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Interesting results (tangent of the 8 base-pairs thread)
Hi, not sure if this thread still matters to anyone, but for the sake of posterity... > well, if anyone is following this thread, I decided that > when the hash keys are converted into an array here: > > my @base_pairs = keys %base_pairs; > > something is happening that I do not understand. I... -
Hashes of Arrays - Relationship
Output: - [119] TEST 119 / TEST 119 (PPR119A,PPR119B) |- [121] TEST 121 / TEST 121 (PPR121A,PPR121B) | |- [14] TEST 14 / TEST 14 (PPR14A,PPR14B) | | |- [113] TEST 113 / TEST 113 (PPR113A,PPR113B) | | | |+ [220] TT (TT-A) | | |- [114] TEST 114 / TEST 114... -
Hashes of Arrays - Relationship
I have taken the liberty of refactoring this a bit... #!/usr/bin/perl -wT # -*- cperl -*- use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my %data; # First, describe the data: my %rectype = ( group => +{ # Change * to + if fields are not allowed to be empty... -
Hashes of Arrays - Relationship
> if you depend on the numeric sorting (by ID) to generate > the list, is there any way to sort it by Name ($_[1]) Yes. Here is the part of Kevin's code that does the sorting for output purposes: sort {$a->{ID} <=> $b->{ID}} That occurs two places, in output and in outputkids. Both places... -
Malicious command check
> IS there a module or a set of filters I can run against > a value to check and see if it is a malicious commmand? Any such module would be highly bug-prone, because of the large number and wide variety of potential malicious commands. It's much safer to take the opposite approach: don't... -
Line Numbering?
> I found STRICT and WARNINGS very annoying at first but > have since learnt to live with them and find they are > extremely useful. Yeah, I don't always use strict for short scripts, but it is definitely handy for longer ones, *especially* anything long enough that you start thinking about... -
how to delete a file in a dir...and/or clear contents of directory...
> unlink "file.txt"; > Is there a better/correct way to delete a file? This way is correct. There are other ways, but there is not a better way. In fact, this way is better than some of the others, because it will work (assuming the filename is correct) irrespective of platform, and also... -
MySQL form handling
> I created the 'INSERT' string programatically for my > auto populate routine and will follow the same path > with the working table. Yes, INSERT is the usual way to add new records. For modifying existing records, UPDATE is more what you want, something along these lines: my $q =...
