Re: Unicode, Null Code or Something Else

2013-01-24 Thread Glenn Linderman
On 1/24/2013 9:36 AM, Paul Rousseau wrote: Hello Perl forum. I am attempting to parse a file that contains a format I am not familiar with. I read in a record and assign it to $string. $string = N o r m a n d v i l l e A d m i n When I dump the string using this code, while ($string =~

Re: regular expression, this but not that

2011-09-18 Thread Glenn Linderman
On 9/18/2011 9:38 PM, Jer A wrote: All, lets say i want to test if a string contains pig but not dog and/or not cat i tried something like this: =~ m/[^dog]|[^cat]|pig/ig what is the best way of going about this, using one regex? your help is very much appreciated, perhaps the

Re: trying to create first simple perl 'filter' program on windows

2011-03-03 Thread Glenn Linderman
On 3/3/2011 4:07 PM, Greg Aiken wrote: im wanting to write a simple perl 'filter' program in windows. I basically took the base code found here... http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/programming-and-development/simple-filters-in-perl-ruby-and-bourne-shell/3481 the sample here is simple, convert

Re: PerlTK's Photo does not accept bmp format

2009-11-23 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 11/22/2009 11:48 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Daniel Burgaud: Hi, Does TK have image Crop functionality? The reason why I wanted to use BMP is it's simple format.. What I need in my final code is to show in a small label widget a small portion of

Re: PerlTK's Photo does not accept bmp format

2009-11-22 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 11/22/2009 3:56 AM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Daniel Burgaud: Hi PerlTK's Photo does not accept bmp format. $mw-Photo('image1', -file = screen.bmp , -format=bmp); $frames{'XX'}-configure( -image = 'image1' ); screen.bmp is a screen capture created

Re: 64 bit arithmetic on 32 bit system

2009-09-07 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 9/7/2009 1:17 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Jares, Howard M: I need to calculate the password expiration date for users in Active Directory. This is basically done by obtaining the domain maxPwdAge which is a 64 bit value that represents how

Excel problem

2009-05-08 Thread Glenn Linderman
So I open a workbook with macros, and then another workbook with data, and run A_macro... as follows... require Win32::OLE; require Win32::OLE::Const; Win32::OLE::Const-Load('Microsoft Excel'); $Win32::OLE::Warn = 3; $Win32::OLE::Warn = 3; my $Excel =

Re: use Strict

2004-10-24 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 10/24/2004 4:06 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of MJG: For those of you that are big fans of this, I see value in using it. How would I set this situation up: $List{$key}=...code Do I do this my $List = ''; my $key = ''; This doesn't seem to make sense

perl module version handling

2004-10-20 Thread Glenn Linderman
Given: In GFfP.pm: our $VERSION = '0.1'; Later in a script: use GFfP; print GFfP::VERSION: $GFfP::VERSION -- , $GFfP::VERSION + 0, -- , ( $GFfP::VERSION = 0.1 ), \n; Why do I get the output: GFfP::VERSION: 0.1 -- 0 -- 1 I would have expected something similar to:

Re: perl module version handling

2004-10-20 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 10/20/2004 6:24 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Sisyphus: Glenn Linderman wrote: Given: In GFfP.pm: our $VERSION = '0.1'; Later in a script: use GFfP; print GFfP::VERSION: $GFfP::VERSION -- , $GFfP::VERSION + 0, -- , ( $GFfP::VERSION

Re: perl module version handling

2004-10-20 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 10/20/2004 7:26 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Sisyphus: Glenn Linderman wrote: There's not much more. GFfP.pm is just a placeholder for a bunch of XS code. Here is the module in its entirety (except for the leading comments). package GFfP; use

Re: Systemtray-Icon controlled by Perl?

2004-10-08 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 10/8/2004 9:16 AM, came the following characters from the keyboard of [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks for the info. This ist great! I've installed that thing, but somehow I can't figure out how this NEM-Event-Handler-thing works. I googled for it, but didn't find an example. This is a

\Q \E misunderstanding

2004-09-25 Thread Glenn Linderman
I have the following code: my $ftype; { my $assoc = `assoc .html`; $assoc =~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@@; print assoc: $assoc\n; $ftype = `ftype $assoc`; $ftype =~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@@; ## this line is referred to below print ftype: $ftype\n; }

Re: \Q \E misunderstanding

2004-09-25 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 9/24/2004 11:53 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Glenn Linderman: I have the following code: my $ftype; { my $assoc = `assoc .html`; $assoc =~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@@; print assoc: $assoc\n; $ftype = `ftype $assoc

