On Dec 23, 2003, at 11:29 PM, Bill Jastram wrote:
Yes, this helps tremendously. Actually, your suggestions helped me
make,
what for me is, a quantum leap in the use of Perl.
Good news. Always happy to help.
I am stuck, however, on the loop you suggested to output the processed
@col arrays. I
On Dec 24, 2003, at 11:08 PM, Tone wrote:
Hello, I'm interested in programming languages and am somehow new to
this field.I am moving from Windows to Linux and am interested in
engaging in the programming world. What I would like to ask is: why
would I be interested in learning Perl ?
All
On Dec 23, 2003, at 12:17 AM, Bill Jastram wrote:
After taking a look at your last suggested script I have a short
question:
At what point does this script read in information from the
source file 'testing.txt'?
Is it during the 'while ()' statement? If so what would the syntax
be?
Yes, you've
On Dec 21, 2003, at 10:47 PM, Bill Jastram wrote:
James:
Thanks for the sample and I agree it does work.
How can I create an array of just the first names for a file?
This is what I have so far:
Let's take a look at what you have first.
You're missing two very important lines right here:
use
On Dec 19, 2003, at 7:59 AM, Rob Dixon wrote:
That's fair enough, as long as you have a consistent convention. I
use
for (EXPRESSION; EXPRESSION; EXPRESSION)
and
foreach (LIST)
unless the list has only one element, when I use
for (EXPRESSION)
to alias $_ with the expression for the
On Dec 19, 2003, at 8:29 AM, Bill Jastram wrote:
James:
A coupe of things.
#1. Pardon my ignorance, but I'm not sure how to use the list where I
found the reply button to e-mail you directly. I could not find a way
to
add to the already existing 'thread'. Your help would be appreciated.
The
On Dec 19, 2003, at 12:04 PM, Bill Jastram wrote:
We're getting closer. But lets say the first name of the first field
in the first row is 'Bill'. And the first name of the first field in
the second row is 'Lanette'. This command will not compensate for the
difference in the length of the two
On Dec 19, 2003, at 12:47 PM, Jeremy Mann wrote:
Given this in $_
pMost popular title searches:/pollia
HREF=/title/tt0244365/Enterprise (2001)/a/li
why would this regex not put digits in $1 ?
$data2 =~ /popular title searches:\/pollia
HREF=\\/title\/tt(\d*)\/\/
Because the regex targets the
On Dec 18, 2003, at 12:03 AM, Bill Jastram wrote:
James:
I'm happy to help, but keep your replies on the list so we can all
learn/help.
Can printf set the value in spaces of tab (\t)? I need to do three
column
output with perl for mailing labels.
You bet:
perl -e 'printf %20s %20s %20s\n,
On Dec 18, 2003, at 5:48 PM, Mike Blezien wrote:
Hello,
been trying to come up with a way, while going through a loop to
alternate a table cell color td/td
See if this gets you thinking along the right lines:
my $odd = 1;
while () { # some kind of loop...
if ($odd) {
On Dec 18, 2003, at 5:57 PM, Eric Walker wrote:
Hello all
While traversing a loop across and array, how can I access array
positions further down the array, like say if I am on a loop looking at
position 23, how can I check the value of say position 24 or 32 while
my
loop counter is on position
On Dec 18, 2003, at 8:54 PM, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
* Mike Blezien [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-12-18T18:48:23]
been trying to come up with a way, while going through a loop to
alternate a table cell color td/td
I always do something more like:
my $i;
while () {
print tr class='r,
On Dec 17, 2003, at 8:10 AM, Hemond, Steve wrote:
Hi people,
I have finished some little perl scripts that gives basic infos to my
users. I want to make these perl scripts available to all users (so I
would probably put them in /usr/local/bin).
However, my perl scripts has the .pl extension, and
On Dec 17, 2003, at 9:59 AM, Hemond, Steve wrote:
Hi again,
I want to make a search on two words.
If 'one two' is found, it is okay.
If 'one' is found, it is incorrect.
If 'two' is found, it is also incorrect.
I want the search to return me occurences of 'one two' found together.
