>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Zucker <jeff@vpservices.com> writes:

Jeff> Hmm, maybe you should have waited until the book came out to learn.
Jeff> It would have been so much easier to learn then.  But writing the book
Jeff> might have been a bit more difficult if you'd done it in that order.

Not if I get a visit from Professor Emmet Brown.

print "Just another Perl hacker," # the original one, that is...

In article <ar31mn$nka$1@news.island.liu.se>, Jonas Nilsson wrote:
> Is there a c to perl source convertor?

Yes. It's called a programmer.

Joe Moschak bravely attempted to attach 69 electrodes of knowledge to
the nipples of comp.lang.perl.misc by saying:
>How can I
>make it so that each time I invoke my script from a given web session I get
>the same PID instead of a different one?

Easy. Put this line at the beginning of your script, and create a
wrapper that runs it in a loop until it gets the "correct" pid.

die "Please sir, may I have another PID?\n" if $$ != $Wanted_Pid;

;o)

Jerry wrote:

> I want to send a response to a new pop-up browser window with no
> menubar, toolbar, location features.
> This is easy to do in the client browser with javascript using
> window.open but how is it done in perl?


Q: I want to talk to someone 3,000 miles away.  This is easy to do with
a telephone, but how is it done with a coffee mug?

A: It isn't done with a coffe mug, use the telephone.

Accurately describing a problem is the first step to solving it.
"Doesn't work" is the vaguest description imaginable.

What should the program do that it does not?
What is the program doing that it shold not?

For example,

    I expect this code to replace "\n" with "<BR>" in the values of
    some chosen CGI parameters.  Instead, it leaves them untouched,
    and adds another parameter named "$thingy" whose value is always
    4294967295.

That's something to work with.

| foreach $thingy(@display_items){
| param('$thingy'  => ~ s/\n/<BR>/g);
| }

PerlFAQ Server wrote:
> 4.16: How do I find yesterday's date?

   sleep( - 24 * 60 * 60 );
   $yesterday = time;

Benjamin Goldberg wrote:
> PerlFAQ Server wrote:
>> 4.16: How do I find yesterday's date?
>
>    sleep( - 24 * 60 * 60 );
>    $yesterday = time;

Better yet:

$yesterday = time;
sleep(24*60*60);

On Mon, 09 Sep 2002 12:11:57 +0100, John W. Krahn wrote:

> Anno Siegel wrote:
>>
>> "Teach a man to fish and he may feed himself. Give a man a fish and
>> he'll ask you if you could please cook it for him while you're at it."
>>
>> ...and do the dishes afterwards.
>
> Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and he
> spends all his time in the basement tying flies and neglecting his
> personal hygiene.

Light a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day.
Throw a man on a fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

In article <3cda4910$1@isls-news.wmin.ac.uk>, Ross Clement wrote:
> Hi. What would people recommend as the best freeware editor for Perl
> development on windows. It doesn't need to be Perl specific, just 'convenient'.
>
> At present I'm using MS-DOS 'edit', so anything better than that will
> be a boost.

What chair would you recommend as the best for Perl development? At
present I'm using the floor, so anything better than that will be a
boost.

peter pilsl [comp.mail.sendmail] <Sat, 4 May 2002 03:12:23 +0200>:
>  AvA wrote:
> > The communists did it, I'm sure.
> > They do it all the time.
>  Lately they've stolen 3GB of my new 80GB-hardrive too !!!

That was your cat, posting to usenet when you are off getting coffee.

Test <Test@test.com> wrote:

>What is the best spam mailer module for spam mails

It is not possible to send mail using Perl.

> # Variable Declarations
>         local ($usage, $arg, $option, %options, %describe, ) = ();

local() does not declare variables.  Putting a comment in front saying
"Variable Declarations" won't alter this fact.

