Hi,
I was jus goin through a ebook on perl....it says u get binary installation for both unix and windows.....doesnt perl come already bundeled with unix ?cause i never installed any perl from binary........but i am able to execute perl programs......
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Vivek.S (1 Reply)
Hello. I am taking a Perl class in college and we've briefly covered SQL and moved on. We have a term project and we can do whatever we want. My project will rely strongly on an SQL Database so I am trying to learn as much about Perl DBI as I can to get things up and going.
I am basically... (1 Reply)
Hi everyone, and thank you for your help with this. I am VERY new with perl so all of your help is appreciated. I have tried google but as I don't know the proper terms to search for and could be daunting for a newbie scripter... I know this is very easy for most of you! Thanks!
I have a... (4 Replies)
hi,
can anybody explain me the below code. i am new to perl
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$o_dups{$1} = 1 if /^\w+\t.{19}\t(+),/;
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priyanka (2 Replies)
Hi friends,
Please see the below code carefully.
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# Get batch date and Ord range
open OR,$ARGV;
while (<OR>) { # find the batch date
next if length $_ < 3; # BLANK LINE
# last if $. > 120; # sample should be good enough... (2 Replies)
Hi ,
I am having csv contains data
2011-08-23 11:11:00.074+0000: Info: Duplicate Order is not processed,Original Order Tuple
($category, $type) = split(',', $_ , 2);
what is the split function work here??
Thanks
Please start using code tags, thanks. (5 Replies)
Hi guys,
I think this is a basic question. I'm not very familiar with this.
I'm trying to round a number up and round a number down. From what I have read this can be done using POSIX. I have tried to to use this, but i'm getting errors:
sub findGridBounds($$$%)
{
use POSIX;
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perlrequick - Perl regular expressions quick start
DESCRIPTION
This page covers the very basics of understanding, creating and using regular expressions ('regexes') in Perl.
The Guide
Simple word matching
The simplest regex is simply a word, or more generally, a string of characters. A regex consisting of a word matches any string that
contains that word:
"Hello World" =~ /World/; # matches
In this statement, "World" is a regex and the "//" enclosing "/World/" tells Perl to search a string for a match. The operator "=~"
associates the string with the regex match and produces a true value if the regex matched, or false if the regex did not match. In our
case, "World" matches the second word in "Hello World", so the expression is true. This idea has several variations.
Expressions like this are useful in conditionals:
print "It matches
" if "Hello World" =~ /World/;
The sense of the match can be reversed by using "!~" operator:
print "It doesn't match
" if "Hello World" !~ /World/;
The literal string in the regex can be replaced by a variable:
$greeting = "World";
print "It matches
" if "Hello World" =~ /$greeting/;
If you're matching against $_, the "$_ =~" part can be omitted:
$_ = "Hello World";
print "It matches
" if /World/;
Finally, the "//" default delimiters for a match can be changed to arbitrary delimiters by putting an 'm' out front:
"Hello World" =~ m!World!; # matches, delimited by '!'
"Hello World" =~ m{World}; # matches, note the matching '{}'
"/usr/bin/perl" =~ m"/perl"; # matches after '/usr/bin',
# '/' becomes an ordinary char
Regexes must match a part of the string exactly in order for the statement to be true:
"Hello World" =~ /world/; # doesn't match, case sensitive
"Hello World" =~ /o W/; # matches, ' ' is an ordinary char
"Hello World" =~ /World /; # doesn't match, no ' ' at end
Perl will always match at the earliest possible point in the string:
"Hello World" =~ /o/; # matches 'o' in 'Hello'
"That hat is red" =~ /hat/; # matches 'hat' in 'That'
Not all characters can be used 'as is' in a match. Some characters, called metacharacters, are reserved for use in regex notation. The
metacharacters are
{}[]()^$.|*+?
A metacharacter can be matched by putting a backslash before it:
"2+2=4" =~ /2+2/; # doesn't match, + is a metacharacter
"2+2=4" =~ /2+2/; # matches, + is treated like an ordinary +
'C:WIN32' =~ /C:\WIN/; # matches
"/usr/bin/perl" =~ //usr/bin/perl/; # matches
In the last regex, the forward slash '/' is also backslashed, because it is used to delimit the regex.
Non-printable ASCII characters are represented by escape sequences. Common examples are " " for a tab, "
" for a newline, and "
" for a
carriage return. Arbitrary bytes are represented by octal escape sequences, e.g., "