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Perl-Users Digest Sat, 17 Jul 1999 Volume: 9 Number: 176
Today's topics:
Re: CGI with Postscript? (Jon Bell)
Re: confusing locales (Anno Siegel)
Re: Exclusive range operator ( ... ) (M.J.T. Guy)
Re: Future of Perl (Tad McClellan)
Re: Future of Perl (Ronald J Kimball)
Re: How can I do a case insensitive search? <baal@c2i.net>
Re: How to block a file <uri@sysarch.com>
howto generate tunnel packet <mack@ncifcrf.gov>
Re: I can't find this one in the FAQ. (Michel Dalle)
Re: I can't find this one in the FAQ. (Ronald J Kimball)
Re: Linux - Apache - Perl (Tad McClellan)
LWP:Simple "get" command -- Is there a Javascript equiv <kjmead@sunygenesee.cc.ny.us>
Re: Old database is erased when I add new information (John Stanley)
Re: Parsing a Decisive survey w/ REGEX...need help (Tad McClellan)
Perl passes Visual Basic <tedshieh@monmouth.com>
Re: Prime Factorization (V. Balaji)
Question for the perl gods <bottech@mediaone.net>
Re: searching man pages, perldoc's, FAQ's, README's, HO (Tad McClellan)
Re: Tiny error in perlfaq5 <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
Where to post scripts mark@bstar.net
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 15:45:14 GMT
From: jtbell@presby.edu (Jon Bell)
Subject: Re: CGI with Postscript?
Message-Id: <FF0uFF.C6K@presby.edu>
Anno Siegel <anno4000@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
>Kyoil Kim <kikim@cerc.utexas.edu> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
>>I executed the following cgi program, which shows simple ps file in a
>>web browser, but I got an error message
>>"the document contains no data". I don't know why. The codes are exactly
>>same with the one in the O'Reilly &
>
>Probably too exactly the same.
>
>>Associates's book, CGI programming. Please let me know what the problem
>>is. Thanks.
>>The codes are as follows.
>>=====================================================================
>>
>>#!/usr/local/bin/perl
>>
>>$GS = "usr/local/bin/gs";
^^^^^
>
>[snip]
>
>You have checked that gs is in /usr/local/bin on your server, haven't
>you?
Better yet, have you checked that gs is in usr/local/bin relative to
whatever directory is current when CGI scripts run on your server? :-)
--
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Dept. of Physics and Computer Science Clinton, South Carolina USA
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Date: 17 Jul 1999 15:49:03 -0000
From: anno4000@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Anno Siegel)
Subject: Re: confusing locales
Message-Id: <7mq8lf$jki$1@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de>
Abigail <abigail@delanet.com> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
>Thoren Johne (thoren@csi.com) wrote on MMCXLV September MCMXCIII in
><URL:news:uO45iS#z#GA.142@nih2naaf.prod2.compuserve.com>:
>:: as a german i've problems with \w not matching german "umlaute" and special
>:: signs like:
>:: äöüÄÖÜ and ß
>::
>:: perllocale tells me to:
>::
>:: use locale;
>:: use POSIX qw(locale_h);
>:: setlocale(LC_ALL, "german"); # de_DE and others don't effect
>::
>:: then \w meets my desires, but if i give
>::
>:: print +(sort grep /\w/, map { chr() } 0..255), "\n";
>::
>:: a try, i get a bunch of characters including a lot that for sure are not
>:: part of the german characterset.
>
>Are you sure your locale isn't broken? If you write an equivalent C
>program, what happens?
