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Today's topics:
Re: (newbie) matching value from array??? (Tad McClellan)
Boolean Search mike@2f3.com
Re: Counting spaces in a variable (Tad McClellan)
Re: Does anyone know how to do date/time functions in P (Abigail)
Re: Does anyone know whats wrong with my script? (Tad McClellan)
Re: Does anyone know whats wrong with my script? (Abigail)
Re: Does anyone know whats wrong with my script? (Bill Moseley)
Re: Dump All Variables? (Abigail)
Re: E-mail from webpage... (Abigail)
greping an associative array <rocket@nacs.net>
Re: Help: Perl not expanding wildcards from commandlin (Abigail)
Re: HELP: Perl and shell commands (Abigail)
Re: How do i use the / character in split command. (Abigail)
Re: is there any ceiling function in perl? <droby@copyright.com>
New posters to comp.lang.perl.misc <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>
Re: Nothing returned from system call backticks (Steve Bourgeois)
Numbness and tingling in lower limbs (RBJRT)
Perl Interpreter for the Palm-OS platform <pantau@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Problem parsing Email Address <ryanm@accn.org>
Re: Problem parsing Email Address (Bill Moseley)
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Speed of PERL <fichou@club-internet.fr>
Statistics for comp.lang.perl.misc <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>
System Info script <scott.kelsey@ssa.gov>
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 02:13:39 -0400
From: tadmc@metronet.com (Tad McClellan)
Subject: Re: (newbie) matching value from array???
Message-Id: <jak9e7.g3q.ln@magna.metronet.com>
Jerry (preeper@cts.com) wrote:
: Let me try explaining again what I'm trying to do. I have a table in
: a MySQL database that has in it a list of scores and game related info
: from a little league, including the name of each team (home team and
: away team are listed as such) and the scores, times, etc... so I can
: print weekly schedules and results.
You can divorce this from your unique setup, transforming it
into something meaningful to folks without knowledge of
your database.
You could have gotten by without mentioning resources that
only you have access to. Something like:
# get_game_info returns info about a Little League game
($home, $away, $home_score, $away_score, $date) = get_game_info();
: In another table, I have a list of the teams in the league and for
: each team I have the manager's name, the city name and the url for
: each team's web site (but only if they have one). This way I don't
: have to repeat all the info in the scores table for each team.
# get_team_info returns info about a Little League team
# $url is the empty string if the team has no web site
($team_name, $manager, $city, $url) = get_team_info();
: Now I'm trying to figure out how to link to the team's web site (but
: only if they have one because not all of the team's do) when I print
: out the scores. And obviously sometimes the team is listed under home
: team and sometimes under away team. The team name in the schedule will
: always match a team in the team table.
: I have the sql query pulling the scores and printing last week's
: results just fine. Now, I figure I need to do a separate query before
: I pull the results, that lists the team and url pairs so that I can
: match them up against the home team and away team when I loop through
: the schedule/results table and then print a link to the team's web
: site whenever I print the team's name in the weekly results.
: Does that make a little more sense?
Getting better.
Sounds like you want a cross-reference between a team's name
and their (possibly null) URL.
"cross-reference" is one of the keywords that should make your
Perlified brain shout HASH!
So, load up a hash with team name as key and URL as value
while ( ($team_name, undef, undef, $url) = get_team_info() ) {
$team2url{$team_name} = $url;
}
Then process your game info (UNTESTED!):
while ( ($home, $away, $home_score, $away_score, $date) = get_game_info()) {
unless (exists $team2url{$home} )
{ print "$home does not have an entry in the database!\n" }
elsif ( $team2url{$home} )
{ print qq(<a href="$team2url{$home}">$home</a>\n) }
else
{ print "no web site for $home\n" }
}
And similarly for the away team.
--
Tad McClellan SGML Consulting
tadmc@metronet.com Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas
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Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 13:30:39 GMT
From: mike@2f3.com
Subject: Boolean Search
Message-Id: <7eadtv$ll1$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
I have created a HTML form with 4 fields on it. I would like the fields to
search a text file flat comma separated database for the combination of fields
that have been entered (eg. Forename, Surname, Date of Birth, Nationality).
I have looked in www.cgi-resources.com and the Perl Cookbook, but have not
been able to find a satistfactory solution.
Please could you point me in the right direction.
Regards,
Mike Poole
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 02:19:32 -0400
From: tadmc@metronet.com (Tad McClellan)
Subject: Re: Counting spaces in a variable
Message-Id: <klk9e7.g3q.ln@magna.metronet.com>
agniora@usa.net wrote:
: In article <RKQN2.137$xI5.5165@typhoon.nycap.rr.com>,
: "IndexFinger.com" <indexfinger@usa.net> wrote:
: > What is the function to count the number of spaces in a variable?
: theoratically this should work :
No need for theory if you have Perl installed on a computer.
Just try it out and find out empirically.
: $_ = 'This is a text';
: $Value = tr/ / /;
: print "$value";
: when i debug it and test the value of $Value i get 3, but i cant seem to get
: it to be displayed with the print command that follows. does anyone know
: whats wrong here?
The -w switch will tell you what is wrong there in under a second.
Wasteful of resources to have a human tell you what a machine
could tell you.
You should use the -w switch on *all* of your Perl programs.
Really.
All of them.
