Perl Cookbook

2002-05-15 Thread Patrick Dempster
Hi Folks, I've just worked my way though the learning perl (lama book) 3rd edition and I must say I found it very good, and after lurking in here for a while and hearing people talk about the perl cookbook. I took a wander over to amazon and read the reviews, pretty so, so I though and for a tech

Thanks for the books recommendation

2002-05-27 Thread Patrick Dempster
Hi Folks, A while ago I posted to the list a question asking if I should buy the perl cookbook, I was a bit concerned that the book would be "out of date" because of all the talk about perl 6 and such like, but the response from this list was that the book was an excellent investment. So, I decid

Re: Thanks for the books recommendation

2002-05-27 Thread Patrick Dempster
Sorry for the request receipt being on in this message, I forgot to turn it off after working with a different message earlier on this evening. Sorry, Patrick - Original Message - From: "Patrick Dempster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Perl Beginners" <[EMAIL PRO

Re: copy files

2002-07-06 Thread Patrick Dempster
On Saturday 06 July 2002 14:18, Felix Geerinckx wrote: > on Sat, 06 Jul 2002 12:37:39 GMT, T. B. Booher wrote: > > I know that 'rename' moves files from one place to another, but how do > > you copy files in perl? > > See > perldoc File::Copy Is my perl doc broken, or is there some environ