Re: getting the calling function name.

2001-08-06 Thread Me
> "caller" only gives only the name of current sub You didn't read the docs carefully enough... caller($calldepth) perldoc -f caller -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: getting the calling function name.

2001-08-06 Thread Rajeev Rumale
Thanks "me". But the what i need is the grep the name of the sub which is calling the loging sub. As you have suggested "caller" only gives only the name of current sub routine that is &debugLogger it self. And I had to do call the "caller" before calling the "debugLogger" and pass all the info

PERL and HTML question...

2001-08-06 Thread Daniel Falkenberg
Dear List, print< HELLO WOLRD! HTML If this HTML is being run with Perl which it is of coarse how would I know what version of the HTML it is. I really hope this makes sense. I read there is alot of different versions of HTML such as 3.2 and 4.0. Does the browser take care of

FMTYEWTKAW (far more than you ever wanted to know about whitespace)[was RE: Remove White Space]

2001-08-06 Thread Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan
On Aug 6, Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1 said: >That would do it. Without the 's' in front of the regex, it doesn't know >you're trying to search and replace. > >The divide error is odd, and shouldn't be happening, but try this instead: > s(\s*)()g The divide-by-zero error was because writing

Re: Did I violate?

2001-08-06 Thread Karthik Krishnamurthy
Gnome has nothing specifically to do with Linux. It is a window manager and can be run on top of other OS that run some form of X too. Solaris for instance. most *nix users tend to use very little of GUI inspite of very GUIsh managers available. what you could do is write to the authors, team

Can I use a pointer as key of a hash?

2001-08-06 Thread Qiang Qiang
Can I use a pointer as key of a hash? I wanted to do this way however, it failed and output nothing. Then I change to use the content of the pointer as key, it works. Best Regards, Katherine Qiang http://home.cwru.edu/~qxq2 http://kittyqiang.tripod.com _

Exchange 5.5

2001-08-06 Thread offler
Hi all, I'm looking for a way to script the creation of a user on an Exchange 5.5 server. I'd like to be able to just enter details at the command line and have the mailbox created automatically. Any ideas? Offler -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: Calling UNIX Commands?

2001-08-06 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Chris Garaffa wrote: > Hello everyone. I just joined the list, but I checked the archive earlier > to see if this was covered. Sorry if I missed it. > > My question is regarding UNIX commands. I know you can get the output of a > command using the ` notation. My script has thi

RE: Calling UNIX Commands?

2001-08-06 Thread Matt Crapo
Using the backticks will only get you data coming on handle 1, STDOUT. You want the data coming on handle 2, STDERR, as well. You need to combine them by appending 2>&1 to your system command. Better yet, use perl's internal file functions like move, copy, rename, etc. You get better control, l

RE: Explaining myself correctly RE: SORTING BY DATE

2001-08-06 Thread Matt Crapo
There are always a hundred ways to do something, and others might know a better way, but I'd use a sprintf statement to zero-pad your date values like this: my $date_added = sprintf("%04d%02d%02d", $year $mon $mday); Make sure you adjust the values of year month & day from the raw values suppli

Re: Calling UNIX Commands?

2001-08-06 Thread Peter Scott
At 08:15 PM 8/6/01 -0400, Chris Garaffa wrote: >My question is regarding UNIX commands. I know you can get the output of a >command using the ` notation. My script has this line: >my $command = `mv /$formdata{name}.html /Library/WebServer/Document/About/ >$formdata{name}.html`; You're on a Mac,

Calling UNIX Commands?

2001-08-06 Thread Chris Garaffa
Hello everyone. I just joined the list, but I checked the archive earlier to see if this was covered. Sorry if I missed it. My question is regarding UNIX commands. I know you can get the output of a command using the ` notation. My script has this line: my $command = `mv /$formdata{name}.html /

Explaining myself correctly RE: SORTING BY DATE

2001-08-06 Thread Daniel Falkenberg
List, Please accept my sicerest apologies for not explaining myself correctly in my last post (RE: SORTING BY DATE). What I really need to be able to do is have my script display the date as YEAR () MONTH (xx) DAY (xx) For egsamle todays date would be displayed as 20010807 At the moment I

Re: Executing the kill command from within an suid script.

