[12097] in Perl-Users-Digest
Perl-Users Digest, Issue: 5698 Volume: 8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perl-Users Digest)
Mon May 17 11:15:18 1999
Date: Mon, 17 May 99 08:02:21 -0700
From: Perl-Users Digest <Perl-Users-Request@ruby.OCE.ORST.EDU>
To: Perl-Users@ruby.OCE.ORST.EDU (Perl-Users Digest)
Perl-Users Digest Mon, 17 May 1999 Volume: 8 Number: 5698
Today's topics:
New posters to comp.lang.perl.misc <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>
Occasional user <giroux@dms.umontreal.ca>
Overflow error using an Array. <pickrell@hursley.ibm.com>
Re: Perl "constructors" <jdporter@min.net>
Re: Perl "constructors" <jdporter@min.net>
Re: Perl "constructors" (Randal L. Schwartz)
Re: Perl "constructors" (Greg Bacon)
Statistics for comp.lang.perl.misc <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>
Special: Digest Administrivia (Last modified: 12 Dec 98 (Perl-Users-Digest Admin)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: 17 May 1999 14:10:46 GMT
From: Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>
Subject: New posters to comp.lang.perl.misc
Message-Id: <7hp816$ga5$2@info2.uah.edu>
Following is a summary of articles from new posters spanning a 7 day
period, beginning at 10 May 1999 13:52:52 GMT and ending at
17 May 1999 07:00:22 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.
Totals
======
Posters: 247 (47.6% of all posters)
Articles: 354 (21.6% of all articles)
Volume generated: 568.4 kb (18.6% of total volume)
- headers: 257.7 kb (5,221 lines)
- bodies: 304.4 kb (10,386 lines)
- original: 247.6 kb (8,644 lines)
- signatures: 6.0 kb (140 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.814
Averages
========
Posts per poster: 1.4
median: 1 post
mode: 1 post - 190 posters
s: 1.2 posts
Message size: 1644.2 bytes
- header: 745.6 bytes (14.7 lines)
- body: 880.4 bytes (29.3 lines)
- original: 716.3 bytes (24.4 lines)
- signature: 17.2 bytes (0.4 lines)
Top 10 Posters by Number of Posts
=================================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Posts Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Address
----- -------------------------- -------
10 19.3 ( 7.1/ 12.2/ 10.6) "Bradley W. Langhorst" <bwlang@genome.wi.mit.edu>
7 11.1 ( 6.3/ 4.8/ 2.4) Jukka Juslin <jtjuslin@spam.cc.hut.fi>
7 17.8 ( 5.9/ 12.0/ 7.4) Greg Bartels <gbartels@xli.com>
6 6.1 ( 4.8/ 1.3/ 1.3) "Nokian" <106274.2233@compuserve.com>
5 6.9 ( 4.7/ 2.2/ 1.3) "Mark Twells" <mark@RemoveThismtwells.demonRemove.co.uk>
5 4.8 ( 3.8/ 1.0/ 1.0) "Pavel Kotala" <pkotala@logis.cz>
4 5.0 ( 3.0/ 1.9/ 1.3) tertullian@my-dejanews.com
4 10.7 ( 4.5/ 5.8/ 2.1) microchip@centuryinter.net
4 7.4 ( 2.9/ 4.1/ 2.3) Dwayne Retsky <a794636757612661@mailcity.com>
4 7.2 ( 3.3/ 3.9/ 3.6) Ed Eddington <edatwork@REMSPAMinternethut.com>
These posters accounted for 3.4% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
========================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
-------------------------- ----- -------
19.3 ( 7.1/ 12.2/ 10.6) 10 "Bradley W. Langhorst" <bwlang@genome.wi.mit.edu>
17.8 ( 5.9/ 12.0/ 7.4) 7 Greg Bartels <gbartels@xli.com>
12.0 ( 3.0/ 9.0/ 7.6) 4 =?euc-kr?B?udrBvrq5IChQYXJrLCBKb25nLVBvcmsp?= <okpolis@okpolis.joo.net>
11.4 ( 0.8/ 10.6/ 9.5) 1 "Tim Shapcott" <m.shapcott@NOSPAMvirgin.net>
11.1 ( 6.3/ 4.8/ 2.4) 7 Jukka Juslin <jtjuslin@spam.cc.hut.fi>
11.0 ( 2.3/ 8.6/ 8.5) 3 aray@interactrx.com
10.7 ( 4.5/ 5.8/ 2.1) 4 microchip@centuryinter.net
7.4 ( 2.9/ 4.1/ 2.3) 4 Dwayne Retsky <a794636757612661@mailcity.com>
7.2 ( 3.3/ 3.9/ 3.6) 4 Ed Eddington <edatwork@REMSPAMinternethut.com>
6.9 ( 4.7/ 2.2/ 1.3) 5 "Mark Twells" <mark@RemoveThismtwells.demonRemove.co.uk>
These posters accounted for 3.8% of the total volume.
