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Perl Switch/Case Satement

for (@ARGV) { if (/^6\d{4}$/) { $item_code = $_; $action = 'load'; } elsif (/^stop$/) { $action = 'stop' ; } elsif (/^start$/) { $action = 'start'; } else { print "Default\n"; } } print "Item : " . $item_code . "\n"; print "Action : " . $action ....

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RES:23# I don’t know what it means either

A company named HSAjet has a CU (Control Unit) that drives some expensive print heads for carton labelling. In the documentation that is supplied with the Control Unit it specifies that you can communicate with it via RS232 and Ethernet. The Ethernet part is what I'm...

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ABA File Information

Every now and again a business has to change Banks and you are left to figure out what the ABA file format should be and what the different fields mean. Especially annoying is when you have set it up and have been running for years and the meaning has been lost over...

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Rackspace Cloud – Uptime

uptime 05:29:01 up 44 days, 4:54, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.03, 0.00 Since I went to a small Rackspace cloud server I was concerned whether it would be stable. I have only had the account for a couple of months but the uptime is consistent with my last reboot so...

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Wherefore art though php_dbase.dll?

Trying to save some time by installing a pre-configured WAMP environment (Windows Apache MySQL and PHP). I downloaded the latest Bitnami WAMPStack and found that it didn't have php_dbase.dll in the $PHP_DIR/ext/ dir. A planned retreat worked. This version has...

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