Re: `perldoc -f` doesn't work for me

2015-05-25 Thread pierrot
Since perldoc and related code is written in perl, you can use a debugger to debug it. You can do: perl -d `which perldoc` -f sort See: * http://perl-begin.org/topics/debugging/ Thank you very much, Shlomi!! I debugged perldoc as you suggested and found the error. Basically

`perldoc -f` doesn't work for me

2015-05-23 Thread Pablo
Hi. Something really odd is happening to me. For example, if I do `perldoc -v $_` I get the information about $_ as expected, but whenever I try `perldoc -f sort` I get this message: /No documentation for perl function 'sort' found./ It seems that perldoc doesn't find any Perl builtin

Re: `perldoc -f` doesn't work for me

2015-05-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Pablo! See below for my response. On Sat, 23 May 2015 03:10:18 -0300 Pablo pab_...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi. Something really odd is happening to me. For example, if I do `perldoc -v $_` I get the information about $_ as expected, but whenever I try `perldoc -f sort` I get this message

Re: Can't find perldoc in Cygwin

2013-11-17 Thread Michael Brader
Hi Juan, see below: On 11/18/2013 10:45 AM, Juan Wei wrote: Michael, Please send questions to the list. I'm not a private support channel and you will likely find more help faster there. I have the Cywin version of perl installed on a Windows 7 computer, and it does not have a perldoc

Re: Can't find perldoc in Cygwin

2013-11-17 Thread Peter Gordon
On 11/18/2013 10:45 AM, Juan Wei wrote: I have the Cywin version of perl installed on a Windows 7 computer, and it does not have a perldoc executable. How can I get perldoc functionality? Open a bash window type perldoc -h This should give you the documentation on perldoc. -- Peter Gordon

Re: Can't find perldoc in Cygwin

2013-11-17 Thread Peter Holsberg
Peter Gordon pete...@netspace.net.au wrote: On 11/18/2013 10:45 AM, Juan Wei wrote: I have the Cywin version of perl installed on a Windows 7 computer, and it does not have a perldoc executable. How can I get perldoc functionality? Open a bash window type perldoc -h This should give you

Re: Can't find perldoc in Cygwin

2013-11-17 Thread Peter Gordon
On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 00:35:17 -0500, Peter Holsberg wrote: Peter Gordon pete...@netspace.net.au wrote: On 11/18/2013 10:45 AM, Juan Wei wrote: I have the Cywin version of perl installed on a Windows 7 computer, and it does not have a perldoc executable. How can I get perldoc functionality? Open

Re: POD and Perldoc

2012-09-14 Thread John Penkethman
how most POD is written. Look at nearly any half-decent module on CPAN, or see perldoc perlpod - it even has examples. They key is that =cut ends POD, and POD directives restart it. e.g. =head1 NAME Badger =head1 SYNOPSIS my $badger = Badger-new; if ($badger-alive

POD and Perldoc

2012-09-13 Thread Weidner, Ron
I'm looking at documenting perl code I'm working on. I'm considering POD but I don't think it can do what I want. Example of what I would like... [code] # here I would put POD synopsis etc. # here I want to put POD that describes this function sub my_echo { my ($str)

Re: POD and Perldoc

2012-09-13 Thread Brandon McCaig
that the Pod format will work just fine. :) If you haven't already then you should read through `perldoc pod', which will likely have better advice than me. :) Regards, -- Brandon McCaig bamcc...@gmail.com bamcc...@castopulence.org Castopulence Software https://www.castopulence.org/ Blog http

Re: POD and Perldoc

2012-09-13 Thread David Precious
, or see perldoc perlpod - it even has examples. They key is that =cut ends POD, and POD directives restart it. e.g. =head1 NAME Badger =head1 SYNOPSIS my $badger = Badger-new; if ($badger-alive) { warn Can't provision on a live badger, that's cruel; } else

syntax question conc​erning Rex::Commands​::Iptables perldoc s​ynopsis​

2012-08-17 Thread Dominik Danter
Hi, I don't understand the following code: task firewall, sub { iptables_clear; ... ... }; I have searched for perl task and have not found anything meaningful. Copy pasting the snippet and executing result in the following: 1286 % ./test.pl String found where

