Dillon, John wrote:
Is there a gobble-di-gook looker-upper for perl. For instance, if I don't
know what '@_' is saying, as in:
my($email, $orig_email) = @_;
You should read a Perl reference if you are going to use Perl.
perldoc perlvar
Joseph
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Dillon, John wrote:
When I am in a black command.com screen with CPAN prompt, where am I? Why
can't I cd to c:\?
John
You are in a CPAN shell, which you asked for in the command
perl use_module(CPAN) execute(SHELL)
or *something like that* :-) that you typed into the command line.
Joseph
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What I am eventually trying to do is get the email addresses from my Outlook
into a list. I found the following example for Eudora which I want to
adapt, unless you know an easier way:
perl -Memail::find -ne 'email::find-new
If ppm doesn't work, try 'perl -MCPAN -s shell'.
Oops, it's 'perl -MCPAN -e shell'.
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If ppm doesn't work, try 'perl -MCPAN -s shell'.
Oops, it's 'perl -MCPAN -e shell'.
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When I am in a black command.com screen with CPAN prompt, where am I? Why
can't I cd to c:\?
John
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When I am in a black command.com screen with CPAN prompt, where am I? Why
can't I cd to c:\?
Because you're in the CPAN shell. You can ues this to download and install CPAN Perl
modules. If you type:
install Email::Find
You can go back to the command prompt by typing 'exit' and get help by
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Subject: RE: Getting started in Perl for Windows
If ppm doesn't work, try 'perl -MCPAN -e shell'.
Oops, it's 'perl -MCPAN -e shell
Dillon, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] asked:
When I am in a black command.com screen with CPAN prompt,
where am I? Why can't I cd to c:\?
That would be the CPAN prompt. Try help for a terse
command listing, quit to exit back to the DOS prompt.
CPAN is the Perl module installer. Check out
Dillon, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] asked:
Is there a gobble-di-gook looker-upper for perl. For
instance, if I don't
know what '@_' is saying, as in:
my($email, $orig_email) = @_;
Look at the perlvar manpage. @_ is the array that has the
parameters passed to a function.
The above line
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Dillon, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
'Can't locate Email/Find.pm in @INC @INC contains: C:/Perl/lib
C:/Perl/site/lib. at F:\getemails.ph line 1'
Indeed line 1 does say:
'use Email::Find;'
Hm. It seems I haven't installed Email::Find, despite my
Hi,
you need to give it some code to compile. Create a plain text file and put some code
into it, for example:
print hello\n;
Save it somewhere. Then on the command line (the DOS thingy), cd to where you made
this file and type:
perl myperlscript.pl
Where 'myperlscript.pl' is the name you've
Dillon, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
:
: I've spent ages looking to find the front door into Perl.
:
: I have downloaded the Win32 version and installed that using
: MSI on Windows NT. It doesn't create an icon on the desktop.
: The only .exe's I find open into a window with a black
:
Charles K. Clarkson wrote:
It sounds like you may have installed Activestate perl.
If you installed it in the C:\Perl directory, try pasting
this link into a browser window to get to the documentation
on your computer.
file:///C:/Perl/html/index.html
Not necessary. The icon for
Dillon, John wrote:
I've spent ages looking to find the front door into Perl.
I have downloaded the Win32 version and installed that using
MSI on Windows NT. It doesn't create an icon on the desktop.
Why should it? Desktops are for the least sophisticated users, only.
The only .exe's I
Why should it? Desktops are for the least sophisticated users, only.
Ooh, handbags!
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Dillon, John wrote:
I've spent ages looking to find the front door into Perl.
I have downloaded the Win32 version and installed that using
MSI on Windows NT. It doesn't create an icon on the desktop.
Why should it? Desktops
marcel wrote:
Where do I get this list ?
I used the term list here as shorthand for listserv, orf mailing list. The
beginners-perl mailing list is open to the public to subscribe. It is also pus;ished
on a web-site and newsgroup that anyone can subscribe to. Given this, any claim to
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