2001-08-06 Thread Jeff Rouse/NCO/CEtv
Hi Elaine Thanks for the info. After spending loads of time searching the web I decided to send an email to this group. As usual I found the answer about an hour later. Basically the suggestion in the perl security stuff of writing just a .c wrapper with an exec statement doesn't work, or at

Re: Remove White Space

2001-08-06 Thread Thomas Adam
Hi, I think that you can do it like this: s/^/ //g; will work (or should work) in SED, so I assume that it will in Perl also. HTH, Thomas Adam --- Scott Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I remove white space from the beginning of a > variable? > > -Scott > > = Thomas

RE: Remove White Space

2001-08-06 Thread Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1
Actually, \s takes care of any whitespace, including tabs. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 4:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Perl Help; 'Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1' Subject: RE: Remove White Space make sure you are also

RE: Remove White Space

2001-08-06 Thread royce . wells
make sure you are also getting rid of tabs $var=~s/\t*^//g "The software said it required Windows 3.1 or better so I installed Linux. " Royce Wells Unix Systems Engineer Dept # 8023 103 S. Front St. Memphis, TN 38101 Phone: (901)495-7538 Fax: (901)495-3300 --

RE: Remove White Space

2001-08-06 Thread Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1
That would do it. Without the 's' in front of the regex, it doesn't know you're trying to search and replace. The divide error is odd, and shouldn't be happening, but try this instead: s(\s*)()g -Original Message- From: Scott Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, Augus

RE: Remove White Space

2001-08-06 Thread Carl Rogers
At 01:49 PM 8/6/2001 -0700, Wagner-David wrote: > Should be ^ not $ to remove leading and \s+$ to remove trailing. To quote a famous philosopher: D'OH (The hamster falls off the wheel if he's not paying attention) My bad and my sincere apologies.. Thanks for the correction.

RE: Remove White Space

2001-08-06 Thread Scott Martin
No error messages or anything, but the white space is still in there. I did, however change the syntax to $var=~ s/\s*//g; From $var=~/\s*//g; Because I got a divide error when using the later. -Scott -Original Message- From: Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sen

Remove White Space

2001-08-06 Thread Scott Martin
How can I remove white space from the beginning of a variable? -Scott

RE: Remove White Space

2001-08-06 Thread Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1
What happens when you try? -Original Message- From: Scott Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 4:05 PM To: 'Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1' Cc: 'Perl Help' Subject: RE: Remove White Space That's what I thought it would be but still no luck. -Scott -Original

RE: Remove White Space

2001-08-06 Thread Scott Martin
That's what I thought it would be but still no luck. -Scott -Original Message- From: Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 4:52 PM To: Perl Help Subject: RE: Remove White Space $var=~/\s*//g; # ;) -Original Message- From: Scott M

RE: Remove White Space

2001-08-06 Thread Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1
$var=~/\s*//g; # ;) -Original Message- From: Scott Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 3:56 PM To: Perl Help Subject: RE: Remove White Space After I sent it out, I actually came up with the idea myself after some digging. (go figure) any case, I am now havin

RE: Remove White Space

2001-08-06 Thread Wagner-David
Should be ^ not $ to remove leading and \s+$ to remove trailing. Wags ;) -Original Message- From: Carl Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 13:46 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Perl Help Subject: Re: Remove White Space At 04:13 PM 8/6/2001 -0400, Scott Martin

RE: Remove White Space

2001-08-06 Thread Scott Martin
After I sent it out, I actually came up with the idea myself after some digging. (go figure) any case, I am now having another problem which, even after some research still proves difficult. I have a variable like: file .htm but what I want to do is trim the white space between file and .htm a

Re: Remove White Space

2001-08-06 Thread Carl Rogers
At 04:13 PM 8/6/2001 -0400, Scott Martin wrote: >How can I remove white space from the beginning of a variable? $variable =~ s/$\s+//; removes one or more spaces in the beginning HTH -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Remove White Space