Re: \Q \E misunderstanding

2004-09-25 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 9/25/2004 12:30 AM, came the following characters from the keyboard of $Bill Luebkert: Glenn Linderman wrote: I have the following code: my $ftype; { my $assoc = `assoc .html`; $assoc =~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@@; print assoc: $assoc\n; $ftype

Re: Sorting Arrays

2004-08-26 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 8/26/2004 1:42 AM, came the following characters from the keyboard of $Bill Luebkert: Charles K. Clarkson wrote: There are two problems with the hash solutions. One, the original order is lost. And two, they assume at least one array contains only unique values. You're

Re: Sorting Arrays

2004-08-26 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 8/26/2004 2:36 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of $Bill Luebkert: Glenn Linderman wrote: On approximately 8/26/2004 1:42 AM, came the following characters from the keyboard of $Bill Luebkert: You're correct on two (if indeed the values aren't unique

Re: Leaving acronyms in all caps

2004-08-13 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 8/13/2004 9:47 AM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Craig Cardimon: I need to take capped section headings and change them into initial or tital case. I have coding that does this. However, my logic also changes acronym names such as IBM and PDF into Ibm and

file handle strangeness

2004-07-18 Thread Glenn Linderman
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 '' . hexdump (); print $fh hexdump ();

Re: [Attn: McCarty, Michael F] Re: Out of Office AutoReply: file handle strangeness

2004-07-18 Thread Glenn Linderman
So what doesn't the list manager simply make Out of Office a forbidden sequence in a subject or body, and trash such emails? That would cut the autoreplies at least by 2/3rds. I could certainly live with that restriction and it seems you can't teach people how to do it right, just like

Re: file handle strangeness

2004-07-18 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 7/18/2004 1:19 AM, came the following characters from the keyboard of $Bill Luebkert: Randy W. Sims wrote: Bonus round: In addition to what I said in my previous post, a '+' can be used sometimes to disambiguate certain types of expressions. In this case, the results can vary

Re: [Attn: McCarty, Michael F] Re: Out of Office AutoReply: file handle strangeness

2004-07-18 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 7/18/2004 9:09 AM, came the following characters from the keyboard of joe: Having the autoresponder Randy has set up to respond to OOO messages respond directly back to the user instead of the user and the list may possibly reduce it by another 1/3. :o) It _may_, _eventually_, but

Re: [Attn: McCarty, Michael F] Re: Out of Office AutoReply: file handle strangeness

2004-07-18 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 7/18/2004 10:26 AM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Tobias Hoellrich: In my case, every single OOO message via the win32-users list (actually any non-work list) ends up in Spampal's (www.spampal.org) black-list, which means I'm never, ever going to see a message

How'd I goof?

2004-07-06 Thread Glenn Linderman
So, other than programming style (the code below is excerpted down to a small test case, so looks gross), what did I do wrong? Supply your own non-empty file name for mine in $name below (please don't tell me I don't need double backslashes inside single quotes, that isn't the problem), and

Re: Lost messages

2004-06-19 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 6/18/2004 11:26 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Ewa Konieczynska: Hi All, I've lost all messages sent to this mailing list since 28.04.2004. Could you send them to my address, please? Regards, Ewa Konieczynska [EMAIL PROTECTED] What do you think, folks?

Re: Win32 - Browse for files.

2004-05-13 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 5/13/2004 6:09 AM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Dirk Bremer (NISC): Hi, I have a need to create a small app for our support organization which primarily uses Windoze to do their day to day tasks. Since they are not that command line savy I'd like to put

Re: Win32 - Browse for files.

2004-05-13 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 5/12/2004 10:17 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of $Bill Luebkert: Glenn Linderman wrote: On approximately 5/12/2004 7:53 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of $Bill Luebkert: use Win32::GUI; my $file = Win32::GUI::GetOpenFileName

Re: Win32 - Browse for files.

2004-05-13 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 5/13/2004 9:48 AM, came the following characters from the keyboard of $Bill Luebkert: Well, the return value is different than you might have otherwise expected. When I turn on -multisel = 1, it produces a different dialog box, and returns a space separated list of values, first

Re: Win32 - Browse for files.

