Re: Copying files

2004-04-29 Thread Mark Wheeler
Bingo! That helped me see that it was my date being set to xx/xx/xx which of course was seen as directories within the script. I changed for date format to xx-xx-xx and the problem is solved. Thanks again for your help. Mark On Apr 28, 2004, at 8:48 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote: On Apr 28, 2004, at

How to recognize accented characters upper and lower case

2004-04-29 Thread info_furia
I have a perl script that parses accented characters and works well in Windows 2000 (that was installed in brazilian language). In MacOS X the i flag doesn't recognize the accented characters in uppercase. The script has the setlocale statment and I also put the brazilian language as the default

seperate file

2004-04-29 Thread zunsheng Jiao
Hi all, I'm new on perl. I need to separate a huge file to small files. It has three columns. If first column is a number , use this number as a file name (i. e., 260.dat and 300.dat for following sample), and then writing column 2 and columns 3 to this file. Following is a sample such file:

Re: seperate file

2004-04-29 Thread Neil Bowers
I need to separate a huge file to small files. It has three columns. If first column is a number , use this number as a file name (i. e., 260.dat and 300.dat for following sample), and then writing column 2 and columns 3 to this file. You didn't say whether you want to preserve anything in the

Access External Hard Drive - Local and Network

2004-04-29 Thread Mark Wheeler
Hi all, OK, this is kind of part two of my backup project. How do I access an external (or secondary internal, for that matter) hard drive within perl? I tried the following: . . copy (/Users/xx/Documents/db.txt,/Fire1/db.txt.bak); . . That didn't work. How do I access the external drive?

Access External Hard Drive - Local and Network

2004-04-29 Thread Mark Wheeler
OK... the Fire1 is the name of my external hard drive. Forgot to mention that. Sorry, Mark

Re: Access External Hard Drive - Local and Network

2004-04-29 Thread Mark Wheeler
Thanks Jeff and Joseph, You're right. It's in /Volumes/ I'm not on the network right now, but I'm presuming that the PC drive(s) would appear in the /Volumes/ directory as well. Can you confirm that? Thanks, Mark On Apr 29, 2004, at 9:14 AM, Joseph Alotta wrote: Mark, Look around in

Re: Access External Hard Drive - Local and Network

2004-04-29 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Mark Wheeler wrote: I'm not on the network right now, but I'm presuming that the PC drive(s) would appear in the /Volumes/ directory as well. Can you confirm that? Yes -- as a general rule, OSX mounts all filesystems other than the one you booted from under the /Volumes

Re: Access External Hard Drive - Local and Network

2004-04-29 Thread Mark Wheeler
Perfect. Thanks so much for your help. I'll implement the directory changes and we should be good to go. Thanks, Mark On Apr 29, 2004, at 9:35 AM, Chris Devers wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Mark Wheeler wrote: I'm not on the network right now, but I'm presuming that the PC drive(s) would appear in

Re: seperate file

2004-04-29 Thread Rick Measham
On 30 Apr 2004, at 12:20 AM, zunsheng Jiao wrote: Hi all, I'm new on perl. I need to separate a huge file to small files. It has three columns. If first column is a number , use this number as a file name (i. e., 260.dat and 300.dat for following sample), and then writing column 2 and columns