RE: pipes and blocking

2002-10-29 Thread Zempel, David
Martin, After reading the doc on Win32::Threads, I don't think this solves my problem. Especially since it's clearly stated that it's very experimental. My application drives automated testing of space flight hardware and I have to convince some very safety conscious people that the test system is

RE: subrooteens/functions within strings.

2002-10-29 Thread Burak Gürsoy
you cant use functions in double quotes. When you pass a string, you must quote it, and leading ampersand is optional when you call it with parenthesis... print "Hello ",caps('shain')," Nice to see you today.\n"; sub caps {return uc shift}; -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mai

subrooteens/functions within strings.

2002-10-29 Thread Shain Edge
I know that perl can parse varibles and return the results if a string has Scaler varibles within them. I would like to figure out how to do the same with perl and user defined functions. Is there a way to do this within a double quoted string? example of what I would like to happen: print "He

RE: Parsing return value from LWP::Simple::get()

2002-10-29 Thread Tony White
Sorry -- %hshDateLinks ('10/29/2002' => "http://site/date-maint-10292002";) should be: $hshDateLinks ('10/29/2002' => "http://site/date-maint-10292002";) but you get the idea. Here's the code that I've used now; but I'm *sure* that there's a simpler, more elegant way to do this, r

RE: merging two tabseparated text files.

2002-10-29 Thread Mohanty, Debi \(MED, TCS\)
Title: RE: Terrible at my logic file 3 is a manual merge file. attached below is the file 2 and file 3.   if we take a small example then .   All the files are tabseparated text files.   file1   col1    col2    col3    col4 1text1text2 2text4text5 3text6 

RE: merging two tabseparated text files.

2002-10-29 Thread Peter Eisengrein
Title: RE: Terrible at my logic easy with hashes.   #untested   my %hash1; my %hash2;   open(FILE1, $file1) || die "Can't open $file1 : $!\n"; foreach my $line () {   chomp($line);     my @line = split(/ +/,$line);     my $key = $line[0];     $hash1{$key} = join(" ",@line); } close(FILE1);  

RE: merging two tabseparated text files.

2002-10-29 Thread FARRINGTON, RYAN
Title: RE: Terrible at my logic your data does not match with the info... =( -Original Message-From: Mohanty, Debi (MED, TCS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 12:46 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: merging two tabseparated text files. Hi,    Pl

RE: Random numbers

2002-10-29 Thread Burak Gürsoy
you can use crypt(): #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; print generate_password(), "\n" for 1..1000; sub generate_password return(substr(crypt("",join('',(0..9,'A'..'Z','a'..'z')[rand 62,rand 62])), -8 )); } if you want to check if the same string is generated, you can write some control struct

Re: pipes and blocking

2002-10-29 Thread Martin Hudec
Hello David, hmmm i am wondering if use of Threads module will not do the work for you...it works same on win and on unix.but i think it will need to recode your applicationnot sure bout it.. -- Best regards, Martinmailto:corwin@;corwin.sk Tuesday, October 2

pipes and blocking

2002-10-29 Thread Zempel, David
I am attempting to migrate a Perl application I developed on unix to win32 and I've run into a roadblock. This application executes perl scripts via a pipe to drive automated regression tests of hardware/software systems. My problem is that on unix I can use a named pipe to executed test sc

RE: Random numbers

2002-10-29 Thread Thomas_M
Title: Message Personally, I like to use Crypt::GeneratePassword. You can create passwords that are longer, yet easier for users to remember and less likely to be written on a Post-it on their monitor. -- Mark Thomas    [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet Systems Architect Use

merging two tabseparated text files.

