Re: env MACOSX_DEPLOYEMENT_TARGET patch not working on Panther Server

2003-12-29 Thread Chris Nandor
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Angelli) wrote: > I am running Panther Server 10.3.1. I edited > /System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/Config.pm, > as per the instructions posted previously on this > group. > > I am trying to install HTML::Parser and I

Re: Breaking up a long string...

2003-12-29 Thread Andrew M. Langmead
On Dec 29, 2003, at 8:36 PM, Jeff Lowrey wrote: At 4:01 PM -0600 12/29/03, Andy Lester wrote: So if it matters in the future, go right ahead and refactor it. The change is minor. Barring that, write the code that is most clear. The first two versions are always throw aways. Is that because of th

Re: Breaking up a long string...

2003-12-29 Thread Jeff Lowrey
At 4:01 PM -0600 12/29/03, Andy Lester wrote: >Premature optimization is the root of all evil. Unnecessary >optimization is, by definition, premature. Incorrectly anticipating future necessary optimization is the root of all evil. So if it matters in the future, go right ahead and refactor it.

Re: Breaking up a long string...

2003-12-29 Thread Andy Lester
> >Premature optimization is the root of all evil. Unnecessary > >optimization is, by definition, premature. > > Incorrectly anticipating future necessary optimization is the root of > all evil. So if it matters in the future, go right ahead and refactor it. The change is minor. Barring that,

Re: Breaking up a long string...

2003-12-29 Thread Richard Cook
On Monday, Dec 29, 2003, at 13:28 US/Pacific, Andy Lester wrote: Premature optimization is the root of all evil. Unnecessary optimization is, by definition, premature. Incorrectly anticipating future necessary optimization is the root of all evil.

Re: Breaking up a long string...

2003-12-29 Thread Andy Lester
> Is unpack the more > efficient (faster, or less memory requiring) way to do this? Does it matter? If it does, use Benchmark to find out. If it doesn't, then the question is noise. Premature optimization is the root of all evil. Unnecessary optimization is, by definition, premature. xoa --

Re: CamelBones 0.2 on Panther

2003-12-29 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Dec 29, 2003, at 2:57 PM, Zach Lipton wrote: After much searching and grumbling, I found Thilo Planz's post on building CamelBones 0.2 under Panther (http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.macosx/6383). After getting this to work, I thought I would type up more complete directions that work wi

Re: Breaking up a long string...

2003-12-29 Thread Hannes
On Dec 29, 2003, at 12:47 PM, Andy Lester wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 09:03:27AM -0800, R. Hannes Niedner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: my $string = 'string_of_40k_chars'; my @strings = $string =~ /.{6,6}/g; my $remainder = substr($string, -1, length($string)%6); You mean /.{6}/ instead of /.{6,6

Re: Breaking up a long string...

2003-12-29 Thread Andy Lester
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 09:03:27AM -0800, R. Hannes Niedner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > my $string = 'string_of_40k_chars'; > my @strings = $string =~ /.{6,6}/g; > my $remainder = substr($string, -1, length($string)%6); You mean /.{6}/ instead of /.{6,6}/, I think. The latter will indeed work, t

Re: Breaking up a long string...

2003-12-29 Thread R. Hannes Niedner
On Dec 28, 2003, at 10:10 PM, Kim Helliwell wrote: I have a long string of characters (> 40,000 chars) that I need to break up into strings of 6 chars each. Is there a simple way to do this in Perl? unpack() doesn't seem to be the right solution; there are no terminations for the strings I'm after

CamelBones 0.2 on Panther

2003-12-29 Thread Zach Lipton
After much searching and grumbling, I found Thilo Planz's post on building CamelBones 0.2 under Panther (http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.macosx/6383). After getting this to work, I thought I would type up more complete directions that work with Xcode and post a new archive for people to

Re: Breaking up a long string...

2003-12-29 Thread Andy Lester
> I have a long string of characters (> 40,000 chars) > that I need to break up into strings of 6 chars each. > Is there a simple way to do this in Perl? unpack() > doesn't seem to be the right solution; there are no my $alphabet = join( '', 'A'..'Z' ); my @chunks = unpack( "(A6)*", $alphabet ); p

Re: Breaking up a long string...

2003-12-29 Thread John Delacour
At 10:10 pm -0800 28/12/03, Kim Helliwell wrote: I have a long string of characters (> 40,000 chars) that I need to break up into strings of 6 chars each. Is there a simple way to do this in Perl? unpack() doesn't seem to be the right solution; there are no terminations for the strings I'm after. H

Re: Breaking up a long string...

2003-12-29 Thread Peter N Lewis
I have a long string of characters (> 40,000 chars) that I need to break up into strings of 6 chars each. Is there a simple way to do this in Perl? unpack() doesn't seem to be the right solution; there are no terminations for the strings I'm after. Have I actually found something that is easier in

Re: Breaking up a long string...

2003-12-29 Thread Ken Williams
Hi Kim, In addition to the pack() solutions you'll find eventually, here are a couple substr() ones: my @strings; push @strings, substr($string, 0, 6, '') while length $string; or, my @strings = map substr($string, 6*$_, 6), 0..length($string)/6; Adjust edge cases as necessary, these are un

Re: Using CPAN

2003-12-29 Thread Ken Williams
On Sunday, December 28, 2003, at 05:28 PM, Bill Stephenson wrote: So, If I get this right, I should... 1 sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell 2. Do NOT install libwww when it asks me too. (I did) It should be okay to install a version later than 5.72, I provided a patch to fix it. See http://search.cp

Using CPAN

2003-12-29 Thread Bill Stephenson
I've just tried to install Panther and found out my install disc is bad. Apple said they'd send a new one in a few days, so that's the good news. The bad news is that I was doing a clean install and it wiped out all my old stuff. That's really no big deal either, I just reinstalled the old 10.1.2 s

Re: Breaking up a long string...

2003-12-29 Thread Mark Kaehny
Hi, Why wouldn't unpack work? unpack doesn't need "terminations". Is the string an exact count of 6 char strings? I can't give you an exact example cause I don't know if your string is unsigned, signed, unicode, etc. but look at the the templates for pack and unpack and you should be able to gra