2001-08-06 Thread Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1
$var=~s/^\s*//; -Original Message- From: Scott Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 3:13 PM To: Perl Help Subject: Remove White Space How can I remove white space from the beginning of a variable? -Scott -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For a

RE: Remove White Space

2001-08-06 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Scott Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 4:13 PM > To: Perl Help > Subject: Remove White Space > > > How can I remove white space from the beginning of a variable? This is a FAQ: perldoc -q strip -- To unsubscribe, e-mail

Re: Remove White Space

2001-08-06 Thread Matthew Lyon
substitute whitespace for nothing while matching the beginning of the scalar? On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Scott Martin wrote: > How can I remove white space from the beginning of a variable? > > -Scott > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: formatting columns

2001-08-06 Thread Eric Wisti
Do the pre-processing and the import to Excel need to be separate? I have used Spreadsheet::WriteExcel and it is really easy to write an Excel spreadsheet directly from perl. You could parse the data into a perl structure, loop through it and layout the Excel file in one script. Just a thought.

sh execing perl

2001-08-06 Thread Matthew Lyon
Hey, awhile back the group was talkin a little about using a sh script header or something to call perl regardless of perl's location in the os... anyone remember how that was done or where in a faq this info is? -mL -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

RE: Did I violate?

2001-08-06 Thread Jason Ledbetter
I really wish I knew more in order to help you, but all I can do is suggest that you go to the gAIM homepage and e-mail the author with your questions. As a matter of fact, if/when you do find out what sort of plugins can/should be made for gAIM, e-mail me and let me know, because I've wondered

RE: Did I violate?

2001-08-06 Thread Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1
Hmm ... it looks like there's something called "libfaim", which is a collection of C subroutines that give access to AIM. My guess is that it's what GAIM uses. If you're really ambitious, i suppose you could come up with a perl interface to this library yourself ... -Original Message-

Re: Regular Expressions

2001-08-06 Thread Jos I. Boumans
you want the qr// operator that means 'quote regex' hth Jos - Original Message - From: "Adimoolam Narayanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 9:18 PM Subject: Regular Expressions > Hi, > > In a nutshell, I have been trying to store a reg. exp.

RE: Regular Expressions

2001-08-06 Thread Tu, Hanming
You should use qr instead of qq. -- Hanming -Original Message- From: Adimoolam Narayanan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 3:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Regular Expressions Hi, In a nutshell, I have been trying to store a reg. exp. in a variable so that

Re: Did I violate?

2001-08-06 Thread Troy Denkinger
On Monday 06 August 2001 14:58, Tom Malone wrote: > I hope that I did not violate some rule of list etiquette with my messages > about writing Perl scripts for GAIM ("GAIM", "GAIM && Perl", and "Perl No, but you're asking a very specialized question that is as much about GAIM as about Perl. You

Regular Expressions

2001-08-06 Thread Adimoolam Narayanan
Hi, In a nutshell, I have been trying to store a reg. exp. in a variable so that it can be called later. If it can be stored in a variable, is there any penalty incurred in terms of run time efficiency, etc? Explanation of the above question is given below: I am storing the reg. exp. in "$vari

Mailing List in french..

2001-08-06 Thread edi . stojicevic
If some french people are there, I created a new perl mailing list in french. You can subscribe at www.debianworld.org I'm looking also for some guys to translate the site in english ...so if someone is interested in ... --- E. Stojicevic - SIA Perses

How to construct test scripts?

2001-08-06 Thread Tu, Hanming
Hi, I wrote a few Perl modules, but I have never written a structured testing script. I am studying ExtUtils::MakeMaker and Test modules, but have difficult to understand them. It will be greatly appreciated if some of you can give me some examples or point me to some references! Thanks. Hanmin

RE: Did I violate?

2001-08-06 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Bob Showalter wrote: > > Is that what my problem was (why nobody responded)? Because > > a lot of people > > didn't know what GAIM was? I hadn't expected that windows > > users would be > > familiar with it, but I thought most Linux people would know about it. > > I do not u

Re: Did I violate?

