Re: Perldoc on Win98

2004-04-29 Thread Fungii
- Original Message - From: "Fungii" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Randy W. Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 11:49 PM Subject: Re: Perldoc on Win98 > It outputs 'About to try calling more<' right before it fails, so now > I suspect the problem

Re: Perldoc on Win98

2004-04-29 Thread Fungii
- Original Message - From: "Randy W. Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Fungii" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 9:00 PM Subject: Re: Perldoc on Win98 > Let's keep this on the list, so if others run into the same problem, > they can benefit. Also, i

Re: To include another file in perl program

2004-04-29 Thread Durai
Hi, Still I have some problem. runtest.pl -- #!/opt/perl/bin/perl -w use strict; require "test_init.pl" or die("Can't require test_init.pl"); require "configure.pl" or die("Can't require configure.pl"); require "common_functions.pl" or die("Can't require common_functions.pl"); Here, co

Re: Perldoc on Win98

2004-04-29 Thread Randy W. Sims
Let's keep this on the list, so if others run into the same problem, they can benefit. Also, it's a good exercise in debugging. On 4/30/2004 12:21 AM, Fungii wrote: - Original Message - From: "Randy W. Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Fungii" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: T

RE: To include another file in perl program

2004-04-29 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
Durai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot: : :It works fine. Thanks. : But I don't know about 1; action? : : Is it the return value? Yes. Read perlfunc 'require': "The file must return true as the last statement to indicate successful execution of any initialization code, so it's custo

Re: To include another file in perl program

2004-04-29 Thread Durai
Hi, It works fine. Thanks. But I don't know about 1; action? Is it the return value? Regs, Durai. - Original Message - From: "Charles K. Clarkson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Durai'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 9:00 AM Subject: RE: To i

RE: To include another file in perl program

2004-04-29 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
Durai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : : $ perl runtest.pl : configure.pl did not return a true value at runtest.pl : line 4. At the bottom of each required file place a 1 like this: 1; It should be on the last line. Let us know if that fixes your problem. HTH, Charles K. Clarkson --

To include another file in perl program

2004-04-29 Thread Durai
Hello All, I have the following perl program. #!/opt/perl/bin/perl -w require "test_init.pl" or die("Can't require test_init.pl"); require "configure.pl" or die("Can't require configure.pl"); require "common_functions.pl" or die("Can't require common_functions.pl"); In this, configure.pl and co

Re: Info needed...

2004-04-29 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> On Apr 29, 2004, at 9:36 AM, Cristi Ocolisan wrote: > > > I already used hidden fields, but because I couldn't figure out how to > > write > > a single script, I wrote dozens of different small scripts and sent > > that > > hidden field from one script to another. > > > > I'm tired of that. I

Re: Perldoc on Win98

2004-04-29 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 4/29/2004 8:50 PM, Randy W. Sims wrote: On 4/29/2004 9:39 PM, Fungii wrote: Hi everybody, I had an earlier version of perl installed on my Win98 machine and I could never get Perldoc to work. I figured something was misconfigured, so I didn't worry about it until I installed a newer versi

Re: Perldoc on Win98

2004-04-29 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 4/29/2004 9:39 PM, Fungii wrote: Hi everybody, I had an earlier version of perl installed on my Win98 machine and I could never get Perldoc to work. I figured something was misconfigured, so I didn't worry about it until I installed a newer version of perl. And guess what, Perldoc still do

Perldoc on Win98

2004-04-29 Thread Fungii
Hi everybody, I had an earlier version of perl installed on my Win98 machine and I could never get Perldoc to work. I figured something was misconfigured, so I didn't worry about it until I installed a newer version of perl. And guess what, Perldoc still doesn't work, even after a completely c

Re: Problem when use split

2004-04-29 Thread John W. Krahn
John Doe wrote: > > Hello all, Hello, > i write script that open and read file but i have problem. > First, here are a script: > > #!/usr/bin/perl Change that to: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; > use DBI; > > my $dbuser = "xxx"; > my $dbpass = "xxx"; > my $db = "xxx"; > > my $u_dbuser

Re: do problem

2004-04-29 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of Thursday, April 29, 2004 10:43 AM +0200, Jan Eden is alleged to have said: I have a piece of HTML code containing two Perl variable names, which is to be used in 6 scripts. So I tried to put it into a separate file to be executed with "do page_head.pl", where page_head.pl contains somethi

Re: file to join

2004-04-29 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: deny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject:file to join "attach", not "join" :-) > good evening > > i want to add a file in a mail i send to someone > for example , i wwant to add the file "inscription.txt" > to a mail > > here is the first line to send a mail > > open(MAIL, "|m

