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Date: Sun, 1 Mar 98 21:00:25 -0800
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Perl-Users Digest Sun, 1 Mar 1998 Volume: 8 Number: 1999
Today's topics:
Re: About the foreach statement <rets@meta3.com>
Re: About the foreach statement <rjk@coos.dartmouth.edu>
Re: Getting system() to recognize localized STDOUT <uri@sysarch.com>
Image question <kelby@mplx.com>
Re: Image question <orjana@acm.org>
Re: Image question (Michael Fuhr)
Re: Image question (Iain Chalmers)
New to NT and perl <perry@twowaycom.com>
Re: New to NT and perl <henry@isg-com.com>
on the future of c.l.p.m <uri@sysarch.com>
Perl and the mSQL Interpreter <netnuevo@best.com>
Re: Perl and the mSQL Interpreter (Nathan V. Patwardhan)
Re: Perl Scripts which extract info from HTML pages (Craig Berry)
Re: perl tutorial (Odie Deth)
Perl, OLE and Excel on Win32 <ccaminati@mail.enjoy.it>
Removing JavaScript via a regex (Jason Nugent)
Re: Removing JavaScript via a regex (Abigail)
Re: Stripping (Most) HTML tags (Abigail)
Re: The Ineffable Tom C. (Jahwan Kim)
Re: Two questions about POD (pod2man error still there) Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
Re: What does this one-liner do? (John Moreno)
Re: y2k UNIX laundry list <swd@strata-group.Xcom>
Digest Administrivia (Last modified: 8 Mar 97) (Perl-Users-Digest Admin)
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Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 19:10:15 -0600
From: Ken Holm <rets@meta3.com>
To: Odie Deth <odie@algonet.seREMOVE>
Subject: Re: About the foreach statement
Message-Id: <34FA06F7.83CDC58C@meta3.com>
Odie Deth wrote:
>
> Given a statement such as:
>
> foreach (@variable ) {
> print $_;
> }
>
> Is there a way to find out what $variable it's at?
> I am currently using statements such as:
You could try:
for ($n = 0; $n <= $#variable; $n++) {
print "$variable[$n] - $n\n";
}
This for loop counts from zero ($n = 0) to the last element in the array
@variable ($n <= $#variable) by 1 ($n++).
-K
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Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 21:56:05 -0500
From: Chipmunk <rjk@coos.dartmouth.edu>
Subject: Re: About the foreach statement
Message-Id: <34FA1FC6.D72642E6@coos.dartmouth.edu>
[posted but not mailed - munged addresses are annoying]
Odie Deth wrote:
>
> Given a statement such as:
>
> foreach (@variable ) {
> print $_;
> }
>
> Is there a way to find out what $variable it's at?
Not really.
> I am currently using statements such as:
>
> $i = 0;
> foreach (@variable) {
> print "$_ ($i)";
> $i++;
> }
>
> And I would really like to lose the $i, it's not very handsome code.
Sorry. If you want to know what index you're at, you need to keep track of it
somehow. You could also do it like this:
for ($i=0; $i<=$#variable; ++$i) {
print "$variable[$i] ($i)";
}
--
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( /)//)//)(//)/( chipmunk@m-net.arbornet.org
/ http://www.ziplink.net/~rjk/
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Date: 01 Mar 1998 21:56:00 -0500
From: Uri Guttman <uri@sysarch.com>
Subject: Re: Getting system() to recognize localized STDOUT
Message-Id: <x7vhtxztq7.fsf@sysarch.com>
"Andrew T. Brown" <andrewbrown@acm.org> writes:
> Reposting this question... Thanks, Andrew
>
> Andrew Brown wrote in message <6d7rhs$gg4$1@brokaw.wa.com>...
> >I have a script in which I wish to *temporarily* redirect STDOUT to a
> >file. However, I have found that system() does not honor a localized
> >*STDOUT on my system (Perl 5.003 build 3?? on WinNT 4.0 SP3). Please see
> >the script at the end of this message.