I am
On Dec 17, 2003, at 10:09 AM, Hemond, Steve wrote:
Actually, I have to test two conditions to get into a block,
If the strings found are either one two or two three, go ahead.
if ($text =~ /one two/ or /two three/)
Now that is a mistake. ;)
if ($text =~ /\bone two\b/ || $text =~ /\btwo
On Dec 17, 2003, at 10:26 AM, LoneWolf wrote:
I am parsing a massive file line by line and cleaning it up. It has
about
15 fields, all separated by | and I want to remove the white space from
before and after the pipes so that as the information is parsed it
gets rid
of external white spaces
On Dec 17, 2003, at 10:29 AM, Hemond, Steve wrote:
Okay, here`s the real problem,
# ps -efA |grep dispatch
cspenard 33958 45716 0 09:08:05 pts/8 0:00
/prog/gena/8.1.1/bin/dispatch genie -u /prog/gena/impress/gui/im
msirois 37212 9842 0 08:41:17 pts/1 0:04
/prog/gena/8.1.1/bin/dispatch
On Dec 17, 2003, at 11:25 AM, Steve Massey wrote:
Hi All
using Term:ANSIColor - does anyone know if it's possible ( or maybe I
mean
practical) to print out negative numbers in say RED, at the same time
ensuring the original value is retained.
so if value is -16 the it should print 16 in RED
On Dec 17, 2003, at 11:42 AM, Steve Massey wrote:
Nice one James - that does it ..!!
Happy to help.
something more to learn - abs
perldoc -f abs
many thanks..
Anytime.
James
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On Dec 17, 2003, at 11:41 AM, Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer
Analyst --- WGO wrote:
How do you get it to actually do the color? I use both std command(
w2k) and older version os MKS Korn shell and all I get is numbers.
Never understood how one actually gets the colors etc.
What does
On Dec 17, 2003, at 7:28 PM, PerlDiscuss - Perl Newsgroups and mailing
lists wrote:
Hi, I have a file extremely large in size and length. I want to read
the
file line by line and worry about matching up each line and running
that
line through a subroutine instead of opening the entire file
On Dec 16, 2003, at 9:36 AM, John Hennessy wrote:
Hi, I have two different hashes built from separate data and need to
find the common then differing items.
$HoA1{$custnum} = [ $uid, $firstname, $lastname ];
$HoA2{$uid} = [ $custnum, $firstname, $lastname ];
I have looked at examples for
On Dec 16, 2003, at 1:15 PM, Perl wrote:
I wrote a small script that uses message ID's as unique values and
extracts recipient address info. The goal is to count 1019 events per
message ID. It also gets the sum of recipients per message ID. The
script works fine but when it runs against a very
\On Dec 16, 2003, at 1:39 PM, Hemond, Steve wrote:
Hi again,
Thanks for you help with my data structure problem, a hash of hashes
problem did the job :-)
I would like to know how to align text with the print command.
I have four scalar variables to print but I want them to follow their
header's
Okay, I have a terminal program I need to get the width and height for.
I have a very good reason needing to do it with a base 5.8 Perl
install, if at all possible. Unfortunately, that rules out the super
easy Term::ReadKey CPAN module.
(Side note: I do have Term::ReadKey installed and am
On Dec 15, 2003, at 10:51 AM, Charles K. Clarkson wrote:
James Edward Gray II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:
: So my question is, is there a Pure Perl way to fetch
: the terminal columns and rows?
I took a look at the source of Term::ReadKey and it
seemed to be pure perl. Are you sure it's
On Dec 14, 2003, at 6:42 PM, R. Joseph Newton wrote:
The only problem I see with John's code is that it addumes that
the print statement will print a newline, which it doesn't [at least
on my
installation of V5.8].
