Listing a Windows file, getting creation date

2005-02-24 Thread Bret Goodfellow
Folder1 udbbck01.bak Folder2 udbbck02.bak Folder3 udbbck03.bak | | | Folder(n-1) udbbck(n-1).bak Folder(n) udbbck(n).bak Bret Goodfellow Questar Gas, S.L.C., UT

Perl error --> Global symbol requires...

2005-02-25 Thread Bret Goodfellow
I'm getting the following error in my code. If I define $i as my $i then everything works fine. What's wrong? # while1.pl use strict ; use warnings ; $i = 1; while ($i < 10) { print "I am at $i\n"; i++; } # while1.pl Global symbol "$i" requires explicit package name at C:\BegPerl\wh

Any ideas on 'uninitialized value in lenth'?

2005-03-03 Thread Bret Goodfellow
Here's a simple perl script where I am listing out the contents of a directory. When it completes, the following error occurs. How do I eliminate this? Use of uninitialized value in length at C:\BegPerl\deldir.pl line 23. Below is the script: #!/usr/bin/perl # Dsrch1.plx # use strict ; use

Invalid data-time stamps

2005-03-07 Thread Bret Goodfellow
Hi all, I am attempting to list out the contents of a directory, and print the last time accessed. The data-time is not correct though. I am running this code on a Windows XP workstation. There doesn't seem to be a real easy way to get the timestamps of directories. H Here is the co

Testing for a '\' in a string

2005-03-09 Thread Bret Goodfellow
Hi all, I am trying to evaluate a string, and determine if the last charater of the string has a backslash '\' . The piece of code I am using doesn't appear to work. What I've found with this peice of code is that if the string does contain a \, then the following code still adds another slash.

Why am I getting data from Current Directory?

2005-03-11 Thread Bret Goodfellow
I am writing a script to list out a directory's contents, showing the number of days since modified. The problem I am having is that the script doesn't list out the "modified time" unless I change to the directory being listed. If I change to the directory I want to list, then all works okay. Is

RE: Why am I getting data from Current Directory?

2005-03-11 Thread Bret Goodfellow
The File::Find::name didn't seem to make any difference. I still have to be in the directory that I want to search. Hmmm. -Original Message- From: Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 3:13 PM To: Bret Goodf

Passing command line arguments

2005-04-13 Thread Bret Goodfellow
I have a script that is reading input from ARGV. The script is being passed a file name as follows: datefile.pl c:\program files\IBM\SQLLIB\DB2\db2diag.log The problem I am running into is that the space is not recognized in the argument. All that I get passed to is is c:\program. How do

host id

2005-06-09 Thread Bret Goodfellow
Simple question to answer, I hope. I am running on an HP-UX system, and would like to retrive the UNIX system's host-id (name of box). Is there a function to do this?

finding needle in a haystack

2005-06-22 Thread Bret Goodfellow
All right, I know how to do this in REXX because there is a word() function, but how do I do this in Perl. I want to read in one record at a time, that has space-delimited fields. There may be multiple spaces between the words. I want to be able to get for example, the 4th word of the record. H

RE: finding needle in a haystack

2005-06-22 Thread Bret Goodfellow
-Original Message- From: Chris Devers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 3:17 PM To: Bret Goodfellow Cc: Perl Beginners List Subject: Re: finding needle in a haystack On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Bret Goodfellow wrote: > All right, I know how to do this in REXX beca

Can't locate object method "driver"

2006-10-13 Thread Bret Goodfellow
I have implemented Nagios, and wanted to run this perl script to interrogate my Oracle systems. This really isn't a coding question, but rather a setup or execution question. I would like to understand why I am getting the following error when I run check_oracle_instance.pl natively from the linu

How do I truncate or remove a trailing character

2007-08-01 Thread Bret Goodfellow
Okay, I know this has to be simple, but because I am trying to truncate or remove a special character I've run into a roadblock. Here's what I want to do. $value = "12345)" ; How do I change $value so that the trailing ")" is removed. In otherwords with the given example, how do I manipulat