> >
> >I can easily get around this, but my question is: why does system() not
> >pick up the localized STDOUT? I looked at the FAQ, perlsub (for info on
> >system), and perlfunc (for info on local), and found no answers....
you are confusing the STDOUT perl file handle and the stdout unix (i
hope) file pointer. perl STDOUT sits on top of unix stdout. the system
command runs a unix program and it prints to unix stdout. the print
command in uses perl STDOUT by defualt so if you localize it it works
fine.
just remember, system is not a true builtin in the sense that it
controls what you pass it. all it does is a fork, exec, wait on your
command args. it does not redirect stdout before the exec. if you want
the output yourself, use backticks instead of system and print the
output to STDOUT.
HTH,
uri
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Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 18:50:05 -0500
From: "Kelby Valenti" <kelby@mplx.com>
Subject: Image question
Message-Id: <6dcsai$rlr@aaron.hamilton.edu>
This may be a stupid question, but here goes. Is there any way to find the
height and width of a jpg or gif image within a perl script. I need to know
these in order to display images correctly on my page. As far as I know, it
is impossible. Hopefully I'm wrong. Please let me know.
Thank you,
Kelby
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Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 00:48:12 +0000
From: Oerjan Nygaard Austvold <orjana@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Image question
Message-Id: <34FA01CC.9F51E4F2@acm.org>
>From the GIF87 specification you can read that after the signature (the
first 6 bytes containing GIF87a) you'll find theese 7 bytes:
bits
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Byte #
+---------------+
| | 1
+-Screen Width -+ Raster width in pixels (LSB first)
| | 2
+---------------+
| | 3
+-Screen Height-+ Raster height in pixels (LSB first)
| | 4
+-+-----+-+-----+ M = 1, Global color map follows
Descriptor
|M| cr |0|pixel| 5 cr+1 = # bits of color resolution
+-+-----+-+-----+ pixel+1 = # bits/pixel in image
| background | 6 background=Color index of screen
background
+---------------+ (color is defined from the Global
color
|0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0| 7 map or default map if none
specified)
+---------------+
Read more at
http://www.iac.tut.fi/usr/local/doc/XV/Gif-87-Specification.txt
Regards,
Oerjan
Kelby Valenti wrote:
>
> This may be a stupid question, but here goes. Is there any way to find the
> height and width of a jpg or gif image within a perl script. I need to know
> these in order to display images correctly on my page. As far as I know, it
> is impossible. Hopefully I'm wrong. Please let me know.
>
> Thank you,
> Kelby
--
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University of Tromsoe / mailto:orjana@acm.org
N-9037 Tromsoe, Norway / http://hstud3.cs.uit.no/~orjana/
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Date: 1 Mar 1998 19:31:46 -0700
From: mfuhr@dimensional.com (Michael Fuhr)
Subject: Re: Image question
Message-Id: <6dd5mi$1m5@flatland.dimensional.com>
"Kelby Valenti" <kelby@mplx.com> writes:
> This may be a stupid question, but here goes. Is there any way to find the
> height and width of a jpg or gif image within a perl script. I need to know
> these in order to display images correctly on my page. As far as I know, it
> is impossible. Hopefully I'm wrong. Please let me know.
"There are no stupid questions, only questions the rest of us laugh at." :-)
The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) has over 450 modules to
help you do the "impossible." At least one of them will help with your
particular impossible task:
http://www.perl.com/CPAN/CPAN.html
--
Michael Fuhr
http://www.dimensional.com/~mfuhr/
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Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 15:40:49 +1000
From: bigiain@mightymedia.com.au (Iain Chalmers)
Subject: Re: Image question
Message-Id: <bigiain-ya02408000R0203981540490001@news.ozemail.com.au>
In article <6dd5mi$1m5@flatland.dimensional.com>, mfuhr@dimensional.com
(Michael Fuhr) wrote:
> "Kelby Valenti" <kelby@mplx.com> writes:
>
> > This may be a stupid question, but here goes. Is there any way to find the
> > height and width of a jpg or gif image within a perl script. I need to know
> > these in order to display images correctly on my page. As far as I know, it
> > is impossible. Hopefully I'm wrong. Please let me know.
