What search string do I use on google or perldoc so that I know how to display a specified range of lines from a file (like sed -n 24, 48p filename)?

2004-10-22 Thread Ken Wolcott
A fishing pole question rather than a fish question :-) What search string do I use on google or perldoc so that I know how to display a specified range of lines from a file (like sed -n 24, 48p filename)? s2p no longer operates the way I used to use it back in perl 3x days :-) man s2p really

Re: could not find ParserDetails.ini in /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/XML/SAX; also need some advice about XML parsing modules on CPAN

2004-10-14 Thread Ken Wolcott
Wiggins d Anconia wrote: See if I can actually get somewhere with this. XML::Simple is just a wrapper around one of the lower level XML parsers. Essentially any parser can be used. XML::DOM and XML::SAX are two examples, within these examples they can/do wrap lower level C libs, such as expat[1]

Re: could not find ParserDetails.ini in /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/XML/SAX; also need some advice about XML parsing modules on CPAN

2004-10-11 Thread Ken Wolcott
Ken Wolcott wrote: I suppose it is in bad taste to reply to one's own posting, but I have an update. After reading some in the O'Reilly Perl XML book, reading the email archives of this mailing list, several FAQS that some people mentioned from the mailing list archives and another reading

how/where to install xyz.pm from CPAN (no perl Makefile.PL; make; make test; make install)??

2004-10-11 Thread Ken Wolcott
Hi; I see several very interesting CPAN modules regarding Rational/IBM ClearCase. These are just *.pm files. How/where do I install these? I have root privs. I want the modules to be available in the standard place(s). I guess I should just look at the %INC hash and place it in a good

Re: how/where to install xyz.pm from CPAN (no perl Makefile.PL; make; make test; make install)??

2004-10-11 Thread Ken Wolcott
Randy W. Sims wrote: On 10/11/2004 11:01 PM, Ken Wolcott wrote: Hi; I see several very interesting CPAN modules regarding Rational/IBM ClearCase. These are just *.pm files. How/where do I install these? I have root privs. I want the modules to be available in the standard place(s). I

could not find ParserDetails.ini in /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/XML/SAX; also need some advice about XML parsing modules on CPAN

2004-10-06 Thread Ken Wolcott
is not strictly compliant (as tag1 value /tag1 is correct while tag1 value / is not). I need to preserve the XML output in ClearCase that remains in a human readable form, ie: well-formatted... Thanks in advance for your comments and advice, Ken Wolcott * ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8

Re: could not find ParserDetails.ini in /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/XML/SAX; also need some advice about XML parsing modules on CPAN

2004-10-06 Thread Ken Wolcott
Ken Wolcott wrote: Hi; I have a Fedora Core 2 full install to which I installedXML::Simple manually (ie: download, extract, perl Makefile.PL, make, make test, sudo make install). Some of the tests did not run since I did not have Tie::IxHash (?) installed. The error message (could not find

Re: how do I handle filenames that have parens?

2004-08-17 Thread Ken Wolcott
Randal; Thanks for answer I really needed to hear. Ken On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 18:36, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Luke == Luke Bakken [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Luke The simple solution is to be sure that single quotes are around the Luke strings passed to the describe command: my

how do I handle filenames that have parens?

2004-08-13 Thread Ken Wolcott
Hi; I have two perl scripts. Once calls the other via a ClearCase setview context (like a subshell). The problem: The current scripts do not handle filenames that have parens properly and the parens are obviously mishandled by the shell. The overall goal: What I'm really trying to do is to

Re: finding Makefiles which containing a backslash continuation character where the next line is blank or whitespace

2004-08-04 Thread Ken Wolcott
John; Thank you very much for the help...works like a charm...now I'll try to study it carefully to understand how to use this the next time I need something like this... Cool... Ken Wolcott On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 20:20, John W. Krahn wrote: Ken Wolcott wrote: Hi; Hello, I need

finding Makefiles which containing a backslash continuation character where the next line is blank or whitespace

2004-08-03 Thread Ken Wolcott
. Please help, Thanks in advance, Ken Wolcott -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response

Re: How do you invoke a Clearcase View?

2004-05-20 Thread Ken Wolcott
or backticks. I do all kinds of ClearCase things with perl, but not via the ClearCase CPAN module(s) such as what can be found at: http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/search?query=clearcasemode=dist But I'll be looking into those as I find time. Hope this helps, Ken Wolcott -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: Weekly list FAQ posting

2004-04-05 Thread Ken Wolcott
On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 11:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NAME beginners-faq - FAQ for the beginners mailing list ...nice FAQ snipped for brevity... Could you please add something to the subject line stating that this email message is pertinent to the beginners perl list...something like: