Re: Difference between perl -w and use warnings in perl !

2008-09-02 Thread Dr.Ruud
Amit Saxena schreef: What's the difference between perl -w and use warnings in perl ? The -w is the old fashioned way, but still fine for one liners. If there is no difference, There is an important difference, see warnings and perllexwarn. then the use warnings can be removed from the

Re: what will be faster to search string patterns in one big file or several files

2008-09-02 Thread Dr.Ruud
Meir Yanovich schreef: im using perl to extract content from several sources and then i need to preform string pattern search ( using regexp ) my question is when i extract the content what will be better to append to one b[i]g file say with some kind of xml structure or to several text

C-style buffer?

2008-09-02 Thread Vyacheslav Karamov
Hi All! How C-style buffer could be implemented in Perl? I need to download text file into buffer, then find some text in it with regular expression, then store some text *before* the match and then search some text with regular expression again, but starting from the end of the previous

XML::Parser::Expat example

2008-09-02 Thread Vyacheslav Karamov
Hi All! Could someone give me some examples how to use XML::Parser::Expat? --- WBR, Vyacheslav. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Regex in a variable

2008-09-02 Thread Paolo Gianrossi
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 11:40 -0400, Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote: use strict; use warnings; use diagnostics; my $text=this is a random text. Please match random string.\nAnother random something.\n; my $rexp=STDIN; chomp( $rexp ); # I take it that you want $rexp to be # of the

Re:C-style buffer?

2008-09-02 Thread Jeff Pang
Hi, If you need to store the text content into memory and parse it later, you could use an array. Message du 02/09/08 10:20 De : Vyacheslav Karamov A : beginners@perl.org Copie à : Objet : C-style buffer? Hi All! How C-style buffer could be implemented in Perl? I need to download

Re: Regex in a variable

2008-09-02 Thread John W. Krahn
Paolo Gianrossi wrote: Alright! This works... I solved the minor issue of modifiers and simple matching instead of substitution (remember I need to take care of *arbitrary* regexes) by: my ($op, $replacement, $modifiers)=('', ''); if($rexp=~/^s(.)/){ $op='s'; my $delimiter=quotemeta($1);

Re: Only getting format header on first file of a series

2008-09-02 Thread Rob Dixon
Dave Thacker wrote: On Monday 01 September 2008 20:29:27 Rob Dixon wrote: $- = 0; Unfortunately, there's no change after inserting that assignment. Thanks for the other info on the improving the preparation of the SQL statement. I'll do that as soon as I get this resolved. Any

Perl equivalent of sed -f or awk -f

2008-09-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'd like to apply a series of inline edits to a file in Perl. With sed, I could use sed -f commandfile inputfile or in awk, awk - f commandfile inputfile, however, I could not find an equivalent in Perl. I'd prefer not to use sed or awk as they do not support inline editing directly. In Perl,

RE: Perl equivalent of sed -f or awk -f

2008-09-02 Thread Andrew Curry
Perl -p -i -e s/search/replace/extras; FILENAME -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 September 2008 15:06 To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Perl equivalent of sed -f or awk -f I'd like to apply a series of inline edits to a file in Perl. With

Re: XML::Parser::Expat example

2008-09-02 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 11:53 +0300, Vyacheslav Karamov wrote: Hi All! Could someone give me some examples how to use XML::Parser::Expat? You should use XML::Parser instead. Most Perl Mongers prefer to use XML::Twig or XML::SAX or XML::DOM. All are available at CPAN http://search.cpan.org/

Re: Regex in a variable

2008-09-02 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 05:35 -0700, John W. Krahn wrote: It also doesn't work if there is whitespace between the operator name and the delimiter, for example: 'm / abc /x' or 's / abc /def/x'. Or if the delimiter is part of the pattern, for example: 'm/..\/..\/../'. Or if the /e option is

Re: encrypt a text file

2008-09-02 Thread Jeff Pang
Message du 27/08/08 16:40 De : Bryan R Harris A : Beginners Perl Copie à : Objet : Re: encrypt a text file hello, how to encrypt a text file and decrypt it with perl? for example, I have a config file, svr.conf I want to encrypt it to svr.conf.encrypt. But I should

Re: Regex in a variable

2008-09-02 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 10:43 -0400, Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 05:35 -0700, John W. Krahn wrote: It also doesn't work if there is whitespace between the operator name and the delimiter, for example: 'm / abc /x' or 's / abc /def/x'. Or if the delimiter is part of the

Re: Regex in a variable

2008-09-02 Thread Paolo Gianrossi
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 10:51 -0400, Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote: Sorry, it's Tuesday after a long weekend; brain is not fully in gear yet. Try: while( eval \$text =~ s/$rexp/$replacement/$flags ){ I tried this. Actually, I tried something slightly different: print Enter rexp: ; my

Re: Check for modules presence

2008-09-02 Thread Francesco Rotondella
Rob Dixon wrote: [...] All it does is to put some stub code in place of any missing modules, with an import routine that just pushes the name of the package onto array @main::NOTFOUND. Then the CHECK block code just reports the contents of that array and dies if it's not empty. There are a

Re: Perl equivalent of sed -f or awk -f

2008-09-02 Thread John W. Krahn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to apply a series of inline edits to a file in Perl. With sed, I could use sed -f commandfile inputfile or in awk, awk - f commandfile inputfile, however, I could not find an equivalent in Perl. perl commandfile inputfile I'd prefer not to use sed or awk as

Re: Simultaneous execution of multiple processes

2008-09-02 Thread sumeet .. Light my way..!!
On Sep 1, 8:51 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Scott) wrote: On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:45:58 -0700, sumeet .. Light my way..!! wrote: On Sep 1, 5:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John W. Krahn) wrote: sumeet .. Light my way..!! wrote: Hi all, Hello,     I have a problem..     I need to

Re: Simultaneous execution of multiple processes

2008-09-02 Thread John W. Krahn
sumeet .. Light my way..!! wrote: Hey thanks for the reply. Things working slowly and steadily.I was able to successfully run many instances of notepad.exe simultaneously.However i am still not able to execute some exe's like firefox.exe , wmplayer.exe , googletalk.exe etc. I am using the

XS array of arrays

2008-09-02 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I wanted to return an array of arrays from c to perl. I build up my arrays by unisng av_push, but then ? I cannot av_push a AV*, so should I make a newSV and filled it by casting, or should I make a newRV with the AV* (after casting) and push it ? Thank -- ---

Re: C-style buffer?

2008-09-02 Thread Rob Dixon
Vyacheslav Karamov wrote: How C-style buffer could be implemented in Perl? I need to download text file into buffer, then find some text in it with regular expression, then store some text *before* the match and then search some text with regular expression again, but starting from the

Re: Perl equivalent of sed -f or awk -f

2008-09-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sep 2, 10:49 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John W. Krahn) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to apply a series of inline edits to a file in Perl. With sed, I could use sed -f commandfile inputfile or in awk, awk - f commandfile inputfile, however, I could not find an equivalent in