Re: Newlines, control characters, etc

2003-07-02 Thread Janek Schleicher
Joshua Scott wrote at Wed, 02 Jul 2003 21:25:34 -0400: > I'm trying to copy data from one database field to another. The problem is > that the field contains various newline and other types of control > characters. Whenever the script runs, it processes those as perl code > instead of data like

Re: match count

2003-07-02 Thread George P.
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Ling F. Zhang wrote: > I use /pattern/g to progressively match a string (who > content is read from a file) > I want the cut the string off after the n-th match (if > there is no n-th match, the string is unaltered) > how can I do this without using a loop? > right now, I am

RE: While loop, confused...

2003-07-02 Thread Shishir K. Singh
>Hi all! >I have this while loop in my script: >while (($type ne "Windows") || ($type ne "Linux")) { >print "Enter TYPE of server to build. Linux or Windoze [linux, windows]:\n"; >$type = ; >chomp $type; >$type =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/; >if (($type eq "LINUX") || ($type eq "L")) { >$type = "Linux"; } >i

RE: create files in multi directories

2003-07-02 Thread Ronen Kfir
Hi Rob, The text of the files is short (15 words at the most), so it can be either copy of another file, or a text I would edit inside the file. The names of my directory tree looks like this: dir1 / | \

RE: While loop, confused...

2003-07-02 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
Bill Akins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : : while (($type ne "Windows") || ($type ne "Linux")) { This will always be true. Try: while ( $type ne 'Windows' && $type ne 'Linux' ) { ^^ HTH, Charles K. Clarkson -- Head Bottle Washer, Clarkson Energy Homes, Inc.

Re: While loop, confused...

2003-07-02 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Sorry... In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > > >> Here's an 'or' version: >> my $type1 = ''; >> while ( $type1 !~ /wisteria|lime/i ) { >>print "Enter COLOR of server. Lime or Wisteria [lime, wisteria]: "; >>chom

Re: While loop, confused...

2003-07-02 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > Here's an 'or' version: > my $type1 = ''; > while ( $type1 !~ /wisteria|lime/i ) { >print "Enter COLOR of server. Lime or Wisteria [lime, wisteria]: "; >chomp( $type1 = ucfirst lc ); >$type1 = 'Wisteria' if $type1 eq 'W'; >$

Re: While loop, confused...

2003-07-02 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John W. Krahn wrote: > Bill Akins wrote: >> >> Hi all! > > Hello, > >> I have this while loop in my script: >> >> while (($type ne "Windows") || ($type ne "Linux")) { > > Your problem is that you are using or when you should be using and. > > >> print "Enter

RE: While loop, confused...

2003-07-02 Thread Bill Akins
> > while (($type ne "Windows") || ($type ne "Linux")) { > Right here, you must have the full string "Windows" or "Linux" Yes, correct. > > print "Enter TYPE of server to build. Linux or Windoze > > [linux, windows]: > > \n"; > > $type = ; > > chomp $type; > > $type =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/; > > Here yo

Newlines, control characters, etc

2003-07-02 Thread Scott, Joshua
I'm trying to copy data from one database field to another. The problem is that the field contains various newline and other types of control characters. Whenever the script runs, it processes those as perl code instead of data like I'd like it to. How can I prevent it from doing this? Here i

Re: match count

2003-07-02 Thread Casey West
It was Wednesday, July 02, 2003 when Ling F. Zhang took the soap box, saying: : I use /pattern/g to progressively match a string (who : content is read from a file) : I want the cut the string off after the n-th match (if : there is no n-th match, the string is unaltered) : how can I do this withou

match count

2003-07-02 Thread Ling F. Zhang
I use /pattern/g to progressively match a string (who content is read from a file) I want the cut the string off after the n-th match (if there is no n-th match, the string is unaltered) how can I do this without using a loop? right now, I am doing this: while ($string =~ /pattern/g){ $count++;

Re: While loop, confused...

2003-07-02 Thread John W. Krahn
Bill Akins wrote: > > Hi all! Hello, > I have this while loop in my script: > > while (($type ne "Windows") || ($type ne "Linux")) { Your problem is that you are using or when you should be using and. > print "Enter TYPE of server to build. Linux or Windoze [linux, windows]: > \n"; > $type =

RE: While loop, confused...

