Re: retreive numbers from alpha-numeric string

2008-09-16 Thread Alan C
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:28 AM, cancer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am using Perl on Linux server. I m writing a code which will tell > us the Linux distro with version. For this the command is > > cat /etc/issue > > which is common for all the distributions of linux. Slackware :-) [

Re: same variable defined twice

2008-05-23 Thread Alan C
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Alan C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Octavian Rasnita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > [ . . ] >Next shows a block or lexical scope (mask does not happen) versus when in the same scope (in global, not usin

Re: same variable defined twice

2008-05-23 Thread Alan C
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Octavian Rasnita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've tried the following script and it works fine: > > use strict; > my $text = 1; > my $text = 2; > print $text; > > Shouldn't perl disallow defining the $text variable a second time in the > same script if usi

Re: log for script

2008-04-18 Thread Alan C
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:58 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there any mechanism where I can take the log of entire Perl script. I > mean to say that I need the log of each and every step which I am doing > in Perl script. That step may include > > 1: input from user > > 2: internal Perl sc

Re: Howto strip html from a $calar with HTML::Parser

2007-08-03 Thread Alan C
Thanks for the replies. I've added them to my searchable data. My forgetfullness worsens as I get older. I'd totally forgotten that I'd once done this with HTML::Strip And I began reinventing the wheel the other day. Lynx too, forgot about that (Slackware 12.0 right now). Anyways, here's a mo

Howto strip html from a $calar with HTML::Parser

2007-08-03 Thread Alan C
Hi, I saw the doc for HTML::Parser. I looked at its hstrip program in the eg folder but dunno how to strip a scalar instead of a file. I can strip a file. But I want to strip a scalar. Any help appreciated. As my code is currently, when ran, it prints text to STDOUT and the $source scalar var

Re: perl with databases

2006-02-19 Thread Alan C
On Sunday 19 February 2006 12:56, Octavian Rasnita wrote: [ . . ] > The database I need to keep is not very very big, but too big for MySQL, > and the most important thing is the speed of selections/updates. [ . . ] DB_File and BerkelyDB are two Perl modules that use the embedded database which

compile fails at/during the use DB_File; line

2006-02-14 Thread Alan C
Hi, Perl 5.8.8 on Slackware 10.2 As to the libdb's: (the default for Slack 10.2) appears to be onboard 3 different versions of libdb (Sleepycat) Ideas, suggestions to get it working? How to tell if it's a Perl or a C init thing? /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i486-linux/auto/DB_File/DB_File.so doe

Re: printing elements of an array

2003-08-29 Thread Alan C.
Joshua Lokken wrote: [ . . ] While your way is much easier and works well, I wonder why my original syntax did not produce the desired result? Your (next, below) original syntax does produce the desired result here (tested). Win32 Activestate Perl 5.61 build 633 #!perl print "Enter 5 of your fav

ActiveState 5.6.1 versus 5.8.0. 5.8.0 inserts an unwanted char 26

2003-08-14 Thread Alan C.
Hi, I was wondering if this is a Unicode thing/issue--if there might be a better solution. If, instead of the code enclosed below, there might be a command line switch or an option I can use or set. Win32 ActiveState I've a text editor with capable to launch command line as well as capture t

Pattern search a dir of filenames: Can use a scalar inside grep?

2003-08-14 Thread Alan C.
Hello, It's my .* attempt I don't understand, seek help on. (seek/need ability to either all files in dir opened or pattern search the files in dir with only files that meet pattern opened) (Win32 if that matters Win2k ActiveState 5.61 build 633) Next line is from when the script worked ok

Re: regex grep andING search words together

2003-08-03 Thread Alan C.
Jeff 'Japhy' Pinyan wrote: On Aug 2, Alan C. said: #!/perl/bin/perl -w use strict; #map & join from @ARGV into $pattern snipped #!/perl/bin/perl -w #Win32 d:\perl\bin\perl.exe use strict; @ARGV=qw/doc sort/; my $pattern; # next is the original it's without word boundary

regex grep andING search words together

2003-08-02 Thread Alan C.
Hi, #!/perl/bin/perl -w use strict; #map & join from @ARGV into $pattern snipped my $pattern='(?=.*doc)(?=.*sort)'; #print "$pattern"; #directory files foreach file to be searched snipped if (s/^H=($pattern)/$1/io) { print "$fil:$_" ; } #end The above with the rest of my script finds doc

Re: Notetab-like Perl editor?

2003-07-28 Thread Alan C.
Zanardi2k3 wrote: Questions about editors have been asked many times, but i'm going to be a little more specific. I am in a Windows environment, and i love NotaTab. It is one of the few tools that makes me wonder how could i ever have carried on without it. Only it doesn't do syntax highlightin

Re: perl script for running an exe (OT)

2003-07-02 Thread Alan C.
Panneer Selvan wrote: Hi, By this program key functions are execute after running the exe.. I want to execute the key funtions before completion of exe use Win32::GuiTest qw(FindWindowLike GetWindowText SetForegroundWindow SendKeys); syste

On STDOUT show matched words in color

2003-02-14 Thread Alan C.
Hi, How, where to get started? On Windows to have Perl search a text file and display all of the file on STDOUT but the matched words to show in color. I can do some regex. But I haven't a clue about how to color matched words or if it can be done on Windows. I know the Vim editor can do th

perltidy was File instead of here doc as my input

2003-02-01 Thread Alan C.
Didn't find much on it in my ActiveState module. But applicable here: http://search.cpan.org/author/SHANCOCK/Perl-Tidy-20021130/docs/tutorial.pod Has/installed batch file into perl\bin folder. Got it working! Thanks! -- Alan. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional comma

File instead of here doc as my input

2003-01-31 Thread Alan C.
When, as follows, use a script that draws upon Perl::Tidy Win 2k. (using here doc in the script) The $source gets printed on stdout just fine the block comes out indented. But, what's between the EOM, I put into c:\pltidytst.pl And I need howto help for: 1. as I not yet get it to pull from that

Text match criteria

2003-01-22 Thread Alan C.
Hello, I figured out how to substitute. But I need howto help as I didn't know how to print out my desired matched items. Thanks! Instead of the substitution, I want to match and keep. In other words, I want to extract and keep/print up to the blank line so that the output will be: semeste

Re: Perldoc?

