Re: How to run a process in background?

2002-10-09 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hi and thank you. I've tried the script sample and it works fine but it doesn't work with the following line: fork exit; I need to type just: fork; because otherwise the browser (IE) keeps Opening page Can you tell me, is it OK if I use the script with the line for closing STDIN,

replacing text in a file

2002-10-09 Thread Egleton, Gary
Hi, can you help a begnner with this?? I have a file with the following repeated several times. The date and time will vary. UPDATED=06/18/2002 18:42:25 I wnat to replace what ver text is between the quotes with NOT APPLICABLE ie UPDATED=NOT APPLICABLE Regards, Gary

Re: replacing text in a file

2002-10-09 Thread Roberto Ruiz
Hello Gary, God bless you. On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:19:42PM +0100, Egleton, Gary wrote: I have a file with the following repeated several times. The date and time will vary. UPDATED=06/18/2002 18:42:25 I wnat to replace what ver text is between the quotes with NOT APPLICABLE ie

Re: replacing text in a file

2002-10-09 Thread Anthony E.
my $line = 'UPDATED=06/18/2002 18:42:25'; $line =~ s/(.*?)/NOT APPLICABLE/sig; try this. --- Egleton, Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, can you help a begnner with this?? I have a file with the following repeated several times. The date and time will vary. UPDATED=06/18/2002

Sending HTML mail?

2002-10-09 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hello all, Could you please tell me what module should I use to send HTML mail? Can I use Net::SMTP? And what module could I use to send attachments? Thank you. Teddy's Center for the blind: http://teddy.fcc.ro/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: How to run a process in background?

2002-10-09 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hi and thank you. I want to create a script that is activated when someone visits a .shtml page. That script is launched by a server side includes line. The script need to check if a database was updated, and send mail to more email addresses about this. This mailing process might take a long

Re: Perl / CGI - User Authentication ...

2002-10-09 Thread Todd Wade
Kevin wrote: Hello, I am in the process of developing a CGI application that requires user authentication. In the past I have developed a simple login screen where I validated the user and forwarded the request based on the result. I would like to progress to the next level and pass the

spaces in a variable

2002-10-09 Thread Javeed SAR
Hi, How to remove spaces in a variable? For eg if i have variable $te $te = $attr_tag . $date; chomp$te; print $te; Gives me output as follows: SYNC_CHECKWed Oct 9 12:20:53 2002 I want to remove all the spaces in output variable $te. Regards javeed

RE: spaces in a variable

2002-10-09 Thread Toby Stuart
-Original Message- From: Javeed SAR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 5:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: spaces in a variable Hi, How to remove spaces in a variable? For eg if i have variable $te $te = $attr_tag . $date; chomp$te; print

(forw) [bootscat@bellsouth.net: Re: FW: Need urgent help]

2002-10-09 Thread Mat Harris
- Forwarded message from Bootscat [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Bootscat [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mat Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FW: Need urgent help Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 20:04:38 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.

Re: Number of open sockets

2002-10-09 Thread saffiot
Jessee Parker wrote: Is there a way to keep track of the number of open sockets your program might have that are in a TIME_WAIT (I think it is) state? If you want can trye this script for to track the socket open on the ports feel free for every change that you want to do. thio script

I need help for handling text log file

2002-10-09 Thread Hello Buddy
Hi Perl experts, I need your help. I am absolute Perl beginner. I am writing perl with Windows 95 machine. I download Perl from activestate and my version 5.6.1. It works properly and I can run some program. Currently I am writing log file processing with perl. I can write normal

Re: I need help for handling text log file

2002-10-09 Thread Jean Padilla
Not an expert in perl (nor in english), but let's try ;-) if your output file is not supposed to get too big, consider 'writing' first your output lines in a hash ... $hash{1} = line 1; and so on (later, writing line 10 for eg.) if (whatever) { $hash{5} .= these few words; } when finished,

RE: How to deploy a Perl Application

2002-10-09 Thread NYIMI Jose (BMB)
my 2 cents... Distributed GUI apps are legacy. Write web based software. You right ! That's what I was thinking about ... Do you have some reasons in which case Distributed GUI will be the winner against Browser Client ? Should I continue learning Perl/Tk then ? :-) José.

