Hello there!
I love perl's ability to stack processing without intermediate variables,
e.g. to read in a pipe, strip off commented lines, pull out column 5, and
join, I can just do this:
$txt = join , map { (split)[4] } grep { !/^#/ } ;
What I haven't figured out is how to do a substitution
Thank you!
On Nov 2, 5:06 pm, bryan_r_har...@raytheon.com (Bryan R Harris) wrote:
I have these lines in my script:
**
for my $handle (*STDIN, *STDERR) {
open($handle, +/dev/null) or die $me: Can't reopen $handle to
/dev/null: $!. Exiting.\n;
Has anyone figured out how to run scripts stored on Amazon's S3 service
using their EC2 service?
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I have code that reads the clipboard, expecting text copied out of Firefox
from mint.com. However when I copy the lines I end up with a bunch of
unicode characters mixed in. The n-dash is particularly irritating, and I
want to change it to a regular hyphen.
When I paste into a BBEdit UTF8
I have code that reads the clipboard, expecting text copied out of Firefox
from mint.com. However when I copy the lines I end up with a bunch of
unicode characters mixed in. The n-dash is particularly irritating, and I
want to change it to a regular hyphen.
When I paste into a BBEdit UTF8
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 08:19, Shawn H Corey shawnhco...@gmail.com wrote:
On 10-06-05 03:26 PM, Bryan Harris wrote:
[console]
$ perl -e 'use warnings; $c=undef; printf(%s, $c-[0]{dog})'
Use of uninitialized value in printf at -e line 1.
[/console]
Anything that can help me here? I
On Thursday 03 Jun 2010 19:53:48 Bryan R Harris wrote:
Seems like the first time I run a new script I *always* get an error
message something like this:
Use of uninitialized value in printf at /Users/harrisb/Library/perl/matc
line 414.
The problem is usually I'm printing several
Try this
I wondered if anyone could steer me to some information about making
perl script output appear in color highlight on stdout.
Something like what modern grep does on linux, where the searched term
appears in some color (red) in the output to tty.
Try this code snippet:
I have about 60 MB of text data I want to include at the bottom of a script.
60 MB is too big for us, but compressed it would be probably only 3-6 MB
which is much better. Is there any way to put gzipped data in the DATA
section of a script, and conveniently read it?
I'd also prefer that my
Hello, I'm trying to write a simple Perl script to output certain lines
from a logfile that contain any of a few phrases.
[clip]
my @goodlist = (word1, word2);
I had some fun with this one lately. =)
perl -e '@gl=qw/word1 word2/; print grep {$t = $_;grep {$t=~/$_/} @gl } '
I call that
How can I recall only certain keys and their corresponding values of hashes
ex : if D_103 then print D_103 value is 2
ex :if D_101 then print D_101 value is 0
You may be looking for this:
print $_ value is $mycoolhash{$_}\n if exists($mycoolhash{$_});
or more classically:
if
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 18:43, Bryan R Harrisbryan_r_har...@raytheon.com
wrote:
I'm writing a little script where the user enters some data via keyboard.
The script in some cases can guess what the user will want to enter, but I'd
like the user to be able to override what the computer
For example, my temptation was to do this:
**
sub isDate {
$_ = shift;
if (m!\d{2}/\d{2}/\d{2}!) { return 1; }
else { return 0; }
}
Why is this in a subroutine at all? If you are using it like:
[stuff cut out]
Understood, this
Is it not possible to use $_ in subroutines?
For example, my temptation was to do this:
**
sub isDate {
$_ = shift;
if (m!\d{2}/\d{2}/\d{2}!) { return 1; }
else { return 0; }
}
**
... but by modifying $_ I
Let's say I have a bunch of lines of data in an array, @a:
car72
car55
truck31
bike2
car12
truck16
van97
car64
... and I want to sort them so that the trucks are first, then the vans, the
bikes are third, cars are next, and everything else sorted
Bryan Harris wrote:
Let's say I have a bunch of lines of data in an array, @a:
car72
car55
truck31
bike2
car12
truck16
van97
car64
... and I want to sort them so that the trucks are first, then the vans,
the bikes are third, cars are next
[stuff cut out]
It is usually best to declare variables in the smallest scope possible so:
while (more work to do)
{
my @array = split $string;
# do work on array
}
Doesn't that try to re-localize (?) the @array variable every time through
the loop? i.e. doesn't it re-run the my()
[lots of stuff cut out]
Note that the foreach variable is an alias to the loop list so modifying
the variable also modifies the list elements.
