Re: output pushing

2002-09-09 Thread Jimmy George
Hello Hytham and world That is a good question. But 'pushing' means you have to be able to FORCE html code into a clients machine - not just allow them to be able to look for it themselves. Exit browsing. Logon and become lost. cheers JimmyG @CUDAL -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: Getting the web page language

2002-09-09 Thread Jimmy George
OOps folks That reply from me was completely wrong! SORRY. I was thinking of the character set as being part of the language it is being used in. Or at least I thought I was thinking. JimmyG @CUDAL -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: output pushing

2002-09-09 Thread tommy
Is this what your after: $|++; # put this near the top of your script HTH, TommyGun. -Original Message- From : Jimmy George [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : Hytham Shehab [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : 09 September 2002 08:43:10 Subject : Re: output pushing Hello Hytham and world

Sendback programs output as Perl/CGI

2002-09-09 Thread Bruce Ambraal
Hi all, Could anyone assist with the following: Let me explain when running exe below on your c: drive the program, pulls the two input text file and produce two outputfile. In addition the program the program display a screen output. My request: 1) I want for this screen output to be send

Re: output pushing

2002-09-09 Thread Hytham Shehab
Hello Hytham and world That is a good question. But 'pushing' means you have to be able to FORCE html code into a clients machine - not just allow them to be able to look for it themselves. Exit browsing. Logon and become lost. cheers JimmyG @CUDAL i don't get it, do u mean that if i

Fw: output pushing

2002-09-09 Thread Hytham Shehab
$|++; this won't work man u didn't get my q, i need to push data into output without the need to recall the entire script to print the whole plus the new data, i want em to print only the new data. thx -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Re[2]: Getting the web page language

2002-09-09 Thread denis klementjev
Hello Octavian, Monday, September 9, 2002, 4:39:26 AM, you wrote: OR I am wondering how Google and Altavista search engines can find out the OR language used in a web page. OR I can see that they can find the pages written in Romanian language, for OR example, even though the header of the file

Fwd: Fw: output pushing

2002-09-09 Thread brad
Hytham,  try cpan.org search CGI::state this might help Brad -Original Message- From: Hytham Shehab [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 14:31:44 +0300 Subject: Fw: output pushing $|++; this won't work man u didn't get my q, i need to push data into

return c++ output to cgi/html page

2002-09-09 Thread Naomi Arries
Could anyone assist me with the following: Let me explain when running exe some program on my c: drive the program, pulls the two input text file and produce two outputfile. In addition the program then display a screen output[see attachment. My request: 1) I want for this screen output to be

Re: renaming uploaded file name

2002-09-09 Thread Janek Schleicher
Naomi Arries wrote at Mon, 09 Sep 2002 15:20:11 +0200: When uploading a file (say c:\input.txt)to my appache server upload directory directly on the c: drive) to the upload directory on the server then that file gets uploaded to with the name(say C__input.txt) on the sever(see upload3.pl).

Re: Getting the web page language

2002-09-09 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hi, Just to clarify... ISO-8859-1 is not 'Plain American English'. The charset for that is US-ASCII. ISO-8869-1 is extended ASCII (Latin1), and covers glyphs from most Western European languages. ( French (fr), Spanish (es), Catalan (ca), Basque (eu), Portuguese (pt), Italian (it), Albanian

Re: return c++ output to cgi/html page

2002-09-09 Thread david
Naomi Arries wrote: Could anyone assist me with the following: Let me explain when running exe some program on my c: drive the program, pulls the two input text file and produce two outputfile. In addition the program then display a screen output[see attachment. My request: 1) I want

Display program output to HTML/CGI page

2002-09-09 Thread Naomi Arries
Hi all, Could anyone assist with the following: Let me explain when running a program on my c: drive the program, produce two outputfiles. In addition the program then display a screen output[see the attachment]. My request is: 1) I want for this screen output to be send back to the user by

retain same file name when uploading

2002-09-09 Thread Naomi Arries
I have noticed that when uploading a file (say c:\input.txt) to the upload directory on my apache server then that file gets uploaded with another name( C__input.txt. See below the script called upload.pl. Could you someone modify it such that the same name remain consistant during (client

