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> -Original Message-
> From: Jan Dubois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: June 21, 2006 5:38 PM
> To: 'Veli-Pekka Tätilä'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: $# and %s Crashing Perl V5.8.7
>
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Veli-Pekka Tätilä wrote:
Joe Discenza wrote:
"Veli-Pekka Tätilä" wrote, on Wednesday, June 21, 2006 1:54 PM
$# = '%s'; # But an invalid format.
print $pi; # crashes the interpreter.
I'm running Active State Perl v5.8.7 build 815 [211909].
I just tested this with build 638, also XP Pro SP2, with the same results.
Ah go
Hi,
Browsing perlvar the other day, I noticed a deprecated variable called $#
controlling the printing of floating point values. The examples I found of
its usage hinted at sprintf style formatting and in fact it appears to work
oK. However, I got curious enough to try out format chars other th
I would speed it up my making it multithreaded. This is really pretty easy.
Read up on the threads pragma in the docs. U could then do 10 or 20
simultaneously no problem.
something like:
threadlimit = 10;
while (threads < threadlimit) {
last unless @machinestocheck;
async(dosomet
Hi all...
I'm trying to figure out the best (read: fastest) way to collect local domain group membership information for users in other trusted domains in our forest... I'm trying to figure out if I can impersonate as the outside domain user in my local domain and collect groups from the login to
The "wide_system_calls" option
was intentionally disabled in Perl 5.8. See the following posting
from Jan Dubois.
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/perl5-porters/2933666
There are two work arounds to this problem.
(1) Use the "FileSystem.Scripting"
OLE object as referenced in
I have a script which restarts services on around 400 clients. At the
moment, the script connects to WMI on each machine separately and calls
Win32_Service->StopService(), followed by Win32_Service->StartService().
I'd like to speed it up a bit and thought of using the WMI asynchronous
providers t
