Highlihting a string

2001-07-19 Thread viswanathan sundararajan
Hi, I want to highlight a string in my output.For example consider the output "welcome to perl".I want to highlight the string perl in this output.Could Anyone help me in this regard? visu __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Ya

Re: Re: simple Telnet or vi editor problem

2001-07-19 Thread Rahul Garg
Subject: simple Telnet or vi editor problem > > > I am using vi editor on telnet. After typing in 25 or so lines the next lines are not shown though they are savedstupid question but not getting it..whats the command so that they are shown on editor.. > Waiting for

hash comparisons...

2001-07-19 Thread Jim Conner
What is the best way to compare hash of arrays against each other? Actually, a better way to ask my question would be... I have a hash called %player_info that contains 4 elements per hash reference. I want to compare just the key of the hash against against another hash that I will build fr

RE: stupid question

2001-07-19 Thread Tom Malone
Apache 1.3.19 >Also remember to ALWAYS use strict and -w, no matter how trivial the script. Ok - I will, but why is it important? thanks Tom -Original Message- From: Scott Carmichael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 12:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: stup

RE: stupid question

2001-07-19 Thread Mark Saunders
Because the webserver software isn't configured to execute the .pl extension. It doesn't know what to do with it. Purists would say that the .pl extension represents a Perl Library, and for clarity, methodology, and security sake should not be executed. -Original Message- From: Tom Malo

RE: stupid question

2001-07-19 Thread Scott Carmichael
If the chmod'd properties are the same, it has to be something with your webserver setup, I'd say. I've never had the problem myself, so I'm not entirely sure, but I'd guess it's something to do with allowed file-types on your webserver. What httpd server do you use? Scott Carmichael http://

RE: stupid question

2001-07-19 Thread Tom Malone
Ok -COOL - it worked... Thanks for such speedy assistance!!! Just one more silly question... Why do I have to have the .cgi extension? when I tried it with the .pl extension, i got a 403 forbidden tom -Original Message- From: Scott Carmichael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday,

Re: stupid question

2001-07-19 Thread Mel Matsuoka
At 11:53 PM 07/19/2001 -0400, Tom Malone wrote: >I know this is a simple, stupid question, but i can't seem to find the >answer. I've never used Perl before - only PHP. NOt very familiar with unix >either... >I'm trying to get this hello world script to work - I have the shebang - >#!/usr/bin/perl

RE: stupid question

2001-07-19 Thread Scott Carmichael
I was originally going to reply with the same thing, but I also got an internal error 500 when I tried that. I think you also have to add: use CGI; ... Above that as well? That fixed the error for me. Scott Carmichael http://jobeus.net/ icq: 445472 -Original Message- From: Mark S

RE: stupid question

2001-07-19 Thread Mark Saunders
It's not a stupid question. The script is fine, and it would run in a *nix shell, but you're using it on the web, so you have to add this line just below the shebang: print "Content-type:text/html\n\n"; -Original Message- From: Tom Malone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 1

stupid question

2001-07-19 Thread Tom Malone
I know this is a simple, stupid question, but i can't seem to find the answer. I've never used Perl before - only PHP. NOt very familiar with unix either... I'm trying to get this hello world script to work - I have the shebang - #!/usr/bin/perl at the beginning of the file, and verified with my h

I need to create a module - I think - and don't know how

2001-07-19 Thread Ken Cole
Hi everyone, I am starting to write a number of perl programs. Most relate around a particular application which has numerous environmental variables. The variables can be set from a number of places and those places have a hierarchy as to which takes precedence over the others. I have therefo

Re: Is __PACKAGE__->method() the best way...

2001-07-19 Thread Michael Fowler
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:50:09PM +0100, Mark Maunder wrote: > Sorry, just read the rest of your message. > > Sortof. Grandfather has some utility methods in it that Son and Father both > use. Son calls a method (call it save() )which it has defined. Within this > method it uses one of the utili

Re: $ENV and print question

2001-07-19 Thread John
Correct me if I am wrong since I'm just a newbie.. > > $mypath = $ENV(PATH); > > $myeditor= $ENV{EDITOR}; > > $mytest = 123; > > $mytest2 = "Perl" ^ Doesn't this require a semicolon? > > add "my" at the beginning of the lines: > > my $mypath = $ENV(PATH);

question about sort

2001-07-19 Thread EriK W
Hi guys, I have a question maybe about "sort" or regular expression, @new = sort {($b =~ /=(\d+)/)[0] <=> ($a =~ /=(\d+)/)[0]|| uc($a) cmp uc($b) } @old; I don't really understand this /=(\d+)/ [0] thing, expecially that "=" , what does that mean? Thanks! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAI

Re: $ENV and print question

2001-07-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 02:39:04AM +0200, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:28:05PM -0700, Sekhar, Ravi wrote: > > $mypath = $ENV(PATH); > my $mypath = $ENV(PATH); I should read more carefully. You need braces here instead of parentheses. my $mypath = $ENV{PATH}; (Or mayb

Re: $ENV and print question

2001-07-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:28:05PM -0700, Sekhar, Ravi wrote: > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > use strict; Good! > $mypath = $ENV(PATH); > $myeditor= $ENV{EDITOR}; > $mytest = 123; > $mytest2 = "Perl" add "my" at the beginning of the lines: my $mypath = $ENV(PATH); (Actually, I'd get rid of "my"

$ENV and print question

2001-07-19 Thread Sekhar, Ravi
Hi all, I am trying to do two basic things in my PERL script: 1) Read in the values of two environment variables 2) Print the values of scalars and environment variables I do not understand the errors that were generated when I compiled the following script. Any help in understanding what I ma

RE: Is __PACKAGE__->method() the best way...

2001-07-19 Thread Mark Maunder
I am now using caller() in any method that requires class methods or variables in its caller and it's working great!! I'm creating objects that know how to save themselves. The utility method I was refering to earlier generats SQL code for a particular class so that it can write itself into a tab

Re: Is __PACKAGE__->method() the best way...

2001-07-19 Thread Michael Fowler
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:31:20PM +0100, Mark Maunder wrote: > But I still want to know if __PACKAGE__ (or blesssing a temp object into > the current package) is the best way of ensuring that the called method is > passed an object of the callers type. It isn't. __PACKAGE__ isn't an object, it'

RE: Is __PACKAGE__->method() the best way...

2001-07-19 Thread Mark Maunder
Sorry, just read the rest of your message. Sortof. Grandfather has some utility methods in it that Son and Father both use. Son calls a method (call it save() )which it has defined. Within this method it uses one of the utility methods (lets call it Grandfather::get_name() ) defined within grandf

RE: Is __PACKAGE__->method() the best way...

2001-07-19 Thread Mark Maunder
Sorry Michael, you're absolutelly right. ($self == $very_dopey_rightnow) But I still want to know if __PACKAGE__ (or blesssing a temp object into the current package) is the best way of ensuring that the called method is passed an object of the callers type. thanks again! -Original Message--

Re: Is __PACKAGE__->method() the best way...

2001-07-19 Thread Michael Fowler
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:20:48PM +0100, Mark Maunder wrote: > Also, calling SUPER:: on the original object wont allow you to propogate > the call all the way up the heirarchy. If the parent then calls > $self->SUPER:: it is calling itself. No, it calls its parent. Try: package Grandfathe

RE: Is __PACKAGE__->method() the best way...

2001-07-19 Thread Mark Maunder
Thanks, but no that's not it. I'm not having a problem calling methods in the superclass/parentclass - I'm already doing that in the example code I posted using a reference retreived from ->can(). I could use SUPER:: (If I was just calling a method on the parent) but checking if the parent has the

RE: Re: Module question

2001-07-19 Thread Eric J. Wisti
There is also an example in the Date::Calc distribution that does exactly what you want: /Date-Calc-4.3/examples/nth_weekday.pl which is called like: perl nth_weekday.pl running perl nth_weekday.pl 3rdFriday 72001 yields: The 3rd Friday in July 2001 is Friday, Ju

Net:FTP, Net::Cmd

2001-07-19 Thread Ravi Channavajhala
I'm using Net::FTp and Net::Cmd modules in a script to completely automate some FTPing stuff. snippet $ftp->put($fileh,"/tmp/test.txt") || die "cant put the file\n"; $ftp->command("chmod","755","test.txt") || die "Cant run quot\n"; $ftp->quit(); I have no luck making the $ftp->command stuff to

Re: Is __PACKAGE__->method() the best way...

