On 10/10/14 13:21, David Cantrell wrote:
On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 04:56:22PM +, Adam Witney wrote:
Could you select all albums, ORDER BY date DESC LIMIT 1 ?
I don't think that LIMIT is standard SQL so it won't be supported
everywhere. And also I don't think that useful things like DBIx::Cla
On 25/02/14 11:18, James Laver wrote:
On 25 Feb 2014, at 03:45, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Steve Mynott wrote:
http://perltricks.com/article/72/2014/2/24/Perl-levels-up-with-native-subroutine-signatures
Finally. But don't believe the python/perl comparison troll,
On 09/12/13 11:23, Kieren Diment wrote:
In a short subroutine, this:
use List::Util qw/shuffle/;
my @list = @{$self->answer_list_orig_order};
@list = shuffle @list if $self->random_order;
return \@list;
does what's expected. Returns the shuffled list.
This:
use List::Util
On 04/12/13 10:15, Smylers wrote:
I agree the behaviour isn't immediately obvious. But it does make sense
when thinking about what each component means separately.
So what does seem bug-like to me is the Python behaviour — can anybody
explain that?
It looks like Python has decided that a zero-w
On 04/12/13 07:55, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Mark Fowler wrote:
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Paul Makepeace wrote:
$ perl -le '($a = "aabbb") =~ s/b*$/c/g; print $a'
This is where tools like Regexp::Debugger shine. Running
perl -le 'use Regexp::Debugger; (
On 18/11/13 11:18, Philip Skinner wrote:
Auto-increment a double column primary key, something like:
uid int(11) not null auto_increment, revision int(11) not null
auto_increment, primary key(uid, revision)
; works in mysql. You won't have your concurrent query issues there,
for the most par
On 23/08/2013 19:45, James Laver wrote:
- UTF-8 is a great interchange format. But it's quite annoying perl
doesn't have a flag to automatically en/decode to/from UTF-8 as
regards STDIN and STDOUT (and in the case of STDIN, probably anything
that <> uses)
Doesn't the -C switch count? Or indee
On 14/08/13 13:12, Abigail wrote:
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 08:58:05AM +0100, Matt Freake wrote:
I don't think the original poster is confusing those two, and when I
applied 'use strict' to the original code (with the sub) it didn't help (no
warnings or errors). The bit I'm stuck on is why does
On 14/08/13 08:33, William Blunn wrote:
On 14/08/2013 00:09, Andrew Beverley wrote:
Could someone please explain to me why the following outputs an empty
string rather than "*"?
In this case it may be wise to show a “use strict;”, which I assume is
in effect here, otherwise people can just sa
On 14/08/2013 00:09, Andrew Beverley wrote:
Hi,
Could someone please explain to me why the following outputs an empty
string rather than "*"?
get();
sub get($)
{ my $fields = shift;
my @fields = grep $_ ne 'domain', @$fields;
my $select_fields = $fields ? join(',', map { 'users.' .
Don't you need parentheses on both sides of that assignment?
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Can anyone explain why this works:
my $ref = {a => 1, b => 2, c => 3};
say $ref->{b};
On 04/07/13 13:03, Abigail wrote:
On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 12:40:34PM +0100, Gareth Harper wrote:
On 4 July 2013 12:23, Abigail wrote:
And it is:
$ /opt/perl/5.8.9/bin/perl -le 'BEGIN {print $]} use feature;'
5.008009
Can't locate feature.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ... .) at -e li
On 01/02/13 09:21, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:12:30AM +, David Cantrell wrote:
I am most disappointed to find that if you put a blessed sub-ref in the
symbol table and then replace it, its DESTROY method doesn't get called
straight away:
package Immortal;
sub new { re
On 31/01/13 11:12, David Cantrell wrote:
I am most disappointed to find that if you put a blessed sub-ref in the
symbol table and then replace it, its DESTROY method doesn't get called
straight away:
package Immortal;
sub new { return bless sub { print "called the object\n" }, shift; }
sub DEST
It might be a good idea to binmode that handle, just in case there's
CRLF or unicode translations on by default. I think just changing the
mode in open() to '<:raw' will do the trick.