RE: I need help for handling text log file

2002-10-09 Thread NYIMI Jose (BMB)
Why not just use Tie::File module ? http://search.cpan.org/author/JHI/perl-5.8.0/lib/Tie/File.pm#SYNOPSIS José. -Original Message- From: Hello Buddy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 11:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I need help for handling text

Re: (forw) [bootscat@bellsouth.net: Re: FW: Need urgent help]

2002-10-09 Thread zentara
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 09:00:20 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mat Harris) wrote: I tried require './config.cgi'; I still get the same error. Any other idea's. This one really has me stumped. Your config.cgi needs to have a 1; on it's last line. Also check permissions on the file. -- To

Re: I need help for handling text log file

2002-10-09 Thread Hello Buddy
Thanks Jean, But I am afraid to say that my log file is at least over 60 K lines. I do not know how to do it. How can I insert any words in any place of open text file? Regards Winn --- Jean Padilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not an expert in perl (nor in english), but let's try ;-) if

Win32API::Net

2002-10-09 Thread David Samuelsson (PAC)
Due to an bad and old software i need to do an fix. i have problems though, i need to list all the users in a global group. (Active directory), this was easy to do. I need to put these users in an local group on a server, this is easy aswell! The problem i get is that when i list the global

Re: evaluating expressions in here documents

2002-10-09 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Jim Ockers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there any concise method of fully evaluating the arithmetic expressions in here documents, rather than just one level of substitution?: sub RotationMatrix { my $theta = $_[0] * 3.14159265 / 180.0; my $m = cos($theta); my $n = sin($theta);

RE: How to deploy a Perl Application

2002-10-09 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: NYIMI Jose (BMB) [EMAIL PROTECTED] my 2 cents... Distributed GUI apps are legacy. Write web based software. You right ! That's what I was thinking about ... Do you have some reasons in which case Distributed GUI will be the winner against Browser Client ? Yeah ... Browser

variables in regexp

2002-10-09 Thread Adriano Allora
Hi to all, I feel myself very stupid, but I've tried to do it in different ways and I cannot do it. I need to clear a text, to tokenize it, for instance to delete some things and to transform some others: .. at this time I use this regexp: a) to delete s/=+\n//g; s/-+\n//g; b) to transform

file handles!

2002-10-09 Thread Pravesh Biyani
HI I define a file the following way: $FILE_HANDLE = somefile; then I openit open(FILEHANDLE); i perform some operations.. and then I want to transfer this somefile to some other directory but I am not able to use mv comand to do it for e.g ` mv $FILE_HANDLE /home/pravesh ` ; doesnt

Re: file handles!

2002-10-09 Thread Jean Padilla
Hi, pravesh 1 - You are saying mv somefile /home/pravesh ! 2 - a file handle is *not* to be confused with a file name try : my $file_name = somefile; open(FILE_HANDLE, $file_name) or die ... ... your 'move' is now `mv $file_name /home/pravesh`; regards. Pravesh Biyani a écrit : HI I

Re: I need help for handling text log file

2002-10-09 Thread Jean Padilla
Hi, I've downloaded Tie::File module from http://search.cpan.org/author/MJD/Tie-File-0.93/ and given it a little try : works fine. (even for me : Just Another Perl Newbie). Thanks, José. NYIMI Jose (BMB) a écrit : Why not just use Tie::File module ?

Re: variables in regexp

2002-10-09 Thread Janek Schleicher
Adriano Allora wrote: b) to transform s/-+/-/g; s/\*+/\*/g; s/\^+/\^/g; s/\_+/\_/g; s/ +/ /g; (this one doesn't works very well: at the end there are several blank spaces) and I used this one: s/\s+/ /g; but I understand this is not very useful: I need to change a multiple

regex is working , then not?