2001-07-19 Thread Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan
On Jul 19, Mark Maunder said: >I'm using __PACKAGE__->method() to call a method that exists in a class >higher up the inheritance tree when $self in the current method is a blessed >object from a class lower down the inheritance tree (relative to the class >in which I'm doing the __PACKAGE__->met

RE: Re: Module question

2001-07-19 Thread Bob Showalter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Like I said I was frustrated. I'm using the Deitel and > Deitel book. But it is probably not it's fault. I'm just confused. Don't know the book. I Suggest the O'Reilly books. > I thought I understood I needed to define how I should use > the module so it would use

Is __PACKAGE__->method() the best way...

2001-07-19 Thread Mark Maunder
Hi, I need some advice from someone who has cut their teeth on inheritance a few times... I'm using __PACKAGE__->method() to call a method that exists in a class higher up the inheritance tree when $self in the current method is a blessed object from a class lower down the inheritance tree (relat

Re: perl path

2001-07-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:51:14PM -0400, Anshu Anshu wrote: > I got a perl script .. First two line are like I never saw before .. > > "#!/usr/local/bin/perl > > #!/temp_perl/bin/perl -I/temp_perl/lib/perl5 -I/temp_perl/lib/perl5/5.00502 > -I/temp_perl/lib/perl5/site_perl/5. > 005/sun4-solaris

Re: Re: Module question

2001-07-19 Thread anna . roberts
Like I said I was frustrated. I'm using the Deitel and Deitel book. But it is probably not it's fault. I'm just confused. I thought I understood I needed to define how I should use the module so it would use it. But from what you just said I guess not. Please provide assistance or a exa

Re: Module question

2001-07-19 Thread Michael Fowler
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 03:38:32PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > use Date::Calc; > sub dateFriday > { > $day="friday"; > $num="3"; > my $dumpday = " $num $day "; > print ("$dumpday for level0 dump."); > } > print ( "Time to do level 0 dump\n", $d->dateFriday() ) ; I don't un

perl path

2001-07-19 Thread Anshu Anshu
I got a perl script .. First two line are like I never saw before .. "#!/usr/local/bin/perl #!/temp_perl/bin/perl -I/temp_perl/lib/perl5 -I/temp_perl/lib/perl5/5.00502 -I/temp_perl/lib/perl5/site_perl/5. 005/sun4-solaris/ " Anyone has any idea what is meaning of 2nd line above. -- To unsubsc

Re: perl and internet files

2001-07-19 Thread Jos I. Boumans
why yes there is... i wrote a little module for perl that does just that. basicly, you pass the module a filehandle, it strips out all hte html (leaving the links in the file intact however) and passes back a string a sample script is also available. look at http://japh.nu/index.cgi the site is

Re: regex question with s///

2001-07-19 Thread Jason Ledbetter
Ergh. I've got this feeling I misunderstood your question. If so, forgive me. -- Jason Ledbetter Data Conversion Specialist Perl Monk and Ascii Ninja Cadmus Professional Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROT

Re: regex question with s///

2001-07-19 Thread Jason Ledbetter
for my $i (1 ... $num) { s/$pat/$pat+$i/; } Get me? -- Jason Ledbetter Data Conversion Specialist Perl Monk and Ascii Ninja Cadmus Professional Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: regex question with s///

2001-07-19 Thread Bob Showalter
Bradford Ritchie wrote: > Is it possible to take a string ($pat) do a substitution on > it and print the result, without actually changing the > contents of the original variable? No; you have to do the subsitution on a copy. > > Basically, I'm trying to write a script that will take a > str

regex question with s///

2001-07-19 Thread Bradford Ritchie
Hi, Is it possible to take a string ($pat) do a substitution on it and print the result, without actually changing the contents of the original variable? Basically, I'm trying to write a script that will take a string and look for a pattern in that line (which is guaranteed to be a number), incr

RE: Out of memory on sort !!!!