The only other problem I can see is that errors in read() won't be
handled particularly nicely, afaict this wi
Anonymous subroutines without references to external variables that have
identical bodies are identical subroutines.
$ perl -le 'push @subs, sub { print "Hello" } for 0 .. 3; print for @subs'
CODE(0x94be884)
CODE(0x94be884)
CODE(0x94be884)
CODE(0x94be884)
$ perl -le 'for my $value (0 .. 3) { pu
On 15/02/12 21:57, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
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On 15 Feb 2012, at 21:48, Peter Corlett wrote:
On 15 Feb 2012, at 15:10, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Anyone round the West End fancy parcels of tasty goodness and Lo Bak Gao
tomorrow?
New World? 1pm?
I'm up for that, although I note
On 18/10/11 11:19, Chisel wrote:
Is this expected behaviour? I get lost in what versions should and shouldn't
numify. It definitely doesn't DWIM.
➔ perl -Mversion -le '$big=version->new("0.6.99");
$small=version->new("0.6"); print $big; print $small; print
$big>$small ? "ok":"wuh?"'
0.6.99
0.6
On 08/06/11 18:19, Philip Newton wrote:
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 15:37, Matt Lawrence wrote:
Perl's canonical true and false are 1 and '' respectively
Is that so? How would one find that out?
Dump-ing 4==4 and 4==5 with Devel::Peek implies to me that true and
false are PVN
On 08/06/11 13:41, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 13:17, Tom Hukins wrote:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 02:00:41PM +0200, Abigail wrote:
I'd rather go for sacking people that don't know the difference
between
if (something) { ... }
and
unless (!something) { ... }
It's su
On 02/06/11 09:06, Kieren Diment wrote:
On 02/06/2011, at 5:55 PM, Randy J. Ray wrote:
I find myself the unexpected caretaker of a MacBook Pro, handed off to me when
someone at $JOB left recently. It's shiny. And very eye-candy-ish. But I am now
wishing I'd paid more attention to recent discu
On 24/02/2011 18:35, Simon Wistow wrote:
sub undef_at_underscore {
$_[0] = undef;
}
This will remove the caller's reference to the invocant, There's no way
of knowing if that's the last reference, copying will keep it alive.
(my $bar = $foo)->undef_at_underscore;
# $foo is still defined.
Jérôme Etévé wrote:
!-2
That would be the whole command, not the last argument.
On 23 February 2011 17:17, David Cantrell wrote:
What line-noise should I type to get the last argument to the command
two steps back in my history? Obviously I only care about bash.
David Cantrell wrote:
$ svn add lib/Hlagh/Blagh.pm
...
$ svn commit
...
$ vi !($^*%*$
What line-noise should I type to get the last argument to the command
two steps back in my history? Obviously I only care about bash.
And in the general case, what gives me the Nth argument from the command
M
Roger Burton West wrote:
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 11:54:39AM +, J??r??me Et??v?? wrote:
Unicode woes abound :-/
I've got experience with gd but I remember struggling with unicode and
antialiasing and there's been no new version since 2007.
I'm wondering if anything more modern is aroun
Nicholas Clark wrote:
During the beer track at the German Perl Workshop, I was asked
"what's a good place to go to in London for an evening of stand up comedy?"
and I had no clue.
There's The Comedy Store, if you can get tickets. There's often a queue
down the street before the doors open o
Matt Lawrence wrote:
The real test is whether chr $u > 255. Of course the data is passed
through correctly whether or not perl understands that it's unicode data.
I said chr here, but I just noticed that I really meant ord *sigh*
Matt
Kieren Diment wrote:
On 03/06/2010, at 8:06 PM, Steve Mynott wrote:
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 05:52:40PM +0100, Mark Fowler typed:
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
On 2 Jun 2010, at 21:38, Egor Shipovalov wrote:
use File::Slurp;
This
Dominic Thoreau wrote:
On 16 February 2010 10:14, James Laver wrote:
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:01:20AM +, Dominic Thoreau wrote:
This is one of those things I'd like TV writers to stop with, please.