Out of curiosity, is it possible to manually create aliases like this as
well? e.g. to make $x an alias to $y?
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Hi,
I'm not sure I understand why this is happening. Maybe someone can
explain it to me. No matter how many times I use the chomp() function
on my array, when I print the array it always prints the newlines.
But I have another array, which will print without the newlines.
In the first block of
On 7/30/07, Rob Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bryan Harris wrote:
I'm not sure I understand why this is happening. Maybe someone can
explain it to me. No matter how many times I use the chomp() function
on my array, when I print the array it always prints the newlines.
But I have
Hi,
I'm trying to figure out how to print the following array. How do I
print this type of thing? Please let me know if I'm posting to the
wrong list.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
use Getopt::Long;
my $name;
GetOptions('[EMAIL PROTECTED],}' = \$name);
print
Bryan Harris wrote:
chen li wrote:
I want to calculate the mean of an array. I know how
to let the job done by using a loop. But I just wonder
if Perl has the short-cut/built-in function for this.
my @data=(1,1,1);
mean=(1+1+1)/3=1;(Any perl built-in function for
this?)
my $mean
chen li wrote:
--- John W. Krahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
chen li wrote:
6)$mean = eval(join(+, @data)) / @data;
Depending on how you understand Perl and what
progress
you are I prefer 6).
Depending on how you understand Perl, 6 is the worst
solution.
Could you explaind why
:: ... and cute tricks should only be used in cute programs.
:
: I'll take that as a compliment -- thanks, John!
He said cute programs, not cute programmers.
... that he thought it was a cute trick, not me.
Ha ha.
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$mean = eval(join(+, @data)) / @data;
I love perl golf. =)
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Dear all,
I want to calculate the mean of an array. I know how
to let the job done by using a loop. But I just wonder
if Perl has the short-cut/built-in function for this.
Thanks,
Li
my @data=(1,1,1);
I can't believe I just beat John in perl golf, by 14 strokes!
(Anyone who knows me knows I just got lucky on that hole...)
- B
chen li wrote:
Dear all,
Hello,
I want to calculate the mean of an array. I know how
to let the job done by using a loop. But I just wonder
if Perl has
I'm getting this warning in a simple script I'm writing:
**
main::overlap() called too early to check prototype at
/Users/bh/Library/perl/popdef line 272.
**
The subroutine overlap is at the bottom of the script, but so
Is there possible to create a n-number of lists in a cycle?
I.e. for (1..$n){
my @R.$_;
}
or smth like this ... I know that 'my' will work only in this loop. So i am
waiting for the answer.
Do you mean an array of arrays?
my @R;
for (1..$n) {
push @R, [ 1..$_ ];
}
Here, each element
If I'm reading in many-megabyte files, is it considered to be more efficient
to read it into an array, then loop over the array? Or is reading a line at
a time okay?
e.g.
**
while () {
# do some process with each line
}
Oh, yes, a special case. I have long ago abandoned special cases since
they lead to errors. Note that `perldoc -f split` starts with:
split /PATTERN/,EXPR,LIMIT
split /PATTERN/,EXPR
split /PATTERN/
split
Note: no strings. Strings do not work well when used as the pattern for
for my $number ( 0 .. 100 ) {
print $number * 10, \n;
}
Or if you enjoy perl golf:
print map {($_*10).\n} 0..100;
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On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 09:29:47 -0700, Bryan Harris wrote:
This looks very interesting... I downloaded it, but I have no idea how to
install it, though. I'm a modules-idiot. I tried putting the .pm file in
the current directory and putting use TimeTick.pm; at the beginning of my
code
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:50:15 -0700, Bryan Harris wrote:
I have a script that takes ~5 seconds to run, but I'd like to get it
down to 1 sec. My problem is I don't know which part is the slow
part.