2001-08-06 Thread Tom Malone
Sorry!!! I thought it was well-known GAIM is a Linux client for AOL Instant Messenger. It does everything AOL's IM does, even looks like it, but it supports certain plugins, and you can write Perl scripts for it. My questions are - What are some typical things you can make it do by wri

Re: formatting columns

2001-08-06 Thread Chris Garringer
Excel should only see the \t character. It sounds as though the \t is not being picked up correctly. Have you tried a comma delimiter? It not Perl, but I have had better luck with comma or semi-colon delimiters with Excel. Chris D. Garringer LAN/WAN Manager Master Certified Netware Engineer

Re: Did I violate?

2001-08-06 Thread Tom Malone
Is that what my problem was (why nobody responded)? Because a lot of people didn't know what GAIM was? I hadn't expected that windows users would be familiar with it, but I thought most Linux people would know about it. Tom -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional command

RE: Did I violate?

2001-08-06 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Tom Malone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 3:26 PM > To: Bob Showalter > Subject: Re: Did I violate? > > > Is that what my problem was (why nobody responded)? Because > a lot of people > didn't know what GAIM was? I hadn't expec

formatting columns

2001-08-06 Thread Chirag Patel
Hello, I have some data in a matrix from the linux world; I am attempting to construct columns from the matrix and output them to a file, which later needs to be opened in Microsoft Excel to be manipulated. Right now I am making the columns using "\t" as a delimiter. If the number of columns re

Win32 and File Globbing

2001-08-06 Thread Chris Garringer
I am attempting to write a log analysis program in Perl for a Windows app. I normally use Linux/Unix so Bill'sMoneyMachine can frustrate me. Log files are generated when 1) the program restarts, or 2) the file size exceeds 10MB. So I need to pass to the program a file spec to catch 1 days log

RE: ideas to clean this up?

2001-08-06 Thread Peter Scott
At 02:51 PM 8/6/01 -0400, Yacketta, Ronald wrote: >Thanxs! > >now off to modify my exec code that parses an entire array of files :) Of course, the arrayrefs could equally well have been stored in an array instead of a hash. There's a thin justification for a hash in the absence of any other c

RE: Did I violate?

2001-08-06 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Tom Malone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 2:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Did I violate? > > > Hey everyone! > > I hope that I did not violate some rule of list etiquette > with my messages > about writing Perl script

RE: Did I violate?

2001-08-06 Thread Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1
What's GAIM? -Original Message- From: Tom Malone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 1:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Did I violate? Hey everyone! I hope that I did not violate some rule of list etiquette with my messages about writing Perl scripts for GAIM

Did I violate?

2001-08-06 Thread Tom Malone
Hey everyone! I hope that I did not violate some rule of list etiquette with my messages about writing Perl scripts for GAIM ("GAIM", "GAIM && Perl", and "Perl Scripts for GAIM"). I posted three messages, and all of them went unanswered. It may be that they were overlooked, but I just want to

RE: == vs eq What's the difference?

2001-08-06 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Michael Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 1:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: == vs eq What's the difference? > > ... > To elaborate, all strings have a numerical value of 0. Ouch! need to clarify that a bit. When c

RE: ideas to clean this up?

2001-08-06 Thread Yacketta, Ronald
Thanxs! now off to modify my exec code that parses an entire array of files :) > -Original Message- > From: Peter Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 14:36 > To: Yacketta, Ronald; Beginners (E-mail) > Subject: Re: ideas to clean this up? > > > At 01:55 PM

Re: ideas to clean this up?

2001-08-06 Thread Peter Scott
At 01:55 PM 8/6/01 -0400, Yacketta, Ronald wrote: >Folks, > >I have this butt ugly little perl code here, Your honesty is refreshing :-) >would like some ideas on really >streamlining it and cleaning it up. > >opendir DIR1, "../logs/set1" or die "Can't open ../logs/set1: $!"; >opendir DIR2, "../

RE: get rid of the same elements in an array/hash

2001-08-06 Thread Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1
You will never have duplicate keys in a hash. If you try to use the same key more than once, it will simply overwrite the previous definition: %blah=('a_key' => 'first definition', 'a_key' => 'second definition', 'a_key' => 'YES!!') the key 'a_key' appeared three times, but each time it overwri

Re: Problem with HEX numbers and ucd-snmp perl module...

