Re: [OLE] Help

2001-07-02 Thread Tom Heady
did you import the constants from excel? does perl know what the value for "xlNone" is? check out the Win32::OLE::Const module. example: use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Excel'; ---thinc *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 7/2/2001 at 10:35 AM Ken Brown wrote: >OLE

Re: Forking to refresh

2000-12-13 Thread Tom Heady
i gave up trying to get fork to work reliably on windows a couple months back at least until i see something that tells me it is working correctly you might just pop up a "working" doalog while it is reading, then dismiss it when you are done ---tom *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On

Re: reading hash from file did not produce expected results

2000-12-05 Thread Tom Heady
here's a walkthrough, starting at the second line of your text file >#-start >#!perl -w >$extnum='8114'; # at the moment. >open(ADDR, "addressbook.txt") or die "cant open $!\n"; >while() { the value of $_ = "8114,[EMAIL PROTECTED]\n" > chomp; the val

RE: Slightly OT but probably very useful - Free (but, no doubt, t otally illegal) ORA Perl books inc. "The Camel"!

2000-11-09 Thread Tom Heady
I recommend buying it if you want it electronically. http://www.bookpool.com/.x/rhrwxjz51m/as?at=s&su=allsub&pu=allpub&sb=b&is=1565924622 $35.00 + ship looks like it has the old camel book though (2.0), so you might want to wait for a new version. ---tom *** REPLY SEPARATOR *

Re: Printing to multiple file handles

2000-10-14 Thread Tom Heady
actually that is not entirely true. check out Local::TeeOutput here: http://jenda.krynicky.cz *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 10/13/2000 at 6:07 PM Robert Bresner wrote: >Howdy Shawn, > >You can't print to two filehandles at once, you'd have to do >it with two print statements. > >