Re: [SLUG] perl quicky

On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Dean Hamstead wrote: does perl have a function to return the length of a string? eg $length = size($foo); I noticed James answered but generally speaking I frequently use man perlfunc as a quick reference guide. man perl gives you the index of the man pages.

Re: [SLUG] perl quicky

On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 08:14:36AM +1100, Grant Parnell wrote: I noticed James answered but generally speaking I frequently use man perlfunc as a quick reference guide. man perl gives you the index of the man pages. Other ones I tend to use are man perlre and man perlop. For the modules

[SLUG] perl quicky

does perl have a function to return the length of a string? eg $length = size($foo); Dean -- -- -- ME: http://dean.bong.com.auICQ: 16867613 [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] perl quicky

On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Dean Hamstead wrote: does perl have a function to return the length of a string? eg $length = size($foo); length() - James -- James Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

[SLUG] Perl Quicky

I would like to strip special characters eg. anything not A..Z a..z 0..9 Dean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More

Re: [SLUG] Perl Quicky

I would like to strip special characters eg. anything not A..Z a..z 0..9 From what? A string, a line, a whole file? Anyway have a look at the translit operator (y or tr) under man perlop, with the c and d options. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] perl quicky

Herbert Xu wrote: There is a /proc/self you know :) Okay, well I didn't see that there... but that wouldn't have been any fun anyway! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] perl quicky

Matthew Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friday afternoon blues #!/usr/bin/perl # only works on Linux :) $pid = `ps | grep $0 | grep perl | grep -v grep | cut -d " " -f 1`; chomp($pid); print `ls /proc/$pid -l | grep cwd | sed -e 's/.*cwd - //g'`; There is a /proc/self you know :) --

[SLUG] perl quicky

how do i get the name of current directory (basically pwd) in perl? Dean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] perl quicky

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 02:42:12PM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: how do i get the name of current directory (basically pwd) in perl? [johnc@dropbear ~]$ perl -e 'print `pwd`' /home/johnc -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More

Re: [SLUG] perl quicky

how do i get the name of current directory (basically pwd) in perl? use Cwd; $dir = getcwd; this is in my opinion better than $dir=`pwd`; chomp $dir; kind of solutions. perldoc Cwd for the whole story. Stuart. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More

Re: [SLUG] perl quicky

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Dean Hamstead wrote: how do i get the name of current directory (basically pwd) in perl? chop($cwd = `pwd`); or perl -e 'use Cwd; print "You are in the " . cwd . " directory\n";' You are in the /home/rodos directory Easy. Rodos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group

Re: [SLUG] perl quicky

Rodos wrote: On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Dean Hamstead wrote: how do i get the name of current directory (basically pwd) in perl? chop($cwd = `pwd`); or perl -e 'use Cwd; print "You are in the " . cwd . " directory\n";' You are in the /home/rodos directory Easy. Friday afternoon