2001-08-06 Thread Carl Rogers
At 04:22 PM 8/6/2001 -0200, Hamish Whittal wrote: >Hi all, > >I am using Joe Marzot's perl module 4.2.0. I am doing a walk of a >variable that returns a hex value. Problem is, I have no idea the value >will be hex, till I try to print it. 2 questions: > >1. I think I could find a hex value by test

ideas to clean this up?

2001-08-06 Thread Yacketta, Ronald
Folks, I have this butt ugly little perl code here, would like some ideas on really streamlining it and cleaning it up. opendir DIR1, "../logs/set1" or die "Can't open ../logs/set1: $!"; opendir DIR2, "../logs/set2" or die "Can't open ../logs/set2: $!"; opendir DIR3, "../logs/set3" or die "Can't

get rid of the same elements in an array/hash

2001-08-06 Thread Jennifer Pan
sorry to ask this as I saw the same question but cannot remember the answer. if I have a hash, how do I get rid of the elements that appear more than once? thank you very much -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: == vs eq What's the difference?

2001-08-06 Thread Michael Kelly
[Agh! I'm used to groups that automatically change the reply-to address! Apologies to all the messages I'm only sending to individual people. I'm not used to this yet...] On 8/6/01 10:33 AM, Brett W. McCoy wrote: > On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, CDitty wrote: > >> The subject pretty much says it all. Why

RE: == vs eq What's the difference?

2001-08-06 Thread Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1
== converts the arguments to numbers. So, even though ("1 blah blah blah" eq 1) is FALSE, ("1 blah blah blah" == 1) is TRUE. Similarly, ("nichts" eq 0) is FALSE, but ("nichts" == 0) is TRUE. -Original Message- From: CDitty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: == vs eq What's the difference?

2001-08-06 Thread Jos I. Boumans
== is for numeric comparison eq is for string comparison hth Jos - Original Message - From: "CDitty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 7:22 PM Subject: == vs eq What's the difference? > The subject pretty much says it all. Why do some if stateme

RE: execute if NOT true.

2001-08-06 Thread Wagner-David
Change =~ to !~ Wags ;) -Original Message- From: Scott Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 10:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: execute if NOT true. I am testing a string like so: if ($url =~ /maincat/) { block } but I want to execute if it does

Re: == vs eq What's the difference?

2001-08-06 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, CDitty wrote: > The subject pretty much says it all. Why do some if statements only want > to work with eq and others will work with ==? == and != are only for compating numerical values; eq and ne are used for comparing string values. That's what the difference is. -- Bre

== vs eq What's the difference?

2001-08-06 Thread CDitty
The subject pretty much says it all. Why do some if statements only want to work with eq and others will work with ==? Thanks CDitty -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Random Number Generation

2001-08-06 Thread Russell Kroboth
$num=(int(rand 35)); There is probably a more random way to do it, but this is what i know... -Original Message- From: Mark Rowlands [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 2:59 AM To: .; Beginners (E-mail) Subject: Re: Random Number Generation On Saturday 04 August

RE: how to matching pattern of a scalar?

2001-08-06 Thread Russell Kroboth
you should use "/" instead of "\" for pattern match. -Original Message- From: Aza Lsaja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 6:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how to matching pattern of a scalar? Hello, I make a program which need to matching pattern of a scalar

RE: execute if NOT true.

2001-08-06 Thread Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1
You were close! $url !~ /maincat/ -Original Message- From: Scott Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 12:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: execute if NOT true. I am testing a string like so: if ($url =~ /maincat/) { block } but I want to execute if it d

execute if NOT true.

2001-08-06 Thread Scott Martin
I am testing a string like so: if ($url =~ /maincat/) { block } but I want to execute if it does NOT find maincat. How would I do that? Could I use a ! in front of the = thanks -Scott

Perl to Exe for NT

2001-08-06 Thread Fennelly, Marion [ETHGB]
Hello Anyone know where to get Perl2exe or something similar for Windows NT/Perl5.6 ? I downloaded the trial version from www.indigostar.com but now I want to buy a license the site seems to be unavailable! Thanks, M.

