... What do you mean by "flag on it"? I'm not sure how you'd go about tracking how much memory is in use. Tom...
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bob jacobson
bjacobson@...
Sep 1, 2000 8:31 pm
Can anyone tell me of a way to determine the time value or # of seconds of anydate? For example, how can I find the seconds for July 26, 2000 at 11:04 am....
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Tom Barron
tbarron@...
Sep 1, 2000 9:57 pm
... use POSIX; $sec = POSIX::mktime(0,4,11,26,6,100); # July 26, 2000 11:04 a.m. print "sec = $sec\n"; print join(" ", localtime($sec)), "\n"; Note that July...
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bob jacobson
bjacobson@...
Sep 1, 2000 10:05 pm
Thank you very much, this is exactly what I needed! ... From: Tom Barron [mailto:tbarron@...] Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 4:58 PM To:...
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joach@...
Sep 3, 2000 10:10 pm
I have been working with file which have the date as 20000903 and I wish then to read 03092000 I would think that this would have to be split and YYYY=4...
Hi Tom, Could you explain how this: =~ /(....)[ /-]?(..)[ /-]?(..)/); actively splits this data: 200000830 into three pieces that can be picked up by...
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joach@...
Sep 3, 2000 11:39 pm
OK.... ran it through the debugger and it says there are errors in line #14 not just one but several..... What I am trying to do is reverse the date order in...
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Tom Barron
tbarron@...
Sep 3, 2000 11:39 pm
... The secret ingredient is the parentheses. Ordinarily, the return value of =~ is 1 or 0, indicating whether the match was successful or not. F'rinstance, ...
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Tom Barron
tbarron@...
Sep 3, 2000 11:41 pm
... You're missing a closing brace. I've marked it below. ... You need a "}" here....
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Andrew Johnson
andrew-johnson@...
Sep 4, 2000 12:48 am
! OK.... ran it through the debugger and it says there are errors in line #14 ! not just one but several..... You are missing the closing brace on your while...
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joach@...
Sep 4, 2000 2:01 am
... YES........!!! This copy of the script come through without errors........ and does the job very nicely. This sort of format does not appear in the texts...
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Greg Webster
greg@...
Sep 4, 2000 2:25 am
Personally... To convert 20000803 (and be able to do cool things with the values individually), I'd do something like the following: $wholedate = '20000803'; ...
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Andrew Johnson
andrew-johnson@...
Sep 4, 2000 2:35 am
! the time to document what is happening in line ! ! $data[0] =~ s<^(\d{4})[ /-]?(\d\d)[ /-]?(\d\d)$><$3$2$1>; Firstly, you do not have to use / as the...
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joach@...
Sep 4, 2000 2:48 am
Thank you for the detailed explanation ...... and the reading material.... There is more to the perl than one thinks....I like the way i covers the space,...
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Luke Metcalfe
luke@...
Sep 4, 2000 5:17 am
I'm pulling my hair out over this one: use LWP::UserAgent; use HTTP::Request; use HTTP::Response; my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent; $ua->use_alarm(0) ; # I've...
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joach@...
Sep 4, 2000 7:33 am
Well I am getting better but still not there yet. What I am trying to do is reverse the Data..... and add a Header......Reverses just fine..... and adds the...
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Maisha Walker
maisha@...
Sep 4, 2000 1:41 pm
Andrew - that was a beautiful and suprisingly simple explanation of what was going on in that regex. Thank you!! maisha ... From: Andrew Johnson...
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Maisha Walker
maisha@...
Sep 4, 2000 1:59 pm
just curious everyone, but why use \d\d instead of \d{2} - even just for consistency sake? is there a particular reason for using \d\d instead? maisha ...
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Maisha Walker
maisha@...
Sep 4, 2000 2:02 pm
hey, isn't the problem with this though, that you cannot as simply account for the addition of spaces, dashes or slashes to the date? that was one of the...
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Oliver Manickum
oliver@...
Sep 4, 2000 2:17 pm
Hey Maisha, I would try to compensate for both.. ie. if a user sometimes used 2000-05-03 or sometimes used 20000503 then i would first do this $date =...
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Maisha Walker
maisha@...
Sep 4, 2000 2:20 pm
oh yeah - that *is* simple! Thank you! maisha ... From: Oliver Manickum <oliver@...> To: perl-beginner@egroups.com <perl-beginner@egroups.com> Date:...
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koetzler@...
Sep 4, 2000 2:44 pm
I was using the Net::POP3 module for checking my emails but after including the "Timeout -> 15" in $pop = Net::POP3->new($mailserver, Timeout->15) or $errcode...
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joach@...
Sep 4, 2000 3:29 pm
Carlo this does work ..... I just ran it and it's fine. Maybe a bad cut and paste the first time... Now I understand the /n that's a new line ...........
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Andrew Johnson
andrew-johnson@...
Sep 4, 2000 5:14 pm
! just curious everyone, but why use \d\d instead of \d{2} - even just ! for consistency sake? is there a particular reason for using \d\d ! instead? To be...
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Greg Webster
greg@...
Sep 4, 2000 7:11 pm
Sorry, you're right...but this is easily accomplished with one line. $wholedate = '20000803'; $wholedate =~ s/[\/-\\\.//g; #removes / - \ and . Add as...
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Andrew Johnson
andrew-johnson@...
Sep 4, 2000 7:57 pm
! Sorry, you're right...but this is easily accomplished with one line. ! ! $wholedate = '20000803'; ! $wholedate =~ s/[\/-\\\.//g; #removes / - \ and . Add...
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Greg Webster
greg@...
Sep 4, 2000 8:50 pm
Heh, I really should test what I write. Forgive me, it's been a hell of a week. You are absolutely right about the placement and order. Greg ... -- < >-< ><...
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Maisha Walker
maisha@...
Sep 4, 2000 10:38 pm
ha ha ha - that's great! maisha ... From: Andrew Johnson <andrew-johnson@...> ! just curious everyone, but why use \d\d instead of \d{2} - even just ! for...
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joach@...
Sep 5, 2000 12:22 am
I have one more request.... then I have to settle down to catch up on my reading in Perl. I have a file that reads as 20000903,1.25,2.25.1.75,2.25,21540 all of...
