Fwd: Re: Perl Cookbook

2013-06-17 Thread David Christensen
Someone wrote: > I have the 2nd edition. Make sure you "reply to list" so that everyone can help and/or benefit. Okay. What about the other two suggestions? 2. Have you checked the errata on the publisher's web site? Here are the errata for the current (2nd) edition: http://oreilly.com/c

Fwd: Perl Cookbook

2013-06-16 Thread David Christensen
Someone wrote: > I bought a book Perlcookbook, and seams to be that the book has some > mistakes, 1. Which edition do you have -- 1st or 2nd? 2. Have you checked the errata on the publisher's web site? Here are the errata for the current (2nd) edition: http://oreilly.com/catalog/er

Re: perl cookbook?

2012-02-29 Thread Jeff Peng
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:16:30 +0200, Brent Clark wrote: Hiya Im looking to buy perl cookbook. I see the second edition was released 2003. Before I go off and buy it, does anyone know if perl cookbook 3rd edition, is ever going to be published? IIRC the book "Perl by examples" h

perl cookbook?

2012-02-29 Thread Brent Clark
Hiya Im looking to buy perl cookbook. I see the second edition was released 2003. Before I go off and buy it, does anyone know if perl cookbook 3rd edition, is ever going to be published? Regards Brent Clark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e

Re: trying to understand a line of perl cookbook

2008-12-22 Thread Chas. Owens
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 06:49, RP wrote: > I am new to perl having basic idea about the programming and scripting > language, so I am learning Perl through Perl Cookbook, 2nd edition. > > on page 118, (receipe 4.4 Implementing Sparse Array), Here is one > statement. &

Re: trying to understand a line of perl cookbook

2008-12-22 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 03:49 -0800, RP wrote: > Question: I am not able to understand the statement -"@fake_array > { sort {$a <=> $b} keys %fake_array }". > I understood that we are sorting the keys of a hash %fake_array. But > what is the meaning of @fake_array here??? > > Appreciate your help to

trying to understand a line of perl cookbook

2008-12-22 Thread RP
I am new to perl having basic idea about the programming and scripting language, so I am learning Perl through Perl Cookbook, 2nd edition. on page 118, (receipe 4.4 Implementing Sparse Array), Here is one statement. Using a hash representation, you should instead do either this to process

Re: from Perl Cookbook - what is single quote in brackets

2007-08-08 Thread Dr.Ruud
Nevada schreef: > what is [\pL']? Most probably the same as [[:alpha:]']. -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: from Perl Cookbook - what is single quote in brackets

2007-07-31 Thread Nevada
So the single quote means single quote. Thanks, Chas. I thought it might have had some special meaning. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: from Perl Cookbook - what is single quote in brackets

2007-07-31 Thread Chas Owens
On 7/31/07, Chas Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/31/07, Nevada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > snip > > but what is [\pL']? > snip > > Oops, I misread the question. It matches a unicode letter or a single quote. > from perldoc perlre You can specify a character class, by enclosing a l

Re: from Perl Cookbook - what is single quote in brackets

2007-07-31 Thread Chas Owens
On 7/31/07, Nevada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip > but what is [\pL']? snip Oops, I misread the question. It matches a unicode letter or a single quote. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: from Perl Cookbook - what is single quote in brackets

2007-07-31 Thread Chas Owens
On 7/31/07, Nevada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > In the Perl Cookbook recipe 1.14 - "Properly Capitalizing a Title or > Headline" I see this substitution: > >s/(\pL[\pL']*)/$nocap{$1} ? lc($1) : ucfirst(lc($1))/ge; > > if a word appears

from Perl Cookbook - what is single quote in brackets

2007-07-31 Thread Nevada
Hello, In the Perl Cookbook recipe 1.14 - "Properly Capitalizing a Title or Headline" I see this substitution: s/(\pL[\pL']*)/$nocap{$1} ? lc($1) : ucfirst(lc($1))/ge; if a word appears in the nocap hash, it is made lower case. the \pL matches a lower case character b

Re: Perl Cookbook

2002-05-16 Thread Todd Wade,,,Room 108
Patrick Dempster wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I've just worked my way though the learning perl (lama book) 3rd edition > and I must say I found it very good, and after lurking in here for a while > and hearing people talk about the perl cookbook. I took a wander over to > amaz

RE: Perl Cookbook

2002-05-16 Thread John Mooney
book.. Goodluck, Marc... | Hi Folks, | | I've just worked my way though the learning perl (lama book) 3rd edition and | I must say I found it very good, and after lurking in here for a while and | hearing people talk about the perl cookbook. I took a wander over to amazon | and read the re

RE: Perl Cookbook

2002-05-15 Thread Marc te Vruchte
ing in here for a while and | hearing people talk about the perl cookbook. I took a wander over to amazon | and read the reviews, pretty so, so I though and for a technical book that | was written/published in 1998 it seems fairly old. So, my question is, is it | worth buying or should I just wai

Re: Perl Cookbook

2002-05-15 Thread Shawn
Hey Patrick, > I've just worked my way though the learning perl (lama book) 3rd edition and > I must say I found it very good, and after lurking in here for a while and > hearing people talk about the perl cookbook. I took a wander over to amazon > and read the reviews, prett

Perl Cookbook

2002-05-15 Thread Patrick Dempster
Hi Folks, I've just worked my way though the learning perl (lama book) 3rd edition and I must say I found it very good, and after lurking in here for a while and hearing people talk about the perl cookbook. I took a wander over to amazon and read the reviews, pretty so, so I though and

Re: psgrep from Perl Cookbook

2001-05-23 Thread SunDog
ds SunDog = At 09:09 AM 5/23/01 -0400, you wrote: >Folks, > >I finally got a few books from O'Reilly, I truly am enjoying reading "Perl >Cookbook" >I was wondering if any of these complete scripts are available online for >

Re: psgrep from Perl Cookbook

2001-05-23 Thread Timothy Kimball
Ron Yacketta wrote: : I finally got a few books from O'Reilly, I truly am enjoying reading "Perl : Cookbook" : I was wondering if any of these complete scripts are available online for : download? All the examples from the book are available as a .tzr.gz or .zip

psgrep from Perl Cookbook

2001-05-23 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
Folks, I finally got a few books from O'Reilly, I truly am enjoying reading "Perl Cookbook" I was wondering if any of these complete scripts are available online for download? I really am interested in the psgrep script, but would rather not retype it if it has already been done