: and is there any way to shorten this?
print y/ //; # shortest possible form, I prefer tr/ / /; though
--
Tad McClellan SGML Consulting
tadmc@metronet.com Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas
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Date: 5 Apr 1999 14:22:35 GMT
From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail)
Subject: Re: Does anyone know how to do date/time functions in Perl
Message-Id: <7eagvb$iqh$1@client2.news.psi.net>
agniora@usa.net (agniora@usa.net) wrote on MMXLII September MCMXCIII in
<URL:news:7e72ff$1kg$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>:
:: I looked in the FAQ and the CPAN, but the modules i need seem to be for Unix
:: only, but im running perl for NT, does anyone know what module to use and
:: where to get them from?
Many of the Date:: and Time:: modules are 100% Perl.
Abigail
--
perl -weprint\<\<EOT\; -eJust -eanother -ePerl -eHacker -eEOT
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 02:29:55 -0400
From: tadmc@metronet.com (Tad McClellan)
Subject: Re: Does anyone know whats wrong with my script?
Message-Id: <39l9e7.g3q.ln@magna.metronet.com>
Andrew Perrin (aperrin@mcmahon.qal.berkeley.edu) wrote:
: Err, I believe you're wrong here:
Err, I don't think so.
Yours is in list context, Bill was commenting on scalar context.
(and it appears to have been commmented out anyway...)
Understanding list vs. scalar context is important in
understanding what to expect from many of Perl's constructs
and functions.
: ~/test.pl:
: #!/usr/local/bin/perl
: sub print_input {
: my($stuff) = @_;
: print "$stuff\n";
: }
: &print_input('Foo-bar.');
: aperrin@davis:~>perl test.pl
: Foo-bar.
: I agree that this seems counterintuitive, and I'm not sure I have a good
: explanation for it; my experience is that there's something like an
: implied shift() going on. But I'm quite sure it works fine....
In list context, perl takes the first value from the RHS and
puts it into the first variable on the LHS, and so on.
No shifting going on there.
: Bill Moseley wrote:
: > > #my $Onlydate = @_;
: >
: > Eh, I don't think you want the count of the number of elements in @_?
[ don't quote .signatures ]
--
Tad McClellan SGML Consulting
tadmc@metronet.com Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas
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Date: 5 Apr 1999 14:28:52 GMT
From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail)
Subject: Re: Does anyone know whats wrong with my script?
Message-Id: <7eahb4$iqh$2@client2.news.psi.net>
Andrew Perrin (aperrin@mcmahon.qal.berkeley.edu) wrote on MMXLIII
September MCMXCIII in <URL:news:37084D3F.69921AC6@mcmahon.qal.berkeley.edu>:
\\ Err, I believe you're wrong here:
\\
\\ ~/test.pl:
\\ #!/usr/local/bin/perl
\\ sub print_input {
\\ my($stuff) = @_;
\\ print "$stuff\n";
\\ }
\\
\\ &print_input('Foo-bar.');
\\
\\ aperrin@davis:~>perl test.pl
\\ Foo-bar.
\\
\\ I agree that this seems counterintuitive, and I'm not sure I have a good
\\ explanation for it; my experience is that there's something like an
\\ implied shift() going on. But I'm quite sure it works fine....
It's not at all counterintuitive, there's a very good explaination for
it, and there's no implied shift going on. Please read up on list assignment.
Abigail
--
perl5.004 -wMMath::BigInt -e'$^V=Math::BigInt->new(qq]$^F$^W783$[$%9889$^F47]
.qq]$|88768$^W596577669$%$^W5$^F3364$[$^W$^F$|838747$[8889739$%$|$^F673$%$^W]
.qq]98$^F76777$=56]);$^U=substr($]=>$|=>5)*(q.25..($^W=@^V))=>do{print+chr$^V
%$^U;$^V/=$^U}while$^V!=$^W'
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 07:33:59 -0700
From: moseley@best.com (Bill Moseley)
Subject: Re: Does anyone know whats wrong with my script?
Message-Id: <MPG.117269ad8c19e54198970a@206.184.139.132>
In article <7e9ms8$37e$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, smnayeem@my-dejanews.com
says...
> > Eh, I don't think you want the count of the number of elements in @_?
> i tried it again replacing @_ with @_[0] but it says syntax error on the next
> line. i cant figure out any "syntax errors" on the later portion.
First, you have to show us what the syntax error is to offer any help.
Read the previous posts about scalar context.
Passing in a single variable I'd use
$Onlydate = $_;
> and i also tried to get myself to understand the localtime and the timelocal
> very hard
This is a problem you can solve. Just use split to break out month, day,
and year. Modify month and year so timelocal will understand the numbers
(see localtime for this info), pass the numbers into timelocal to get a
unix epoch time. Then pass that unix epoch time number into localtime
which will give you an array of stuff, including the day of the week.
--
Bill Moseley mailto:moseley@best.com
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Date: 5 Apr 1999 14:32:51 GMT
From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail)
Subject: Re: Dump All Variables?
Message-Id: <7eahij$iqh$3@client2.news.psi.net>
Shari Callaghan (revjack@radix.net) wrote on MMXLIII September MCMXCIII
in <URL:news:7ea3ss$60a$1@news1.Radix.Net>:
<> Zenin explains it all:
<> :Turin Waterbury <revjack@radix.net> wrote:
<> :: Is there an elegant way to get perl to somehow report the values of
<> :: *all* variables in memory, including vars like $$, $_, $|, and variables
<> :: created by the script, like $foo etc?