>
> "There are no stupid questions, only questions the rest of us laugh at." :-)
>
> The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) has over 450 modules to
> help you do the "impossible." At least one of them will help with your
> particular impossible task:
>
> http://www.perl.com/CPAN/CPAN.html
and, one of the modules that may help is called:
Image::Size
(surprise surprise)
cheers
Iain
(thanks to Randy Ray for writing this one...)
Iain Chalmers
bigiain@mightymedia.com.au
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Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 19:02:51 -0600
From: Periklis Moutzouros <perry@twowaycom.com>
Subject: New to NT and perl
Message-Id: <34FA053B.A331772E@twowaycom.com>
I need someone to point me in the direction of the typical resources for
getting perl to run on NT.
I want to accomplish the basic stuff: I want to run CGI scripts with my
web server(IIS) written in perl.
I am new to both perl and NT. I usually do most of this stuff in a
cgi-bin directory on my Linux box, and I noticed that a cgi-bin
directory is included with my IIS from Microsoft. I am running service
pack 3, and all I need is a URL to a NT perl faq, or just where to get
perl for NT.
I really need to get some of these web sites tested at home, and they
require cgi scripts in perl!
Thanks for the help
Perry Moutzouros
perry@altadv.com
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Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 21:54:27 -0500
From: Henry Williamson <henry@isg-com.com>
Subject: Re: New to NT and perl
Message-Id: <34FA1F63.C58@isg-com.com>
Periklis Moutzouros wrote:
>
> I need someone to point me in the direction of the typical resources for
> getting perl to run on NT.
> I want to accomplish the basic stuff: I want to run CGI scripts with my
> web server(IIS) written in perl.
>
> I am new to both perl and NT. I usually do most of this stuff in a
> cgi-bin directory on my Linux box, and I noticed that a cgi-bin
> directory is included with my IIS from Microsoft. I am running service
> pack 3, and all I need is a URL to a NT perl faq, or just where to get
> perl for NT.
>
> I really need to get some of these web sites tested at home, and they
> require cgi scripts in perl!
>
> Thanks for the help
>
> Perry Moutzouros
> perry@altadv.com
Checkout http://www.activeware.com ,they have perl for winnt.
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Date: 01 Mar 1998 23:17:57 -0500
From: Uri Guttman <uri@sysarch.com>
Subject: on the future of c.l.p.m
Message-Id: <x7u39hzpxl.fsf@sysarch.com>
i too remember the good old days of c.l.p.m (or c.l.p as it was known
then). it was more of a true forum where all sorts of perl hackers
helped out others with less experience. there were few books (pink camel
was it), no www.perl.com (as it is today), etc. most of the major perl
gurus were regular poster writing treatises sometimes many of which
became new pod or other online articles. there were many useful long
thread discussing features of perl, coding issues, and even
internals. when the flood of newbies and spam began, most left the
group.
i have posted ideas on how to rebuild the quality of this group and have
gotten very little response. my major idea was to have questions labeled
with an experience level so you could tell whether you wanted to answer
it. the idea being that you would support the users below you in
experience. if you know the FAQ answer or where it is, you point the
newbie that so tom c. doesn't have to flame them. let him (and others
like him) answer tougher problems and questions. how come i never see
almost anyone else of intermediate perl knowledge pointing newbies to
the sources for FAQ answers?
actually one interesting thought is that perl is so stable now, most of
those old threads wouldn't be appropriate now. in fact i rarely see
interesting questions that are at my level (about 6-8 on a 1-10 scale).
i have tried to raise the level by posing an interesting (to me at
least) perl quiz. question. i got 2 (count'em TWO) responses. others
have posted some stumpers and such. they have gotten almost NO
response. either they are too easy for the gurus, or too hard for the
newbies. where are the rest of us? we can't just be a group of perl
newbies out there.
let's see some serious discussion about this and hold off on the flaming
for a while. (wait for the next newbie FAQ and flame them :-). i like
perl too much to see this group go to hell. i like discussing its
features, modules, idioms, etc. let's make this group have some real
life again.