Top 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of three posts)
==============================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
1.000 ( 1.3 / 1.3) 6 "Nokian" <106274.2233@compuserve.com>
1.000 ( 1.0 / 1.0) 5 "Pavel Kotala" <pkotala@logis.cz>
1.000 ( 2.6 / 2.6) 3 "james gough" <jgough@163.net>
1.000 ( 0.5 / 0.5) 3 rwmip@glink.net.hk (Raymond Ip)
0.993 ( 4.6 / 4.6) 3 "Blue" <mrblue@pd.jaring.my>
0.989 ( 8.5 / 8.6) 3 aray@interactrx.com
0.918 ( 3.6 / 3.9) 4 Ed Eddington <edatwork@REMSPAMinternethut.com>
0.873 ( 10.6 / 12.2) 10 "Bradley W. Langhorst" <bwlang@genome.wi.mit.edu>
0.850 ( 7.6 / 9.0) 4 =?euc-kr?B?udrBvrq5IChQYXJrLCBKb25nLVBvcmsp?= <okpolis@okpolis.joo.net>
0.781 ( 1.8 / 2.3) 3 "Robbert Wethmar" <robbert@wethmar.demon.nl>
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of three posts)
=================================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.674 ( 2.1 / 3.1) 3 michael_555@my-dejanews.com
0.617 ( 7.4 / 12.0) 7 Greg Bartels <gbartels@xli.com>
0.600 ( 1.3 / 2.2) 5 "Mark Twells" <mark@RemoveThismtwells.demonRemove.co.uk>
0.586 ( 1.3 / 2.2) 3 horn@wheel.cs.wisc.edu (Jeffrey Horn)
0.580 ( 2.3 / 4.1) 4 Dwayne Retsky <a794636757612661@mailcity.com>
0.550 ( 1.1 / 2.0) 3 Andreas <andreas73@my-dejanews.com>
0.522 ( 1.3 / 2.5) 3 Isaac Keslassy <amig@csi.com>
0.496 ( 2.4 / 4.8) 7 Jukka Juslin <jtjuslin@spam.cc.hut.fi>
0.368 ( 2.1 / 5.8) 4 microchip@centuryinter.net
0.312 ( 0.7 / 2.3) 3 dave@dave.org.uk (Dave Cross)
23 posters (9%) had at least three posts.
Top 10 Crossposters
===================
Articles Address
-------- -------
18 "Nokian" <106274.2233@compuserve.com>
9 al013@freenet.hamilton.on.ca (Mike Barber)
4 microchip@centuryinter.net
4 Chuckie <cyranode@bellsouth.net>
3 Malware <Michael.Mueller4@post.rwth-aachen.de>
3 "Peter Allaire" <pallaire@together.net>
3 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE
3 John <jrogersmith@yahoo.com>
3 "Neil Rutherford" <neil_rutherford@cableinet.co.uk>
3 "Mile Wang" <mile@cybercable.FR>
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 10:30:24 -0400
From: Andre Giroux <giroux@dms.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Occasional user
Message-Id: <37402800.5E2C6A90@dms.umontreal.ca>
Hi everybody.
I am trying to convert a eps file into a pdf file using a perl script
(file created by Mathematica and to be included in a pdf document).
Working on wintel, I downloaded perl and put my script in
c:\perl\bin .
The question is : what should I do next ? (Or is it : what should I have
done before ? )
A lost mathematician.
--
Andre Giroux
http://euler.dms.umontreal.ca/~giroux/
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 13:09:43 +0100
From: Tim Pickrell <pickrell@hursley.ibm.com>
Subject: Overflow error using an Array.
Message-Id: <373EB587.41C6@hursley.ibm.com>
I'm running a Perl script on Win32 which works fine using a
small set of data. The program parses a file and loads it into
two 2-D Arrays. With larger files I loose data - it gets corrupted. By
larger -
I mean each array has around 400 rows x 10 columns ( i.e not very
large).