<>
<> : See the "V" and "X" commands of the debugger (perldoc perldebug).
<> : Infact, see the debugger in general.
<>
<> I was hoping to avoid the debugger. Any other way?
All package variables are in the package hashes: %package::
Abigail
--
sub f{sprintf'%c%s',$_[0],$_[1]}print f(74,f(117,f(115,f(116,f(32,f(97,
f(110,f(111,f(116,f(104,f(0x65,f(114,f(32,f(80,f(101,f(114,f(0x6c,f(32,
f(0x48,f(97,f(99,f(107,f(101,f(114,f(10,q ff)))))))))))))))))))))))))
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Date: 5 Apr 1999 14:38:33 GMT
From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail)
Subject: Re: E-mail from webpage...
Message-Id: <7eaht9$iqh$4@client2.news.psi.net>
Henrik Widenfors (pt98hwi@student.hk-r.se) wrote on MMXLI September
MCMXCIII in <URL:news:370684A6.6A54@student.hk-r.se>:
## Hi
##
## I4m interested in sending a e-mail from my webpage.
This group is not about webpages.
## I have looked at FormMail and noticed that I need the program
This group is not about FormMail.
## "sendmail".
This group is not about sendmail.
## *I was able to located this file on the server(UNIX server), but what if
This group is not about servers.
## I would like to use FormMail in a Windows based server?
This group is not about Windows.
## * Do a Windows based server got this file(sendmail)?
This group is not about Windows, servers or sendmail.
## *What do I need, using FormMail on a Windows based server if "sendmail"
This group is not about FormMail, Windows, servers or sendmail.
## don4t exsist?
This group is not about spelling errors.
## * What would you recommend me to use if working with a Windows based
This group is not about Windows.
## Server(Script + mailprogram MUST be freeware)?
This group is not about mailprograms.
I recommend asking in rec.sports.sledge.anartic, a group that is much
more appropriate to your questions than this group is.
Abigail
--
perl -weprint\<\<EOT\; -eJust -eanother -ePerl -eHacker -eEOT
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Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 10:29:47 -0400
From: Ken Nagorski <rocket@nacs.net>
Subject: greping an associative array
Message-Id: <3708C8DB.F2E1EF6A@nacs.net>
I am new to perl, and programing for that matter, what I am trying to
figure out is if you can grep an associative array same as a standard
array as in grep(/$var/, @array); works, grep(/$var/, %array); does
not. Also I am having trouble loading an open file into an associative
array,
open(FILE, myfile);
@array = <FILE>; works
open(FILE, myfile);
%array = <FILE>; doesn't, what am I missing? If someone could
offer a little insight I would appreciate it.
Thank you
Ken N
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Date: 5 Apr 1999 14:55:59 GMT
From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail)
Subject: Re: Help: Perl not expanding wildcards from commandline.
Message-Id: <7eaitv$jek$2@client2.news.psi.net>
rogDH (rogdh@iname.com) wrote on MMXLI September MCMXCIII in
<URL:news:3706438d.50524700@news.earthlink.net>:
() I just installed ActivePerl about a week ago.
() I've written some scripts that work, so it seem that the install went
() correctly.
()
() However, it appartnetly does not expand wildcards from my commandline.
Of course not! Expanding wildcards is something that ought to be done by
the shell. If you insist on using a shell that doesn't expand wildcards
for you, you need to expand them yourself.
There are some modules that do various forms of expansion.
Abigail
--
perl -MTime::JulianDay -lwe'@r=reverse(M=>(0)x99=>CM=>(0)x399=>D=>(0)x99=>CD=>(
0)x299=>C=>(0)x9=>XC=>(0)x39=>L=>(0)x9=>XL=>(0)x29=>X=>IX=>0=>0=>0=>V=>IV=>0=>0
=>I=>$r=-2449231+gm_julian_day+time);do{until($r<$#r){$_.=$r[$#r];$r-=$#r}for(;
!$r[--$#r];){}}while$r;$,="\x20";print+$_=>September=>MCMXCIII=>()'
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Date: 5 Apr 1999 14:54:14 GMT
From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail)
Subject: Re: HELP: Perl and shell commands
Message-Id: <7eaiqm$jek$1@client2.news.psi.net>
Jeongseon Euh (jeuh@ecs.umass.edu) wrote on MMXLII September MCMXCIII in
<URL:news:Pine.LNX.3.96.990403224903.10280A-100000@vsp2.ecs.umass.edu>:
,, Hi everyone,
,,
,, I'm trying to control program execution with shell commands, such as
,, jobs, stop, and bg. So far I couldn't get it to work with Perl.
,, What I'm trying to do is
,, 1) run my programs in background which are written in C
,, 2) run a Perl script to control each program's execution.
,, Sometimes I need to stop a program and run it again after a
,, while.
jobs, stop and bg are interpreted by the shell. You would either need
something like Expect to talk to the shell (you need to talk to the *same*
shell as were you started your program in), or just do it yourself by
sending signals.
