, perllearner wrote: I am a little stumped as to what is happening, just a few hours ago, I was

Re: how to make use of $content in LWP

2007-09-17 Thread W. Sp.
thanks Chas. regex worked fine in my case. But my question was: how to specifically sift out a particular line number. Also, while using LWP modules, what type of data is $content = get($url)? Is it an array? Is there a way to find out what kind of data a particular variable stores? thanks raghu

Re: unable to use perl script with post on university wireless network

2007-09-17 Thread Ruprecht Helms
perllearner wrote: I am connected via a wireless network, and in internet explorer it is set to automatically detect settings for the LAN, when you say tell perl what that proxy is, how would I go about doing this? first finding the proxy, and the code to place it in my perl scripts hi, I'm

using a perl module

2007-09-17 Thread perllearner
I am having a look at cpanel v3 code for using a perl module after installing it in your user directory (when not root): my $homedir = (getpwuid($))[7];my $n_inc = scalar @INC;for (my $i = 0; $i $n_inc; $i++ ) { if (-d $homedir . '/perl' . $INC[$i]) { unshift(@INC,$homedir . '/perl'

Re: how to make use of $content in LWP

2007-09-17 Thread Jeff Pang
2007/9/17, W. Sp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Also, while using LWP modules, what type of data is $content = get($url)? Is it an array? Is there a way to find out what kind of data a particular variable stores? It's a scalar. you can use 'ref' to find out the variable type,like, $ perl -MLWP::Simple

Re: using a perl module

2007-09-17 Thread Rob Coops
This is the code that works for me: my $homedir = (getpwuid($))[7]; my $n_inc = scalar @INC; for (my $i = 0; $i $n_inc; $i++ ) { if (-d $homedir . '/perl' . $INC[$i]) { unshift(@INC,$homedir . '/perl' . $INC[$i]); $n_inc++; $i++; } } The reason for it

Re: using a perl module

2007-09-17 Thread Jeff Pang
2007/9/17, perllearner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am having a look at cpanel v3 code for using a perl module after installing it in your user directory (when not root): my $homedir = (getpwuid($))[7];my $n_inc = scalar @INC;for (my $i = 0; $i $n_inc; $i++ ) { if (-d $homedir . '/perl' .

search replace one liner problem

2007-09-17 Thread jrpfinch
I would like to execute the following regex on a file: s/(\$Revision:\s+)(\d+\.\d+)(\s+\$.+use constant VERSION\s+= )(.+?) ()/$1$2$3Revision $2$5/gs I am doing this in bash as follows: REGEX='s/(\$Revision:\s+)(\d+\.\d+)(\s+\$.+use constant VERSION\s+= ) (.+?)()/$1$2$3Revision $2$5/gs'

Re: unable to use perl script with post on university wireless network

2007-09-17 Thread Chas Owens
On 9/16/07, perllearner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Do you use a proxy on that network? If you do then you need to tell Perl what that proxy is. I am connected via a wireless network, and in internet explorer it is set to automatically detect settings for the LAN, when you say tell perl

Re: how to make use of $content in LWP

2007-09-17 Thread Chas Owens
On 9/16/07, W. Sp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip regex worked fine in my case. But my question was: how to specifically sift out a particular line number. snip There is a global variable named $. that stores the current line number. So you can say things like perl -ne 'print $. if /this is

Re: how to make use of $content in LWP

2007-09-17 Thread Chas Owens
On 9/17/07, Jeff Pang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/9/17, W. Sp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Also, while using LWP modules, what type of data is $content = get($url)? Is it an array? Is there a way to find out what kind of data a particular variable stores? It's a scalar. you can use 'ref' to

Re: parsing csv-file for inserting in database

2007-09-17 Thread Chas Owens
On 9/16/07, Ruprecht Helms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, how can I parse a csv-file where the entries are seperated with | . The scripts later should put them into a mysql-database using dbi. Especially for me is interessting how to parse the content of the file and store them into

RE: how to make use of $content in LWP

2007-09-17 Thread Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO
-Original Message- From: Chas Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 10:14 To: W. Sp. Cc: beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: how to make use of $content in LWP On 9/16/07, W. Sp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip regex worked fine in my case. But my question

Re: how to make use of $content in LWP

2007-09-17 Thread Rob Dixon
Chas Owens wrote: On 9/17/07, Jeff Pang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/9/17, W. Sp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Also, while using LWP modules, what type of data is $content = get($url)? Is it an array? Is there a way to find out what kind of data a particular variable stores? It's a scalar. you can

Re: how to make use of $content in LWP

2007-09-17 Thread Chas Owens
On 9/17/07, Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO snip If you want to print a line that is on a given line number you can say perl -ne 'print if $. = 400' file.txt $. == 400 and not $. = 400 ( assignment verses equality test ). Wags ;) snip Yeah, I am an idiot.

