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From: mcook@fendahl.dev.cdx.mot.com (Michael Cook)
Subject: Re: A novice question
Organization: Motorola Codex, Canton, Massachusetts
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 17:01:56 GMT

braven@rx.xerox.com (Brian Raven) writes:

>In article 29365@cs.odu.edu, sastr_a@japonica.cs.odu.edu (RAVI AYYALASOMAYAJULA) writes:
>>	I wrote a small perl program (which is included below).
>>	The problem with this program is the "chdir " in the line #4 
>>	doesn't work. However the chdir in #9 works okay and 
>>	consequently in each iteration it is going up one level
>>	in the directory structure and finally to the root. Why is
>>	that so?
>>
>>	#!/usr/new/perl
>>
>>	# all the files in the current directory are directory files
>>	@DIRS = `ls -1`; 
>>	$i = 0;
>>	while($i <= $#DIRS) {
>>
>>		# this chdir doesn't work
>>		chdir $DIRS[$i] || die "can't cd to $DIRS[$i] $!\n"; 
>>		$file = `ls -1`;
>>		print $file;
>>		# this chdir works  okay
>>		chdir '..'; 
>>		$i++;
>>	}

>Your directoy names all have newlines at the end. Try:

>@DIRS = split(/\n/,`ls -1`);

The probable reason you couldn't see what was going wrong is that you have
your precedence mixed up.  This:

 chdir $foo || die "can't cd to $foo $!\n";

is the same as this:

 chdir ($foo || die "can't cd to $foo $!\n");

which kept `die' from telling you that chdir had failed.  You want this:

 chdir ($foo) || die "can't cd to $foo $!\n";

or this:

 (chdir $foo) || die "can't cd to $foo $!\n";

Michael.
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
From: simon@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au (simon shields)
Subject: perl monitor
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 14:19:44 GMT


Hi
I'm running on a 
HP-UX giaec A.08.07 A 9000/720 2001133857
I want to write a simple monitor perl script and was wondering if
anyone here could give me a kick start.

It has to be transparent to the user. It simply records the commands
typed in and files a report when the user logs off. It reports stats
like, the commands used, frequency of use, most frequently used
command, the time the user was logged on for etc..

Any help sincerely appreciated.

bye from simon
From: tm8t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Tod McQuillin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: my perl-script eats '%'-characters
Date: 26 Sep 92 08:04:03 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

rantinoj@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi writes:

> This may be a novice question, but I can't understand why my perl script eats
> '%' -characters.
> ---------------------- test.pl ----------------------------
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
> $[ = 1;         # set array base to 1
> $, = ' ';       # set output field separator
> $\ = "";        # set output record separator
> open ( OUTFILE, ">test.out" );
> while ( <> ) {
>         printf OUTFILE $_;
> }
> printf stderr "Done !\n";
> ------------------------- test.in ---------------------------
> %!PS-Adobe-1.0
> %%Creator: dlf, by XXX ()
> %%Title: Graphical output
> %%CreationDate: 1992-09-18 08:49:08
> ------------------------- test.out --------------------------
> !PS-Adobe-1.0
> %Creator: dlf, by XXX ()
> %Title: Graphical output
> %CreationDate: 1992-09-18 08:49:08
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Could someone please explain how to get around this?

If you don't want printf format specifications to be interpreted,
don't use printf!  Try

print OUTFILE $_;

or even

printf OUTFILE "%s", $_;

Also, unless you're planning to do something different later, none of
the perl special variables you set has any effect.  $[ doesn't change
anything since you don't use arrays in your program.  $, isn't used
because you don't print any comma separated lists.  and the default
behaviour is not to use an "output record separator", so setting $\ to
"" has no effect.

--tod
From: gordonm@rendyn1.uucp (Gordon Marler ext. 4609)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Perl on SCO Unix 3.2.4
Date: 5 Oct 92 15:38:16 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Reynadyne Data Systems


This particular problem is showing up in Perl 4.035, using SCO Unix 3.2.4.1
It seems that the validation suite is failing in the test of bigint.pl.  
Does anyone have an idea as to why the TROUBLE construct below is producing
these results?

