Setting $! in xs

2011-08-06 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - I am a bit confused about how to set $! from within an xs module. I have searched perlxstut, perlxs, and perlguts without really understanding what is involved. Can some one either point me to a module that sets $! or give me a short description on how it is done? Thanks!

Mac::Glue with Adobe Illustrator

2009-06-09 Thread Beau E. Cox
HI - Has anyone on this list used Mac::Glue, specifically to script Adobe Illustrator? I have been trying and trying to get it to work, alas, no joy. Simple things (start Illustrator, activate, quit, etc) work, but as soon as I start using parameters I run into a brick wall. This script to open

Re: I'm sure this is a common question, but I can't find the solution.

2009-03-15 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 2:39 AM, Chas. Owens wrote: snip > This is shell dependent, and unfortunately the standard Windows shell > (cmd.exe) does not follow the sh syntax.  Single quotes are not > allowed as quotes and double quotes do not interpolate values.  Also $ > is not how variables are nam

Re: Multiline comment in Perl

2008-05-16 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:24 PM, sivasakthi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > > How to comment Multiple lines in Perl? > > > > Thanks, > Siva > =comment like this example =cut Aloha => Beau; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: iso-8859-1 to unicode problem

2007-04-24 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Tuesday 24 April 2007 02:07, Mumia W. wrote: > On 04/24/2007 03:06 AM, Jeff Pang wrote: > > 2007/4/24, Beau E. Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> How do I get a proper conversion from iso-8859-1 to perl's internal > >> utf8? [snipped] > I don't think it&

iso-8859-1 to unicode problem

2007-04-24 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - I am new to international character encoding and how the various encodings are handled in perl. After a day of reading, I'm asking for help. I am downloading data from an international (French) web site. The HTTP headers show that the pages I am downloading are encoded in iso-8859-1. Most ch

Re: Dynamically updating perl variables

2006-07-25 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 09:23, siegfried wrote: > I have some cron jobs running perl for many hours. Sometimes I would like > to control things dynamically or even shutdown the job if I notice it is > not running properly (based on the log files). > > Below is what I am doing presently (inside a lo

Re: Filter Quotes

2006-03-03 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Thursday 02 March 2006 13:30, maillists wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to filter quotes out of a web form and replace them with > " > > $Values->{text_field} =~ s/"/"/; > return; The above would replace the first " with " on the first line of the field; if your field contains newlines, and

Re: Net::Server

2006-02-20 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Monday 20 February 2006 10:29, Beau E. Cox wrote: > On Monday 20 February 2006 10:06, Tom Allison wrote: > > package AuthServer; > > > > @ISA = qw[Net::Server]; > > > > my $server = bless { > >   port  => 8081, > >   }, 'AuthServer';

Re: Net::Server

2006-02-20 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Monday 20 February 2006 10:06, Tom Allison wrote: > package AuthServer; > > @ISA = qw[Net::Server]; > > my $server = bless { >   port  => 8081, >   }, 'AuthServer'; > > $server->run(); No. This _works_: package AuthServer; use Net::Server; @ISA = qw[Net::Server]; AuthServer->run( port => 80

Re: Net::Server

2006-02-20 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Sunday 19 February 2006 13:52, Tom Phoenix wrote: > On 2/18/06, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am trying to set up a server using Net::Server. > > I believe that you omitted a vital piece at the top of your code: a > package directive. > > package AuthServer; > > Without that,

Re: pack/unpack question

2006-01-22 Thread Beau E. Cox
Thanks - my stupid error. On Sunday 22 January 2006 12:58 am, Xavier Noria wrote: > Beau E. Cox wrote: > > I really thought I understood pack/unpack, > > but this has me stumped. I can't find anything to > > explain the operation of the following script > > in

pack/unpack question

2006-01-22 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - I really thought I understood pack/unpack, but this has me stumped. I can't find anything to explain the operation of the following script in the documentation: use strict; use warnings; my $buffer = pack( "NN", 22, 0 ); printf "buffer length = %s\n", length $buffer; print "buffer ", j

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2005-12-10 Thread Beau E. Cox
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2005-12-10 Thread Beau E. Cox
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Hash '... => +{ ...' synatx

2005-12-10 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - I came across this syntax in a module I am using: Some::Module->new( some_option => 'blah,blah', some_hash_option => +{ another_option => '...', ... }, ... ); I have no idea what the ' => +{ ' syntax is, what it does, and why it is used ( it

Re: how to develop an editor in perl

2005-12-08 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi Rajeev - At 2005-12-07, 20:55:59 you wrote: >Hi, > >I got a doubt how to develop an editor that can be used to modify files and >it has to provide movement of cursor from left to right or right. > >thanks and regards, >Rajeev Kilaru First of all - why would you want to reinvent the wheel wit

Re: Re: Dates again.

2005-12-05 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi vmalik - At 2005-12-05, 07:09:51 you wrote: >I am assuming that localtime() returns the time in unix file format (number of >seconds since 12:00 AM on January 01, 1970). Why don't you convert 72 days to >seconds and subtract that number from the output of localtime()? No. time() returns epo

Re: bizarre math

2005-12-03 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi Bryan Harris - At 2005-12-03, 19:19:02 you wrote: > > >I just ran into this today, and have no clue what's going on: > >% perl -e 'print 10-5.5, "\n"' >4.5 >% perl -e 'print 10-05.5, "\n"' >55 > >How does 10 minus 5.5 equal 55? Obviously it's the leading zero, but I >can't think of any reaso

Re: Non-Blocking INET getline

2005-11-20 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi Andre Muench - At 2005-11-19, 18:55:13 you wrote: >Hi, > >I have a Problem with blocking INET reading. I created a socket and wait >till a client connect to it. But no matter what I do, whenever I try to >read from the socket, it blocks. I tried $Client->blocking(0), but it >seems to have

Re: Check empty hash

2005-11-16 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi Suvajit Sengupta - At 2005-11-16, 01:32:31 you wrote: >Hi, > How can I test whether a hash is empty or not ? >For e.g: I have reference to a hash , say $preCommand and I get > $preCommands as {} , > Its an empty hash, but it exists and is also defined. >I need to ch

beginners@perl.org

2005-11-15 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi Sastry - At 2005-11-15, 00:25:37 you wrote: >Hi >I have a script that gives error > >"Syntax error at /u/isldev3/exp/oper.pl line 7, near ") > print" >Execution of /u/isldev3/exp/oper.pl aborted due to compilation errors." > >$x =3D 3; >$y =3D 4; >$z =3D 3; > >if (($x & $y & $z) < 20) > pr

Re: how to send mail within a script ?

2005-10-22 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi Juan B - At 2005-10-22, 01:37:53 you wrote: >HI, > >I am trying to write a script which will send the >result of a var to mail web mail.this is what I wrote >: > >#!/usr/bin/perl >#use strict; >use warnings; >my $file_listing = `/usr/bin/nmap -p 80 192.168.1.1`; > >How can it be done? do I ne

Re: Re: how to get defined number of digits after point of a variable

2005-10-20 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi Wijaya Edward - At 2005-10-19, 21:18:16 you wrote: > >> Hi: > >Hi >> For example, for $j=2.56789, how can I get the very first two digits >> after points,ie, I just want to get 2.56. >> Thank you very much in advance. >> > >Is this what you want? > >$ perl -e '$j = 2.56789; $j =~ /(\d\.\d\d)

Re: white space between roam and act

2005-10-18 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi K.Moeng - At 2005-10-18, 20:00:28 you wrote: >Hello again, > >I have rephrased my question from yesterday, > >I want to be able to ignore the white space in between ROAM and ACT >that is return the query as ROAM ACT without falling to the else statement. > >$msg = $ARGV[0]; > >$msg =~ s/\"/'

Re: Re: Re: ENV(Y)?

2005-10-14 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi Custav - At 2005-10-14, 02:23:59 you wrote: >Hi again! > >I've been looking around... > >And one thing I don't get. You tell me that > SOMEVAR will be available to >you in your program and any programs you spawn( with 'system' or >backtics). But after your perl script ends, SOMEVAR is lost) a

Re: using XS for calling exported methods from a DLL

2005-10-14 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi Sam- At 2005-10-14, 00:05:10 you wrote: >Hi > >Is there a way to call exported methods from a DLL without using win32::API. > >Has anyone tried calling an exported function from C DLL in a Perl Program >using XS. > [snipped] YES! First, your error is caused because you need an 'export' lib

Re: Re: ENV(Y)?

2005-10-14 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi gustav - At 2005-10-13, 23:42:22 you wrote: >Hi! > >Just a quick question. Can I set or unset an enviromentvariable through >this Hash? I just need a yes ... :-) >If No, please give explanation... Not really. If you do something like: $ENV{SOMEVAR} = 'somevalue'; SOMEVAR will be available

Re: ENV(Y)?

2005-10-14 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi Gustav - At 2005-10-13, 23:13:33 you wrote: >Hi there! > >I'd like to get a list of enviromentvariables from the *NIX-system. > >I'd like it in the format... >ENV1=x1 >ENv2=x2 >ENV3=x3 > >and so on... > >I think I have to use ENV-command. (http://perldoc.perl.org/Env.html) Is >that right? I

Test::Harness and Text::FIGlet

2005-10-13 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - I came across a strange problem using Text::FIGlet in a module I am developing. When using '[n]make test' against a test script in my module's test suite that uses Text::FIGlet I get ten hundred million ( ;) ) 'unintellectual' warnings from FIGlet.pm, yet the test succeeds. If I install th

Re: is perl a script language?

2004-06-29 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Sunday 27 June 2004 03:06 pm, lfm wrote: > hello ,beau > > > I have installed bugzilla on the windows, but failed on the linux! > > where? > > the perl module installation! > > I download the perl module from cpan, tar them and > perl Makefile.PL > make > make test > make install > >

Re: Elegant quoted word parsing

2004-06-25 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Sunday 13 June 2004 02:39 am, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: > On Jun 10, Beau E. Cox said: > >sub parse_words > >{ > >my $line = shift; > >my @words = (); > > > >$_ = $line; [snipped] Thank you, japhy, and others who took the time to he

Re: How to call a perl script....

2004-06-25 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Friday 25 June 2004 04:30 am, u235sentinel wrote: > Beau E. Cox wrote: > >On Thursday 24 June 2004 08:32 pm, Charlene Gentle wrote: > > > > > >You can use the 'system' command: > > > >##--master-- > >... > >my $rc = system "perl

Re: is perl a script language?

2004-06-25 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Thursday 24 June 2004 11:09 pm, lfm wrote: > thank u > > Beau > > but i am stilled puzzled . > > since it is a script language ,why not we write the *.pm directly and put > to the lib directory(or other place) . > > I opened the *.pm and found there are only text . > > so ,why we build ? > > asp

Re: is perl a script language?

2004-06-25 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Thursday 24 June 2004 09:46 pm, lfm wrote: > if so ,why we will "perl Makefile.PL;make;make test; make install during > the installation of the perl module > > if not ,why can "perl xxx.pl" be executed directly without any other > files produce? > > i am puzzled, very much! Yes, perl is a

Re: How to call a perl script....

