RE: beginner help

2006-04-19 Thread M K Scott
for 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 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M K Scott) wrote: I am

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

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 the

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 Oracle, I

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

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 is

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. Using

RE: Beginner Help Please- Oracle How To?

2003-10-10 Thread Paul Kraus
perldoc DBI Or http://safari.oreilly.com/JVXSL.asp?x=1mode=sectionsortKey=ranksortOr der=descview=bookxmlid=1-56592-699-4open=falseg=srchText=dbicode= h=m=l=1catid=s=1b=1f=1t=1c=1u=1r=o=1page=0 -Original Message- From: jeffrey pearson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October

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 how

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? jeffrey pearson wrote

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