Re: Quick question on Doing The Right Thing

2002-05-02 Thread Newton, Philip
Roger Burton West wrote: What, in the opinion of the list, is the canonical Right Way to send an email message from a Perl program? I presume you've already had a look at the use.perl poll? (How do you send email from your scripts, or some such.) The comments may be of interest. I use open

Pub

2002-05-02 Thread Alex McLintock
See some of you at the pub tonight. I'll try to be there between 6 and 7.30 in case any book reviewers want to grab something off me. And no, I wont be contributing to the kitty since I'm leaving so early - but feel free to ask me for a pint if you've done a review :-) In case anyone is

Re: Quick question on Doing The Right Thing

2002-05-02 Thread Dave Cross
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:14:51AM +0100, Roger Burton West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi folks, If Dave can ask book questions, so can I... What, in the opinion of the list, is the canonical Right Way to send an email message from a Perl program? plug nms_sendmail? /plug -- ...she

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Reminder: Social meeting tonight

2002-05-02 Thread Paul Mison
On 02/05/2002 at 12:10 +0100, someone wrote off-list: On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 11:26:17AM +0100, Paul Mison wrote: Just in case you need one (and because Leon told me too), here's another quick reminder that there's a social meeting tonight, downstairs at the Cittie of Yorke, starting at 6pm.

Re: ethical [X-Posted]

2002-05-02 Thread Newton, Philip
Simon Wistow wrote: Anybody heard of these people? http://www.afterhours.co.uk They're running (or, at least, using -- from http://www.mason-phipps.clara.net/feedback.html ) an insecure formmail script at http://www.mason-phipps.clara.net/cgi-bin/formmail . Does someone want to point them

hey! at last!

2002-05-02 Thread stefan
a site for you lot! Asking a girl out on a date http://www.autistics.org/skills/pages/askherout.html -- /** Stefan Magdalinski, curmudgeon info: http://www.isness.org/house/boat/sig.txt **/

Re: hey! at last!

2002-05-02 Thread Steve Mynott
Who says java programmers don't have a sense of humour? http://www.theonion.com/onion3744/java_programmers.html stefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: a site for you lot! Asking a girl out on a date http://www.autistics.org/skills/pages/askherout.html -- Steve Mynott [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ethical [X-Posted]

2002-05-02 Thread the hatter
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Simon Wistow wrote: Anybody heard of these people? http://www.afterhours.co.uk Never heard of them, but I wish to dispute the statement on their front page The UK's 1st and ONLY Non-Profit making Computer Company I can name dozens that don't make a profit. the hatter

Formatting currencies

2002-05-02 Thread Paul Makepeace
perl -lpe '$_ = sprintf %.2f,$_; 1 while s/(?=[\d])((?:\d{3})+)(?=[.,])/,$1/' 123.1 123.10 5679.123 5,679.12 1289053234.20852 1,289,053,234.21 Is there an easier way to do this? London.pm meeting taken its toll? P -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/

Re: hey! at last!

2002-05-02 Thread Shevek
That web page appears to prove fairly conclusively that Java programmers do NOT have a sense of humour. On 2 May 2002, Steve Mynott wrote: Who says java programmers don't have a sense of humour? http://www.theonion.com/onion3744/java_programmers.html -- Shevek I am the Borg. sub

Re: Formatting currencies

2002-05-02 Thread Mike Jarvis
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 04:16:01PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: perl -lpe '$_ = sprintf %.2f,$_; 1 while s/(?=[\d])((?:\d{3})+)(?=[.,])/,$1/' 123.1 123.10 5679.123 5,679.12 1289053234.20852 1,289,053,234.21 Is there an easier way to do this? London.pm meeting taken its toll? I'd