Abigail
--
perl5.004 -wMMath::BigInt -e'$^V=Math::BigInt->new(qq]$^F$^W783$[$%9889$^F47]
.qq]$|88768$^W596577669$%$^W5$^F3364$[$^W$^F$|838747$[8889739$%$|$^F673$%$^W]
.qq]98$^F76777$=56]);$^U=substr($]=>$|=>5)*(q.25..($^W=@^V))=>do{print+chr$^V
%$^U;$^V/=$^U}while$^V!=$^W'
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Date: 5 Apr 1999 14:58:20 GMT
From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail)
Subject: Re: How do i use the / character in split command.
Message-Id: <7eaj2c$jek$3@client2.news.psi.net>
agniora@usa.net (agniora@usa.net) wrote on MMXLIII September MCMXCIII in
<URL:news:7e99ig$ocn$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>:
?? In the split command how will i use the / character.
?? eg
?? to split the string
??
?? $t = '21/03/99';
?? @t=split (/\//,$t);
??
?? this doesnt work.
What do you mean with "doesn't work"?
It works for me....
Abigail
--
perl -e '$a = q 94a75737420616e6f74686572205065726c204861636b65720a9 and
${qq$\x5F$} = q 97265646f9 and s g..g;
qq e\x63\x68\x72\x20\x30\x78$&eggee;
{eval if $a =~ s e..eqq qprint chr 0x$& and \x71\x20\x71\x71qeexcess}'
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Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 17:39:43 GMT
From: Don Roby <droby@copyright.com>
Subject: Re: is there any ceiling function in perl?
Message-Id: <7e5jov$sgj$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
In article <7e5c36$353$1@news.swissonline.ch>,
"Samuel Kilchenmann" <skilchen@swissonline.ch> wrote:
> Larry Rosler schrieb in Nachricht ...
> >In article <7e4b6v$t41$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> on Sat, 03 Apr 1999
> >06:07:31 GMT, agniora@usa.net <agniora@usa.net >says...
> >> does anyone know if theres any ceiling function in perl that would round
> up
> >> decimal numbers to the integer.
> >
> >perlfaq4: "Does Perl have a round() function? What about ceil() and
> >floor()? Trig functions?"
> >
> >But it seems easy enough just to write:
> >
> >sub ceil { ($_[0] != int $_[0]) + int $_[0] }
> >
> Except that the result is wrong for negative numbers ...
> what about:
> sub myceil { $_[0] > 0 ? int($_[0] + 1) : int($_[0]) }
> sub myfloor { $_[0] > 0 ? int($_[0]) : int($_[0] - 1) }
>
Or, in line with Larry's idea of using the boolean values:
sub myceil { ($_[0] != int $_[0]) - ($_[0] < 0) + int $_[0] }
sub myfloor { int $_[0] - ($_[0]<0) }
which is certainly more fun. ;-)
--
Don Roby
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Date: 5 Apr 1999 14:08:29 GMT
From: Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>
Subject: New posters to comp.lang.perl.misc
Message-Id: <7eag4t$ekc$2@info2.uah.edu>
Following is a summary of articles from new posters spanning a 7 day
period, beginning at 29 Mar 1999 14:22:06 GMT and ending at
05 Apr 1999 06:35:50 GMT.
Notes
=====
- A line in the body of a post is considered to be original if it
does *not* match the regular expression /^\s{0,3}(?:>|:|\S+>|\+\+)/.
- All text after the last cut line (/^-- $/) in the body is
considered to be the author's signature.
- The scanner prefers the Reply-To: header over the From: header
in determining the "real" email address and name.
- Original Content Rating (OCR) is the ratio of the original content
volume to the total body volume.
- Find the News-Scan distribution on the CPAN!
<URL:http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/News/>
- Please send all comments to Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>.
- Copyright (c) 1999 Greg Bacon.
Verbatim copying and redistribution is permitted without royalty;
alteration is not permitted. Redistribution and/or use for any
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Posters: 236 (48.4% of all posters)
Articles: 380 (29.3% of all articles)
Volume generated: 601.7 kb (28.5% of total volume)
- headers: 267.8 kb (5,584 lines)
- bodies: 324.8 kb (10,792 lines)
- original: 245.6 kb (8,471 lines)
- signatures: 8.8 kb (234 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.756
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median: 1.0 post
mode: 1 post - 171 posters
s: 1.7 posts
Message size: 1621.5 bytes
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- body: 875.2 bytes (28.4 lines)
- original: 661.8 bytes (22.3 lines)
- signature: 23.7 bytes (0.6 lines)
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13 16.8 ( 9.3/ 7.5/ 5.2) agniora@usa.net
13 27.2 ( 8.6/ 17.6/ 5.6) Greg McCann <gregm@well.com>
12 19.4 ( 8.4/ 9.4/ 2.6) David Delikat <ddelikat@protix.com>
7 10.6 ( 6.1/ 3.5/ 2.0) brian@pm.org (brian d foy)
6 9.3 ( 2.9/ 4.8/ 4.4) jed@socrates.berkeley.edu (Jed Parsons)
6 9.9 ( 4.2/ 5.7/ 2.8) "frank" <fvdm@dds.nl>
5 5.9 ( 4.4/ 1.5/ 1.5) "Ken" <K.Steven@cableinet.co.uk>
4 8.1 ( 3.1/ 5.0/ 2.7) Philip Gabbert <gp@gpcentre.net>
4 6.8 ( 2.6/ 4.0/ 3.0) Greg Wimpey <greg.wimpey@waii*removetomail*.com>
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18.2 ( 1.5/ 16.7/ 16.7) 2 royd@wic.net
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1.000 ( 0.6 / 0.6) 3 Alex <account@asiamake.com>
1.000 ( 1.2 / 1.2) 3 apple <jearanai@science.gmu.edu>
1.000 ( 1.5 / 1.5) 5 "Ken" <K.Steven@cableinet.co.uk>
1.000 ( 1.2 / 1.2) 3 davekonz@aol.com (Davekonz)
1.000 ( 0.7 / 0.7) 3 th.bossert@z.nospam.zgs.de
1.000 ( 0.9 / 0.9) 3 Bob Daly <bdaly@averstar.com>
1.000 ( 1.3 / 1.3) 3 "Alvin Yong" <alyong@mbox3.singnet.com.sg>
0.979 ( 0.8 / 0.9) 4 "IndexFinger.com" <indexfinger@usa.net>
0.957 ( 2.8 / 3.0) 4 "Ken Bauman" <mtsprd@carol.net>
0.917 ( 4.4 / 4.8) 6 jed@socrates.berkeley.edu (Jed Parsons)
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of three posts)
=================================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.584 ( 2.0 / 3.5) 7 brian@pm.org (brian d foy)
0.570 ( 1.4 / 2.5) 3 Matthew Amster-Burton <mamster@mamster.net>
0.560 ( 0.8 / 1.5) 3 dougm@nc.com
0.530 ( 2.7 / 5.0) 4 Philip Gabbert <gp@gpcentre.net>
0.502 ( 1.2 / 2.4) 3 "Markus Staas" <markus@umm.no>
0.487 ( 2.8 / 5.7) 6 "frank" <fvdm@dds.nl>
0.483 ( 0.9 / 1.9) 4 Toggweiler Mike <ntogmi@abs.ascom.ch>
0.392 ( 3.2 / 8.0) 3 William Tammen <tazmen@primary.net>
0.318 ( 5.6 / 17.6) 13 Greg McCann <gregm@well.com>
0.277 ( 2.6 / 9.4) 12 David Delikat <ddelikat@protix.com>
28 posters (11%) had at least three posts.
Top 10 Crossposters
===================
Articles Address
-------- -------
7 "Computer Guru Consulting" <cguru@hotpop.com>
4 "Matt" <matt@gapps.co.uk>
3 g@just-for-fun.net
3 "Mark Poffenberger" <mark@poffenberger.com>
3 Toggweiler Mike <ntogmi@abs.ascom.ch>
3 mubsow@GetResponse.com
2 Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>
2 "David Smith" <david@bluewave.com>
2 dragon@dragonlord.force9.net (Gary Wilson)
2 Greg McCann <gregm@well.com>
------------------------------
Date: 5 Apr 1999 13:52:28 GMT
From: sbourgeoNOSPAM@ici.net (Steve Bourgeois)
Subject: Re: Nothing returned from system call backticks
Message-Id: <7eaf6s$auo$1@bashir.ici.net>
In article <3704203D.14067661@giss.nasa.gov>, jglascoe@giss.nasa.gov says...
Jay,
Thanks for your reply...
I forgot to mention that the named pipe produced the same results. I
assumed that's what was used to implement the backtick functionality
anyway 8^).
I also have the same problem hosting out to the operating system with
other commands, (df, ls, etc). Perl functions like readdir(), etc.
won't entirely fix the problem because I need to run some commands
via remote shell.
Has anyone else seen this behavior??
Thanks,
Steve
>
>Joe Blow wrote:
>>
>> Sometimes, when I use backticks to run a system command, I get nothing
>> back (even though I should):
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> $ls_result = `ls /etc`;
>
>you could try a pipe:
>
>open PIPE, "/bin/ls /etc |" or die "can't open pipe: $!";
>my @result_list = <PIPE>;
>close PIPE or die "pipe failed: $!";
>
>> If I put the code in a loop, $ls_results would eventually get set properly:
>
>desperate times require desperate measures ;^)
>
> Jay Glascoe
------------------------------
Date: 5 Apr 1999 13:53:26 GMT
From: rbjrt@aol.com (RBJRT)
Subject: Numbness and tingling in lower limbs
Message-Id: <19990405095326.15315.00002939@ng-cc1.aol.com>
I expected to learn something about this subject as I thought I logged on to
medhelp.org. What happened?
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 16:09:48 +0200
From: Hans-Georg Thien <pantau@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Subject: Perl Interpreter for the Palm-OS platform
Message-Id: <3708C42C.352A0EB4@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
is a Perl Interpreter for the Palm-OS platform available, especially for
the Palm III Pilot selled by 3Com ?
- hgt
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 09:08:54 -0400
From: ryanm <ryanm@accn.org>
Subject: Problem parsing Email Address
Message-Id: <3708B5E6.C74743C@accn.org>
Hello fellow perl users,
How can I do the following:
change <username@domain.net>... into just username??
I have been reading my perl book all weekend and
what I thought I had conjured up and worked does
in fact not work after coming back to work today.
If anyone has any examples they can share with me
I would appreciate it.
Thanks a bundle.
Ryan
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 07:50:52 -0700
From: moseley@best.com (Bill Moseley)
Subject: Re: Problem parsing Email Address
Message-Id: <MPG.11726dacca36e1a098970b@206.184.139.132>
In article <3708B5E6.C74743C@accn.org>, ryanm@accn.org says...
