RE: grouping regex match return values

2002-09-18 Thread Rum Pel
not want a or B, only aB's. I cannot remove inner parentheses as it would be /(a|Ab|B)/ which is not what I want. Is my problem clear? From: Timothy Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Rum Pel' [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: grouping regex match return values Date: Wed, 18 Sep

Re: return type of $ua-request

2002-09-17 Thread Rum Pel
the request method of LWP::UserAgent returns a HTTP::Response object. Even though this isn't explicitly documented in the LWP::UserAgent docs (accessible via perldoc LWP::UserAgent), it seems like a reasonable first guess. A function definition in Perl doesnt require you to specify the

Re: return type of $ua-request

2002-09-17 Thread Rum Pel
Yes. You can even find out what the caller is expecting. Well, to an extent anyway. peldoc -f wantarray Wow! thats new and interesting. I looked at a couple of examples on it. It seems to be true if a return value is expected by the caller context. Is this that? or it is true only when a

return types again

2002-09-17 Thread Rum Pel
I installed MailTools, and want to use Mail::Util-read_mbox($file) THe documentation says: Read $file, a binmail mailbox file, and return a list of references. Each reference is a reference to an array containg one message. But nothing is said about the type of message, I cannot even guess

grouping regex match return values

2002-09-17 Thread Rum Pel
I want to pick dates from a file, I did it the following way: - $day = ([12]?[0-9]|30|31); $weekday = (Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat|Sun); $month = ([1-9]|10|11|12|Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec); $year = (1999|2000|2001|2002); $query = $month\/$day\/$year; @q = Today is Tue

qq/qw

2002-09-16 Thread Rum Pel
hello perl -e print qq(@INC) prints the library paths. Can somebody tell me what does qq do here? Also, what does qw do in the following statement? use HTTP::Request::Common qw(GET POST); --rp _ Send and receive Hotmail on your

return type of $ua-request

2002-09-16 Thread Rum Pel
use HTTP::Request::Common; $ua = LWP::UserAgent-new; my $res = $ua-request(GET 'http://www.sn.no/'); if ($res-is_success) { ... Now, what is the type of 'res' variable? In the html documentation that comes with perl, I can see a list of packages, modules, the methods within but they dont

Packaging my perl program

2002-09-12 Thread Rum Pel
I have written a perl program which I want to give to my friends to try out. But the program uses a few libraries that are normally not installed by default. So how do I ship my program? What is the general way of doing this? In java, when I give my program I also give the libraries ie., the