RE: retain same file name when uploading

2002-09-09 Thread Camilo Gonzalez
Naomi, The purpose of this list is not for us to write programs for you but to help you overcome any specific problems you may have. Please post specifically what you think the problem(s) are and the kind Perl gurus here will be all too happy to assist you. -Original Message- From:

RE: Display program output to HTML/CGI page

2002-09-09 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Naomi Arries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 3:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Display program output to HTML/CGI page Hi all, Could anyone assist with the following: Let me explain when running a program on my c:

RE: retain same file name when uploading

2002-09-09 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Naomi Arries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 3:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: retain same file name when uploading I have noticed that when uploading a file (say c:\input.txt) to the upload directory on my apache

Re: retain same file name when uploading

2002-09-09 Thread Christopher G Tantalo
Camilo Gonzalez wrote: Naomi, The purpose of this list is not for us to write programs for you but to help you overcome any specific problems you may have. Please post specifically what you think the problem(s) are and the kind Perl gurus here will be all too happy to assist you. Camilo,

RE: retain same file name when uploading

2002-09-09 Thread Camilo Gonzalez
Nevermind. -Original Message- From: Christopher G Tantalo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 3:11 PM To: Camilo Gonzalez Cc: 'Naomi Arries'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: retain same file name when uploading Camilo Gonzalez wrote: Naomi, The purpose of

Re: retain same file name when uploading

2002-09-09 Thread Naomi Arries
See Bob, I am attempting to activate my c++ program(on my server) from client within the same LAN. This program pulls a data file called c:\input.txt, that is with in the program this directory are refereced as c:\input.txt. This input.txt file is a flat file of data that I intend to send to

RE: retain same file name when uploading

2002-09-09 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Naomi Arries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 4:18 PM To: Bob Showalter Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: retain same file name when uploading See Bob, I am attempting to activate my c++ program(on my server) from client

Indexing multiple records for potential updates

2002-09-09 Thread Maureen E Fischer
Hello, I'm working on a Perl CGI program that must update A mysql database. The user enters key information that Is used to display zero to many records. Then the user Can update or delete any number of records displayed. I sucessfully displayed multiple records and have output Them

Re:File Globbing problems

2002-09-09 Thread Sudarshan Raghavan
On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, pn wrote: Hi, I have a file age_classes.txt in /prj/tmp that contains the following information. These are intended to be prefixes for the file names in the agegroup_data directory. $ cat $age_classes.txt agegroup2 agegroup3 agegroup4 I also have a directory

Re: locking a file in linux

2002-09-09 Thread Mark Goland
This will do mandetory locking { which can also be done with chmod +l filename}. If someone can rewrite this into perl , that would be great. /* write by Mark Goland use and enjoy keep the tag [EMAIL PROTECTED] */ #include sys/types.h #include sys/stat.h int main(int argc,char **argv){

RE: perl and my DB...

2002-09-09 Thread Jeff AA
-Original Message- From: Mariusz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 September 2002 05:59 To: perl Subject: perl and my DB... (Can I submit the record via DBI and read the primary key ID within the same script. Other words, can I send the last name creating a new record,

change directories

2002-09-09 Thread Javeed SAR
Hi, How to change drives. For eg if i am in c: right now i want to move to M: Am i doing the right thing : chdir M:\\test_merge1 ; Regards Javeed

Re: change directories

2002-09-09 Thread Sudarshan Raghavan
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Javeed SAR wrote: Hi, How to change drives. For eg if i am in c: right now i want to move to M: Am i doing the right thing : chdir M:\\test_merge1 ; You can check this yourself use Cwd; print cwd; # This should print your current working dir -- To

Re: Book on Perl!

2002-09-09 Thread Noah
The Perl Black Book is the best book I've seen so far (I've been working with Perl for about 2 years). opinion I had a lot of trouble with Learning Perl, in fact I never managed to learn much from it! I felt like the book assumed too high a level of understanding of Perl to be useful to a real

Is there Paradox database module?

