Re: AARGHHH,..... chdir(yes - no)

2002-02-12 Thread david wright
Sean wrote: I've been trying to wrap my brain around this for a little while, and I don't think I've been completely successful, but here's my stab at what's wrong. You stated, I think, that line 27 worked and line 29 did not. Line 27 was properly escaped... 27

Re: AARGHHH,..... chdir(yes - no)

2002-02-12 Thread david wright
. Thanks again. :-) On Tuesday, February 12, 2002, at 08:50 AM, Bob Showalter wrote: -Original Message- From: david wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 9:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AARGHHH,. chdir(yes - no) Man, i am going crazy

re: time question

2002-02-05 Thread david wright
Hi All, How can I check if directory is older then X days/hours thanks Amit run from command line. perl -e 'print (-M directory)' - M, Returns the age of OPERAND in days when the program started.

file test doesn't seem to be working

2002-02-04 Thread david wright
i am sending @array a directory (i.e. example /usr/dw5) which contains a lot of files and folders (directories). (i have already checked the value of @array and $dup and they are as desired.) What i want to accomplish is: print yes, $dup (file name) if it's a directory (folder) i am testing it

Re: file test doesn't seem to be working

2002-02-04 Thread david wright
On Monday, February 4, 2002, at 07:26 PM, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: On Feb 4, david wright said: i am sending @array a directory (i.e. example /usr/dw5) which contains a lot of files and folders (directories). Be warned that readdir() returns NAMES, not PATHS. opendir DIR, /some

Why localize $_, was- Re: why shift @_ ?

2002-02-04 Thread david wright
Bompa wrote: I wrote a script to demonstrate how the value of $_ could get changed unexpectedly. (It took me an hour, but I learned from it, heh). use strict; our @list = qw(a b c d); foreach (@list) { check_b; print $_, \n; } sub check_b { foreach (@list) { #local $_; $_

re: simple question

2002-02-04 Thread david wright
Stuart Clark wrote: How do I replace the letter M with 20 spaces. s/M/\s[20]/; # dosen't seem to work :-( Regards Stuart Clark here's my 10c answer ;-) it seems that a tab \t eq 5 spaces. s/M/\t\t\t\t/;

why shift @_ ?

2002-02-03 Thread david wright
I have seen Ex #1 corrected (as being more well written) to Ex #2. In this case it is just being passed a $ but the data being passed was irrelevant. (though not a ref) I still don't see why, i guess i don't fully understand shift. Any light shedder's appreciated, thanks : -) EX #1: sub

re: wildcard for unix???

2002-02-03 Thread david wright
LH wrote: What is the global wildcard for unix? I'm trying to chmod 755 all files in a dir... possible? chmod 755 *.* ? Thanks LH ahh, so close chmod 775 * -dw5

re: why shift @_ ?

2002-02-03 Thread david wright
I have seen Ex #1 corrected (as being more well written) to Ex #2. In this case it is just being passed a $ but the data being passed was irrelevant. (though not a ref) I still don't see why, i guess i don't fully understand shift. Any light shedder's appreciated, thanks : -) EX #1:

counting the recurrence of lines - du-oh,...

2002-02-02 Thread david wright
I'm trying to count the recurrence of lines in a file. This works how i want but first it prints Use of uninitialized,... - see below. I know i'm probably not supposed to use a hash like this but it does work. I either need another error free way to do this or a fix. I have

Re: one question to end the day on . . .

2002-02-02 Thread david wright
Timothy B wrote: Hello out there - I have learned a lot of Perl today, but I am still trying to figure one more thing out. How can I go through a file and extract all the text between certain delimiters - for example I have: Bilbo, Why I like rings Freemont Press, 1998. Frodo, Why I don't

counting the recurrence of lines - du-oh,...

2002-02-02 Thread david wright
I'm trying to count the recurrence of lines in a file. This works how i want but first it prints Use of uninitialized,... - see below. I know i'm probably not supposed to use a hash like this but it does work. I either need another error free way to do this or a fix. I have figures

Re: counting the recurrence of lines - du-oh,...

2002-02-02 Thread david wright
excellent, thanks for two great answers. I actually tried (! defined) but i tried it on @storeList=FILEIN; which did not produce the desired results at all : -( John wrote: The reason you are getting the warnings is because of $saveNum{$dup} on the right hand side of the expression. Use