Pubs with waiters? Hah!
Or... LMC is from Portugal, where drinking establ
Joel Bernstein wrote:
On 29 January 2010 16:59, Matt Lawrence wrote:
Joel Bernstein wrote:
On 29 January 2010 15:25, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
IIRC, you can say ":set bomb" in vim to do this.
Someone set up us the &^&^!^ytNO CARRIER
I first enc
Joel Bernstein wrote:
On 29 January 2010 15:25, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
On 29 Jan 2010, at 14:48, Ash Berlin wrote:
2) stick a BOM in the .tt file
BOM?
U+FEFF - unicode codepoint used to indicate endianness in encodings
where word length is not single octet multiples.
James Laver wrote:
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Smylers wrote:
Hi. Does anybody know a way of making the TFL Journey Planner show the
best route between two places only on transport which has the normal
zone-based billing?
For travelling from Zone 1 to hotels near Stockley Park it kee
Randy J. Ray wrote:
I have a module that uses IPC::Open3 (or IPC::Open2, both exhibit this problem)
to call an external binary (bogofilter in this case) and feed it some input via
the child-input filehandle, then reads the result from the child-output handle.
The code works fine when run in most
Matthew Boyle wrote:
David Cantrell wrote:
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 02:02:51PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote:
That reminds me of how I was disappointed to find that rsync generally
transfers complete files (rather than diffs) if both source and
destination are on a local file system -- before I re
David Cantrell wrote:
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 02:03:33PM +, Roger Burton West wrote:
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 01:59:22PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
Shame that "local" includes "at the other end of a really slow NFS
connection to the other side of the world". Mind you, absent runnin
XML::Compile::WSDL might do the trick. I certainly found it a lot easier
to get something working with that than I did with SOAP::WSDL or
SOAP::Lite->service(...), although I must say the documentation isn't
that great.
Matt
Paul Makepeace wrote:
Has anyone had experience with turning a .wsd
.. and Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Simple might be closer to what you want
than Spreadsheet::ParseExcel. The nuts and bolts get hidden from you.
Matt
Matt Lawrence wrote:
wvware may help with the Word documents.
http://linux.die.net/man/1/wvhtml
Matt
Michael Lush wrote:
I'm writing
wvware may help with the Word documents.
http://linux.die.net/man/1/wvhtml
Matt
Michael Lush wrote:
I'm writing a CGI text checking tool (on a CentOS server) I'd like to
allow users to upload Excel, Word and pdf files and have them
displayed as an HTML approximation.
I've had a look at S
James Laver wrote:
On 17 Apr 2009, at 16:11, abhishek jain wrote:
Hi,I need to convert a text written in Devanagari (Hindi) Language into
Hexadecimal language.
I know we can do in perl , possibly with pack / unpack but not how to
do so
Can anyone here help?
You're going to have to be a bit
Chisel Wright wrote:
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:25:54AM +0100, Matt Lawrence wrote:
I haven't had a chance to test any of this on the latest perl, 5.8.8 is
the latest I've tried it with.
Odd, I'm on 5.8.8 and don't seem to be seeing the same behaviour:
[...]
Ooo
Aaron Crane wrote:
Matt Lawrence writes:
I recently discovered that die() inside a signal handler causes a
memory leak.[...] I guess that might be related to the problem you
were having before timing out system().
Unlikely. [...]
There's an additional problem when the under
Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 09:24:01AM +0100, Matt Lawrence wrote:
I recently discovered that die() inside a signal handler causes a memory
leak. I don't know if that would be a problem for you in this case.
Hmm, that's not good. Have you been able to na
David Cantrell wrote:
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 07:44:39PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 06:32:08PM +0100, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote:
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 06:18:45PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
Anyone recommend a module to give me something like system(@l
Jasper wrote:
Adrian and I had a tiny chat about this in work, and he decided that
subs that return a scalar should return undef explicitly (if they are
just returning), and those that return a list should return.