2004-05-13 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 5/13/2004 5:41 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Valerie Kramer: On 0.0.671, -explorer = 1 seems to be the default. Inserting the line or commenting it out made no difference. I got the modern widget. Setting -explorer = 0 gave me the crufty version. I

Re: BrowseForFolder Question

2004-04-12 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 4/12/2004 3:04 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of POWELL, JAIME M. (JSC-IS) (IDI): This is probably a silly question, but does the BrowseForFolder command work from a browser? Well, it depends on what you mean by work from a browser :) If your browser is

prefix string matching (and compression)

2004-03-25 Thread Glenn Linderman
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 words, the list of words though thought

Re: prefix string matching (and compression)

2004-03-25 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 3/25/2004 9:16 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of 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

Re: compress and convert a bmp

2004-02-25 Thread Glenn Linderman
(with 800x800 geometry) Any more effective compression? - Original Message - From: Glenn Linderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 10:24 PM Subject: Re: compress and convert a bmp Sure, use Image::Magick On approximately 2

Re: Pipe and redirect STDOUT

2004-02-23 Thread Glenn Linderman
Kev is correct, but the bug he refers to is only on WinNT 4.x On approximately 2/23/2004 9:58 AM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Kevin Hill: Guys, My understanding is that there is a bug in the file extension/application to execute code, that is part of windows, that stops

Re: REGEX help!

2004-01-13 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 1/12/2004 8:36 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Jamie Murray: Hey Alex, I jumped a little quick there, the previous post does work but I had a doh moment and forgot your upper range match could only be 254 at most. Sorry about that. if($num =~

Re: REGEX help!

2004-01-13 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 1/13/2004 6:49 AM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Jamie Murray: Hi guys, I have seen my error which I have overlooked and don't mind admitting it. : ) Course don't hold it against me cause I'm just eager to learn and try things out. My regex works it matches

Re: REGEX help!

2004-01-13 Thread Glenn Linderman
: Glenn Linderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jamie Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: $Bill Luebkert [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 6:24 PM Subject: Re: REGEX help! On approximately 1/13/2004 6:49 AM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Jamie Murray: Hi

Re: How can I use right click Send To - capability from Explorer

2004-01-12 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 1/11/2004 9:28 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, Monday, January 12, 2004, 4:01:38 AM, you wrote: GL Since (except for the German) that all looks very much like my working GL links for non-PAR code, I'd say that the problem is not

Re: solution... (damn m$!!) RE: newbie: foreign characters

2004-01-02 Thread Glenn Linderman
solution. $newdata = decode(utf16be, $mydata); print $newdata.\n; } close RESOLV; -Original Message- From: Glenn Linderman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 31 December 2003 08:28 To: Sisyphus Cc: Tom Roos; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: newbie: foreign characters On approximately

Term::ReadKey weirdness

2003-12-16 Thread Glenn Linderman
Hi, I'm writing a program that needs single character input from the console window. So Term::ReadKey seems to be a natural solution. So I wrote some perl code as follows. Usually the program asks for a key, and gets it. Sometimes it wants to check for the existance of a keypress without

Win32::SerialPort help?

2003-12-13 Thread Glenn Linderman
I guess I'm missing something very basic about Win32::SerialPort. The following one-line demonstrates my travail: perl -MWin32::SerialPort -e new Win32::SerialPort 'COM1' It results in Access is denied. Is there some sort of security somewhere in Windows, that would prevent an administrator

Ignorant wumpus? Or scoping problem?

2003-11-22 Thread Glenn Linderman
Prelude: Using Perl 5.8.0 ActiveState build 805 on Windows 2000 SP4 I have this script that is 1.2 MB long rather than post the whole thing, I've made a test case... surprisingly I was able to get it down to 60 lines. I guess it could have even been a little smaller... So I'm writing an

Re: Ignorant wumpus? Or scoping problem?

2003-11-22 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 11/22/2003 5:51 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of $Bill Luebkert: Glenn Linderman wrote: Prelude: Using Perl 5.8.0 ActiveState build 805 on Windows 2000 SP4 I have this script that is 1.2 MB long rather than post the whole thing, I've made a test case

Re: Ignorant wumpus? Or scoping problem?

2003-11-22 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 11/22/2003 6:21 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of $Bill Luebkert: Glenn Linderman wrote: Should it work as is? If not, why not? I can't find any documented reason why it shouldn't work, and I do find references in Camel that imply that eval'd code

Re: File handles and strict pragma

2003-11-11 Thread Glenn Linderman
The filehandle CAN be a variable... introduced in Perl 5.6? Or was it 5.8? sub bin_urls { foreach (@alpha) { $temp = $_.out; open ($fh, $temp); print $fh Delete the file and replace it with this line; close($fh); } } This was likely added to Perl due to the

Re: NET:SMPT LocalPort?

