Re: beginner help

2006-04-18 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
On Tue, 2006-18-04 at 13:37 +0100, M K Scott wrote: > I am just starting out teaching myself Perl from books and web resources so I > apologise if my questions seems a little straight forward but I was hoping to > ask here to get clarification and so I hope my simple questions do not annoy > you

Re: beginner help

2006-04-18 Thread Dr.Ruud
"M K Scott" schreef: > I am trying to initialise an array with certain characters in it to > then match to user input but the '£' symbol is coming up in the > comparison as a funny looking 'u symbol with a squiggle above. Is > this due to me being inept at programming or my PC not understanding >

RE: beginner help

2006-04-19 Thread M K Scott
the help, I'm sure I'll be back soon. Mark >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of zentara >Sent: 18 April 2006 20:13 >To: beginners@perl.org >Subject: Re: beginner help > >On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:37:11 +01

Re: beginner help

2006-04-19 Thread JupiterHost.Net
M K Scott wrote: Well, it may not be the ideal solution but just for the record I got it to work. I used a scalar to contain the correect value: $pound = chr 156; Then used unshift to add it to the array. unshift @array, $pound; Seems to have done the trick which is all I wa

RE: Beginner Help Please- Oracle How To?

2003-10-10 Thread Paul Kraus
perldoc DBI Or http://safari.oreilly.com/JVXSL.asp?x=1&mode=section&sortKey=rank&sortOr der=desc&view=book&xmlid=1-56592-699-4&open=false&g=&srchText=dbi&code=& h=&m=&l=1&catid=&s=1&b=1&f=1&t=1&c=1&u=1&r=&o=1&page=0 -Original Message- From: jeffrey pearson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sen

RE: Beginner Help Please- Oracle How To?

2003-10-10 Thread Bob Showalter
jeffrey pearson wrote: > Im hoping I could get some beginner help please. Im in the > middle of writing my first PERL program. My development > machine is WinXP. Ive downloaded, installed and am working > with the ActivePERL 5.8. Im trying to connect and access an > oracle database. Ive figured out

Re: RE: Beginner Help Please- Oracle How To?

2003-10-10 Thread jeffrey pearson
-OracleLogin 4. DBIx-OracleLogin 5. DDL-Oracle not a DBD::Oracle in sight. OK. Where do I get this module from? - Original Message - From: Bob Showalter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, October 10, 2003 10:53 am Subject: RE: Beginner Help Please- Oracle How To? > jeffre

RE: RE: Beginner Help Please- Oracle How To?

2003-10-10 Thread Tristram Nefzger
http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/DBD/ -Original Message- From: jeffrey pearson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 2:21 PM To: Bob Showalter Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RE: Beginner Help Please- Oracle How To? My apologies for being vague. I have

Re: RE: Beginner Help Please- Oracle How To?

2003-10-12 Thread Rob Dixon
Tristram Nefzger wrote: > > Bob Showalter wrote: > > My apologies for being vague. > > I have the client sw installed. I can connect and work with my databases > via SQLPlus just fine. > > The issue Im having is I understand I need DBD::Oracle. I cant find it. > If I go into ppm and do a search Ora

Re: RE: Beginner Help Please- Oracle How To?

2003-10-12 Thread Rob Dixon
Rob Dixon wrote: > > Which PPM server are you using Tristram? On my system > It's just occurred to me that your PPM shell may be an old one. Mine starts up with PPM interactive shell (2.1.5) and it's my guess that, with a leap of faith, if you just do ppm install DBD::Oracle it may well wo

Re: RE: Beginner Help Please- Oracle How To?

2003-10-12 Thread Rob Dixon
Tristram Nefzger wrote: > > >Rob Dixon wrote: > > >Which PPM server are you using Tristram? > > Hey Rob, > > To get my attention it's best to include me explicitly on the > To list in addition to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The list works on a public basis only. I will send a courtesy copy to people if it i

RE: RE: Beginner Help Please- Oracle How To?

2003-10-12 Thread Tristram Nefzger
>Rob Dixon wrote: >Which PPM server are you using Tristram? Hey Rob, To get my attention it's best to include me explicitly on the To list in addition to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've switched to from ActiveState perl to the Cygwin perl package. The latter doesn't seem to include the ppm command.

Re: RE: Beginner Help Please- Oracle How To?

2003-10-12 Thread Rob Dixon
Tristram Nefzger wrote: > > >Which PPM server are you using Tristram? > > I've switched to from ActiveState perl to the Cygwin perl > package. The latter doesn't seem to include the ppm command. No. As far as I know PPM is an ActiveState product which you will get by installing ActivePerl. > Usi