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Today's topics:
Re: Can I upload Perl program in unicode? <jurgenex@hotmail.com>
Re: Can I upload Perl program in unicode? <john1949@yahoo.com>
Re: Can I upload Perl program in unicode? <thepoet_nospam@arcor.de>
new CPAN modules on Tue Jul 29 2008 (Randal Schwartz)
Newbie and prob with OLE Browser <medsyntel@aol.com>
Posting Guidelines for comp.lang.perl.misc ($Revision: tadmc@seesig.invalid
Re: Running in the background (via &) <ced@blv-sam-01.ca.boeing.com>
Re: strange behavior of ?? <whynot@pozharski.name>
Re: what is the expression mean? <whynot@pozharski.name>
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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:35:54 GMT
From: Jürgen Exner <jurgenex@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Can I upload Perl program in unicode?
Message-Id: <6kat84hutbf0u9dsa7f18jjoc8o2e412u7@4ax.com>
Bill H <bill@ts1000.us> wrote:
>I think - and I could be wrong here, John is writing his code using
>something like Notepad that warns you about saving in utf or not. If
>you don't save in utf the characters go away. It may be that he saves
>in utf and then when uploading it is messed up by his ftp program.
Quite possible. Another wild guess:
- If he is using Notepad and saves as UTF8, then Notepad prepends a
totally useless BOM(*) to the file. Mabye perl is choking on that BOM.
*: UTF8 is a _byte_ stream and does not have a byte order
jue
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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:42:47 +0100
From: "John" <john1949@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Can I upload Perl program in unicode?
Message-Id: <g6mhlj$qiv$1@news.albasani.net>
Good morning , all
If a Perl script can be encoded in UTF8, the problem must lie with the
upload. I use WS_FTP Pro on my Windows (sorry) machine and vsftpd on my
linux server. I need to look at the setup on both. The answer lies there.
Many thanks and regards
John
"Jürgen Exner" <jurgenex@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:6kat84hutbf0u9dsa7f18jjoc8o2e412u7@4ax.com...
> Bill H <bill@ts1000.us> wrote:
>>I think - and I could be wrong here, John is writing his code using
>>something like Notepad that warns you about saving in utf or not. If
>>you don't save in utf the characters go away. It may be that he saves
>>in utf and then when uploading it is messed up by his ftp program.
>
> Quite possible. Another wild guess:
> - If he is using Notepad and saves as UTF8, then Notepad prepends a
> totally useless BOM(*) to the file. Mabye perl is choking on that BOM.
>
> *: UTF8 is a _byte_ stream and does not have a byte order
>
> jue
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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:57:57 +0200
From: Christian Winter <thepoet_nospam@arcor.de>
Subject: Re: Can I upload Perl program in unicode?
Message-Id: <488ecd3d$0$1066$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net>
John schrieb:
> Good morning , all
>
> If a Perl script can be encoded in UTF8, the problem must lie with the
> upload. I use WS_FTP Pro on my Windows (sorry) machine and vsftpd on my
> linux server. I need to look at the setup on both. The answer lies there.
Also have a look at line endings, windows-style line ends
(CRLF) generally don't mix well with Perl on *nix systems,
but with utf8 files the error messages Perl gives can be quite
off the track.
-Chris
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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:42:21 GMT
From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal Schwartz)
Subject: new CPAN modules on Tue Jul 29 2008
Message-Id: <K4r3qL.1B1r@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.
Acme-Turing-0.02
http://search.cpan.org/~grommel/Acme-Turing-0.02/
Turing machine emulation
----
Algorithm-Cluster-1.40
http://search.cpan.org/~mdehoon/Algorithm-Cluster-1.40/
Perl interface to the C Clustering Library.