2003-07-02 Thread LoBue, Mark
> -Original Message- > From: Bill Akins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 3:48 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: While loop, confused... > > > Hi all! > > I have this while loop in my script: > > while (($type ne "Windows") || ($type ne "Linux")) { Right

While loop, confused...

2003-07-02 Thread Bill Akins
Hi all! I have this while loop in my script: while (($type ne "Windows") || ($type ne "Linux")) { print "Enter TYPE of server to build. Linux or Windoze [linux, windows]: \n"; $type = ; chomp $type; $type =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/; if (($type eq "LINUX") || ($type eq "L")) { $type = "Linux"; } if (($type

RE: how to remove last comma in file?

2003-07-02 Thread LoBue, Mark
> -Original Message- > From: Rob Dixon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 3:15 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: how to remove last comma in file? > > > Rob Dixon wrote: > > Hi Shaunn. > > > > Shaunn Johnson wrote: > > > Howdy: > > > > > > First off, many t

Re: how to remove last comma in file?

2003-07-02 Thread Rob Dixon
Rob Dixon wrote: > Hi Shaunn. > > Shaunn Johnson wrote: > > Howdy: > > > > First off, many thanks to all (esp. R. Dixon and T. Lowery) > > for the help with the 'using table_info()' thread. > > > > I'm just about done with that script, but I have > > one tiny problem. > > > > In my SECOND while loo

Re: how to remove last comma in file?

2003-07-02 Thread Rob Dixon
Hi Shaunn. Shaunn Johnson wrote: > Howdy: > > First off, many thanks to all (esp. R. Dixon and T. Lowery) > for the help with the 'using table_info()' thread. > > I'm just about done with that script, but I have > one tiny problem. > > In my SECOND while loop, I place a comma (,) at the end > so t

RE: Simplest way to send mail from CGI script

2003-07-02 Thread Dan Muey
> Greetings list Go to cpan and check out Mail::Sender or Net::SMTP > > does anyone have the script which uses the minimal LIB or > modules to send an email to the administrator.. HTH Dmuey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Simplest way to send mail from CGI script

2003-07-02 Thread Voodoo Raja
Greetings list does anyone have the script which uses the minimal LIB or modules to send an email to the administrator.. I already have got cgiemail running.. but I want to customize it .. and it wont let me!.. So I decided to look at other options where they all have there own requirements..

how to remove last comma in file?

2003-07-02 Thread Johnson, Shaunn
Howdy: First off, many thanks to all (esp. R. Dixon and T. Lowery) for the help with the 'using table_info()' thread. I'm just about done with that script, but I have one tiny problem. In my SECOND while loop, I place a comma (,) at the end so that when the *.ddl files are built, it looks just

Re: combining array to scalar

2003-07-02 Thread Rob Dixon
Jenda Krynicky wrote: > Date sent: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 00:56:10 -0700 (PDT) > From: "Ling F. Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:combining array to scalar > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > say I have array: > > @a=["I","LOVE","PERL"] >

Child signal problem

2003-07-02 Thread LoBue, Mark
I'm having a problem in a rather large program, so I've written this small example to illustrate. What this does is fork a process, then exec in the child to run a separate program without waiting. In reality my main program doesn't end, so I need to reap the children as they finish. After I exec

Re: Today is sen, lin 2, 2003.*

2003-07-02 Thread burningclown
Kevin - Thanks for the rec! I've been eyeing that book from my Safari account. I've been suffering a bout of "I've been diddling with Perl since 1995, don't you think I'd know it by now?" Keyword: diddling. I think if I'd been lucky enough to have a job *doing* something with Perl, I'd be way

Today is sen, lin 2, 2003.*

2003-07-02 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Just got the "Learning More Perl" aka "POR&M", aka "the alpaca book" today. It does a nice job of building up examples and models, explaining enough of the underlying structure for complex data structures, references, etc. so that one can see a little of the how and why (though still without too