my $start_time = time;
(code chunk 1 here)
print chunk 1: , time - $start_time, seconds\n
I have a script that takes ~5 seconds to run, but I'd like to get it down to
1 sec. My problem is I don't know which part is the slow part. So given
something like this:
**
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
(code chunk 1 here)
(code chunk 2 here)
(code chunk 3 here)
I have a script that takes ~5 seconds to run, but I'd like to get it down to
1 sec. My problem is I don't know which part is the slow part. So given
something like this:
**
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
my $start_time = time;
(code chunk 1 here)
print chunk
it? Sure. But the end result is by not letting
you take shortcuts or write ambiguous code it will make your turnaround
time faster and your troubleshooting easier.
-Original Message-
From: Bryan Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 6:47 PM
To: Beginners
Thanks!
Regarding your note, out of curiosity, how will it help a lot in the end?
I've been scripting for almost 5 years now, and have produced 100 scripts
that are used in data analysis work by ~15 people, and have never used use
strict, nor declared any variables with my. Everybody says it's
I just ran into this today, and have no clue what's going on:
% perl -e 'print 10-5.5, \n'
4.5
% perl -e 'print 10-05.5, \n'
55
How does 10 minus 5.5 equal 55? Obviously it's the leading zero, but I
can't think of any reason why it should do that...
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I just ran into this today, and have no clue what's going on:
% perl -e 'print 10-5.5, \n'
4.5
% perl -e 'print 10-05.5, \n'
55
How does 10 minus 5.5 equal 55? Obviously it's the leading zero, but I
can't think of any reason why it should do that...
It seems that 05 is taken as
When I first learned perl I wrote the classic replace text in files script
that probably everybody else writes. It is run with:
% replace 'sometext' 'some other text' files
... where $match gets the first arg, and $replace gets the second. It
didn't work at first, but someone on this list
Neat, I like it!
Is this the best way to do simple integer round-ups? E.g. 3.2 - 4?
I've been using:
$nines = 1 - 1/1e10;
$value = 3.2;
$roundedvalue = int($value + $nines);
... but it looks like $roundedvalue = $value + (-$value % 1) might be
better???
- B
On Aug 19, Bryan Harris said
Not exactly perl, but ...
Is there a simple formula to round some value X up to the next multiple of
some other value T?
I remember seeing another formula for rounding a value X to the nearest
multiple of T -- I'd love that one too, if someone has a list of handy
formulas.
Or is there a
The books say that you can add items to an array until you run out of
memory... Is there any way for a script to see how much memory is in use so
far, versus how much there is left?
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If thats so, here's something to keep you entertained.
Yet another script that doesn't work as received... To make it work I had to
remove line 1, and then it still threw a bunch of errors at runtime.
Still, it's pretty cool. =)
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If you have a question and get no response, PLEASE wait more than 90
minutes before sending your question in again. Give it at least a day,
if not a couple of days. We're all volunteers here and expectations of
immediate responses are not reasonable.
Please forgive me! I've gotten more
I have a directory with around 20k files in it (input files to a simulation,
if it matters). I've written a perl script that will build a run script for
input files, but it doesn't work when I pass a certain limit... (I think
it's characters, not number of files.)
I'm using the:
@files =
I have a directory with around 20k files in it (input files to a simulation,
if it matters). I've written a perl script that will build a run script for
input files, but it doesn't work when I pass a certain limit... (I think
it's characters, not number of files.)
I'm using the:
@files =
Wow. Just when you thought you knew everything about regular expressions,
you find out a bunch of stuff you never knew!
Thanks Jeff. I hope you're getting credit somewhere for all the help you
give on this list, you deserve it.
- Bryan
On Oct 19, Bryan Harris said:
Does anyone happen
Does anyone happen to know why this doesn't work as expected?
perl -e '$_=1\n;s/\Z/2/g;print'
Why does it print 2 twice?
Assuming I have to leave the /g modifier in there, how can I prevent this?
TIA.
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I'm still very much a beginner, but I'm starting to see how establishing a
concept of sessions could be quite handy for my website. So I was thinking
of coming up with session ids, which could be some encoded combination of
their ip address, user name, and the date/time of that session's start.