I'm reasonably confident of the program logic.
I'd like to know if anyone has had a similar problem. Can I re-build
Perl to handle a large array ?
Thanks -
Tim Pickrell
pickrell@hursley.ibm.com
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 13:47:23 GMT
From: John Porter <jdporter@min.net>
Subject: Re: Perl "constructors"
Message-Id: <7hp6lb$ebb$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
In article <7hjgbt$q9e$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
armchair@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>
> Perhaps a majority are [small], and perhaps a majority of code that is
written
> is never modified by anyone other than the author, but in the cases
> where it is, standardization and rules that allow compile time error
> catching are of great value.
If the only projects you work on are large, multi-author ones, then
you can hardly be blamed for sticking with the language you know.
C++ does enjoy certain advantages over Perl in such cases.
Of course, Perl is being used for some large projects; perl.com will
lead you to info on some of these if you're interested.
> I am using an array because I have created an object that needs
> to hold multiple scalars, one of which is total_attendees. I have no
> choice but to $rSelf->[10]. You should have attacked me for not using
a
> hash to store the data where I could have written
> $rSelf->{"total_attendees}.
I don't understand why you said you had no choice, then immediately
followed it with a (superior) alternative.
> I guess what bothers me is that in C++ I can construct object member
> data your Perl way, or my desired Perl way. C++ is so libertarian
about
> object construction that it allows us to both do it different ways. It
> doesn't enforce an object data member style on either one of us the
> way Perl does.
Quite the contrary, my friend.
Perl is extremely more flexible in what it allows the programmer to
do than C++. Now, you may argue that this is A Bad Thing (and maybe
it is ;-) but it's still the fact.
--
John Porter
Put it on a plate, son. You'll enjoy it more.
--== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==--
---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 13:52:59 GMT
From: John Porter <jdporter@min.net>
Subject: Re: Perl "constructors"
Message-Id: <7hp6vr$ee4$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
In article <ylhfpf6jyw.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>,
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:
> C++ on the other hand gives no visual clues at all about such
> matters in the actual code, making reading C++ code an exercise in
> multiple windows to find all of the hidden gotchas and action at a
> distance.
Man I wish you hadn't said this, Russ, because if anything, Perl is
worse than C++ in this regard. At least with C++, the meaning of a
program can be predicted by a lexical analysis of the code. But
Perl has eval and other dynamic features:
@Bar:ISA = ( time & 1 ) ? ('Foo') : ('Baz');
--
John Porter
Put it on a plate, son. You'll enjoy it more.
--== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==--
---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---
------------------------------
Date: 17 May 1999 07:15:46 -0700
From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Subject: Re: Perl "constructors"
Message-Id: <m1emkfsrxp.fsf@halfdome.holdit.com>
>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Stillwell <mist@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au> writes:
Michael> According to my benchmarks, you take about a 20% performance hit doing
Michael> records with a hash though. I guess you can improve things with
Michael> #defines:
Michael> package Point;
Michael> #define X 0
Michael> #define Y 1
Michael> sub new {
Michael> my ($class, $x, $y) = @_;
Michael> my $self = [ ];
Michael> $self->[X] = $x;
Michael> $self->[Y] = $y;
Michael> bless $self, $class;
Michael> }
Michael> But I haven't seen any code that does this. Is this because it makes
Michael> inheritance hard?
This is precisely what "use fields" and the new pseudo-hash does in
5.005. It's been tagged as an experimental feature, but give it a go
and see what breaks. From perlref for 5.005:
Pseudo-hashes: Using an array as a hash
WARNING: This section describes an experimental feature.
Details may change without notice in future versions.
Beginning with release 5.005 of Perl you can use an array
reference in some contexts that would normally require a
hash reference. This allows you to access array elements
using symbolic names, as if they were fields in a
structure.
For this to work, the array must contain extra
information. The first element of the array has to be a
hash reference that maps field names to array indices.
