Re: sorter script [was: Frustrated newbie question]

2003-12-05 Thread Saskia van der Elst
On Friday 05 December 2003 10:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My next Perl task after I get my list of one name per line, is to sort the list and eliminate duplicate names. I have used the following script to sort and remove duplicate entries in flat text files.

search and replace using regex

2003-12-02 Thread Saskia van der Elst
I have trouble executing a search and replace through all files in a certain directory. I want to replace _/pat by /pat Can I match a white-space? I have tried the following regex: s/ _\/pat//pat/g and tried to incorporate it in the following script: #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use strict;

Re: i am a begnner

2003-12-01 Thread Saskia van der Elst
On Monday 01 December 2003 11:17, paulo wrote: where can I find a how to abou perl? Quoting R. Joseph Newton: One thing that might be worth trying is to do something like the following: perldoc perlfaq perldoc/perlfaq.txt. That will give you a plain-text readout of the questions in each FAQ

Re: OFF TOPIC: Unix in a Nutshell Orielly 3rd edition

2003-11-28 Thread Saskia van der Elst
Rob said: I would love to know of a description of the Unix /philosophy/. Once sucked in to the surrounding ideas everything seems obvious, but I know of no book that explains stuff like processes, forking, signals and so on that underly the basic ideas of Unix. In essence it is a much

Failed Test lib/odbm.t

2003-11-17 Thread Saskia van der Elst
Hi, I am in the process of installing perl-5.6.2 on my SuSE Linux 8.1 machine. After running 'make install' and ./perl harness, one test fails: lib/odbm.t How do I make Perl pass this test? Thanks, SvdE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Failed Test lib/odbm.t

2003-11-17 Thread Saskia van der Elst
The problem: Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed --- lib/odbm.t 127 32512?? ?? % ?? 14 tests and 226 subtests skipped. Failed 1/375 test scripts, 99.73% okay. 0/15092 subtests failed,