Na, John's smarter than you give him credit for here. Here was the
code:
On
On Dec 12, 2003, at 1:51 PM, Dan Anderson wrote:
Is there a way to chomp all whitespace both at the beginning and end of
a string? I was thinking of using a regexp like s[^\s*?][]sg and
s[\s*?$][]sg; Is there a better way? (I'm thinking of PHP's trim
function)
I imagine so because I don't
On Dec 12, 2003, at 6:20 PM, Kenton Brede wrote:
I've cobbled some code together that will allow me to parse a file
snarfing 4 lines which consist of server name and Daily output of
bandwith usage. I've pasted an example of what I have at the bottom of
this mail. If anyone would like to take
On Dec 11, 2003, at 9:37 AM, West, William M wrote:
the following will not work:
$arrayref_one = $arrayreftwo; #it's just making a new name for the same
#reference.
the following works fine:
foreach my $a (0..$what){
foreach my $b (0..$why){
On Dec 10, 2003, at 1:39 AM, Mark Weisman wrote:
I've got a multiline text box that will feed the ^M at the end of each
line. I want to capture it into a single line (which is done), but how
do I get it back? Not knowing how many lines there may be with the ^M
between them. Currently, I use the
On Dec 10, 2003, at 8:25 AM, usef wrote:
Thank you guys for quick answers,
What if I want to print a ... and calculate the percentage and
amount of
currently downloaded size during the download process? (wget style),
should
I create another process to do that? or is there any other
On Dec 11, 2003, at 3:27 AM, Ajey Kulkarni wrote:
perl t.pl
Name main::FH used only once: possible typo at t.pl line 6.
cat t.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
open FH, out.dat;
Why am i getting this warning? When i remove the warnings,this goes
off?
Is there any problem if i not
On Dec 10, 2003, at 2:19 PM, Rod wrote:
What is the easiest way to test the first 3 characters of two words
for a match.
IE: dasf test dasg to return positive.
substr(dasf, 0, 3) eq substr(dasg, 0, 3)
James
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On Dec 10, 2003, at 3:52 PM, Dan Anderson wrote:
I am learning about forks, so I tried the following code to make sure I
had everything down:
Still don't believe me about Network Programming with Perl, eh? Did I
mention that it covers forking well? laughs
Basic idea of fork:
if ($pid =
On Dec 9, 2003, at 3:37 AM, Stephan Hochhaus wrote:
Hello list!
I am starting to dig deeper into Perl, after having successfully
written my first working script :-)
I am trying to install modules on my Mac OS X 10.3 Server machine, but
I usually end up getting errors like this for the GD
On Dec 9, 2003, at 1:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I didn't know List::Util, but I have something done by myself.
Probably
everyone that don't know this module has one.
List::Util is a standard module now and worth a look.
perldoc List::Util
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On Dec 9, 2003, at 2:01 PM, Derek Brinson wrote:
Where might I find reference (conceptual) stuff about how to launch a
JAVA app via CGI (or vice versa)?
Still working it out, but it appears that I may need to get some CGI
variables into a JAVA App.
Surely this is too difficult to be encapsulated
On Dec 9, 2003, at 2:37 PM, Tom Kinzer wrote:
Rob, can you explain the details of that replace? That's pretty
slick. I
see you're adding the hex value to get to the appropriate ASCII value,
but
didn't know you could do some of that gyration inside a regex.
The big secret there is the /e
On Dec 9, 2003, at 3:19 PM, Dan Anderson wrote:
I have 2 Linux boxes I want to talk to each other over the local
network
using a Perl script. Is it possible to set up a bidirectional pipe so
that 2 perl daemons can communicate with each other? How would I go
about doing this and are there any
On Dec 9, 2003, at 3:49 PM, Dan Anderson wrote:
You might look at the standard rdist(1) utility for this kind of
thing.
For crafting network daemons in Perl, Net::Daemon is a good place to
start,
IMO.
