Re: Appending constant string to variable inside a here-document

2005-03-08 Thread David Storrs
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 11:21:23PM -0600, Charles K. Clarkson wrote: Harold Castro mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : if the current content of $word is the word big, and : I would want to print a here document appending : something to big like foot: : : print EOF; : : $word.foot -

Re: Changing the String of the file at one shot.

2005-03-08 Thread David Storrs
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 11:00:49AM -0500, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: Charles K. Clarkson wrote: Suneel Kumar B mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I have a situation where in, iam updating a file by replacing few : strings in some lines with another string. While doing this, Can i : have an

Re: Changing the String of the file at one shot.

2005-03-08 Thread David Storrs
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 12:02:09PM +0100, John Doe wrote: Am Dienstag, 8. März 2005 02.04 schrieb David Storrs: Suneel Kumar B mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Can i : have an option by which i could open a file for both read and : write simultaneously The literal answer to your

Re: Count the occurence of a character

2004-07-24 Thread David Storrs
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 12:13:48PM +0200, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 03:12:22PM +0530, Jaffer Shaik wrote: I have the below strig $str = abckdweqadidkisdikda; In the above string, I want to count the occurrences of character 'a', i.e I should get count of a =

Re: returning problem of regexp

2004-06-12 Thread David Storrs
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 09:10:48AM +0200, Graf Laszlo wrote: Hi Ziggy You got me wrong. Anyway thanks for example. Take a look here: #!/usr/bin/perl @str = (); push @str, sm:a\n; push @str, sm:b\n; push @str, BBB\n; push @str, /sm:b\n; push @str, sm:cs\n;#- watch

Re: Very wierd problem with CGI.pm

2004-06-12 Thread David Storrs
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 01:07:54PM +0100, mike wrote: Has anyone ever come accross this wied problem before I have a script which pulls records from a DB then loops into a form and shows each record, with the id no being concatenated to the field name to give a unique record id. However

Re: Elegant quoted word parsing

2004-06-12 Thread David Storrs
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 10:08:23AM -0500, James Edward Gray II wrote: On Jun 10, 2004, at 9:46 PM, Beau E. Cox wrote: 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,

Re: vi editor

2004-06-07 Thread David Storrs
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 04:34:00PM +0100, aditi gupta wrote: hi, vi is used only in unix and linux.which editor can be used in windows and is better than notepad. thanx, aditi I'm extremely pleased with Textpad (http://www.textpad.com). Fast start time, easy to use, highly

Re: how to use perl in windows

2004-06-06 Thread David Storrs
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 02:38:06PM +0100, aditi gupta wrote: hi, for writing perl programs,notepad is used.But what should be done to execute the programs? What I generally do is to open a DOS window and type 'perl name of my script'. So, if I want to run foo.pl, I type: perl

Re: searching a code for performing blast n giving output in a particular format.

2004-06-06 Thread David Storrs
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 03:15:28PM -, aditi wrote: hi, i have to blast genes of human Y chromosome(104 genes)with genomes of non human species to find which genes are conserved on Y and on non-Y chromosomes in other species.and for each gene,its chromosome its 5' and 3'end location

Re: How to load environment ?

2004-05-16 Thread David Storrs
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 07:59:40PM -0500, max wrote: [...] So i use another bash script to load the environment and run the perl script from one line in the crontab, the content of the load and run script is this:

Re: removing element of array

2004-05-16 Thread David Storrs
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 10:35:45PM -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Charles K. Clarkson wrote: Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : This doesn't quite work because I'm removing elements : from the array I'm looping through. What would be the : best way to take care of this? Don't

Re: Passing and returning values from another script?

2003-10-26 Thread David Storrs
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 09:47:14AM -0800, Mark Weisman wrote: I'm not sure, however I put the script mods in that you suggested, and my $output is the word SCRIPT, I would like clarification on line 2 if you would please? my $output = join(, SCRIPT); From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: lowercase

2003-10-26 Thread David Storrs
Or you can even do it without the parens: $stri = lc $stri; --Dks On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 09:26:40PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: or you can do $stri=lc($stri); -rkl try this: $stri =~ tr/A-Z/a-z/; yi --- Andre Chaves Mascarenhas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi if i have an

Re: Parsing pipe delimited file

2003-10-25 Thread David Storrs
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:22:24PM +0200, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Charles K. Clarkson wrote: Kevin Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Where I am stuck is on the question: : : Given an @array such as : (Title of Song, Artist, Title, Another Artist,

Re: Do BEGIN blocks and END blocks have priority?

2003-09-28 Thread David Storrs
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:04:21AM -0400, Dan Anderson wrote: BEGIN blocks do not take precedence over one another--they are all still executed. They are, however, executed immediately after perl finishes compiling them. So, if you have the following code: Ok, so I'm guessing that the

Re: How do I query whether a toplevel window exists?

2003-09-25 Thread David Storrs
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:04:05PM -0500, Robert Greenway wrote: have opened 3 additional toplevel windows in my application for input of optional parameters. How can I query if they exist, so I don't recreate them and so I can process them when completed? On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at

Re: Do BEGIN blocks and END blocks have priority?

