AW: Perl Certifications ??

2004-02-25 Thread Dietmar Fiehn, Dr.
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Andrew Timberlake-Newell > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: RE: Perl Certifications ?? > > I've seen Perl used in "business environments" in each of the > following > roles: > > A) The primary development language > B) A co-primary along with PHP

Re: Module Test Suites

2004-02-25 Thread Randy Kobes
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Sisyphus wrote: > Randy Kobes wrote: > > > > Hi Rob, > > Does any further information result from running the > > tests as > > make test TEST_VERBOSE=1 > > or > > perl -Mblib t/test1.t > > etc. Can you post a sample that doesn't work? > > > > Thanks Randy. > > Sett

RE: Perl Certifications ??

2004-02-25 Thread Savinder Puri
Title: RE: Perl Certifications ?? Hi All,   IMHO I'd agree with the *large* support towards Perl as an "Enterprise" dev language... probably it's due to my eternal love to programme in Perl :-)   Towards Perl's use in OO and RAD, what links/resources would provide valuable information

RE: Perl Certifications ??

2004-02-25 Thread Grakowsky, Richard \(ETS: Communications and Network Services\)
Quick correction: PERL is an acronym for Practical Extraction and Reporting Language. As for everything else, I second everything in there. At the medium size educational institution I work at, we use it to automate both small enterprise-based applications constantly. Its extremely flexible a

Re: compress and convert a bmp

2004-02-25 Thread mark pryor
The fabulous irfan viewer athttp://www.irfanview.com/has commandline switches, specifically the /compress switch.You can shell this using back ticks or exec(). As usual since it works great for me, I'm telling you about it!hth, tlviewer:yahoo:AIMJohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone compr

Tk::HList refresh problem

2004-02-25 Thread Jeremy A
Hi all, I have a Tk problem. How do I update the cells in an HList Box? I have a routine that runs in a while loop, and includes the $mw->update(). this loop is to refresh the HList box. my problem is that it does not work and i get an Tk error which starts like this "Tk::Error: element "0"

Re: Module Test Suites

2004-02-25 Thread Sisyphus
Randy Kobes wrote: Hi Rob, Does any further information result from running the tests as make test TEST_VERBOSE=1 or perl -Mblib t/test1.t etc. Can you post a sample that doesn't work? Thanks Randy. Setting 'TEST_VERBOSE' does flush the output to the screen - but also reports the s

Re: Module Test Suites

2004-02-25 Thread Randy Kobes
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Sisyphus wrote: > Hi, > > I have a module that I've written. The 'test.pl' script written for the > purpose of running 'make test' was becoming a little large and unwieldy, > so I broke it up into a number of test scripts, gave them all a '.t' > extension and placed them in th

RE: Perl Certifications ??

2004-02-25 Thread Chris Snyder
First, perl is not an acronym, so it is never entirely capitalized. You can capitalize the first letter "Perl", but the basic guideline is "You use perl to implement Perl". Second, I think the case made is that there is a growing community of app developers using Perl for enterprise apps. Yes, I

Re: CPAN and Activestate Modules compatibility

2004-02-25 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 2/24/2004 2:19 PM, Capacio, Paula J wrote: On 02/23/04 22:29, Kamal Ahmed wrote: Dear Perlers, I have found that just copying the .pm modules which I untared On 02/23/04 23:35, Randy W. Sims wrote: This is a very, very, very bad habit which some people have adopted. This will not always

RE: Perl Certifications ??

2004-02-25 Thread Bharucha, Nikhil
Medium size and larger companies want the benefits afforded by J2EE -- Reliability, Reusability, Readability, Legacy Adapters, Interfaces, EJBs, etc. I use PERL for misc tasks where it excels. I didn't mean that a PERL Cert would be useless, rather J2EE from a marketability standpoint. Problem h

Re: compress and convert a bmp

2004-02-25 Thread Glenn Linderman
GIF files have an internal, lossless LZW compression. I don't believe the format permits any other compression method, such as JPG, although I'm going on general knowledge here, not reading specs. TIF files permit a variety of different compression methods, and I believe that Image::Magick sup

RE: PROBLEMS OF API

2004-02-25 Thread Guay Jean-Sébastien
Hello Asim, > PROBLEM NO.1: > IN PERL WHAT IS EQUIVALENT OF VB FUNCTION : Asc() Please don't shout, I have a headache... :-) Also, this is not a VB list. I don't even know what Asc() does in VB (though I can guess), so please instead of asking us questions in the form "I know how to do this in

RE: Perl Certifications ??

2004-02-25 Thread Andrew Timberlake-Newell
I've seen Perl used in "business environments" in each of the following roles: A) The primary development language B) A co-primary along with PHP C) One of many languages used on a per-task basis...with no real primary D) "Tool" usage for auxiliary support of another "primary" language

RE: PROBLEMS OF API

2004-02-25 Thread Steven Manross
Problem 1 really 2: $string="My name is Asim Siddiqui."; while($i<=length($string)) { $Alphabat = substr($string,$i,1); print $Alphabat."\n"; $i++; } -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Asim Siddiqui Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 11

PROBLEMS OF API

2004-02-25 Thread Asim Siddiqui
Hello, PROBLEM NO.1: IN PERL WHAT IS EQUIVALENT OF VB FUNCTION : Asc() PROBLEM NO.1: $string="My name is Asim Siddiqui."; while($i<=length($string)){ $Alphabat = substr($string,$i,$i+1); } WHATS WRONG IN THIS CODE THAT I CAN NOT ACHIEVE $Akphabat EQUAL TO EVERY LETTER OF THE $string... PROBLEM N

RE: Subsituting apostrophe's

2004-02-25 Thread Jeff Hill
Ricky, I definitely agree with you on that point. I was just wanted to have the knowledge, more than actually using the knowledge. I love the fact that I learn something new with Perl nearly every day! "But Master Yoda, I've learned so much, already" Jeff Hill Developer Realpage, Inc. MSN Mes

Re: 255 char limit Win32::OLE Microsoft Word?

2004-02-25 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
I'm doing this to init the word object: my $mswordapp = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Word.Application') || Win32::OLE->new('Word.Application', 'Quit') or die "Can´t start Microsoft Word: " . Win32::OLE->LastError(); $mswordapp('word')->Documents->Open('myworddoc.doc')

Re: Subsituting apostrophe's

2004-02-25 Thread Richard Morse
On 24 Feb 2004, at 08:00 PM, Jeff Hill wrote: I'd like to be able to give you an answer there, but alas, it is not to be. I'm glad you got your problem fixed. I'm wondering if there are Perl modules out there that give you control over what errors to complain about. I'll have to look tonight.

Net::SSH::W32Perl hangs

2004-02-25 Thread agharmine youssef
hi ! I try to run the falowing script. I can connect to the host and authenticate then send a command; but the script hangs (like a loop !) use Net::SSH::W32Perl; my %args; $args{debug} = 1; $args{protocol} = 2; my $host = 'X.X.X.X'; my $ssh = new Net::SSH::W32Perl($host,%args); $ss