Perl

FAQ 8.6 How do I check whether input is ready on the keyboard?
This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq8.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete perlfaq is at http://faq.perl.org . --------... 31 Mar 2008 17:57

printf: zero pad after the decimal a given amount
jidanni(a)jidanni.org schreef: Why is there no way to tell printf to zero pad like the right column: 0.1 :0.100 0.05 :0.050 0.03 :0.030 0.025 :0.025 0.02 :0.020 0.015 :0.015 0.0125 :0.0125 0.01 :0.010 0.009 :0.009 0.00625:0.00625 0.005 :0.005 $ perl -wle' print "... 31 Mar 2008 19:20

FAQ 8.3 How do I do fancy stuff with the keyboard/screen/mouse?
This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq8.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete perlfaq is at http://faq.perl.org . --------... 31 Mar 2008 17:57

FAQ 1.5 What was Ponie?
This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq1.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete perlfaq is at http://faq.perl.org . --------... 2 Feb 2008 09:07

FAQ 1.3 Which version of Perl should I use?
This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq1.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete perlfaq is at http://faq.perl.org . --------... 2 Feb 2008 03:28

Different behavior between eval "07" and eval "08"
eval "07" gets 7 but eval "08" gets an undefined value. I tested perl 5.8.8 on fedora 8 and ubuntu. Is there any difference between those two eval statements? Is this a bug? ... 2 Feb 2008 10:46

FAQ 1.4 What are Perl 4, Perl 5, or Perl 6?
This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq1.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete perlfaq is at http://faq.perl.org . --------... 1 Feb 2008 21:26

regx expression? (link included)
A favor please . Would someone tell me if this regx requires something I don't have installed? I copied it, but it will not compile. I've never seen a regx written like this and I kind of wonder if this is input to some other parser. Thanks. (perk 5,8,8) Here's the link. (I pasted a copy below also, but I'm... 2 Feb 2008 05:07

Perl on Linux and AIX
dcruncher4(a)aim.com wrote: perl -v This is perl, v5.8.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi here is a simple program (script name test.pl) #! /usr/bin/perl -w open(MSGF,"/dev/stdin") or die "ERROR\n" ; I think you did it in a non-portable way. # no need to call open() while (<STDIN>) ... 2 Feb 2008 11:19

Perl regular expressions
Hello All, We need to extract from a text a 3-digit numbers surrounded by certain text. For example, we need to extract 199 surrounded by "MESSAGE TYPE" and "SYSTEM/INPUT": MESSAGE TYPE 199 SYSTEM/INPUT What would be Perl regular expression for this? Thank you, Alona ... 2 Feb 2008 00:10