Re: Can anyone comment on "Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days" ?

2009-03-13 Thread Deviloper
This books tend to teach programming (the syntax of a programm language), not software development. Thats a big issue in the whole it-world. Everybody who can read a shell-skript and work with an text-editor calls himself a software developer. A software developer has to know much more then a h

Re: use SDBM_File - Can't use string as a HASH ref

2009-03-13 Thread Jerry Rocteur
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 09:20, Jerry Rocteur wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to tie this kind of hash into SDBM >> >> $hash_of_baseline{$hdr_user_name} = { user_name => $hdr_user_name, >>passwd  => $hdr_user_passwd, >> ... >> ... >>  g

Re: one liner need help

2009-03-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 01:13:38PM +1100, Toby Stuart wrote: > Hello All > > It's been almost 13 years since I last posted on this board Not to *this* one. > PS. Where is $Bill? Is he still around? Ah, *that* one. That was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. -- Paul Johnson - p...@

Re: use SDBM_File - Can't use string as a HASH ref

2009-03-13 Thread Chas. Owens
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 06:46, Jerry Rocteur wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 09:20, Jerry Rocteur wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm trying to tie this kind of hash into SDBM >>> >>> $hash_of_baseline{$hdr_user_name} = { user_name => $hdr_user_name, >>>                                passwd  => $hdr_us

Re: Can anyone comment on "Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days" ?

2009-03-13 Thread Venkat Saranathan
That was the first book I read in Perl about 10 years back and IMO, it is a great book for beginners. It was fun to read and it helped me to set a goal to finish at least one chapter every day. I highly recommend it. with warm regards, Venkat Saranathan Gulf Breeze Software. On Thu, Mar 12, 200

Re: Can anyone comment on "Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days" ?

2009-03-13 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi! On Thursday 12 March 2009 18:52:05 Francisco Valladolid wrote: > Hi > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > I've been tutoring someone in Perl 5, and as she wants to learn Perl from > > a paperware book, she borrowed the book "Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21

Re: Can anyone comment on "Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days" ?

2009-03-13 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Raymond, On Friday 13 March 2009 05:24:58 Raymond Wan wrote: > Hi Shlomi, > > Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > I've been tutoring someone in Perl 5, and as she wants to learn Perl from > > a paperware book, she borrowed the book "Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 > > Days" from her workplace

Re: Assigning an array to a dereferenced hash slice - syntax!

2009-03-13 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Chap Harrison > Let me break this expression down according to my current understanding. > > @{$hash{adams...@keys} = @values; > > parses as follows: > > adams : short for 'adams', a string literal, being used as a hash key > $hash{adams} : the value in the hash associa

Re: Can anyone comment on "Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days" ?

2009-03-13 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Shlomi" == Shlomi Fish writes: Shlomi> If you've read it, can you comment how good did you find it? If this is the same book as the one that I couldn't find at least *one* serious typo within a half dozen pages from any random page opening, then no, I wouldn't recommend it. See if it mis

Re: Can anyone comment on "Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days" ?

2009-03-13 Thread Brian J. Miller
Shlomi Fish wrote: > > However, my point was that my pupil found this book in a library and borrowed > it (which didn't cost her anything), and I can either tell her that it's OK > to > read it and learn from it, or that she should print or buy (depending on her > preferences) a different boo

Re: Can anyone comment on "Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days" ?

2009-03-13 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> ""Brian" == "Brian J Miller" writes: "Brian> "Everything I need to know, I learned from perldoc..." ;-). Everything I needed to know, I learned from "man perl", back when it was a single manpage, long before perldoc existed. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc.

Re: Can anyone comment on "Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days"?

2009-03-13 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Safi! On Friday 13 March 2009 17:44:16 Safi Newman wrote: > Dear Shlomi, > > I tried posting this reply to the list yesterday, but am having some > problems (I have emailed the list owner). In the meantime, I thought I > would email you directly: I see, thanks. Maybe it's because you sent an H

Re: Assigning an array to a dereferenced hash slice - syntax!

2009-03-13 Thread Chap Harrison
On Mar 13, 2009, at 7:52 AM, Jenda Krynicky wrote: That's prettymuch it, except that it's not an array of aliases, but LIST of aliases. The difference is subtle, but important. See http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq4.html#What-is-the-difference- between-a-list-and-an-array%3f and http://www.perlmo

Re: Can anyone comment on "Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days" ?

2009-03-13 Thread Raymond Wan
Hi Shlomi, Shlomi Fish wrote: Yes, those or Beginning Perl ( http://www.perl.org/books/beginning-perl/ ) would be my choice too. I admit I haven't read them, but I'm judging them based on reputation. However, my point was that my pupil found this book in a library and borrowed it (which di