2004-06-24 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Thursday 24 June 2004 08:32 pm, Charlene Gentle wrote: > Hi > > How do you call 'n perl script from within a perl script and return to > the scripts again. > > > > Thanx You can use the 'system' command: ##--master-- ... my $rc = system "perl slave.pl"; ... or backtics if you want to capture

Re: calculating http download speed

2004-06-24 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Thursday 24 June 2004 02:07 pm, Radhika Sambamurti wrote: > Hi folks, > My task is to calculate the download speed taken by a program, that can > download images either by ftp, http or smbclient. One way I am thinking of > doing this is by calculating the total download size by time taken. getti

Re: different argv behavior in different machines

2004-06-24 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Wednesday 23 June 2004 10:22 am, PerlDiscuss - Perl Newsgroups and mailing lists wrote: > I am a new perl user and I am running into a problem. I am trying to use > argv and it's not returning the correct response on my laptop, but it's > working fine on another machine. The only difference b

Re: Regx for validating E-Mail addresses

2004-06-24 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Wednesday 23 June 2004 09:29 pm, LRMK wrote: > I am using following code to validate e-mail addresses > > if ($mail =~ m/^(\w+(\.|-))*\w+\@(\w+(\.|-)*)+\w+$/){ > valid > }else{ > invalid > } > > it will give valid results for all of the following e-mail address > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Elegant quoted word parsing

2004-06-10 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - I am trying to come up with a simple, elegant word parsing script, that: * takes a scalar string, and * splits it into words separating on white space, commas, and a set of delimiters: "" '' // () {} [] ##, and * returns the array of words. So far I have: # -

Re: regular expression

2004-05-28 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Friday 28 May 2004 05:47 pm, John W. Krahn wrote: > "Beau E. Cox" wrote: > > On Friday 28 May 2004 03:31 pm, Mandar Rahurkar wrote: > > > for(@cont) { > > > tr/A-Z/a-z/; > > > > You forgot the 'g': > >tr/A-Z/a-z/g; > >

Re: regular expression

2004-05-28 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Friday 28 May 2004 03:31 pm, Mandar Rahurkar wrote: > Hi, >I am trying to remove from file : > 1. all characters but any alphabet and numbers. > 2. all trailing spaces should be made to one space. > >following code doesnt seem to work for objective [1] mentioned above. >

Re: using environment proxy variables for LWP::Simple

2004-05-24 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Sunday 23 May 2004 08:25 pm, Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote: > I have got a simple script that is straight out of the man page for > Tie::Google. My problem is the script simply hangs. I bet this is > because it is not able to use the environment proxy variables > > I have set my proxy ( require

Re: Variable "$some_var" will not stay shared

2004-05-06 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Thursday 06 May 2004 11:40 am, Perrin Harkins wrote: > On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 17:19, Beau E. Cox wrote: > > But maybe I could explain the overall picture. I am trying to embed > > 'any' script (whthout modification) in perl; I use a perl package > > (which is r

Re: Variable "$some_var" will not stay shared

2004-05-06 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Thursday 06 May 2004 04:41 am, Wiggins d Anconia wrote: [snip] > Generally when I hit an unrecognized warning it is time to check the > perldiag docs, > > perldoc perldiag > > Conveniently, > > "Variable "%s" will not stay shared > (W closure) An inner (nested) named subroutine is referencing a

Re: Variable "$some_var" will not stay shared

2004-05-06 Thread Beau E. Cox
h - thanks. But wait, I thought 'my' variables were 'local to the enclosing block'. If you look at the enclosing block in my sample, it DOES include the nested subroutine. I guess I still don't understand. Aloha => Beau; > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Beau E. Cox) writes: &

Variable "$some_var" will not stay shared

2004-05-06 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - This sample looks funny ( please don't say 'why would you ever want to do that?' ) but it is part of a much larger project. This script: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; _main(); sub _main { my $arg1 = shift @ARGV; my $arg2 = shift @ARGV; show_results(); sub sho

Re: Date problem

2004-04-26 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Monday 26 April 2004 03:07 am, Alok Bhatt wrote: > Hi All, > > I am facing this strange problem related to dates. > When I print the date using the system's date command, > it prints correctly. But when I do the same using > localtime, it shows the month as wrong (1 month > previous. > > bash-2

Re: Using $_ in a function if no argument is passed

2004-04-02 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Friday 02 April 2004 07:04 am, Beau E. Cox wrote: > On Friday 02 April 2004 06:37 am, JupiterHost.Net wrote: > > Hello List, > > > > It just occurred to me that many Perl functions use $_ if not other > > value is supplied. chomp for instance..., which is very handy.