2001-07-19 Thread Bob Showalter
> @sorted = sort { $data[$a] [0] <=> $data[$b] [0] } @data; In the sort block, $a and $b are *elements* of @data, not *subscripts*. Your sort block should be more like { $a->[0] <=> $b->[0] } -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Out of memory on sort !!!!

2001-07-19 Thread todd
Why not use the DB to process your sort? todd. On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Derrick (Thrawn01) wrote: > I setup an multidimetional array of data. ( I loading data base files into > memory.) > I wan't to sort the records by field 0 > But when I sort this referenced array ( multidimetional array ) I get

Re: Starting a script with command line arguments

2001-07-19 Thread Martin Schneider
"Bob Bondi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > My question is: how can I pass arguments to a script from the command line? > The script at the tail of this message is what I thought would print the 2 > arguments I passed into the script, yet the ou

autoflush on network connection

2001-07-19 Thread Silvio Luis Leite Santana
Hello all Trying to learn a bit of networking, I am using the module IO::Socket::INET just as shown in the camel book (3rd edition) pg 439-441. I have a client process (that sends data), and a server (that receives those data). I send data from the client to server with the lines: $mensagem =

Module question

2001-07-19 Thread anna . roberts
Okay now I'm really frustrated. I downloaded the CPAN module got it installed made sure everthing was installed right. Proceeded to try and use it my program and it dosen't work. For me atleast. I'm not sure what I"m doing wrong. It is so simple I'm sure but well I'm not getting it. :( P

Jon Grant

2001-07-19 Thread Alessandro Lenzen
Hello Jon, here a modified script that actually works: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use CGI qw( :standard ); open(LOGFILE, "logfile.txt") or die "Can't open logfile: $!\n"; while ($temp=) { $link = $temp } print header; print "test"; print "$link"; print ""; Since I'm working at the moment I didn't ha

Out of memory on sort !!!!

2001-07-19 Thread Derrick (Thrawn01)
I setup an multidimetional array of data. ( I loading data base files into memory.) I wan't to sort the records by field 0 But when I sort this referenced array ( multidimetional array ) I get an out of memory error. There are 80 or so records and each record has 20 fields each field varies but n

Using CGI.pm

2001-07-19 Thread Alessandro Lenzen
I think your header is spelled wrong, try print "Content-Type: text/html \n\n"; ^there is the bugger! But why would you want to print the header manually when using CGI.pm? al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: I'm looking for a program to make a Perl Script into a Windows .EXE

2001-07-19 Thread Craig Westerman
Daryl, You can get perl2exe here: http://www.indigostar.com/perl2exe.htm Craig ><> [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Daryl J. Hoyt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Hi, I'm looking for a program that can make a windows executable out of a Perl script. The exe would then b

Re: Removing spaces

2001-07-19 Thread Stephen P. Potter
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Dave Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whispered: | There's also: | | $foo =~ s/^\s*//; You should always use /^\s+/. There's no sense in removing nothing if nothing is there. -spp -- Stephen P Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "You

RE: sed to perl

2001-07-19 Thread Frank Newland
I have 3 worthwhile solutions. 1. s2p on original sed file (Paul Johnson) 2. perl -p .(Paul [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]) 3. Randall's convert to hash..(Randall...) I'll give all three the ol' corporate try :( Method which I like best gets a 10%cut from my check from Ed McMahon... Thank

Re: Sessions

2001-07-19 Thread Michael Fowler
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:20:39AM -0500, Chris Mulcahy wrote: > Other than creating a database table and managing sessions on my own by > passing cookies around manually, are there any options for managing > sessions in Perl using CGI? Apache::Session appears to only work in the > mod_perl versi