----
Amb-0.01
http://search.cpan.org/~karasik/Amb-0.01/
non-deterministic operators
----
App-ZofCMS-Plugin-Cookies-0.0101
http://search.cpan.org/~zoffix/App-ZofCMS-Plugin-Cookies-0.0101/
HTTP Cookie handling plugin for ZofCMS
----
App-ZofCMS-Plugin-Tagged-0.0201
http://search.cpan.org/~zoffix/App-ZofCMS-Plugin-Tagged-0.0201/
ZofCMS plugin to fill templates with data from query, template variables and configuration using <TAGS>
----
B-RecDeparse-0.01
http://search.cpan.org/~vpit/B-RecDeparse-0.01/
Deparse recursively into subroutines.
----
B-RecDeparse-0.02
http://search.cpan.org/~vpit/B-RecDeparse-0.02/
Deparse recursively into subroutines.
----
Compress-LZMA-Simple-0.2
http://search.cpan.org/~mikio/Compress-LZMA-Simple-0.2/
simple utility of LZMA compression/decompression
----
Config-Model-Itself-0.205
http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/Config-Model-Itself-0.205/
Model editor for Config::Model
----
Crypt-PBC-0.7.20.2.4.18
http://search.cpan.org/~jettero/Crypt-PBC-0.7.20.2.4.18/
OO interface for the Stanford PBC library
----
DBIx-Class-EncodedColumn-0.00002
http://search.cpan.org/~groditi/DBIx-Class-EncodedColumn-0.00002/
Automatically encode columns
----
Data-Feed-0.00003
http://search.cpan.org/~dmaki/Data-Feed-0.00003/
Extensible Feed Parsing Tool
----
DateTime-Format-Human-Duration-0.0.1
http://search.cpan.org/~dmuey/DateTime-Format-Human-Duration-0.0.1/
Get a locale specific string describing the span of a given duration
----
DateTime-Format-Span-0.0.2
http://search.cpan.org/~dmuey/DateTime-Format-Span-0.0.2/
Get a locale specific string describing the span of a given duration
----
Fault-1.01-1
http://search.cpan.org/~daleamon/Fault-1.01-1/
----
Games-Go-SGF-Grove-1.0
http://search.cpan.org/~mlehmann/Games-Go-SGF-Grove-1.0/
SGF the Perl way
----
Gungho-0.09008
http://search.cpan.org/~dmaki/Gungho-0.09008/
Yet Another High Performance Web Crawler Framework
----
Ham-Reference-Solar-0.02
http://search.cpan.org/~bradmc/Ham-Reference-Solar-0.02/
Get basic solar data from the web that's useful for Amateur Radio applications.
----
IPC-Locker-1.483
http://search.cpan.org/~wsnyder/IPC-Locker-1.483/
Distributed lock handler
----
LEOCHARRE-Test-1.02
http://search.cpan.org/~leocharre/LEOCHARRE-Test-1.02/
personal testing subs
----
Language-Befunge-4.04
http://search.cpan.org/~jquelin/Language-Befunge-4.04/
a generic funge interpreter
----
Lingua-EN-Tagger-0.14
http://search.cpan.org/~acoburn/Lingua-EN-Tagger-0.14/
Part-of-speech tagger for English natural language processing.
