Re: Please Help!

2001-04-06 Thread Lee Goddard
At 20:10 23/01/2031 -0500, James D Carella wrote: >Hello, Hello. > Can someone help me please? Probably: you're in the right place. Let's see. > I am definitely starting out in the >programming thing and I am trying and learning Perl. Good place to start ;) >I have downloaded >th

RE: Please Help!

2001-04-06 Thread Lee Goddard
You're asking for a bloody great flame war aren't you? But I've not had *that* much coffee yet. You say Komodo has syntax highlighting: so has Textpad. The advantage of Textpad is that I wrote the better of the Perl syntax files. So there. At 07:16 06/04/2001 -0500, Gregg Martinson wrote: >T

RE: Please Help!

2001-04-06 Thread Lee Goddard
And I don't need help building Reg-ex's: I've got $Bill ;) At 07:16 06/04/2001 -0500, Gregg Martinson wrote: >Textpad is not on a par with Komodo. Komodo has syntax highlighting, it >helps build regexen and it is free find it at www.activestate.com. Just my >2 cents. > >- >"Scatter Joy

Re: Please Help!

2001-04-06 Thread $Bill Luebkert
Lee Goddard wrote: > > And I don't need help building Reg-ex's: > I've got $Bill ;) And I've never even read a book on RE yet. So far I've gotten by with perlre man page. :) And I do just fine with vim syntax highlighting. :) -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert ICQ=14439852 (_

RE: Please Help!

2001-04-06 Thread Lee Goddard
Aw, just kidding ;) I can't stand visual tools that's my problem. No reason why you can't use Textpad with PHP, HTML: syntax highlight, send file to browsers/commandsetc. I'm goona look at Komodo, though! Cheers lee At 07:31 06/04/2001 -0500, Gregg Martinson wrote: >No flamewar intende

Re: Please Help!

2001-04-06 Thread Lee Goddard
At 05:30 06/04/2001 -0700, $Bill Luebkert wrote: >Lee Goddard wrote: > > > > And I don't need help building Reg-ex's: > > I've got $Bill ;) > >And I've never even read a book on RE yet. So far I've gotten by >with perlre man page. :) > >And I do just fine with vim syntax highlighting. :) I think

RE: Please Help!

2001-04-06 Thread Scott F
If you like slow, you'll love Komodo. 8-} The features and concept are good though. Hopefully, they can speed it up some. Scott F. On 6 Apr 2001, at 13:57, Lee Goddard wrote: > Aw, just kidding ;) > > I can't stand visual tools that's my problem. > No reason why you can't use Textpad

RE: Please Help!

2001-04-06 Thread SCOTT_SISSON
In the debate of editors, I agree - Notepad is not very useful. I'll put my vote in for UltraEdit32. "Scott F" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: Please Help!

2001-04-06 Thread Casey Williams
I agree, UltraEdit32 is awesome, however, it has some minor problems with the syntax highlighting. But it's myriads of features make up for it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 9:19 AM To: [EM

OT: RE: Please Help!

2001-04-06 Thread Lee Goddard
At 15:29 06/04/2001 +0100, erskine, michael wrote: >The editor wars are alive and well! Right. Let's talk HTML mail ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users

RE: Please Help!

2001-04-06 Thread erskine, michael
Surely we should all be using ptked. Michael Erskine (MSEmtd) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users

Re: Perl cleaning MS Word HTML

2001-04-06 Thread Ron Grabowski
> Anyone who's looked at Word docs saved as HTML > knows it's frankly terrible. I'm doing a lot of > converting these HTML docs to XML, and wonder > if anyone has any effective routines to do the > job? If not, I'll try to get some stuff on > CPAN (always fun). http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett

Win32::Daemon and backticks

2001-04-06 Thread PaulGould
All, As part of a service I'm developing, I need to run an external command and capture both its STDOUT and STDERR. The line: my $rot = `path\\to\\command`; saves the command's STDOUT into $rot as expected. However, when I change this to: my $rot = `path\\to\\command 2>&1`; nothing gets saved

Re: Question about displaying records from last to first

2001-04-06 Thread Ron Grabowski
> @file = ; @file = reverse ; ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users

RE: Please Help!