Re: I'm looking for a program to make a Perl Script into a Windows .EXE

2001-07-19 Thread Lynn Glessner
I think that the program you are looking for is perl2exe - Original Message - From: "Daryl J. Hoyt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Beginners Perl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 10:53 AM Subject: I'm looking for a program to make a Perl Script into a Windows .EXE > Hi, > I'

I'm looking for a program to make a Perl Script into a Windows .EXE

2001-07-19 Thread Daryl J. Hoyt
Hi, I'm looking for a program that can make a windows executable out of a Perl script. The exe would then be run on computers that do not have Perl installed on them. Does anyone have any suggestions or recommendations? Thanks, Daryl J. Hoyt Performance Engineer Geodesic Systems http:

RE: Help: Starting a script with command line arguments

2001-07-19 Thread Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1
Command line arguments are passed to the script in the array '@ARGV', not '@_'. '@_' is used for subroutines. -Original Message- From: Bob Bondi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 12:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help: Starting a script with command line argu

Help: Starting a script with command line arguments

2001-07-19 Thread Bob Bondi
My question is: how can I pass arguments to a script from the command line? The script at the tail of this message is what I thought would print the 2 arguments I passed into the script, yet the output for this snippet is: Here ya go: Here ya go: Count is: 0 Not enough arguments to get started #\

Re: sed to perl

2001-07-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 12:31:16PM -0500, Frank Newland wrote: > I want to use perl to do what I can't do on large files with sed. Have you looked at s2p, which comes as standard with perl? -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] F

Re: sed to perl

2001-07-19 Thread Paul
--- Frank Newland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to use perl to do what I can't do on large files with sed. > > 1. I run the following Unix command: > $prompt> sed -f list_of_changes original > outputfile > > 2. Extract of list_of_changes: > > s/KAREN/LAURA /g > s/KARA/MONA/g > s/MIKE/O

Re: perl and internet files

2001-07-19 Thread Michael Fowler
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:51:14AM -0400, Sparkle Williams wrote: > I just wrote a perl program that retrieves files of type http:// and ftp:// > from the internet. When it retrieves the files it > comes up in the html syntax of head, body, text etc. Is there any way I can > write an addition t

sed to perl

2001-07-19 Thread Frank Newland
I want to use perl to do what I can't do on large files with sed. 1. I run the following Unix command: $prompt> sed -f list_of_changes original > outputfile 2. Extract of list_of_changes: s/KAREN/LAURA /g s/KARA/MONA/g s/MIKE/OMAR/g s/BOB/TOM/g ... 3. The file list_of_changes contains 6

Weekly list FAQ posting

2001-07-19 Thread casey
NAME beginners-faq - FAQ for the beginners mailing list 1 - Administriva 1.1 - I'm not subscribed - how do I subscribe? Send mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You can also specify your subscription email address by sending email to (assuming [EMAIL PROTECTED] is your email address)

Re: Windows Directory Parsing and Deleting

2001-07-19 Thread Luke Bakken
File::Find use function finddepth to go through directories' contents *before* looking at the dir itself. use File::Find my $wanted = sub { #skip unless the dir contains '_vti' at the beginning unless($File::Find::dir =~ /^_vti/) { return } #if we're looking at a dir,

RE: install modules when user is not root

2001-07-19 Thread Ross, Jonathan C.
An issue arises with building large and complex modules that normally install to multiple places in the Perl library tree. If you can't run "make install" you have to figure out the destinations by hand. One solution is to establish your own library tree. If you say make PREFIX=$HOME/m

Re: Dictionary

2001-07-19 Thread Jason Ledbetter
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Ela Jarecka wrote: Ok, lemme take a crack at it. ;) > while(defined($line = )) { Couldn't you just: while ($line = ) { or is there something I'm missing? >if ( $toBf =~ /^\n$/) { > die "Bye, bye!\n"; >} This would typically be considered bad form, I think. D

Re: HELP!!! What's wrong with my app.??