RE: SORTING BY DATE

2001-08-06 Thread Peter Scott
At 11:41 AM 8/6/01 -0400, Chris Rogers wrote: >If your data is already in the format shown below as yearmonthday, then a >standard sort would do just fine: > >@test =(20010327, 20001113, 20011225, 19991231, 20100115); >foreach (sort @test) Doh, I should have realized that this data also sorts asc

Re: Breaking out of foreach loop

2001-08-06 Thread Rachel Coleman
> Can someone tell me how I can break out of a foreach loop before the end? Use the 'last' command. See http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/func/last.html for an explanation of how to use it. It works for breaking out of any loop e.g. foreach, while, until. Best wishes, Rachel -- To unsu

Re: Checking for letters and spaces in regular expression??

2001-08-06 Thread Rachel Coleman
> You are saying - "Report invalid characters unless there are alphabetical characters in the string". > But there are alphabetical characters in the string... > You should have said - "Report invalid characters unless there are ONLY > alphabetical characters in the string, from the beginning to t

Perl Magick

2001-08-06 Thread Russell Boyd
I am looking for information dealing with HP UX 11.00 and PerMagicK . Does PerlMagicK work with HP and if so what version of it should I download? Where is a good site to get it at? Thanks, Russell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Perl equivalent of "case" or "switch" statements ?

2001-08-06 Thread jp
Thanks for the pointer! I guess I was been going down the right path all along! :) Knowing I was on the right track helped me figure out why it wasn't evaluating correctly(!) Turns out I wasn't chomp(ing) the input. # my $generic = ; chomp $generic; #

RE: SORTING BY DATE

2001-08-06 Thread Chris Rogers
If your data is already in the format shown below as yearmonthday, then a standard sort would do just fine: @test =(20010327, 20001113, 20011225, 19991231, 20100115); foreach (sort @test) { print "$_\n"; } Output will be: 19991231 20010327 20011225 20100115 On the other hand, you may want a

RE: Perl equivalent of "case" or "switch" statements ?

2001-08-06 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: jp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 11:21 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Perl equivalent of "case" or "switch" statements ? > > > > I've been searching through books and web resources > but can't seem to find any reference to

Perl equivalent of "case" or "switch" statements ?

2001-08-06 Thread jp
I've been searching through books and web resources but can't seem to find any reference to equivalent of "case" or "switch" statements in Perl. Is there such a thing in Perl? (Every reference to the word "switch" leads me towards things like -w etc...) Thanks, -jp -- To unsubscribe, e

Re: SORTING BY DATE

2001-08-06 Thread Peter Scott
[Removed beginners-cgi list; this ha nothing to do with CGIs.] At 04:24 PM 8/6/01 +0930, Daniel Falkenberg wrote: >Does any one know the best way of sortig by YEAR MONTH DAY? > >I would like my script to dispalay 20010327 which is YEAR 2001 MONTH 10 and >DAY 27 A little experimentation should co

Re: href in CGI

2001-08-06 Thread .
Good eye. I guess I should try looking at the code in a terminal window the next time I get this kind of bug. Thanks. - Original Message - From: "Robert Lubej" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "beginners perl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 1:06 AM Subject: Re: href in CGI >

Problem with HEX numbers and ucd-snmp perl module...

2001-08-06 Thread Hamish Whittal
Hi all, I am using Joe Marzot's perl module 4.2.0. I am doing a walk of a variable that returns a hex value. Problem is, I have no idea the value will be hex, till I try to print it. 2 questions: 1. I think I could find a hex value by testing the returned value against a regex. Yes/No 2. I want

Re: Executing the kill command from within an suid script.

2001-08-06 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Jeff Rouse/NCO/CEtv [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>Basically the process I wish to send a kill signal to is a redirector for *>squid. The process is owned by the squid user. The kill signal makes the *>redirector dump statistics about itself to a file. I want to run a script *>from my cgi-bin

Re: If Statement won't work

2001-08-06 Thread Brent Michalski
Works fine for me It prints a "1", just like it is supposed to. Are you looking for some other behavior??? Brent mail@redhotsw

Re: Checking for letters and spaces in regular expression??

