Re: Sandboxing while I am learning

2011-08-31 Thread Brian F. Yulga
Marc wrote: Shawn, if you use perlbrew and local::lib you can test different perl versions and then different environments. I haven't looked into local::lib yet. What advantage does that give you over a plain perlbrew install? Marc I haven't used local::lib very much

Re: How to run a perl script in background on Windows?

2011-08-03 Thread Brian F. Yulga
Jose Marquez wrote: Hi there Sure I am the newbiest of all Perl newbies in this group Just have been reading some of the posts you all have sent since I subscribe to this list What I'm trying to learn these days is how I run a Perl script in background on Windows. Can anybody give

Re: using Perl, How to search for files in my computer

2011-06-12 Thread Brian F. Yulga
shawn wilson wrote: On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 14:38, Brian F. Yulga wrote: perl -MFile::Find -wle "find( sub{ /\.mp3$/i and print;}, q(.));" just curious, what's the difference (in speed or results) between this and 'dis/a/s/b *.mp3'? obviously File::Find a

Re: using Perl, How to search for files in my computer

2011-06-12 Thread Brian F. Yulga
Sayth Renshaw wrote: Try: my @Music_files = (); use File::Find; find( \&want_mp3, 'd:\\' ); print "$_\n" for sort @Music_files; sub want_mp3 { push @Music_files, $File::Find::name if $_ =~ /\.mp3$/; } -- Just my 0.0002 million dollars worth, Shawn Confusion is the first step of unde

Re: how do i push a hashref into another hashref

2011-06-07 Thread Brian F. Yulga
Leo Lapworth wrote: Hi Agnello, On 7 June 2011 07:47, Agnello George wrote: I got the following hashref now i need to push $select_all_website into $selet_domU_data I think this is what you want... use strict; use warnings; my $hash_ref_1 = { a => 1,

Re: Real Beginner

2011-04-21 Thread Brian F. Yulga
Tiago Hori wrote: Hey Guys, I am a real beginner so at the risk of being slammed by some, I wanted to get some input. I'm a beginner, too. I've worked through this chapter somewhat recently, so my advice shouldn't be too hard to understand :-) Hopefully _I_ don't get slammed! I was tryi

Re: Nature of this list

2011-04-19 Thread Brian F. Yulga
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: If they don't have a thick skin already, they'd better get one soon, or they'll be useless as an advanced programmer. Without thick skin, they won't be able to submit their code for review regardless of how much their ego is invested in it. I've been following th

Re: How to test for 2 words from a list in a form field?

2011-04-09 Thread Brian F. Yulga
Brian F. Yulga wrote: my @mail_types = qw( avenue road box lane ); my @words = split /\s/, $fields; my $count = grep { my $found; foreach my $street ( @mail_types ) { if ( /\b$street\b/i ) { $found++; last; } } $found; } @words; print qq

Re: How to test for 2 words from a list in a form field?

2011-04-09 Thread Brian F. Yulga
shawn wilson wrote: On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 3:29 PM, wrote: my $address_count = () = $str =~ /box|street|avenue|lane|apo/ig; what does print $var = () = $str =~ /regex/; do? particularly the '= () ='? According to "Effective Perl Programming (2nd Ed.)", Item 9 (Know the dif

Re: Filling in an online form.

2011-03-28 Thread Brian F. Yulga
Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I want to setup a form on a web page that a visitor can fill in then send it back to me by email so I can browse it online and print it out locally in the correct format. I have the way to define the input form figured out, but the transmission and browsing and

Re: Using regex special characters from a string

2011-03-09 Thread Brian F. Yulga
Thanks for the reading suggestions! Brian Fraser wrote: On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Brian F. Yulga mailto:byu...@langly.dyndns.org>> wrote: Uri and Jim have hit upon one of my major stumbling blocks with learning Perl. There seems to be a difference of opinion on the

Re: Using regex special characters from a string

2011-03-09 Thread Brian F. Yulga
Ben Lavery wrote: > there must be a slight trade-off... the processing required to > initialize the hash table with it's keys and values is probably > more intensive than defining an array with its respective values? > Unless, internally, Perl stores arrays as hashes, with the indexes > as the ke

Re: Using regex special characters from a string

2011-03-09 Thread Brian F. Yulga
Jim Gibson wrote: On 3/9/11 Wed Mar 9, 2011 9:22 AM, "Brian F. Yulga" scribbled: > > foreach ( @word_list ) { if ( /^$temp_word$/i ) { push( > @all_combinations, ( $_ )); } } That is pretty much what the grep function is doing. It has to iterate over the entire arr

Re: Using regex special characters from a string

2011-03-09 Thread Brian F. Yulga
Uri Guttman wrote: >> "BL" == Ben Lavery writes: > > > BL> #Here, using a hash looks much cleaner than iterating through an array > > hashes are almost always better for token lookups than scanning > arrays. don't doubt yourself in this area. > > Jim Gibson wrote: > On 3/8/

Re: Auto correction of typos

2011-03-07 Thread Brian F. Yulga
shawn wilson wrote: On Mar 7, 2011 11:37 AM, "Brandon McCaig" wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Ramprasad Prasad > wrote: >> 1) Create a hash of aliases for frequently used domains and their >> typos For eg gmaill.com => gmail.com hotmal.com => hotmail.com >> etc >> >> when I get

Re: multidimensional array check

2011-03-04 Thread Brian F. Yulga
Shawn H Corey wrote: On 11-03-04 02:30 PM, Brian F. Yulga wrote: > my brain nearly exploded when reading the section "returning a > subroutine from a subroutine" Just wait until you get to the part where you can treat an anonymous subroutine as an object. :D For details,

Re: multidimensional array check

2011-03-04 Thread Brian F. Yulga
a good one to read as it goes that extra step and provides you with a good insight of the underlying logic. On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Brian F. Yulga mailto:byu...@langly.dyndns.org>> wrote: Rob Coops wrote: So you should now be able to retrieve the whole result set as

Re: multidimensional array check

2011-03-04 Thread Brian F. Yulga
Rob Coops wrote: So you should now be able to retrieve the whole result set as a reference to an array containing references to arrays. And I hope that my ramblings explained a bit how you can use that reference to get to the underlying values. If you combine all of that I think you'll be

Re: Testing File Contents

2011-03-02 Thread Brian F. Yulga
Uri Guttman wrote: >>>>> "BFY" == Brian F Yulga writes: BFY> My apologies if I'm beating a dead horse here, but I'm new to Perl and BFY> thought of a slightly different approach: BFY> my $searchrx = qr/whatever/; # or q/whatever/ if you don&#x

Re: Testing File Contents

2011-03-02 Thread Brian F. Yulga
Ken Slater wrote: > From: Brian F. Yulga [mailto:byu...@langly.dyndns.org] > On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Matt wrote: >> The easiest way in my opinion is to use the 'grep' function like >> this: >> >> my $searchstring="whatever"; open CFG, '&

Re: Testing File Contents

2011-03-02 Thread Brian F. Yulga
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Matt wrote: > > The easiest way in my opinion is to use the 'grep' function like this: > > > > my $searchstring="whatever"; > > open CFG, '<', $_file || die("could not open file: $_file!"); > > my @data=; > > close CFG; > > if ( grep /$searchstring/i, @data ) { > >  print "$se