What I am trying to do is too complex to successfully implement using a
standard utility like
On Dec 9, 2003, at 3:40 PM, Dan Anderson wrote:
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 16:31, James Edward Gray II wrote:
On Dec 9, 2003, at 3:19 PM, Dan Anderson wrote:
I have 2 Linux boxes I want to talk to each other over the local
network
using a Perl script. Is it possible to set up a bidirectional pipe
On Dec 9, 2003, at 4:12 PM, Dan Anderson wrote:
Well, I was planning to implement the file transfers using Net::FTP or
something similar to keep the problems down. But I want every node to
be able to talk to other nodes, i.e. each node be able to send every
other node a request to download a
On Dec 9, 2003, at 9:08 PM, R. Joseph Newton wrote:
UML? Isn't that the stuff the once-long-ago-knew-how-to-code
professional
sycophants use to make pretty pictures for execs, so that the execs
can go
to bed in the warm contented illusion that they actually understand
something about the
On Dec 9, 2003, at 8:33 PM, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
John W. Krahn wrote:
Andrew Gaffney wrote:
I am writing a Perl script to automatically generate a netlogon.bat
file for Samba
whenever a user logs onto a domain. The only parameter that is
passes to it is the
username. My problem is that
On Dec 9, 2003, at 8:49 PM, Mike Blezien wrote:
Hello,
what is the best way to pass an array to a sub routine,
IE.
my @fields = qw(one two three);
send_array(@fields);
sub send_array {
my @ary = @_;
# do stuff here
}
is this the most effective way to pass an array to sub routine or is
On Dec 8, 2003, at 3:33 AM, Jane Langley wrote:
Hi there,
I am interested in using Perl to generate proper
English grammatical sentences from a set list of
words and NOT from texts.
I was wondering whether there was any Perl code around
that I could have a look at, use and be able to
manipulate.
On Dec 8, 2003, at 9:05 AM, Wiggins d Anconia wrote:
I did the 'in' function for seeing if one element is inside on list
like.
sub in {
my $match = shift;
foreach (@_) {
return 1 if $match eq $_;
}
return 0;
}
so I'm calling the function like
if(in($x = (1,2,3))) {
On Dec 8, 2003, at 10:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've just started trying to pick up a little perl.
I'm breezing through Learning Perl and reading the perl docs.
Here is some syntax I found a little funny, and I was hoping somebody
could explain this too me:
opendir(DIR, $some_dir) || die
On Dec 8, 2003, at 11:28 AM, Jeff Westman wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here is some syntax I found a little funny, and I was hoping somebody
could explain this too me:
opendir(DIR, $some_dir) || die can't opendir $some_dir: $!;
@dots = grep { /^\./ -f $some_dir/$_ } readdir(DIR);
closedir
On Dec 7, 2003, at 11:34 AM, Charles K. Clarkson wrote:
Hello,
A recent job posting has left me curious. I would never
take a full time job as a programmer or as anything else for
that matter. I just don't make a good employee any more.
Been there. Done that.
The job posting demanded a
On Dec 2, 2003, at 10:44 AM, David T-G wrote:
Hi, all --
I have some database sql dumps that look like
insert into table (f1,f2,f3) values (v1a,v2a,v3a),(v1b,v2b,v3b),...
where of course the insert lines are whopping long. I would like to
break these lines at the commas like
insert into
On Dec 2, 2003, at 3:22 PM, McMahon, Chris wrote:
Hello...
Howdy.
[snip background]
I'd be interested in any descriptions, stories, warnings, links, or
snippets about Useful Perl Network Stuff. If it's too OT, feel free to
email me off the list.
Network Programming with Perl is the
On Dec 1, 2003, at 8:06 AM, Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote:
There must be a better way but what comes to my mind is
echo I am Manish | perl -e 'while(){ s/Manish/Jeff/g ; print $_}'
echo I am Manish | perl -pe 's/Manish/Jeff/g'
James
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On Dec 1, 2003, at 2:02 PM, Kipp, James wrote:
Hi
I have simple client/server socket scripts that that send some data
from the
server to the client. It works fine, except the client can't seem to
read
more than 2920 bytes from the server using sysread(). So the data I am
sending over gets cut
On Dec 1, 2003, at 2:25 PM, Kipp, James wrote:
Yes. Calling sysread() gets you what's ready to be read UP TO the
amount of data you specify. The rest probably just wasn't available
yet. There could be a lot of reasons for this: network lag,
operating
system buffers, etc.
Thanks. I tried
On Dec 1, 2003, at 2:25 PM, Kipp, James wrote:
select(), I was afraid somebody would mention that :)
The dreaded select() isn't as scary as it sounds, especially if you use
the IO::Select module. If you like books, Network Programming with
Perl is superb and covers all this well.
