... %* does not work with 4DOS/NT. I just found out it can be made to work there by setting C<ParameterChar = *> in the 4nt.ini file. Since using %* eliminates...
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@...
Jul 6, 1997 9:43 pm
4590
... On the other hand, the backslash in '\'' *does* get eaten by the "'". The theory is that this allows you to write any string as a single quoted string...
Hans Mulder
hansm@...
Jul 8, 1997 5:05 am
4591
... You *can* use print "${\$foo}bar"; Another option would be to assign $} = ""; then you can write print "$foo$}bar"; $} seems to be the only non-alpha name...
Hans Mulder
hansm@...
Jul 8, 1997 4:00 am
4592
Ed Peschko
epeschko@...
Jul 8, 1997 4:18 am
4593
... Let me rephrase that: it doesn't make sense for warn() or die() to let you select where an error goes. All errors should go to the same place, though that...
Kenneth Albanowski
kjahds@...
Jul 7, 1997 3:01 am
4594
... Or a sub ref to invoke with the argument?... I think it may be cleaner just to play with shortmess and longmess. ... I haven't been tracking p5p perfectly,...
Kenneth Albanowski
kjahds@...
Jul 7, 1997 3:43 am
4595
If you can help me in C++ please note back. Its an assignment using stacks and checking for braces, brackets, parenthesis. ex. ([{}]) properly nested. Also...
Robert J. Valdez
bob89tess@...
Jul 7, 1997 3:38 am
4596
Ed Peschko
epeschko@...
Jul 7, 1997 1:26 am
4597
... That doesn't look to bad to me. ... That's probably a bug. ... Not by default. ... Exactly. Tim....
Tim Bunce
Tim.Bunce@...
Jul 7, 1997 5:06 pm
4598
... My thoughts exactly. IMHO, they should both be macros. Let me know if you'd like a new patch Tim. -Doug...
Doug MacEachern
dougm@...
Jul 7, 1997 4:22 pm
4599
... a. Making import magical was a mistake. b. Making UNIVERSAL 'ISA' Exporter was also a mistake. c. Making import 'slightly more magical' doesn't fix b. It...
Tim Bunce
Tim.Bunce@...
Jul 7, 1997 5:43 pm
4600
I'm running with -w and use strict, and I find that variable interpolation (in the situation where the variable has the same name as a subroutine) is getting...
gnat@...
Jul 7, 1997 2:52 am
4601
As discussed on the perl5-porters mailing list last month, I've merged the POD and SDF markup languages. The relevant URLs are: 1. The release notes for the...
Ian Clatworthy
ianc@...
Jul 7, 1997 9:29 pm
4602
... That's easy. The original code passes an *uninitialized* value to semctl, which is obviously wrong. Just look at the generic version and you'll see that...
Andreas Schwab
schwab@...
Jul 7, 1997 6:24 pm
4603
... I have a module I wrote a while back to do this - never bothered to get it out of the door however, it works pretty much the same way you specified above:...
James Duncan
jduncan@...
Jul 7, 1997 7:00 pm
4604
Hi: Earlier in my book I mention that "one can do something" like open(LS_FILE,"ls |") or die "failed to do the ls command $!"; That works fine. No problem...
Murali Shastri
shastrim@...
Jul 7, 1997 4:56 pm
4605
Jay, I have been using version 3.00 of your Net::Telnet package. I have discovered one problem - the first line of all output from the remote end of the...
Alan Burlison
Alan.Burlison@...
Jul 7, 1997 7:19 pm
4606
[ Cc-ed to porters ] ... Note there should be no problems at all if you never ever use ascii mode while transferring. Even if you did so (and consistently),...
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@...
Jul 7, 1997 5:10 am
4607
... It still gets gnaws, er, hits... :-) ... I'll check this out. ... Metronet will always be accessible via the toplevel web map at www.metronet.com, as well...
William Middleton
wmiddlet@...
Jul 7, 1997 5:07 pm
4608
~s Sys::Hostname should localize $SIG{__DIE__} This is a bug report for perl from ken@..., generated with the help of perlbug 1.17 running...
Ken Shan
ken@...
Jul 7, 1997 6:57 am
4609
This is a bug report for perl from seay@..., generated with the help of perlbug 1.17 running under perl 5.004. ... [Please enter your report here] This...
Douglas Seay
seay@...
Jul 7, 1997 10:13 pm
4610
... [note, i'm not on this mailing list, so any followups will need to be sent to me directly if I am to read them.] Just to note on the patch I originally...
Jordan Mendelson
jordy@...
Jul 7, 1997 8:43 pm
4611
This patch fills in some gaps in the docs, and adds runperl.bat. The fix to pl2bat makes it so that a #!perl line is always available, so that "perl -x" ...
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@...
Jul 7, 1997 7:46 am
4612
Hi: The backticks question that I asked before works now with the following change. This means that the "open" and "FileHandle" can be used interchangeably and...
Murali Shastri
shastrim@...
Jul 7, 1997 5:58 pm
4613
... If you run that in a directory with files A and B in it it tries to open ".\n..\nA\nB\n" which does not exist. Well that isn't same as above i.e. my...
Nick Ing-Simmons
nick@...
Jul 8, 1997 2:21 am
4614
I've just stuck a couple of things into my ftp directory, they are a) the previously mentioned 'use Switch' device. b) is the more interesting of the two...
James Duncan
jduncan@...
Jul 7, 1997 7:50 pm
4615
... What about portability to other types of unix? That code is a notorious portability problem. Tim....
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