Re: html print

2010-04-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Shawn, first of all I should note that I suspect that you have been under some stress, and you're taking it on me. It's quite unlike you. Is this indeed the case? Now I'll reply to what you say. On Tuesday 13 Apr 2010 16:07:26 Shawn H Corey wrote: > Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Which arguments do

Re: ExtUtils::MakeMaker, execute Perl code during "make test"

2010-04-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.04.16 11:32, Philip Potter wrote: > On 16 April 2010 14:38, Steve Bertrand wrote: >> This particular test: > It sounds like your test isn't a test, it's a setup tool. Tests in > projdir/t are there to test if the stuff in projdir/lib or > projdir/blib works, and shouldn't be dependent on

Re: ExtUtils::MakeMaker, execute Perl code during "make test"

2010-04-16 Thread Philip Potter
On 16 April 2010 14:38, Steve Bertrand wrote: > On 2010.04.16 09:15, Philip Potter wrote: >> What are you *actually* >> trying to do? What are you testing and why does this test require you >> to print output to the user under "make test"? > > This particular test: > > - checks to see if an existi

Re: ExtUtils::MakeMaker, execute Perl code during "make test"

2010-04-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.04.16 09:15, Philip Potter wrote: > On 16 April 2010 13:20, Steve Bertrand wrote: >> I use prove often, usually when I want to quickly and non-verbosely (-Q) >> work with a single test file that I'm currently adding new tests to, or >> to ensure existing tests still pass if making changes

Re: XML Parser Error

2010-04-16 Thread Open Source
> - Original Message - > From: Brad Baxter > Sent: 04/16/10 01:31 AM > To: beginners@perl.org > Subject: Re: XML Parser Error > On 4/15/2010 1:40 PM, Open Source wrote: > I'm getting this error: > > Undefined subroutine&XML::Simple::XMLin called at ./sample.pl line 3. > > Here's my code an

Re: ExtUtils::MakeMaker, execute Perl code during "make test"

2010-04-16 Thread Philip Potter
On 16 April 2010 13:20, Steve Bertrand wrote: > I use prove often, usually when I want to quickly and non-verbosely (-Q) > work with a single test file that I'm currently adding new tests to, or > to ensure existing tests still pass if making changes to a function. > > What I want to be able to do

Re: ExtUtils::MakeMaker, execute Perl code during "make test"

2010-04-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.04.16 03:36, Philip Potter wrote: > On 16 April 2010 02:05, Steve Bertrand wrote: >> On 2010.04.15 18:50, Steve Bertrand wrote: >> What I've done to 'rectify' the issue so that it is clear that the >> config files differ, is rename the test to the highest test number >> (999-upgrade.t) so

Re: Not understanding deleted symbol key access

2010-04-16 Thread C.DeRykus
On Apr 15, 8:57 am, linuxexper...@gmail.com (Linux Expert) wrote: > I'm following an example in "Mastering Perl" pg 130.  He demonstrates > setting package variables $m and $n and displays their contents as well as > their keys held in the symbol table.  He then proceeds to delete the symbol > tabl

Re: XML Parser Error

2010-04-16 Thread Brad Baxter
On 4/15/2010 1:40 PM, Open Source wrote: I'm getting this error: Undefined subroutine&XML::Simple::XMLin called at ./sample.pl line 3. Here's my code and input file: use XML::Simple; use Data::Dumper; $data = XMLin("sample.xml"); print Dumper($data); John 43 M Operations There mu

RE: XML Parser Error

2010-04-16 Thread Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- CFS
>-Original Message- >From: Open Source [mailto:open.sou...@gmx.com] >Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 11:41 >To: Beginners, Perl >Subject: XML Parser Error > >I'm getting this error: > >Undefined subroutine &XML::Simple::XMLin called at ./sample.pl line 3. > >Here's my code and input file: >

Re: references to operators?

2010-04-16 Thread Tim Bowden
On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 12:51 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Tim, > > On Friday 16 Apr 2010 12:06:31 Tim Bowden wrote: > > I've got a nested hash data structure, and I want to create tests for > > many of the attributes within that data structure, but I'm not sure of > > the best way to do that. > >

Re: references to operators?

2010-04-16 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Tim, On Friday 16 Apr 2010 12:06:31 Tim Bowden wrote: > I've got a nested hash data structure, and I want to create tests for > many of the attributes within that data structure, but I'm not sure of > the best way to do that. > > Example: > > my $dataStructure = {'GroupA'=>{ > 'element1'=

Re: how to create a hash on the fly

2010-04-16 Thread Tim Bowden
On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 08:40 +0100, Philip Potter wrote: > > Great post, Steve. Does perl-beginners have a website where this could > be archived for later reference? > > Phil > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.beginners/ Tim Bowden -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.or

references to operators?

2010-04-16 Thread Tim Bowden
I've got a nested hash data structure, and I want to create tests for many of the attributes within that data structure, but I'm not sure of the best way to do that. Example: my $dataStructure = {'GroupA'=>{ 'element1'=>{ 'attrib1'=>'someValue', 'attrib2'=>'otherValue'}, 'element2

Re: how to create a hash on the fly

2010-04-16 Thread Philip Potter
On 16 April 2010 03:17, Steve Bertrand wrote: > On 2010.04.15 03:37, raphael() wrote: >> But as a beginning Perl programmer I find references extremely complicated. >> Although I have to learn them sometime. > > Although I Am Not A Programmer, if you do actually desire spending time > on writing P

Re: ExtUtils::MakeMaker, execute Perl code during "make test"

2010-04-16 Thread Philip Potter
On 16 April 2010 02:05, Steve Bertrand wrote: > On 2010.04.15 18:50, Steve Bertrand wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> In one of my projects, I've written a test file t/22-upgrade.t. > > [..snip..] > >> However, when I run "make test", the Perl code for print does not execute. > > Replying my own post, this