Here is an example:
$struct = [{foo => 1, bar => 2}, "FOO", "BAR"];
$struct->{foo}; # same as $struct->[1], i.e. "FOO"
$struct->{bar}; # same as $struct->[2], i.e. "BAR"
keys %$struct; # will return ("foo", "bar") in some order
values %$struct; # will return ("FOO", "BAR") in same some order
while (my($k,$v) = each %$struct) {
print "$k => $v\n";
}
And if you "use fields" with this, the mapping is done at compile
time, not runtime.
print "Just another Perl hacker,"
--
Name: Randal L. Schwartz / Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095
Keywords: Perl training, UNIX[tm] consulting, video production, skiing, flying
Email: <merlyn@stonehenge.com> Snail: (Call) PGP-Key: (finger merlyn@teleport.com)
Web: <A HREF="http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/">My Home Page!</A>
Quote: "I'm telling you, if I could have five lines in my .sig, I would!" -- me
------------------------------
Date: 17 May 1999 14:18:44 GMT
From: gbacon@itsc.uah.edu (Greg Bacon)
Subject: Re: Perl "constructors"
Message-Id: <7hp8g4$g67$2@info2.uah.edu>
In article <ylpv414z0p.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>,
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
: Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of good syntactic alternatives. I think
: $record{array}->@ was proposed a while back, but it has the problem of
: being inconsistent with the rest of Perl; the type identifier is always in
: the front of the expression.
...except for C<$coderef->(@args)>. :-)
Greg
--
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not
sure about the former.
-- Albert Einstein
------------------------------
Date: 17 May 1999 14:10:44 GMT
From: Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.perl.misc
Message-Id: <7hp814$ga5$1@info2.uah.edu>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 10 May 1999 13:52:52 GMT and ending at
17 May 1999 07:00:22 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: 519
Articles: 1636 (614 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 489
Volume generated: 3058.7 kb
- headers: 1231.3 kb (24,301 lines)
- bodies: 1728.7 kb (54,374 lines)
- original: 1157.4 kb (39,123 lines)
- signatures: 97.1 kb (2,284 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.670
Averages
========
Posts per poster: 3.2
median: 1 post
mode: 1 post - 337 posters
s: 8.5 posts
Posts per thread: 3.3
median: 2 posts
mode: 1 post - 182 threads
s: 7.2 posts
Message size: 1914.5 bytes
- header: 770.7 bytes (14.9 lines)
- body: 1082.0 bytes (33.2 lines)
- original: 724.5 bytes (23.9 lines)
- signature: 60.8 bytes (1.4 lines)
Top 10 Posters by Number of Posts
=================================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Posts Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Address
----- -------------------------- -------
88 186.2 ( 60.2/116.4/ 68.6) lr@hpl.hp.com (Larry Rosler)
81 231.9 ( 67.5/164.2/ 76.1) armchair@my-dejanews.com
65 121.8 ( 50.7/ 67.5/ 50.2) design@raincloud-studios.com (Charles R. Thompson)
55 125.6 ( 49.4/ 76.2/ 52.7) "Stephen Warren" <swarren@www.wwwdotorg.org>
54 222.9 ( 44.6/172.0/159.6) tchrist@mox.perl.com (Tom Christiansen)
50 76.1 ( 28.8/ 47.3/ 30.1) tadmc@metronet.com (Tad McClellan)
46 80.0 ( 36.2/ 37.6/ 20.4) Jonathan Stowe <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
39 87.7 ( 25.0/ 51.9/ 30.3) Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
36 51.8 ( 29.9/ 21.8/ 13.0) bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur)
35 100.9 ( 32.1/ 64.3/ 23.6) sholden@cs.usyd.edu.au
These posters accounted for 33.6% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
========================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
-------------------------- ----- -------
231.9 ( 67.5/164.2/ 76.1) 81 armchair@my-dejanews.com
222.9 ( 44.6/172.0/159.6) 54 tchrist@mox.perl.com (Tom Christiansen)
186.2 ( 60.2/116.4/ 68.6) 88 lr@hpl.hp.com (Larry Rosler)
125.6 ( 49.4/ 76.2/ 52.7) 55 "Stephen Warren" <swarren@www.wwwdotorg.org>
121.8 ( 50.7/ 67.5/ 50.2) 65 design@raincloud-studios.com (Charles R. Thompson)
100.9 ( 32.1/ 64.3/ 23.6) 35 sholden@cs.usyd.edu.au
87.7 ( 25.0/ 51.9/ 30.3) 39 Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
80.0 ( 36.2/ 37.6/ 20.4) 46 Jonathan Stowe <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
76.1 ( 28.8/ 47.3/ 30.1) 50 tadmc@metronet.com (Tad McClellan)
67.5 ( 28.2/ 34.6/ 20.0) 34 David Cassell <cassell@mail.cor.epa.gov>
These posters accounted for 42.5% of the total volume.
