Re: Semantics, not a troll (was newbie hlelp!)

2003-09-20 Thread $Bill Luebkert
Lee Goddard wrote: > At 21:42 19/09/2003, Arms, Mike wrote: > >>Lee Goddard [EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >>>... I didn't mean to start >>>a flame war here: I only do that if someone asks >>>about text editors. >> >>Nah, I haven't seen any flames. Just a lot of good >>humor. Been a fun topic. > >

Re: Semantics, not a troll (was newbie hlelp!)

2003-09-20 Thread $Bill Luebkert
Lee Goddard wrote: >>This is exactly why we should all use the American definitions. We have >>individual names that apply to each symbol so you can't muck up and get >>the wrong one. > > > Now who's trolling?! > > To coin a phrase, there's more than one way to name it. > I haven't seen a post

Re: newbie hlelp!

2003-09-20 Thread Lee Goddard
At 02:59 19/09/2003, Carl Jolley wrote: You probably won't find "horizontal bar" either but that's probably what Lee calls a dash. (:-D) Oooo, you! Hyphen, actually: a dash is longer. Unless it's an n-dash, but even then, a dash has space either side Lee "Pendant" Goddard __

OT RE: newbie hlelp!

2003-09-20 Thread Lee Goddard
At 10:22 19/09/2003, Beckett Richard-qswi266 wrote: Mind you I bet suspenders are something different in the US. I fear in the US men wear them to keep their trousers up. Call me old-fashioned, but I think they're missing out there. _

RE: Semantics, not a troll (was newbie hlelp!)

2003-09-20 Thread Lee Goddard
At 21:42 19/09/2003, Arms, Mike wrote: Lee Goddard [EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > ... I didn't mean to start > a flame war here: I only do that if someone asks > about text editors. Nah, I haven't seen any flames. Just a lot of good humor. Been a fun topic. Just ask "what's the best text editor for pe

Re: Semantics, not a troll (was newbie hlelp!)

2003-09-20 Thread Lee Goddard
At 22:41 19/09/2003, $Bill Luebkert wrote: Lee Goddard wrote: > At 18:15 18/09/2003, $Bill Luebkert wrote: > >>Dictionary definitions are indented after each symbol pair: > > > Which one? An...American dictionary? > Schock horror: they were only invented to > be different, annoy the Brits and inve

Re: newbie hlelp!

2003-09-18 Thread $Bill Luebkert
Lee Goddard wrote: > Did/do you say braces or square brackets? > Did you specify the style of parenthesis: > looked to me like the significance was as > implicit in your sentence as mine. > > How about: > >() - plain/round parenthesis/brackets >[] - square parenthesis/brackets >{} -

RE: newbie hlelp!

2003-09-18 Thread Arms, Mike
Lee Goddard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How about: > >() - plain/round parenthesis/brackets >[] - square parenthesis/brackets >{} - curly parenthesis/brackets, set delimiters (maybe not) ><> - angle brackets; greater-/less-than > > Really, though, bull aside, do you Yankees reall

Re: newbie hlelp!

2003-09-18 Thread Lee Goddard
At 19:18 17/09/2003, you wrote: Lee Goddard wrote: > Brackets, parenthesis, the terms change over the Atlantic: > that's just pedantry, Bill :) That's just bull, Lee. :) If you can't have common terminology, how can you have a reasonable discussion about programming which requires explicit termin

Re: newbie hlelp!

2003-09-18 Thread Lee Goddard
I'm guessing that the @{ } syntax implies not only scalar content but that what is enclosed in the braces is an array reference, not a list. Ah, probably: I didn't think beyond scalar Thanks. Lee Miert fizetsz az internetert

Re: newbie hlelp!

2003-09-18 Thread Carl Jolley
> 80008401.LOG: 19691231 > 80008441.LOG: 19691231 > 800084AB.LOG: 19691231 > 80008509.LOG: 19691231 > 80008560.LOG: 19691231 > 8000863E.LOG: 19691231 > > > > > >From: "$Bill Luebkert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: alex p <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &

Re: newbie hlelp!

2003-09-16 Thread Carl Jolley
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, alex p wrote: > Thank you all for replying, I am using the code below and I am still unable > to get the correct date > > opendir (DIR, "$server\\c\$\\sys\\data\\LOG\\updates"); > @allfiles = readdir(DIR); > #print("," readdir(DIR)); > #closedir(DIR); > foreach $f

Re: newbie hlelp!

