Re: html::tokeparser

2010-12-07 Thread Rob Dixon
On 07/12/2010 20:42, Jim Gibson wrote: On 12/7/10 Tue Dec 7, 2010 12:17 PM, "shawn wilson" scribbled: i'm messing up somewhere along the way here... i'm trying to get data from a table in a page which should always get defined like this: and i'm looking for an element of the table that l

Re: html::tokeparser

2010-12-07 Thread Jim Gibson
On 12/7/10 Tue Dec 7, 2010 12:17 PM, "shawn wilson" scribbled: > i'm messing up somewhere along the way here... > > i'm trying to get data from a table in a page which should always get > defined like this: > > > > > and i'm looking for an element of the table that looks like this: > > Le

html::tokeparser

2010-12-07 Thread shawn wilson
i'm messing up somewhere along the way here... i'm trying to get data from a table in a page which should always get defined like this: and i'm looking for an element of the table that looks like this: Length: 266.0m i'm fine getting the url but i'm g

Re: Strategy for diagnosing context-sensitive bug

2010-12-07 Thread Jonathan Pool
>> I don't understand where a window could appear. > > On whatever workstation you designate through the DISPLAY environment > variable. Aha. Thanks. > if you can come up with a test for whatever > bug you are experiencing, it will be invaluable for saving time later. Given the ease with whic

Re: Strategy for diagnosing context-sensitive bug

2010-12-07 Thread Peter Scott
On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:33:08 -0800, Jonathan Pool wrote: >> Every CGI program should be testable from the command line. But if >> that doesn't work, there is a way to remotely invoke the debugger in >> this situation. http:// >> www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol4_3/tpj0403-0008.html . > > Thanks. Th

Re: Strategy for diagnosing context-sensitive bug

2010-12-07 Thread Jonathan Pool
Thanks much for your various suggestions. > recommend removing the ampersand from the function call: it is bad practice > in anything but very old Perl. Thanks. That deprecation hasn't made it into "man perlsub" yet, except for when one is using prototyping. > I would also prefer to lose a few

Re: Regexp delimiters

2010-12-07 Thread Jonathan Pool
> Well, I have no idea why it does what it does, but I can tell you how to make > it work: > s¶3(456)7¶¶$1¶x; > s§3(456)7§§$1§x; Amazing. Thanks very much. This seems to contradict the documentation. The perlop man page clearly says that there are exactly 4 bracketing delimiters: "()", "[]", "{

Re: MQSeries ... help needed

2010-12-07 Thread Brian Fraser
> > MQSeries-1.31/MQClient/ > *Makefile.PL: No such directory '/usr/lpp/mqm'* > I don't know what the MQSeries is, but that message makes me suspect.. Have you actually installed that, prior to attempting to install the module? If you have, try looking where it's installed, and symlink it to the f

MQSeries ... help needed

2010-12-07 Thread ashwin ts
hello , My name is ashwin and i am new to perl. I have a requirement where in i need to send messages to MQSeries.. I assume that for the same .. i need to install the MQSeries package in my existing perl.i use a unix environment.The version of perl that i am using is v5.8.2, can you please guide

Re: Strategy for diagnosing context-sensitive bug

2010-12-07 Thread Peter Scott
On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 01:24:57 -0800, Jonathan Pool wrote: >> Are you familiar with the perl debugger? > > Thanks much for your reply. I haven't used the debugger, partly because > its documentation describes it as an interactive tool and it's not clear > to me how that works in my context. The scri

Re: Strategy for diagnosing context-sensitive bug

2010-12-07 Thread Rob Coops
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Rob Dixon wrote: > On 07/12/2010 09:24, Jonathan Pool wrote: > >> >> Are you familiar with the perl debugger? >>> >> >> Thanks much for your reply. I haven't used the debugger, partly >> because its documentation describes it as an interactive tool and >> it's not

Re: Strategy for diagnosing context-sensitive bug

2010-12-07 Thread Rob Dixon
On 07/12/2010 09:24, Jonathan Pool wrote: Are you familiar with the perl debugger? Thanks much for your reply. I haven't used the debugger, partly because its documentation describes it as an interactive tool and it's not clear to me how that works in my context. The script is executed by htt

Re: Strategy for diagnosing context-sensitive bug

2010-12-07 Thread Jonathan Pool
> Are you familiar with the perl debugger? Thanks much for your reply. I haven't used the debugger, partly because its documentation describes it as an interactive tool and it's not clear to me how that works in my context. The script is executed by httpd in response to a browser form submissio