> Hello fellow perl users,
>
> How can I do the following:
>
> change <username@domain.net>... into just username??
I'd use the 's' operator to substitute, or the 'm' operator to capture
and a regular expression.
$name =~ s/(what I want to keep)what I want to get rid of/$1/;
What have you tried so far?
--
Bill Moseley mailto:moseley@best.com
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 09:41:48 +0200
From: "Patrick Fichou" <fichou@club-internet.fr>
Subject: PROGRESS Data Base and Perl ?
Message-Id: <7e4gmc$onf$1@front6.grolier.fr>
Hi,
I currently work on a Unix/Progress environment and discovered Perl
recently... but really like this language !!!
I would like to know if someone knows how to acces a Progress DB with Perl.
Just reading the files would be enough to make some CGI package !
I use HP/UX 10.20 and Progress 6.3.
Thank you !
Patrick
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 18:53:11 +0200
From: "Patrick Fichou" <fichou@club-internet.fr>
Subject: Speed of PERL
Message-Id: <7e85c7$bo3$1@front2.grolier.fr>
Hi to you all,
Has anyone experienced speed problem with Perl under Windows ?
I wrote a script that reads 8000 lines from a text file (ASCII) and update
an Excel Sheet with the OLE module... But while it takes 2 minutes with
Excel VBA it takes 20 minutes with a perl Script !
Too much time ! Is it Normal, is there a Perl Booster somewhere on the
Internet ? Perl2Exe give the same poor performance !
Thanks,
Patrick
------------------------------
Date: 5 Apr 1999 14:08:28 GMT
From: Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.perl.misc
Message-Id: <7eag4s$ekc$1@info2.uah.edu>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 29 Mar 1999 14:22:06 GMT and ending at
05 Apr 1999 06:35:50 GMT.
Notes
=====
- A line in the body of a post is considered to be original if it
does *not* match the regular expression /^\s{0,3}(?:>|:|\S+>|\+\+)/.
- All text after the last cut line (/^-- $/) in the body is
considered to be the author's signature.
- The scanner prefers the Reply-To: header over the From: header
in determining the "real" email address and name.
- Original Content Rating (OCR) is the ratio of the original content
volume to the total body volume.
- Find the News-Scan distribution on the CPAN!
<URL:http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/News/>
- Please send all comments to Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>.
- Copyright (c) 1999 Greg Bacon.
Verbatim copying and redistribution is permitted without royalty;
alteration is not permitted. Redistribution and/or use for any
commercial purpose is prohibited.
Excluded Posters
================
perlfaq-suggestions\@(?:.*\.)?perl\.com
Totals
======
Posters: 488
Articles: 1295 (472 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 446
Volume generated: 2110.8 kb
- headers: 921.9 kb (19,200 lines)
- bodies: 1120.1 kb (36,920 lines)
- original: 756.5 kb (26,640 lines)
- signatures: 67.6 kb (1,631 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.675
Averages
========
Posts per poster: 2.7
median: 1.0 post
mode: 1 post - 312 posters
s: 5.8 posts
Posts per thread: 2.9
median: 2.0 posts
mode: 1 post - 141 threads
s: 2.4 posts
Message size: 1669.1 bytes
- header: 729.0 bytes (14.8 lines)
- body: 885.7 bytes (28.5 lines)
- original: 598.2 bytes (20.6 lines)
- signature: 53.5 bytes (1.3 lines)
Top 10 Posters by Number of Posts
=================================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Posts Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Address
----- -------------------------- -------
60 105.5 ( 38.1/ 61.0/ 38.7) lr@hpl.hp.com (Larry Rosler)
53 103.8 ( 41.9/ 55.7/ 25.4) "David L. Cassell" <cassell@mail.cor.epa.gov>
52 71.7 ( 28.9/ 42.7/ 26.1) tadmc@metronet.com (Tad McClellan)
45 72.7 ( 32.5/ 33.0/ 18.5) Jonathan Stowe <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
28 41.7 ( 19.7/ 15.7/ 7.4) rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu (Ronald J Kimball)
25 31.7 ( 17.6/ 14.0/ 7.7) sowmaster@juicepigs.com (Bob Trieger)
21 35.5 ( 16.4/ 15.5/ 14.7) abigail@fnx.com
21 33.7 ( 18.1/ 14.8/ 8.0) Rick Delaney <rick.delaney@home.com>
20 23.8 ( 15.8/ 6.5/ 4.1) Jonathan Feinberg <jdf@pobox.com>
17 21.4 ( 12.5/ 8.9/ 4.6) Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@datenrevision.de>
These posters accounted for 26.4% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
========================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
-------------------------- ----- -------
105.5 ( 38.1/ 61.0/ 38.7) 60 lr@hpl.hp.com (Larry Rosler)
103.8 ( 41.9/ 55.7/ 25.4) 53 "David L. Cassell" <cassell@mail.cor.epa.gov>
72.7 ( 32.5/ 33.0/ 18.5) 45 Jonathan Stowe <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
71.7 ( 28.9/ 42.7/ 26.1) 52 tadmc@metronet.com (Tad McClellan)
41.7 ( 19.7/ 15.7/ 7.4) 28 rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu (Ronald J Kimball)
35.5 ( 16.4/ 15.5/ 14.7) 21 abigail@fnx.com
33.7 ( 18.1/ 14.8/ 8.0) 21 Rick Delaney <rick.delaney@home.com>
31.7 ( 14.3/ 17.5/ 9.9) 17 "Jason Simms" <ffchopin@worldnet.att.net>
31.7 ( 17.6/ 14.0/ 7.7) 25 sowmaster@juicepigs.com (Bob Trieger)
29.4 ( 13.4/ 13.8/ 6.1) 17 sholden@cs.usyd.edu.au
These posters accounted for 26.4% of the total volume.