2002-09-09 Thread A
Hi, I need to read Paradox database on Linux system. Is there a module that enables Paradox database reading? thanks for help. ladislav -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: change directories

2002-09-09 Thread Dharmendra Rai
perldoc -f chdir __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: change directories

2002-09-09 Thread Dharmendra Rai
perldoc -f chdir __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

RE: change directories

2002-09-09 Thread Javeed SAR
Hi, I printed the statement: print cwd; it's in right path, but the program comes out in c:\, i want the cursor to be in m:\test_merge1, in this dir i am executing a command, which is not executing? chdir M:\\test_merge1 ; @cmd=`cleartool setcs -current`; Regards Javeed -Original

RE: change directories

2002-09-09 Thread Sudarshan Raghavan
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Javeed SAR wrote: Hi, I printed the statement: print cwd; it's in right path, but the program comes out in c:\, i want the cursor to be in m:\test_merge1, in this dir i am executing a command, which is not executing? The chdir inside your perl program will not

Re: locking a file in linux

2002-09-09 Thread John W. Krahn
Mark Goland wrote: This will do mandetory locking { which can also be done with chmod +l filename}. If someone can rewrite this into perl , that would be great. /* write by Mark Goland use and enjoy keep the tag [EMAIL PROTECTED] */ #include sys/types.h #include sys/stat.h

Re: change directories

2002-09-09 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
Hey you need use perl to change a directory If you really want to cd thru a script why dont you write a batch file Javeed Sar wrote: Hi, I printed the statement: print cwd; it's in right path, but the program comes out in c:\, i want the cursor to be in m:\test_merge1, in this dir i am

RE: change directories

2002-09-09 Thread Jeff AA
-Original Message- From: Javeed SAR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 September 2002 11:25 To: Sudarshan Raghavan; Perl beginners Subject: RE: change directories Hi, I printed the statement: print cwd; it's in right path, but the program comes out in c:\, i want the

search and replace help...

2002-09-09 Thread Mike Singleton
How would I remove all the space and replace them with commas, but where there is more than one space in a row, only replace those with one comma? In other words make the follwing file comma delimited and strip out everything preceding the date? === My crack at the script === use strict;

Re: search and replace help...

2002-09-09 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Sep 9, Mike Singleton said: How would I remove all the space and replace them with commas, but where there is more than one space in a row, only replace those with one comma? In other words make the follwing file comma delimited and strip out everything preceding the date? To turn 1 or more

Weekly posting statistics - 36/2002

2002-09-09 Thread Felix Geerinckx
Weekly posting statistics for perl.beginners - week 36 of 2002. From Monday 2002-09-02 to Sunday 2002-09-08 there were 344 articles posted (14565 lines) by 107 authors, giving an average 3.21 articles per author, and an average article length of 42 lpa. The average number of articles per day

RE: Weekly posting statistics - 36/2002

2002-09-09 Thread Nikola Janceski
for once I am not on the top 10 since I first subscribed to the list. :) -Original Message- From: Felix Geerinckx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 12:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Weekly posting statistics - 36/2002 Weekly posting statistics

Re: perlcc boot_File__Glob error (solution)

2002-09-09 Thread david
Tony wrote: Seems that glob needs to be defined manually with perlcc but with the perl interpreter glob is already defined. If anyone has additional information to educate me a little more on this 'glob' issue I'd appreciate it. Hope this helps someone. Tony the reason is because

printing output to a file

2002-09-09 Thread Nandita Mullapudi
hello list i am trying to print the output of a parsing script to a file- the way it is right now, the print commands are within a foreach loop, and it prints to the screen. in order to get the entire output into a file, i'm using a simple set of commands like so: foreach my $key (keys

another beginner question

2002-09-09 Thread Mike Singleton
I think that I have bit off more than I can chew here Error: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. == Script == #!/usr/bin/perl ### # # Copyright (C) 1998 by Syncsort, Inc. #

Re: GD library

2002-09-09 Thread david
Ebaad Ahmed wrote: How can I install GD librariies on U10 solaris 7 machine to run the graph module. Need help really bad. Regards, Ebaad. if you donwload GD from CPAN, untar it, there will be a README(or INSTALL) file that tells you exactly how to install GD. you will

RE: printing output to a file

2002-09-09 Thread Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO
You want the open on the outside of the loop. You are using on the open, which basically gives you a new clean file each time. You could use for appending the data, but there is no reason to open the file repeatedly. Wags ;) -Original Message- From: Nandita Mullapudi