The compiler used is SCO's, but I do have gcc 2.2.2 available to me if that
would work better.

#! /usr/local/bin/perl -P
# SCO 3.2 2 i386
# This is perl, version 4.0
# 
# $RCSfile: perl.c,v $$Revision: 4.0.1.7 $$Date: 92/06/08 14:50:39 $
# Patch level: 35

#define TROUBLE

&badd( +0 , +1);

# Excerpt construct from the 'bigint.pl'
#
sub badd {

# ifdef TROUBLE
    local(*x, *y); ($x, $y) = ($_[0], $_[1]);
# else
    local($x, $y) = ($_[0], $_[1]);
# endif
    
    print "\"y: ", $y, " | x: ", $x, "\"\n";
}

# If TROUBLE #define:
#
#   "y: 1 | x: 1"
#
# If TROUBLE #undef:
#
#   "y: 1 | x: 0"
#
#

-- 
T. Gordon Marler		| Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's
Reynadyne Data Systems		| injustice, and somewhere else the tea is
(817) 652-4693  		| getting cold! -- Dr. Who
...!digi!reynard!gordonm OR  marler@bme.uta.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
From: buboo@alf.uib.no (Ove Ruben R Olsen)
Subject: Re: "Camel" book
Followup-To: poster
Organization: University of Bergen, Norway
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 08:56:42 GMT

I worte: 

>There is also a New Book out RSN for the beginers written by
>Wall, Christiansen & Schwarts.

Sorry Randal.

Should be Schwartz. Please have mercy, it's 10pm wednesday morning :-)

\Ruben.

-- 
        Ove Ruben R Olsen a Gnarfer and VI user. EMAIL: ruben@uib.no. 
     Maintaining the EX/VI-archive and a couple of the Comp.Editors FAQs.
    People that are ignorant tend to live a frustrated life, at least when 
     it comes to editing - But I do belive this is a general rule in life
From: christen@cheetah.llnl.gov (Marv Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: redirect STDERR
Date: 1 Oct 92 00:56:35 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab

I would like to know how to redirect error messages directed to the
standand error device. By default, error messages are displayed on the
screen. I would like to redirect them to /dev/null.

I'm finding files by name via the find command. The perl looks like:

open(FIND, "find / -name hello -print |") || die "can't run find:$!\n";

The problem is that the screen fills up with error messages. Most of
them are permission violations:

find: cannot chdir to /home/system/someuser: Permission denied 
find: cannot chdir to /home/system/anotheruser: Permission denied

Any help would be appreciated...
---------------------
Marvin J Christensen
mjchristensen@llnl.gov
From: joel@abigale.uucp (Joel Rosi-Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Docs for PERL Needed.
Date: 29 Sep 92 00:39:21 GMT
Organization: Techne Research, Finchampstead, Berkshire (UK)

In article <1992Sep28.085802.21410@rdg.dec.com> jamie@heavy.enet.dec.com (Jamie.) writes:
>
>Not much help, I'm afraid, but I'm in much the same position as yourself;
>trying
>to find out about Perl without much in the way of documentation...
>
>In the UK, there are no Perl textbooks in print, so I can't get anything 
>"official" so I've gathered what I can.

Both Blackwells and Dillions in Oxford (and probably other locatins also)
carry The Book in stock.  Or you may want to try the:
	Unix Book Service in Cambridge
	Phone: +44 0223 313272
	Fax: +44 0223 461391

Cheers,
Joel
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From: rsk@gynko.circ.upenn.edu (Rich Kulawiec)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Why I am glad I know perl
Date: 7 Oct 92 02:17:54 GMT
Followup-To: comp.lang.perl
Organization: Cardiothoracic Imaging Research Center

In article <BvpIos.9Ew@cs.psu.edu> ehrlich@colossus.cs.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich) writes:
>Here is just one reason why every system administrator should know perl.
>
>Scenario:  Sitting in a window on a standalone workstation as root.
>           Enter "rm *" assuming that I am in /foobar/blech/bin.

System administrators, at least those who are worth their salt, do
not enter "rm *" as root unless they mean it.    As wonderful as perl
may be, it's no substitute for extraordinary care when one is su'd.