Re: syntax question conc​erning Rex::Commands​::Iptables perldoc s​ynopsis​

2012-08-17 Thread Andy Bach
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Dominik Danter domi...@foop.at wrote: String found where operator expected at ./test.pl line 5, near task firewall Well, 'task' isn't a Perl function built-in or core module so ... can't find anything that uses that syntax for some kind of

Re: syntax question conc​erning Rex::Commands​::Iptables perldoc s​ynopsis​

2012-08-17 Thread Andy Bach
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Andy Bach afb...@gmail.com wrote: Well, 'task' isn't a Perl function built-in or core module Whoops - dang gmail hides the subject line on me - http://search.cpan.org/~jfried/Rex-0.31.3/lib/Rex/Commands/Iptables.pm you left off the line: use

Re: syntax question conc​erning Rex::Commands​::Iptables perldoc s​ynopsis​

2012-08-17 Thread Dominik Danter
Andy Bach afb...@gmail.com hat am 17. August 2012 um 20:25 geschrieben: On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Andy Bach afb...@gmail.com wrote: Well, 'task' isn't a Perl function built-in or core module Whoops - dang gmail hides the subject line on me -

Re: syntax question conc​erning Rex::Commands​::Iptables perldoc synopsis​

2012-08-17 Thread Brandon McCaig
reference. $sub-($arg1); } sub named_sub { print Called named_sub with these arguments: @_\n; } See perldoc perlsub. Regards, -- Brandon McCaig bamcc...@gmail.com bamcc...@castopulence.org Castopulence Software https://www.castopulence.org/ Blog http://www.bamccaig.com/ perl -E '$_=q{V zrna

Re: syntax question conc​erning Rex::Commands​::Iptables perldoc s​ynopsis​

2012-08-17 Thread Andy Bach
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Dominik Danter domi...@foop.at wrote: Wow, that was fast; thank you! I did define it - here is the code that produced the output: #!/usr/bin/env perl use Rex::Commands::Iptables; Oh, well, that wasn't in the snippet. 'task' is actually in Rex, not

Re: syntax question conc​erning Rex::Commands​::Iptables perldoc s​ynopsis​

2012-08-17 Thread Andy Bach
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Andy Bach afb...@gmail.com wrote: So try starting the test script w/.: use Rex; use Rex::Commands::Iptables; Nope - sort of the other way round, 'rex' is an executable program that, like perl, you use to run your script. It normally processes a file in the

Re: syntax question conc​erning Rex::Commands​::Iptables perldoc s​ynopsis​

2012-08-17 Thread Dominik Danter
Andy Bach afb...@gmail.com hat am 17. August 2012 um 22:12 geschrieben: On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Andy Bach afb...@gmail.com wrote: So try starting the test script w/.: use Rex; use Rex::Commands::Iptables; Nope - sort of the other way round, 'rex' is an executable program

No documentation found for perldoc

2012-02-10 Thread casandra riera ribas
Hi, I have some (probably very stupid) problem when trying to search in perldoc in my computer (MacOSX 10.7.2), see: maccasandra:~ mcasandrariera$ perldoc perltoc No documentation found for perltoc. maccasandra:~ mcasandrariera$ perldoc List::Util ##this worked maccasandra:~ mcasandrariera

Re: No documentation found for perldoc

2012-02-10 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 12-02-10 11:26 AM, casandra riera ribas wrote: Hi, I have some (probably very stupid) problem when trying to search in perldoc in my computer (MacOSX 10.7.2), see: I would say that your Perl documentation is missing. On Linux, some distros come without it. I know how to load it in Debian

Re: DBIx::Class add rows to table, confusion in perldoc example....

2012-02-05 Thread Dermot
On 5 February 2012 03:29, Rajeev Prasad rp.ne...@yahoo.com wrote: Author says: Adding and removing rows To create a new record in the database, you can use the create method. It returns an instance of My::Schema::Result::Album that can be used to access the data in the new record: my

DBIx::Class add rows to table, confusion in perldoc example....