----
Net-Google-AuthSub-0.4
http://search.cpan.org/~simonw/Net-Google-AuthSub-0.4/
interact with sites that implement Google style AuthSub
----
Net-Google-Calendar-0.95
http://search.cpan.org/~simonw/Net-Google-Calendar-0.95/
programmatic access to Google's Calendar API
----
Net-Pcap-Easy-1.1
http://search.cpan.org/~jettero/Net-Pcap-Easy-1.1/
Net::Pcap is awesome, but it's difficult to bootstrap
----
POSIX-Regex-0.90.15
http://search.cpan.org/~jettero/POSIX-Regex-0.90.15/
OO interface for the gnu regex engine
----
Padre-0.03
http://search.cpan.org/~szabgab/Padre-0.03/
Perl Application Development and Refactoring Environment
----
Pod-POM-View-TOC-0.01
http://search.cpan.org/~perler/Pod-POM-View-TOC-0.01/
Generate the TOC of a POD with Pod::POM
----
Pod-POM-View-TOC-0.02
http://search.cpan.org/~perler/Pod-POM-View-TOC-0.02/
Generate the TOC of a POD with Pod::POM
----
Pod-Perldoc-ToToc-1.09
http://search.cpan.org/~bdfoy/Pod-Perldoc-ToToc-1.09/
Translate Pod to a Table of Contents
----
Queue-Q4M-0.00011
http://search.cpan.org/~dmaki/Queue-Q4M-0.00011/
Simple Interface To q4m
----
RDF-Simple-Serialiser-Notation3-1.014
http://search.cpan.org/~mthurn/RDF-Simple-Serialiser-Notation3-1.014/
Output RDF triples in Notation3 format
----
Rose-DBx-Object-Renderer-0.21
http://search.cpan.org/~danny/Rose-DBx-Object-Renderer-0.21/
Web UI Rendering for Rose::DB::Object
----
Sort-MultipleFields-1.0
http://search.cpan.org/~dcantrell/Sort-MultipleFields-1.0/
Conveniently sort on multiple fields
----
Sphinx-Manager-0.01
http://search.cpan.org/~jjschutz/Sphinx-Manager-0.01/
Sphinx search engine management (start/stop)
----
Syntax-Highlight-Engine-Simple-0.08
http://search.cpan.org/~jamadam/Syntax-Highlight-Engine-Simple-0.08/
Simple Syntax Highlight Engine
----
Template-Plugin-DateTime-Format-0.01
http://search.cpan.org/~jrockway/Template-Plugin-DateTime-Format-0.01/
format DateTime objects from inside TT with DateTime::Format-style formatters
----
Test-Virtual-Filesystem-0.13
http://search.cpan.org/~cdolan/Test-Virtual-Filesystem-0.13/
Validate a filesystem
----
WWW-Mixi-Scraper-0.16
http://search.cpan.org/~ishigaki/WWW-Mixi-Scraper-0.16/
yet another mixi scraper
----
WWW-Mixi-Scraper-0.17
http://search.cpan.org/~ishigaki/WWW-Mixi-Scraper-0.17/
yet another mixi scraper
----
WWW-YouTube-2008.0728
http://search.cpan.org/~ermeyers/WWW-YouTube-2008.0728/
YouTube Development Interface (YTDI)
----
WebService-EveOnline-0.60
http://search.cpan.org/~chrisc/WebService-EveOnline-0.60/
a wrapper intended to (eventually) provide a consistent interface to the MMORPG game, "Eve Online"
----
WebService-EveOnline-0.61
http://search.cpan.org/~chrisc/WebService-EveOnline-0.61/
a wrapper intended to (eventually) provide a consistent interface to the MMORPG game, "Eve Online"
----
WordPress-API-1.09
http://search.cpan.org/~leocharre/WordPress-API-1.09/
----
WordPress-XMLRPC-1.15
http://search.cpan.org/~leocharre/WordPress-XMLRPC-1.15/
api to wordpress rpc
----
WordPress-XMLRPC-1.17
http://search.cpan.org/~leocharre/WordPress-XMLRPC-1.17/
api to wordpress rpc
----
Yahoomail
http://search.cpan.org/~adarshtp/Yahoomail/
Send Messages using Yahoomail
----
v6-0.029
http://search.cpan.org/~fglock/v6-0.029/
An experimental Perl 6 implementation
If you're an author of one of these modules, please submit a detailed
announcement to comp.lang.perl.announce, and we'll pass it along.
This message was generated by a Perl program described in my Linux
Magazine column, which can be found on-line (along with more than
200 other freely available past column articles) at
http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col82.html
print "Just another Perl hacker," # the original
--
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<merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>
Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc.
See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion
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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:28:16 -0600
From: "Mel Smith" <medsyntel@aol.com>
Subject: Newbie and prob with OLE Browser
Message-Id: <6f7a1jFa4ntlU1@mid.individual.net>
Hi:
I just installed Perl in order to try the OLE Browser, and get info on
IE's methods, classes, variables, etc
However, when I entered the index.html from Perl into my IE search
field, and clicked on OLE Browser, I got the following error with my Win XP
(sp3) machine:
"Initialize and Script ActiveX Controls not marked as safe" security
setting
It then told me to use 'Enable' instead of 'Prompt' for this setting on
Local Internet
But I *did* mark it as enable, and re-started my machine and still have
the same error :((
Would appreciate any guidance offered !