as for tom's rudeness, arrogance, i generally agree with his
attitude. when you sya the same thing for the nth time, you tend to get
that way. that is why i ask all of you to help others before they get
flamed to cinders. then tom can skip those FAQ's knowing they will be
handle by others.
tom, i hope i haven't been killfiled for this or other postings.
uri
--
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uri@sysarch.com Have Perl, Will Hack
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Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 19:51:11 -0800
From: Stephanie Ray <netnuevo@best.com>
Subject: Perl and the mSQL Interpreter
Message-Id: <34FA2CAF.41198C06@best.com>
Can anyone please tell me how to implement the following statements into
Perl? My (unsuccesful) attempt follows... any help would be greatly
appreciated.
INSERT INTO tickets (ticketNo) VALUES (9)\g
\q
---
open(MSQL, "| $MSQL $DBNAME") ||
die("Could not start SQL interpreter");
print MSQL "INSERT INTO tickets (ticketNo) VALUES
($ticketNo)\\g\n";
print MSQL "\\q\n";
close MSQL;
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Date: 2 Mar 1998 04:07:22 GMT
From: nvp@shore.net (Nathan V. Patwardhan)
Subject: Re: Perl and the mSQL Interpreter
Message-Id: <6ddb9q$m5a@fridge.shore.net>
Stephanie Ray (netnuevo@best.com) wrote:
: Can anyone please tell me how to implement the following statements into
: Perl? My (unsuccesful) attempt follows... any help would be greatly
: appreciated.
Don't do it this way. Go to CPAN and get the DBD::mSQL module
instead. Even if you choose not to use the DBD, I still don't
understand why you've chosen to work with a pipe of all things --
particularly since mSQL has an API that's clearly documented.
Not trying to yell at you, but very, very puzzled with your approach.
--
Nathan V. Patwardhan
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Date: 2 Mar 1998 03:47:09 GMT
From: cberry@cinenet.net (Craig Berry)
Subject: Re: Perl Scripts which extract info from HTML pages
Message-Id: <6dda3t$8i8$1@marina.cinenet.net>
Abigail (abigail@fnx.com) wrote:
: kmyers@syneractive.com (kmyers@syneractive.com) wrote on 1642 September
^^^^
: 1993 in <URL: news:6da6id$fpa$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>:
^^^^
Looks like the Y2K bug is even more fiendish than anyone thought...
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Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 04:27:59 GMT
From: odie@algonet.seREMOVE (Odie Deth)
Subject: Re: perl tutorial
Message-Id: <34fa34f9.31131735@194.213.69.148>
http://reference.perl.com/query.cgi?tutorials+index
---
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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 21:18:29 +0100
From: Carlo Caminati <ccaminati@mail.enjoy.it>
Subject: Perl, OLE and Excel on Win32
Message-Id: <34F5CE15.E87C9B61@mail.enjoy.it>
Hi to all
I'm trying to write a perl script that fetches data from an
Excel sheet to get the work done.
I found a lot of examples in the reverse direction (a perl
script that fills an Excel sheet) but none on how to read.
someone can help me ?
please answer in mailbox
--
Carlo Caminati
c.caminati@computer.org
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Date: 2 Mar 1998 00:10:39 GMT
From: ap958@chebucto.ns.ca (Jason Nugent)
Subject: Removing JavaScript via a regex
Message-Id: <6dctdv$gh$1@News.Dal.Ca>
Hi to all,
These past few days have found me working on a search engine for a website. The perl setup
scripts that create the databases filter down through the directory structure, located html files, pull
out the tags, comments, and (soon, hopefully) Javascript, and index them so it can be searched on later
with a standard form on the web.
My problem is that although my regex for pulling out tags and comments works great (it's a bit
simple, but remember the kiss rule, right?), it can't parse out JavaScript comments since often times
there are situations where I have used document.write statements to insert tags and so on. I end up with
tags inside of tags, and then you have to deal with comparision operators like < and >= and so on.