Thanks!! RE: TCP/IP question

2003-07-02 Thread McMahon, Christopher x66156
Thanks to all who answered! I don't need for this process to fork (yet!), but thanks for the pointers. I thought I was reading for new messages from the same client, but instead I was looking for a new client while hanging on my first client. I was missing a whole level of the

RE: -w vs. use warnings

2003-07-02 Thread Janek Schleicher
Charles K. Clarkson wrote at Wed, 02 Jul 2003 13:43:26 -0500: > Read 'perlexwarn' in the perl documentation ^ Better to read perldoc perllexwarn ^^ > for a complete discussion. Greetings, Janek -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands

RE: -w vs. use warnings

2003-07-02 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
Michael, Read 'perlexwarn' in the perl documentation for a complete discussion. HTH, Charles K. Clarkson -- Head Bottle Washer, Clarkson Energy Homes, Inc. Mobile Home Specialists 254 968-8328 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTE

-w vs. use warnings

2003-07-02 Thread Michael Weber
Greetings! Is there any difference between #!/bin/perl -w and #!/bin/perl use warnings; ? Thanx! -Michael -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: combining array to scalar

2003-07-02 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Jenda Krynicky wrote: > > > > Assuming you meant > > > > @a=("I","LOVE","PERL"); > > > > $b = join(' ', map {ucfirst(lc($_))} @a) . "\n"; > > $b = qq<@{[map"\u\L$_",@a]}\n>; # :-) ($b=lc"@a\n")=~s/\b(.)/\U$1/g; or ($b="[EMAIL PROTECTED]")

RE: TCP/IP question

2003-07-02 Thread Kipp, James
> But my server only ever sees the first message from any > given client. > Subsequent messages to my server are ignored. Does anyone > know what I have > to do to get my server to handle more than one message? > > #!/usr/bin/perl > use warnings; > use strict; > my ($server, $server_port

RE: File move

2003-07-02 Thread Akens, Anthony
Actually Rob your tips are very handy... I have a nasty habit of posting only part of the code when asking questions here, gotta break that habit. > use strict; # always > use warnings; # usually Doing those :) > - What's this 'move' thing? Have you sneakily added 'use File::Copy without > t

Re: TCP/IP question

2003-07-02 Thread mgoland
- Original Message - From: "McMahon, Christopher x66156" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2003 12:55 pm Subject: TCP/IP question Hello Christopher, > > I think I'm missing a concept here... >I built a very simple TCP/IP server like the one on p. 441 of > the Camel

RE: TCP/IP question

2003-07-02 Thread Bob Showalter
McMahon, Christopher x66156 wrote: > I think I'm missing a concept here... > I built a very simple TCP/IP server like the one on p. 441 of the > Camel book. > But my server only ever sees the first message from any given > client. Subsequent messages to my server are ignored. Does any

Re: stdout+stderr to file?

2003-07-02 Thread mgoland
- Original Message - From: isao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2003 7:07 pm Subject: stdout+stderr to file? > I'm writing scripts that are basically wrappers for Linux shell > commands. > I want to be able to 1) print messages to screen along with say > the first > line of

Re: combining array to scalar

2003-07-02 Thread John W. Krahn
Jenda Krynicky wrote: > > Assuming you meant > > @a=("I","LOVE","PERL"); > > $b = join(' ', map {ucfirst(lc($_))} @a) . "\n"; $b = qq<@{[map"\u\L$_",@a]}\n>; # :-) > print $b; John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional comm

Re: create files in multi directories

2003-07-02 Thread Rob Dixon
Hi Ronen. You need to give us a foothold here. Ronen Kfir wrote: > How would I create a bunch of files with the same name These files are to be a copy of an existing file? Or have some other prescribed content? > save them under the same root directory but only in part of the subdirectories

Help with required fields checking

2003-07-02 Thread Mame Mbodji
Hello: I have a form entirely design with perl and it has many radio button. What I trying to do is to make some fields required and if one is missed, then the a subroutine is called and it will display the list of the missed fields. Here is the sub: sub process_form { my ($one,$two,$three,$f

