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Re: XML parsing problem

2013-05-21T19:39:44Z

Thank you Ben! That's exactly what I needed to know.

Re: I'd like to try Perl...

2013-05-21T18:58:50Z

In article <d9ac9117-18c9-4114-ad7a-612c2 3ba1...@dk8g2000vbb.googlegrou ps.com>,
marc.gi...@gmail.com says...

Yeah, spend a few minutes checking out the cygwin environment. I started with Strawberry
Perl and ended up removing it and installing cygwin. You get perl and tons more if you want.

Re: XML parsing problem

2013-05-21T18:26:22Z

Quoth Nachtmsk <msha...@mac.com>:

Don't do that: this will give you the whole HTTP response, including the
header. You want either the ->content or ->decoded_content method.

Please don't do that.

Ben

XML parsing problem

2013-05-21T18:02:10Z

Hi,
I'm having a hard time getting some XML parsing to work.
Here's the story.
I am posting an XML file to a server for authentication.
The server ï¿½I post to responds back with some XML. In that XML is a
token that I need to parse out.
The data that I am being sent back is part XML and part HTTP header. I

How to make XML::XPath ignore namespaces?

2013-05-21T17:59:05Z

I'm trying to use XML::XPath to extract content from XML documents. The documents are specified with namespaces, but I want to use XPath expressions without namespaces. As far as I can tell, I had this working perfectly fine in two different scripts.

It seems like sometime today, the behavior of XML::XPath has changed with respect to this. I don't see what I could have changed that has made this behavior change.

Re: I'd like to try Perl...

2013-05-21T00:23:58Z

Quoth Peter Percival <peterxperci...@hotmail.com>:

Strawberry is most like perl on other systems: it comes with a copy of
the compiler it was compiled with, so CPAN.pm and the other standard
Perl CPAN interfaces work properly. Strawberry is actually an offshoot
of the Vanilla Perl project (see what they did there?) which was

Re: I'd like to try Perl...

2013-05-20T20:02:59Z

I didn't know that. Thank you for drawing my attention to it.

Maybe both then!

Re: I'd like to try Perl...

2013-05-20T19:44:38Z

ActivePerl is compiled with a Microsoft compiler (the Visual C++
Express Edition is available for free), and Strawberry with a bundled
gcc.
This will impact the ease with which CPAN modules interfacing with
shared libraries will drop.

Note also the Cygwin option...

Marc

Re: Efficiency of s///e?

2013-05-20T15:58:39Z

In article <slrnkphatc.om4.why...@orphan. zombinet>,

Oh, rescanning! Yes, in general that should indeed be considered, and
thank you for mentioning it -- s///g doesn't rescan and so avoids any
infinite loop problems.

(If you're curious about my original problem that prompted this:
rescanning doesn't produce any different results for my case -- the

Re: I'd like to try Perl...

2013-05-20T14:50:46Z

Consider CitrusPerl as well, as it includes Wx + DBI.
[link]

StrawberryPerl already provides 5.18.0.1.

CitrusPerl is at 5.16.3.

--
Ruud

I'd like to try Perl...

2013-05-20T14:04:34Z

I'd like to try Perl on Win 7 and according to this:
[link], it's a choice between ActiveState,
Strawberry and DWIM. Any advice on choosing between them would be welcome.

Re: Efficiency of s///e?

2013-05-20T06:19:48Z

*SKIP*

Good. Now I have a better understanding of your way of thinking. It
won't make problems anymore.

--
Torvalds' goal for Linux is very simple: World Domination
Stallman's goal for GNU is even simpler: Freedom

Re: Efficiency of s///e?

2013-05-19T22:00:42Z

Quoth Eric Pozharski <why...@pozharski.name>:

OK. Then I'm not sure *why* you're demonstrating that, since I wasn't
questioning it.

Ben

Re: Efficiency of s///e?

2013-05-19T17:56:42Z

In particular, s///g scans the text from left to right and replaces
matches it found in the original input string. The loop will rescan
the text upon each iteration, possibly performing replacements on the
results of earlier replacements.

Re: Efficiency of s///e?

2013-05-19T10:38:36Z

*SKIP*

I'm trying to show that

while( m// ) { code(); s/// }

differs from

s//code()/eg

--
Torvalds' goal for Linux is very simple: World Domination
Stallman's goal for GNU is even simpler: Freedom