Top 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
==============================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
1.000 ( 1.5 / 1.5) 5 "Ken" <K.Steven@cableinet.co.uk>
0.950 ( 14.7 / 15.5) 21 abigail@fnx.com
0.924 ( 18.5 / 20.0) 12 Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>
0.921 ( 3.3 / 3.5) 7 fl_aggie@thepentagon.com
0.917 ( 4.4 / 4.8) 6 jed@socrates.berkeley.edu (Jed Parsons)
0.857 ( 4.9 / 5.7) 7 christianarandaOUT@OUTyahoo.com (Christian M. Aranda)
0.807 ( 15.9 / 19.6) 6 "Bill Jones" <bill@fccj.org>
0.805 ( 5.0 / 6.2) 7 Mick <horizon@internetexpress.com.au>
0.789 ( 5.2 / 6.6) 5 hojo <hojo@i-tel.com>
0.710 ( 6.7 / 9.5) 11 moseley@best.com (Bill Moseley)
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
=================================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.487 ( 2.8 / 5.7) 6 "frank" <fvdm@dds.nl>
0.473 ( 7.4 / 15.7) 28 rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu (Ronald J Kimball)
0.462 ( 2.3 / 4.9) 6 ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich)
0.456 ( 25.4 / 55.7) 53 "David L. Cassell" <cassell@mail.cor.epa.gov>
0.442 ( 6.1 / 13.8) 17 sholden@cs.usyd.edu.au
0.372 ( 3.8 / 10.3) 9 Uri Guttman <uri@home.sysarch.com>
0.327 ( 1.0 / 3.1) 5 merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
0.318 ( 5.6 / 17.6) 13 Greg McCann <gregm@well.com>
0.277 ( 2.6 / 9.4) 12 David Delikat <ddelikat@protix.com>
0.187 ( 1.3 / 7.1) 5 anne@NOSPAMstorm.ca
43 posters (8%) had at least five posts.
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
=================================
Posts Subject
----- -------
17 changing to numeric month
16 Alternative for Perl
13 Can you return hashes in subroutines?
12 Copy from Perl?
12 random elements from an array
11 my random doesn't return number!!
11 Silicon Valley Perl Mongers?
11 Running a perl script as a daemon....
11 Counting spaces in a variable
10 two questions need help
These threads accounted for 9.6% of all articles.
Top 10 Threads by Volume
========================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
-------------------------- ----- -------
42.0 ( 12.6/ 27.0/ 15.7) 17 changing to numeric month
21.9 ( 11.2/ 9.7/ 6.4) 16 Alternative for Perl
19.7 ( 8.5/ 10.3/ 5.9) 11 my random doesn't return number!!
19.6 ( 8.2/ 10.3/ 3.5) 11 Running a perl script as a daemon....
18.8 ( 9.0/ 8.5/ 4.5) 12 random elements from an array
18.2 ( 1.5/ 16.7/ 16.7) 2 Need Help making this perl counter script work.
17.5 ( 8.7/ 8.5/ 5.6) 13 Can you return hashes in subroutines?
17.3 ( 9.2/ 7.6/ 4.9) 12 Copy from Perl?
15.9 ( 6.3/ 8.9/ 5.7) 9 constructing a list of hashes
15.7 ( 7.5/ 7.9/ 3.8) 10 two questions need help
These threads accounted for 9.8% of the total volume.
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of five posts)
==============================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.796 ( 3.9/ 4.9) 11 Counting spaces in a variable
0.794 ( 4.7/ 5.9) 7 Text::Soundex for languages other than English?
0.790 ( 3.8/ 4.8) 5 Tricky regex Problem
0.779 ( 4.0/ 5.1) 6 simple request/question
0.764 ( 2.5/ 3.3) 6 search and replace
0.761 ( 4.5/ 5.9) 9 how to find local system IP address in Perl
0.741 ( 4.2/ 5.7) 7 I need help
0.735 ( 3.4/ 4.7) 6 'find' for PPT
0.727 ( 4.4/ 6.0) 5 system ('myproc &');
0.721 ( 3.1/ 4.3) 6 Validating Email addresses
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of five posts)
=================================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.476 ( 3.8 / 7.9) 10 two questions need help
0.473 ( 3.6 / 7.5) 9 program interaction using <<HERE docs
0.470 ( 4.2 / 9.0) 6 (newbie) matching value from array???
0.469 ( 3.4 / 7.3) 8 Regex with lookahead help
0.461 ( 1.7 / 3.8) 7 Problem...
0.458 ( 2.1 / 4.5) 5 qe:operation on binary files
0.448 ( 2.8 / 6.2) 6 Perl Question for generating HTML
0.400 ( 2.8 / 6.9) 6 Newbie questions...
0.377 ( 2.1 / 5.7) 7 File Upload in Internet Explorer
0.339 ( 3.5 / 10.3) 11 Running a perl script as a daemon....