I see similar results, from Perl as well as from C. It looks like
setlocale( LC_CTYPE, 'german') lets isalpha() accept everything in
iso-8859-1 that vaguely looks like a character. Similar results
for 'swedish' and some other languages, though 'russian' accepts an
even wider character set. In particular, the proglet
#include <stdio.h>
#include <locale.h>
main() {
int c, lang, count;
char* locale[ 5] = { "english", "german", "swedish", "spanish", "russian"};
for ( lang = 0; lang < 5; lang++ ) {
setlocale( LC_CTYPE, locale[ lang]);
count = 0;
for ( c=0; c < 256; c++ ) {
if ( isalpha( c) ) count++;
}
printf( "%-8s:%5d\n", locale[ lang], count);
}
}
prints
english : 52
german : 115
swedish : 115
spanish : 115
russian : 145
That's a pretty happy-go-lucky attitude towards character sets, but
it's what we get.
Anno
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Date: 17 Jul 1999 16:24:05 GMT
From: mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk (M.J.T. Guy)
Subject: Re: Exclusive range operator ( ... )
Message-Id: <7mqan5$707$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>
Uri Guttman <uri@sysarch.com> wrote:
>
> PT> There doesn't seem to be anything about the exclusive range
> PT> operator in the Camel book.
>
>because it wasn't in the language when the camel was written. i don't
>know which perl version first had it but it is documented in 5.004_04.
It's been in the language since at least perl4.
And it *is* documented in the Camel - see page 90.
Mike Guy
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 05:57:00 -0400
From: tadmc@metronet.com (Tad McClellan)
Subject: Re: Future of Perl
Message-Id: <c1kpm7.k7p.ln@magna.metronet.com>
Jeffrey (Jeffrey@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: On 15 Jul 1999 23:24:02 -0500, abigail@delanet.com (Abigail) wrote:
: >Don't judge programming languages on their usefullness, judge them on
: >their marketable value! That'll increase the quality of code and will
: >bring us closer to world peace.
: Listen bitch,
: A language isn't fucking useful if you can't get
: a job programming in it.
I wonder how Pascal has survived so many years, being so "useless".
: fucking stupid, bitch.
Bears of little brain cannot formulate coherent counter-arguments
and resort to profanity in an effort to deny their lack of
grey matter.
But it doesn't succeed.
*plonk*
--
Tad McClellan SGML Consulting
tadmc@metronet.com Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 12:51:50 -0400
From: rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu (Ronald J Kimball)
Subject: Re: Future of Perl
Message-Id: <1dv368h.pyrhg1ytu9moN@p54.block2.tc2.state.ma.tiac.com>
Tad McClellan <tadmc@metronet.com> wrote:
> Jeffrey (Jeffrey@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
> : fucking stupid, bitch.
>
> Bears of little brain cannot formulate coherent counter-arguments
> and resort to profanity in an effort to deny their lack of
> grey matter.
Hey now, this comparison to Winnie the Pooh is inappropriate. Pooh
actually accepted his lack of grey matter, and he certainly never
resorted to profanity.
--
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"It's funny 'cause it's true ... and vice versa."
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 16:54:53 GMT
From: "[L] Vicious!" <baal@c2i.net>
Subject: Re: How can I do a case insensitive search?
Message-Id: <xz2k3.736$_L6.53654@juliett.dax.net>
Thnx for the answer, but after some testing I got error messages using "I"
(capital), but when I tried "i" it worked great.
Sigmund S.
baal@c2i.net
Jim <syt@email*@sp\am|@|spa/m@*.com> wrote in message
news:7mq455$vhb$1@news3.infoave.net...
> if ($string =~ /$searchstring/I) {
> print "Found!\n";
> }
>
> capital "i" is for case insensitive
>
> --
> -Jim- syt.at.email.dot.com
> ----------------------------------
> -I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
> -So what if I'm paranoid? It doesn't hurt anybody
> and makes life interesting for me.
> ----------------------------------
> - Get Paid For Staying Online -
> http://www.alladvantage.com/refhome.asp?refid=ANT424
>
>
> [L] Vicious! <baal@c2i.net> wrote in message
> news:Ab0k3.709$_L6.50105@juliett.dax.net...
