Re: how to remove (^M ^G ) characters

2010-10-29 Thread Eitan Adler
sr/local/bin/perl -rwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 4616 Oct 7 16:57:11 2010 /usr/local/bin/perl* -- Eitan Adler -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: perl or python

2010-10-09 Thread Eitan Adler
icult. Another possibility is to learn C++. You already know a scripting language - so it might be worthwhile to learn a lower level language. It all comes down to: what do you want to do with the new language. Perhaps if you give us some more details we might be able to better help you. -- Eitan Adl

Re: script output => color highlight to stdout

2010-05-28 Thread Eitan Adler
or (red) in the output to tty. Take a look at Term::ANSIColor module Example usage: print PUSHCOLOR YELLOW . $x . POPCOLOR; -- Eitan Adler -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: How do I control a C programme from perl?

2010-05-13 Thread Eitan Adler
> The C programme looks like this (very simple) > #include > int main() > { >        int i; >        char s[20] = "hello from c"; >        for (i = 0; i < 15; i++) { >                sleep(1); >                printf("%s %d\n", s, i); >        } >        return 0; > } > and yet I only get the outp

Re: IMAP email client: style & security

2010-05-11 Thread Eitan Adler
> perl style is to just use boolean tests and not check for equality to > some constants. and this means not using FALSE and TRUE constants. so > you should drop this habit as you won't see it much in perl. > Alright - changed. This is exactly why I sent this email to the list - to learn perl styl

Re: IMAP email client: style & security

2010-05-11 Thread Eitan Adler
I made the changes below and I'd like to know if there is anything else I could do to improve the quality of my code. use constant false => 0; >>use constant true => 1; >> > > Constants are usually written in all uppercase to distinguish them from > keywords, functions, operators

IMAP email client: style & security

2010-05-10 Thread Eitan Adler
I wrote a program to fetch email from a IMAP account, look to see if I sent it, if yes execute any commands in the email and email the results back to via a SMTP server. 1) This being my first perl program I'd like to know if I'm using the proper perl idioms and language features. Is there anythin