72 threads (16%) had at least five posts.
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
=============================
Articles Newsgroup
-------- ---------
29 comp.lang.perl.modules
19 comp.lang.perl
11 force9.www.cgi
11 it.comp.www.cgi
8 alt.perl
8 comp.lang.perl.moderated
7 de.comp.lang.perl
3 comp.databases.ms-access
3 comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
2 misc.jobs.offered
Top 10 Crossposters
===================
Articles Address
-------- -------
11 "David L. Cassell" <cassell@mail.cor.epa.gov>
7 "Computer Guru Consulting" <cguru@hotpop.com>
5 lr@hpl.hp.com (Larry Rosler)
5 Greg Griffiths <greg2@surfaid.org>
4 Zenin <zenin@bawdycaste.org>
4 Tye McQueen <tye@metronet.com>
4 "Matt" <matt@gapps.co.uk>
3 Toggweiler Mike <ntogmi@abs.ascom.ch>
3 Tom Phoenix <rootbeer&pfaq*finding*@redcat.com>
3 mubsow@GetResponse.com
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 09:05:21 -0400
From: scott kelsey <scott.kelsey@ssa.gov>
Subject: System Info script
Message-Id: <3708B50F.99B7378C@ssa.gov>
Greetings -- Does anyone have an example of a perl script that will
check a server for system information? I would like to come in in the
morning and have an e-mail that shows me: uptime, df-k, processes
running, etc.on a specific server.
What I would eventually want is to have one e-mail that tells me the
system information of 5 or 6 different servers that we have running.
This might be a problem from a security standpoint. Unless you can get
a perl scripts to send e-mail to one server and tie all the e-mails
together and send it the e-mail out in the morning.
Thanks in advance,
Scott Kelsey
scott.kelsey@ssa.gov
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 10:17:39 -0400
From: "John Call" <johncall@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Tk.pm not installing properly on NT
Message-Id: <7eagrv$11o4$1@ausnews.austin.ibm.com>
I am using Perl on NT (sigh.....) and am using PPM to install some modules.
When I install Tk everything seems to install just fine but when I try to
use Tk; I get an error.
I looked at the Tk.pm file and it was empty and so were some of the other
files that were downloaded into the Tk file structure.
>From what I read about PPM it is supposed to handle all of the installation,
isn't it?
The machine is running NT 4.0 with Service Pack 3. I am behind a firewall
(SOCKS not a proxy server). The machine is set up with Hummingbird (with the
correct socks server info) and PPM doesn't have any trouble connecting to
the internet.
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks,
John
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 15:32:06 +0200
From: Henrik Widenfors <pt98hwi@student.hk-r.se>
Subject: Web -> Database Access...
Message-Id: <3708BB56.400C@student.hk-r.se>
Hi
Can I write a Cgi-script in Perl that opens a MS Access database and
then sends SQL queries to it? Where can I find information about web ->
database access on the web?
Thanks alot
PLEASE send a e-mail to pt98hwi@student.hk-r.se aswell
/ Henrik Widenfors
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 14:17:51 GMT
From: jeeg@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Win32 Perl Programming released
Message-Id: <7eagm7$npq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
Macmillan Technical Publishing is proud to announce the release of Win32 Perl
Programming: The Standard Extensions. This text is an authoritative guide to
many of the critical tasks that Perl can perform effectively and efficiently
in a Win32 environment. In order to enhance Perl functionality in Windows NT
or Windows 95 networks, a number of extensions have been created to take full
advantage of the power of the Perl language. Win32 Perl Programming: The
Standard Extensions is a hands-on resource for programmers and system
administrators whose daily work demands in-depth knowledge of the Win32 Perl
extensions.
This authoritative resource provides thorough discussions of critical subjects
such as program automation using OLE and COM, object management, data access
with ODBC, and extension and function syntax. Step by step instructions guide
the reader through the creation of one's own extension. Troubleshooting tips
for common problems involved in CGI and ASP are also integrated throughout the
book. The author, Dave Roth, is a prolific creator of Win32 extensions,
including the popular Win32::ODBC and Win32::AdminMisc extensions.
Dick Hardt, CTO, ActiveState Tool Corp enthuses, "Dave Roth loves Perl. He
must. He spent a lot of time searching, poking, prodding, discovering, and
finally explaining how to use Perl to solve real problems on Windows." (Hardt
was also responsible for the original port of Perl to Win32).
Win32 Perl Programming: The Standard Extensions will help to guide anyone
using Perl to administer Win32 machines. The book's target audience will be
intermediate to advanced users, assuming previous experience with Perl, and
delving into in-depth technical topics such as how to create and synchronize
processes and write your own extension.
Its easily referenced, tutorial approach to Win32 extensions will guide the
user through chapters designated according to programming topic, from
computer administration and automation, to accessing database data and
interfacing directly with the Win32 API.
Macmillan Technical Publishing is an imprint of Macmillan Professional
Computer Publishing (MPCP), the industry's premier information and reference
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Macmillan Professional Computer Publishing is a division of Pearson Higher
Education
For more information, see: www.macmillantech.com/roth
For supplementary material, see: www.roth.net/books/extensions/
Product Information
Win32 Perl Programming: The Standard Extensions
Dave Roth
ISBN: 1-57870-067-1
$40.00 USA
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