> I've just programmed a searchengine, and need some help. How can I do
> a case
> insensitive search? Now I use:
>
> #simplified
> if ($string =~ /$searchstring/) {
> print "Found!\n";
> }
>
>
> I also need some help for cursor control. This is a DOS-command line
> controlled program, and I want some progress indicators. For that
> purpose I
> need to move the cursor back some spots, or up one line.
>
>
> Apreciate any suggestions you might have...
>
>
>
> Sigmund S.
> baal@c2i.net
>
>
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Date: 17 Jul 1999 12:43:18 -0400
From: Uri Guttman <uri@sysarch.com>
Subject: Re: How to block a file
Message-Id: <x7yagfi5w9.fsf@home.sysarch.com>
>>>>> "A" == Abigail <abigail@delanet.com> writes:
A> NoCHaX (nochax@bigfoot.com) wrote on MMCXLVI September MCMXCIII in
A> <URL:news:378FE37A.D1C6C508@bigfoot.com>:
A> == I need to block a file in Perl. How to do this?
A> Define "block a file".
assuming lines are converted to fixed sized records:
system( "dd obs=80 if=$in_file of=$outfile" ) ;
:-)
uri
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 15:28:51 +0000
From: Joseph Mack <mack@ncifcrf.gov>
Subject: howto generate tunnel packet
Message-Id: <3790A133.144E822C@ncifcrf.gov>
Is it possible/not_possible or how do I generate
a tunnel/IPIP/encapulated packet on machine A that
has source=A, dest=C and send it out eth0 on A to machine B?
Nothing in the index in the Camel book (Edn 2) on
on cpan under tunnel/IPIP/encapsulate
Thanks Joe
--
Joseph Mack, NA3T, FM05lw EME(B,D)
mailto:mack@ncifcrf.gov
AZ_PROJ map server at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 15:48:46 GMT
From: michel.dalle@usa.net (Michel Dalle)
Subject: Re: I can't find this one in the FAQ.
Message-Id: <7mq8j4$l45$1@xenon.inbe.net>
In article <378F896A.871F446D@oro.net>, oronet Tech - Joshua Scott <jscott@oro.net> wrote:
>Here is my code. Simple as it is, I still get a really screwy error. I
>read the perldoc and I find no reference to thas error in a FAQ.
>Anybody got any ideas?
[snip]
>print $query->redirect('http://www.oro.net');}
[snap]
>Status: 302 Found
What exactly were you expecting ? If you ask for a redirect, CGI.pm
will give you a redirect... Check the documentation for CGI.
Oh yes, and 302 is a HTTP status code telling your browser that his
request is redirected to Location: ... (or URI: ...). Your command-line
environment doesn't seem to redirect, though :o
Have fun,
Michel.
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 12:51:52 -0400
From: rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu (Ronald J Kimball)
Subject: Re: I can't find this one in the FAQ.
Message-Id: <1dv372t.ho2ay532punmN@p54.block2.tc2.state.ma.tiac.com>
oronet Tech - Joshua Scott <jscott@oro.net> wrote:
> Here is my code. Simple as it is, I still get a really screwy error. I
> read the perldoc and I find no reference to thas error in a FAQ.
> Anybody got any ideas?
> print $query->redirect('http://www.oro.net');}
> Status: 302 Found
> Uri: http://www.oro.net
> Location: http://www.oro.net
> Content-type: text/html
What error? That's the expected output!
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"It's funny 'cause it's true ... and vice versa."
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 04:04:35 -0400
From: tadmc@metronet.com (Tad McClellan)
Subject: Re: Linux - Apache - Perl
Message-Id: <jedpm7.k7p.ln@magna.metronet.com>
JT (jett1not@homedot.com) wrote:
: On 16 Jul 1999 19:08:09 GMT, fl_aggie@thepentagon.com (I R A Aggie)
: wrote:
: >On Fri, 16 Jul 1999 15:41:35 GMT, JT <jett1not@homedot.com>, in
: ><37964dda.86727328@24.2.0.71> wrote:
: >
: >+ Well, what you wish for is a perfect usenet which doesn't exist.
: >
: >And your point is? Not knowing Usenet conventions isn't a crime,
: >particularly since ISP's tend to throw their newbies to the wolves.
: >They ain't going to learn nothing if they aren't told.
: If you don't like the stupid
: questions ignore them. That was my point.
So then, it is clear that when someone takes cuts in line in
front of you, you ignore them, say nothing, and let them
get away with it?
You will inherit the earth.
: Nobody should get treated like shit just for asking a simple question.
You're right, they shouldn't.
They should just be told that the line forms to the rear.
After redirecting a few hundred folks to the end of the line,
you might expect a fallable human to lose it now and again.
: I bet you asked quite a few stupid
: questions while learning.
We are not talking about stupid questions.
We are talking about asking questions that have already been
answered (FAQs), and questions that are not about the topic
that this newsgroup is dedicated to discussing.
: I didn't see any damned rules when I logged
: on today so stop pretending there are any.
I have never seen you, so stop pretending that you exist.
: By all means *plonk* me!
You got it Toyota!
--
Tad McClellan SGML Consulting
tadmc@metronet.com Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 11:18:42 -0400
From: Ken Mead <kjmead@sunygenesee.cc.ny.us>
Subject: LWP:Simple "get" command -- Is there a Javascript equivalent
Message-Id: <37909ED1.A475BE47@sunygenesee.cc.ny.us>
I usually use Perl and CGI to fetch a document via WWW and include parts
of it in another HTML file. I was just wondering if anyone knew of a
Javascript (or Java) way of doing the same thing? I need to do this on
a server where I don't have CGI capabilities. Thanks.
Ken Mead
mead@buffnet.net
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Date: 17 Jul 1999 16:18:57 GMT
From: stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley)
Subject: Re: Old database is erased when I add new information
Message-Id: <7mqadh$jm0$1@news.NERO.NET>
In article <7mp493$2c8$0@216.39.141.200>, Neko <tgy@chocobo.org> wrote:
>You're the head chef. You say what goes in the pot and what doesn't. The
Excuse me? I can tell them what they can and cannot do, but the only way
to stop them is to not give them the code.
>>Except to do otherwise is "not the perl way" and people are ridiculed
>>when they ask how not to have open source.
>
>I say "open source" in reference to the license you use for your code. The
And I a say "open source" in the sense of this thread, which is giving
the source code to people. It has nothing to do with licenses.
>I do not believe that you are being ridiculed for not using an open source
>license.
You should read some of the responses when people ask to hide their
code. No, I am not being ridiculed because I don't aks this question.
>>Unless you know the situation, please don't tell me what I don't have to
>>do.
>
>You don't have to write code.
Thanks.
>If the programs differed in only one small operation, then you have
>exaggerated the enhancements your two users have made.
I see. If the changes are small then they aren't really changes. I've
just exaggerated the situation by calling them changes.
>>If I don't merge, I have to program it. Where is this time I save by
>>having people send me patches?
>
>Agreed. Ignored patches are worthless.
If you notice carefully, my statement did not mention value, only time.
>>Thanks again for not having a clue about the situation yet volunteering
>>to tell me what I don't have to do.
>
>I apologize. I just keep making assumptions without basis.
Yep.
>I assumed you wanted to hide your source code.
Yep.
>I assumed this meant you didn't want your
>users to modify your code.
Yep.
>I assumed you would say so in a license. I
Is every piece of code you write covered by a license?
>So did you or did you not give permission to modify your code?
I did, but that is not relevant. The discussion is about a reason to
hide code, which is to prevent people from changing it. I am using this
example of people changing the code to provide counter-argument to the
claim that giving the source to people so they can change it is a Good
Thing that we all must want.
>>So what? Accidental modification of a binary is not the issue.
>
>The issue is lusers thinking you're an idiot because they broke something and
>it's your fault for allowing them to do it.
No, that is not the issue. "Allowing them" is not part of the equation.
When they use ASCII mode to transfer they don't even know that they have
changed it, so they can't be thinking I allowed them to change it.
>>Deliberate modification is.
>
>Deliberate modification is handled with a license and a good lawyer.
Licenses do not prevent anything. They only give you some chance that
the money you spend on a lawyer to sue them (after the fact) will be
recoverable. If licenses prevented anything, then there would be no
software piracy.
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 05:47:49 -0400
From: tadmc@metronet.com (Tad McClellan)
Subject: Re: Parsing a Decisive survey w/ REGEX...need help
Message-Id: <5gjpm7.k7p.ln@magna.metronet.com>
Mark R. Cervarich (sunzone@shell14.ba.best.com) wrote:
: Where I am having problems is writing a regexp to work with the each answer.
clearly states where help is needed.
: Data can be either: (I will use {} braces to show where the data actually is)
specification for input data [snipped]
: What i need to output is:
specification for output data [snipped]
: So what does that mean? Well consider this input:
[snip example of input data]
: would produce this output:
[snip example of output data]
: ---here's my attempt----
[snip code tried so far]
: What do you guys/gals think?
I think you have crafted a model post that should be used
for all Usenet programming questions.
You:
say what you need help with
describe the input
describe the output
provide example of input
provide example of output
provide actual code where you tried to get it done yourself.
Wonderful job!
Somebody is surely going to want to help out someone who has
obviously taken the time to spec out all of the information
needed to fully answer the question.
Other posters take note.
Free consulting help can be had here if you are willing to
spend some of _your_ time before posting.
: Please help me.
My pleasure (I fixed a typo in your input data):
-------------------------------------
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
$_ = q(" A- First name: - Helen M., B- Last name: - Giese, D- email address: - hele@xxxxx.com"###TAB###" A- Street address, first line: - 1758 W. Olive Ave., C- City: - XXXXXXX, D- State: - IL, E- Zip code: - 99999"###TAB###" L- Other, please specify... - Medical writer/editor"###TAB### C- 3-5 years###TAB### A- Laid off or down-sized and started freelancing at that point###TAB### ###TAB###" C- No, I'd rather work for a company");
my $Qnumber = 1; # question number
foreach my $q ( split /###TAB###/ ) { # each series of answers
$q =~ s/^\s*"?\s*//; # strip quotes and leading spaces
$q =~ s/"$//;
print "$Qnumber.\n";
$Qnumber++;
if ( $q =~ s/([A-Z]- )/$1/g == 1 ) { # single answer
if ( $q =~ s/([A-Z])- (.*)// ) {
my($letter, $input) = ($1, $2);
print "[ x ] $letter) $input\n";
}
else
{ warn "what the heck?\n" }
}
else { # multiple answers
while ( $q =~ s/([A-Z])- ([^:]+):\s*-\s*(.*?)(?:(?=[A-Z]- )|$)// ) {
my($letter, $label, $input) = ($1, $2, $3);
$input =~ s/,\s*$//; # strip trailing comma
print "[ x ] $letter) $label: - $input\n";
}
}
# make sure nothing was missed
warn "unused characters '$q'\n" if length $q;
}
-------------------------------------
--
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tadmc@metronet.com Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 13:13:12 -0400
From: "Ted Shieh" <tedshieh@monmouth.com>
Subject: Perl passes Visual Basic
Message-Id: <7mqcc7$f4e$1@news.monmouth.com>
The number of hits (job opening listings) obtained on dice.com using Perl
(8781) as a keyword has just passed the number of hits obtained using
"Visual Basic" (8526). See http://odin.bio.sunysb.edu/~tshieh/software for
details. Please read http://odin.bio.sunysb.edu/~tshieh/software/#narrative
(especially the last paragraph) and
http://odin.bio.sunysb.edu/~tshieh/methodology before sending me e-mail. If
you are going to send me suggestions for improving the methodology, you
should also indicate how much you would be willing to pay for the
enhancement (or you should implement your suggestion yourself). I am not
claiming that the current methodology is perfect.