2002-10-09 Thread Jerry Preston
Hi! I do not understand why my regex works , then does not. regex: my (dat) = /(\w+\s+\w+\s+)=\s+(\w+)_(\w+)_(\w+)_/; Works! Process Name = D4_jerry_5LM_1.91_BF Returns: Process Name DM4 15C035 5LM Does NOT work: Process Name = d4_jerry_5lm Is there a better way to write

removal of a line in a file

2002-10-09 Thread chad kellerman
Perl gurus, I was wondering if there is a one liner that searches a file for a string and then removes that line and the following four lines in the file? Thanks, Chad -- Chad Kellerman Jr. Systems Administrator Alabanza Inc 410-234-3305 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

RE: regex is working , then not?

2002-10-09 Thread Nikola Janceski
See inline comments -Original Message- From: Jerry Preston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 10:36 AM To: Beginners Perl Subject: regex is working , then not? Hi! I do not understand why my regex works , then does not. regex: my (@dat) =

Re: regex is working , then not?

2002-10-09 Thread Janek Schleicher
Jerry Preston wrote: Hi! I do not understand why my regex works , then does not. regex: my (@dat) = /(\w+\s+\w+\s+)=\s+(\w+)_(\w+)_(\w+)_/; ^ This last underscore is expected. Works! Process Name = D4_jerry_5LM_1.91_BF

RE: regex is working , then not?

2002-10-09 Thread Jerry Preston
OK! I see 2 as to 3. Is there a way to make this regex smart enough to handle both string? Is there a way that (\w+)_ can be changed to 2 to 10? my (@dat) = /(\w+\s+\w+\s+)=\s+(\w+)_(\w+)_(\w+)_/; Thanks, Jerry -Original Message- From: Nikola Janceski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: How to deploy a Perl Application

2002-10-09 Thread NYIMI Jose (BMB)
The Browser's interface cannot contain all the features and rings and bells a normal GUI can (unless you use Java and use the browser just to download and host the application) What about Perl for the aforementioned functionality. It's seems that Java is the Guru in GUI matters ? :( José.

Re: regex is working , then not?

2002-10-09 Thread Thorsten Dieckhoff
... regex: my (@dat) = /(\w+\s+\w+\s+)=\s+(\w+)_(\w+)_(\w+)_/; Works! Process Name = D4_jerry_5LM_1.91_BF Returns: Process Name DM4 15C035 5LM Does NOT work: Process Name = d4_jerry_5lm ... Hi, is that 3rd _ intended ? If yes, it would work on Process Name =

Odd and even numbers

2002-10-09 Thread Zielfelder, Robert
Greetings, I am trying to write a script that at one point needs to look at a number and divide it by two. The results must always be an integer, but the numerator can potentially be an odd number. What I want to do is if the numerator is odd, increment it to the next highest even number. Is

Re: Odd and even numbers

2002-10-09 Thread Jean Padilla
Hi, $num += $num % 2; this increments $num if $num modulo 2 is 1 (ie. if $num was odd) regards. Zielfelder, Robert a écrit : Greetings, I am trying to write a script that at one point needs to look at a number and divide it by two. The results must always be an integer, but the

Re: Odd and even numbers

2002-10-09 Thread Janek Schleicher
Robert Zielfelder wrote: I am trying to write a script that at one point needs to look at a number and divide it by two. The results must always be an integer, but the numerator can potentially be an odd number. So you just want to divide by 2 rounding up the result. use POSIX qw/ceil/;

Re: regex is working , then not?

