Re: small consulting job

2004-02-03 Thread Alexander von Below
Hello Joseph, your eMail does not seem to work... Alex

Re: Ordering keys in a hash

2003-08-09 Thread Alexander von Below
Well, I am not sure if this helps you, maybe you knew that all along: A normal, ascending sort would be my @keys = sort { $a <=> $b } keys(%gene_pool); The criterion function, should return: an integer less than 0: if $a is to be sorted before the $b 0: if $a and $b are equal an integer greater

Installing XML::Simple: Not so simple?

2003-07-19 Thread Alexander von Below
Hi there, my goal is to install XML::Simple, but installation tells me "You must install either XML::SAX or XML::Parser before XML::Simple" So far, so good. But installing XML::Parser tells me "Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lexpat", and this is probably everything but harmless

Installing Perl 5.8: hostname test fails

2003-06-19 Thread Alexander von Below
While doing a fresh install of Perl 5.8 (as outlined here: http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/perl.html), I get a test-error with hostname.t: Use of uninitialized value in string eq at ../lib/Net/t/hostname.t line 39. Obviously "hostname" did not return anything. I am running a pretty

Re: Problems installing LWP via CPAN

2003-06-19 Thread Alexander von Below
I upgraded to 5.8, and I am currently reinstalling it the hard way (i.e. with removing the libs before). This seems to be the only hope and indicated in http://search.cpan.org/author/JHI/perl-5.8.0/pod/ perldelta.pod#Mac_OS_X_dyld_undefined_symbols Thanks for making me read that link a seco

Problems installing LWP via CPAN

2003-06-19 Thread Alexander von Below
Hello, I am trying to install LWP via CPAN for Perl 5.8, but get the apparently usuall errors indicating there is an incompatibility problem between old 5.6 and the new 5.8 modules: t/api_versiondyld: /usr/bin/perl Undefined symbols: _PERL_UNUSED_VAR _Perl_safefree _Perl_safemalloc _P