2003-11-06 Thread Glenn Linderman
The reason 25 works is that your locally installed SMTP host is listening on port 25 (probably). The port has to be configured the same on both ends of a connection... you can kind of think of IP and port numbers like a business telephone number with an extension. If you want to reach Mary

Re: ActiveState Perl 5.8 and Microsoft Access database

2003-10-01 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 10/1/2003 4:41 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of S Taylor: Would like to know if Microsoft Access Database records can be manipulated using ActiveState Perl 5.8 ? And if so, how? Appreciate any information provided. One way that I have used is to use DBI,

Re: 'which' functionality in Perl

2003-09-30 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 9/30/2003 11:03 AM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Arms, Mike: Dax T. Games [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would I determine if a file existed in a directory in the PATH environment variable on a Windows box with Perl. If the file exists I want to return the

Re: 'which' functionality in Perl

2003-09-30 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 9/30/2003 11:46 AM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Glenn Linderman: On approximately 9/30/2003 11:03 AM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Arms, Mike: Dax T. Games [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would I determine if a file existed in a directory

Re: Array question

2003-09-25 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 9/25/2003 5:18 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Wong, Danny H.: Hi all, I was wondering if I can start adding elements into an array starting at 1? Here is what I am trying to do. I'm trying to glob all files/folders in a directory and assign it to an

Re: Regular Expression problem?

2003-09-25 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 9/25/2003 6:45 AM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Xu, Qiang (XSSC SGP): Hi, all: I have a regular expression that I can't understand. Suppose $filename is a file name that includes the full path. Say, it is /u/scan/abc.jpg, The regular expression is:

Re: Keypress

2003-09-08 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 9/7/2003 8:50 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Shain Edge: Is there a way in perl to simulate key-presses into other programs? If so, could someone direct me to a direction in how to do it? Shain Win32::GUITest -- Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/

Re: Filter text in log file

2003-08-29 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 8/28/2003 2:58 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Chris: Well, this is a rundown of what is working, but it's slow due to the number of lines. - Chris open (THE_INPUT,/home/filelist.txt) || die can\'t open filelist.log: $!; while(THE_INPUT) { chomp; push

Re: test the existence of a file or a directory

2003-08-05 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 8/5/2003 1:56 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Chien-Lung Wu: Hi, In the bash, I can test a file or a directory by following: if [ ! (-f a_filename)]; then do_something_for_this_file fi if [ ! (-d a_dirname)]; then

Re: REWRITE RE: Error trapping

2003-07-25 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 7/18/2003 10:14 AM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Carl Jolley: On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Farrington, Ryan wrote: Grrr still didn't catch the error =( -Original Message- From: Burak G?rsoy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 1:06

Re: XS question on Windows

2003-06-23 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 6/22/2003 11:16 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Sisyphus: I have a module (let's call it Mymod) that contains an XS function (let's call it myfunc). myfunc() takes 3 arguments (integers). I'll get the exact same warning as you reported if I run the

XS question on Windows

2003-06-21 Thread Glenn Linderman
I asked this on the Win32::GUI list, but no response. Not too many XS users there, I guess. Maybe this isn't the right place to ask either. The obvious search terms are too generic to find a practical tutorial for learning how to debug perl XS on Windows but that is really what I'm looking

Re: SetWindowLong/Style

2003-03-31 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 3/31/2003 3:07 AM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Stuart Arnold: I have all that. I'm trying to use it (I am an old windows hack) to get some uniquely passed in data. First, let me start with what I'm trying to do and maybe someone has a hint. Given a

Re: if your download doesn't start...

2003-03-23 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 3/23/2003 5:49 AM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Oleksandr Pavlyk: If you wanna do it CGI way, you can send back HTTP header Refresh $q-header(-Refresh = '1; URL=http://etc.etc.etc/'); Stephen Patterson wrote: On 22 Mar 03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL

Re: Filehandle redirection

2003-03-23 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 3/23/2003 9:10 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of John: I have this code snippet in a script. ###[code] my $outfile = shift @ARGV || con; open DESTINATION, $outfile or die 'cannot open destination file'; print DESTINATION EOHEAD; !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC

PPM seems complex

2003-03-14 Thread Glenn Linderman
Hi, I have, over time, figured out the incantations for PPM to set up my repository list, and I know to search first, then install what was found to avoid ambiguity. And I know to check the version of the packages from different repositories. That's a lot to teach someone that doesn't care a

Re: Having trouble installing Bundle::LWP or is it Libwww-Perl?

