Can't Install Perl as Non-Root

Hi! I was trying to install a personal version of Perl to my own user folder. I am running on a remote webserver that uses Apache. I have succeeded with the following steps: wget http://perl.com/CPAN/src/stable.tar.gz tar zvxf stable.tar.gz cd perl-5.8.8 sh Configure -de -Dprefix=/home/.bazook

Re: Hash of hashes?

On Jan 18, 2008 6:06 PM, Kevin Viel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This I cannot get my mind around... > > My data: > > SNP Genotype > 1 CC > 1 CT > 1 TT > 1 NN > > > It seems to me that I need a hash of hashes. > > Inner hash: > > $inner{ $Genotype }++ ; > > Since the value

Hash of hashes?

This I cannot get my mind around... My data: SNP Genotype 1 CC 1 CT 1 TT 1 NN It seems to me that I need a hash of hashes. Inner hash: $inner{ $Genotype }++ ; Since the value of the out hash ( $outer{ $SNP } ) has to be a scalar, this scalar has to be a reference to

Re: Clear a hash

I think you want %hash = (); which will make sure there are no elements in %hash. Your statement was %hash = {}; In this case, the {} will return a reference to an empty hash, and the assignment will then attempt to make this reference into a key in %hash. Since hash keys can only be stri

Re: find2perl

On Jan 17, 2008 3:52 PM, oryann9 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip > Will anyone help me with this issue? These three lines of code work, > but work in a way that I am not expecting. When I tell this module to set > no_chdir to 1 it should NOT descend directories yet it does. Am I > supposed to ha

Re: Clear a hash

On Jan 18, 2008 11:57 AM, Kevin Viel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to empty/clear a hash in mass? > > For instance: > > %hash = {} ; > > > Might the above create an reference? snip The above does create a reference. In fact, the hash will now contain something like %hash = ( "H

Re: help me die verbosely

On Jan 18, 2008 2:45 PM, Andy Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip > > $SIG{__DIE__} = sub { > > open my $fh, ">>", "something.log" > > or die @_, "could not open something.log: $!"; > > print $fh @_; > > }; > > > > die "Oops"; > > > > Would this not be susceptible to infinite

Re: Clear a hash

See http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/delete.html Generally speaking (ie yes, there are exceptions), there is no reason to ever want to delete a variable. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: help me die verbosely

Chas. Owens wrote: On Jan 17, 2008 9:54 AM, Jonathan Mast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I want to write the errors caught by a 'die' clause into a file. snip Try #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; $SIG{__DIE__} = sub { open my $fh, ">>", "something.log" or die @_, "c

Re: Searching text file and printing to new file

Rob Dixon wrote: Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 14, 5:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gunnar Hjalmarsson) wrote: open my $IN, '<', 'infile.txt' or die $!; open my $OUT, '>', 'outfile.txt' or die $! while ( <$IN> ) { print $OUT scalar <$IN> if /^fi

Re: Searching text file and printing to new file

On Jan 18, 10:27 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Dixon) wrote: > Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On Jan 14, 5:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gunnar Hjalmarsson) wrote: > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a large text file with > information essentially broken into li

Clear a hash

Is there a way to empty/clear a hash in mass? For instance: %hash = {} ; Might the above create an reference? Thank you, Kevin Kevin Viel, PhD Post-doctoral fellow Department of Genetics Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research San Antonio, TX 78227 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: Help in system function

"Tom Phoenix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jan 18, 2008 7:00 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I just want to find out whether command("mk_view $view_name ETC") is >> properly running or not. > > I think you're looking for the program's exit status. Traditionally on > Unix and many similar

Re: help me die verbosely

On Jan 18, 2008 10:51 AM, Jonathan Mast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > > > use strict; > > use warnings; > > > > $SIG{__DIE__} = sub { > >open my $fh, ">>", "something.log" > >or die @_, "could not open something.log: $!"; > >print $fh @_; > > }; > > > > die

Re: Help in system function

On Jan 18, 2008 7:00 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just want to find out whether command("mk_view $view_name ETC") is > properly running or not. I think you're looking for the program's exit status. Traditionally on Unix and many similar systems, the exit status is an integer, with 0 meanin

Re: Can't understand this code snippet

Thanks all! I was wondering why the author didn't just call rand. I checked the rest of the source and it's just used as a unique identifier. So using rand would have been much easier. > If that were my program, running under any modern perl version, I'd > exploit the fact that Perl's random numb