Anachronistically still using awk, sed, and the rest,
---Rsk
From: jfriedl+@CS.CMU.EDU (Jeffrey Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: "Camel" book
Date: 2 Oct 92 09:32:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.BvHMIH.K7J.1
Reply-To: jfriedl@cs.cmu.edu
Organization: Carnegie Mellon / Omron Corporation

merlyn@ora.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
|>    Does having the first printing give one special powers unknown to
|>    mortal man?  If so, why hasn't it rubbed off on me ;-)
|> 
|> No, but it means you're a Perl "old timer". :-)

Mmmm. If one considered themselves a "thirtysomething-timer" (i.e. not yet
an "old timer", but not so green anymore) when this thought about a book
was first mentioned (animal unknown), what would that make one now? (-:

Anyone have the timeline for major releases (with other major events in
there as well, such as The Book)?  I think I came in ether early 2.X or
late 1.X, but not so seriously at first....

Hey, this "Larry Wall" dude seems to think he knows a lot about Perl....
I wonder at what version he got involved.... (-:

	*jeff*
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Omron Corporation, Section RZE, Shimokaiinji, Nagaokakyo Kyoto 617, Japan
Visiting researcher to the Mach Project, Carnegie Mellon University
From: mdb@regal.cisco.com (Mark D. Baushke)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: my perl-script eats '%'-characters
Date: 27 Sep 92 21:39:37 GMT
Organization: cisco Systems Inc., Menlo Park, CA, USA

On Fri, 25 Sep 1992 14:56:00 GMT, rantinoj@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi said:

rantinoj> This may be a novice question, but I can't understand why my
rantinoj> perl script eats '%' -characters.

rantinoj> ---------------------- test.pl ----------------------------
rantinoj> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
rantinoj> $[ = 1;         # set array base to 1
rantinoj> $, = ' ';       # set output field separator
rantinoj> $\ = "";        # set output record separator
rantinoj> open ( OUTFILE, ">test.out" );
rantinoj> while ( <> ) {
rantinoj> printf OUTFILE $_;
          ^^^^^^ use print instead of printf and your problem will go away
rantinoj> }
rantinoj> printf stderr "Done !\n";
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ you probably really want print STDERR here
rantinoj> ------------------------- test.in ---------------------------
rantinoj> %!PS-Adobe-1.0
rantinoj> %%Creator: dlf, by XXX ()
rantinoj> %%Title: Graphical output
rantinoj> %%CreationDate: 1992-09-18 08:49:08
rantinoj> ------------------------- test.out --------------------------
rantinoj> !PS-Adobe-1.0
rantinoj> %Creator: dlf, by XXX ()
rantinoj> %Title: Graphical output
rantinoj> %CreationDate: 1992-09-18 08:49:08
rantinoj> -------------------------------------------------------------

rantinoj> Could someone please explain how to get around this?

printf expects a format specification string. So, when it sees a '%',
it interprets it like the printf() C function. Of course, two '%'
characters is one way you tell printf() to print a %. 

You really don't want this behavior.

Use 

	print OUTFILE $_;
or
	printf OUTFILE "%s",$_;

The perl man page says:

...
     printf(FILEHANDLE LIST)

     printf(LIST)

     printf FILEHANDLE LIST

     printf LIST
             Equivalent to a "print FILEHANDLE sprintf(LIST)".

...
     sprintf(FORMAT,LIST)
             Returns a string formatted by the usual printf  con-
             ventions.  The * character is not supported.
...

    Enjoy!
    -- Mark
    mdb@cisco.com
From: joel@abigale.uucp (Joel Rosi-Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: formatted read (beginner's question)
Keywords: read
Date: 30 Sep 92 23:21:04 GMT
Organization: Techne Research, Finchampstead, Berkshire (UK)

In article <mcook.717861993@fendahl.dev.cdx.mot.com> mcook@fendahl.dev.cdx.mot.com (Michael Cook) writes:
>joel@abigale.uucp (Joel Rosi-Schwartz) writes:
>
>>First of all you could just do:
>
>>	$num = <>;
>>or
>>	$num = <STDIN>;
>
>>These are the same and [...]
>
>Not exactly.  <> is tied to @ARGV.  If @ARGV!=0||$ARGV[0]ne'-', then <> is
>*not* the same as <STDIN>.