Re: Perl upgrade and DBM

2004-04-29 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Mike Blezien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Was hoping some one may have some helpful suggestion as how to deal > with the a potiental problem. We have a dedicated server we would like > to update perl on, from v. 5.6.1 to 5.8.* and have found out the the > existing .db files used by alot of our custo

file to join

2004-04-29 Thread deny
good evening i want to add a file in a mail i send to someone for example , i wwant to add the file "inscription.txt" to a mail here is the first line to send a mail open(MAIL, "|mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]"); print MAIL "Reply-To: $champs[1]\n"; print MAIL "sujet: Soumission du formulaire monaco tel

file renaming util in perl

2004-04-29 Thread reader
Before starting to write my script designed to make filename changing easier I'd like to ask how to create an editable command line inside a perl script? ksh93 and earlier versions does this on user input by default. At least a primitive amount of editing is possible. The kind of situation this

RE: HTML::Entities issue

2004-04-29 Thread Jan Eden
Hi Charles, Charles K. Clarkson wrote on 29.04.2004: >Jan Eden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It may be an issue with your terminal software. Is >your terminal the place you expect to display results >of a script like this? Have you tried it under a >different terminal emulation? > > I tried

RE: Problem when use split

2004-04-29 Thread Bob Showalter
John Doe wrote: > ... > When i run script i recive error: > # ./check-size.pl > > bad interpreter: No such file or directory This can be caused by the file containing DOS-style line endings. If the first line is: #!/usr/bin/perl the kernel will include the as part of the file name and try to

Re: Problem when use split

2004-04-29 Thread Casey West
It was Thursday, April 29, 2004 when John Doe took the soap box, saying: : Hello all, : i write script that open and read file but i have problem. : First, here are a script: : : if (-e $fulltree) { # check to see if file exist : open(FILE, "$fulltree"); : my @f = ; : close(FILE)

Problem when use split

2004-04-29 Thread John Doe
Hello all, i write script that open and read file but i have problem. First, here are a script: #!/usr/bin/perl use DBI; my $dbuser = "xxx"; my $dbpass = "xxx"; my $db = "xxx"; my $u_dbuser = "xxx"; my $u_dbpass = "xxx"; my $u_db = "xxx"; my $sth = ""; my $dbh = ""; my $result = ""; my $sq

Re: Info needed...

2004-04-29 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Apr 29, 2004, at 9:36 AM, Cristi Ocolisan wrote: I already used hidden fields, but because I couldn't figure out how to write a single script, I wrote dozens of different small scripts and sent that hidden field from one script to another. I'm tired of that. I want to write a single script t

Re: Info needed...

2004-04-29 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Apr 29, 2004, at 9:21 AM, Cristi Ocolisan wrote: Thanks, I'll give it a try. About DBI, I already have it. I did some Perl programming, but I'm still a beginner. I still have some problems understanding how a "multiplescreen" script can be made. There's no one right answer, but I've seen it

RE: Info needed...

2004-04-29 Thread Cristi Ocolisan
Thanks, I'll give it a try. About DBI, I already have it. I did some Perl programming, but I'm still a beginner. I still have some problems understanding how a "multiplescreen" script can be made. I'll start reading the perldoc CGI. Regards, Cristi -Original Message- From: James Edwar

Re: Info needed...

2004-04-29 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Apr 29, 2004, at 8:51 AM, Cristi Ocolisan wrote: Hi, I want to write a single CGI script that can return several different pages to the browser. For instance, I want a single CGI script for administering a database of products. The script will be called to display the form to add a product,

Re: Running another program in current program

2004-04-29 Thread Jose Alves de Castro
I must agree with James :-) Most times I post, I usually tend to solve the main problem without caring about the others, but I should really make an effort and act a little more like him :-) jac On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 14:25, James Edward Gray II wrote: > On Apr 29, 2004, at 5:53 AM, Durai wrote:

RE: HTML::Entities issue

2004-04-29 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
Jan Eden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : : I have the following script (just a test): : : --- : #!/usr/bin/perl -w : : use strict; : use HTML::Entities; : : my $string = 'Alfred Döblin: Berlin Alexanderplatz'; : my $string2 = 'Alfred Döblin: Berlin Alexanderplatz'; : : $string = decode_entities(

Re: Running another program in current program

2004-04-29 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Apr 29, 2004, at 5:53 AM, Durai wrote: Hi, I have written many test cases using shell script. But now I am writting in perl. I have done like the following one: open(FILE_LOG,">log_file"); Don't do this. When we ask the OS to do something for us, like open a file, we need to make

Re: Info needed...