2012-02-04 Thread Rajeev Prasad
Author says: Adding and removing rows To create a new record in the database, you can use the create method. It returns an instance of My::Schema::Result::Album that can be used to access the data in the new record: my $new_album = $schema-resultset('Album')-create({ title = 'Wish You Were

perldoc perlre

2011-07-25 Thread Rob Dixon
My memory always fails me regarding the result of a Perl pattern match. It depends on - m// or s/// - scalar or list context - /g qualifier ... and I am not certain that that is all! The details are in perldoc perlre but my question is whether the list thinks a more ordered document would

Re: perldoc perlre

2011-07-25 Thread Shlomi Fish
me too. The details are in perldoc perlre That's not all there is there. And the BUGS section reads: [QUOTE] This document varies from difficult to understand to completely and utterly opaque. The wandering prose riddled with jargon is hard to fathom in several places. [/QUOTE] so possibly

Re:Links to perldoc in pdf

2011-06-28 Thread pangj
Download it with both HTML and PDF files: http://perldoc.perl.org/perldoc.tar.gz Message du 27/06/11 23:42 De : Peng Yu A : Perl Beginners Copie à : Objet : Links to perldoc in pdf Hi, perldoc.perl.org has the perl document in pdf format. But I don't find a webpage that links

Links to perldoc in pdf

2011-06-27 Thread Peng Yu
Hi, perldoc.perl.org has the perl document in pdf format. But I don't find a webpage that links to all the pdfs. I only find webpage that links to htmls. Does anybody know if there is a webpage that has links to all the pdf document? perldoc.perl.org/perlintro.pdf -- Regards, Peng -- To

command line perldoc and Padre, the Perl IDE

2009-09-10 Thread Gabor Szabo
perldoc has all sorts of problems, it is hard to use to people who don't yet know how to use it and it does not give you a useful answer to many questions. It gives you a correct answer, it is just not very useful to beginners. tryperldoc -f open It has a long explanation on all kinds

Re: perldoc output looks strange

2009-09-06 Thread Dave Tang
On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:14:41 +1000, Noah Garrett Wallach noah-l...@enabled.com wrote: Hi there, Hello does anybody know why the perldoc output looks so strange on my mac? Here are the first few lines of 'perldoc perldoc' I have no idea on the strange output but on my linux box some

perldoc modules

2009-09-04 Thread Noah Garrett Wallach
Hi there, this might be obvious but how can I find a list of all the perldoc modules? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: perldoc modules

2009-09-04 Thread Jim Gibson
At 7:34 PM -0700 9/4/09, Noah Garrett Wallach wrote: Hi there, this might be obvious but how can I find a list of all the perldoc modules? Perldoc will only work for modules that are installed on your system. The directories in which Perl will search for modules is given by the array @INC

Re: perldoc modules

2009-09-04 Thread Jeff Pang
2009/9/5 Noah Garrett Wallach noah-l...@enabled.com: Hi there, this might be obvious but how can I find a list of all the perldoc modules? All standard modules including core and non-core modules have perldoc interface. For checking core modules: http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/Module

perldoc output looks strange

2009-09-04 Thread Noah Garrett Wallach
Hi there, does anybody know why the perldoc output looks so strange on my mac? Here are the first few lines of 'perldoc perldoc' SYNOPSIS perldoc [###7m8892^H###7m8892h] [###7m8892^H###7m8892v] [###7m8892^H###7m88 92t] [###7m8892^H###7m8892u] [###7m8892^H###7m8892m] [###7m8892^H

Re: AW: perldoc perlboot

2009-06-23 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Thomas == Thomas Bätzler t.baetz...@bringe.com writes: Thomas Now $class is 'Dormouse', but the current package is 'Mouse' and the Thomas explanation from perlboot makes sense: $class-SUPER::speak() invokes Thomas Animal::speak() and not Mouse::speak(). Exactly, because if it didn't, it'd be an

perldoc perlboot

2009-06-18 Thread Dave Tang
Hello, I've been going through perldoc perlboot and I have a question about using the SUPER class. Here's the code in the documentation: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; { package Animal; sub speak { my $class = shift; print a $class goes , $class-sound, !\n