Yes, Wiggins and Sean, thank you! That was just the information I needed to
point me off in the right direction.
Thanks again.
- Bryan
I'm still very much a beginner, but I'm starting to see how establishing a
concept of sessions could be quite handy for my website. So I was
I am looking for a simple Perl way to decode the following, which can be any
grouping of number
2-8,9,11,18-21
Into
2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,11,18,19,20,21
$ perl -le' print join ,, map /(\d+)-(\d+)/ ? $1 .. $2 : $_, split /,/,
2-8,9,11,18-21'
2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,11,18,19,20,21
Ouch,
From: Jerry Preston mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I am looking for a simple Perl way to decode the
: following, which can be any grouping of number
:
:2-8,9,11,18-21
:
: Into
:2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,11,18,19,20,21
:
: Any Ideas?
:
: Thanks for Your Time and Help,
I don't claim to be a master, but you can do something along the lines of:
$range = '4.3:8.3';
$range =~ /(\d+).(\d+).(\d+).\2/ and print map $_.$2 , $1 .. $3;
Since it appears you require that the fractional part be the same for both
ends of the range, I'm just capturing the integer
I don't claim to be a master, but you can do something along the lines of:
$range = '4.3:8.3';
$range =~ /(\d+).(\d+).(\d+).\2/ and print map $_.$2 , $1 .. $3;
Since it appears you require that the fractional part be the same for both
ends of the range, I'm just capturing the integer
Nice, Bob, very elegant indeed!
I do have a question, I notice you use and like an if..then. What if you
wanted to do two things if that =~ held true? Is that possible?
Thanks.
- Bryan
Bryan Harris wrote:
One of my favorite things about perl is that long and tedious
solutions can
One of my favorite things about perl is that long and tedious solutions can
often be replaced by incredibly elegant and concise ones.
I'm writing a sequence generator. I've got most of it handled, but this
part bugs me. I want it to take the variable $field containing, e.g.:
4.3:8.3
And
I'm pretty new to CGI programming too, so I probably can't answer your
original question, but I would suggest that the first line of your script
be:
#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
The -w turns on warnings if your script does one of a list of things that
are screwy, like assigning a variable and never
Or how about this?
use File::Copy;
print html\npre\n;
copy myfile.txt, \*STDOUT;
print /pre\n/html\n;
- B
Hello!
An example would look like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard);
my $file_loc = bla;
my @file;
if (open(FILE, $file_loc)) {
@file = FILE;
For some reason, when I turn on taint checking, my script dies on the line
where I open up sendmail to send an email:
**
my ($inOrderTxt) = (param('ordertxt') =~ /([\s!-~]+)/);
my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) =
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 09:58:50PM -0700, Bryan Harris wrote:
What's going on here?
You need something like
$b=${i}_.$j*2;
otherwise you are trying to access $i_
Interesting! It seems like I do things like this all the time... How does
perl decide where the variable ends
This one baffles me:
print p$listfn, I guess we got here./p\n;
# write additions to their file
open(LISTFILE, $listfn) || print p class=error$listfn could not be
written: $!\n;
print LISTFILE join(\n, @newlist, );
close(LISTFILE);
print pHere too?/p\n;
This is part of a CGI script
Does anyone know why this doesn't do what I expect?
% perl -e '$i=123.52.32.1; $j=45; $b=$i_.$j*2; print $b, \n;'
90
I'd like it to print: 123.52.32.1_90
What's going on here?
TIA.
- Bryan
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I found this construct in the Perl Cookbook:
$Current_Screen = param(.State) || Default;
I thought it was really cool because if the value of param(.State) comes
back undefined, the $Current_Screen variable gets set to Default.
So the other day I wanted to do something similar:
@somearray =
I found this construct in the Perl Cookbook:
$Current_Screen = param(.State) || Default;
I thought it was really cool because if the value of param(.State) comes
back undefined, the $Current_Screen variable gets set to Default.
So the other day I wanted to do something similar:
@somearray =
On Tuesday 06 July 2004 23:49, Bryan Harris wrote:
I found this construct in the Perl Cookbook:
$Current_Screen = param(.State) || Default;
I thought it was really cool because if the value of param(.State)
comes back undefined, the $Current_Screen variable gets set to
Default.