This works fine when I set $/ to undef and pull in the file completely:
$line =~s{ # start the regex
<[^>]*> #
}{}gsx; # strip out comments and html
This works really well. Tom, if you read this, I have been off to your site and read EVERYTHING you
have there on regexs. I have "Mastering Regular Expressions" which I have read several times now. Tom,
I tried your three-tiered solution for removing HTML, comments, and converting entities but I still run
into problems with the oddities of Javascript.
Does anyone have any quick ideas?
Thanks,
Jason
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Date: 2 Mar 1998 02:07:47 GMT
From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail)
Subject: Re: Removing JavaScript via a regex
Message-Id: <6dd49j$62l$1@client2.news.psi.net>
Jason Nugent (ap958@chebucto.ns.ca) wrote on 1644 September 1993 in
<URL: news:6dctdv$gh$1@News.Dal.Ca>:
[Article reformatted to comply with Usenet standards.
*Please* keep your lines around 72 chars, but certainly less than 80]
++ These past few days have found me working on a search engine for a
++ website. The perl setup scripts that create the databases filter down
++ through the directory structure, located html files, pull out the tags,
++ comments, and (soon, hopefully) Javascript, and index them so it can be
++ searched on later with a standard form on the web.
++
++ My problem is that although my regex for pulling out tags and comments
++ works great (it's a bit simple, but remember the kiss rule, right?),
++ it can't parse out JavaScript comments since often times there are
++ situations where I have used document.write statements to insert tags
++ and so on. I end up with tags inside of tags, and then you have to
++ deal with comparision operators like < and >= and so on. This works
++ fine when I set $/ to undef and pull in the file completely:
++
++ $line =~s{ # start the regex
++ <[^>]*> #
++ }{}gsx; # strip out comments and html
++
++
++ This works really well.
Really? If that works really well, then what is your problem?
It seems to me that your problem is that the above does *NOT*
work well. There seldom passes a day I don't tell someone that
you *cannot* parse HTML with a single regex.
For the very same reason you can't do balanced parens, you can't
do marked sections with a regex.
Your pathetic attempt to strip tags is worse than Mosaic/Netscape 1.x.
Problems:
- It removes everything from the first < to the last >.
- Removes perfectly valid *data*. 'a < b' does not start a tag.
- Fails on > in an attribute.
- Fails on comments containing >.
- Fails on marked sections.
- Fails on elements with CDATA content.
And of course SCRIPT has CDATA content.
If you seriously think that a tag matches <[^>]*>, don't make any attempts
creating a search engine. You lack some fundamental knowledge about
HTML.
Abigail
--
perl -wle 'print "Prime" if (1 x shift) !~ /^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/'
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Date: 2 Mar 1998 02:12:21 GMT
From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail)
Subject: Re: Stripping (Most) HTML tags
Message-Id: <6dd4i5$62l$2@client2.news.psi.net>
Tim Archer (tarcher@csu.edu.au) wrote on 1641 September 1993 in
<URL: news:34F6361C.380E2C18@csu.edu.au>:
++ Hi all.
++
++ I am looking for a perl script that will strip all tags except for a
++ given list from a document.
What is it that HTML::Parser doesn't give you?
Abigail
--
perl -MLWP::UserAgent -MHTML::TreeBuilder -MHTML::FormatText -wle 'print +(HTML::FormatText -> new -> format (HTML::TreeBuilder -> new -> parse (LWP::UserAgent -> new -> request (HTTP::Request -> new ("GET", "http://work.ucsd.edu:5141/cgi-bin/http_webster?isindex=perl")) -> content)) =~ /(.*\))[-\s]+Additional/s) [0]'
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Date: 2 Mar 1998 00:39:09 GMT
From: jahwan@lilac.engin.umich.edu (Jahwan Kim)
Subject: Re: The Ineffable Tom C.
Message-Id: <slrn6fk0hs.e6s.jahwan@lilac.engin.umich.edu>
I just finished reading this thread. The only good thing I can think of
this thread provided me is, that it offered me many name to be put in my
kill file. Let's continue this thread for some time.