TIA,
--
Mel Smith
Edmonton, Canada
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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:11:52 GMT
From: tadmc@seesig.invalid
Subject: Posting Guidelines for comp.lang.perl.misc ($Revision: 1.8 $)
Message-Id: <Yozjk.9114$L_.5656@flpi150.ffdc.sbc.com>
Outline
Before posting to comp.lang.perl.misc
Must
- Check the Perl Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Check the other standard Perl docs (*.pod)
Really Really Should
- Lurk for a while before posting
- Search a Usenet archive
If You Like
- Check Other Resources
Posting to comp.lang.perl.misc
Is there a better place to ask your question?
- Question should be about Perl, not about the application area
How to participate (post) in the clpmisc community
- Carefully choose the contents of your Subject header
- Use an effective followup style
- Speak Perl rather than English, when possible
- Ask perl to help you
- Do not re-type Perl code
- Provide enough information
- Do not provide too much information
- Do not post binaries, HTML, or MIME
Social faux pas to avoid
- Asking a Frequently Asked Question
- Asking a question easily answered by a cursory doc search
- Asking for emailed answers
- Beware of saying "doesn't work"
- Sending a "stealth" Cc copy
Be extra cautious when you get upset
- Count to ten before composing a followup when you are upset
- Count to ten after composing and before posting when you are upset
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Posting Guidelines for comp.lang.perl.misc ($Revision: 1.8 $)
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As you would expect, clpmisc discussions are usually very technical in
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Do *NOT* send email to the maintainer of these guidelines. It will be
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Must
This section describes things that you *must* do before posting to
clpmisc, in order to maximize your chances of getting meaningful replies
to your inquiry and to avoid getting flamed for being lazy and trying to
have others do your work.
The perl distribution includes documentation that is copied to your hard
drive when you install perl. Also installed is a program for looking
things up in that (and other) documentation named 'perldoc'.
You should either find out where the docs got installed on your system,
or use perldoc to find them for you. Type "perldoc perldoc" to learn how
to use perldoc itself. Type "perldoc perl" to start reading Perl's
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Check the Perl Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Checking the FAQ before posting is required in Big 8 newsgroups in
general, there is nothing clpmisc-specific about this requirement.
You are expected to do this in nearly all newsgroups.
You can use the "-q" switch with perldoc to do a word search of the
questions in the Perl FAQs.
Check the other standard Perl docs (*.pod)
The perl distribution comes with much more documentation than is
available for most other newsgroups, so in clpmisc you should also
see if you can find an answer in the other (non-FAQ) standard docs
before posting.
It is *not* required, or even expected, that you actually *read* all of
Perl's standard docs, only that you spend a few minutes searching them
before posting.
Try doing a word-search in the standard docs for some words/phrases
taken from your problem statement or from your very carefully worded
"Subject:" header.
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This section describes things that you *really should* do before posting
to clpmisc.
Lurk for a while before posting
This is very important and expected in all newsgroups. Lurking means
to monitor a newsgroup for a period to become familiar with local
customs. Each newsgroup has specific customs and rituals. Knowing
these before you participate will help avoid embarrassing social
situations. Consider yourself to be a foreigner at first!
Search a Usenet archive
There are tens of thousands of Perl programmers. It is very likely
that your question has already been asked (and answered). See if you
can find where it has already been answered.
One such searchable archive is:
http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search
If You Like
This section describes things that you *can* do before posting to
clpmisc.
Check Other Resources
You may want to check in books or on web sites to see if you can
find the answer to your question.
But you need to consider the source of such information: there are a
lot of very poor Perl books and web sites, and several good ones
too, of course.
Posting to comp.lang.perl.misc
There can be 200 messages in clpmisc in a single day. Nobody is going to
read every article. They must decide somehow which articles they are
going to read, and which they will skip.