2003-01-21 Thread Alan C.
Kevin Old wrote: have noticed that the perldoc command isn't availableI've looked for Doesn't that one use man ? man html::parser etc. -- Alan. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Remove some, not all \n from a text block

2003-01-12 Thread Alan C.
Rob Dixon wrote: "Alan C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Rob Dixon wrote: my $last = undef; while (<>) { next unless defined $last; chomp $last unless /^\./; print $last

Re: Remove some, not all \n from a text block

2003-01-10 Thread Alan C.
Rob Dixon wrote: my $last = undef; while (<>) { next unless defined $last; chomp $last unless /^\./; print $last; } continue { $last = $_; } print $last; Your code works super for the job! I had thought of chomp and unless. But I'm too

Re: Remove some, not all \n from a text block

2003-01-10 Thread Alan C.
John W. Krahn wrote: "Alan C." wrote: Here is one way to do it: #!/perl/bin/perl -w use strict; my $text = do { local $/; <> }; $text =~ s/\n(?!\.|\z)/ /g; print $text; Your code does the job just super! Thanks! The (|) parenthesis "group" with left side | righ

Remove some, not all \n from a text block

2003-01-09 Thread Alan C.
Hello, It's now a previously formatted text block with line breaks at every 70 characters width. And the block's first line begins with a leading period or dot as well as approximately every third line thereafter begins with a leading period or dot. How do I rid the block of line breaks on ev

sort two patterns, control structure help needed

2002-11-08 Thread Alan C.
Hello, This must be easy. But I've not yet enough experience with Perl's control structures. perl mysort.pl infile.txt > outfile.txt The stack of numbers with colons below reside within infile.txt 120:2 126:2 13:15 140:3 14:3 141:3 14:3 15:11 My task or goal is to get each of them lines over i

Seek ideas, module(s) for url database/indexer

2002-09-23 Thread Alan C.
Hello, In contrast to bookmarked web site pages, I may want ability instead to store these urls in some sort of a text file or files or database of some sorts. I'd also use a keyword(s) associated with each url. My idea is, for my more frequently used urls, to have an organized index that I can

HTML::Parse & strip the html

2002-06-24 Thread Alan C.
Hello, #!/perl/bin/perl -w # print ASCII from HTML from a URL use LWP::Simple; use HTML::Parse; use HTML::FormatText; my ($html, $ascii); $html = get("http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/Sacramento/afd?SFOZFPSTO";); defined $html or

Strip html from filehandle? >was win command console exe how perl launch & capture its STDOUT?

2002-05-30 Thread Alan C.
Hi and thanks much! Success!! Learning occurred. Here's what I tinkered with and got to work so far. my $output = qx(graburl http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/Sacramento/afd?SFOZFPSTO); open MYWTHR, ">myweathr" or die "Cannot create mywthr_txt: $!"; print MYWTHR "$output"; #end-- (gra

a win command console exe how perl launch & capture its STDOUT?

2002-05-29 Thread Alan C.
Hi, I've a Win 2K command console executable. Once this .exe is launched, its output goes to STDOUT. And, this output consists of text and html, in size, just about the amount for a small to medium web page. Also want to strip and discard the html from the output so as to capture only the t

Perl as email client?

2002-02-24 Thread Alan C.
Hi, As a (motivated) beginner with some the basics I can write small text manipulation scripts and also doing some of up to including intermediate cgi Perl localhost Apache sometimes also on Unix server Thus I hope I within scope this list What I seek: ability use perl for purpose/task as a

Re: Launch a url in my web browser?

2002-01-31 Thread Alan C.
wrote: >I believe that is not possible. A server side script can't launch a >client's browser. > >Alan C. wrote: > >>Hi, >>Win 2k with MSIE web browser >>Whether or not my web browser is already been launched/opened >>Can a Perl script do that task? O

Launch a url in my web browser?

2002-01-30 Thread Alan C.
Hi, Win 2k with MSIE web browser Whether or not my web browser is already been launched/opened Can a Perl script do that task? Or a perl module? Able to do without bringing up a command prompt as part of the process? I was wonder if a script or module already exist. Or, what would such writ

Re: HTML Generation

2002-01-29 Thread Alan C.
Amongst others, 10 weeks basic to advanced, how to generate an html page, a guestbook as well as add/append entries to that same html page. http://perl.about.com/library/p101/bl_p101class.htm At 01:59 PM 1/28/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Hi all, > >Working on a CGI script that will allow me to ta

RE: your my last hope on this cgi programming question

2002-01-07 Thread Alan C.
Hi, http://www.delphiforums.com/ I originally discovered the follows site from being a member at above site. I'm a member at above of which I can first log on there which then entitles me to freely travel/navigate follows/next site without logged on to above, membership (free) perl.about.com

RE: CGI perl html urgent

2002-01-05 Thread Alan C.
Subject: RE: CGI perl html urgent Hi, Different? -- I think of it as a way when i need larger amounts of text or html tags or larger amounts of whatever. But perhaps all it is is part of Perl's characteristic of "there's more than one way to do it" (tmtowtdi) I think it's called a here doc