Re: Using $_ in a function if no argument is passed

2004-04-02 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Friday 02 April 2004 06:37 am, JupiterHost.Net wrote: > Hello List, > > It just occurred to me that many Perl functions use $_ if not other > value is supplied. chomp for instance..., which is very handy... > > If one wanted to write a function that used either the given argument or > $_ how wou

Re: Character Count

2004-03-23 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 11:18 am, Rob Torres wrote: > Hello, > I am writing a simple perl script to count the # of characters in a given > field. At the command line I can write >>wc -m somefile.txt, and get the > total character count. But in the script I am splitting a text file and > then doi

Re: Disable Screensaver with Keyboard input

2004-03-05 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Friday 05 March 2004 02:16 am, Stefan Lubitz wrote: > Hi there, > > I have the problem that after 10 minutes the Screensaver of my PC is > getting activated. I am not able to change it, because it is a W2k Domain > policy. Now I thought, that I could write a small Perl Script, which is > turning

Re: jump out of conditional loop

2004-03-04 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Thursday 04 March 2004 02:02 am, stephen kelly wrote: > hi there > what syntax do i use to jump out of a conditional loop > for c/java it break; return; what is it in perl syntax> > > thx > steve while( ... ) { # or for, foreach, etc. ... last; # == break ... next; # ==

Re: Running a Perl script on windows xp

2004-02-29 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Sunday 29 February 2004 04:32 am, Katia Kermanidis wrote: > Hello everyone, > > To tell the truth I am not really interested in becoming a Perl programmer. > I only have one question: I have a Perl script and I would like to run it > on Windows xp. Could anyone tell me which Perl I should instal

Re: Special variables in XS/C

2003-12-29 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Monday 29 December 2003 01:36 pm, Randy W. Sims wrote: > On 12/29/2003 4:54 PM, Beau E. Cox wrote: > > Hi - > > > > Does anyone know where access to the perl special variables > > ($!, $@, $/, etc.) from c-code is documented? I can't seem > > to find an

Special variables in XS/C

2003-12-29 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - Does anyone know where access to the perl special variables ($!, $@, $/, etc.) from c-code is documented? I can't seem to find any mention in the perl pods (guts, call, api, etc.)? Aloha => Beau; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: 'unpipe' STDIN

2003-12-20 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Saturday 20 December 2003 06:02 am, Steve Grazzini wrote: > On Dec 20, 2003, at 10:44 AM, Beau E. Cox wrote: > > but I can't seem to figure out how to reopen STDIN to the > > keyboard device. Any hints? > > You could use: > > open STDIN, '/dev/tty'

'unpipe' STDIN

2003-12-20 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - I have a perl 'filter' script that relies on piped input from STDIN, i.e.: find /etc/ | ./myfilter.pl etc... I have a need to interact with the user later in this script (or in a forked script), and , hence need STDIN to again accept input from the keyboard device after I process all of t

Re: Sys:Syslog

2003-11-25 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Tuesday 25 November 2003 06:48 am, drieux wrote: > On Monday, Nov 24, 2003, at 15:32 US/Pacific, Beau E. Cox wrote: > [..] > > > I'm having trouble logging to syslog on my Linux (Sorcerer) > > machine with perl 8.0.2 installed. This script logs nothing: > >

Re: Sys::Syslog - RESOLVED, sorta...