Your post is in competition with 199 other posts. You need to "win"
before a person who can help you will even read your question.
These sections describe how you can help keep your article from being
one of the "skipped" ones.
Is there a better place to ask your question?
Question should be about Perl, not about the application area
It can be difficult to separate out where your problem really is,
but you should make a conscious effort to post to the most
applicable newsgroup. That is, after all, where you are the most
likely to find the people who know how to answer your question.
Being able to "partition" a problem is an essential skill for
effectively troubleshooting programming problems. If you don't get
that right, you end up looking for answers in the wrong places.
It should be understood that you may not know that the root of your
problem is not Perl-related (the two most frequent ones are CGI and
Operating System related), so off-topic postings will happen from
time to time. Be gracious when someone helps you find a better place
to ask your question by pointing you to a more applicable newsgroup.
How to participate (post) in the clpmisc community
Carefully choose the contents of your Subject header
You have 40 precious characters of Subject to win out and be one of
the posts that gets read. Don't waste them. Take care while
composing them, they are the key that opens the door to getting an
answer.
Spend them indicating what aspect of Perl others will find if they
should decide to read your article.
Do not spend them indicating "experience level" (guru, newbie...).
Do not spend them pleading (please read, urgent, help!...).
Do not spend them on non-Subjects (Perl question, one-word
Subject...)
For more information on choosing a Subject see "Choosing Good
Subject Lines":
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DM/DMR/subjects.post
Part of the beauty of newsgroup dynamics, is that you can contribute
to the community with your very first post! If your choice of
Subject leads a fellow Perler to find the thread you are starting,
then even asking a question helps us all.
Use an effective followup style
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context for the comments that you will add. Always indicate who
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Intersperse your comments *following* each section of quoted text to
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"top-posting", "Jeopardy" (because the answer comes before the
question), or "TOFU" (Text Over, Fullquote Under).
Reversing the chronology of the dialog makes it much harder to
understand (some folks won't even read it if written in that style).
For more information on quoting style, see:
http://web.presby.edu/~nnqadmin/nnq/nquote.html
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Perl is much more precise than natural language. Saying it in Perl
instead will avoid misunderstanding your question or problem.
Do not say: I have variable with "foo\tbar" in it.
Instead say: I have $var = "foo\tbar", or I have $var = 'foo\tbar',
or I have $var = <DATA> (and show the data line).
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by doing two things: enable warnings (perldoc warnings) and enable
"strict"ures (perldoc strict).
You should not bother the hundreds/thousands of readers of the
newsgroup without first seeing if a machine can help you find your
problem. It is demeaning to be asked to do the work of a machine. It
will annoy the readers of your article.
You can look up any of the messages that perl might issue to find
out what the message means and how to resolve the potential mistake
(perldoc perldiag). If you would like perl to look them up for you,
you can put "use diagnostics;" near the top of your program.
Do not re-type Perl code
Use copy/paste or your editor's "import" function rather than
attempting to type in your code. If you make a typo you will get
followups about your typos instead of about the question you are
trying to get answered.
Provide enough information
If you do the things in this item, you will have an Extremely Good
chance of getting people to try and help you with your problem!
These features are a really big bonus toward your question winning
out over all of the other posts that you are competing with.
First make a short (less than 20-30 lines) and *complete* program
that illustrates the problem you are having. People should be able
to run your program by copy/pasting the code from your article. (You
will find that doing this step very often reveals your problem
directly. Leading to an answer much more quickly and reliably than
posting to Usenet.)
Describe *precisely* the input to your program. Also provide example
input data for your program. If you need to show file input, use the
__DATA__ token (perldata.pod) to provide the file contents inside of
your Perl program.
Show the output (including the verbatim text of any messages) of
your program.
Describe how you want the output to be different from what you are
getting.
If you have no idea at all of how to code up your situation, be sure
to at least describe the 2 things that you *do* know: input and
desired output.
Do not provide too much information
Do not just post your entire program for debugging. Most especially
do not post someone *else's* entire program.
