Hello folks,

I'm trying to install the DBD::mysql, but it failes. It have done this
before but after my system disk crashed I had to reinstall Fedora Core 4
(yes, I know it is a bit old).

I do a 'cpan -i DBD::mysql'. It claim that my AMD 64-bit prosessor does not
support x86-64 instruction set... which I find a bit odd.

What can be wrong?

Checking if your kit is complete...
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Using DBI 1.48 (for perl 5.008006 on x86_64-linux-thread-multi) installed
in /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBI/
Writing...

I create an excel file 'myfile.xls' using WriteExcel module. It has a
tab named 'Name1', and its first (say) 10 rows have some data.

I would like to reopen this sheet for over/writing, and write a string
'new string' to its cell (10, 1). Or overwrite cell (2,2) with string
'new string'.

Now I can open a new excel sheet for writing, parse the old file cell
by cell, copy each cell to the new file's sheet(s), and add a new
string to a 'new' cell, and overwrite a copied cell, and then rename
the new sheet as 'myfile.xls'. But I am interested in knowing whether
the module WriteExcel (or a Win32 module) allows me to reopen an
existing excel file for over/writing.

TIA.

Sniff wrote:

*write{FILEHANDLE} is the 'FILEHANDLE' (or 'IO') slot in the symbol
table of the 'write' package variable so are we to assume that you used
open( write, ">filename" ) to create the filehandle?

Please no editor war, but I am curious, what's the editor of choice you're
using to write Perl, and why (if you want to share).

I am currently using Textpad, but in the very near future I am moving to
GNU/Linux. I've some experience with using vi(m) for editing work, and
have printed both the emacs and vim manual, but not sure which one to
start reading first.

I've had a short peek at Komodo Edit, but considered the start up time way
too high. Ages ago I had a peek at Eclipse, but not sure if I am the IDE
kind of guy (I manage quite ok with a "perldoc" keymark in Firefox, and
perldoc on the cli most of the time).

In article <3bc8b657-828f-4cde-bbf5-9d9c09b8e59f@s8g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
gmail.com> wrote:

Lots of neat solutions to *this* problem in this thread!

Now, how about generalizing it to eg what csh, etc, has:

{a, b, c, {e, f, g}{1,2}, x}{" hello", "goodbye"} etc

How to even *approach* this problem, or even *think* about it.

A whole set of coroutines or generators or something?

Any ideas?

Thanks

David

Not that I really need a solution

to study the frequency of words composed of {a,b,c,d,e}, how can i tell perl
program to generate the associative array of (aaaaa, aaaab, ..., caaaa, ...,
eeeee) for me instead of declaring it explicitly?

Then instead of counting the occurrence of aaaaa but the co-existence, say,
aaaaabcdea or aaaaaaaaab, how can i combine the advantage of regular
expression with this associative array?

This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq6.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 .

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6.6: How can I make "\w" match national character sets?

Put "use locale;" in your script. The \w character class is taken from
the current locale.

See perllocale for details.

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are not necessarily experts in every domain where Perl might show up,
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corrections. The perlfaq-workers also don't have access to every
operating system or platform, so please include relevant details for
corrections to examples that do not work on particular platforms.
Working code is greatly appreciated.

I get:

"Bizarre copy of HASH in aassign at DiskSpeeds.pl line 10."

when I do:

use strict; use English; use warnings;
use Time::HiRes;
use threads;
use threads :: shared;
use Net::Ping;

my( %%Times, %%Samples, %%Time, %%Avg ) : shared = 1; ## line 10

my( @Vols, $Begins );

Any ideas???

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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 .

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5.35: Why doesn't glob("*.*") get all the files?

Because even on non-Unix ports, Perl's glob function follows standard
Unix globbing semantics. You'll need "glob("*")" to get all (non-hidden)
files. This makes glob() portable even to legacy systems. Your port may
include proprietary globbing functions as well. Check its documentation
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Good day,

has anyone experience with the modulen named in the subject, especially
with its SetServiceBits() function?

A service can use this function to declare a computer as "responsible"
for a specific task (for example, as a Microsoft SQL Server) by setting
a particular bit given as argument. There are, however, 10 bits available
for user-specific purpopes.

I want to use this function to register systems on which a special service
is installed. Using the Win32::NetAdmin::GetServers() function, I could
then specify the approbiate bit in its $flag argument to obtain just a list
of systems on which my service is installed:

In my service:

use Win32::Daemon;
...
Win32::Daemon::SetServiceBits(USER_SERVICE_BITS_1);

In the script to lookup for systems running my service: