Re: Checking filenames? [:: ?Kinda Solved? ::]

2004-03-06 Thread R. Joseph Newton
WC -Sx- Jones wrote: Hmmm, I get 3 Indians in only the first variable anyways =/ Doesn't surprise me. The x is a concatentation multiplierfor strings. Why not just say what you want: $_ = 'Litttle' for my ($onelittle, $twolittle, $threelittle, ) ; print 1 $onelittle

Re: Checking filenames? [:: ?Kinda Solved? ::]

2004-03-05 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
John W. Krahn wrote: chomp(my $userid = `/usr/ucb/whoami` || `/usr/bin/whoami` || 'root'); Why not use $ to find out who you are? because in the original exercise (OP) I was showing how to greatly simplify a chain of possible failure and still have a usable outcome. Maybe root wasnt a great

Re: Checking filenames? [:: ?Kinda Solved? ::]

2004-03-05 Thread wolf blaum
On Friday 05 March 2004 02:03, Sumit Kaur generously enriched virtual reallity by making up this one: Hi, Hi, I have to write my first Perl script . This scripts Searches for rare = codons in nucleotide sequence . The nucleotide sequence is entered by = the user in the format ATTGCAA.. and

Re: Checking filenames? [:: ?Kinda Solved? ::]

2004-03-05 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
John W. Krahn wrote: Wc -Sx- Jones wrote: Charles K. Clarkson wrote: Make 'Indians' an array. my( $onelittle, $twolittle, $threelittle, ) = ('Indians') x 3; Create it with a HereDoc =) Oh, how do you do that? I guess I made you all wait long enough... # WARNING - not strict or

Re: Checking filenames? [:: ?Kinda Solved? ::]

2004-03-04 Thread Jas
Well seeing as how I am still really new to using perl I have accomplished what I set out to do and figured I would share it. The goal, a simple perl script to backup a web directory, compress the archive and then ftp the file(s) to a remote server. If anyone knows how to make this more

Re: Checking filenames? [:: ?Kinda Solved? ::]

2004-03-04 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
In Cyberspace -- Jas wrote: my @files; find(sub { push @files,$File::Find::name },/path/to/www/); Archive::Tar-create_archive(www.tar,0,@files); Never hard-code your paths... Eases maintenance later... # Create Archive from recently created tarball my $gz = system('gzip -9 www.tar'); $gz

Re: Checking filenames? [:: ?Kinda Solved? ::]

2004-03-04 Thread Jas
Wc -Sx- Jones wrote: In Cyberspace -- Jas wrote: my @files; find(sub { push @files,$File::Find::name },/path/to/www/); Archive::Tar-create_archive(www.tar,0,@files); Never hard-code your paths... Eases maintenance later... Can you show me an example of how to do this? # Create

Re: Checking filenames? [:: ?Kinda Solved? ::]

2004-03-04 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Jas wrote: Wc -Sx- Jones wrote: In Cyberspace -- Jas wrote: my @files; find(sub { push @files,$File::Find::name },/path/to/www/); Archive::Tar-create_archive(www.tar,0,@files); Never hard-code your paths... Eases maintenance later... Can you show me an example of how to do this? Either

Re: Checking filenames? [:: ?Kinda Solved? ::]

2004-03-04 Thread Jas
Wc -Sx- Jones wrote: Jas wrote: Wc -Sx- Jones wrote: In Cyberspace -- Jas wrote: my @files; find(sub { push @files,$File::Find::name },/path/to/www/); Archive::Tar-create_archive(www.tar,0,@files); Never hard-code your paths... Eases maintenance later... Can you show me an

RE: Checking filenames? [:: ?Kinda Solved? ::]

2004-03-04 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
Jas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : Wc -Sx- Jones wrote: : : In Cyberspace -- Jas wrote: : : # Create empty variables : my $year = ; : my $month = ; : my $day = ; : my $c_year = ; : my $c_month = ; : my $c_day = ; : : Less wordy... : : my ( $year, : $month, :