2004-04-29 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Apr 29, 2004, at 6:03 AM, Cristi Ocolisan wrote: Hi all, Can anyone tell me where can I find a good tutorial about creating "multiple pages" script? I can't help because I don't understand the question. What's a "multiple pages" script? What does it do? Are we talking about web pages? If

Re: Running another program in current program

2004-04-29 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Apr 29, 2004, at 5:08 AM, Durai wrote: Hello All, In shell script file, I can call another program & checked the exit status. Like: ./prog2 if [ $? -ne 0 ] then echo "Error" exit fi How to do in perl? Looks like you got your answer, but I want to add one more point. Remembe

Perl upgrade and DBM

2004-04-29 Thread Mike Blezien
Hello, Was hoping some one may have some helpful suggestion as how to deal with the a potiental problem. We have a dedicated server we would like to update perl on, from v. 5.6.1 to 5.8.* and have found out the the existing .db files used by alot of our customer with shopping carts that use DBM

Re: Running another program in current program

2004-04-29 Thread Durai
Hi, Thanks for help me. Regs, Durai. - Original Message - From: "Jose Alves de Castro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Durai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 4:15 PM Subject: Re: Running another program in current program > First: you'r

Perl/Tk info needed

2004-04-29 Thread N, Guruguhan \(GEAE, Foreign National, EACOE\)
Hi All, Can someone tell me where I can find information on how to do scatter plotting of data stored in a file using Perl/Tk? Is there any freeware available for doing the same? Any help in this regard is solicited. Thanks Regards Guruguhan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Running another program in current program

2004-04-29 Thread Jose Alves de Castro
First: you're missing a ';' (in the line where you're printing to the log file) Secondly: you're comparing $? with 0... now if I'm not mistaken, $? is 0 if everything's ok, right? :-) So you probably want something like: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; # ... open( FILE_LOG, ">log_file" ); prin

Info needed...

2004-04-29 Thread Cristi Ocolisan
Hi all, Can anyone tell me where can I find a good tutorial about creating "multiple pages" script? Thank you. Cristi

Re: Running another program in current program

2004-04-29 Thread Durai
Hi, I have written many test cases using shell script. But now I am writting in perl. I have done like the following one: open(FILE_LOG,">log_file"); print FILE_LOG `perl $PRODUCT_DIR/tests/$MAIN_PRODUCTS_TESTS_STR/run` if( $? == 0) { print "Error"; exit 0; } I

Re: Running another program in current program

2004-04-29 Thread Jose Alves de Castro
Oops. Sorry, I forgot about that one O:-) Yes, there is always another way. Try this, for instance: do "prog.pl" Basically, it executes the contents of "prog.pl" as a Perl script. More info on: perldoc -f do HTH jac On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 11:33, Durai wrote: > Hi, >Thanks for the repl

Re: formats and write()

2004-04-29 Thread John W. Krahn
Dani Pardo wrote: > > Hi, I've a question involving formats. > I have a text file that has lines like this: > > __LINE1__ > __LINE2__ > > I use s/__LINE(\d+)__/$line{$1}/ to change each of these lines by an > scalar that is stored in a hash, i.e: > > line{1}="CUSTOMER_NAME | PHONE

Re: Checking for keyboard input without halting process

2004-04-29 Thread John W. Krahn
Zikester wrote: > > I've racked my brain for an answer to this one. Probably real simple. > > I'd like to run a process reatedly until entering a character on the > keyboard (other than ^C). When the character is entered the process would > complete some final tasks and exit the program. P

Re: do problem

2004-04-29 Thread Jan Eden
Hi Rob, Rob Dixon wrote on 29.04.2004: >Jan Eden wrote: >>The obvious problem is, that the variables are not interpolated >>according to their current value in the scripts, i.e. although >> >>$mother_id = 453; and $title = "Title"; >> >>The $page_head variable will an contain empty title tag and

Re: Running another program in current program

2004-04-29 Thread Durai
Hi, Thanks for the reply. Sorry for asking this one. But how to run another perl prog? Should I have to use system() function? Or is there any other way? Thanks, Durai. - Original Message - From: "Jose Alves de Castro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Durai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMA

Re: Substitution/Regex problem

2004-04-29 Thread John W. Krahn
Owen wrote: > > I would like to replace all instances of > > @non_space_characters[non_space_characters] with > $non_space_characters[non_space_characters] > > The program below gets the first one only. How do I get the others? > > --- > #!/usr/

formats and write()

2004-04-29 Thread Dani Pardo
Hi, I've a question involving formats. I have a text file that has lines like this: __LINE1__ __LINE2__ I use s/__LINE(\d+)__/$line{$1}/ to change each of these lines by an scalar that is stored in a hash, i.e: line{1}="CUSTOMER_NAME | PHONE | EMAIL | COUNTRY"; But, as you may