At the time I thought it seemed very sensible, but I'm on the fence again.
Diffic
Nigel Peck wrote:
When I create a hash like this:
my $hash = {
element_1 => 'example',
element_2 => $var,
element_3 => $var2
};
If $var is undefined, then the value of 'element_2' becomes
'element_3'. Not what I want.
That doesn't ever happen with scalar values, defined or not. Th
Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote:
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 11:42:32AM +0100, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote:
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:26:37 +0100
Matt Lawrence wrote:
Module::Util will do this for you:
A surprisingly-useful looking module. I wonder why I haven't come across
this one b
Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote:
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:26:37 +0100
Matt Lawrence wrote:
Module::Util will do this for you:
A surprisingly-useful looking module. I wonder why I haven't come across
this one before...
Is it widely used? I notice it doesn't have a debian package. A
David Cantrell wrote:
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 03:14:27PM +0100, Minty wrote
Holy wars aside, is there a cross platform friendly way to get a list
of what modules I have available?
File::Find::Rule->file()->name('*.pm')->in(@INC);
then apply appropriate transmogrifications to the list to
Jonathan Stowe wrote:
2009/1/23 Denny :
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 09:52 +, Andy Wardley wrote:
/*
This table defines users of the
system who are Buffy fans.
*/
$ mysql < my_db_schema.sql
It's interpreting the line "system who are Buffy fans." as a shell
Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Andy Wardley wrote:
I have a file which defines a MySQL database schema. It looks a bit
like this:
/*
This table defines users of the
system who are Buffy fans.
*/
CREATE TABLE buffy_fans (
..etc...
);
I feed it in
Richard Huxton wrote:
Paul Makepeace wrote:
What does 'show table files;' give you? You might have the wrong type
of blob/text.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/blob.html
"If a TEXT column is indexed, index entry comparisons are space-padded
at the end. This means that, if the i
Avleen Vig wrote:
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Chris Jack wrote:
3) Write a Perl function that takes two references to arrays and returns the
intersect of them. If an entry appears n times in array 1 and m times in array
2, the output should list that entry min(n,m) times. Bonus mark f
Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
Dan Brook wrote:
use vars '%INC';
useless use of "use vars" : the INC symbol is exempt from strict-vars
errors. Or do you use a buggy version of perl that I don't know about
?
No, I was just keeping my own copy of %INC so it didn't interfere with
the main %INC.
INC i
Andy Williams (IMAP HILLWAY) wrote:
Hi,
I want to be able to do something like the following:
my $method = shift(@ARGV);
my @vars = @ARGV;
eval {
&$method(@vars);
};
if ($@) {
die "Method doesn't exist";
}
sub METH1 {
my @passed_vars = @_;
print "Welcome to meth
Jasper McCrea wrote:
Matt Lawrence wrote:
Jasper McCrea wrote:
Paul Makepeace wrote:
I'd like to dump regex matches into an array without explicitly naming
$1, $2, ...
=head1 NOT WORKING CODE
($month, $day, $time, $host, $process, $pid, $message) =
/^(\w+) (\d+) (\d\
Jasper McCrea wrote:
Paul Makepeace wrote:
I'd like to dump regex matches into an array without explicitly naming
$1, $2, ...
=head1 NOT WORKING CODE
($month, $day, $time, $host, $process, $pid, $message) =
/^(\w+) (\d+) (\d\d+:\d\d:\d\d) (\w+) ([()\w\/]+)\[(\d+)\]: (.*)$/ ||
/
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DATE: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:59:31
From: Shevek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
>On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Matthew Lawrence wrote:
>
>> Shevek wrote:
>>
>> >On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Clayton, Nik [IT] wrote:
>> >
>> >{ # It's a scope!
>> >
XML::DOM is acting very strangely with regard to UTF-8.
I have an XML file encoded in valid UTF-8 which I want to transform into an XML file
with a different structure. However, the resulting XML files are suddenly not valid
UTF-8 even though I haven't mucked about with any of the character dat
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