2001-07-19 Thread Jerry Preston
Jon, This is one way of doing it: use CGI; use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); $query=new CGI; print $query->header(); print $query->start_html( -title=>'tt' ); print $query->startform( -method=>'POST', -name =>'tt'); local( *LOGFILE ); $j = 0; open( LOGFILE, "logfile.txt"

Re: string vs 'string' parameters

2001-07-19 Thread Ruth Albocher
Paul wrote: > --- Ruth Albocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > create_unit(SDunit, 'SDunit_name'); in create_unit function: my $self = shift; my $type = shift; my $name = shift; my $unit; $unit = $type->new(stuff...); $self->{'units'}->{$name} = $unit; > > > > > > lo

Re: multi element array question

2001-07-19 Thread Bradford Ritchie
Thanks! I guess I didn't read perldata close enough because I had no idea you could specify more than one key at a time yet another cool discovery!-- Brad > On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:13:04PM -0400, Bradford Ritchie wrote: > > Could you please explain how your code suggestion below works

RE: HELP!!! What's wrong with my app.??

2001-07-19 Thread Mark Maunder
Hi Jon, Your script should look something like this: #!/usr/bin/perl use CGI qw( :standard ); open(LOGFILE, "logfile.txt") or die "Can't open logfile: $!\n"; while($line = ()) # { chomp $line; push(@links, $line); #This was the main problem. You were doing # $line = $link which m

RE: Comparing Arrays

2001-07-19 Thread Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan
On Jul 19, Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1 said: >"That's an excellent question," i said to myself; "i'll bet there's a >module for that!" > >So, i looked on cpan, and it looks like Array::Compare will do the >trick. All the same, this is a question that stumps a lot of people. There are two ways to

Windows Directory Parsing and Deleting

2001-07-19 Thread DuBois, Patricia A
Okay I really am a newbie. This whole perl thing has confused me. (Any suggestions on clarification to my confusion of the language would be appreciated as well) I am trying to create a script on an NT machine that will search through the directories and find specific directories/folders and pa

Re: Using CGI.pm

2001-07-19 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Sascha Kersken wrote: > That $a in the first script, to me, looks like an OO-style CGI Query object. > This has to be created before use: > > $a = new CGI; Using $a and $b for variables is not a good idea, since they are used for sort and can cause some wierd warnings or e

Re: perl and internet files

2001-07-19 Thread Sparkle Williams
Is there a way to rip the HTML tags with multi-line HTML tags? >From: "Sascha Kersken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Sparkle Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: perl and internet files >Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 16:07:01 +0200 > >Hi! > >There's the wonderful recipe 20.5 ("

Re: Dictionary

2001-07-19 Thread Luke Bakken
> - I've created several fairly small dictionary files - each line in them > looks more or less like that: > 'aufgedreht: lit up, activated, attracted to, interested in' if this is how the file looks, just use a simple hash: $dict{'aufgedreht'} = 'lit up, activated, attracted to, interested in';

HELP!!! What's wrong with my app.??

2001-07-19 Thread Jon Grant
Hi all, I am a perl beginner and find myself somewhat stuck, please help!! I am trying to write a program that will access a log file that has a list of resource addresses. The program will then create an html page that returns the last address from the log file as a link in an html page. I atta

Re: Using CGI.pm

2001-07-19 Thread Sascha Kersken
Hi! That $a in the first script, to me, looks like an OO-style CGI Query object. This has to be created before use: $a = new CGI; Sascha Original Message: > Randal, Brian, Stephen, > Thanks a bunch for your help with my parsing script. I appreciate it very > much. Here's another pr

Dictionary

2001-07-19 Thread Ela Jarecka
Hi folks, Trying to make learning of German adjectives easier for me ( and to learn Perl, of course :-) ) I've decided to create a small dictionary in Perl.. Is using a hash of lists a good approach to solve the problem? - I've created several fairly small dictionary files - each line in them lo

Sessions

2001-07-19 Thread Chris Mulcahy
OK, simple one. Other than creating a database table and managing sessions on my own by passing cookies around manually, are there any options for managing sessions in Perl using CGI? Apache::Session appears to only work in the mod_perl version. The error I keep getting in my error_log file is:

Re: Re: simple Telnet or vi editor problem

2001-07-19 Thread anna . roberts
Rahul, You could use a :1 and that will take you to the first line of your program. Then use cntrl d to page you down. cntrl u will get you up one page. Anna Rahul Garg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, Any solutions regarding this , Creating a problem . Waiting for Repl

Re: perl and internet files

2001-07-19 Thread Sascha Kersken
Hi! There's the wonderful recipe 20.5 ("Converting HTML to ASCII") in Chapter 20 ("Web Automation") of the "Perl Cookbook" (by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington, from O'Reilly). A basic way to achieve the ripping of HTML tags and the replacement of and tags by line breaks might be somethi

Re: simple Telnet or vi editor problem

2001-07-19 Thread Rahul Garg
Hello, Any solutions regarding this , Creating a problem . Waiting for Reply... Subject: simple Telnet or vi editor problem I am using vi editor on telnet. After typing in 25 or so lines the next lines are not shown though they are savedstupid ques

perl and internet files

2001-07-19 Thread Sparkle Williams
Good morning! I just wrote a perl program that retrieves files of type http:// and ftp:// from the internet. When it retrieves the files it comes up in the html syntax of head, body, text etc. Is there any way I can write an addition to my script that will cause the text to come up in it's form

Re: install modules when user is not root

2001-07-19 Thread Abdulaziz Ghuloum
Hello, Try perldoc -q 'my own module' Hope this helps,,, Aziz,,, In article <01071918011800.00964@m12>, "Rizwan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! all, > > I am trying to install some of the CPAN modules ,like the b::graph > module, but I am not able to because I dont have the root privilages

RE: Comparing Arrays

2001-07-19 Thread Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1
"That's an excellent question," i said to myself; "i'll bet there's a module for that!" So, i looked on cpan, and it looks like Array::Compare will do the trick. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Removing spaces

2001-07-19 Thread Dave Neill
There's also: $foo =~ s/^\s*//; and if you want to strip leading and trailing spaces: $foo =~ s/^\s*(.*?)\s*$/$1/; Though some say that the two step: $foo =~ s/^\s*//; $foo =~ s/\s*$//; is faster. There's also a module: String::Strip with a function StripLTSpace() and it's fore and aft v

RE: Removing spaces

2001-07-19 Thread Abdulaziz Ghuloum
Hello, Of course this regex only removes the leading spaces only, or the trailing spaces if there are no leading spaces. You can use $string =~ s/^ +| +$//g; # g for global matches or do it in 2 steps: $str =~ s/^ +//; $str =~ s/ +$//; Hope this helps,,, Aziz,,, In article <00a301c1101e$ac7d4a

Using CGI.pm

2001-07-19 Thread Customer Service
Randal, Brian, Stephen, Thanks a bunch for your help with my parsing script. I appreciate it very much. Here’s another problem: Why doesn’t this do what I think it should do? (I just get “Internal server error”) #!c:/perl/bin/perl -w use strict; use CGI qw(param); my ($who,$quote_type,$key)

Re: Comparing Arrays

2001-07-19 Thread Aaron Craig
At 15:21 19.07.2001 +0200, Diego Riaño wrote: >Hi everybody > >I have two array, like this > >@array1=(one, two, three); >@array2=(one,tww,three); > >Is there some way to compare the two arrays? >I was trying with the eq and ne operations inside an IF statement but i >does not work > >Could someon

Re: question

2001-07-19 Thread Abdulaziz Ghuloum
Hello, You might want to try using the newsgroup instead of the mailing list. The address is nntp.perl.org. Hope this helps,,, Aziz,,, In article <009c01c11016$81b60840$0200a8c0@Apartment>, "Patrick Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the website of this newsgroup? I can't afford to

Re: What modules should I look to first?

