Re: help needed to get over endless loop

2009-04-20 Thread Brian
Thank you all for your much needed help. The penny has managed to drop. regards Brian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: help needed to get over endless loop

2009-04-17 Thread Chas. Owens
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 21:35, Brian wrote: snip > LOL, I didn't understand any of that. :-) > Apart from the last sentence ;-) snip Think of a clock, they hands can go around as many times as you like but they can never point to anything higher than 12. Modulus works the same way, the second va

Re: help needed to get over endless loop

2009-04-17 Thread Brian
John W. Krahn wrote: Brian wrote: John W. Krahn wrote: Brian wrote: This is what I'm using upto the code that is giving me a headache. I know it's messy, but I have no training in PERL, I am trying to forward-engineer this cgi by back-engineering from html templates I created and which were

Re: help needed to get over endless loop

2009-04-17 Thread John W. Krahn
Brian wrote: John W. Krahn wrote: Brian wrote: This is what I'm using upto the code that is giving me a headache. I know it's messy, but I have no training in PERL, I am trying to forward-engineer this cgi by back-engineering from html templates I created and which were chosen using $t->src

Re: help needed to get over endless loop

2009-04-17 Thread Brian
John W. Krahn wrote: Brian wrote: This is what I'm using upto the code that is giving me a headache. I know it's messy, but I have no training in PERL, I am trying to forward-engineer this cgi by back-engineering from html templates I created and which were chosen using $t->src [ *SNIP* ]

Re: help needed to get over endless loop

2009-04-17 Thread Brian
Brian wrote: John W. Krahn wrote: Brian wrote: chomp($Lang = $val1); chomp($Year_in = $val2); chomp() removes the contents of the $/ variable from the end of the string. What makes you think that $val1 and $val2 need to be chomp()ed? Oops, they are leftovers from when I was using STDIN

Re: help needed to get over endless loop

2009-04-17 Thread Brian
John W. Krahn wrote: Brian wrote: This is what I'm using upto the code that is giving me a headache. I know it's messy, but I have no training in PERL, I am trying to forward-engineer this cgi by back-engineering from html templates I created and which were chosen using $t->src #! c:\perl\b

Re: help needed to get over endless loop

2009-04-17 Thread John W. Krahn
Brian wrote: This is what I'm using upto the code that is giving me a headache. I know it's messy, but I have no training in PERL, I am trying to forward-engineer this cgi by back-engineering from html templates I created and which were chosen using $t->src [ *SNIP* ] whe

Re: help needed to get over endless loop

2009-04-17 Thread John W. Krahn
Brian wrote: This is what I'm using upto the code that is giving me a headache. I know it's messy, but I have no training in PERL, I am trying to forward-engineer this cgi by back-engineering from html templates I created and which were chosen using $t->src thanks for any help Brian #! c:

Re: help needed to get over endless loop

2009-04-17 Thread Brian
Jim Gibson wrote: On 4/17/09 Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:50 PM, "Brian" scribbled: Brian wrote: oops, should read.. $Year_out = $Year_in; while ($Year_out > 100) {$Year_out -= 100;} if (($Year_out > 00) && ($Year_out <= 25)) {$string = $string1;} if (($Year_out > 25

Re: help needed to get over endless loop

2009-04-17 Thread Jim Gibson
On 4/17/09 Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:50 PM, "Brian" scribbled: > Brian wrote: > > oops, should read.. > > $Year_out = $Year_in; > > while ($Year_out > 100) {$Year_out -= 100;} > if (($Year_out > 00) && ($Year_out <= 25)) {$string = $string1;} > if (($Year_out > 25) &

Re: help needed to get over endless loop

2009-04-17 Thread Brian
Kevin Ponds wrote: Brian, Your while loops aren't actually performing any operation on the variable I did actually state that the loops wouldn't work. I adjusted them to better show what I want to achieve, not to show how I am trying to achieve it. that is being tested as part of their co

Re: help needed to get over endless loop

2009-04-17 Thread Kevin Ponds
Brian, Your while loops aren't actually performing any operation on the variable that is being tested as part of their condition. With while loops, if the condition ($i in this case) is true at the start of the loop, and doesn't change, they will loop forever. They aren't like for loops, where y

Re: help needed to get over endless loop

2009-04-17 Thread Brian
Brian wrote: oops, should read.. $Year_out = $Year_in; while ($Year_out > 100) {$Year_out -= 100;} if (($Year_out > 00) && ($Year_out <= 25)) {$string = $string1;} if (($Year_out > 25) && ($Year_out <= 50)) {$Year_out -= 25;$string = $string2;} if (($Year_o

Re: help needed to get over endless loop

2009-04-17 Thread Brian
This is what I'm using upto the code that is giving me a headache. I know it's messy, but I have no training in PERL, I am trying to forward-engineer this cgi by back-engineering from html templates I created and which were chosen using $t->src thanks for any help Brian #! c:\perl\bin\perl

Re: help needed to get over endless loop

2009-04-17 Thread Brian
Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- CFS wrote: -Original Message- From: Brian [mailto:brian5432...@yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 11:03 To: Perl Beginners Subject: help needed to get over endless loop Hi I had this semi-working, changed something and can&#

RE: help needed to get over endless loop

2009-04-17 Thread Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- CFS
> -Original Message- > From: Brian [mailto:brian5432...@yahoo.co.uk] > Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 11:03 > To: Perl Beginners > Subject: help needed to get over endless loop > > Hi > I had this semi-working, changed something and can't remember wh

Re: help needed to get over endless loop

2009-04-17 Thread Jim Gibson
On 4/17/09 Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:02 AM, "Brian" scribbled: > Hi > I had this semi-working, changed something and can't remember where I > went right, so would appreciate some help getting back on top. > > I know 1..10 and 2..10 probably won't work in the following example, I > have just changed

help needed to get over endless loop

2009-04-17 Thread Brian
Hi I had this semi-working, changed something and can't remember where I went right, so would appreciate some help getting back on top. I know 1..10 and 2..10 probably won't work in the following example, I have just changed lines to show what I am trying to get. $mystart = -2; $i = 1; for