detailed documentation for modules

2001-03-28 Thread TECKIES.COM Online Magazine
hi, I've visited most of the perl site such perl.com, webreference Is there any site that offer detailed perl documentation for modules, I don't find POD very clear. Thanks in advance __ Click, Laugh and Enjoy @ www.sallini.com tips and tricks, free

Re: problem with qr//

2001-03-28 Thread Nadav Popplewell
> >> >Any one got any idea if there is a way of compiling a string in a > >> variable > >> >into a regexp? > >> >(other than eval "qr/$regexp/" ?). > >> > >> During construction of the regular expression string, would it be too > much > >> trouble to perform something of the following...? > >> > >

Re: printing "($refname)->{$key}" doesn't work

2001-03-28 Thread Philip Newton
Bennett Haselton wrote: > Am I reading it wrong? It seems like > $ref->{eggs} > and > ($ref)->{eggs} > ought to look the same when printed, but they don't. They do look the same when printed. But you aren't printing ($ref)->{eggs}; you're printing $ref. -w would have told you so (lines marked

Re: Linker Error when building XS "Hello World" example on Win32

2001-03-28 Thread Bill Catlan
> Hi, > I've been trying to get through the same tutorial using MS VC++ 6.0 - and > have come to a grinding halt at example 4. > Have you checked that 'perl -V:make' returns 'nmake' and that 'perl -V:libc' > returns 'msvcrt.lib' ? Yep. They both checkout. > Any problems with 'perl makefile.pl'

Re: Regular Expression questions

2001-03-28 Thread Walter Torres
- Original Message - From: "$Bill Luebkert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Walter Torres" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Perl-Win32-Users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 7:34 PM Subject: Re: Regular Expression questions > Walter Torres wrote: > > > > OK, I have to ask... > > > >

Re: Regex Help

2001-03-28 Thread Cameron Dorey
Dirk Bremer wrote: > > I want to build a regular expression that will separate a filename string into the >root name, filename, and extension name, placing > the results in $1, $2, $3. [remainder snipped] Why not just use File::Basename? It does just what you want, if I read your question corr

Re: Regular Expression questions

2001-03-28 Thread Walter Torres
- Original Message - From: "Lee Goddard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Walter Torres" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Perl-Win32-Users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 7:31 AM Subject: Re: Regular Expression questions > At 17:34 27/03/2001 -0800, $Bill Luebk

FW: Searching a directory tree

2001-03-28 Thread Moulder, Glen
Searching for files? Use File::Find. Glen > -Original Message- > From: Gray, Martha J. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 10:02 AM > To: 'Perl List' > Subject: Searching a directory tree > > > Hi all, > I was wondering if there was a way to search (traverse

Re: Linker Error when building XS "Hello World" example on Win32

2001-03-28 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: Bill Catlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 11:31 PM Subject: Linker Error when building XS "Hello World" example on Win32 > Hello Everyone, > > I am attempting build a Perl extension to part of the openssl library.

Re: problem with qr//

2001-03-28 Thread Grant Hopwood
-start- > "Nadav Popplewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >at03/28/2001 08:18 AM >> >Any one got any idea if there is a way of compiling a string in a >> variable >> >into a regexp? >> >(other than eval "qr/$regexp/" ?). >> >> During construction of the regular expression string, would it be too mu

Re: problem with qr//

2001-03-28 Thread Nadav Popplewell
> >Any one got any idea if there is a way of compiling a string in a > variable > >into a regexp? > >(other than eval "qr/$regexp/" ?). > > During construction of the regular expression string, would it be too much > trouble to perform something of the following...? > > $regexp = '\b' . quotemeta(

Re: XS

2001-03-28 Thread Bill Catlan
Thanks for the tip on the patch requirement. I suspected as much, but I don't know if I can get the patch. You might want to check out Dave Roth's book on the Standard Extensions ... it includes a detailed chapter (Ch. 10) on building custom extensions ... including compiler macro settings. You

RE: Regular Expression questions

2001-03-28 Thread Thomas_M
Lee Goddard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > At 17:31 27/03/2001 -0600, Walter Torres wrote: > >Also, some wrote this... > > s/.(?=)/*/g; > > > > > > s/ # substitute > > . # anything ?? > > (?=) # but the last 4 > > /# de