Top 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
==============================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
1.000 ( 1.3 / 1.3) 6 "Nokian" <106274.2233@compuserve.com>
1.000 ( 1.0 / 1.0) 5 "Pavel Kotala" <pkotala@logis.cz>
0.997 ( 7.7 / 7.7) 9 andrew-johnson@home.com
0.988 ( 9.0 / 9.1) 9 pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)
0.948 ( 1.0 / 1.0) 6 austin95002887@yahoo.com (Austin Ming)
0.939 ( 5.9 / 6.3) 9 fl_aggie@thepentagon.com
0.928 (159.6 /172.0) 54 tchrist@mox.perl.com (Tom Christiansen)
0.873 ( 10.6 / 12.2) 10 "Bradley W. Langhorst" <bwlang@genome.wi.mit.edu>
0.743 ( 50.2 / 67.5) 65 design@raincloud-studios.com (Charles R. Thompson)
0.702 ( 6.1 / 8.6) 7 John Porter <jdporter@min.net>
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
=================================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.464 ( 76.1 /164.2) 81 armchair@my-dejanews.com
0.463 ( 3.7 / 7.9) 11 rlb@intrinsix.ca (Lee)
0.461 ( 1.7 / 3.8) 7 webmaster@chatbase.com
0.412 ( 2.6 / 6.3) 13 sowmaster@juicepigs.com (Bob Trieger)
0.377 ( 7.0 / 18.7) 6 garye@iname.com
0.368 ( 23.6 / 64.3) 35 sholden@cs.usyd.edu.au
0.364 ( 1.0 / 2.8) 5 mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk (M.J.T. Guy)
0.342 ( 0.9 / 2.5) 6 "Dave Evans" <devans@radius-retail.kom>
0.319 ( 3.1 / 9.8) 10 zenin@bawdycaste.org
0.279 ( 3.2 / 11.7) 7 ktb <xyf@inetnebr.com>
48 posters (9%) had at least five posts.
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
=================================
Posts Subject
----- -------
133 Perl "constructors"
51 Hash arrays
47 Ten Tips toward *DIVERSITY COMPLIANCE* in Web Design
27 man pages and FAQs: why posted?
21 Need a little looping help
19 Conditional search and replace within a text file
16 Finding Total Directory Size in Perl.
16 TROLL ALERT (Re: Perl "constructors")
15 HASH AND ARRAY
15 why won't this cgi script work?
These threads accounted for 22.0% of all articles.
Top 10 Threads by Volume
========================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
-------------------------- ----- -------
388.4 (113.0/261.1/127.1) 133 Perl "constructors"
97.9 ( 40.8/ 53.0/ 41.1) 47 Ten Tips toward *DIVERSITY COMPLIANCE* in Web Design
95.0 ( 40.4/ 51.3/ 25.9) 51 Hash arrays
71.6 ( 7.3/ 63.4/ 57.5) 9 perltootc - OO Tutorial for Class Data in Perl
54.9 ( 6.4/ 47.6/ 46.8) 8 Seizing the Bull by the Horns
51.9 ( 13.6/ 35.8/ 14.8) 16 Finding Total Directory Size in Perl.
43.3 ( 21.1/ 20.9/ 13.2) 27 man pages and FAQs: why posted?
39.8 ( 18.3/ 19.7/ 10.5) 19 Conditional search and replace within a text file
38.6 ( 17.9/ 18.3/ 9.8) 21 Need a little looping help
35.5 ( 9.5/ 24.5/ 21.8) 13 MS-HTML must die!
These threads accounted for 30.0% of the total volume.
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of five posts)
==============================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.982 ( 46.8/ 47.6) 8 Seizing the Bull by the Horns
0.918 ( 1.5/ 1.7) 7 vb2perl
0.907 ( 57.5/ 63.4) 9 perltootc - OO Tutorial for Class Data in Perl
0.888 ( 21.8/ 24.5) 13 MS-HTML must die!
0.819 ( 3.2/ 3.9) 5 pattern matching - confused....