2003-09-25 Thread David Storrs
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:12:48PM -0400, Dan Anderson wrote: If I create code with: BEGIN { # something BEGIN { # something else } } Will the inner BEGIN block take precedence over the outer one, and thus load any subroutines or whatever is in the inner begin

Re: How to get the file name from a path

2003-09-25 Thread David Storrs
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 05:15:56PM +0300, Juris wrote: On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:10:15 +0530, Chetak Sasalu M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How can I extract filename from /root/dir1/.../filename $path_name='/root/dir1/.../filename'; my $fname=substr($path,

Re: migrating perl from version x to version y

2003-09-23 Thread David Storrs
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:56:09AM -0400, Rich Fernandez wrote: Can some one tell me if there is an easy way generally speaking to migrate one version of perl and the modules installed under it to another version? Also, in this specific case I want to go from 5.00503 to 5.8.0 The wrinkle is

Re: How do I query whether a toplevel window exists?

2003-09-23 Thread David Storrs
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:04:05PM -0500, Robert Greenway wrote: have opened 3 additional toplevel windows in my application for input of optional parameters. How can I query if they exist, so I don't recreate them and so I can process them when completed? Thanks Bob Bob, When you say 3

Re: multiple regex in if() staetment

2003-08-21 Thread David Storrs
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 05:54:42PM -0500, Dan Muey wrote: Howdy all: I'm trying to figure out the best way to test a string agains a list of regexs like so: my @regex = qw(qr(joe$) qr(^mama) qr([abc])); As was pointed out already, don't use the qw(). Here are some interesting

Re: :Telnet

2003-08-14 Thread David Storrs
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 09:42:40AM -0400, Stephen Gilbert wrote: -Original Message- From: SilverFox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 4:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Net::Telnet hey anyone know how to check if a file exists using the Telnet

Re: compare date,time

2003-08-14 Thread David Storrs
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 09:35:20PM -0700, R. Joseph Newton wrote: David Storrs wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:25:07PM +0200, awards wrote: [snip] would the process of executing the program faster if I do the code myself or if I use a Module i.e Date::Calc?? [snip answer to above

Re: compare date,time

2003-08-14 Thread David Storrs
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:25:07PM +0200, awards wrote: Hi, thank you, Now i have a new question. If I do the code myself which I can do. would the process of executing the program faster if I do the code myself or if I use a Module i.e Date::Calc?? regards awards There is a small

Re: Substiuting portions of a string with elements from a hash ...

2003-07-17 Thread David Storrs
Hi Jamie, On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 11:46:08AM -0400, Jamie Risk wrote: I'm trying to add HTML anchors to a lines of text. Quick example would be to take the line: Search the internet using an engine like Google. and turn it into: Search the internet using an engine like a

null fields from split

2003-07-13 Thread David Storrs
Greetings all, Given this code: my $TOKEN_DELIMS = qr/[^\w\-'\$]/; my $text = # string containing the contents of an mbox file my @tokens = split /$TOKEN_DELIMS/o, $text; I end up with a large number of null strings ('') in @tokens. After RTFMing on split, I assume this is because I am

Re: null fields from split

2003-07-13 Thread David Storrs
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 08:39:16AM -0400, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: On Jul 13, David Storrs said: Given this code: my $TOKEN_DELIMS = qr/[^\w\-'\$]/; my $text = # string containing the contents of an mbox file my @tokens = split /$TOKEN_DELIMS/o, $text; I end up with a large

Re: Why doesn't this match

2003-07-09 Thread David Storrs
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 02:48:59PM -0400, Paul Kraus wrote: Expression /Sales - Freight - Leimkuehler\s+(\d+,?\d+\.?\d+)/ String 410-02-00Sales - Freight - Leimkuehler 6.96 It does match if I remove everything after Leimkuehler. This is how it reads to me 1 or more spaces

Re: convertion bash script to perl

2003-07-09 Thread David Storrs
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:59:47AM -0700, thyagarajan k wrote: Hello friends, i am quite new to perl and currently i have a requirement like to re-write the script written in unix bash shell to perl. I would like to know is there any convertion tools available so that i can convert my

Re: Rename - readdir - Permission Denied

2003-07-08 Thread David Storrs
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:45:34AM -0400, Paul Kraus wrote: I am doing a readdir. Taking the filenames that are found and trying to rename them. Opendir @files = Readdir Foreach @files parse filename $newfile = newfile name based on parsed name push

Re: RegEx stuff

2003-07-07 Thread David Storrs
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:46:06AM -0700, David Storrs wrote: On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 09:06:53AM -0700, Skot wrote: if ($myInputLine =~ m/.\123\.222/) { ... } Your regex consists of 6 atoms, which must be matched in the precise order in which they appear in order for the match

Re: match count

2003-07-07 Thread David Storrs
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 11:29:12AM -0400, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: On Jul 3, George P. said: while ($string =~ /pattern/g){ $count++; if ($count $max_count){ $string = substr($string,0,pos($string)); last; } } $string =~ s/((.*?$pattern){$max_count})(.*)/$1/s;

Re: RegEx stuff

2003-07-07 Thread David Storrs
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 09:06:53AM -0700, Skot wrote: Hello, I want to search a string for matching content, not quite getting it. something like: if ($myInputLine =~ m/.\123\.222/) { ... } Your regex consists of 6 atoms, which must be matched in the precise order in which they appear

Re: Newbie and Perl+Mail Questions

2003-07-06 Thread David Storrs
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 05:28:41PM +, Pablo Fischer wrote: Hi; cd ~ mkdir -p perl5mod/Mail save Sendmail.pm to ~/perl5mod/Mail export PERL5LIB=/home/unmada/perl5mod You probably want to put that last line in your .profile so it gets reset every time you log in.