AW: perldoc perlboot

2009-06-18 Thread Thomas Bätzler
Dave Tang d.t...@imb.uq.edu.au asked: I've been going through perldoc perlboot and I have a question about using the SUPER class. Here's the code in the documentation: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; { package Animal; sub speak { my $class = shift

Re: Programming Perl vs perldoc

2009-04-10 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
asmith9983 == asmith9983 asmith9...@gmail.com writes: asmith9983 I've found the site:- asmith9983 [redacted] asmith9983 very useful for things I've worked on for examples. Sir, I'm personally offended by you. The authors of the materials you've just posted an indirect link for worked hard to

RE: Programming Perl vs perldoc

2009-04-09 Thread David Christensen
next step. But, what's the advantage of Programming Perl when we have perldoc? What does the book give me that perldoc does not? A chess program sounds ambitious for a first program in a new language, but more power to you. :-) Download and install perlindex -- it is a perldoc wrapper script

Re: Programming Perl vs perldoc

2009-04-09 Thread Dermot
2009/4/8 Richard Hobson pub...@richardhobson.com: On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:50 -0400, Chas. Owens chas.ow...@gmail.com wrote: Amazon US has Intermediate Perl new for $25, while Amazon UK has it for $46, excluding postage. It's £30.99 and postage is free if you accept standard 2nd class

Re: Programming Perl vs perldoc

2009-04-09 Thread James Coupe
Dermot paik...@googlemail.com wrote: 2009/4/8 Richard Hobson pub...@richardhobson.com: On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:50 -0400, Chas. Owens chas.ow...@gmail.com wrote: Amazon US has Intermediate Perl new for $25, while Amazon UK has it for $46, excluding postage. It's £30.99 and postage is free if

Programming Perl vs perldoc

2009-04-08 Thread Richard Hobson
the advantage of Programming Perl when we have perldoc? What does the book give me that perldoc does not? Thanks, Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Programming Perl vs perldoc

2009-04-08 Thread Brian J. Miller
hung up on? I thought about getting Intermediate Perl, but I've heard that Programming Perl is the best next step. I'd disagree and say that your suggestion of Intermediate Perl would be the next best step. But, what's the advantage of Programming Perl when we have perldoc? What does

Re: Programming Perl vs perldoc

2009-04-08 Thread Richard Hobson
* to look in perldoc, but much of the information will be the same. (Any number of sites and Google can help with where to look.) OK. I'll probably stick with perldoc and get Intermediate Perl. I'm currently unemployed, so I can't really fork out for both books right now - but I have plenty of time

Re: Programming Perl vs perldoc

2009-04-08 Thread Richard Hobson
* to look in perldoc, but much of the information will be the same. (Any number of sites and Google can help with where to look.) OK. I'll probably stick with perldoc and get Intermediate Perl. I'm currently unemployed, so I can't really fork out for both books right now - but I have plenty of time

Re: Programming Perl vs perldoc

2009-04-08 Thread Chas. Owens
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 08:37, Brian J. Miller wigg...@danconia.org wrote: snip I thought about getting Intermediate Perl, but I've heard that Programming Perl is the best next step. I'd disagree and say that your suggestion of Intermediate Perl would be the next best step. snip I would say

Re: Programming Perl vs perldoc

2009-04-08 Thread Brian J. Miller
descriptions are more in depth and having a book with a table of contents and index can often be easier to reference when you don't know *where* to look in perldoc, but much of the information will be the same. (Any number of sites and Google can help with where to look.) OK. I'll probably stick

Re: Programming Perl vs perldoc

2009-04-08 Thread Chas. Owens
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 08:42, Richard Hobson pub...@richardhobson.com wrote: snip OK. I'll probably stick with perldoc and get Intermediate Perl. I'm currently unemployed, so I can't really fork out for both books right now - but I have plenty of time to learn Perl! snip Your whois information