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that explain your question, put them in a publically accessible
place (like a Web server) and provide a pointer to that location. If
you include code, cut and paste it directly in the message body.
Don't attach anything to the message. Don't post vcards or HTML.
Many people (and even some Usenet servers) will automatically filter
out such messages. Many people will not be able to easily read your
post. Plain text is something everyone can read.
Social faux pas to avoid
The first two below are symptoms of lots of FAQ asking here in clpmisc.
It happens so often that folks will assume that it is happening yet
again. If you have looked but not found, or found but didn't understand
the docs, say so in your article.
Asking a Frequently Asked Question
It should be understood that you may have missed the applicable FAQ
when you checked, which is not a big deal. But if the Frequently
Asked Question is worded similar to your question, folks will assume
that you did not look at all. Don't become indignant at pointers to
the FAQ, particularly if it solves your problem.
Asking a question easily answered by a cursory doc search
If folks think you have not even tried the obvious step of reading
the docs applicable to your problem, they are likely to become
annoyed.
If you are flamed for not checking when you *did* check, then just
shrug it off (and take the answer that you got).
Asking for emailed answers
Emailed answers benefit one person. Posted answers benefit the
entire community. If folks can take the time to answer your
question, then you can take the time to go get the answer in the
same place where you asked the question.
It is OK to ask for a *copy* of the answer to be emailed, but many
will ignore such requests anyway. If you munge your address, you
should never expect (or ask) to get email in response to a Usenet
post.
Ask the question here, get the answer here (maybe).
Beware of saying "doesn't work"
This is a "red flag" phrase. If you find yourself writing that,
pause and see if you can't describe what is not working without
saying "doesn't work". That is, describe how it is not what you
want.
Sending a "stealth" Cc copy
A "stealth Cc" is when you both email and post a reply without
indicating *in the body* that you are doing so.
Be extra cautious when you get upset
Count to ten before composing a followup when you are upset
This is recommended in all Usenet newsgroups. Here in clpmisc, most
flaming sub-threads are not about any feature of Perl at all! They
are most often for what was seen as a breach of netiquette. If you
have lurked for a bit, then you will know what is expected and won't
make such posts in the first place.
But if you get upset, wait a while before writing your followup. I
recommend waiting at least 30 minutes.
Count to ten after composing and before posting when you are upset
After you have written your followup, wait *another* 30 minutes
before committing yourself by posting it. You cannot take it back
once it has been said.
AUTHOR
Tad McClellan and many others on the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup.
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Tad McClellan
email: perl -le "print scalar reverse qq/moc.noitatibaher\100cmdat/"
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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:38:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: "comp.lang.c++" <ced@blv-sam-01.ca.boeing.com>
Subject: Re: Running in the background (via &)
Message-Id: <ee455f92-7e56-4a2f-9df7-33c10c479ba5@p10g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
On Jul 28, 7:42 am, "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usen...@hjp.at> wrote:
> On 2008-07-28 11:55, Mark Seger <Mark.Se...@hp.com> wrote:
>
> > \
> >> Would it help to have an indication whether you're in the foreground o=
r
> >> in the background?
> >> Usually background processes aren't connected to a terminal, most
> >> important, STDIN won't be connected to a terminal
>
> This is wrong in general.
>
> >> as then two processes (the current "foreground" process and the
> >> "background" process) contend for the input from the keyboard,
>
> That's why about 20 years ago, Unixes started to stop background
> processes from reading from the terminal (see the SIGTTIN signal).
>
> >> so you could check whether STDIN is a
> >> terminal.
>
> Won't work.
>
> > that's what I thought and so did a -t STDIN, but it shows true whether
> > in the foreground or background.
>
> Right. STDIN doesn't change. You can flip a process between foreground
> and background (in most shells with the conveniently named commands "fg"
> and "bg"), but it would be rather messy if that changed an open file
> descriptor. What changes is whether the process group is the foreground
> process group of the controlling terminal. The place to look for
> POSIX (=3DUNIX) specific functionality is the POSIX module:
>
> | getpgrp This is identical to Perl=92s builtin "getpgrp()" function=
for
> | returning the process group identifier of the current proc=
ess,
> | see "getpgrp" in perlfunc.