Point taken, thanks.

Cheers,
Joel
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From: joel@abigale.UUCP (Joel Rosi-Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Where to find a compiled perl for SCO Unix ??
Keywords: sco,sysv32
Date: 1 Oct 92 07:34:55 GMT
Organization: Techne Research, Finchampstead, Berkshire (UK)

I tried to reply by E-mail, but Ove's host says he `does not live there',
so at the risk of thousands to the Uunet (is that dollars, Pounds, Lire
or heaven forbid Marks;-) I've decided to post, even though it seems
a bit inappropriate.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject: Returned mail: User unknown

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
While talking to mail.ki.icl.se:
>>> RCPT To:<ovhe@ki.icl.se>
<<< 550 <ovhe@ki.icl.se>... User unknown
550 seunet!ki.icl.se!ovhe... User unknown

X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL5]
Message-Id:  <9209302238.aa05267@abigale.UUCP>

Hi Ove,

The full compiled perl distribution is a bit much to E-mail, I figure
over a meg.  I would be happy to put it on a disk and mail it to you
though, if you do not fine a better source.  I have the latest release
4.035 compiled with gcc 2.2.2 on SCO Unix 3.2.2 and I works like
a charm.

Cheers,
Joel
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
Subject: Re: pipe in and out of process
Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 22:00:08 GMT
Distribution: comp
Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

From the keyboard of esulzner@cad645.intel.com (Eric Sulzner):
:Thanks to those who responded.  Here's a summary:

Did you check out the open2.pl library routine?

--tom
-- 
    Tom Christiansen      tchrist@convex.com      convex!tchrist
        if (tmpstab == envstab)         /* heavy wizardry going on here */
            str_magic(str, tmpstab, 'E', tmps, anum);   /* str is now magic */
                                    /* he threw the brick up into the air */
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
From: wucolin@popeye.CIS.McMaster.CA (Colin Wu)
Subject: Odd 'print @array' behavior with 4.035
Reply-To: wucolin@popeye.CIS.McMaster.CA (Colin Wu)
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 14:07:07 GMT

I hope someone can help me with this.  Please, please, please....

I have an application that slurps a mail message into an array, looks for a  
pattern in the message then prints the array out to a pipe.  Here's the  
relavent code bit:

@MSG = <>;
$Action = '| /usr/bin/sndplay sound.snd'; #for example, this is on a NeXT
..
open (PROC, "$Action") || die "...";
print @MSG;
close (PROC);

This works fine most times, but with long messages (one example is ~600 lines)  
I get a "Broken pipe" message just about when the sound file is played.

I've also tried doing:

open (PROC, ...);
select (PROC);
$| = 1;
print ...;

with the same result.

Any idea what's happening?
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From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: write STDOUT or FILE
Date: 28 Sep 92 19:23:23 GMT
Organization: NetLabs, Inc.

In article <Bv98yw.CKF@ireq.hydro.qc.ca> ratel@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Gilles Ratel 8720) writes:
: I would write at terminal or into a file:
: 
: Example:
: ===============================================================================
: 
: $term = 1;     # flag 
: 
: if ($term)     
:   {$output = STDOUT;} 			    # define $output at "terminal" O.K.
: else 					    # else
:   { open(UNIT,'>file.out') || die "??";     # define $output at "file.out" ???
:      $output = UNIT;                        #   NOT OPERATIONNAL ????
:   }
: 
: #----------------------------------------------
: $TEXT = ' zzzzzzzzzz';
: $~    = outext;				    # write with format "outext"
: write ($output);                            # use $output
: #----------------------------------------------
: format outext =
:            @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
:            $TEXT
: .
: 
: =============================================================================
: 
: Do you have a hint for my "else" ("file.out") ?

If you don't do select(UNIT) or select($output) then your assignment to $~
will change STDOUT's $~, not UNIT's $~.

As an alternative, consider opening "file.out" on STDOUT instead of UNIT.
Then you can use a format named STDOUT and not worry about $~ at all.