RE: printing output to a file

2002-09-09 Thread Timothy Johnson
You need to either a) open your file before the foreach loop, or b) open the file in append mode. When you use this line, open(OUT, 'outputfile.txt'), Perl opens the file and removes the contents. It truncates the file to 0 bytes. This is because you are using the operator instead of the

Re: printing output to a file

2002-09-09 Thread James Edward Gray II
You're real close to what you need here. You're just reopening (and clearing) that file every time through the for loop. Move that open statement to above the loop and everything will start working fine. Good luck. James On Monday, September 9, 2002, at 11:49 AM, Nandita Mullapudi wrote:

Re: Processing Tagged Files (Real Newbie)

2002-09-09 Thread david
Alexandre Enkerli wrote: Hello all, This one is probably very easy for most of you and it would help me a great deal if someone could tell me how to do it. I know there's a bunch of tutorials, perldocs and manuals out there, but I'm getting confused. I receive files with the following

Re: printing output to a file

2002-09-09 Thread david
James Edward Gray II wrote: open (OUT, 'outputfile.txt') or die couldn't; print OUT $key\n\n, $alignments{$key}, \nXXX\n the reason is in these 2 lines(especially the open() thingy). whenever you ask Perl to open something for writing, Perl turncate the file for

Re: another beginner question

2002-09-09 Thread david
Mike Singleton wrote: I think that I have bit off more than I can chew here Error: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. open (OUTF,$OUT_TEMP) || die Cannot open output file $!; my @files = glob('3*.log'); $grepexpr = egrep

Re: GD library

2002-09-09 Thread Ebaad Ahmed
Hi David, I ran the command for GD install and it seemed working and it asked me for certain packages that need to be installed and after every thing was said and done it started installing and gave me the following errorm if it is familiar or has a fix please let me know. Checking if your kit

session id

2002-09-09 Thread Mariusz K
Hi:) I want to be able to track the user as he goes from one pae to another. I heard that sessionID are used for that purpose. I was trying to find info on the net about creating a sessionID with perl and didn't find any articles for biginners. Could anyone pls tell me how to create them or

Re: GD library

2002-09-09 Thread david
Ebaad Ahmed wrote: Hi David, I ran the command for GD install and it seemed working and it asked me for certain packages that need to be installed and after every thing was said and done it started installing and gave me the following errorm if it is familiar or has a fix please let me

Re: session id

2002-09-09 Thread Greg Oliver
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6.1/lib/CGI.html should get you what you need.. -G On Mon, 09 Sep 2002 19:18:43 + Mariusz K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi:) I want to be able to track the user as he goes from one pae to another. I heard that sessionID are used for that purpose. I was

RE: session id

2002-09-09 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Mariusz K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 3:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: session id Hi:) I want to be able to track the user as he goes from one pae to another. I heard that sessionID are used for that purpose.

Re: another beginner question

2002-09-09 Thread Michael Fowler
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 11:24:01AM -0700, david wrote: also, the way you create your temp file is not reliable. there are better ways to do what you need. you might want to goto cpan and search for a module(i can never remember it's name!) that suits your need. You're probably thinking of

Re: search and replace help...

2002-09-09 Thread John W. Krahn
Mike Singleton wrote: How would I remove all the space and replace them with commas, but where there is more than one space in a row, only replace those with one comma? In other words make the follwing file comma delimited and strip out everything preceding the date? === My crack at the

Accessing by Thread

2002-09-09 Thread sheena sidhu
hi, I recently subscribed to this group. I was wondering if there was a way to access it the same way as google groups wherein you can access mails from previous days too or is emails in the mailbox the only way? Thanks, -Sheena. - Do You Yahoo!?