Re: do problem

2004-04-29 Thread Rob Dixon
Jan Eden wrote: > > I have a piece of HTML code containing two Perl variable names, which is to be > used in 6 scripts. So I tried to put it into a separate file to be executed with > "do page_head.pl", where page_head.pl contains something like (simplified): > > my $page_head = qq{ [snip HTML] > >

Re: Running another program in current program

2004-04-29 Thread Jose Alves de Castro
It's the same variable :-) $? The status returned by the last pipe close, backtick (``) com- mand, successful call to wait() or waitpid(), or from the sys- tem() operator. For more info, man perlvar If you care to give it a test, here it goes: perl -e '`ls`;print $?' # prin

Checking for keyboard input without halting process

2004-04-29 Thread zIkester
I've racked my brain for an answer to this one. Probably real simple. I'd like to run a process reatedly until entering a character on the keyboard (other than ^C). When the character is entered the process would complete some final tasks and exit the program. do { # a process $Keyboard

Running another program in current program

2004-04-29 Thread Durai
Hello All, In shell script file, I can call another program & checked the exit status. Like: ./prog2 if [ $? -ne 0 ] then echo "Error" exit fi How to do in perl? ANy help much appreciated. Regs, Durai. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus syste

Re: Help ME! --> Alas - Backreferences are Lexically scoped

2004-04-29 Thread John W. Krahn
Sumanth Sharma wrote: > > Hi, Hello, > Read with Patience. > > Backreferences( $1, $2 ...) are lexically scoped, > >which means > >in a match like m/()() etc / > >Suppose REGEX1 does not match, then $1 remains undefined, and if REGEX2, > 3 ... do match then $2, $3 wil

HTML::Entities issue

2004-04-29 Thread Jan Eden
Hi all, I have the following script (just a test): --- #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use HTML::Entities; my $string = 'Alfred Döblin: Berlin Alexanderplatz'; my $string2 = 'Alfred Döblin: Berlin Alexanderplatz'; $string = decode_entities($string); print $string, "\n", $string2, "\n"; --- T

Re: How to create a variable dynamically?

2004-04-29 Thread david
Artem Khodush wrote: > > To be more specific, I'd like to not use eval in the def_x, > and keep "use strict 'vars'" in the code below: > > package z; > use strict 'vars'; > > sub use_x > { > eval( 'print "$x\n";' ); > } > you need to tell Perl that $x is in package z #!/usr/bin/perl -w pac

Re: Substitution/Regex problem

2004-04-29 Thread Damon Allen Davison
Hi Owen, I think I would do things a little differently. Owen wrote: I would like to replace all instances of @non_space_characters[non_space_characters] with $non_space_characters[non_space_characters] [...] $line=~s/(@)(\S+\[\S+\])/\$$2/g; __DATA__ @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@banana[4]; So this is my

Re: Substitution/Regex problem

2004-04-29 Thread Jose Alves de Castro
The problem is that your regex is matching the whole line: @ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@banana[4]; ^ ^ $1 $2 Instead, use non greedy matches: $line =~ s/(@)(\S+?\[\S+?\])/\$$2/g; and you'll get what you want: @ array[1] = @ array[2] +@ banana[4]; ^ ^

Re: Help ME! --> Alas - Backreferences are Lexically scoped

2004-04-29 Thread Damon Allen Davison
Hi Sumanth, I'm glad that helped. Be careful, though. (?:) may look like a lookahead (?=), but all it does is group without capturing. It's useful in cases like yours where all of the capture variables would be stored in the array--in other cases, I usually don't bother. :) You can read up on t

do problem

2004-04-29 Thread Jan Eden
Hi all, I have a piece of HTML code containing two Perl variable names, which is to be used in 6 scripts. So I tried to put it into a separate file to be executed with "do page_head.pl", where page_head.pl contains something like (simplified): my $page_head = qq{http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/

Substitution/Regex problem

2004-04-29 Thread Owen
I would like to replace all instances of @non_space_characters[non_space_characters] with $non_space_characters[non_space_characters] The program below gets the first one only. How do I get the others? TIA Owen --- #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict;

Re: Help ME! --> Alas - Backreferences are Lexically scoped

2004-04-29 Thread Sumanth Sharma
Hi Damon, That's great. It works. I did not know that look ahead could be that helpful. Thanks a million, Sumanth Sharma "Damon Allen Davison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > > I think I might be able to help you. > > Sumanth Sharma wrote: > > that's b'coz