Re: Build warnings and test failures for perl 5.8.6

2005-01-03 Thread Randy W. Sims
Robert Johnson wrote: Sisyphus(Rob), et. al., This is my second try to build the stable perl -- same problems. New thread for clarity. I'm building Perl 5.8.6 again on my Windows XP box (factory Dell dimension 2yrs old standard stuff). Compiled it with with MinGW (3.1.0) using dmake (4.1

Parsing strings like the Windows shell

2004-11-07 Thread Randy W. Sims
: [Module::Build] ANNOUNCE: 0.2601 - CPAN Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 14:17:14 -0500 From: Randy W. Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ken Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Perl - Module-Build [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: wget in scripts

2004-11-07 Thread Randy W. Sims
Malcolm Mill wrote: Hi, Can anyone help me with this. I'm using wget, a perl script and a shell script to download files from serveral directories on a web server. The URLs I'm passing to wget are of the form: http://www.foo.br/001/ - http://www.foo.br/050/ Untested: #!/usr/bin/perl use

Re: Mark's brain teasing JAPH

2004-10-21 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 10/21/2004 10:55 PM, Allegakoen, Justin Devanandan wrote: --8--- #$_=q;steal Porch Junk;;split//;$_=q=cd0153e71; #s/56s/45;39fs/=;y;\;s/;a28s/;;;s;$/;;;s((.))/; #q.$_[..$..$_[10].$_[2].q.x..q.($1)]./gee/print --8--- Does the following help? $_='steal Porch Junk';

Re: The old \015 problem

2004-10-07 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 10/7/2004 6:05 PM, David D Miller wrote: Where do I find this wonderful little tool? I looked for it on DOS and Unix without any luck. Not part of the perl delivery I guess. Just use perl: perl -lpe 'tr/\015//d' newfile.pl or tr tr -d \015 oldfile newfile

Re: perl.exe - Entry Point Not Found

2004-07-29 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 7/29/2004 4:37 PM, Glenn M Dowling wrote: My co-worker recently installed ActiveState Perl v5.8.4 on a WinNT 4 member server. When she tried to run a local script, she got the following error message: perl.exe - Entry Point Not Found The procedure entry point GlobalMemoryStatusEx

[Attn: Kevin Gidney] Re: Out of Office AutoReply

2004-07-29 Thread Randy W. Sims
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[Attn: Gary Begin] Re: Out of Office AutoReply

2004-07-29 Thread Randy W. Sims
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[Attn: Jonathan Epstein] Re: Out of Office AutoReply

2004-07-29 Thread Randy W. Sims
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Re: file handle strangeness

2004-07-18 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 7/18/2004 2:22 AM, Glenn Linderman wrote: use strict; use warnings; # sub hexdump { return ( ': 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 ' . \n ); } # my $fh = *STDOUT; print '' . hexdump (); print hexdump (); print $fh ''

Re: file handle strangeness

2004-07-18 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 7/18/2004 2:22 AM, Glenn Linderman wrote: use strict; use warnings; # sub hexdump { return ( ': 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 ' . \n ); } # my $fh = *STDOUT; print '' . hexdump (); print hexdump (); print $fh ''

[Attn: Desai, Sheetal] Re: Out of Office AutoReply: file handle strangeness

2004-07-18 Thread Randy W. Sims
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[Attn: Strohmeier Ruediger] Re: Out of Office AutoReply: file handle strangeness

2004-07-18 Thread Randy W. Sims
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[Attn: SANTA Giovanni] Re: Out of Office AutoReply: file handle strangeness

2004-07-18 Thread Randy W. Sims
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[Attn: Anderson, Mark] Re: Out of Office AutoReply: file handle strangeness

2004-07-18 Thread Randy W. Sims
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[Attn: McCarty, Michael F] Re: Out of Office AutoReply: file handle strangeness

2004-07-18 Thread Randy W. Sims
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Re: Compile XS module on Win32

2004-04-26 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 4/26/2004 6:27 PM, Roy Huggins wrote: Okay, the problem seems to be that the toolkit download does not include msvcrt.lib. It needs to be findable before you run Makefile.PL. The SDK does not include this file, either. It only has the 64 bit version. So I got a copy of the libs, headers, etc

Re: request: SOAP::Lite parameter passing question.

2004-04-15 Thread Randy W. Sims
Please do not post messages below the signature (A line containing only two dashes followed by a single space). Many MUAs treat the signature special. For example mine draws the text in a light grey that is difficult to read, and when responding it strips out the signature. Thank you, Randy.

Re: Array from a string.

2004-03-31 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 3/31/2004 11:17 PM, Jan Dubois wrote: Core module should not be in the PPM repository at all. Even if did manage to install them, they would still not become active as they install into the site/lib tree, but the lib tree appears first in @INC. With the dual-lifing of the core modules, maybe

Re: prefix string matching (and compression)

2004-03-25 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 3/25/2004 11:50 PM, Glenn Linderman wrote: For sorted lists of text, like dictionaries, one quick-to-decode technique that saves a fair amount of space, is to start each string with the number of bytes that match the previous string, and then append the remainder of the string. In other

Re: Brain fade day!