2003-11-24 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - Switched to Unix::Syslog -> #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Unix::Syslog qw(:macros); # Syslog macros use Unix::Syslog qw(:subs);# Syslog functions openlog $0, LOG_CONS | LOG_PID, LOG_USER; syslog LOG_ERR, 'test error msg'; closelog; Works fine. I have no idea why Sys:

Re: Sys:Syslog

2003-11-24 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Monday 24 November 2003 03:03 pm, david wrote: > Beau E. Cox wrote: > > Hi - > > > > I'm having trouble logging to syslog on my Linux (Sorcerer) > > machine with perl 8.0.2 installed. This script logs nothing: Oops - perl 5.8.2 > > [snipped] "beef

Sys:Syslog

2003-11-24 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - I'm having trouble logging to syslog on my Linux (Sorcerer) machine with perl 8.0.2 installed. This script logs nothing: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Sys::Syslog qw(:DEFAULT setlogsock); setlogsock('unix'); openlog($0, 'cons,pid', 'user'); syslog('err', 'test error msg');

Re: Visual Perl

2003-10-24 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Friday 24 October 2003 05:47 am, Victor Medrano wrote: > I'm Really interesting in this software , let me know if you find > A visual perl . > > Regards > > -Original Message- > From: Ned Cunningham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 12:00 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Conditional compilation

2003-09-11 Thread Beau E. Cox
- Original Message - From: "Harter, Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Beginners Mailing List Perl (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 4:46 AM Subject: Conditional compilation > I am writing a Perl script which will run on multiple machines. I have a > use Exp

Re: system() problem in win98

2003-09-11 Thread Beau E. Cox
Yes; that's what I was trying to say! - Original Message - From: "Tim Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Beau E. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Perl Beginners" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, Septemb

Re: system() problem in win98

2003-09-11 Thread Beau E. Cox
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Perl Beginners" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 11:23 PM Subject: system() problem in win98 > > i have the following function call > > $filename_winword="C:/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/WINWORD.EXE"; > >

Re: mysql and dbi

2003-09-11 Thread Beau E. Cox
- Original Message - From: "Gavin Laking" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 8:41 AM Subject: mysql and dbi > Hi, > > First, sorry for the wrap on the lines below. I am trying to insert some > values into a mySQL database, all of the scalars b

Re: eval and __LINE__

2003-09-07 Thread Beau E. Cox
- Original Message - From: "Hacksaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 8:38 PM Subject: eval and __LINE__ > Caveat: It's late and I'm tired and frustrated, i.e. I'm pissy. > > I want to have something like die, but for the web, so I want it to

Re: 012 and 015 eq \r and\n on what conversion chart?

2003-08-27 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - Numeric literals beginning with '0' are OCTAL: \012 == 000 001 010 == 0x0a == decimal 10. Aloha => Beau; == please visit == => main site => howtos => perl PPMs => CPAN == thank you ==

Re: I don't understand why this happen

2003-08-18 Thread Beau E. Cox
- Original Message - From: "Li Ngok Lam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 1:10 AM Subject: I don't understand why this happen open my $fh, "<", "items/list.db"; print while (<$fh>); close $fh; This is suppose to printout the content in items/li

Re: Case Statement

2003-07-26 Thread Beau E. Cox
- Original Message - From: "Pablo Fischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Perl Beginners" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 1:35 PM Subject: Case Statement > Hello Again! > > I need to evaluate a lot of conditionals, and of course the use of a lot of > if's its not the 'right'

Re: Inatalled modules

2003-07-19 Thread Beau E. Cox
- Original Message - From: "SPENCERS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Beau E. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 6:46 PM Subject: RE: Inatalled modules > Here you are Beau, > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w &

Inatalled modules

2003-07-19 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - I have misplaced my 'installed module version' script, and being lazy today :) , could someone remind me how to list the installed modules/versions present on a system? Nothing fancy. just get me started, please, and I can flesh it out from there... Aloha => Beau; == please visit ==

Re: Stopping File::Find [SORTA RESOLVED]

2003-07-14 Thread Beau E. Cox
- Original Message - From: "Steve Grazzini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Beau E. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 6:12 AM Subject: Re: Stopping File::Find [SORTA RESOLVED] > [snipped] > > sub wanted

Re: How to run a shell command but not waiting for the result ?