Re: Programming Perl vs perldoc

2009-04-08 Thread Peter Scott
On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:08:41 +0100, Richard Hobson wrote: But, what's the advantage of Programming Perl when we have perldoc? What does the book give me that perldoc does not? In earlier editions, the only difference was footnotes. Later editions have more significant differences but I do

Re: Programming Perl vs perldoc

2009-04-08 Thread Richard Hobson
On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:50 -0400, Chas. Owens chas.ow...@gmail.com wrote: Your whois information suggests that you live in the US; I am always amazed to hear fellow Americans say things like that book is expensive. We have a wonderful lending library system in this country, use it. If your

Re: Programming Perl vs perldoc

2009-04-08 Thread Chas. Owens
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 08:57, Richard Hobson pub...@richardhobson.com wrote: On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:50 -0400, Chas. Owens chas.ow...@gmail.com wrote: Your whois information suggests that you live in the US; I am always amazed to hear fellow Americans say things like that book is expensive.  

Re: Programming Perl vs perldoc

2009-04-08 Thread Telemachus
On Wed Apr 08 2009 @ 1:08, Richard Hobson wrote: But, what's the advantage of Programming Perl when we have perldoc? What does the book give me that perldoc does not? One thing that nobody has mentioned is that Programming Perl hasn't been updated since Perl 5.6. There have been two major

Re: Programming Perl vs perldoc

2009-04-08 Thread Telemachus
One other thing: http://perldoc.perl.org/ is an excellent way to read the docs online (searchable too), and it provides pdf versions of almost everything. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Programming Perl vs perldoc

2009-04-08 Thread asmith9983
on? I thought about getting Intermediate Perl, but I've heard that Programming Perl is the best next step. I'd disagree and say that your suggestion of Intermediate Perl would be the next best step. But, what's the advantage of Programming Perl when we have perldoc? What does the book give

perldoc ESC problem (was: Send email using SMTP)

2009-01-10 Thread Mike Williams
Hi there. Since the charset doesn't seem to be the problem, maybe this will help. Did some digging and found a bug report against redhat version 8 concerning terminal codes in perldoc output. There were comments about this being a bug in groff. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=72125

perldoc doesn't work

2008-03-14 Thread Snider
I'm experiencing a strange problem with perldoc on a RHEL 4 box. Basically, I get no output when I run perldoc anything as a regular user. In other words, I get a blank less output. If I run the command as root I can see the information. I'm kind of stumped as to how to debug this problem

Re: perldoc doesn't work

2008-03-14 Thread John W. Krahn
Snider wrote: I'm experiencing a strange problem with perldoc on a RHEL 4 box. Basically, I get no output when I run perldoc anything as a regular user. In other words, I get a blank less output. If I run the command as root I can see the information. I'm kind of stumped as to how to debug

Re: perldoc -q How can I make my Perl program run faster?

2007-03-24 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 17:17 -0700, oryann9 wrote: So in general in a web environment with 8-12gb RAM, mod_Perl and a MySQL/Postgres backend, do you or people you know statically link libc.a? My understanding is with mod_perl the perl is constantly loaded into Apache, not starting and

Re: perldoc -q How can I make my Perl program run faster?

2007-03-23 Thread Jay Savage
, -- jay thank you for responding, however I have to disagree with you in that this is not a Perl question because it is, otherwise perldoc -q would not have this info. In addition it directly talks about options when installing Perl. I think you're having trouble keeping your Perls straight

Re: perldoc -q How can I make my Perl program run faster?

2007-03-23 Thread oryann9
and/or the C compiler on your system. HTH, -- jay thank you for responding, however I have to disagree with you in that this is not a Perl question because it is, otherwise perldoc -q would not have this info. In addition it directly talks about options when

perldoc -q How can I make my Perl program run faster?

2007-03-22 Thread oryann9
On this FAQ I read: If you're currently linking your perl executable to a shared libc.so, you can often gain a 10-25% performance benefit by rebuilding it to link with a static libc.a instead. This will make a bigger perl exe-cutable, but your Perl programs (and programmers) may thank you for

Re: perldoc -q How can I make my Perl program run faster?

