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Hi, Although this is possibly caused by sybase it is in perl were I wish to solve the problem so I choose this forum over the sybase one. Ok here goes... I have been having some problems using DBI to connect to a sybase database.... sometimes its all fine, other times it doesn't work and this...

I also encountered this problem recently, check out the suggestions in this thread: http://www.tek-tips.com//viewthread.cfm?spid=822&newpid=822&sqid=398721&CFID=413649&CFTOKEN=34084985 if you have it then the dos2unix works a treat! HTH Rob

Hi, thanks for that excellent suggestion, a nice quick a simple solution thats what I like, now why couldn't I have thought of that! btw, i'm not actually re-choosing on success, there is a whole bunch of code that happens, I just removed it all and replace it with and echo to make the code...

Hi, I have this case statement for which the options change depending on the number of subdirectories in a directory. However, lets say there happen to be 15 subdirectories. This causes the case statement to echo "Invalid choice" if the user enters any values except or 1 and 5...

Hi, Say I have a directory of files each with a header which looks like this: # # $RCSfile: MF.form,v $ # $Author: david $ # $Revision: 1.46.2.6.2.3.2.4 $ # I want to extract from each file into a variable the long revision number between "$Revision: " amd " $" at the end...

Ok, I've tried this: echo $string | sed 's`echo "^M"`'//g' and it errored with and EOF so I got rid of one of the ' echo $string | sed 's`echo "^M"`//g' and it doesn't error anymore. However, rather than echoing it out to the screen I need to put it into another...

Hi, Say I have a string in my shell script and I want to do a find and replace on it what I am supposed to use and how? I have tried using sed (but then realised this was just for files?) and am now a bit stumped. All I want to do is to find all instances of "^m" within a string and...

Cheers, thanks for the suggestions. I went for the copying the ones I wanted to keep into a temporary array and then copying this back onto @a_array approach in the end. Rob

Hi, Say I have an array @a_array which contain objects which are in turn arrays with 6 elements. I am trying to delete objects from that array whose first element equals an element of another array. So far I have got this far (assume that @a_array and @ignore_variables has been declared and...

Hi, Cheers for that. However, what can I do if they aren't in the path. sample file contains: directory1/directory2/filename directory2/directory3/filename directory3/filename and these are not in the root or the path. So, what I need to do is to add the rest of the path to each filenames...

Hi, I'm kinda new to shell scripts. I have a file which lists a series of filenames. I need to write a script which gets the list of these filenames from the file, and then tars them up maintaining the directory structure. Cheers Rob

cheers, worked a treat.

Hi, I have a string variable which I have done some pattern matching on and I want to assign the matched text to a new variable. I have this: $new_variable = $the_string =~ m/^\s*\w+/; However, when the pattern is found this assigns 1 (true) to the new_variable rather than the string itself...

Hi, I have to extract some information using perl from some files and I assume will deal with pattern matching which I am not very experienced with so am in need of a bit of help. Below is a sample of the format of these files, although of course these files are not totally uniform and can have...

Hi, I need to write a script which extracts all the currently set envrionment variables into an array of the format { Variable_Name , Variable_Value } Any help would be much appreciated. Rob Miles