Re: problem with qr//

2001-03-28 Thread Grant Hopwood
-start- > "Nadav Popplewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >at03/28/2001 06:55 AM >> /\b\Qa\E\b/: Unrecognized escape \Q passed through at c:\TEMP\test.pl line >> 3. >> /\b\Qa\E\b/: Unrecognized escape \E passed through at c:\TEMP\test.pl line >what perl version are you using? >I don't get those w

Re: Re: Regular Expression questions

2001-03-28 Thread dave . clarke
> --- Nick Pomponio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > How about this: > > > > my $x = '10043546756565'; > > $x =~ s/.(?=)/*/g; > > > > > Okay, time out. My copy of _Mastering Regular > Expressions_ is at home - 85 miles away. Did you leave perldoc at home too? I hope not :) ``perdoc pe

Re: Linker Error when building XS "Hello World" example on Win32

2001-03-28 Thread Scott F
May as well go to VS SP4 if you're going to the trouble. On 28 Mar 2001, at 17:27, Campbell wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Bill Catlan wrote: > > >Hello Everyone, > > You have to download 100 megabytes of patch from Microsoft.com :) > > Installing the Visual Studio Service Pack 3 remedied th

RE: getting quote for large Perl programming job

2001-03-28 Thread Bennett Haselton
At 03:56 PM 3/27/01 +0100, Lee Goddard wrote: >There's also a lot of snobbery, so make sure that >you're not talked into anything by either someone >who slags off to make himself look better. > >If you're in the, make sure they are at least a >member of the Professional Contractors Group: >check t

Re: Regular Expression questions

2001-03-28 Thread Lee Goddard
At 17:31 27/03/2001 -0600, Walter Torres wrote: >OK, I have to ask... > >Lee wrote this... > >$a =~ s/^(\d+)(\d{4})$/\1/; > >I brake this down to this... > > @s =~ s/# substitute > ^ # start at the top > (\d+) # grab 1 or more digi

RE: Non-blocking sockets are impossible on win32?

2001-03-28 Thread erskine, michael
> -Original Message- > From: Trever Furnish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 27 March 2001 14:57 > To: Perl-win32 list > Subject: Non-blocking sockets are impossible on win32? > Ok, I'll go ahead and risk looking like an idiot, in the > hopes of getting > someone to enlighten me: I've

Re: Regex Help

2001-03-28 Thread Lee Goddard
I gave up the below code in favour of the module ;) Pick at it if you will. lee accepts path returns dir, fn if ($path !~ /\.(html?|xml)$/) if ($path !~/(\\|\/)$/){ $path =~ m/(\\|\/)/; $path.=$1; }

Re: Regular Expression questions

2001-03-28 Thread Lee Goddard
At 17:34 27/03/2001 -0800, $Bill Luebkert wrote: >Walter Torres wrote: > > > > OK, I have to ask... > > > > Lee wrote this... > > > >$a =~ s/^(\d+)(\d{4})$/\1/; > > > > I brake this down to this... > >That's break not brake. :) Broke. :P ___

Re: Linker Error when building XS "Hello World" example on Win32

2001-03-28 Thread Campbell
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Bill Catlan wrote: >Hello Everyone, You have to download 100 megabytes of patch from Microsoft.com :) Installing the Visual Studio Service Pack 3 remedied this problem on my systems. cheers campbell ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing

Linker Error when building XS "Hello World" example on Win32

2001-03-28 Thread Bill Catlan
Hello Everyone, I am attempting build a Perl extension to part of the openssl library. But, I figured, let me try to crawl before I walk... I successfully built the Mandelbrot extension in the Advanced Programming in Perl book, but this is my first attempt in a Win32 environment. I'm using Act

Re: Print on Closed Filehandle?

2001-03-28 Thread Lee Goddard
If I get a mo, I'll send some code to the list; it's long gone now. But it wasn't anything really: I opened a file, and on the next line just printed to nowhere specific, assuming it'd go to STDOUT. It generated the error weird, and probably worth me investigating for my own good There's

Re: problem with qr//

2001-03-28 Thread Nadav Popplewell
> > "Joe Schell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >at03/27/2001 10:02 AM > >Interesting > > >If you modify the script > > >my $x='\ba\b'; > >my $qx=qr/$x/; > >print "$x $x:", " a "=~/$qx/,"\n"; > > >my $xq='\b\Qa\E\b'; > >my $qxq=qr/$xq/; > >print "$xq $qxq:", " a "=~ /$qxq/,"\n