Perl

Combining M-F school week and 6 day class cycle
I work at a school where we have repeating events over a six day school cycle. So we have classes on Day 1 that repeat on the next school day after Day 6. Our school days are Monday through Friday, with days off for holidays and what not. For example if our school year started on August 30, 2007, that would be DAY ... 20 Feb 2007 16:57

Help with string replacement
Hi, I'm trying to use the -pi switches to replace some strings in a file. However, I'm getting some very strange results. My test file looks like this: daily_rank.sh|22:30|22:31|22:35|Y dart_process.sh|17:45|17:45|14:46|Y prft_trck.sh|7:30|7:30|7:46|Y Here is my command line: perl -pi -e "s/$x/$y/;"... 20 Feb 2007 16:57

Read Zip on SMB drive with Perl
I have been able to create a zip file on my Windows box using the Filesys::SmbClient interface, but cannot open it back up with the F::S and Archive::Zip combination. Anyone else tried this? ... 20 Feb 2007 15:23

Quick Question
Im trying to read a series of files and extract a small, unique piece of data from each of them, and print it in a log file. grep didnt seem to be working as i expected, until i realized that the files werent being opened, and my regex was banging against the <i>names</i> of the files. heres what i have, #!/usr/... 21 Feb 2007 07:17

net::mysql holds onto my query
Hi, I am sending this query to Net::MySQL, and it halts. The program doesn't move forward to tell me if there is an error or to print the next line after that. This query works in the query browser, and I can make other queries in the same program. Thus, I know that there is no general problem with making queri... 24 Feb 2007 18:53

Finding Background processes?
Greetings, I want to check whether a particular script (say test.txt) is already running in background or not? If it exists then I want to exit the code else proceed further. I am new to perl and have done this in shell scripting but not able to find the equivalent in perl -- unix shell script ... 5 Mar 2007 20:15

Creating pivot table
Hi, I am bringing the data to an excel sheet and showing it as a report through perl. Now my requirement is to produce a pivot table on the same data and show it.I am using win32::OLE in my perl code to bring the sheet. If some have an URL or code example will be great. Thanks ... 20 Feb 2007 17:29

Tool to create Perl based scripts
Hi All, I have to automate a lot of validation scripts in Perl. Is there a simple way/tool to do the same. basically log files will be created and i have to look for certain keywords in the log files and make a decision to validate the tests. I am just looking to save time in automating my perl writing task. an... 24 Feb 2007 18:53

find the last element of a line in a file
Hi all, here is an extract of the log file my perl script handles: 2007/02/15 17:59:22 192.168.0.12 ftpuser1 STOR 436699136 /ftp-data/ expl/data/out/region1/ftpuser1/fichier ftp de test.txt 2007/02/15 18:29:22 192.168.0.12 ftpuser1 STOR 436699136 /ftp-data/ expl/data/out/region1/ftpuser1/video.mpg 2007/02/15 ... 20 Feb 2007 12:45

Posting Guidelines for comp.lang.perl.misc ($Revision: 1.7 $)
Outline Before posting to comp.lang.perl.misc Must - Check the Perl Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - Check the other standard Perl docs (*.pod) Really Really Should - Lurk for a while before posting - Search a Usenet archive If You Like - Check Other Re... 20 Feb 2007 03:40