Re: Checking filenames? [:: ?Kinda Solved? ::]

2004-03-04 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Jas wrote: chomp(my $userid = `/usr/ucb/whoami` || `/usr/bin/whoami` || 'root'); I am not sure what this means? Is this the process ID or the perl script is running as a root user? Nope, it is a simple short circuit to see who the UserID program of the program was; It states that if I cant

Re: Checking filenames? [:: ?Kinda Solved? ::]

2004-03-04 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Hmmm, I get 3 Indians in only the first variable anyways =/ #! /usr/bin/perl -w use strict; # Make -w / use strict; happy... my ($onelittle, $twolittle, $threelittle, ) = 'Indians' x 3; print 1 $onelittle 2 $twolittle 3 $threelittle\n\n; __END__ Output - bash-2.05$

RE: Checking filenames? [:: ?Kinda Solved? ::]

2004-03-04 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
WC -Sx- Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : : Hmmm, I get 3 Indians in only the first variable anyways =/ : : : #! /usr/bin/perl -w : : use strict; : : # Make -w / use strict; happy... : my ($onelittle, : $twolittle, : $threelittle, : ) = 'Indians' x 3; Ahh!

Re: Checking filenames? [:: ?Kinda Solved? ::]

2004-03-04 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Charles K. Clarkson wrote: Make 'Indians' an array. my( $onelittle, $twolittle, $threelittle, ) = ('Indians') x 3; Create it with a HereDoc =) -Bill- __Sx__ http://youve-reached-the.endoftheinternet.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

RE: Checking filenames? [:: ?Kinda Solved? ::]

2004-03-04 Thread Sumit Kaur
suggest . Thanks -Original Message- From: Charles K. Clarkson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 4:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Checking filenames? [:: ?Kinda Solved? ::] WC -Sx- Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : : Hmmm, I get 3 Indians in only the first

Re: Checking filenames? [:: ?Kinda Solved? ::]

2004-03-04 Thread wolf blaum
On Friday 05 March 2004 02:03, Sumit Kaur generously enriched virtual reallity by making up this one: Hi, Hi, I have to write my first Perl script . This scripts Searches for rare = codons in nucleotide sequence . The nucleotide sequence is entered by = the user in the format ATTGCAA.. and

nucleotide seq Was Re: Checking filenames? [:: ?Kinda Solved? ::]

2004-03-04 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Sumit Kaur wrote: Hi, I have to write my first Perl script . This scripts Searches for rare = codons in nucleotide sequence . The nucleotide sequence is entered by = the user in the format ATTGCAA.. and then the program breaks this = sequence in the groups of three alphabets like ATT,GCA...so

Re: Checking filenames? [:: ?Kinda Solved? ::]

2004-03-04 Thread John W. Krahn
Charles K. Clarkson wrote: WC -Sx- Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : : Hmmm, I get 3 Indians in only the first variable anyways =/ : : # Make -w / use strict; happy... : my ($onelittle, : $twolittle, : $threelittle, : ) = 'Indians' x 3; Ahh! Grasshopper

Re: Checking filenames? [:: ?Kinda Solved? ::]

2004-03-04 Thread John W. Krahn
Wc -Sx- Jones wrote: Charles K. Clarkson wrote: Make 'Indians' an array. my( $onelittle, $twolittle, $threelittle, ) = ('Indians') x 3; Create it with a HereDoc =) Oh, how do you do that? John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: Checking filenames? [:: ?Kinda Solved? ::]

2004-03-04 Thread John W. Krahn
Wc -Sx- Jones wrote: Jas wrote: chomp(my $userid = `/usr/ucb/whoami` || `/usr/bin/whoami` || 'root'); I am not sure what this means? Is this the process ID or the perl script is running as a root user? Nope, it is a simple short circuit to see who the UserID program of the