2007-03-22 Thread Chas Owens
On 3/22/07, oryann9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Am I linked to libc.a? snip libc=/usr/lib/libc.a, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.a snip It looks like it. My perl says libc=/lib/libc-2.4.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.5.8.8 it looks like you are using

Re: perldoc -q How can I make my Perl program run faster?

2007-03-22 Thread oryann9
--- Chas Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/22/07, oryann9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Am I linked to libc.a? snip libc=/usr/lib/libc.a, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.a snip It looks like it. My perl says libc=/lib/libc-2.4.so, so=so, useshrplib=true,

Re: perldoc -q How can I make my Perl program run faster?

2007-03-22 Thread Jay Savage
On 3/22/07, oryann9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Chas Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/22/07, oryann9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Am I linked to libc.a? snip libc=/usr/lib/libc.a, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.a snip It looks like it. My perl says

Re: perldoc -q How can I make my Perl program run faster?

2007-03-22 Thread oryann9
to disagree with you in that this is not a Perl question because it is, otherwise perldoc -q would not have this info. In addition it directly talks about options when installing Perl. So in general in a web environment with 8-12gb RAM, mod_Perl and a MySQL/Postgres backend, do you or people you

Re: perldoc -q How can I make my Perl program run faster?

2007-03-22 Thread Chas Owens
On 3/22/07, oryann9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip So in general in a web environment with 8-12gb RAM, mod_Perl and a MySQL/Postgres backend, do you or people you know statically link libc.a? For mod_perl performance related questions I would suggest asking on the mod_perl list ([EMAIL

perldoc strangeness

2007-03-03 Thread Jay Savage
I just noticed something strange with my perldoc (v5.8.6 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level): some perldoc -f doesn't return anything for a number of functions, particularly, it seems, a number of the functions for SCALRs and strings. I noticied it first with chr, but none of the functions

Re: perldoc strangeness

2007-03-03 Thread Tom Phoenix
On 3/3/07, Jay Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: perldoc -f doesn't return anything for a number of functions Is this normal behavior? Nope. This sounds like a job for perlbug. Cheers! --Tom Phoenix Stonehenge Perl Training -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: All of perldoc to text

2006-11-02 Thread Bryan R Harris
On 11/1/06, Bryan R Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: perldoc to me has always been this kind of magicians hat where you wave a wand and chant some special words and magically out pops some thing you never read or heard before. Is it possible to somehow pipe the whole thing into a text

Re: Re: All of perldoc to text

2006-11-02 Thread Tom Phoenix
On 11/2/06, Bryan R Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there a way to get perldoc to dump *everything* it knows into a huge text file? In addition to the core Perl documentation, which is a large set of pod files, nearly all modules have their own documentation files (usually with .pod or .pm

Re: All of perldoc to text

2006-11-02 Thread Arnaldo Guzman
On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 11:02 -0700, Bryan R Harris wrote: On 11/1/06, Bryan R Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: perldoc to me has always been this kind of magicians hat where you wave a wand and chant some special words and magically out pops some thing you never read or heard before

Re: All of perldoc to text

2006-11-02 Thread Tommy Nordgren
On 1 nov 2006, at 23.03, Bryan R Harris wrote: perldoc to me has always been this kind of magicians hat where you wave a wand and chant some special words and magically out pops some thing you never read or heard before. Also surprising is how detailed it is, it seems to have things

Re: Re: All of perldoc to text @ 1162502881

2006-11-02 Thread Johan Meskens CS3 jmcs3
to somehow pipe the whole thing into a text editor to have things that even the Perl Bookshelf doesn't. it seems never read or heard before. Also surprising is how detailed it is, you wand and chant some special words and magically out pops some thing you wave a perldoc to me has always

All of perldoc to text

2006-11-01 Thread Bryan R Harris
perldoc to me has always been this kind of magicians hat where you wave a wand and chant some special words and magically out pops some thing you never read or heard before. Also surprising is how detailed it is, it seems to have things that even the Perl Bookshelf doesn't. Is it possible