2003-07-14 Thread Beau E. Cox
- Original Message - From: "LI NGOK LAM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 6:05 AM Subject: How to run a shell command but not waiting for the result ? I've tried to use exec, system, and ``. And also with and without $| = 1; but seems unable to do w

Re: Stopping File::Find [SORTA RESOLVED]

2003-07-14 Thread Beau E. Cox
- Original Message - From: "Beau E. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 5:17 AM Subject: Stopping File::Find > Hi - > > Any way to stop File::Find's directory scanning > from the 'wanted' sucro

Re: errors installing MD5 module

2003-06-25 Thread Beau E. Cox
- Original Message - From: "mario kulka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 6:37 PM Subject: errors installing MD5 module > Hi, > > I'm trying to install the MD5 module and following the steps from CPAN > website. > I got to the part > C. BUILD-

Re: Regex problem

2003-06-25 Thread Beau E. Cox
- Original Message - From: "Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Beau E. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 8:45 AM Subject: Re: Regex problem > On Jun 25, Beau E. Cox said: >

Re: Regex problem

2003-06-25 Thread Beau E. Cox
Thanks Tim ans Shishir - Works! Aloha => Beau; - Original Message - From: "Tim Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Beau E. Cox'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 5:30 AM Subject: RE: Regex problem

Regex problem

2003-06-25 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi All - This script: use strict; use warnings; my $string = 'I love c++'; my $compare = 'some compare string'; if ($compare =~ /$string/) { print "$compare contains $string\n"; } else { print "$compare does not contain $string\n"; } gives this error: Nested quantifiers in regex; marke

Re: Probably a stupid question

2003-06-20 Thread Beau E. Cox
- Original Message - From: "AustinTanney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 4:43 AM Subject: Probably a stupid question Hi folks, I'm a total novice and just teaching myself perl. I'm going thru the "beginning perl" book. One thing about it is that

Re: Accessing C/C++ Dlls using perl

2003-06-20 Thread Beau E. Cox
Yes. But you can code a more customized interface using XS or Inline::C. Aloha => Beau; - Original Message - From: "NYIMI Jose (BMB)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Beau E. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jenda Krynicky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <

Re: Accessing C/C++ Dlls using perl

2003-06-20 Thread Beau E. Cox
- Original Message - From: "Jenda Krynicky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 12:35 AM Subject: Re: Accessing C/C++ Dlls using perl > From: Ben Crane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'm almost exclusively going to go with inline::c > > since it adds the pow

Re: Accessing C/C++ Dlls using perl

2003-06-20 Thread Beau E. Cox
- Original Message - From: "Ben Crane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "zentara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 10:43 PM Subject: Re: Accessing C/C++ Dlls using perl > zentara, > > I'm almost exclusively going to go with inline::c > since it adds the

Re: How to retrieve a MAC address

2003-06-19 Thread Beau E. Cox
- Original Message - From: "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 8:42 AM Subject: Re: How to retrieve a MAC address > "Beau E. Cox" wrote: > > > > Attached is a small perl script (ifinf

Re: How to retrieve a MAC address

2003-06-19 Thread Beau E. Cox
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 6:24 AM Subject: How to retrieve a MAC address > Hi All, > > I need to retrieve the MAC address of my local system from a Perl script. > I'm running RedHat 7.2. > > Can anyone point me t

Re: h2xs works fine: can't find new module though?