Good luck.
On Dec 1, 2003, at 2:31 PM, Kipp, James wrote:
Thanks. I tried turning off buffering on both ends, that
did not work.
In your example, you only call sysread() once. Is that how you were
doing it? If so, that's the mistake. The one call got you
part of the
data. Then you would loop, check and
On Dec 1, 2003, at 2:36 PM, drieux wrote:
one way simplistic way to try the sysread() approach
would be go with something like
my $message;
my $bytes=1;
while ($bytes)
{
$bytes = sysread(SOCK,$buf,4096);
$message .= $buf;
#
On Dec 1, 2003, at 3:29 PM, McMahon, Chris wrote:
I happened to be working on a TCP/IP server when this hit my desk
and having Programming Perl open to the correct page, thought I might
as
well quote the select... line from the client code...
select ((select(Server), $| = 1)[0];
print Server
Keep your replies on the list and you won't have to wait for me to wake
up again for an answer. ;)
On Nov 30, 2003, at 4:33 AM, B. Rothstein wrote:
thanks for the functions, but for some reason the sort does not seem
to be
coming out correctly, any idea why?
By default, sort() works
On Nov 30, 2003, at 12:33 PM, B. Rothstein wrote:
If I have a scalar variable that itslef is a list of names and
numbers, for
example
$names = 'john 35, jack 18, albert 24, timmy 42'; is it possible, and
if
so how can it be done to separate the individual names and ages from
the
list in their
On Nov 29, 2003, at 1:15 PM, Dan Anderson wrote:
I have a regular expression that looks like:
$foo =~ s[class.*?=.*?'.*?'][]sgi;
We're just looking for spaces with most of those .*?s, right? Why
don't we say that. And between quotes we're looking for non-quote
characters, right?
On Nov 30, 2003, at 1:45 AM, B. Rothstein wrote:
If I have a scalar variable that itslef is a list of names, for example
$names = 'john, jack, albert, timmy; is it possible, and if so how
can it
be done to separate the individual names from the list in their scalar
form
in order to create a new
On Nov 26, 2003, at 1:35 AM, B. Rothstein wrote:
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to create an array to hold the
value
of 1000 factorial?
I'm afraid I don't understand your question. An array holds multiple
values, but 1,000 factorial is a single value. You want an array to
hold all
On Nov 24, 2003, at 5:08 AM, NYIMI Jose (BMB) wrote:
Hi Rob,
Indeed the question i had in mind while posting
was should i care about IoC while developping in Perl ?.
Your answer seems to be *no*.
I think you're over generalizing here. First, this isn't a Perl issue,
specifically, you could ask
On Nov 23, 2003, at 6:36 PM, Paul Harwood wrote:
The log files I am parsing have threads (a T followed by several
alphanumeric numbers) associated with each line of text. I want to push
each value of $2 (which is a server name) into an anonymous array.
This works fine in the following code.
if
On Nov 21, 2003, at 3:19 PM, Rajesh Dorairajan wrote:
I've a class (blessed, of course :)) that has variables like:
$self-a = 1;
$self-b = 2;
$self-c = [ '1', '2', '3', '4' ];
I think/hope you meant:
$self-{a} = '1';# any reason we're quoting integers?
$self-{b} = '2';
$self-{c} = [
On Nov 22, 2003, at 12:54 PM, but however wrote:
Hi,
there is a clause in perl program which assigns two variables with
values from a file.
my ($t, undef, $i)=/t: ((\d|\.)+)\s.*?i=((\d|\.)+)/;
What does undef mean in the above clause?
Using undef on the left side of the assignment like this
On Nov 22, 2003, at 2:10 PM, but however wrote:
Hi, James:
Hello again. Please keep your replies on the list so we can all learn
from and help each other.
Thank you very much! Now, I am clear about the question.
Do you mean the outmost parenthesis captures the value assigned to
variable?
On Nov 22, 2003, at 2:05 PM, but however wrote:
HI,
I use the command plot in Perl to draw a graph:
I'm not familiar with 'plot', so I'll leave that part of the question
for others. But...