2001-08-06 Thread Jos I. Boumans
make your life easy, use something like this: $_ = 'foo@bar'; print "ILLEGAL!" if /[^a-zA-Z]/; the ^ in side the character class says, everything NOT belonging to what's in this class it should be a bit faster then checking the entire string for sure. hth, Jos Boumans - Original Message

Re: database connectivity

2001-08-06 Thread Mel Matsuoka
At 03:05 PM 08/06/2001 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >hi >I am facing a problem while trying to connect toSQL Server Database >but my code does not even trigger a request to the database ( according to >log files) > >My code is below, What is the problem ? >Is it regarding to the code ? >Or to

Re: href in CGI

2001-08-06 Thread Robert Lubej
> > >I'm asking because the other way that I know about, isn't working in the >following code segment: > > print < > >Check Out > > End_link2 > There is (or at least i see it) a space before "End_link2". The ending string must start at the beginning of the line. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [

Re: Checking for letters and spaces in regular expression??

2001-08-06 Thread Robert Lubej
Carlos C.Gonzalez wrote: >Hi everyone, > >Given the following code why does it print out "Valid chars in string."? >In other words why does the space between "San" and "Jose" not make the >if expression true? > >my $string = "San Jose"; > >if ($string !~ /[a-zA-Z]/) { > print "Invalid charact

Re: how to matching pattern of a scalar?

2001-08-06 Thread Birgit Kellner
--On Montag, 06. August 2001 17:38 +0700 Aza Lsaja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I make a program which need to matching pattern of a scalar. > I write it as: > > $list = $find =~ \/$scalar\; > > but, i get error when execute it as: > "Search pattern not terminated at line 12" > > then

Re: how to matching pattern of a scalar?

2001-08-06 Thread Rajeev Rumale
try this $list = $find =~ /$scalar/; Rajeev - A little bit added to what you've already got gives you a little bit more.-P.G. WOODHOUSE - Original Message - From: "Aza Lsaja"

how to matching pattern of a scalar?

2001-08-06 Thread Aza Lsaja
Hello, I make a program which need to matching pattern of a scalar. I write it as: $list = $find =~ \/$scalar\; but, i get error when execute it as: "Search pattern not terminated at line 12" then how i matching a scalar variable? Regards, Aza -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

database connectivity

2001-08-06 Thread vsarunkumar
hi I am facing a problem while trying to connect toSQL Server Database but my code does not even trigger a request to the database ( according to log files) My code is below, What is the problem ? Is it regarding to the code ? Or to that of the settings made before the code is executed ( i.e cop

Re: Regexes

2001-08-06 Thread Michael Fowler
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 02:05:00PM +0930, Daniel Falkenberg wrote: > I have the number '08' and I want to serch for the '0' and repalce with > nothing '' being left with only '8'. If all you have is '08' you don't need a regular expression to strip off the 0, and a regex would be a bit of overkil

Re: Random Number Generation

2001-08-06 Thread Mark Rowlands
On Saturday 04 August 2001 18:35, . wrote: > Another thing that I notice the llama book fails to mention is random > number generation. Is this possible in Perl? (More specifically in a CGI > script.) could also look at Math::TrulyRandom or Math::Random -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: getting the calling function name.

2001-08-06 Thread Me
perldoc -f caller perldoc Carp.pm http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=assert > Hello Every Body, > > I need some help. > I am using a sub routine to log all the messages to be used for debugging > purpose. > ie. &debugLogger($debug_message); > Since very similare kind of messages are

Perl Regular Expressions

2001-08-06 Thread Suresh Babu.A [Support]
Hi, Any free links for Perl regular expressions, kindly provide me !!! Thanks SureshA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

getting the calling function name.

2001-08-06 Thread Rajeev Rumale
Hello Every Body, I need some help. I am using a sub routine to log all the messages to be used for debugging purpose. ie. &debugLogger($debug_message); Since very similare kind of messages are genrated at serveral places, I add the function name. i.e., &debugLogger("inside x \n $debug_messa