[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a case where I need to use a command-line switch such as -X or /x
Could anyone help me with information as to how I read this into a perl
script and test it - along the lines of if /x then... ??
perldoc Getopt::Std
and
perldoc Getopt::Long
-- Brett
--
To
David Parker wrote:
Hi. I have a perl script that calls various programs. I would like to be able to verify that a given program is being called from the right place - what I would use whence for in the korn shell.
I tried
$path = `whence $cmdname`;
but I don't get anything in $path. I'm
On 4 Apr 2003, Rado Petrik wrote:
I have two number
$a=6; #binary - 0110
$b=10; # 1010
I need work this operation a OR b
0110 - 6
OR 1010 - 10
-
1110 - 14 this is true;
buy when I use this operator ^ in perl
$a^$b then output is 12
0110 - 6
OR
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Palm Optins wrote:
I writting a script so when members join my program it writes their
Email Address into a flat file. I have it adding to the file this way.
open (FILE, $cgiroot/memdata/address/members.txt);
flock(FILE, 2);
print FILE $list\n;
flock(FILE, 8);
close
On 26 Mar 2003, mark sony wrote:
What are the good online sites which will give details about perl
DBI, about using perl interacting with databases,right from basic
to advanced stage?
Start with http://dbi.perl.org/
-- Brett
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Ohad Ohad wrote:
I have a link and want the real file that it is pointing to.
This means also if I have a linked list of links I want to get the real file
at the end.
That's a bit tricky, but it can be done. You'll need to use the stat
builtin to get at the file
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Dennis Stout wrote:
That is the mother of all perl books. It's also more of a reference book than
anything else. Altho if you're that type of learner, it'll be a great read.
It should also sit on the bookshelf of any Perl programmer, regardless of
whether they use it to
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Marcelo Taube wrote:
As u probably have guessed some part of my code is not working properly and
i don't understand why!!
This is the code.
#
$file_completename =~ /(.*?)\.(.*)/;
if ($2 eq $extension]) {
#DO SOMETHING!!!
}
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Navid M. wrote:
I was wondering how you can evaluate parts of a
string:
Ex: $fileName = File;
$var = '1$fileName';
Now I would like a *simple* way of evaluating $var
such that only '$fileName' gets substituted for its
value. 'eval' doesn't work since it tries to
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Navid M. wrote:
No, I can't use double quotes. This is what's being
done:
. One of my perl scripts is sending this string
1$filename' to another perl script, and it's
in the second perl script where $filename is
defined.
So I need to take the string '1$filename'
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Navid M. wrote:
But this won't work if $var='1$fileName'. I was
hoping there would be a simple way getting around this
without using any regexps.
I think Pete's solution is as simple as it gets!
-- Brett
Erwin Zavala wrote:
I know I could use the filehandle but I am trying to understand why I
cannot use the array and print each element at the time.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Fcntl;
$/ = \n\n;
sysopen(readFile, cnnArticle.txt, O_RDONLY) || die $!;
sysopen(writeFile, fortuneCookie.txt,
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I see what file handles are pointed at a given file. I am having a
problem where I open, read, and close a certain file. Then another part of
the script tries to open that same file, but can't. I suspect something is
holding it open.
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Liebert, Sander wrote:
Does anyone know of a free cgi-bin. I am having some problems with a
script and wanted to narrow it down to rule out email. I don't need a
free website, just a place that can run and execute my script. I have
searched on google, but I'm only
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Thomas Browner wrote:
Could some one help me with this code. Every time that I this code:
use Net::Whois;
use Carp;
$dom =digidyne.com;
my $w = new Net::Whois::Domain $dom or die Can't connect to Whois
server\n;
^^^
Need a closing here
-- Brett
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Tony Esposito wrote:
BTW - Anyone know where to get the Carp module for Perl 5.6.1 on Win32 (
WindowsNT ) and how to install it? I am using the OpenPerl IDE and it
complains about not being able to locate Carp. I checked and it is not on
my Win32 system.
Did you try
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Tony Esposito wrote:
Addendum: I tried CPAN and my search(es) do not show the module itself.
Thanks!
It's right there under the Core Modules listing:
http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-category/02_Perl_Core_Modules
-- Brett
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Robbie Staufer wrote:
I have a partial perl script for a mock-up web page, that will collect
information from users as part of a registration form. In trying to see
what it looks like so far on the web, I'm getting an internal server
error. I thought that the script,
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Tony Esposito wrote:
I am using SiePerl. I had trouble installing ActiveState on WindowsNT for
some reason ( probably OE but I did not want to mess with it ) even though
it installed fine on Windows2000. The OpenPerl IDE fails to even open up
with the WindowsNT version
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Tony Esposito wrote:
I checked my whole system for Carp.pm and it was nowhere to be found.
Perl seems to work fine from the command line. It is the OpenPerl IDE that
seems to need it ( for stack tracing I am guessing ). In fact, the OpenPerl
IDE in debug mode stops
David Olbersen wrote:
Quoting issues,
I think you meant:
perl -MCarp -e croak('croaked')
Yeah... forgot it's Win32 command-line... :-)
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/
Robert Rendler wrote:
Currently I'm unable to capture wget's progress bar (the one with the arrow).
It doesn't appear to be using STDOUT or STDERR. So this his not working:
open WGET, wget foo.moo 21 | or die Couldn't run wget: $!\n;
while(WGET){
It's likely that wget is writing directly to the
Gregg R. Allen wrote:
I finally got my perl script that checks our POP3 server working (thanks
everyone), but I want to run it every 5 minutes eventually, but every
minute during testing. How do I set the crontab entry for periodic
minutes? I am running Yellow Dog Slackintosh (Linux PPC).