2002-10-09 Thread Janek Schleicher
Jerry Preston wrote: Is there a way to make this regex smart enough to handle both string? Is there a way that (\w+)_ can be changed to 2 to 10? my (@dat) = /(\w+\s+\w+\s+)=\s+(\w+)_(\w+)_(\w+)_/; Use the split function instead. Greetings, Janek -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

RE: Odd and even numbers

2002-10-09 Thread Nikola Janceski
perl -e 'printf %.0d\n, $ARGV[0]/2 if @ARGV' 5 Weird why doesn't this work they way I expect it to? it returns 2 not 3. -Original Message- From: Zielfelder, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 10:58 AM To: Perl Beginners List (E-mail) Subject: Odd

RE: How to deploy a Perl Application

2002-10-09 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: NYIMI Jose (BMB) [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Browser's interface cannot contain all the features and rings and bells a normal GUI can (unless you use Java and use the browser just to download and host the application) What about Perl for the aforementioned functionality. It's seems that

Re: Odd and even numbers

2002-10-09 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Zielfelder, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am trying to write a script that at one point needs to look at a number and divide it by two. The results must always be an integer, but the numerator can potentially be an odd number. What I want to do is if the numerator is

RE: Odd and even numbers

2002-10-09 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Oct 9, Nikola Janceski said: perl -e 'printf %.0d\n, $ARGV[0]/2 if @ARGV' 5 Weird why doesn't this work they way I expect it to? it returns 2 not 3. Blame C and the IEEE standards. -- Jeff japhy Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734

Re: variables in regexp

2002-10-09 Thread John W. Krahn
Adriano Allora wrote: Hi to all, Hello, I feel myself very stupid, but I've tried to do it in different ways and I cannot do it. I need to clear a text, to tokenize it, for instance to delete some things and to transform some others: .. at this time I use this regexp: a) to delete

Re: How to deploy a Perl Application

2002-10-09 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 05:28 AM, NYIMI Jose (BMB) wrote: Do you have some reasons in which case Distributed GUI will be the winner against Browser Client ? Sure, tons. Neither Photoshop nor Warcraft III are going to see a HTML interface in their next revision. Don't get me

Re: removal of a line in a file

2002-10-09 Thread Sudarshan Raghavan
On 9 Oct 2002, chad kellerman wrote: Perl gurus, I was wondering if there is a one liner that searches a file for a string and then removes that line and the following four lines in the file? Any particular reason for a one-liner? perl -i~ -pe '((/string/and$ln=$.)..($.-$ln==4))undef

Re: regex is working , then not?

2002-10-09 Thread John W. Krahn
Jerry Preston wrote: Hi! Hello, I do not understand why my regex works , then does not. regex: my (@dat) = /(\w+\s+\w+\s+)=\s+(\w+)_(\w+)_(\w+)_/; Works! Process Name = D4_jerry_5LM_1.91_BF Returns: Process Name DM4 15C035 5LM Does NOT work: Process Name =

GD::Graph::lines - x axis tick labels - using time

2002-10-09 Thread L Parkes
I am trying to create a graph showing que length in relation to time. My problem is that the script below does not put the time in the x-axis, it just puts 5,10,15,20 etc. I think the problem is with the x axis commands. I've changed the x_tick_number to auto and null, but the actual values

Re: How to deploy a Perl Application

2002-10-09 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 07:08 AM, Jenda Krynicky wrote: Yeah ... Browser Client applications tend to take longer to do anything in. Of course, this can be as much a fault of bad interface design as the medium. The interface cannot contain all the features and rings and bells a

Re: removal of a line in a file

2002-10-09 Thread John W. Krahn
Chad Kellerman wrote: I was wondering if there is a one liner that searches a file for a string and then removes that line and the following four lines in the file? grep 'string' -A 4 yourfile.txt | grep -v -f - yourfile.txt :-) John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To

Re: mixing long and short options

2002-10-09 Thread John W. Krahn
Robert Citek wrote: Can someone show me an example of how I can mix long and short options with Getopt? I would like to pass options to a perl script that can take both short and long options. For example, all of these commands work (this is GNU tar): # tar -tzvf foo.tar.gz # tar

what is $self-verbose

2002-10-09 Thread stanley
from some modules,i found this expression if ($self-verbose) . is this verbose is a special method or something else? thanks - Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos, more faith.yahoo.com

RE: mixing long and short option

2002-10-09 Thread nkuipers
Hello, The documentation for GetOpt::Long on CPAN includes a section on configuring the module. Several properties of interest to be configured are auto_abbrev, bundling, and bundling_override. Says the blurb on the bundling description, for example: Enabling this option will allow