How to find all active windows hosts on a network

2002-09-09 Thread Mark Richmond
Hello all: I need to produce a list Windows2k hosts on our network. It would seem that I could obtain the information from the domain controllers I looked at Win32::NetResource but can't figure out how to get the node name. Any thoughts ? -thanks -mark - Mark Richmond

RE: Accessing by Thread

2002-09-09 Thread Timothy Johnson
There is an archive at http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/, and google groups has archives from perl.beginners, which is a newsgroup which posts the contents from this mailing list. -Original Message- From: sheena sidhu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 1:59 PM To: [EMAIL

Date and time modified

2002-09-09 Thread Quincy Ntuli
Greetings. I wish to obtain the time and date of a file. How do i do this in perl ? There is probably a module out there to do this but is it possible to modify the date and time format of the output of whatever method is available for getting the time and date modified for a file ? thanx

$_ variable question

2002-09-09 Thread RTO RTO
Friends: I have an outerloop with a list and so do I have an inner loop with another list. $_ variable points to list in the outer-loop or inner-loop depending upon the scope. I prefer to not use aliases. In such a case, when I am in the scope of inner loop, can I access the looping variable on

$_ variable question

2002-09-09 Thread RTO RTO
Friends: I have an outerloop with a list and so do I have an inner loop with another list. $_ variable points to list in the outer-loop or inner-loop depending upon the scope. I prefer to not use aliases. In such a case, when I am in the scope of inner loop, can I access the looping variable on

RE: How to find all active windows hosts on a network

2002-09-09 Thread Mark Richmond
As a follow up: Win32::NodeName() produces the local NodeName I need a list of all the nodes. The hunt continues -Original Message- From: Mark Richmond Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 5:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to find all active windows hosts on a network

RE: $_ variable question

2002-09-09 Thread Timothy Johnson
You can't, exactly. You have just overwritten $_ with the second loop. The only way you COULD do this is maybe by declaring $_ with local() somehow? I don't know. Even if you could figure out how to do that, however, you would be doing the same thing as creating a new variable, only you will

RE: How to find all active windows hosts on a network

2002-09-09 Thread Timothy Johnson
Are you saying that you want to get all Windows hosts on the network, or are you specifically trying to get the number of hosts that have Windows 2000 installed? -Original Message- From: Mark Richmond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 2:31 PM To: Mark Richmond;

RE: How to find all active windows hosts on a network

2002-09-09 Thread Timothy Johnson
If you are trying to find out which ones are Win2k, you can iterate over the list of computers and check the registry like so: use Win32::TieRegistry(Delimiter = /); $verRoot = $Registry-{//$client/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/};

Fwd: RE: $_ variable question

2002-09-09 Thread RTO RTO
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com ---BeginMessage--- Tim -- Thanks for your rejoinder. Mostly, I do use 'aliased' variables within nested loops. However,

Re: Date and time modified

2002-09-09 Thread drieux
On Friday, Aug 9, 2002, at 09:13 US/Pacific, Quincy Ntuli wrote: Greetings. I wish to obtain the time and date of a file. How do i do this in perl ? perldoc -f stat ciao drieux --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: How to find all active windows hosts on a network

2002-09-09 Thread Mark Richmond
Are you saying that you want to get all Windows hosts on the network, or are you specifically trying to get the number of hosts that have Windows 2000 installed? Good question never thought about. In this case I don't care what OS is running I just need to find them all and copies

RE: How to find all active windows hosts on a network

2002-09-09 Thread Mark Richmond
So the question is how do generate $client -mark If you are trying to find out which ones are Win2k, you can iterate over the list of computers and check the registry like so: use Win32::TieRegistry(Delimiter = /); $verRoot =

Re: GD library

2002-09-09 Thread drieux
On Monday, Sep 9, 2002, at 12:16 US/Pacific, Ebaad Ahmed wrote: [..] Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lfreetype Note (probably harmless): No library found for -ljpeg Writing Makefile for GD [..] you may want to check the

Re: how to fix uninitialized value in subsitution warning

2002-09-09 Thread drieux
On Friday, Sep 6, 2002, at 23:26 US/Pacific, pelp wrote: my $change_on = /FChangeBar Yes/; my $change_off = /FChangeBar No/; $FILE - open(test.mif) or die can't open file; while ($FILE) { if ($change_on) { s/$change_on/$change_off/; given that you have the / elements in

RE: How to find all active windows hosts on a network

2002-09-09 Thread RTO RTO
I ran this one-liner, and it did return all the Windows NT/2000/Servers/Workstations attached to my domain/workgroup. C:\perl -e use Win32::NetAdmin; my($serverRef) = {}; Win32::NetAdmin::GetServers('', 'MYDOMAINNAME', SV_TYPE_SERVER, $serverRef); while(my($key, $val) = each %{$serverRef}){print