2001-07-19 Thread Rashid Faraby
PerlMonth has an interesting survey which ranks favourites modules: http://www.perlmonth.com/polls/index.html?issue=11 Very informative and useful site, by the way! Rashid -Original Message- From: "MRossland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 16:39:05 -0

Comparing Arrays

2001-07-19 Thread Diego Riaño
Hi everybody I have two array, like this @array1=(one, two, three); @array2=(one,tww,three); Is there some way to compare the two arrays? I was trying with the eq and ne operations inside an IF statement but i does not work Could someone help me. Thanks Diego -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [

Problem with update from ActiveState Perl v 5.00502 to 5.6.1.628

2001-07-19 Thread Chuck Morford
Hi All, I've inherited a system that uses Perl scripts as a web front-end for IMAP mail... (Netscape Messenger Express v3.5.2) We have a lot of problems with memory leaks and hung processes on this machine so I thought an update to the most recent version might help to solve the problem. On a t

RE: install modules when user is not root

2001-07-19 Thread Richie Crews
Include your folder of modules in the @INC path to a folder in your home dir or a dir you have permission too write to Richie Crews Unix Systems Administrator (706) 773 - 3436 CELL (706) 634 - 3681 DESK (706) 634 - 3831 FAX

install modules when user is not root

2001-07-19 Thread Rizwan
Hi! all, I am trying to install some of the CPAN modules ,like the b::graph module, but I am not able to because I dont have the root privilages. Specifically, can anybody help me use the b::graph module without root previleges. Rizwan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For addi

Re: Regex giving me fits!! :-(

2001-07-19 Thread insomniak
Hi, Not tested this but I think it 'should work. forgive me if I have made any goofs /DATE\s+[:]?\s+?(0?[1-9]|[123]\d|3[01])\/(0?[1-9]|1[120])\/(19\d\d|20\d\d|\d \d)/ $day = $1;# make sure days is not greater than 31 $month = $2;# make sure months not greater than 12 $year = $3;

Re:Parsing a file

2001-07-19 Thread Jorge Goncalvez
Hi , I wanted to parse the last line of a file c:\cygwin_syslog.txt and if it begins with : tftpd i want to draw a progress bar which is growing from 0 to 100, in a GUI. My code is: open SYSLOG,") { chomp; if (/^tftpd/) {

simple Telnet or vi editor problem

2001-07-19 Thread Rahul Garg
I am using vi editor on telnet. After typing in 25 or so lines the next lines are not shown though they are savedstupid question but not getting it..whats the command so that they are shown on editor.. Waiting for reply...

Re: What is a HERE Document?

2001-07-19 Thread Tina Messmann
Sascha Kersken wrote: > > >BTW what books do you have? There's a very comprhensive section on this at >the beginning of the Camel Book. > > >Sascha > Hi Sascha, thank you for your explanation, i have Perl in a Nutshell, the Llama an the Camel book. I searched the Indexes of the books without

Re: question

2001-07-19 Thread Sascha Kersken
Hi! The general site for this is learn.perl.org There, you might like to subscribe to beginners-digest instead, which contains much less traffic. The web archive of the beginners' mailing list is at http://archive.develooper.com/beginners%40perl.org/ Besides, your e-mail client (M$ Outlook

Re: question

2001-07-19 Thread Jos I. Boumans
it's at learn.perl.org -- Jos - Original Message - From: "Patrick Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 7:48 AM Subject: question What is the website of this newsgroup? I can't afford to keep listening to it in my e-mail, as it is flooding my

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2001-07-19 Thread Patrick Kelly
What is the website of this newsgroup? I can't afford to keep listening to it in my e-mail, as it is flooding my inbox. Thanks! Patrick

Re: What is a HERE Document?

2001-07-19 Thread Sascha Kersken
Hi! A HERE document is a very fine feature of Perl that makes it easy to handle long, multi-line strings. Like so: print << "MYLABEL"; All of this rubbish will be printed including the line wraps until it finds MYLABEL - the word 'MYLABEL' won't print anymore. It's just a signal, that the end o

Re: Parsing a file

2001-07-19 Thread Sascha Kersken
whoops! I think I missed something important: The line if /^tftpd/ should be if (/^tftpd/) of course! Sascha -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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