Re: Reading quickly from the end of a file

2007-02-08 Thread John Mason Jr
John Townsend wrote: > I'm looking for a way to read the end of a file quickly. I have scripts > that generate PostScript files (basically really large text files). I'd > like to verify that each PostScript file ends with "%EOF". Rather than > read the entire text file into memeory then parsing eac

Reading quickly from the end of a file

2007-02-08 Thread John Townsend
I'm looking for a way to read the end of a file quickly. I have scripts that generate PostScript files (basically really large text files). I'd like to verify that each PostScript file ends with "%EOF". Rather than read the entire text file into memeory then parsing each line, I'd like to read from

RE: Who does "MoveNext" belong to?

2007-02-08 Thread Steven Manross
I no longer use DBI for my database queries so I can't help you there.. If that's the way you want to go, you might consider using DBI::ODBC instead (I never had any problems there) and check it's documentation for syntaxes. However, this code has always worked for me on a Win32 platform, while co

Re: Command Line Arguments Not Getting To @ARGV

2007-02-08 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 9:32 PM Subject: Command Line Arguments Not Getting To @ARGV > Dear Win32 Users > > Scripts which have previously been working from a command window are not > receiving anything in @ARGV on one

Command Line Arguments Not Getting To @ARGV

2007-02-08 Thread Brian
Dear Win32 Users Scripts which have previously been working from a command window are not receiving anything in @ARGV on one PC running XP SP2. I am using Active Perl 5.8.8.819. I do not have a problem on a Win2k SP4 machine or on another XP SP2 machine. Does anyone have any idea what could be cau