Re: GD library

2002-09-09 Thread Ebaad Ahmed
Hi David, I got this error when ran the patch_gd.pl, looks like its looking for a patch file. # perl patch_gd.pl patch: Invalid options. patch: Usage: patch [-blNR] [-c|-e|-n] [-d dir] [-D define] [-i patchfile]\ [-o outfile] [-p num] [-r rejectfile] [file] This script requires

RE: How to find all active windows hosts on a network

2002-09-09 Thread Timothy Johnson
Oh, in that case, you can use either Win32::NetAdmin::GetServers() or Win32::AdminMisc::GetMachines(). Personally, I would do something like this: ### use strict; use warnings; use Net::Ping; use Win32::AdminMisc; my $p = Net::Ping-new('icmp',2); my @clients = ();

Re: GD library

2002-09-09 Thread Ebaad Ahmed
I have the GD installed as a package from sunfreeware.com so it does not have a download directory. but the dir it created in /home/imaging/.cpan//build/GD-2.01 has the patch_gd.pl file and I ran it according to David but it seems like its looking for a real patch file to patch it with. Regards,

RE: printing output to a file

2002-09-09 Thread Nandita Mullapudi
Thanks ALL for the quick help! i realised my mistake, open shd be outside the loop.. :) :) (scripts that work, very pleasing!) nandita -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Date and time modified

2002-09-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 06:13:41PM +0200, Quincy Ntuli wrote: Greetings. I wish to obtain the time and date of a file. How do i do this in perl ? perldoc -f stat perldoc -f -X There is probably a module out there to do this but is it possible to modify the date and time format of the

Re: GD library

2002-09-09 Thread drieux
On Monday, Sep 9, 2002, at 15:16 US/Pacific, Ebaad Ahmed wrote: [..] I have the GD installed as a package from sunfreeware.com so it does not have a download directory. but the dir it created in /home/imaging/.cpan//build/GD-2.01 has the patch_gd.pl file and I ran it according to David but

tutorial Exercises online

2002-09-09 Thread sheena sidhu
Hi, Since I am currently learning Perl, I was wondering if there are any links that the community is aware of that has some good exercises to try ones hands on? Thanks, - Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes

Re: GD library

2002-09-09 Thread david
Ebaad Ahmed wrote: Hi David, I got this error when ran the patch_gd.pl, looks like its looking for a patch file. # perl patch_gd.pl patch: Invalid options. patch: Usage: patch [-blNR] [-c|-e|-n] [-d dir] [-D define] [-i patchfile]\ [-o outfile] [-p num] [-r

Re: $_ variable question

2002-09-09 Thread Michael Fowler
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 02:29:24PM -0700, RTO RTO wrote: $_ variable points to list in the outer-loop or inner-loop depending upon the scope. I prefer to not use aliases. In such a case, when I am in the scope of inner loop, can I access the looping variable on the outer without using an

Re: how to fix uninitialized value in subsitution warning

2002-09-09 Thread Michael Fowler
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 03:06:06PM -0700, drieux wrote: On Friday, Sep 6, 2002, at 23:26 US/Pacific, pelp wrote: my $change_on = /FChangeBar Yes/; my $change_off = /FChangeBar No/; [snip] s/$change_on/$change_off/; given that you have the / elements in the variables, you may find

Re: $_ variable question

2002-09-09 Thread RTO RTO
Michael -- As I had earlier posited, it was just out of curiosity and the question was more in tune with academic curiosity rather than pragmatic correctiveness. I always used to have named iterators, but when I was programming without them today, this question came up to my mind

process detection

2002-09-09 Thread HENRY,MARK (HP-Roseville,ex1)
Hi All, I want to write a script which will first check to see if an earlier invocation of itself is running - or rather a given program which it in turn calls is running. Anyone know how to get a list of process on a windows machine? Is there an internal perl way to get this info? Also, I've

issue with chomp - chop need to trim()

2002-09-09 Thread dizzy74
Hi All Today I was trying to do some work with perl and needed to use a function that would trim leading or trailing spaces from a string. Looked on the web and found basicaly perl uses either chop or chomp each with their own features. When I tried to apply it to my $var it either

Re: process detection

2002-09-09 Thread drieux
On Monday, Sep 9, 2002, at 16:56 US/Pacific, HENRY,MARK (HP-Roseville,ex1) wrote: [..] Also, I've had variable success with the windows task scheduler to run scripts frequently - has anyone any experience with using the scheduler vs. a long sleep period loop type situation and vice versa?