$RIDLINE = 'RID\s+=\s+(\d+-\d+-\d+)';

2002-10-09 Thread stanley
what is the meaning of $RIDLINE = 'RID\s+=\s+(\d+-\d+-\d+)'; i found it from the begin block of a module. thanks - Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos, more faith.yahoo.com

RE: $RIDLINE = 'RID\s+=\s+(\d+-\d+-\d+)';

2002-10-09 Thread nkuipers
It might help to say what module you found it in, since that would supply more context. Most generally, it looks like $RIDLINE is going to be put into a regular expression, perhaps something along the lines of m/$RIDLINE/ If you are asking about the \s+ sort of notation, then you need to

RE: what is $self-verbose

2002-10-09 Thread nkuipers
Supplying module names makes answering it easier to give a better answer. Idiomatically, $self usually refers to the scalar being blessed into a class, in other words, an object. So $self-verbose is indeed calling a method on the object using the indirect syntax, though whether or not this

Re: file handles!

2002-10-09 Thread Steve Grazzini
Jean Padilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, pravesh 1 - You are saying mv somefile /home/pravesh ! 2 - a file handle is *not* to be confused with a file name Actually - Perl will let you do our $FH = 'path'; open FH or die...; # open FH, '', $FH Doesn't work with 'my' variables, though.

Promoting to a Subclass

2002-10-09 Thread James Edward Gray II
If I have an object and I want to increase it's functionality by upgrading/promoting it to a subclass if certain conditions are met during a method call, could/should I use something like: sub some_method { my $self = $_[0]; # ... if (PROMOTE_CONDITION) {

Re: Promoting to a Subclass

2002-10-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 02:34:49PM -0500, James Edward Gray II wrote: If I have an object and I want to increase it's functionality by upgrading/promoting it to a subclass if certain conditions are met during a method call, could/should I use something like: sub some_method { my

Re: Promoting to a Subclass

2002-10-09 Thread Ovid
--- James Edward Gray II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I have an object and I want to increase it's functionality by upgrading/promoting it to a subclass if certain conditions are met during a method call, could/should I use something like: sub some_method { my $self = $_[0];

Re: I need help for handling text log file

2002-10-09 Thread Michael Fowler
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 02:28:58AM -0700, Hello Buddy wrote: What I am facing now is when I write to format text file, suppose I was currently in line 10 for my formatted text file and I want to append some word in line 5 of formatted text file. Please see perldoc -q line in a file, or

sort a hash

2002-10-09 Thread P lerenard
Hi, @array = qx{egrep -n '\{' file); foreach $el (@array) { ($num,@other} = split(/\:/,$el); $thenum{$num} = $num; } foreach $ele (sort keys %thenum) { print$ele\n; } except this one sort by string and not by integer, so 100 is before 99 Do you have an idea to sort that by interger and not by

RE: sort a hash

2002-10-09 Thread Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO
Replace the following foreach $ele (sort keys %thenum with foreach $ele (sort {$a = $b} keys %thenum) This will do ascending numeric or if descending switch the a and b around. Wags ;) -Original Message- From: P lerenard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: sort a hash

2002-10-09 Thread Mark Anderson
see bottom... -Original Message- From: P lerenard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 1:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: sort a hash Hi, @array = qx{egrep -n '\{' file); foreach $el (@array) { ($num,@other} = split(/\:/,$el); $thenum{$num} = $num; }

RE: sort a hash

2002-10-09 Thread P lerenard
thanks working fine From: Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'P lerenard' [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: sort a hash Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 15:25:23 -0500 Replace the following foreach $ele (sort keys %thenum with

Re: sort a hash

2002-10-09 Thread Michael Fowler
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 08:21:27PM +, P lerenard wrote: except this one sort by string and not by integer, so 100 is before 99 Do you have an idea to sort that by interger and not by string, 99 before 100? See perldoc -f sort. It has many fine examples of how to sort various types of