Re: how to make use of $content in LWP

2007-09-17 Thread Chas Owens
On 9/17/07, Rob Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chas Owens wrote: On 9/17/07, Jeff Pang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/9/17, W. Sp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Also, while using LWP modules, what type of data is $content = get($url)? Is it an array? Is there a way to find out what kind of

Re: search replace one liner problem

2007-09-17 Thread John W. Krahn
jrpfinch wrote: I would like to execute the following regex on a file: s/(\$Revision:\s+)(\d+\.\d+)(\s+\$.+use constant VERSION\s+= )(.+?) ()/$1$2$3Revision $2$5/gs I am doing this in bash as follows: REGEX='s/(\$Revision:\s+)(\d+\.\d+)(\s+\$.+use constant VERSION\s+= ) (.+?)()/$1$2$3Revision

Re: parsing csv-file for inserting in database

2007-09-17 Thread Jonathan Lang
Ruprecht Helms wrote: Hi, how can I parse a csv-file where the entries are seperated with | . The scripts later should put them into a mysql-database using dbi. Especially for me is interessting how to parse the content of the file and store them into different variables for later

Re: pm for getting the content of a URL.

2007-09-17 Thread Chas Owens
On 9/17/07, Patrik Hasibuan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I want to get a content of a URL (like curl does). Which pm can I use? snip You probably want LWP::Simple (specifically its get function): #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use LWP::Simple; my $content = get http://3.am;;

Re: parsing csv-file for inserting in database

2007-09-17 Thread Chas Owens
On 9/17/07, Jonathan Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Most of the replies have suggested using 'split( /\|/, $line )'. However, this ignores a potentially important aspect of common cvs file formats - well, important to me, anyway - which is the interaction between quotes, field delimiters,

pm for getting the content of a URL.

2007-09-17 Thread Patrik Hasibuan
Dear my friends... I want to get a content of a URL (like curl does). Which pm can I use? I'm facing a development restriction that my perl-code is going to be run on a webhosting company'es server and I do not have libcurl there so I can not use libcurl and 'curl binding of perl' in this

Re: parsing csv-file for inserting in database

2007-09-17 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 13:34 -0700, Jonathan Lang wrote: Most of the replies have suggested using 'split( /\|/, $line )'. However, this ignores a potentially important aspect of common cvs file formats - well, important to me, anyway - which is the interaction between quotes, field delimiters,

Re: Using Perl Win 32 AS 5.8.x - Anyway to find the File Create Date/Time

2007-09-17 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO [EMAIL PROTECTED] stat will give me the mod time, but does not have the create time. From Windows Explorer, I notice that I can get the Create Date. perldoc -f stat stat FILEHANDLE stat EXPR statReturns a 13-element

Re: pm for getting the content of a URL.

2007-09-17 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Patrik Hasibuan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear my friends... I want to get a content of a URL (like curl does). Which pm can I use? I'm facing a development restriction that my perl-code is going to be run on a webhosting company'es server and I do not have libcurl there so I can not use

fork example

2007-09-17 Thread perllearner
I am trying to get my mind around using fork() I have a text file that has solid, liquid, and gas on it all on new lines, how I understand fork() is if I wanted to do a print each statement on each line in the file, fork() could do all at once with parent and child processes. I can get around

RE: Using Perl Win 32 AS 5.8.x - Anyway to find the File Create Date/Time

2007-09-17 Thread Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO
-Original Message- From: Jenda Krynicky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 15:42 To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: Using Perl Win 32 AS 5.8.x - Anyway to find the File Create Date/Time From: Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO

Format Output

2007-09-17 Thread VUNETdotUS
I print some output in PERL. It is data in 3 columns. I use \t to add a tab space to make a column. However, \t may not produce the desired result. If the value is short in length, next column is not aligned correctly in the row. Something like this: 123 12345 123456 123 12345

RE: Format Output

2007-09-17 Thread Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO
-Original Message- From: VUNETdotUS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 12:36 To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Format Output I print some output in PERL. It is data in 3 columns. I use \t to add a tab space to make a column. However, \t may not produce the

Re: Format Output

2007-09-17 Thread Chas Owens
On 9/17/07, VUNETdotUS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I print some output in PERL. It is data in 3 columns. I use \t to add a tab space to make a column. However, \t may not produce the desired result. If the value is short in length, next column is not aligned correctly in the row. Something like

Re: Using Perl Win 32 AS 5.8.x - Anyway to find the File Create Date/Time

2007-09-17 Thread Rob Dixon
Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO wrote: stat will give me the mod time, but does not have the create time. From Windows Explorer, I notice that I can get the Create Date. Anyway to accomplish this in Perl? I did a search against CPAN and also AS, but what I

Re: fork example

2007-09-17 Thread Tom Phoenix
On 9/17/07, perllearner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get my mind around using fork() I have a text file that has solid, liquid, and gas on it all on new lines, how I understand fork() is if I wanted to do a print each statement on each line in the file, fork() could do all at once