How about:

    package Perl;

    use less Python;
    use less TCL;
    use less VB;
    use less Java;
    use less Javascript;
    use less Shell;

    use less DebuggingTime;
    use less Memory;
    use less Effort;
    use less MaintenanceCost;
    use less PerSeatLicenseFees;
    use less Unportability;
    use less OfYourOwnCodeAndMoreOfTheCPAN;

    1;

:-)

Given the code snippets below, I can only conclude that the
Fab Four were very early JAPHs:


   sub marine { 'yellow' }

   $we->can(work_it_out);

   time - 60 * 60 * 24;

   $she ne 'sweet'
   join('', @us), time() / $me;

   $week = 8 * 60 * 60 * 24;

   use LWP::Simple;
   get 'back';

   my $life = 'you';

   no where 'man';

   perl -lane '$1 / 100'

   push @She::ISA, 'Woman';

   print "strawberry fields\n" while 1;

   1 + 1 + 1 == 3


Too bad Mrs. Wall didn't name him Russell instead of Larry, because
then we would know who the "Wall, Russ" is.

(good for me that you can't throw rotting vegetables via Usenet...)

One of their titles appears verbatim in Subject headers all
too frequently here:

   Subject: Help!

Like, it's true Man! The Beatles were so connected to everything
that you can find them everywhere. All you have to do is look
hard enough :-)

On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:27:04 +0100, Josef Möllers
<josef.moellers@fujitsu-siemens.com> wrote:
> Bernard El-Hagin wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:32:33 +0100, Josef Möllers
>> <josef.moellers@fujitsu-siemens.com> wrote:
>
>> > Bernahrd already wrote what might be wrong.
>>   ^^^^^^^^
>>
>> Who? :)
>
> I'm sorry. I seem to be having some timing problems between my left hand
> and my right hand lately.

I'ev nevre dha taht rpobelm mysefl.

mjd@plover.com (Mark Jason Dominus) writes:

> In article <Isc68.22180$l93.3946668@newsb.telia.net>,
> Trahojen <trahojen_spam_me_not@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >$stupid_obj->&$methods[0]
> >or
> >$stupid_obj->$methods[0]->()
> >
> >I prefer the latter one, it's art.
>
> They're both syntax errors.

So it's abstract art then ;)

>> On 31 Jan 2002 16:11:22 -0800,
>> yf110@vtn1.victoria.tc.ca (Malcolm Dew-Jones) said:

> Uri Guttman (uri@stemsystems.com) wrote:

>> : i use cat.

> as in $ cat > finished_file.pl

> ?
> Must require a lot of careful planning before hand.

Uri is the result of a genetics experiment involving the
cloning of Niklaus Wirth and Edsgar Dijkstra.  Nothing
else makes sense.

:-)

"Malcolm Dew-Jones" <yf110@vtn1.victoria.tc.ca> wrote in message
news:3c59dd2a@news.victoria.tc.ca...
> Uri Guttman (uri@stemsystems.com) wrote:
> : i use cat.
>
> as in
> $ cat > finished_file.pl

        'Real programmers use "cat > a.out" '

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 23:20:15 GMT, Tad McClellan wrote:
> Tassilo v. Parseval <Tassilo.Parseval@post.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>>    if (/\E$my_variable\Q/)
>
> The other way around:
>
>    if (/\Q$my_variable\E/)

Hmmh, must be a virus tormenting Germany remembering Find::File in a
previous post not long ago. :-)

Tassilo

Jürgen Exner <jurgenex@hotmail.com> wrote:

> You should really have a close look at Find::File


   $_ = "You should really have a close look at Find::File\n";

   s/(\w+)::(\w+)/$2::$1/;

   print;


:-)

>>>>> "Jürgen" == Jürgen Exner <jurgenex@hotmail.com> writes:

Jürgen> You should really have a close look at Find::File

And an even closer look at File::Find.

:-)

Markus Dreyer wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
>>   if (SMonth eq 01) {ServerMonth="january";}
>
> The operator eq compares strings. 01 is not a string but a number

And 09 is a syntax error.