Thanks Re: sort a hash

2002-10-09 Thread P lerenard
thank you all really really quik answer Pierre From: Michael Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: P lerenard [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sort a hash Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 12:33:28 -0800 On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 08:21:27PM +, P lerenard wrote: except this one sort by

thanks RE: sort a hash

2002-10-09 Thread P lerenard
thank you all special thanks for the first 3 on the podium Pierre From: Mark Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: P lerenard [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: sort a hash Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:28:40 -0700 see bottom... -Original Message- From: P lerenard [mailto:[EMAIL

list literal stuff

2002-10-09 Thread nkuipers
Hello everyone, The following is from page 75 in the Camel: List assignment in scalar context returns the number of elements produced by the expression on the iright/i side of the assignment: $x = ( ($a, $b) = (7,7,7) ); #set $x to 3, not 2 It goes on to explain how this is useful but

Re: list literal stuff

2002-10-09 Thread Michael Fowler
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 02:16:52PM -0700, nkuipers wrote: When I first saw this, I worked out the assignment where $a and $b each get a 7 and the third 7 is discarded, then $x gets the last value in the list of $a and $b because of the comma operator for list literals in a scalar context...or

Rephrase the list literal question

2002-10-09 Thread nkuipers
The following is from page 75 in the Camel: List assignment in scalar context returns the number of elements produced by the expression on the iright/i side of the assignment: $x = ( ($a, $b) = (7,7,7) ); #set $x to 3, not 2 why. how. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: Promoting to a Subclass

2002-10-09 Thread david
James Edward Gray II wrote: If I have an object and I want to increase it's functionality by upgrading/promoting it to a subclass if certain conditions are met during a method call, could/should I use something like: sub some_method { my $self = $_[0]; # ... if (PROMOTE_CONDITION) {

Re: Rephrase the list literal question

2002-10-09 Thread david
Nkuipers wrote: The following is from page 75 in the Camel: List assignment in scalar context returns the number of elements produced by the expression on the iright/i side of the assignment: $x = ( ($a, $b) = (7,7,7) ); #set $x to 3, not 2 can you guess what $x is now: $x = ($a,$b)

Re: Rephrase the list literal question

2002-10-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 03:22:20PM -0700, nkuipers wrote: The following is from page 75 in the Camel: List assignment in scalar context returns the number of elements produced by the expression on the iright/i side of the assignment: $x = ( ($a, $b) = (7,7,7) ); #set $x to 3, not 2

Re: Promoting to a Subclass

2002-10-09 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 05:15 PM, david wrote: just curious: if you want child's functionality, why wouldn't you want to have the child object in the first place? Glad, you asked; I would love a second opinion! My server manages vanilla Telnet connections with a Connection

newbie user-pass attempt

2002-10-09 Thread Kyle Babich
After trying my hand at perl, realizing it was above my head, going back at starting with python, and now trying again at perl this is my first (failed) attempt at a user-pass program attempt, except it never accepts the username. What is wrong with it? %up = { 'kyle' = 123, 'jason' = 123,

Re: list literal stuff

2002-10-09 Thread Steve Grazzini
Nkuipers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, The following is from page 75 in the Camel: List assignment in scalar context returns the number of elements produced by the expression on the iright/i side of the assignment: $x = ( ($a, $b) = (7,7,7) ); #set $x to 3, not 2

Re: newbie user-pass attempt

2002-10-09 Thread Michael Fowler
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:01:31AM +, Kyle Babich wrote: %up = { 'kyle' = 123, 'jason' = 123, 'chelsea' = 123, 'john' = 123, 'cheryl' = 123 }; This is your problem. You've constructed an anonymous hash and assigned it to %up. You should be using parens, not curly braces:

Re: Promoting to a Subclass

2002-10-09 Thread david
James Edward Gray II wrote: On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 05:15 PM, david wrote: just curious: if you want child's functionality, why wouldn't you want to have the child object in the first place? Glad, you asked; I would love a second opinion! My server manages vanilla Telnet