I am not vey clear with the variables $1 and $2. I did not define them
in my file, what are they?
$1, $2
On Nov 19, 2003, at 1:19 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BTW what does HTH stand for? I see it used in this group a lot!
It stands for Hope that helps.
James
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On Nov 18, 2003, at 6:12 AM, A L wrote:
###My background... Well, I had my first encounter with Perl in the
Fall of 2000. It was not pretty.
Ironically, this was pretty much how my first experience with Perl
went, years ago now. I swore I would never touch that crazy rules for
the
On Nov 18, 2003, at 10:33 AM, Jeff Westman wrote:
There must be an easier way to convert a basic ascii string to hex. I
tried
using ord/chr/unpack/sprintf(%x) combinations and just dug my hole
deeper.
I'm not interested in using any additional modules, just straight,
basic
perl. This works,
On Nov 18, 2003, at 3:22 PM, Steve Massey wrote:
Hi all
Howdy.
I know this should be easy, but I'm at a loss
I want to match Help
Help ## match this
Helps## not match this
I am using syntax below, but it's not working
$help = Help;
if ($source =~ /^$help/)
if ($source eq $help) ...
On Nov 18, 2003, at 4:23 PM, Dan Anderson wrote:
Is it possible to create self aware functions (possibly using a magic
variable)? I.e. functions that know their own name. Sort of the
oppossite of bless.
You're looking for ref(), but first let me give you the This is often
a bad idea warning.
On Nov 17, 2003, at 7:47 AM, NYIMI Jose (BMB) wrote:
ch3 of Object Oriented Perl book by Conway is free at
http://www.manning.com/getpage.html?
project=conwayfilename=Chapters.html
Great reads !
The rest of the book is excellent as well. I recommend it.
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On Nov 17, 2003, at 1:24 AM, R. Joseph Newton wrote:
Mike Blezien wrote:
So if I use the int() this will provide the same results as this
ceil() function
does... ??
Nope. Same as floor(). If you want to round, use:
my $rounded = int ($float_value + 0.5);
Please read the rest of the thread
On Nov 16, 2003, at 10:22 PM, R. Joseph Newton wrote:
Kiko Uehara wrote:
If my question doesn't have enough information, please let me know.
Sure doesn't. The most important information concerning any program is
what real-world purpose [even if simulated] it serves. The coding
comes
later.
On Nov 17, 2003, at 4:18 PM, Eric Walker wrote:
I have the following code to find a quote in a string and replace it
with a slashquote.
ie goes to \
How do I get it to do more than one substitution in the string.
The /g modifier, for global.
$_ = $$Rules{$yes}{rule_desc};
s//\\/;
On Nov 14, 2003, at 12:25 PM, Paul Harwood wrote:
$last = ${$server{TED0}}[$#];
Replace $# with -1.
James
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On Nov 14, 2003, at 3:57 PM, Kiko Uehara wrote:
Hi everyone,
Howdy.
I have a following data to analyze :
-
BlockA
color 0 0 0
rcolor 1 1 1
dcolor 2 2 2
BloackB
color 0 0 0
rcolor 1 1 1
dcolor 2 2 2
(...and so on)
-
With ya so
On Nov 14, 2003, at 4:13 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote:
my $block;
while (IN) {
if (/^(Block[A-Z]+)/) { $block = $1; }
elsif (/^\s+([rd]?color)/) {
my $color = $1;
s/\d+ \d+ \d+$/$changes{${block}_$color}/
if exists
On Nov 14, 2003, at 8:37 PM, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
I need to be able to create Microsoft Excel files from a perl script.
I want to know which module for doing this that people recommend. I
don't need anything too fancy. There will be very little formatting.