Larry
From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: math functions
Date: 29 Sep 92 19:20:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Sep29.192037.18643
Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO
Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

From the keyboard of hdnea@usho0e.hou281.chevron.com (David Neal):
:Atan2 is included in perl but asin is not?
:
:What am I missing?  Did I do something really stupid (configuring
:perl, that is)?

Given sin(), cos(), and atan2(), the other trig functions are
derivable, or so I dimly recall.  But I don't have the formulae.

--tom
-- 
    Tom Christiansen      tchrist@convex.com      convex!tchrist
    If I don't document something, it's usually either for a good reason,
    or a bad reason.  In this case it's a good reason.  :-)
            --Larry Wall in <1992Jan17.005405.16806@netlabs.com>
From: dbc@tc.fluke.COM (Dan Carson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: raw input (keyboard) in msdos-perl?
Date: 28 Sep 92 17:22:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: tc.1992Sep28.172209.7928
Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA

In article <kebsch.716737968@neurotic> kebsch@neurotic.sni.de (Waldemar Kebsch) writes:
>
>Hi,
>
>how I can enable raw input (keyboard) in msdos-perl? I wish to get the key,
>when it is pressed and not when the enter-key is pressed.

Looking at Ralf Brown's interrupt list and msdos.c in the perl distribution,
plus some trial and error, I came up with these subroutines:

sub raw { ioctl(STDIN,1,0xd3 | 0x20); }  # Bit 5 is the "raw" bit
sub unraw { ioctl(STDIN,1,0xd3); }       # 0xd3 is a "sane" value

This would be a good item for the FAQ list.

Dan Carson
dbc@tc.fluke.COM
John Fluke Mfg.
Everett, WA
From: jpd@discovery.msu.edu (Joe P. DeCello)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Perl Scripts for Budtool
Date: 6 Oct 92 18:00:27 GMT
Reply-To: jpd@discovery.msu.edu
Organization: Michigan State University

Has anyone written any perl scripts (or csh) for Budtool.  For example, I would
like a script which rsh's out to a system, gets it's filesystem info, and puts it into
a format which can cut/pasted into Budtools' database.  If not, I'll write it myself,
just wondering.
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From: dansmith@Autodesk.COM (Daniel Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: ? possible (de)reference nested data types syntax ?
Date: 30 Sep 92 23:18:14 GMT
Organization: Autodesk Inc., Sausalito CA, USA

In <1992Sep29.175303.26593@netlabs.com> lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall) writes:
> nobody uses them, even me).   I don't think > or ^ are visually
> distinctive enough.  ^ looks too much like ~, and I think I'd prefer to

	Well, isn't ^ a known pascalism? :-)

	It suggests "pointer" to me more than '\'.  Hmm, maybe that's
not what you're intending though?

	In any case, I'll look forward to that functionality!

				Daniel
-- 
     Daniel Smith, Autodesk, Sausalito, California, (415) 332-2344 x 2580
	      Disclaimer: written by a highly caffeinated mammal
	    dansmith@autodesk.com            dansmith@well.sf.ca.us

Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
From: am@rz.uni-konstanz.de (Andreas Merkel)
Subject: To Ken
Reply-To: am@rz.uni-konstanz.de
Organization: Rechenzentrum Uni Konstanz
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:31:20 GMT

Sorry folks for wasting bandwith, but i'm really desperate.

My name is Zeljko Horvat, and i'm posting this from a co-workers
account on his machine (i have no Newsreader up and running yet, see below).
Someone named Ken (and i really don't remeber anything else) received 
a while ago my perl-scripts regarding network-monitoring.
Due to a bad hardware crash i've lost mail and work from the past three
or four weeks.
I would really like to continue my work after having the machine somehow
running again and i wouldn't want to start from scratch (although this idea
won't be too bad at all)

Please, Ken, resend me anything i have sent to you so far - i would be very
thankful for saving me lots of time. Please send it to the following E-Mail
adress: zh@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de
A big THANK YOU in advance.

All others: Again, please excuse bothering. 

Greetings,

Z. Horvat


Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,comp.databases.oracle