2003-02-04 Thread Glenn Linderman
Randy Kobes wrote: Essentially what is after here is a way for PPM to map module names to distribution names. The name used in a ppm package is derived from the name that the CPAN distribution comes as - in many cases it happens to be the same (with s/::/-/g) as the name of the main module in

Re: Having trouble installing Bundle::LWP or is it Libwww-Perl?

2003-02-04 Thread Glenn Linderman
Thomas R Wyant_III wrote: Glenn Linderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And my missing feature PPM rant is that it would be nice to be able to issue PPM commands to prepare a CD containing a collection of modules and their dependencies to take to an offline machine (there are places where

Re: NT Event Log monitoring script

2002-08-30 Thread Glenn Linderman
Lewis, Chris wrote: For anyone interested, I've attached a working copy of an NT Event Log monitoring script, which queries for warnings and errors and sends out an e-mail notification if any are encountered. The only thing I haven't been able to get to work is getting the complete text of

Re: IIS on win2k not liking PerlMagick

2002-08-20 Thread Glenn Linderman
Andre Warnier wrote: Message text written by TC Winquist I decided to save the image to a temporary image file and then display that using non-perlmagick methods. It just seems to be an unnecessary step I shouldn't have to take. It works though, so I guess I'll have to live with it.

Re: Win32::Button ?

2002-03-08 Thread Glenn Linderman
Joseph Youngquist wrote: Hello all, I got a question about changing the -bitmap= on a button...well it even applies to a Label to. I haven't done buttons, but I have done labels... ...Ahh an event has taken place and we must change the image on the button!...

perl -x option

2002-02-09 Thread Glenn Linderman
I have, for some years, used the -x option to bypass cruft at the beginning of perl scripts. The long involved reason for this has no place in this discussion, but it involves the need on certain Unix systems I used, to invoke perl via a shell preamble. So I have, at the beginning of most of my

Re: Win32::Gui and Net::irc?

2002-01-30 Thread Glenn Linderman
Peter Guzis wrote: Attempts to fork with Win32::GUI have been unsuccessful for the most part. I found if I even use Win32::GUI before a fork, Perl will completely crash when the fork is invoked. The workaround I found is to require Win32::GUI after any such fork. I'm not sure if this is a

Re: Strange assignment

2002-01-25 Thread Glenn Linderman
Rubinow, Larry wrote: Carl Jolley wrote: More to the point, assurance that the hash element is an array reference is required in order that the following push statement will work. Naw. The next line after the assignment, push(@{$hash{$symbol}}, $value); would cause

Re: (no subject)

2002-01-25 Thread Glenn Linderman
Scott Campbell wrote: -style = WS_VSCROLL, I've heard of -addstyle, which adds to styles, rather than replacement, which is what -style does. There is also -remstyle, to remove a style. And -addexstyle, and -remexstyle. Have fun. -- Glenn = Due to the current economic

Re: Windows DUN from perl

2001-06-08 Thread Glenn Linderman
Good find. Of course, the author's page below indicates that Win32::DUN is 1) considered obsoleted by Win32::RASE 2) requires the use of an external program to do some of the work I've been playing with Win32::RASE and also Win32::GUI to make a flexible dialer application that a number of my

Re: remove duplicate lines

2001-05-29 Thread Glenn Linderman
And if you need to retain the first seen order in the output file, you could do something like print $_ unless $texthash{$_}; just before Scott's chomp below (which may or may not be needed). Purcell, Scott wrote: I am not an expert here, but why compare each line. Read each line into a

Re: directory

2001-05-29 Thread Glenn Linderman
If you get it from STDIN, you probably need to chomp it to get rid of the trailing newline stuff. as in print prompt; chomp ( $dirname = STDIN ); And, per another message, you cannot append to the front of a file, there is already data at the front of the file, and if you were able to write

Re: Translating Characters

2001-04-11 Thread Glenn Linderman
Guessing that "sign overstruck numbers" means that the sign of a string of digits is embedded into the first digit, rather than consuming an "extra" character position in fixed width fields, then there wouldn't be a string of them, but a string might have one of them in the first position.

Re: Help with leading zeros!

2001-04-06 Thread Glenn Linderman
Actually, it isn't the $i++. It was the $i 501. Particularly, the . Switching to $i lt '501' produces the sequence with leading zeros intact. for ( $i = "001"; $i lt "501"; $i++ ) Cheers! "$Bill Luebkert" wrote: Glenn Linderman wrote: Doesn't he need