2002-10-29 Thread Mohanty, Debi \(MED, TCS\)
Title: RE: Terrible at my logic Hi,    Please any one suggest how can I add two tabseparated text files in to one tabseparated text file.   In the text file 1 and the text file2 One column is common to both the files. So Is there any way by comparing the record no (which is present in both th

RE: Random numbers

2002-10-29 Thread Bullock, Howard A.
Title: RE: Terrible at my logic sub GenRandomPW ($Length) {     # This subroutine generate a relatively strong random password of a specified length.     &WriteLog($LogFile, "Entered GenRandomPW") if $DEBUG;       my $Length = shift;       my $password;     my @chars = ('A'..'H', '

RE: Random numbers

2002-10-29 Thread Krishna, Hari
Title: RE: Terrible at my logic OH MY GOD!!!   That is soo overwhelming   I don't have enough thatyou 's to say THANKYOU ALL SO VERY MUCH   your humble servant, Hari.  

RE: Random numbers

2002-10-29 Thread Patrick Connolly
Title: RE: Terrible at my logic To make it even a little more fun you could also vary the length of the password:   @a = (0..9,A..Z,a..z);  # password charactors @b = (6..14);      # length of password for($I=0;$I<1000;$I++) {    for($x=0;$x<$b[rand @b];$x++) {

RE: Random numbers

2002-10-29 Thread Peter Eisengrein
Title: RE: Terrible at my logic perldoc -f rand   here's an example: print int rand ;   -Original Message-From: Krishna, Hari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 12:48To: 'FARRINGTON, RYAN'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Random numbers Hi fr

RE: Random numbers

2002-10-29 Thread Stovall, Adrian M.
Title: Message $randomstring="0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; for ($ii=1;$ii<=1000;$ii++) {     $pwd = "";     for ($jj=1;$jj<=8;$jj++) {     $pwd .= (split(//,$randomstring))[rand(length($randomstring))];     }     print "$pwd\n"; }   change the list of

RE: Random numbers

2002-10-29 Thread Patrick Connolly
Title: RE: Terrible at my logic @a = (0..9,A..Z,a..z); for($I=0;$I<1000;$I++) {    for($x=0;$x<8;$x++) {       $index   = rand @a;       print $a[$index];    }    print "\n"; }   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Krishna, Har

Random numbers

2002-10-29 Thread Krishna, Hari
Title: RE: Terrible at my logic Hi friends,     I want to generate some 1000 or more passwords for some NT machine. I should be able to generate an 8 digit alphanumeric random numbers from the list of characters.   Say I have 3 strings... First string : 0 - 9 numbers Second string : A -

Parsing return value from LWP::Simple::get()

2002-10-29 Thread Tony White
As far as I can tell, the return value from LWP::Simple::get is simply a long string. In my case, I'm grabbing an HTML page that contains a list of dates that link to maintenance notices for that date specified. The input would look something like: http://site/date-maint-10292002.html";>

RE: Passing multiple hashes into a sub-routine and returning them

2002-10-29 Thread Reddy Kankanala
Thanks Adrian! -Original Message- From: Stovall, Adrian M. [mailto:Adrian.Stovall@;durez.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 11:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Passing multiple hashes into a sub-routine and returning them foreach $key (keys %hash) { print "key: $key -

RE: Passing multiple hashes into a sub-routine and returning them

2002-10-29 Thread Serebnik, Kiril
Basically you may use something like this (note that this is old fashioned perl style - before references were invented) %a = (ak1 => av1, ak2 => av2); %b = (bk1 => bv1, bk2 => bv2); func (*a, *b); foreach $a (keys %a) { print "$a => $a{$a}\n"; } foreach $b (keys %b) { print "$b

RE: Passing multiple hashes into a sub-routine and returning them

2002-10-29 Thread Stovall, Adrian M.
foreach $key (keys %hash) { print "key: $key - value: $hash{$key}\n"; } The code above loops through the keys (in no particular order) and prints each key along with its value. > -Original Message- > From: Reddy Kankanala [mailto:rkankanala@;Interelate.com] > Sent: Tuesday, Octo

RE: Passing multiple hashes into a sub-routine and returning them

2002-10-29 Thread Reddy Kankanala
when you loop thru keys, is there a way to get the corresponding value? -Original Message- From: Thomas Drugeon [mailto:tdrugeon@;ina.fr] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Passing multiple hashes into a sub-routine and returning them hashes and o