Re: Can't understand this code snippet

On Jan 18, 2008 7:45 AM, bootleg86 bootleg86 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't for the life of me figure out what this is trying to do > $token = $$ ^ unpack "%L*", `ps -A | "./bin/gzip" Well, it's not complete, for one thing. What comes next? > Just seems to be it's trying to generate some r

Re: Can't understand this code snippet

From: yitzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 1/18/08, bootleg86 bootleg86 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I can't for the life of me figure out what this is trying to do > > $token = $$ ^ unpack "%L*", `ps -A | "./bin/gzip" > > > > Just seems to be it's trying to generate some random number. > > I

Re: Can't understand this code snippet

On 1/18/08, bootleg86 bootleg86 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I can't for the life of me figure out what this is trying to do > $token = $$ ^ unpack "%L*", `ps -A | "./bin/gzip" > > Just seems to be it's trying to generate some random number. > I only know it's trying to XOR the process ID. >

Fwd: help me die verbosely

-- Forwarded message -- From: Jonathan Mast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jan 18, 2008 10:50 AM Subject: Re: help me die verbosely To: "Chas. Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OK, so were binding an anonymous subroutine to the DIE signal? Does this need to go above or below troublesome code

Can't understand this code snippet

Hi, I can't for the life of me figure out what this is trying to do $token = $$ ^ unpack "%L*", `ps -A | "./bin/gzip" Just seems to be it's trying to generate some random number. I only know it's trying to XOR the process ID. What does this part do? unpack "%L*", `ps -A | "./bin/gzip" Thanks --

Re: how to get timezone in perl

On Jan 18, 2008 6:47 AM, Yue Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, perl fans > > I am about to translate a bash script into perl. In bash script, it > uses "date +%Z" command to get current timezone on local host. > However, I don't want to redirect this output into a variable, since > the

Re: help me in reading the xml file

On Jan 18, 2008 4:54 AM, Allam Reddy, Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Chas Owens, > > Thanks for your reply. > Is there a way to parse and get the info from xml withou using > XML::Twig? snip There are many XML parsing modules in Perl; unfortunately, none of the are part of Core Perl. In f

Re: Searching text file and printing to new file

Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 14, 5:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gunnar Hjalmarsson) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a large text file with information essentially broken into lines like this: findable text with a regexp information I care about more findable t

RE: Help in system function

Hello Rob, I just want to find out whether command("mk_view $view_name ETC") is properly running or not. In order to acieve this I have written this code. Please suggest what needs to be done to get the proper output. Please help Regards Irfan. -Original Message- From: Rob Dixon [ma

Re: want to download HTML::JFilter

To: beginners@perl.org From: axtens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject:want to download HTML::JFilter Date sent: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:07:07 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com > G'day everyone > > I'd like to down

Re: find2perl

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want to download HTML::JFilter

G'day everyone I'd like to download HTML::JFilter but I can't find it on Jenda's page. Anyone got a copy they can send me? Kind regards, Bruce. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

RE: help me in reading the xml file

Hi Chas Owens, Thanks for your reply. Is there a way to parse and get the info from xml withou using XML::Twig? Thanks, Thomas Reddy -Original Message- From: Chas. Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 3:11 PM To: Allam Reddy, Thomas Cc: beginners@perl.org Subj

RE: help me in reading the xml file

Hi Chas Owens, Thanks for your reply. I am getting the following error when running the code given in the mail. Can't locate XML/Twig.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /opt/perl_32/lib/5.8.3/IA64.ARCHREV_0-thread-multi /opt/perl_32/lib/5.8.3 /opt/perl_32/lib/site_perl/5.8.3/IA64.ARCHREV_0-thread-multi

how to get timezone in perl

Greetings, perl fans I am about to translate a bash script into perl. In bash script, it uses "date +%Z" command to get current timezone on local host. However, I don't want to redirect this output into a variable, since the perl script will even going to be run on windows. Is there a module to g

Re: Threaded chat server

On Jan 17, 8:44 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zentara) wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:08:14 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > (Turner) wrote: > >On Jan 16, 11:50 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zentara) wrote: > >> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:18:02 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >I think you may have misunder

Re: help me in reading the xml file

On Jan 18, 2008 4:34 AM, Allam Reddy, Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Chas Owens, > > Thanks for your reply. > > I am getting the following error when running the code given in the > mail. > > > Can't locate XML/Twig.pm in @INC (@INC contains: snip XML::Twig is not part of Core Perl. It (a