> [...]
> | tcgetpgrp
> | This is identical to the C function "tcgetpgrp()" for retu=
rning
> | the process group identifier of the foreground process gro=
up of
> | the controlling terminal.
>
> If they are the same we should be in the foreground:
>
> % perl -MPOSIX -le 'print getpgrp() =3D=3D tcgetpgrp(STDIN) ? "foreground=
" : "background"'
> foreground
>
And, POSIX misses if stdin/stdout are redirected:
perl -MPOSIX -le 'warn getpgrp()=3D=3Dtcgetpgrp(STDIN)
? foreground" : "background"' </dev/null >/dev/null
background at -e line 1.
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Charles DeRykus
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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:20:07 +0300
From: Eric Pozharski <whynot@pozharski.name>
Subject: Re: strange behavior of ??
Message-Id: <7oi1m5x261.ln2@carpet.zombinet>
Nathan <user@serverrb.net> wrote:
*SKIP*
> Thanks very much, that was very confusing to me. Perl does so many
> things automatically and behind the scenes I can't imagine coding in
> it *without* the debugger...
Add C<use strict> and C<use warnings>. Or better B<carefully> read
documentation.
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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:06:42 +0300
From: Eric Pozharski <whynot@pozharski.name>
Subject: Re: what is the expression mean?
Message-Id: <2vh1m5x061.ln2@carpet.zombinet>
Nathan <user@serverrb.net> wrote:
>> %month2num = (nil=>'00', Jan=>'01', Feb=>'02', Mar=>'03', Apr=>'04',
>> May=>'05', Jun=>'06', Jul=>'07', Aug=>'08', Sep=>'09', Oct=>'10',
>> Nov=>'11', Dec=>'12');
*SKIP*
> $month2num{"Jan"} would give you the string '01'. The "=>" symbol is
> used as a shorthand for this statement:
> %month2num = ("nil",'00', "Jan",'01', "Feb",'02',"Mar",'03'....
Not exactly. '=>' as a bonus B<quotes> whatever sequence of word
characters on the left side, so it won't be treated as expression:
21:35:50 40 [0:0]$ perl -wle '
> sub foo { q(bar) };
> %h = (foo, 1);
> print keys %h;'
bar
21:36:59 41 [0:0]$ perl -wle '
> sub foo { q(bar) };
> %h = (foo => 1);
> print keys %h;'
foo
>> @num2month = sort { $month2num{$a} <=> $month2num{$b} } keys
>> %month2num;
>>
>> how does the sort function works with keys?
B<sort> doesn't works with keys. It works with with a list applying at
pairs... Who said at every pair?
21:42:27 44 [0:0]$ perl -wle '
> @l = qw(0 1 2);
> @l = sort {
> warn $a, q(<=>), $b;
> $a <=> $b; }
> @l'
0<=>1 at -e line 3.
0<=>2 at -e line 3.
2<=>1 at -e line 3.
OK, let's back in business, B<sort> passes pairs to something (
C<perldoc -f sort> has more); in your case, that something is block.
Pairs are passed in I<$a> and I<$b> (C<perldoc -f sort> has more).
Those I<$a> and I<$b> variables are B<saint>, never mind to touch them
outside of B<sort> context.
> The aptly named function "keys" returns a list of the keys of the
> hash. In this case it would be the list of strings
> ("nil","Jan","Feb",....). The function "sort" sorts a list and takes
*SKIP*
No, no, no! Look at that shit! There's no order at all!!!
21:55:16 46 [0:0]$ perl -wle '
> %x = qw(0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11);
> print join q( - ), keys %x'
8 - 6 - 4 - 0 - 10 - 2
B<keys> intentionally mangles its output (C<perldoc -f keys> has more).
(Hmm,.. documentation says that order would be different between
different runs of the same code since 5.8.1. As of 5.8.8 it's not.
Debian specific quirks? Again?)
> Hope this answer your question!
Happy homework
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