Results of regression analysis (2/6/99 to 7/10/99):
Language,Slope (additional hits per day)
C++,103
Java,70
Perl,28
JavaScript,23
Visual Basic,21
Smalltalk,1.7
Python,0.46
COBOL,-5.0
Full details of the analysis are at
http://odin.bio.sunysb.edu/~tshieh/software/rates.html. Note the difference
in slope between Perl and Visual Basic. These numbers are intended as a
quantitative look at the trend information graphed at
http://odin.bio.sunysb.edu/~tshieh/software/chart.html
Ted
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Date: 17 Jul 1999 15:22:19 GMT
From: balaji@cray.com (V. Balaji)
Subject: Re: Prime Factorization
Message-Id: <7mq73b$i9v$1@murrow.corp.sgi.com>
Francisco Romero <fromero@csudh.edu> writes:
>Does anyone know how to write a perl script for finding the prime
>factorization of a number?
Do you need a perl script? What's wrong with factor(1)?
One of the MTOWTDI is generally not to use perl.
--
Balaji 1 609.452.6516
SGI/GFDL Princeton University
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 12:33:57 -0400
From: "hairisonFire" <bottech@mediaone.net>
Subject: Question for the perl gods
Message-Id: <Dg2k3.1980$jS5.150112@news2.jacksonville.net>
Hi I am a newbie to perl, specifically the "regular expression" part. I am
using OROMatcher which is a Perl5 regex class library for java.
So the question I have is:
I am trying to parse an html file like this :
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage Express 2.0">
<title>An HTML Page</title>
</head>
<frameset cols="176,*">
<frame name="left" src="page1.htm" scrolling="auto"
marginwidth="2" marginheight="1" border="5">
<frame name="body" src="page4.html" scrolling="auto"
marginwidth="2" marginheight="1">
<noframes>
<body>
</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>
I need to extract the page that frame src points to. I have been trying to
do this with this regex statement:
frame*src=\"*\.htm??
I am having a terrible time getting this to work. I have checked it inside
of the Visual Cafe regex search function and it works fine!! But no in my
code?!?!
Thanks for you help
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 04:12:14 -0400
From: tadmc@metronet.com (Tad McClellan)
Subject: Re: searching man pages, perldoc's, FAQ's, README's, HOWTO's, etc.
Message-Id: <usdpm7.k7p.ln@magna.metronet.com>
David Christensen (dchristensen@california.com) wrote:
: (determining which directory contains the documentation you want to
: search is left as an exercise to the reader. :-(
The usual technique is to look for a pod/ subdirectory in one
of the directories listed near the end of the output from:
perl -V
--
Tad McClellan SGML Consulting
tadmc@metronet.com Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas
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Date: 17 Jul 1999 09:43:04 -0700
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
Subject: Re: Tiny error in perlfaq5
Message-Id: <3790a488@cs.colorado.edu>
In comp.lang.perl.misc, sitaram@diac.com (Sitaram Chamarty) writes:
:Am I to understand from this thread that if you have randbits=48
:or so, then the exact value "0" will _never_ occur? Or are you
:merely saying that it might, but don't hold your breath!
The latter.
--tom
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 15:00:11 GMT
From: mark@bstar.net
Subject: Where to post scripts
Message-Id: <7mq5po$d53$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
Hi,
Can you name some sites where people post Perl/CGI scripts that
they'd like done for them by freelance programmers? (contract jobs)
I've seen http://cgi-resources.com/Jobs/, and I've made
http://bstar.net/perljobs/, but am looking for other places that are
really going.
Thanks!
Mark
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