So
Hi, all,
I need to process one folder structure into a new folder structure, e.g.
replace the word dog with cat recursively down through a folder, writing
the updated files into a new structure:
% ls
myfolder1
% dog2cat myfolder1
dog2cat: myfolder1 -- myfolder1.cat
% ls
myfolder1
Take a look at Path::Class to manipulate relative paths and File::Path to
create complete paths if the don't exist. The code below creates a new
absolute path for the source and destination directories and then, within
File::Find's Wanted routine, calculates the contents of $File::Find::name
HI,
I have started learning PERL recently. I wanted some explaination
regarding the following command.
open(FILE, |-)
Perl implicitly forks a child process. the FILE file handle is opened with
write access in the parent process. what the parent process writes to FILE
can be read
DO you really think that would be in the documentation?
Read 'perlhist':
How do you know this? I would never have thought to come up with the 8
letters - perlhist. I just look on the Perl Bookshelf from O'Reilly, but
I couldn't find any reference to the birthdate.
I think that's
Wiggins So do I after 7 years ;-)...
And I after twice that.
Hey, perl hasn't been around for quite 21 years!
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Wiggins So do I after 7 years ;-)...
And I after twice that.
Hey, perl hasn't been around for quite 21 years!
err, my math must be rusty: twice 7 years != 21
Oops, sorry, my undiagnosed dyslexia is acting up -- I read it three times,
and each time it said And I twice after that. Now
A quick question for the wizards--
Is it possible to do a substitution without compiling the pattern at all?
**
#!/usr/bin/perl
$ss = cool???;
$rs = cool.;
$_ = Perl is really cool???;
s/$ss/$rs/g;
print $_\n;
**
Thanks!
perldoc perlre for more:
\Q quote (disable) pattern metacharacters till \E
Wow, there really are wizards here!
After 2+ years of perl, I still learn stuff almost every day. I'd never
heard of this one before...
Thanks all.
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Alternatively, you can use the '-t' operator:
exit 0 if -t STDIN
I've been waiting for this for a LONG time, thanks Smoot.
No problem. It took me a while to find the correct operator as well.
Please keep in mind that doing this breaks the de facto Unix standard
for filters. A
By the way, what's a socket?
Usually, a network protocol end-point which for most I/O purposes looks
like a file handle. Instead of reading or writing from a file, the
program reads or writes a socket which is typically connected to
another program via a network protocol which is either
Bryan Harris wrote:
So an example use of a socket would be, say, a script that would listen on a
socket (?) and notify me in response to a message from a particular cgi
being executed on my webserver?
I guess I'm not sure where anyone would use this...
A socket or your example?
=) I
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 00:38:50 -0700
Bryan Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alternatively, you can use the '-t' operator:
exit 0 if -t STDIN
I've been waiting for this for a LONG time, thanks Smoot.
No problem. It took me a while to find the correct operator as well.
Please keep
Is there a way to interpolate strings that the user enters?
I'm writing a filter (pipe-cat = pat) that lets you add text to the front or
end of some piped data:
echo 2 | pat 1 - 3\n
The - represents the piped data, so the above should print:
% echo 2 | pat 1\n - 3\n
1
2
3
%
But here's what
this because I want to make sure I end with a \n, but I don't want
an extra one if one is already there. I guess I could've also done a:
$newtxt =~ s/([^\n])$/$1\n/;
... but the above seemed clearer. Is that not a good reason?
- B
Bryan Harris wrote:
Is there a way to interpolate
Alternatively, you can use the '-t' operator:
exit 0 if -t STDIN
I've been waiting for this for a LONG time, thanks Smoot.
- B
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I have a handy-dandy script that replaces text in files. Very slick:
% replace 'dog' 'cat' myfile.txt
1. myfile.txt (1 change)
But I'd also like it to be able to act on a pipe if there is one:
% cat myfile.txt | replace 'dog' 'cat'
My cat has fleas.
The problem is I don't want to use the
Bryan Harris wrote:
# do this. make sure that this line is the
# ONLY thing you print out to the browser.
print Location: http://rightplace.com/\n\n;;
Wow, this is cool! Where is this documented? I'm interested in
learning about other things like this...
