Re: How does this work?

2011-04-27 Thread John W. Krahn
Owen wrote: There is a person on the Internet using this to advise his email address. perl -le "print scalar reverse qq/moc.liamg\100halbhalb/" I am intrigued as to how "001\" becomes "@" "\100" is interpolated as "@" before the string is reversed. You could also write that as: perl -le

Re: How does this work?

2011-04-27 Thread Ishwor Gurung
Hi Owen. G'day. On 27 April 2011 19:13, Owen wrote: > There is a person on the Internet using this to advise his email > address. > >   perl -le "print scalar reverse qq/moc.liamg\100halbhalb/" > > I am intrigued as to how "001\" becomes "@" Try this :-) perl -le "print scalar reverse qq/ua.gro.

RE: How does this work?

2011-04-27 Thread Tim Lewis
If needed, there is a good complete table of the ASCII values at http://www.asciitable.com/ Tim -Original Message- From: Ishwor Gurung [mailto:ishwor.gur...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 5:46 AM To: Perl Beginners Subject: Re: How does this work? Hi Owen. G'day.

Re: How does this work?

2011-04-27 Thread Jeff Pang
2011/4/27 Tim Lewis : > If needed, there is a good complete table of the ASCII values at > http://www.asciitable.com/ > Good resource. BTW, what do "Hx" and "Oct" in the table mean? And what's the difference between them? Regards. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For ad

Re: How does this work?

2011-04-27 Thread John W. Krahn
Jeff Pang wrote: 2011/4/27 Tim Lewis: If needed, there is a good complete table of the ASCII values at http://www.asciitable.com/ Good resource. BTW, what do "Hx" and "Oct" in the table mean? And what's the difference between them? Hx = hexadecimal Oct = octal Hexadecimal is the base 16 re

Re: how does this work

2004-05-06 Thread Flemming Greve Skovengaard
Lino Iozzo wrote: I am having trouble getting this to work. I took this off of cpan.org Once you've downloaded one of these archives and unpacked it, you need to use it to build a binary for your system, then test and install it. how is this done. Please help. Lino What OS are you usi

Re: how does this work

2004-05-06 Thread Flemming Greve Skovengaard
Lino Iozzo wrote: where would i do that...what does that mean? I am using windows 2000 and unix. Lino [snip] OK, we'll take it step by step. FOR UNIX: cd to where your placed the archive, then run tar -zxvf module_name.tar.gz (for information about the tar flags see the man page for tar), then

Re: how does this work

2004-05-06 Thread Flemming Greve Skovengaard
Lino Iozzo wrote: my apologies for beating this to death and i do appreciate your help...i have never had to do this. but i am making an effort to learn what is the man page? Manual page, try typing 'man tar'. this is what i downloaded: stable.tar.gz then there was also this: MD5; do you know