Hi I'm new to the perl world. I was wondering if anyone knew a site or a free courses on the web that would teach perl from a really beginner point. What I...
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Daniel Gardner
daniel@...
Aug 1, 2001 7:35 am
L> Hi I'm new to the perl world. I was wondering if anyone knew a site or a L> free courses on the web that would teach perl from a really beginner point. Get...
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Anthony Barker
anthony_barker@...
Aug 1, 2001 12:32 pm
Hi I am using 5.6.1 of ActiveState perl (unfortunately must be Windoze 2000). Trying to install different pod packages. Get the error: Error installing package...
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Anthony Barker
anthony_barker@...
Aug 1, 2001 12:36 pm
I would get a copy of Elements of Programming With Perl by Andrew L. Johnson. This is the best book I have found for beginning programmers. The author also has...
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Jason
jason_lipman@...
Aug 1, 2001 2:32 pm
Check out the website below..... http://www.netcat.co.uk/rob/perl/win32perltut.html Honestly, being new to Perl a few months ago, I printed his BIG tutor page...
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Diego Fragnul
diego@...
Aug 1, 2001 3:47 pm
Another powerfull URL :-) http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/language/perl/perlref.htm It is the HTMLified Perl 5 Reference Guide, wrote by Rex Swain, with a lot...
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Robert D. Crawford
rdc@...
Aug 1, 2001 4:44 pm
According to the author (Mr. Schwartz (sp?) is a regular on another list that I read) the third edition, which should be out soon, is a complete rewrite based...
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erik.tank@...
Aug 1, 2001 5:41 pm
This is not to knock books but for my style of learning I was able to pick up Perl from a very basic tutorial. The rest has come from (mainly) coding, looking...
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rajini_prabhu@...
Aug 1, 2001 7:10 pm
Hi, Can anyone tell me what this Perl code does? ($profilePath =~ /^\\\\$_lhost(\\.*)$/) and do { $t = $1; system "mkdir e:$t"; system "cacls e:$t /E /P...
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المهندس™
almuhands@...
Aug 1, 2001 8:01 pm
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم السلام عليكم و رحمة الله و بركاته، الإخوة المجاهدون، نعرف...
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Cam Coble
tech@...
Aug 1, 2001 8:50 pm
Having a problem understanding context here... I have two perl files: A_perl.pl B_perl.pl Script A has environment ... and declairs variables by ... Now, how...
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Shepard, Gregory R
gregory.r.shepard@...
Aug 1, 2001 9:28 pm
Marhaba, please respond to this user group in english ... From: almuhands@... [mailto:almuhands@...] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 1:42...
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Shepard, Gregory R
gregory.r.shepard@...
Aug 1, 2001 9:58 pm
I had this substation working before, however it is not correctly substituting the time with my new format. Whats going on? $xtime = localtime(); $n="_"; ...
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Anthony Barker
anthony_barker@...
Aug 1, 2001 11:43 pm
Reinstalled - seems to have fixed it for now.... Anthony...
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jonathansamuel@...
Aug 2, 2001 12:27 am
... $n.$1.$n.$2.$n.$3.$n.$4.$n.$5/e; It is hard to say, because I do not know what the new format is supposed to be. However, some problems are apparent. When...
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Damien Carbery
daymobrew@...
Aug 2, 2001 9:00 am
I believe you can easily pass lists and hashes to functions as parameters, but you have to be careful with the parameter order. I think you have to pass your...
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Daviid Goodchidl
god_matrix@...
Aug 2, 2001 10:24 am
This code looks for lines that begin with \\ followed by whatever is held in $_lhost, followed bgy \\ and zero or more dots then the end of the line. The code...
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Shepard, Gregory R
gregory.r.shepard@...
Aug 2, 2001 2:20 pm
I must admit, I found the answer to my own question. I needed to at * to capture the empty spaces in-between between the regex's. bad regex = ...
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jonathansamuel@...
Aug 2, 2001 2:56 pm
... * to ... $n.$1.$n.$2.$n.$3.$n.$4.$n.$5/e; ... $n.$1.$n.$2.$n.$3.$n.$4.$n.$5 ... Also, $n was ... use it ... I don't get it. What does '$n' do exactly? is...
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Shepard, Gregory R
gregory.r.shepard@...
Aug 2, 2001 3:05 pm
Let me give you the output before and after the regex... Code: $cur_time = localtime(); $xtime = $cur_time; $print "preformatted time: $xtime\n"; output-> Thu...
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jonathansamuel@...
Aug 2, 2001 3:48 pm
It certainly seems as if $1, $2, etc. in your regular expression is a valid backreference as far as Perl is concerned. That is odd, because it says on page 41...
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Shepard, Gregory R
gregory.r.shepard@...
Aug 2, 2001 4:09 pm
Your advise on using \1 \2 etc as oppose to $1 $2 etc is accurate from what I read. I did try that in the beginning and it did work, however, I received some...
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erik.tank@...
Aug 2, 2001 4:35 pm
You can also pass references to hashes and arrays. If you are on UNIX/LINUX type "man perlref" (without quotes) for more info. If that doesn't work I believe...
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jonathansamuel@...
Aug 2, 2001 5:03 pm
Upon rereading the statement in the Camel book, I now see that \1, \2 etc. is only for use inside of the regular expression itself. Your $1, $2 values are not...
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kwigint@...
Aug 3, 2001 1:15 am
The elegance of JAPH: Just Another Perl Hacker ========================== A mainstay of the Perl culture, JAPH is a short script that produces the output "Just...
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Evan James Dembskey
evan@...
Aug 3, 2001 9:28 am
Hi, I am busy writing a small mail client using Mail::POP3Client. However, whenever I try to execute my script I get this error: Can't locate MD5.pm in @INC...
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specialb@...
Aug 3, 2001 2:36 pm
Hi.. I'm stuck... wrote a perl/Tk program and need to update a displayed list every 10 minutes... Do I use alarm, timer, thread???? Can't find any examples...
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Gary Taylor
1@...
Aug 3, 2001 2:50 pm
Man that is strange, I came up with the same error late last night when I installed PDFLib. Except that my error indicated that perl was searching in ...
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Andrew Plumb
techplumb@...
Aug 3, 2001 3:15 pm
install this module:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/Digest-MD5-2.14.tar.gz
it contains md5.pm .... maybe something in your mail client includes
a...
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jonathansamuel@...
Aug 3, 2001 4:11 pm
Or if md5.pm already exists on his machine he could place at the top of his script: use lib '/insert/path/to/md5.pm/here'; However I agree that the most likely...