2003-09-16 Thread $Bill Luebkert
Lee Goddard wrote: >>A correction for Lee and Trevor. The "-M" function is not >>the same as (stat $file)[9] which is what the original >>poster wanted (i.e. mtime of a file). > > > You're right of course: not a very good mnemonic. > And whilst I'm showing my ignorance, can someone > please exp

Re: newbie hlelp!

2003-09-16 Thread $Bill Luebkert
alex p wrote: > Thank you all for replying, I am using the code below and I am still unable > to get the correct date > > opendir (DIR, "$server\\c\$\\sys\\data\\LOG\\updates"); > @allfiles = readdir(DIR); > #print("," readdir(DIR)); > #closedir(DIR); > foreach $f (@allfiles) >

Re: newbie hlelp!

2003-09-16 Thread michael higgins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you all for replying, I am using the code below and I am still unable to get the correct date opendir (DIR, "$server\\c\$\\sys\\data\\LOG\\updates"); @allfiles = readdir(DIR); #print("," readdir(DIR)); #closedir(DIR); foreach $f (@allfiles) { unless

RE: newbie hlelp!

2003-09-16 Thread Lee Goddard
A correction for Lee and Trevor. The "-M" function is not the same as (stat $file)[9] which is what the original poster wanted (i.e. mtime of a file). You're right of course: not a very good mnemonic. And whilst I'm showing my ignorance, can someone please explain to me why stat needs so many bra

Re: newbie hlelp!

2003-09-16 Thread Dirk Bremer \(NISC\)
- Original Message - From: "alex p" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 11:42 Subject: Re: newbie hlelp! > Thank you all for replying, I am using the code below and I am still unable > to get the correct date >

RE: newbie hlelp!

2003-09-16 Thread Arms, Mike
Lee Goddard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > opendir opens a directory so the contents can be listed. > utime changes the modification times associated with the file. > stat will give you the last modified time (as will -M). > > warn -M $file; > warn ((stat ($file))[9]) Trevor Joerges ([EMAIL PROTEC

Re: newbie hlelp!

2003-09-16 Thread alex p
s: 19691231 for every file? what am I doing wrong? the date should be yesterdays date 20030915 TYAVM From: Carl Jolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: $Bill Luebkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: alex p <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: newbie hlelp! Date: Tue, 16

Re: newbie hlelp!

2003-09-16 Thread Lee Goddard
At 21:41 15/09/2003, alex p wrote: Hello all, I am trying to figure out a way to get the "last modified" date of a file. I have looked at the following modules but they dont seem to address what i need: stat, utime, opendir opendir opens a directory so the contents can be listed. utime changes t

Re: newbie hlelp!

2003-09-15 Thread Carl Jolley
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, $Bill Luebkert wrote: > alex p wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I am trying to figure out a way to get the "last modified" date of a file. > > I have looked at the following modules but they dont seem to address what i > > need: stat, utime, opendir > > > > does anyone know ho

Re: newbie hlelp!

2003-09-15 Thread Trevor Joerges [SendMIME Software]
Try perldoc -f -M. my $modtime = -M file; # will get you the last modified time in days. Hope this help you. Trevor Joerges - Original Message - From: "alex p" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 3:41 PM Subject: newbi

RE: newbie hlelp!

2003-09-15 Thread Messenger, Mark
Title: RE: newbie hlelp! Low tech and sloppy, but functional: @outlines=`"dir $filename /a"`;  # in case file is hidden foreach $_ (@outlines)     {     if (/$filename/i)         {         $moddate=substr($_,0,10);         $modtime=subs

Re: newbie hlelp!

2003-09-15 Thread $Bill Luebkert
alex p wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to figure out a way to get the "last modified" date of a file. > I have looked at the following modules but they dont seem to address what i > need: stat, utime, opendir > > does anyone know how to go about getting this date? stat should be fine :

newbie hlelp!

2003-09-15 Thread alex p
Hello all, I am trying to figure out a way to get the "last modified" date of a file. I have looked at the following modules but they dont seem to address what i need: stat, utime, opendir does anyone know how to go about getting this date? TYIA _