Re: testing an argument's type

2003-07-05 Thread David Storrs
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 06:02:21PM -0400, Steve Grazzini wrote: On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 02:18:40PM -0700, David Storrs wrote: I've got a function that takes several arguments, the first of which should be a scalar (specifically, a string). I'd like to have a precondition to verify

Re: testing an argument's type

2003-07-05 Thread David Storrs
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 06:03:55PM -0400, Casey West wrote: It was Friday, July 04, 2003 when David Storrs took the soap box, saying: : I've got a function that takes several arguments, the first of which : should be a scalar (specifically, a string). I'd like to have a : precondition

Re: Newbie and Perl+Mail Questions

2003-07-05 Thread David Storrs
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 12:43:10AM +, Pablo Fischer wrote: Hi all! My name is Pablo Fischer and Im a little new in Perl, however I have a project where I need to parse mails and send mails: I receive 2 files (contacts and arguments), I get 2000 mail adds from the file, so I need to

Re: Newbie and Perl+Mail Questions

2003-07-05 Thread David Storrs
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 12:25:47PM +, Pablo Fischer wrote: use Mail::Sendmail; Load Module. Can I save it in my working dir? /home/unmada/MailP/? Sure. You need to make sure that it will appear on @INC (the module include path that Perl uses to find your modules). Probably the easiest

Re: testing an argument's type

2003-07-05 Thread David Storrs
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 12:29:46PM -0400, Bob Showalter wrote: David Storrs wrote: I've got a function that takes several arguments, the first of which should be a scalar (specifically, a string). I'd like to have a precondition to verify that the argument is, in fact, a scalar

testing an argument's type

2003-07-04 Thread David Storrs
I've got a function that takes several arguments, the first of which should be a scalar (specifically, a string). I'd like to have a precondition to verify that the argument is, in fact, a scalar. Is there a way to do that (preferably without using modules--I'm trying to write an entirely

Re: How to check Array Uniqueness without Modul Array::unique

2003-07-01 Thread David Storrs
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 06:26:08AM +0200, Janek Schleicher wrote: B. Fongo wrote at Mon, 30 Jun 2003 23:46:19 +0200: Is there any other way to check array uniqueness except the Module Array::Unique? I'm having problems in installing these two Modules: Array::Unique and Tie. So I'm

Re: How to check Array Uniqueness without Modul Array::unique

2003-07-01 Thread David Storrs
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 01:18:46PM -0400, Robin Norwood wrote: David Storrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: keys_compare might be slightly better for small sets, but for large sets, short_circuit is the way to go. I initialized my @array like so: my @array; for (1 .. 5000) { push @array

Re: context, printing, and concatenation

2003-06-25 Thread David Storrs
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:13:00PM -0500, Peter wrote: I'm on the first few chapters of Learning Perl and came up with a question. Given: - @array = qw ( one two three ); print @array . \n; print @array; - Why

Re: using FIle::Find::name if regex to filter

2003-06-24 Thread David Storrs
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:14:25PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, how can i use a real regex with this: File::Find::name if -x? the filetestops are working fine, but how can i filter things like .gz$? i tried many ways, but all failed. any idea? thanks!! bye andreas Andreas, I'm

Re: Rational Clearcase perl and Mail::Send

2003-06-19 Thread David Storrs
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 11:59:55AM -0500, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: David Storrs wrote: Is anyone familiar with Mail::Send and, if so, do you have an answer to this? It appears Mail::Send just wraps Mail::Mailer, which states that in its open call, headers may be specified as either

Re: Wanting to send email but have some bold or underlined text in message

2003-06-14 Thread David Storrs
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 04:24:16PM -0700, Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO wrote: So used to just sending data and I was wondering if one can send bold or underlined text, etc from straight email message or does it have to be in an attachment? Using w2k on

Rational Clearcase perl and Mail::Send

2003-06-14 Thread David Storrs
At work, we have a dated copy of Rational Clearcase that shipped with Perl 5.001 (!). The distribution comes with a module, Mail::Send. Our data manager is trying to write a script that will parse the logs after the nightly build and mail the results to several addresses (one or more of which may

Re: Best way to return largest of 3 Vars?

2003-01-11 Thread David Storrs
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:23:43AM -0600, Jensen Kenneth B SrA AFPC/DPDMPQ wrote: In the line my $max = (sort {$b=$a} ($x, $y, $z))[0]; What is the [0] doing? This part: (sort {$b=$a} ($x, $y, $z)) creates a list. The [0] returns the first element in that list. Also another