Removing all newline characters in a string

Is there a simple search and replace command I can do to remove all the newline characters from a string? (besides splitting the string based on \n and then joining the elements) This seems pretty basic but the below commands don't seem to work: s/\\n//g s/\n//g -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

getting nth column of a string

is there a way to get the nth column of a string in perl, similar to awk '{print $col_no}' in awk ? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

split based on n number of occurances of a character

Is there an easy way (without writing our own proc) to split a string based on number of occurances of a character ? for example: $my_string = a;b;c;d;e;f;g;h @regsplitarray = split (/;/, $my_string) splits based on every 1 occurance of ; what if i want it to do 2 at a time ? e.g.

Re: split based on n number of occurances of a character

On Oct 26, 3:51 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Pang) wrote: using a regex is may suitable. $ perl -e '$x= a;b;c;d;e;f;g;h;@re=$x=~/(\w+;\w+);{0,1}/g;print @re' a;b c;d e;f g;h On 10/26/07, Mahurshi Akilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an easy way (without writing our own proc) to split

average and standard deviation

is there an easy way to get the average and standard deviation in perl (given an array of numbers). i don't want to reinvent the wheel and write my own functions. i saw something for the average (see below). it works fine. is there a similar quickie for std deviation (or perhaps, the median)

get a column out of a 2d array

is there an easy way (without iterating through the array) to get a specified column out of a 2d array? lets say i have @array2d 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 what i am looking for is something like @my2ndcolum = // magic // i know you can get it with rows using ( $my2ndrowref = @array[1] ) but i don't

peek next line in file

, but it would be nice to know if this can be done. Mahurshi Akilla -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Debugg in PERL

switch ? Read about perl debuggers here: http://debugger.perl.org/ Mahurshi Akilla -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: spliting

If you're trying to split a long string into smaller strings of 60 characters each, you can take a look at the substr function and build a loop around it. http://www.perlmeme.org/howtos/perlfunc/substr.html Mahurshi Akilla On Sep 4, 5:29 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pedro Soto) wrote: Hi, I have

Appending 1 D array into a 2 D array

I am trying to read a csv file into a 2D array matrix I am having a hard time trying to get the array returned by split function to attach to a 2D array. See the code below for further info on what I'm trying to do ## initialize $row = 0; $col = 0; ## go thru each line of file while

Perl script to build a forum

Does anyone know if there's a perl script available that can run a simple forum? I tried searching on google but any combination of perl and forum in the search words are giving me results on perl forums :-) but not the forums being run by perl. Thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL