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Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 06:09:07 -0700 (PDT)
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Perl-Users Digest Fri, 8 Jun 2007 Volume: 11 Number: 494
Today's topics:
ANNOUNCE: Text::CSV_XS 0.29 <h.merijn@xs4all.nl>
Re: clone PerlMagick functionality in POGL for a GPU? <guba@vi-anec.de>
Re: Help With Placeholders <njus@larshaugseth.com>
How to keep Documentation close to the Method using POD <ilias@lazaridis.com>
MI5 Persecution: Options 21/9/95 (561) MI5Victim@mi5.gov.uk
MI5 Persecution: Question and Answer 27/9/95 (2075) MI5Victim@mi5.gov.uk
new CPAN modules on Fri Jun 8 2007 (Randal Schwartz)
Re: Querying for a registry string VALUE AutoEndTasks <stoupa@practisoft.cz>
Re: Re-entrant code ??? <joe@inwap.com>
Re: reading spreadsheets <vilain@spamcop.net>
Re: reading spreadsheets <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim>
Re: reading spreadsheets QoS@domain.invalid
Digest Administrivia (Last modified: 6 Apr 01) (Perl-Users-Digest Admin)
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Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 10:29:32 GMT
From: "H.Merijn" <h.merijn@xs4all.nl>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Text::CSV_XS 0.29
Message-Id: <JJBFHn.1p6n@zorch.sf-bay.org>
Thanks to all feedback, I'm very happy to release version 0.29
More speed, more docs, more tests, so more reliability :)
Tested under perl-5.005_04, 5.6.2, 5.8.x-dor and 5.9.5
2007-06-08 0.29 - H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
* Removed an unused 'use Data::Dumper'
* Added $csv->eof () RT 27424
* Two typo's in the doc's (Amsterdam.pm)
* Modified examples/speed.pl to better show the diffs between versions
* Cache attribute settings and regain speed of 0.23! anmd beyond
Relative overall speeds (YMMV, use examples/speed.pl to check),
the 1.0x versions are from Text::CSV_PP.
0.23 0.25 0.26 0.27 0.28 0.29 1.00 1.02 1.05
==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ====
combine 1 62 61 61 60 58 100 14 14 14
combine 10 41 41 41 42 42 100 6 6 6
combine 100 35 35 36 36 36 100 5 5 5
parse 1 100 92 87 90 81 96 19 19 17
parse 10 95 100 86 97 94 94 15 16 14
parse 100 90 95 84 94 92 100 16 16 14
print io 93 89 91 91 95 100 0 0 6
getline io 90 92 84 87 89 100 0 0 13
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
average 75 75 71 74 73 98 9 9 11
* Removed prototypes
* Added a SPECIFICATION section to the pod
* Safe caching of eol, and a warning in the docs
* Rewrote t/20_file.t do do actual file IO instead of IO_Scalar fake
* Small optimilisation for parse (juerd)
* Added make target test_speed
* Merged the items from CAVEAT to SPECIFICATION
* Updated the TODO and Release Plan sections
* Speed up internals by using references instead of copies (juerd)
* Reworked error_input, which also had an undetected internal error
* Added IO tests for lexical IO handles and perlio IO to/from scalars
2007-06-03 0.28 - H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
* IMPORTANT CHANGE: new () returns undef if it gets unsupported
attributes. Until now, new ({ esc_char => "\\" }) was just
silently ignored. Rejecting it and failing is better than
continuing with false assumptions.
* Added allow_loose_quotes (see doc)
* Added t/65_allow.t
* Added allow_loose_escapes (see doc) RT 15076
* More code cleanup in XS
* Added allow_whitespace (see doc)
--
Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn
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Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:12:32 -0700
From: "guba@vi-anec.de" <guba@vi-anec.de>
Subject: Re: clone PerlMagick functionality in POGL for a GPU?
Message-Id: <1181293952.177301.270870@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com>
Hello,
> Rather less good for larger images, I'm afraid,
> so finding an alternative might be good in your circumstances.
>
> Of course, none of this has anything to do with perl ;-)
My posting has exactly the purpose to evaluate this: replace
the functionality of IM with something else. My hypothesis
for now is that OpenGL could replace the functionality
of IM but with GPU support. And my question was if
the Perl OpenGL module POGL could do the things in
combination with OpenGL that PerlMagick can do
in combination with IM. Thank you.
Guenter
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Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:54:19 +0200
From: Lars Haugseth <njus@larshaugseth.com>
Subject: Re: Help With Placeholders
Message-Id: <87r6omsj2c.fsf@unreal.larshaugseth.com>
* Bart Lateur <bart.lateur@pandora.be> wrote:
>
> PerlGoon wrote:
>
>>Instead I was looking for something already built into DBI that would
>>maybe return the last executed query... or something built into MySQL
>>that would log specific queries.
>
> Set DBI trace?
>
> http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DBI#TRACING
Unfortunately not.
Quote from the "Trace Flags" subsection:
"SQL - trace SQL statements executed (not yet implemented)"
--
Lars Haugseth
"If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared not only to
retract it, but also to deny under oath that I ever said it." -Tom Lehrer
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Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:45:34 -0700
From: Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@lazaridis.com>
Subject: How to keep Documentation close to the Method using POD?
Message-Id: <1181299534.140782.294410@p47g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>
I've written some perl modules.
I've documented the methods mostly in that way:
{{{
#!perl
sub methodName { my ($parm1, $param2) = @_;
# Short one line description of what this method does
}}}
How can I reuse this whilst using POD? e.g. with a tag of the kind
{{{
#!perl
sub methodName { my ($parm1, $param2) = @_;
=func Short one line description of what this method does
}}}
It looks like POD needs to have the documentation all at one point.
Can I use POD with the requirement "Keep documentation close to the
documented Entity (Module, Method, Parameter, ...)"?
http://dev.lazaridis.com/lang/ticket/12
.
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Date: 8 Jun 2007 12:29:34 GMT
From: MI5Victim@mi5.gov.uk
Subject: MI5 Persecution: Options 21/9/95 (561)
Message-Id: <m07050812292576@4ax.com>
From: john heelan <john@lorca.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: uk.misc,alt.current-events.net-abuse,alt.journalism
Subject: Re: CENSORHSIP IS IMMORAL, UNJUST AND WRONG
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 95 19:17:30 GMT
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References: <DF8DMu.Dqu.0.bloor@torfree.net> <43qpdh$iki@news3.digex.net>
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You have to admit that Mike is persistent and obviously feels
deeply that he is being hounded by the "Security Services" and
there is a Conspiracy out to get him personally. If that is true,
then we should be concerned; if he is just paranoid, then we should
empathise with his sickness. What we should not do is to invite
censorship....that just could be implicitly joining in the
putative Conspiracy.
Let's look at Mike's potential options (and the alleged responses
he has received):
> 1. Complain to the Police: (their alleged response
> "Don't be silly, Sir"; Mike's rationale "They are part
> of the Conspiracy")
>
I don't think the police as an organisation are part of it. They're
certainly not the source.
The officer I spoke to at Easter clearly didn't know anything about it.
And that was at my local police station in London - if anyone in the
police knew you would think the people at your local cop shop would.
A couple of years ago I had to go into the station after a motoring
infraction, the guy I spoke to then said something about "brain like a
computer sir" which my suspicions latched on to - (I'm alleged to be a
programmer as some people reading this know) - but as per the usual
"can';t prove nuthin" and you ask yourself if you're just being stupid
suspecting on the basis of a straw
> 2. Complain to a Member of Parliament (Mike's rationale: "Can't
> because they are part of the Conspiracy")
>
I could do that actually. But he would probably tell me to go see the
police, for which see above.
> 3. Make it visible through the UK Press. (Mike's rationale:
> "Can't because they are part of the Conspiracy")
>
They are actually. There's a difference though in the way journalists
react to this stuff when they're "got to" by the security service.
This is completely giving the game away, but the trouble originally
started with my reading into stuff that was being written by Times
columnists, in particular our antagonistic friend Mr Levin.
But you see that some journalists are taking part in the conspiracy and
others are only doing it because their puppet masters have been feeding
them information which they can't allow themselves to ignore. The
security services have their hooks into the UK media, this case shows
that very explicitly. You also see how things get gradualkly wqorse with
a particular journalist; a couple of weeks ago Peter Tory in the Express
was writing about "nerds seeking their revenge on him through the Net",
guess what that was about.
> 4. Complain to the UK Security Services. (Mike's rationale: "Can't
> because they ARE the Cnspiracy")
>
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? If the fascist Gestapo bastards plot to
see you dead then who's going to deal with it? Not the security
services, that's for sure.
> 5. Make it visible through Internet: (Mike has done this
> suvccessfully; but any gainsayers are "part of the Conspiracy".
>
I don;t think you';re part of the consipracy if you refuse to believe or
email the postmaster. Those who do know are keeping their silence.
> 6. Complain to the Canadian National and State Governments. (Has
> Mike done this yet ?)
>
No. It's a UK problem so that's where it should be dealt with. The
perpetrators are UK residents, are unidentified, and would be difficult
to deal with through the Canadian courts.
Ditto the police in Canada, ditto the press - it isn't their problem,
it's caused by UK people against someone from the UK. Of course Canadian
laws are being broken relating to harassment and "stalking" which do not
exist in the UK, but the Canadian police do not have a very good record
of enforcing those laws anyway.
> 7. Complain to the Canadian Security Services (Has Mike done this
> yet ?)
>
> 8. Complain to the Canadian Press. (Has Mike done this yet ?)
>
I think if they didn't knoiw, they'd just think you were having
delusions; and if they did, then they would side with the people with the
power, the smiling English people with their knives out.
Remember, nobody uis going to side with the person who has less power in
a copfrontation. The team over here in Canada have the resources of their
organization behind them, other broadcasters etc in the UK would have
influence with their counterparts in Canada; after all, this was once a
British colony, there is still a feeling of "looking up to" the UK among
many Canadians, so if a team of security services arrives from the UK
with apparently limitless resources to pursue their target, people
over here will forget anything they ever knew about basic human rights
and go along with what they are told to do and how they are told to behave.
> 9. Complain to non-UK TV Watchdogs (Does Canada have an "Oprah
> Winfrey ? Has Mike done this yet ?)
>
> 10. Complain to the EC Court of Human Rights. (Has Mike done
> this yet ?)
>
> ........or...are 6,7,8,9,10 also all part of
> the Conspiracy ?
>
>
>
> --
> john heelan
561
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Date: 8 Jun 2007 12:56:47 GMT
From: MI5Victim@mi5.gov.uk
Subject: MI5 Persecution: Question and Answer 27/9/95 (2075)
Message-Id: <m07050812563919@4ax.com>
In article <DFGxnF.Cr8.0.bloor@torfree.net>
bu765@torfree.net "Mike Corley" writes:
>>> ##: There were also a few other things said at the trial
>>> ##: relating to this which I won't repeat here; it was in the papers
>>> ##: at the time anyway. This quote and others said by and about this
>>> ##: witness were repeating things that had been said by and about
>>> ##: me at around that time.
When, where and by whom ? Let's have some details
that can be checked.
I'm not going to repeat them. They're hurtful to me because they contained abuse that was
directed against me by someone else at the time and which got picked up and thrown again
in the trial. It is a matter of record but I won't repeat it here.
>>> PM: >Who's character is being assassinated? It isn't clear from the post.
>>> PM: >Are we talking about Grenville Janner? I thought he was a spook
>>> PM: >himself? He's certainly able to hold his own on the issue you cite.
>>> ##: Mine, mainly. The reason for putting that episode at the top
>>> ##: of the posting is that they tried to kill two birds with one stone
>>> ##: at the Beck trial - they simultaneously put words into the mouth
>>> ##: of their invented "witness" to smear Janner, and repeated exactly,
>>> ##: word-for-word, stuff which had been said by and about me.