What formatting I need to do will be
On Nov 13, 2003, at 5:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip - problem description]
If the server successfully performed the command, ctlinnd will exit
with a
status of zero and print the reply on standard input. If the server
could
not perform the command (for example, it was told to remove a
On Nov 13, 2003, at 9:50 AM, Bob Showalter wrote:
Mike Blezien wrote:
Hi,
Ran accross a function called ceil and from the information I got
on this:
ceil() [Stands for ceiling], it just rounds a float value up.. so
ceil(4.7) == ceil(4.1342) == 5
would this be the same as using int function in
On Nov 13, 2003, at 10:01 AM, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
No, int() is neither exactly like ceil() or floor(). All int() does is
truncate the number to an integer. If you have 2.3, you get 2. If you
have 2.9, you get 2. If you have -2.3, you get -2. If you have -2.9,
you
get -2. If you were
On Nov 13, 2003, at 10:17 AM, Mike Blezien wrote:
So if I use the int() this will provide the same results as this
ceil() function does... ??
No, it's not the same. See the chart earlier in this thread. Sorry
for confusing the issue.
James
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On Nov 13, 2003, at 10:38 AM, Mike Blezien wrote:
Hi,
so I guess my question is, if I want to accomplish the same results as
this ceil how would that be accomplished in Perl ??
Does this one-liner get you started?
perl -e 'use POSIX qw(ceil); print ceil(2.3), \n;'
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On Nov 13, 2003, at 1:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi-
I'm an absolute beginner to Perl. I need to write a script that will
take tables from a SQL server database, somehow get them into HTML
format, and automatically generate an email to a list of users
containing the info I just
On Nov 13, 2003, at 1:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I apologize for my earlier question. I don't mean that I want someone
to write a program for me. I was just perhaps looking for some
generic info on Perl's capability to generate email? If that exists?
Perl can definitely do anything you
On Nov 12, 2003, at 11:52 AM, Ravi Malghan wrote:
Hello: I am trying to create and access a
multidimensional hash.
For example the following works
==
$route {$routeDest} = $cost ;
print $routeDest, Cost: $route{$routeDest}\n
=
But the following does not print the
$route{$NODE}{$routeDest}
On Nov 11, 2003, at 8:23 AM, Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote:
Thanks for the info
Is there an utility which can do this
I am not bothered if it is a very heavy code , I am not going to use
it on the fly at run time , I am just going to keep some pregenerated
images
If you just want to
On Nov 11, 2003, at 1:47 PM, Christiane Nerz wrote:
Hi!
If I want to print out every value of a hash, what's wrong with doing
it like that:
foreach (keys %hash) {
print $hash{$_};
print \n;}
Why do I only get one value???
I don't seen anything wrong with your code. I believe there is
On Nov 11, 2003, at 2:08 PM, Christiane Nerz wrote:
Nope - 'cause if I print out the values key for key, I get all four:
my $array = keys %hash;
print $hash{$array[0]};
print\n;
print $hash{$array[1]};
print\n;
print $hash{$array[2]};
print\n;
print $hash{$array[3]};
With the code
foreach (keys
If you would like to post more of your code, I would be happy to take a
look at it.
James
On Nov 11, 2003, at 2:27 PM, Christiane Nerz wrote:
jepp - all four are there..
I really don't understand it.
thx so far - I have to finish for today - my little baby-son is crying
:-(
Jane
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As
On Nov 10, 2003, at 12:39 PM, Guay Jean-Sébastien wrote:
It has nothing to do with what ActiveState did or didn't do. The
DOS/Windows command interpreter (command.com/cmd.exe) uses '\' as the
path separator however the operating system itself is able to use '/'
as
the path separator.
Sorry, I
On Nov 10, 2003, at 4:19 PM, R. Joseph Newton wrote:
Nope. Not at all. System transparency means not having to concern
yourself with the system or its quirks, which is what Perl provides in
re
file access. Not because the '/' separator is 'nix, but because it is
more standard for file systems
On Nov 10, 2003, at 4:47 PM, R. Joseph Newton wrote:
Look down the thread, and you will find correction from others, also.
I can
tell you that I have generated tousands of files in folders reached by
relative paths, and all I have had to offer Perl was '/'s. It has been
working for some time,
On Nov 9, 2003, at 11:14 AM, yomna el-tawil wrote:
Hi all, i'm a new user for PERL, i even didn't start
using it since i'ven't got the editor yet...
Any text editor will work. I can't think of a modern OS that doesn't
come with one.
I wanted to ask if it's possible to make a user
friendly
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