Re: sort a hash

2002-10-09 Thread John W. Krahn
P Lerenard wrote: Hi, Hello, @array = qx{egrep -n '\{' file); foreach $el (@array) { ($num,@other} = split(/\:/,$el); $thenum{$num} = $num; } foreach $ele (sort keys %thenum) { print$ele\n; } except this one sort by string and not by integer, so 100 is before 99 Do you have an

Re: Promoting to a Subclass

2002-10-09 Thread James Edward Gray II
Thanks a lot for the advice! I'll factor this into my thinking and see what I come up with. James On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 07:07 PM, david wrote: James Edward Gray II wrote: On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 05:15 PM, david wrote: just curious: if you want child's

use warnings; doesn't work

2002-10-09 Thread stanley
i use solaris and ihave no root right.the version of perl5.005_03 in a simple script if i try to add use warnings,it will say Can't locate warnings in inc(inc..) instead if i use perl -w my.pl,it will give me the warning information. so how can i modify my configuration or what modules

Re: use warnings; doesn't work

2002-10-09 Thread Todd Wade
Stanley wrote: i use solaris and ihave no root right.the version of perl5.005_03 in a simple script if i try to add use warnings,it will say Can't locate warnings in @inc(@inc..) instead if i use perl -w my.pl,it will give me the warning information. so how can i modify my

RE: use warnings; doesn't work

2002-10-09 Thread stanley
both #!/usr/bin/perl -w and perl -w my.pl will do the warnings work,but use warnings will throw exception. if i setup a file called warnings.pm(it only conatins 1) in my lib and don't use directive or option,there is no warning and exception stanley nkuipers wrote: If you put the -w flag

Re: use warnings; doesn't work

2002-10-09 Thread stanley
Todd how do you turn off the warning ? stanley i use solaris and ihave no root right.the version of perl5.005_03 in a simple script if i try to add use warnings,it will say Can't locate warnings in @inc(@inc..) instead if i use perl -w my.pl,it will give me the warning

Re: use warnings; doesn't work

2002-10-09 Thread Michael Fowler
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:55:13PM -0700, stanley wrote: #!/usr/bin/perl -w does it still throw an exception or do the warnings work? -w on the shebang or command lines will work with any version of Perl. The use warnings pragma was added in 5.6.0, and this is why you're getting the error.

RE: How to deploy a Perl Application

2002-10-09 Thread Todd Wade
Nyimi Jose wrote: The Browser's interface cannot contain all the features and rings and bells a normal GUI can (unless you use Java and use the browser just to download and host the application) What about Perl for the aforementioned functionality. It's seems that Java is the Guru in GUI

Help with database generated pop up menu

2002-10-09 Thread David Birkbeck
Hello, Can someone help me with creating a script to return certain information from a Postgres database to a drop down box on a webpage? #!/usr/bin/perl use CGI; use DBI; #Define connection values $DBSource = 'dbi:Pg:dbname=mydb'; $DBUsername = 'test'; $DBAuth = 'test'; #Open db connection

pass a hash to a subroutine

2002-10-09 Thread stanley
how can i pass a hash variable to a subrotine? such as %a=(m=1,n=2); %b=(k=4,j=6); sub givename(%a) { #here how can make %c get the subroutine argument(a hash variable)) my %c=???; print %c; } - Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances,

Re: pass a hash to a subroutine

2002-10-09 Thread Sudarshan Raghavan
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, stanley wrote: how can i pass a hash variable to a subrotine? such as %a=(m=1,n=2); %b=(k=4,j=6); sub givename(%a) { #here how can make %c get the subroutine argument(a hash variable)) my %c=???; print %c; } Read through perldoc perlsub -- To

Re: pass a hash to a subroutine

2002-10-09 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Oct 9, stanley said: sub givename(%a) DO NOT try to put variables in the declaration of a function. Unless you are into HEAVY MAGIC, your subroutine declarations (or definitions) should look like sub function_name { # ... } No () there. When you CALL the function, THEN you use