2003-06-19 Thread Beau E. Cox
- Original Message - From: "Ben Crane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 3:36 AM Subject: Re: h2xs works fine: can't find new module though? > Hey all, > > Followed the instructions for using h2xs and > everything seems okay. Problem is, when I t

Re: html files for ppms

2003-06-19 Thread Beau E. Cox
- Original Message - From: "Jenda Krynicky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 2:41 AM Subject: Re: html files for ppms > From: "Beau E. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I have some custom html do

[ANNOUNCE] 5.5.7 Image::Magick Windows ppm for Perl 5.8

2003-06-19 Thread Beau E. Cox
I have recently built and tested Image::Magick module for Windows ActiveState Perl 5.8.0 builds 804 and higher. This module is built on ImageMagick version 5.5.7. Details and full instructions are available at: http://ppm.beaucox.com Aloha => Beau; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Accessing C/C++ Dlls using perl

2003-06-19 Thread Beau E. Cox
- Original Message - From: "Ben Crane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Beau E. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 10:37 PM Subject: Re: Accessing C/C++ Dlls using perl > Beau, > > Thanx, I huntin

Re: Accessing C/C++ Dlls using perl

2003-06-19 Thread Beau E. Cox
- Original Message - From: "Ben Crane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Beau E. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 10:37 PM Subject: Re: Accessing C/C++ Dlls using perl > Beau, > > Thanx, I huntin

html files for ppms

2003-06-18 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - I have some custom html documentation I want to include in a ppm for distribution. Where should I put them for inclusion in my ppm ('(n)make ppm')? I am overiding the ppm section in MakeMaker; can I copy them to somewhere in 'blib' for inclusion in the generated .tar.gz? Is there a standard

Re: Accessing C/C++ Dlls using perl

2003-06-18 Thread Beau E. Cox
- Original Message - From: "Ben Crane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 1:07 AM Subject: Accessing C/C++ Dlls using perl > Hi all, > > I've tried this question in a forum dedicated to MITAB > dlls (it's a series of c/c++ libraries designed to >

Re: File::Copy -> Additional Parameters?

2003-06-12 Thread Beau E. Cox
- Original Message - From: "Ben Crane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 11:21 PM Subject: RE: File::Copy -> Additional Parameters? > Yep, I've thought of that, but with so many files > (it's an internal backup) I don't want to slow the > process

Re: hi, this is just a test

2003-06-07 Thread Beau E. Cox
- Original Message - From: "andrea serione" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 4:56 AM Subject: hi, this is just a test > hi everybody, > I'm new to the list. I'm testing now. > have fun! > Hi - Welcome! - Aloha => Beau; -- To unsubscribe, e-ma

Re: Appending to beginning of file?

2003-06-05 Thread Beau E. Cox
- Original Message - From: "Josh Berkus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 11:17 AM Subject: Appending to beginning of file? Folks, Hit there! I just joined the list. Amazing what one can do with rudimentary web-browsing skills. Is there any

Re: Urgent : Can I override #! defn. through any command line option ??

2003-06-04 Thread Beau E. Cox
- Original Message - From: "T.S. Ravi Shankar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 11:04 PM Subject: Urgent : Can I override #! defn. through any command line option ?? > Hi all : > > My perl programme has a PERL path defined

Re: bypassing "use strict"

2003-06-04 Thread Beau E. Cox
- Original Message - From: "Paul Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 3:00 PM Subject: bypassing "use strict" > Hi > > #!/usr/bin/perl > use strict; > $a = 123; #slips through strict > $b = 123; #slips through strict > $c = 123; #caught by

Re: Using Wildcards when matching a string(sentence)

2003-06-04 Thread Beau E. Cox
- Original Message - From: "Jay Waheed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 10:14 AM Subject: Using Wildcards when matching a string(sentence) > I am running a while loop, where I am comparing a > string, but I want to use a wild card towards the end

HELP: Windows reboots running a Perl script under heavy stress.

2003-06-04 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi folks - I'm working on a project to embed Perl in one of my servers (ala mod_perl). As part of my test suite I have a 'stress test'. Under Linux this test works fine - it has been run continually for up to 4 days without problems. The _same_ test under Windows (I'm using Windows 2000 Pro with

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