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You need code tags. Python isn't Python without indentation.

Jeremy

I think you might have a command "basename" which might do what you want.

Jeremy

Python is the ideal beginner language.

It's also the ideal advanced scripting language too, ironically.

Jeremy

Why would it be better in bash?

Perl is everywhere; bash isn't.

Jeremy

Not necessarily. That's certainly not an invariant, perhaps when you're working with late copying of substrings.

Using memmove instead of memcpy is just good programming practice. Anytime you...

It's too bad Python isn't installed on those machines -- it provides much better tools for this. Does Perl even offer an easy way to iterate over strings? I can't remember.

Anyway, as bwkaz...

I can't tell you how to do it in Perl, because I don't feel like looking up the syntax to substr, but you should use this algorithm:



import re

def lettersToNumber(s):
if not...

Don't use memcpy, its behavior is undefined in the case of an overlapping source and destination. Use memmove instead.

Jeremy

Nope -- it's a plain old /bin/sh bourne shell. Making it a c-shell would break the very standards they're hoping to uphold.

Jeremy

Oops! :D
http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=57909216&m=4110959254&r=4110959254#4110959254

:)

Jeremy

Hey, I remember some people might have been interested in my Chess books at some point, so since I finally got them up on the internet to sell, I figured I'd provide a link to the sale if anyone...

I figured I might as well fill all y'all in.

Some of you know a bit about my future plans and all, and some don't, so I'll recap a little bit.

I'm a sophomore classics major at college,...

Go ahead. Search this board for pieces of Python code and pieces of Perl code. I'll let you deduce yourself which you'd rather learn :)

Jeremy

Python's so easy, most non-domain-specific books really aren't worth the money.

Jeremy

I don't think there is a downside.

Jeremy

I suppose so. Better than "whatever I still use, however lacking, because I'm unwilling to try new and powerful things."

Jeremy

The reason you got the strange error message, btw, is because % is an overloaded operator on strings, and so "123" % "3" "doesn't convert all the arguments" because there aren't any format specifiers...

You're a bit behind the times :) I switch away from Python around 9 months ago :) This time, the bad code belonged to me -- that's why I picked O'Caml. It makes me write better code.

Jeremy

AOL::TOC is a horribly coded PoS module.

I wrote an AIM bot with it, until it broke. Then I went to look at the code and saw how horribly and hacky the code was.

AOL::TOC is (no joke) the...

close() shuts down the socket itself.

You need to set the SO_REUSEADDR option on the socket.

Jeremy

SO_REUSEADDR

First, read the manpage for waitpid. It's perhaps misleading in that there's at least some form of it that does not block.

Either way, it doesn't really matter. Install a signal handler for...

You don't need the FOOSCOUNT stuff.

const char* FOOS = { ... }

0x13a isn't a valid character.

Jeremy

Also note that Arstechnica now has a rather lively programming forum that could use a few more UNIX-centric programmers :)

Jeremy

Have you tried the vim OLE object that can be embedded into DevStudio?

I'm just curious, I have no earthly clue what it's like, I don't use vim, I don't use DevStudio...I don't even use Windows ...