Re: All of perldoc to text

2006-11-01 Thread Tom Phoenix
On 11/1/06, Bryan R Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: perldoc to me has always been this kind of magicians hat where you wave a wand and chant some special words and magically out pops some thing you never read or heard before. Is it possible to somehow pipe the whole thing into a text editor

Re: [OT] perldoc typo

2006-08-25 Thread Adriano Ferreira
are using). Chances are that the thing that annoys you has already been taken care of. As Tom said, perlbug is one of the most promising ways to go - it already takes care of including your version info into the bug report. I found that you meant perldoc -q filehandle and the problem

[OT] perldoc typo

2006-08-24 Thread Klaus Jantzen
I would like to inform whoever feels responsible for perldoc that the output of perldoc -f filehandle contains a small typo. Before anybody says it does not work here the the info: Line 85 should say $fh = IO::Handle - new(); i.e. the dash of the arrow is missing -- K. Jantzen

Re: [OT] perldoc typo

2006-08-24 Thread Tom Phoenix
On 8/24/06, Klaus Jantzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to inform whoever feels responsible for perldoc You may use the perlbug program to send bug reports for Perl, its utilities, and its documentation. Send a patch, if you can. output of perldoc -f filehandle Huh

Re: [OT] perldoc typo

2006-08-24 Thread Mathew
Tom Phoenix wrote: On 8/24/06, Klaus Jantzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to inform whoever feels responsible for perldoc You may use the perlbug program to send bug reports for Perl, its utilities, and its documentation. Send a patch, if you can. output of perldoc -f

which perldoc ?

2005-10-19 Thread Brian Volk
Hi All~ Is there a perldoc that will list the available arguments and there meanings for perl-one-liners? I saw this in an earlier email; Subject: Delete a char from a file Perl -pi -e '/s/%/ /' filename I'm guessing the -i is for in-place edit and the -e

Re: which perldoc ?

2005-10-19 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Oct 19, Brian Volk said: Is there a perldoc that will list the available arguments and there meanings for perl-one-liners? Yes. To try and figure out what perldoc to look at for a given topic, do: perldoc perldoc which will show the names of the documentation sections and a brief

Re: which perldoc ?

2005-10-19 Thread Randy W. Sims
Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: On Oct 19, Brian Volk said: Is there a perldoc that will list the available arguments and there meanings for perl-one-liners? Yes. To try and figure out what perldoc to look at for a given topic, do: perldoc perldoc You mean `perldoc perl

Re: which perldoc ?

2005-10-19 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Oct 19, Randy W. Sims said: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: On Oct 19, Brian Volk said: Is there a perldoc that will list the available arguments and there meanings for perl-one-liners? Yes. To try and figure out what perldoc to look at for a given topic, do: perldoc perldoc You mean

Perldoc question...

2005-10-17 Thread Richard.Copits
I'm really new to PERL, and have what's probably a really basic question I've seen references to perldoc where apparently a person can look and find explanations of various PERL topics...but where do I go to find PERLDOC? Is this a website or ??? Thank you for help and suggestions

Re: Perldoc question...

2005-10-17 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm really new to PERL, and have what's probably a really basic question I've seen references to perldoc where apparently a person can look and find explanations of various PERL topics...but where do I go to find PERLDOC? Is this a website or ??? perldoc

RE: Perldoc question...

2005-10-17 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
Octavian Rasnita mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : perldoc is a program included in the perl package. : : Just run the commands: : : perldoc perldoc : perldoc perl You can run the commands from a dos (or command prompt) window on a Windows type machine. : And you will see how you should

RE: Perldoc question...

2005-10-17 Thread Chris Devers
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Charles K. Clarkson wrote: Octavian Rasnita mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : perldoc is a program included in the perl package. : : Just run the commands: : : perldoc perldoc : perldoc perl You can run the commands from a dos (or command prompt) window

perldoc formatting

2005-07-10 Thread christopher . l . hood
Ok basically I have written a module, and it works, I have updated the documentation in the module, and it works for the most part. What I am seeing is that when I use a single quote that the line looks like this when you use perldoc. ookup::GetInfo(’$affiliate’,’$ip_address’,â

where to get perldoc Net::Telnet? missing in the perldoc from perldoc.perl.org

2005-06-20 Thread MEENA SELVAM
Hi, I do not have the Net::Telnet in the perldoc i downloaded from perldoc.perl.org. even http://perldoccom/cspan/Net/Telnet.Html page is not working meena __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http

Re: where to get perldoc Net::Telnet? missing in the perldoc from perldoc.perl.org

2005-06-20 Thread Wijaya Edward
: where to get perldoc Net::Telnet? missing in the perldoc from perldoc.perl.org Hi, I do not have the Net::Telnet in the perldoc i downloaded from perldoc.perl.org. even http://perldoccom/cspan/Net/Telnet.Html page is not working meena

Which perldoc discuss about loops ?

2004-11-03 Thread Bee
Hi, Just a quick question, which perldoc talking about loops ? for, while, do until... ? I just can't find it out TIA, Bee

Re: Which perldoc discuss about loops ?

2004-11-03 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Bee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just a quick question, which perldoc talking about loops ? for, while, do until... ? I just can't find it out perlsyn Jenda = [EMAIL PROTECTED] === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz = When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed

Re: Which perldoc discuss about loops ?

2004-11-03 Thread Bee
Thanks Jenda ! Got it now =) - Original Message - From: Jenda Krynicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 5:57 AM Subject: Re: Which perldoc discuss about loops ? From: Bee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just a quick question, which perldoc

Re: What search string do I use on google or perldoc so that I know how to display a specified range of lines from a file (like sed -n 24, 48p filename)?

2004-10-23 Thread Zeus Odin
The following prints lines 24-48 of filename: prompt perl -ne print if 24..48 filename Ken Wolcott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] A fishing pole question rather than a fish question :-) What search string do I use on google or perldoc so that I know how to display

Re: What search string do I use on google or perldoc so that I know how to display a specified range of lines from a file (like sed -n 24, 48p filename)?

2004-10-23 Thread Bob Showalter
Ken Wolcott wrote: A fishing pole question rather than a fish question :-) What search string do I use on google or perldoc so that I know how to display a specified range of lines from a file (like sed -n 24, 48p filename)? Zeus gave you the solution, but the background is explained in perldoc

What search string do I use on google or perldoc so that I know how to display a specified range of lines from a file (like sed -n 24, 48p filename)?

2004-10-22 Thread Ken Wolcott
A fishing pole question rather than a fish question :-) What search string do I use on google or perldoc so that I know how to display a specified range of lines from a file (like sed -n 24, 48p filename)? s2p no longer operates the way I used to use it back in perl 3x days :-) man s2p really

Re: What search string do I use on google or perldoc ...

2004-10-22 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Ken Wolcott [EMAIL PROTECTED] What search string do I use on google or perldoc so that I know how to display a specified range of lines from a file (like sed -n 24, 48p filename)? Whatever you like. I doubt you'll find anything. s2p no longer operates the way I used to use it back

Re: What search string do I use on google or perldoc ...

2004-10-22 Thread David le Blanc
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 00:32:09 +0200, Jenda Krynicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ken Wolcott [EMAIL PROTECTED] What search string do I use on google or perldoc so that I know how to display a specified range of lines from a file (like sed -n 24, 48p filename)? Have you considered 'man sed

perldoc and utf8 or something..

2004-08-14 Thread Harry Putnam
I've been noticing for a while now. I keep forgetting to ask about it since it only comes up if I copy/paste something from the output of perldoc. Here is an example of what I see: perldoc -f split Now from that output, find the first example of actual scripting (scroll down to find it) print

Perldoc advice

2004-06-05 Thread Brian Volk
Hi All, which perldoc (s) should I read if I'm going to be writing a program using regular expression? Substitutions - case shifting. I have a folder which contains thousands of text files. (short desc. for image files). I copied and pasted most of the short descriptions so some files

Re: Perldoc advice

2004-06-05 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Brian Volk wrote: Hi All, which perldoc (s) should I read if I'm going to be writing a program using regular expression? Substitutions - case shifting. I have a folder which contains thousands of text files. (short desc. for image files). I copied and pasted most of the short descriptions so

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