0.808 ( 2.5/ 3.1) 5 un esprit lisp dans un corps C
0.801 ( 5.0/ 6.3) 5 Dynamic generation of a hash
0.784 ( 6.5/ 8.2) 5 parse variables to a sub
0.776 ( 41.1/ 53.0) 47 Ten Tips toward *DIVERSITY COMPLIANCE* in Web Design
0.768 ( 12.8/ 16.7) 7 Sorting is too slow for finding top N keys... - BENCH
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of five posts)
=================================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.504 ( 25.9 / 51.3) 51 Hash arrays
0.501 ( 2.1 / 4.1) 5 SLOC
0.487 (127.1 /261.1) 133 Perl "constructors"
0.454 ( 2.2 / 4.9) 7 password checking
0.451 ( 2.0 / 4.4) 9 dos ^M to unix \n
0.448 ( 3.2 / 7.1) 9 File::Find non-functional when passing arguments to &wanted
0.442 ( 1.9 / 4.3) 7 Using Perl to fetch web pages, POST method, help?
0.413 ( 14.8 / 35.8) 16 Finding Total Directory Size in Perl.
0.382 ( 2.6 / 6.8) 6 "Text file busy" error
0.307 ( 4.3 / 13.9) 9 uninitialized value
77 threads (15%) had at least five posts.
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
=============================
Articles Newsgroup
-------- ---------
20 alt.perl
18 comp.lang.perl.modules
13 comp.lang.perl
11 de.comp.lang.perl
8 comp.lang.perl.tk
6 comp.lang.c
5 comp.unix.shell
5 comp.unix.programmer
5 comp.mail.sendmail
3 comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Top 10 Crossposters
===================
Articles Address
-------- -------
18 "Nokian" <106274.2233@compuserve.com>
9 al013@freenet.hamilton.on.ca (Mike Barber)
5 tadmc@metronet.com (Tad McClellan)
4 Chuckie <cyranode@bellsouth.net>
4 microchip@centuryinter.net
4 design@raincloud-studios.com (Charles R. Thompson)
3 Tom Phoenix <rootbeer&pfaq*finding*@redcat.com>
3 "Mile Wang" <mile@cybercable.FR>
3 "Peter Allaire" <pallaire@together.net>
3 Barry Margolin <barmar@bbnplanet.com>
------------------------------
Date: 12 Dec 98 21:33:47 GMT (Last modified)
From: Perl-Request@ruby.oce.orst.edu (Perl-Users-Digest Admin)
Subject: Special: Digest Administrivia (Last modified: 12 Dec 98)
Message-Id: <null>
Administrivia:
Well, after 6 months, here's the answer to the quiz: what do we do about
comp.lang.perl.moderated. Answer: nothing.
]From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
]Date: 21 Sep 1998 19:53:43 -0700
]Subject: comp.lang.perl.moderated available via e-mail
]
]It is possible to subscribe to comp.lang.perl.moderated as a mailing list.
]To do so, send mail to majordomo@eyrie.org with "subscribe clpm" in the
]body. Majordomo will then send you instructions on how to confirm your
]subscription. This is provided as a general service for those people who
]cannot receive the newsgroup for whatever reason or who just prefer to
]receive messages via e-mail.
The Perl-Users Digest is a retransmission of the USENET newsgroup
comp.lang.perl.misc. For subscription or unsubscription requests, send
the single line:
subscribe perl-users
or:
unsubscribe perl-users
to almanac@ruby.oce.orst.edu.
To submit articles to comp.lang.perl.misc (and this Digest), send your
article to perl-users@ruby.oce.orst.edu.
To submit articles to comp.lang.perl.announce, send your article to
clpa@perl.com.
To request back copies (available for a week or so), send your request
to almanac@ruby.oce.orst.edu with the command "send perl-users x.y",
where x is the volume number and y is the issue number.
The Meta-FAQ, an article containing information about the FAQ, is
available by requesting "send perl-users meta-faq". The real FAQ, as it
appeared last in the newsgroup, can be retrieved with the request "send
perl-users FAQ". Due to their sizes, neither the Meta-FAQ nor the FAQ
are included in the digest.
The "mini-FAQ", which is an updated version of the Meta-FAQ, is
available by requesting "send perl-users mini-faq". It appears twice
weekly in the group, but is not distributed in the digest.
For other requests pertaining to the digest, send mail to
perl-users-request@ruby.oce.orst.edu. Do not waste your time or mine
sending perl questions to the -request address, I don't have time to
answer them even if I did know the answer.
------------------------------
End of Perl-Users Digest V8 Issue 5698
**************************************