Why would "they" wish to assassinate your character?
Well, let's put it this way - just because this is the first time it's happened in this way,
from these people, on this scale, doesn't mean that it hasn't happened before, on a lesser
scale. At university there were people who quite overtly hated me and would have wished
something nasty to happen to me. Because of where I went making the wrong sort of enemies
is pretty deadly.
"They" would wish to assassinate my character because it had all been done before, and
because they knew I would not be able to react in any other way than I'd reacted previously.
>>> ##: They invaded my home with their bugs, they repeated what I
>>> ##: was saying in the privacy of my home, and they laughed that it
>>> ##: was "so funny", that I was impotent and could not even communicate
>>> ##: what was going on. Who did this? Our friends on BBC television,
>>> ##: our friends in ITN, last but not least our friends in Capital
>>> ##: Radio in London and on Radio 1.
Please give details of when, where and by whom these
comments were made, so that they can be checked.
This was four, five years ago... sorry, I don't remember. I can remember individual incidents,
words which were repeated by different people at different times in different locations.
Around the end of 1992 Private Eye rtan a front-cover with John and Norma Major, with
the title "Major's support lowest ever" and John saying to Norma "Come back norma" on the
front cover. What can you read in to that? Not a lot, seems like standard fare for PE.
The first time I saw it I was in the pub with some people from work. One was expressing doubts
to the other (let's call the first one Simon, shall we? and the second one Phil?) about
whether what was going on was right. Phil's answer was that if Private Eye was doing it
then it must be ok, "they're usually right".
A few days later, again near work, there were some students laughing in the street,
"Were you COMING BACK later? But I thought you said you were COMING BACK ha ha ha?"
Play on words, you see. Not very nice, either. I had start medication soon afterwards.
Clever people, these chaps who think up PE titles. Just slightly lacking in any
sense of morality.
>>> ##: How did they do this? I'll give you an example. About a year ago,
>>> ##: I was listening to Chris Tarrant (Capital Radio DJ among other
>>> ##: pursuits) on his radio morning show, when he said, talking about
>>> ##: someone he didn't identify, "you know this bloke? he says we're
>>> ##: trying to kill him. We should be done for attempted manslaughter"
>>> ##: which mirrored something I had said a day or two before.
>>> ##: Now that got broadcast to the whole of London - if any recordings
>>> ##: are kept of the shows then it'll be there.
What was the date of the broadcast ?
Out of 2 million plus listeners, why should you be
the only one that Tarrant was allegedly referring to ?
Sometyime in spring 1994. I can't remember the date, I heard the broadcast in the
car - I was going into the office from London that day and just happened to snap
on the radio, and hey presto! Mr Tarrant gives us the benefit of his excellent
understanding.
>>> ##: That's exactly what we did. We went to a competent, professional
>>> ##: detective agency in London, paid them over 400 quid to debug our house.
>>> ##: They found nothing.
What was the name of the detective agency and their
address ?
I don't see why I should tell you that, but they're in Yellow Pages; they're
a well-established outfit.
>>> PM: >What? Spend a quarter mil. a year to amuse themselves? And why not
>>> PM: >change every now and again? Why keep watching you? (Unless you _are_
>>> PM: >doing something, and I don't think you are, though you may have some
>>> PM: >deep, dark secret in your past.)
>>>
>>> ##: See the above.
Is there a deep dark secret in your past ?
Apart from "it's all happened before in a different way", no.
>>> ##: In a couple of cases people have even known my name - when I was in
>>> ##: London over Easter somebody (no idea who they were, just some bloke with
>>> ##: his girlfriend) called me by name - quite clearly, and my name is
>>> ##: distinctive.
Is your name truly Mike Corley, or are you using it as
an alias ?
It's an alias. I'm not English by ethnic origin. If someone manages to pronounce
my name as well as that guy did then they must have been really trying.
>>> ##: There's a little story behind this. First of all, in 1992 I worked
>>> ##: for a company where the people made clear they knew what was going on,
>>> ##: first of all directly (the very first evening I was there I went out to
>>> ##: the pub with them and the Technical Director said to another guy,
>>> ##: "is this the bloke who's been on TV?" "yeah, I think so")
Have you appeared, or been reported by name on TV ?
When, where and by whom ?
No. Never. Not directly.
>>> ##: Also, in summer 1992 I went on a trip abroad to Europe by coach,
What was the name of the coach company and your date
of departure ?
It was a national express coach. At dover we boarded a ferry for Holland somewhere.
The company that organized the trip went out of business some time ago, so they won't
have records of passengers - so we can't get any corroboration from anyone else
that way. We tried all that last summer, ran into a brick wall.
The other thing is in summer 1992 I was visibly ill, so other people in the
party might remember that more than anyone getting at me on the coach trip.
>>> ##: >>Yes, this gets me. I think the answer is that I was set up by
>>> ##: >>someone. I was very aware when this started back in 1990 that I
>>> ##: >>was being painted as a "threat" to which people had to "react"
Why were you being painted as a "threat"; is this related
to a "deep,dark, secret" ?
Aaaarrrrgh. I think I should make clear that that's their created justification
rather than the real reason. They started harassing first and then came up with the
reasons for it.
>>>
>>> ##: I think I know who set me up.
Who ?
Someone who knew me some time ago. Someone who would have been able to talk this
little campaign into existence.
>>> ##: The bloke can't even control his own mind without medicine.
Is this true ? What is the medication and dosage ?
Yes, I'm afraid so. Sulpiride, 200mg a day. It's designed to stop people
coming up with the sort of ideas you've heard here for the last few weeks.
Give him a higher dose!!
In the long term it causes tardive dyskinesia, tardive dementia and general
nasty stuff to your brain. So it's three years of sulpiride talking to you here.
>--
>john heelan
2075
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Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 04:42:12 GMT
From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal Schwartz)
Subject: new CPAN modules on Fri Jun 8 2007
Message-Id: <JJAvqC.156r@zorch.sf-bay.org>
The following modules have recently been added to or updated in the
Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). You can install them using the
instructions in the 'perlmodinstall' page included with your Perl
distribution.
Agent-TCLI-Package-Net-0.030
http://search.cpan.org/~hacker/Agent-TCLI-Package-Net-0.030/
----
Agent-TCLI-Package-Net-0.031
http://search.cpan.org/~hacker/Agent-TCLI-Package-Net-0.031/
Network related commands for TCLI Agents
----
Audio-M4P-0.34
http://search.cpan.org/~billh/Audio-M4P-0.34/
M4P/MP4/M4A QuickTime audio music format modules
----
Bundle-Dependencies-Catalyst-0.01
http://search.cpan.org/~ski/Bundle-Dependencies-Catalyst-0.01/
installs non-Catalyst prereqs
----
Bundle-Lyrics-Fetcher-0.01
http://search.cpan.org/~bigpresh/Bundle-Lyrics-Fetcher-0.01/
Lyrics::Fetcher bundle for quick easy install
----
CIAO-Lib-Param-0.07
http://search.cpan.org/~djerius/CIAO-Lib-Param-0.07/
an interface to the CIAO parameter library.
----
Catalyst-Component-InstancePerContext-0.001001
http://search.cpan.org/~groditi/Catalyst-Component-InstancePerContext-0.001001/
Return a new instance a component on each request
----
Config-Model-Xorg-0.502
http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/Config-Model-Xorg-0.502/
----
DBIx-Class-0.07999_05
http://search.cpan.org/~blblack/DBIx-Class-0.07999_05/
Extensible and flexible object <-> relational mapper.
----
DBIx-Class-Schema-Loader-0.04000
http://search.cpan.org/~blblack/DBIx-Class-Schema-Loader-0.04000/
Dynamic definition of a DBIx::Class::Schema
----
File-Locate-Harder-0.01
http://search.cpan.org/~doom/File-Locate-Harder-0.01/
for when you're determined to use a locate db
----
Graphics-GnuplotIF-v1.2.0
http://search.cpan.org/~mehner/Graphics-GnuplotIF-v1.2.0/
A dynamic Perl interface to gnuplot
----
Locale-Memories-0.03
http://search.cpan.org/~xern/Locale-Memories-0.03/
L10N Message Retrieval
----
Log-Report-0.05
http://search.cpan.org/~markov/Log-Report-0.05/
report a problem, pluggable handlers and language support
----
Lyrics-Fetcher-0.4.1
http://search.cpan.org/~bigpresh/Lyrics-Fetcher-0.4.1/
Perl extension to manage fetchers of song lyrics.
----
Lyrics-Fetcher-AstraWeb-0.2.1
http://search.cpan.org/~bigpresh/Lyrics-Fetcher-AstraWeb-0.2.1/
Get song lyrics from lyrics.astraweb.com
----
Lyrics-Fetcher-AstraWeb-0.3
http://search.cpan.org/~bigpresh/Lyrics-Fetcher-AstraWeb-0.3/
Get song lyrics from lyrics.astraweb.com
----
Lyrics-Fetcher-LyricWiki-0.03
http://search.cpan.org/~bigpresh/Lyrics-Fetcher-LyricWiki-0.03/
Get song lyrics from www.LyricWiki.org
----
Mozilla-DOM-0.21
http://search.cpan.org/~slanning/Mozilla-DOM-0.21/
Perl wrapping of the Mozilla/Gecko DOM
----
POE-Component-Generic-0.1001
http://search.cpan.org/~gwyn/POE-Component-Generic-0.1001/
A POE component that provides non-blocking access to a blocking object.
----
Parallel-Mpich-MPD-0.9.3
http://search.cpan.org/~alexmass/Parallel-Mpich-MPD-0.9.3/
Mpich MPD wrapper
----
Params-Check-Faster-0.02
http://search.cpan.org/~dams/Params-Check-Faster-0.02/
A generic input parsing/checking mechanism. Reimplementation of Params::Check.
----
Parse-RPN-2.34
http://search.cpan.org/~fdulau/Parse-RPN-2.34/
----
Sepia-0.91
http://search.cpan.org/~seano/Sepia-0.91/
Simple Emacs-Perl Interface
----
Tcl-0.95
http://search.cpan.org/~vkon/Tcl-0.95/
Tcl extension module for Perl
----
Tcl-Tk-0.97
http://search.cpan.org/~vkon/Tcl-Tk-0.97/
Extension module for Perl giving access to Tk via the Tcl extension
----
Template-Alloy-1.001
http://search.cpan.org/~rhandom/Template-Alloy-1.001/
Fast and lightweight TT2/3 template engine
----
Template-Alloy-XS-1.001
http://search.cpan.org/~rhandom/Template-Alloy-XS-1.001/
XS version of key parts of Template::Alloy
----
Test.php-0.05
http://search.cpan.org/~avar/Test.php-0.05/
TAP test framework for PHP with a Test::More-like interface
----
Test.php-0.06
http://search.cpan.org/~avar/Test.php-0.06/
TAP test framework for PHP with a Test::More-like interface
----
Test.php-0.07
http://search.cpan.org/~avar/Test.php-0.07/
TAP test framework for PHP with a Test::More-like interface
----
Tk-Wizard-2.007
http://search.cpan.org/~mthurn/Tk-Wizard-2.007/
GUI for step-by-step interactive logical process
----
chklinks-3.06
http://search.cpan.org/~imacat/chklinks-3.06/
A non-threaded Perl link checker
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Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 04:54:53 +0200
From: "Petr Vileta" <stoupa@practisoft.cz>
Subject: Re: Querying for a registry string VALUE AutoEndTasks
Message-Id: <f4ago0$2vn3$1@ns.felk.cvut.cz>
SimonH wrote:
> Hi guys would love your help.
>
> I have the following....
>
> =================================================================
> #use Win32::Process;
> use Win32::Registry;
Please for what is the "AutoEndTasks" registry key mean?
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from another non-spammer site please.)
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Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:00:57 -0700
From: Joe Smith <joe@inwap.com>
Subject: Re: Re-entrant code ???
Message-Id: <A8udnc_IlYMjbfXbnZ2dnUVZ_gWdnZ2d@comcast.com>
Jürgen Exner wrote:
> Joe Smith wrote:
>> tyjb wrote:
>>> system("perl ojob.pl");
>> The system() call returns a single value: 0 for success and nonzero if
>> the other program returned some sort of error.
>
> You are greatly mistaken. I suggest you re-read the third paragraph of the
> documentation of system().
The point I was making is that it returns a single value.
You're right; I should not have implied that a nonzero exit code
or signal indicates an error.
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Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:44:52 -0700
From: Michael Vilain <vilain@spamcop.net>
Subject: Re: reading spreadsheets
Message-Id: <vilain-E5D965.19445207062007@comcast.dca.giganews.com>
In article <ZD%9i.19188$6h.1878@trnddc08>, QoS@domain.invalid wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> Please help.
> I've got a bunch of Lotus 123 (version 9.8) files.
> Well it would be very good if these files could somehow
> be loaded into a Perl datastructure. Does Perl have a
> module for accomplishing this? Any other ideas on how
> to get this file loaded up into a data structure without
> learning the specific lotus 123 file format?
>
> Spreadsheet::Read doesnt want to open the file :(
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> use strict;
> use warnings;
> use Spreadsheet::Read;
>
> my $aref = 'UNDEFINED';
> $aref = Spreadsheet::Read::ReadData('original.123');
> print "aref is: [$aref]\n";
>
> exit;
>
> Thanks for any guidance on this.
CPAN had no hits for "lotus", so you're going to have to roll you own
here.
A google of "Lotus 123 file format" showed the Wikipedia article among
others which lead me to
http://www.schnarff.com/file-formats/index.html#lotus
Time to roll up your sleeves...
--
DeeDee, don't press that button! DeeDee! NO! Dee...
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Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:31:48 +0100
From: bugbear <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim>
Subject: Re: reading spreadsheets
Message-Id: <466913f5$0$8730$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net>
QoS@domain.invalid wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> Please help.
> I've got a bunch of Lotus 123 (version 9.8) files.
> Well it would be very good if these files could somehow
> be loaded into a Perl datastructure. Does Perl have a
> module for accomplishing this? Any other ideas on how
> to get this file loaded up into a data structure without
> learning the specific lotus 123 file format?
If you only have a small number, a bit of manual
load - save-as in open office might be a way
forward.
OpenOffice may also have automation or scripting
capaibilities, but that would be a matter
for another forum.
BugBear
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Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:48:10 GMT
From: QoS@domain.invalid
Subject: Re: reading spreadsheets
Message-Id: <_lbai.9062$NZ4.1884@trndny04>
bugbear <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> wrote in message-id: <466913f5$0$8730$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net>
>
>QoS@domain.invalid wrote:
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> Please help.
>> I've got a bunch of Lotus 123 (version 9.8) files.
>> Well it would be very good if these files could somehow
>> be loaded into a Perl datastructure. Does Perl have a
>> module for accomplishing this? Any other ideas on how
>> to get this file loaded up into a data structure without
>> learning the specific lotus 123 file format?
>
>If you only have a small number, a bit of manual
>load - save-as in open office might be a way
>forward.
>
>OpenOffice may also have automation or scripting
>capaibilities, but that would be a matter
>for another forum.
>
> BugBear
I asked the fella to use his smartsuite thing to save as to excel or csv.
But it is apparently 1000's of files, so, in the meantime i will be looking
for a converter to make exporting the .123's to .xls's quicker.
Looking into that file format sounds interesting anyhow, perhaps another
time.
Thanks for all your help on this folks.
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