Re: looping script

2003-07-02 Thread Rob Dixon
George P. wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Clinton wrote: > > > Hi > > Using WinNt and ActiveState 5.6 > > I have a script reading data from a modem. For some reason it will not run > > with a while loop. (I'm using a module which I don't fully understand, yet) > > I can run the script from the command

Re: File move

2003-07-02 Thread Rob Dixon
Hi Anthony. Anthony Akens wrote: > Just want to check and make sure this snippet of code will do what I think it will. > > Trying to copy all files from $reportsdir to $oldreportsdir Well you shouldn't be asking us, as we can make guesses - usually Very Good Guesses - as to whether it will work,

TCP/IP question

2003-07-02 Thread McMahon, Christopher x66156
I think I'm missing a concept here... I built a very simple TCP/IP server like the one on p. 441 of the Camel book. But my server only ever sees the first message from any given client. Subsequent messages to my server are ignored. Does anyone know what I have to do to get my serve

File move

2003-07-02 Thread Akens, Anthony
Just want to check and make sure this snippet of code will do what I think it will. Trying to copy all files from $reportsdir to $oldreportsdir my $reportsdir = '/usr2/reports'; my $oldreportsdir = '/usr2/oldreports'; # Move everything from the report directory to the old report directory opendi

create files in multi directories

2003-07-02 Thread Ronen Kfir
Hi, How would I create a bunch of files with the same name, save them under the same root directory, but only in part of the subdirectories & change one word in the text inside the files? ?Ronen Kfir System Administrator T.A.U Computing Division Tel: 972-3-6407416 Fax: 972-3-6405158 Cellular:

Re: Objects and inheritance....

2003-07-02 Thread Robin Norwood
Hamish, There are lots of ways to do object orientedness and inheritance. How you do it depends very much on the problem(s) you are trying to solve, and often on personal style...I'll try to answer your questions in-line. Hamish Whittal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Folks, > > I have an ob

Extract pst file

2003-07-02 Thread Govindan K
Hi List Is it possible to extract the contents of MS Outlook pst file using "perl"?. TIA Free multi-lingual web-based and POP3 email service with a generous 15MB of storage, a choice of themes for your mailbox, message filtering, plus spam and virus protectio

RE: Dump Html file as output from CGI script

2003-07-02 Thread Dan Muey
> Greetings to all that is Perl Howdy > > Is it possible to specify using a cgi script to read and > output a Pure HTML file as output.. so that it can process > the form data.. Do you mean can it output an html form to a browser, process it on submit and return html to the browser? Sure

RE: Perl Monitor MySQL Table

2003-07-02 Thread Dan Muey
I don't think you can tell mysql to run any commands whena records is inserted. But what I do to achievge asimilar effect is this: In the table I have a INT(1) field, say, Proc. INSERT INTO Proc=1 ... Then I cron a script to do this every hour or whatever: SELECT ... WHERE Proc=1.. Foreach

RE: sockets: packing an inet sructure

2003-07-02 Thread Peter Scott
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Kipp) writes: >$template = 'S n C4 x8'; >$| = 1; >socket(MY_SOCKET, AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0) || die "Socket: $!\n"; > >$addr = (gethostbyname("10.1.101.12"))[4]; >$paddr = pack($template,AF_INET,$port,$addr); >bind(MY_SOCKET, $paddr) || die

Fwd: RE: reading a text file - any takers

2003-07-02 Thread Biju Ramachandran
From: "Biju Ramachandran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: reading a text file Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 13:51:50 -0400 This is an extract from spl liscenece log file 06/16/03 10:07:46 NOTICE: "./spm_key (Ver.1.1.11)" started to install licenses. 06/16/03

Objects and inheritance....

