Re: How to put a variable value into a text file

Hi Joseph: Thanks very much for the feedback. Unfortunately for me, I've been totally swamped with tasks totally unrelated to Perl. I've had virtually no time to spend on this. I hope to have time this weekend to look at Perl related activities (my wife may have other thoughts about that ho

Re: How to calculate elapsed time ?

Thanks guys. You're the Best ! I used "time" instead of "localtime" and it's exactly what I need for now. Perl is quickly becoming a very useful tool for me. Thanks also for the doc info: perldoc -f time & perldoc Benchmark - Stuart Stuart Clemons/Westford/IBM wrote on 01/27/2004 07:50:30 PM

How to calculate elapsed time ?

Hi all: I'm trying to determine how long an system operation takes. Anyone know of a simple way to do this ? I wanted to establish the start time. Then run the operation. Then mark the finish time. Then substract the start time from the finish time to get an elapsed time. Here's the simp

Re: How to put a variable value into a text file

Thanks Kevin for pointing out the Cookbook receipe. I dug out my Perl Cookbook, 2nd edition. The "How to modify a file in place without a temporary file" is still in Chapter 7, but it's now receipe 17. The discussion for this receipe is very interesting. I'm not sure if it's legal to quote t

Re: How to put a variable value into a text file

Thanks for the help. I just got back on-line. I'll give these a try. Thanks again ! "Randy W. Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/25/2004 03:19 PM To Jan Eden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc [EMAIL PROTECTED], Perl Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject Re: How to put a variable value into a text file On

How to put a variable value into a text file

Hi all: I'm trying to put a variable value into a text file. I've tried a few things with no success. Anyone know how to do this ? Is it doable ? I'm pretty sure I read how to do this somewhere, so I'm about to hit the Perl books to see if I can find it. Any help will be appreciated. He

Re: Need help with a regex

Thanks Jeff. I hope to try this out later today. I thought I had the solution earlier this morning, but I ran into a problem. I hope this will solve it ! Thanks again. "Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/23/2004 10:34 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Need help comparing lines in two files

Thanks Michael. I'll take a look at those modules and see if my Perl skills are sufficient to understand how to use them. Thanks again. EUROSPACE SZARINDAR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/23/2004 02:47 AM To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Perl Beginners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject RE: Need help comparing lin

RE: Need help with a regex

Thanks very much Tim. I just did a quick test on my real file and it worked perfectly. I definitely still have a lot to learn with both Perl and regex's, so I really appreciate the explanation as well. Though your script is very compact, I learned a lot from it. Such as how you initialized

Need help with a regex

This newbie needs help with a regex. Here's what the data from a text file looks like. There's no delimiter and the fields aren't evenly spaced apart. apples San Antonio Fruit oranges Sacramento Fruit pineapples Honolulu Fruit lemonsCorona del Rey

Re: Need help comparing lines in two files

Thank you Dan and Wolf ! With the suggested changes, my foreach loop script now works as I hoped it would. (My first script did have a typo, as you pointed out, though my logic was still wrong.) I'm glad to be able to set aside my study of hashes for another day. I needed to get this prob

Need help comparing lines in two files

This very green newbie would like to compare two files, let's say File1 and File2. I want to put the difference from File2 only, into a new file, File3. For example: File1.txt oranges apples bananas File2.txt apples kiwi bananas The result I want for File3 is the new entry in File2, which is

Question about CPAN's Text::Diff

Hi all: This newbie would like to compare two files, let's say File1 and File2. I want to put the difference from File2 only, into a new file, File3. For example: File1.txt oranges apples bananas File2.txt apples kiwi bananas The result I want for File3 is the new entry in File2, which

re: Newbie trying to cleanup/format text file

I kept working at it and was finally able to get rid of the unwanted lines in the text file using a series of nested if's. It's certainly not elegant, but it works ! Surely there's a more efficient way to get rid of the unwanted lines. Anyway, here's what I came up with for now. This leaves

Newbie trying to cleanup/format text file

Hi all: I'm trying to cleanup and format this text file of user names, so that I have one column of user names. Here's the text file: The request will be processed at a domain controller for domain FOOBAR. Group name Misc CommentThese are the FOOBAR users Members ---

Recommended simple Perl IDE/Editors ?

Hi all: Just wondering what IDE/editor folks use for their Perl work ? I'm looking for something for a W2K system that is easy to use (without customization) and that has the basics (syntax highlighting, visual debugging, something that shows variable values, the values in whitespace, etc) wit

How to process multi-line records ?

Hi all: This newbie is back looking for some hints on how to handle this problem in processing a file that has multiline records that look something like this: Name: Joe Blow DataField1: x DateField1: 07/07/77 DataField2: x DateField2: 12/07/03 Name: Fi Doe DataField1: x DateFi

Re: sorter script [was: Frustrated newbie question]

Hi drieux: The link that failed for you, worked for me. That link led to this link which had the code. http://products.daviddurose.com/cgi-bin/download.cgi?script=sort - Message from drieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, 7 Dec 2003 09:04:51 -0800 - To: Perl Perl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subj

re: Frustrated newbie question

Thanks to all with the quick responses and possible solutions for splitting my names list into one name per line. I've tried a couple of them and they work great. You guys make it look so easy ! Using an array with 'Split' seemed to be a key part of the solution. I guess I was sort of on th

Frustrated newbie question

Help. I'm a frustrated newbie who wants to use Perl to make my life easier. The following simple task is only one small part of a program I'm trying to put together to automate some things I currently do manually. I have a file whose format looks like this: name1 name2 name