2001-04-06 Thread Martin Moss
For my Fourpence, I still prefer vim. But I'd go for any editors which don't use a mouse, as they're usually faster to work in. Marty > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Casey Williams > Sent: Friday 06 April 2001 15:26 > To: [EMAIL

Re: Please Help!

2001-04-06 Thread RICHARD A. NAKROSHIS (Contractor)
Scott F wrote: > > If you like slow, you'll love Komodo. 8-} I was wondering why Intel and AMD were making plans for a 2 GHz chip for next year... Rick begin:vcard n:Nakroshis;Richard tel;pager:410 769-3547 tel;cell:240 460-4900 tel;fax:410 865-2213 tel;work:410 865-2926 x-mozilla-html:TRUE

RE: [OLE] Printing from Internet Explorer

2001-04-06 Thread ron . wantock
Bill, Here is the site I found that describes the Internet explorer object. http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/browser/webbrowser/reference/Objects/Inte rnetExplorer.asp wantor > -Original Message- > From: Bill Catlan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 7:25 PM

Re: Help with leading zeros!

2001-04-06 Thread Glenn Linderman
Actually, it isn't the $i++. It was the $i < 501. Particularly, the <. Switching to $i lt '501' produces the sequence with leading zeros intact. for ( $i = "001"; $i lt "501"; $i++ ) Cheers! "$Bill Luebkert" wrote: > Glenn Linderman wrote: > > > > Doesn't he need > > > > for ( $i="001"; $i

Re: Help with leading zeros!

2001-04-06 Thread Ron Grabowski
> for ( $i = "001"; $i lt "501"; $i++ ) I think there's something to be said about using numbers that are really strings as numbers. Specifically that it might not be the RightThing to do. There seems to be an aweful lot of unnecessary conversion going on. printf()'s formatting was designed for t

Re: Help with leading zeros!

2001-04-06 Thread dave . clarke
> > for ( $i = "001"; $i lt "501"; $i++ ) > > I think there's something to be said about using numbers that are really > strings as numbers. Specifically that it might not be the RightThing to do. > There seems to be an aweful lot of unnecessary conversion going on. Here, Here. > printf()'s fo

Re: Help with leading zeros!

2001-04-06 Thread Ron Grabowski
> close STDERR; > open (STDERR, ">NUL"); That's what I wanted to do. > > timethese( 5000 , { > 'NumsAsStrings' => 'for ( $i = "001"; $i lt "501"; $i++ ) {print STDERR $i}', > 'NumsAsNums1' => 'for ( 1 .. 501 ) {printf STDERR "%03d", $_};', > 'NumsAsNums2' => 'for ( $i=1; $i<

Re: A couple questions with windows and perl

2001-04-06 Thread James E Keenan
Christopher Hahn wrote on 3 Apr: >>> One point: within perl the '/' character can be used to separate path elements, on all platforms. >>> and Philip Newton responded on 4 Apr: >>> I wouldn't be quite so sure about that. Does it work in RiscOS, VMS, MacPerl, and Amiga file systems? I know it wor

Re: Help with leading zeros!

2001-04-06 Thread $Bill Luebkert
Glenn Linderman wrote: > > Actually, it isn't the $i++. It was the $i < 501. Particularly, the <. Switching >to $i lt '501' > produces the sequence with leading zeros intact. > > for ( $i = "001"; $i lt "501"; $i++ ) You're absolutely right that I'm wrong. :) I thought the inc would change

Re: Win32::Daemon and backticks

2001-04-06 Thread $Bill Luebkert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > All, > > As part of a service I'm developing, I need to run an external command and > capture both its STDOUT and STDERR. The line: > my $rot = `path\\to\\command`; > saves the command's STDOUT into $rot as expected. However, when I change > this to: > my $rot =

How to Pass Argument to an external script?

2001-04-06 Thread Jimmy S. Lim
hi perl friends, how do i pass an argument to an external script w/ the "do" command? for example if i have: my @Variable = qw(1 2 3 4); do 'c:/perl/Test.plx'; # how do i pass the @Variable as an argument to Test.plx? i am not familiar about creating modules and packages... thanks for any idea