2004-03-19 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 03/19/04 08:14, Beckett Richard-qswi266 wrote: Guys, I must have brain fade, 'cause I can't work out how to do this... I get a geometry string with my $geom = $mw - geometry; which gives $geom = 104x28+619+498. I want $geom to be just the +619+498 part of above. It seems silly to do it like

Re: Module Test Suites

2004-02-26 Thread Randy W. Sims
I'm just catching the tail end of this thread, so I hope I'm understanding. On 02/26/04 03:11, Sisyphus wrote: Randy Kobes wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Sisyphus wrote: 'perl -Mblib t\test1.t' works fine. But is it possible to get 'make test' to automatically run that command (for each and every

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: CPAN and Activestate Modules compatibility

2004-02-23 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 02/23/04 22:29, Kamal Ahmed wrote: Dear Perlers, I have found that just copying the .pm modules which I untared This is a very, very, very bad habit which some people have adopted. This will not always work correctly even for pure perl module. Sometimes files must be passed through a filter

Re: Perl 5.8 problems with print

2003-12-20 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 12/20/2003 8:52 AM, Ken Brown wrote: code print Processing Data ; while (condition) {do something}; print Finished\n; Question why do I not see any output until I send Finished\n when running the .pl or the perlapp equiv but if I call with -d (PDK) it works perfectly? Try turning on output

Re: subroutine name

2003-12-19 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 12/19/2003 3:41 PM, Eckart Uhlig wrote: Hi all, is there a way to determine the name of the current called subroutine? I don't want to print out the subroutine's name explicitly, I'm hoping for a 'magic' variable/ function or something like that, which I can pass to a plain printout function.

Re: Net::POP3 with non-default port number?

2003-12-19 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 12/19/2003 3:49 PM, Peter Davis wrote: I've been using Net::POP3 in my own e-mail fetching script for a while. Now, however, I want to modify the script to use the K9 proxy for spam filtering. This proxy requires, among other things, that I use port instead of the default port of 110.

Re: unlink

2003-12-16 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 12/16/2003 10:14 PM, Eric Edwards wrote: Hey Listers- This is not homework. I am teaching myself perl. Question: Does the unlink command not work on windows? The book I am using has some code examples using it but I am wondering if it might be UNIX specific. I hope my code isn't that bad.

Re: unlink

2003-12-16 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 12/16/2003 11:04 PM, Eric Edwards wrote: - Original Message - From: Randy W. Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Eric Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 9:35 PM Subject: Re: unlink On 12/16/2003 10:14 PM, Eric Edwards wrote: Hey Listers

Re: unlink

2003-12-16 Thread Randy W. Sims
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Re: Something like File::Sync on Win32?

2003-03-20 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 3/20/2003 6:13 PM, Sivakumaran Raman wrote: I am sending output to a printer using the following method: sysopen( PRINTER, //TOSHIBA-Siv/My_Printer, O_WRONLY ) or die( Failed to open PRINTER\n ); print PRINTER @completefile ; close( PRINTER ) or die(Cannot close file\n); I have also set $|

Re: Help on Find and Replace

2003-01-31 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 1/31/2003 4:51 AM, Ahmed, Mubariz wrote: Hi, I have problem with find and replace. Below is the script $src=c:\\mub\\mubwork; $inter=c:\\mub\\mubwork\\test\\tets1; $dest=c:\\mubariz\\dpgdata; $inter=~s/$src/$dest/; # Result should be c:\mubariz\dpgdata\test\tets1 $inter=~s/\Q$src\E/$dest/;

Re: sort a table

2003-01-29 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 1/29/2003 1:14 PM, Joseph P. Discenza wrote: Andrew Mansfield wrote, on Wednesday, January 29, 2003 13:00 : I have a list of data read in from a text file in which each line has the : following format: : : time status type first_name last_name machine_name : : where each value is separated

Re: Counting regex occurrences

2002-12-14 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 12/14/2002 10:02 AM, Bill Royds -Perl wrote: The key is $count = () = $string =~ /a/g; Which creates a list context for return of match operator $string =~/regex/g Then the $count= is asking for a scalar context return of a list, which we all know returns the count of elements in list.

Re: getopt arrgh!!

2002-11-14 Thread Randy W. Sims
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying for an hour or so to use Getopt::Long, but I just don't get it... I've been reading FAQ's docs but I need some more examples to know how it works. Well, I want to process arguments like: perl command.pl arg_needed [ --flag1 one=something two=otherthing

RE: Sendkeys and strange program behavior

2002-08-01 Thread Randy W. Sims
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael D. Smith Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 12:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sendkeys and strange program behavior I've been using sendkeys to start some username/password programs. A

perldoc

2002-07-24 Thread Randy W. Sims
|-m|-l) on the command line, it will override the PERLDOC -n setting. The output of ``diff -u perldoc.bat.orig perldoc.bat'' follows: Thanks, Randy W. Sims --- perldoc.bat.orig2002-07-02 20:06:42.0 -0400 +++ perldoc.bat 2002-07-24 22:32:50.0 -0400 @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ -r

RE: IE/OLE - properties methods questions

2002-05-25 Thread Randy W. Sims
-Original Message- Hello, I'm using Win32::OLE to work with IE. I've looked through the docs at MSDN and the archives here, but I didn't find my answer so I don't know if these requests are possible or not. 1) I'd like to disable view source via right click (w/o resorting to the