RE: Perl-Win32-Users Digest, Vol 29, Issue 14

Rightclick on the taskbar may give the option to launch task manager, unless action has been taken to remove it from that context menu -- David Budd, IT Services Kilburn Building, University of Manchester Tel 56033 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED

Network shares

I'm a bit new to this... What's the sensible equivalent to: `net use z: names.changed.to.protect\\the\\innocent`; -- David Budd, IT Services Kilburn Building, University of Manchester Tel 56033 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Perl-W

RE: Perl-Win32-Users Digest, Vol 26, Issue 26

>I am looking for help on a regex that examines strings such as > > "xxxN yyy sssNNN" > "xxxN yyyNyyy sss" > "xxxN yyyNyyy ssN" > > and returns only the sss part? N is always a numeral, and s is always > alphabetic. Does /\s

RE: Perl-Win32-Users Digest, Vol 25, Issue 5

the new one. Don't know > about Win 9x. I don't recall the fundamentals of autoexec.bat ever changing. You can get pseudo-cumulative with PATH NewStuff;"%PATH%" (and you can do without the quotes if no paths have spaces/specials in them) -- David Budd, IT Services Kilburn Buil

RE: Perl-Win32-Users Digest, Vol 20, Issue 18

" Actually, to make sure ur string ends with a non-numeric u need \D$ not \D*$. \D* matches 0 or more non-digits. That is used for cases where a string could end in "\D" but doesn't *have* to. " In the end, after reading everybody's contributions, I went with (?:\D|$) I'm looking for a 7 digit

RE: Regex

> > You state that there must be a NON numeric at end of > line. I would have \D* or \D*$. Excellent suggestion. I shall implement it forthwith. Part of the reason I was perplexed was that this script ran for a year with nobody complaining. In fact, I discovered some time after I'd post

Regex

oen't make it through to my logs, but right now I'm perplexed -- David Budd, Applications section, IT Services Kilburn Building, University of Manchester Tel 56033 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.its.man.ac.uk/applications ___ Perl-Win3

Floating point

It strikes me that a Closer_than($e,$x,$y) function that does the suggested abs(1-$x/$y) <= $e would be a fine addition to almost any programming language. The compiler/interpreter writer could surely make it more efficient built-in than leaving us to do the construction ourselves.