2003-07-02 Thread Hamish Whittal
Hi Folks, I have an object called Cisco:cs2600. I have a constructor that will new that will initialise all the object with all the relavant information. Now, I call the constructor to create a new instance of this object. $deviceType = Cisco::cs2600->new($systemObjectID); So, now I have an obj

Re: combining array to scalar

2003-07-02 Thread Jenda Krynicky
Date sent: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 00:56:10 -0700 (PDT) From: "Ling F. Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:combining array to scalar To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > say I have array: > @a=["I","LOVE","PERL"

Re: Perl Monitor MySQL Table

2003-07-02 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: "Nick Diel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I am working on a project where machines will use a perl script to > write to a table in a MySQL database. I want a perl script to run > everytime there is a new entry, but I don't know how to trigger the > perl script when there is a new entry (the perl to

Re: Question about filehandles

2003-07-02 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: "Azubi CAI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi there, > > I need to substitute a string in a .rtf file with a string from an > HTML form. I thought about using placeholders in the .rtf document and > then searching and overwriting them with the data from the HTML form. > I tried it out with that code:

UTF-8 pack hurts socket I/O ?

2003-07-02 Thread Grzegorz Hayduk
Howdy, # Perly ;-? ### What I'm trying to do (the socket part) ### I wrote in Perl CGI app for Xitami web server, which (my app) is LRWP (Long_Running_Web_Process) - it does 'socket/connect' with web server on startup and then sysread/syswrite to talk to the web server to handle requests (

Re: perl script for running an exe

2003-07-02 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: "PANNEER SELVAN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Here is a simple program which runs an exe and does two > key functions{ tab and enter}.. Basically i want to apply > these key functions after start of the exe.These keys > functions are required for succe

RE: Authenticating to the proxy

2003-07-02 Thread Vema Venkata
just send me the same if any body replies to ur query, since i need to access the same rgds venkat -Original Message- From: Aman Thind [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 2 July 2003 4:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Authenticating to the proxy Hullo Friends I need to auth

RE: Last Logon of ALL users in the domain (U)

2003-07-02 Thread Meidling, Keith, CTR, OSD-NII
UNCLASSIFIED Thank you both for the great script to do this. I was doing it the long way, querying each DC, and getting the last logon time of each user. Where can I find more information on different methods/properties like you used in the script? -Original Message- From: Tim Dumas [m

Authenticating to the proxy

2003-07-02 Thread Aman Thind
Hullo Friends I need to authenticate to a proxy server in order to access the internet. How can I do this so that my lwp scripts may run ? I tried this but am still unable to connect to the net : use LWP::UserAgent; $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; $ua->proxy(['http', 'ftp'] => 'http://myproxyser

Re: using table_info()

2003-07-02 Thread Rob Dixon
Shaunn Johnson wrote: > Howdy: > > I would like to use the table_info() method for getting > database / table metadata from a database. In this case, > PostgreSQL 7.2.x. > > I am reading the "Programming the Perl DBI" book and > I am using the following for my script to get a list of > tables and

Re: looping script

2003-07-02 Thread George P.
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Clinton wrote: > Hi > Using WinNt and ActiveState 5.6 > I have a script reading data from a modem. For some reason it will not run > with a while loop. (I'm using a module which I don't fully understand, yet) > I can run the script from the command line, let it finish and re

looping script

2003-07-02 Thread Clinton
Hi Using WinNt and ActiveState 5.6 I have a script reading data from a modem. For some reason it will not run with a while loop. (I'm using a module which I don't fully understand, yet) I can run the script from the command line, let it finish and rerun it manually every thing works fine (with so

Re: perl script for running an exe (OT)

2003-07-02 Thread Alan C.
Panneer Selvan wrote: Hi, By this program key functions are execute after running the exe.. I want to execute the key funtions before completion of exe use Win32::GuiTest qw(FindWindowLike GetWindowText SetForegroundWindow SendKeys); syste

Perl Monitor MySQL Table

2003-07-02 Thread Nick Diel
I am working on a project where machines will use a perl script to write to a table in a MySQL database. I want a perl script to run everytime there is a new entry, but I don't know how to trigger the perl script when there is a new entry (the perl to be triggered will be sitting on the same box a

stdout+stderr to file?

2003-07-02 Thread isao
I'm writing scripts that are basically wrappers for Linux shell commands. I want to be able to 1) print messages to screen along with say the first line of any STDERR, and 2) print messages, STDOUT, and STDERR to go to a file. The best I've come up with is something like the followng, which doesn