Re: issue with chomp - chop need to trim()

2002-09-09 Thread david
Dizzy74 wrote: open(FILE,F:\\test_db\\Admin\\MINIHI\\DEF\\prog_list.txt|| die cant open file) ; chomp(@tblname = FILE); open (outfile, F:\\test_db\\Admin\\MINIHI\\DEF\\INSERTprog_list.sql|| die cant open file) ; foreach $progid (@tblname) { $progid =~ s/\s+$//;

Re: issue with chomp - chop need to trim()

2002-09-09 Thread John W. Krahn
Dizzy74 wrote: Hi All Hello, Today I was trying to do some work with perl and needed to use a function that would trim leading or trailing spaces from a string. perldoc -q blank space Found in /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/pod/perlfaq4.pod How do I strip blank space from the

Re: issue with chomp - chop need to trim()

2002-09-09 Thread John W. Krahn
David wrote: to trim spaces, try: $line =\t\tabcd\t \t\n; $line =~ /^\s+//; $line =~ s/^\s+//; $line =~ /\s+$//; #-- also remove \n $line =~ s/\s+$//; John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: issue with chomp - chop need to trim()

2002-09-09 Thread Michael Fowler
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 08:04:24PM -0500, dizzy74 wrote: [snip] I did perldoc -q trim and nothing. Of course chop and chomp were there but diddnt seem to work in a pinch (or I couldnt understand how to apply the function in my case. The FAQ entry you're looking for is perldoc -q 'strip

Re: issue with chomp - chop need to trim()

2002-09-09 Thread david
John W. Krahn wrote: $line =~ /^\s+//; $line =~ s/^\s+//; even after looking at your reply for 20 seconds, i still didn't see the differences... :-) how stupid i am? thanks for spot that. david -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: locking a file in linux

2002-09-09 Thread Mark Goland
Thanx John, I have not tested it yet, but it looks right...will give it a try 2nite. Mark - Original Message - From: John W. Krahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 7:35 AM Subject: Re: locking a file in linux Mark Goland wrote: This will do

Re: issue with chomp - chop need to trim()

2002-09-09 Thread rob
david wrote: the chop(EXP) function always remove the last character (or byte if you are dealing with ASCII test only) from the applied EXP or $_ if EXP is omitted. it doesn't care what that character is. it's true that if you happen to have a single space at the end of your string, chop will

Re: locking a file in linux .. Havent tried it as yet

2002-09-09 Thread Mark Goland
Will I be able to myself write into a file when I have locked it ...I think you missed the point on the list. There are two types of lock's. Mandetory and Advisory. When a Mendetory lock is set, no one can write to a file, or read it for that fact { or atleast to my knowledge ex: chmod+l

Re: tutorial Exercises online

2002-09-09 Thread sheena sidhu
looks good! thanks. also, do you know of any books that can be bought for practice sessions?? Thanks, Sheena. rc wrote:hey here are some links to assignments ~rc http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs2304p/programs/index.html http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/~erikt/perl/

Re: Accessing by Thread

2002-09-09 Thread Steve Grazzini
Sheena Sidhu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently subscribed to this group. I was wondering if there was a way to access it the same way as google groups wherein you can access mails from previous days too or is emails in the mailbox the only way? The {mail,news}group is available at

hiding a URL

2002-09-09 Thread Jose Malacara
Is there an easy way to hide ,or spoof, a URL when outputting to html with perl? For example if I was running a script in my cgi-bin directory, but wanted the URL to appear differently so as to hide location of my cgi-directory. For example, if a visitor is looking at a page located at:

Webeditor for use with Perl and MySQL

2002-09-09 Thread Bob Benjamin
Any suggestions for a relatively bug-free webeditor for use with perl and MySQL? Thanks. Bob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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