This is part
# do this. make sure that this line is the
# ONLY thing you print out to the browser.
print Location: http://rightplace.com/\n\n;;
Wow, this is cool! Where is this documented? I'm interested in learning
about other things like this...
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perl -lpe '}{*_=*.}{' file
Ooh, an obfuscated verbose way of writing:
perl -lpe'}{$_=$.' file
Huh? Could someone explain this? The }{ makes no sense to me...
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Hi,
I've tried everything I can think of, but I feel like a 6th grader trying to
solve a 7th grade math problem:
I'm trying to build a pretty-fier for any tab-delimited text file
(basically space-pad the columns so the decimals line up). I search through
the columns finding the longest field
I've tried everything I can think of, but I feel like a 6th grader trying to
solve a 7th grade math problem:
I'm trying to build a pretty-fier for any tab-delimited text file
(basically space-pad the columns so the decimals line up). I search through
the columns finding the longest
Bryan Harris wrote:
Sometimes perl isn't quite the right tool for the job...
% man sort
% man uniq
If you code it correctly (unlike the program at the URL above) then a
perl version will be more efficient and faster than using sort and uniq.
Please explain...
That's the last
My next Perl task after I get my list of one name per line, is to sort the
list and eliminate duplicate names.
I have used the following script to sort and remove duplicate entries in
flat
text files.
http://www.downloaddatabase.com/databasesoftware/db-sorter-script.htm
Sometimes
My next Perl task after I get my list of one name per line, is to sort the
list and eliminate duplicate names.
I have used the following script to sort and remove duplicate entries in flat
text files.
http://www.downloaddatabase.com/databasesoftware/db-sorter-script.htm
Sometimes perl
I have tried to strip the carriage return of the last field
$field[8] =~ s/\015//g;
Uh, isn't the carriage return code 13?
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Which modules i have to install in order to connect
perl with mysql ?, in what order ?, My perl
installation is on solaris 9. I already have mysql
installed. Thanks for the help.
Here's what I wrote up while installing under OS X, should be pretty
similar:
To install perl support for
The problem is, the output of motuds is not getting written out to the file
immediately. Somehow it's getting cached somewhere, and only gets written
out once in a while. If I type that command on the command line, the tail
command works properly. So something with the exec process is
I have an odd problem...
I have a perl script that execs another program:
$cmd = motuds t1.dat t2.dat t3.dat out1;
exec $cmd;
Motuds takes awhile to run, though, and I often want to see how it's doing:
% tail -f out1
The problem is, the output of motuds is not getting written out to the
I've been enjoying perl for almost 2 years now, and I think I'm ready to
step into interacting with a database. (big step!)
I have mysql, and I have some simple tables. Now I want to be able to
access those tables from perl. Can anyone offer a simple tutorial on how to
do this?
Thanks!!!
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A good resource was
perldoc DBD::mysql and perldoc DBI
I apparently don't have those modules...
1% perldoc DBD::mysql
No documentation found for DBD::mysql.
2% perldoc DBI
No documentation found for DBI.
I've never installed a module before, does that signal I'm in over my head?
Where would
When perl wants to connect to databases (any database) perl uses a database
driver. This db driver is called DBI. Each DBI has an interface to each
vendors database called the DBD modules. So depending on the kind of database
you are planning to use, you will HAVE to install
1) DBI
2) DBD
And what is the T in -Tw? That doesn't appear to show up in the man
page...
T means tainted. It's what you want to run on all code in your cgi-bin
directory so that a hacker can't r00t your box. Basically it prevents
your perl script from doing anything dumb.
Out of curiousity, is
use File::Copy;
copy header.incl, \*STDOUT;
I like this, it's very clean.
Unfortunately I'm having trouble using it in a cgi script...
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use File::Copy;
print Content-type: text/plain\n\n;
copy header.incl, \*STDOUT;
print More stuff
Ahh. A buffering issue.
Your content-type: is not appearing before the header.incl. You need
to add $| = 1; before the print.
That's the reason I start nearly all my CGI scripts with:
#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use strict;
$|++;
so that I don't ever have to worry about
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