J.
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Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 00:46:19 GMT
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
Subject: Re: Two questions about POD (pod2man error still there)
Message-Id: <Ep6258.9Cx@RnA.NL>
In article <6d5e8f$a2j$5@comdyn.comdyn.com.au>, you wrote:
>I don't.
[munch]
>% pod2text a.pod
>DIAGNOSTICS
> Usage: gord_use.pl [--verbose=i] [--user=s] (active|inactive|test)
Can you test again with pod2man instead of pod2text (I was producing man
pages and running them through nroff). I don't get the error with pod2text
either.
As in
pod2man a.pod
nroff -man a.1 | less
and tell me what you get?
I just retried and it is gone here too. I must have changed something else
that influenced this behaviour. Ha, I got it: remove the .pl from gord_use.pl
and the behaviour is gone.
Yours,
---
Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda)
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
Dass man fuer die Philosophie ein Interesse zeigt, bezeugt noch keine
Bereitschaft zum Denken -- Martin Heidegger
--
Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda)
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
Dass man fuer die Philosophie ein Interesse zeigt, bezeugt noch keine
Bereitschaft zum Denken -- Martin Heidegger
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Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 22:18:36 -0500
From: phenix@interpath.com (John Moreno)
Subject: Re: What does this one-liner do?
Message-Id: <AAEE38F135FE4AE7.C50FA91E79997C93.7052E3EA8E15B506@library-proxy.airnews.net>
Jaime Metcher <metcher@spider.herston.uq.edu.au> wrote:
> Abigail wrote:
> >
> >
> > Nope. ($a) = (7, 8, 9) is *not* a scalar assignment. It's a list
> > assignment. It just happens to have a side effect, setting $a to 7.
> > The result of the assignment is the list (7, 8, 9).
>
> From the Blue Camel p. 93:
> "In all cases, the value of the assignment is the new value of the
> variable".
>
> How does this map to what you just said? Isn't the value of the first
> (i.e. rightmost) assignment (7)? In the example:
It looks to me like a temporary unnamed array is being created. The $a
is getting it's value from that, but $x is getting it's result from the
temporary array (which has all three elements from the rhs). Put $x
into a array context and see what you get.
Now, the interesting question is why
($x, $b, $c) = ($a) = (7, 8, 9);
print "$x $b $c";
doesn't produce "7 8 9"
-snip-
> --
> Jaime Metcher
You need to put a space after those dashes. It's dash dash space.
--
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interest in a new version. Help me prove him wrong. To do so, send me
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on what you like/dislike in the current version will be appreciated.
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Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 19:17:34 -0600
From: Steve Dover <swd@strata-group.Xcom>
Subject: Re: y2k UNIX laundry list
Message-Id: <34FA08AE.94EBD202@strata-group.Xcom>
David Adler wrote:
>
> On 24 Feb 1998 00:29:13 -0600, Peter Samuelson <psamuels@sampo.REMOVETHIS.creighton.edu> wrote:
> >[Steve Dover <swd@strata-group.Xcom>]
> >> I'm curious as to why some of the perl maintainers think
> >> Perl 4 has different Y2k issues than Perl 5.
> >
> >I've always assumed it's a clever little red herring.
>
> Give that man a cigar! :-)
>
> Nevertheless, don't tell the pointy-haired ones about this.
>
Well, of course. Tell them what? <g>
> It *is* true that there are no plans to make perl4 Y2K compliant (and
> I certainly don't know of any plans to make perl4 *programs* so).
> Then there are the security issues, which are on rather firm ground.
>
> Use the latest perl for a happier world.
Agreed. The question originally came up because of Oraperl based
on Perl4. Converting to Perl5 and DBI with DBD for Oracle was not
as trivial as I had hoped. Seems this time constraint thingy
called Y2k keeps popping up...
>
> If the management types want to know the *whole* truth, they can read
> the documentation. I think we're safe. ;-)
LOL.
Thanks for info.
Steve
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