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, David Gilden wrote:
Is the following considered ok as in good PERL style?
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$num =1.12345;
my $tax_formated = sprintf(%.2f, $num); # --- THIS LINE
print $tax_formated ,length($tax_formated), \n;
The important thing is, does it do what youo are
On 12 Mar 2003, Rob Benton wrote:
Is there a limit to how many rows you can put in an html table? I
can't find anything wrong with my script but when I get over 1000
rows or so in my tables they start drawing weird borders.
I think if you are needing tables on an HTML page that have
On 12 Mar 2003, Rob Benton wrote:
1000+ rows is a rare situation on my page but in can happen. It's a dbi
script. I couldn't really think of a better design but I am open to
suggestions...
Ideally you could page the returned data in groups of 100. Take a look at
this:
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Romeyn, Derek wrote:
K, I tried this and it didn't work as expected:
$code =~ / HTTP\/\d\.\d\ (\d+)/;
if (!$code) {
print NEXT\n;
next;
}
print $code\n;
The loop just printed NEXT 300 or so times. I
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Brett W. McCoy wrote:
You're not capturing the correct string. Here's a code snippet I just
tried on an Apache log that worked (assuming you have an open file
handle):
while(LOG) {
print $1\n if m|HTTP.*\s+(\d{3})|g';
}
$1 contains the matched string inside
On 1 May 2002, rory oconnor wrote:
If I were to hard-code these declarations, I would have about 40 lines
that look like:
$order_id = $session-get_query_value('order_id');
$customer_id = $session-get_query_value('customer_id');
$bill_prefix = $session-get_query_value('bill_prefix');
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Balint, Jess wrote:
Hello all. I have been working on this all day. I am trying to print out
numbers 1 through 10 as this loop progesses. For some reason, it doesn't
print the numbers until the end of the loop. The $done variable is set to 1
by the getUniqRand() function
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
I heard about that famous Camel Book for Perl but I don't know its real
name.
The full name is _Programming Perl_, by Larry Wall, et al. It's an
O'Reilly book and can be found in any bookstore that has a computer
section.
-- Brett
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Kamali Muthukrishnan wrote:
I have the following perl-script , which gives the user ( supposedly a
first or second grader) a problem in addition or subtraction by
generating random numbers. The random numbers generated are between 1
and 10 for first graders and 10 and
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Matthew Harrison wrote:
i need to say something like
if $username = then ...
where is literally nothing. i want to match it ONLY if the variable is
totally empty.
this is my first experience with regex so what should this be?
if(!$username) {
}
An empty
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
On Mar 4, Shaun Fryer said:
I'm trying to convert an old script that used cgi-lib.pl over to using
CGI.pm. In order to save time I'd like to simply do something like
what follows (though that doesn't actually work it seems).
%in = param;
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Jason Frisvold wrote:
I'm looking for a way to have perl output in an asynchronous
manner. What I mean is, if I write a perl script to generate a large
amount of data and output it to the screen, it seems to pause until some
unknown buffer is full and then spit out
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Dave Adams wrote:
I have a problem which I would like to use perl to resolve, however I'm not
sure if it is possible to do.
I need to scan a file and check some conditions, first if field 9 is
duplicated on 1 or more rows, then I need to check field 10 to see which is
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Jon Molin wrote:
It merely depends on your preferences, readable/maintanable code vs
quick dirty.
if there's no difference, what's the point of having both? I can't see
how readable/maintanable would increase by adding functions with the
same name, it'd rather
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Nikola Janceski wrote:
what the heck is TIMTOWDI?
It's TMTOWTDI
There's More Than One Way To Do It 00 pronounced like tim-toady.
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
It is really sad when people can't get their MLA
(Multi-Letter Acronym) correct!
It should be TIMTOWTDI
There Is More Than One Way To Do It
I prefer
http://www.chapelperilous.net/
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Brett W. McCoy wrote:
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
It is really sad when people can't get their MLA
(Multi-Letter Acronym) correct!
It should be TIMTOWTDI
There Is More Than One Way To Do It
I prefer
Err, ignore that... I hit C-x instead
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Troy May wrote:
What do the letters after the %02 mean? I know about %02d, but I came
across a few scripts with %02u in it. I've never seen that, what does it
mean? What's the difference between the d and the u? And what ELSE can
you possibly use there?
I can only
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Johnathan Kupferer wrote:
I would also be interested if anyone knows how to do this. We have
several system monitors that would be much more efficient if they could
actually call us when there is a problem rather than just sending email.
We have a pager that can
A followup:
I found some modules on CPAN regarding Perl Telephony:
Module Telephone::Number (G/GI/GIULIENK/WWW-SMS-0.06.tar.gz)
Module Telephony::CTPort (V/VO/VOICET/ctserver-0.3.tar.gz)
Module Telephony::Phonedev (Contact Author David Huggins-Daines
[EMAIL
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Steven M. Klass wrote:
Heres a simple one
PrintSummary (STDOUT, /%runset);
sub PrintSummary {
$prtout = shift;
print $prtout This is a test
}
Why doesn't this work?
STDOUT is a filehandle, and has to be handled differently. The safest way
is to pass
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Chris wrote:
I have been looking in the Learning Perl book, and cannot find it.
There isn't a syntactical element in Perl to do case statements (aka
switch in C/C++ Java). However, they can be done in a variety of ways:
use the Switch.pm module
or use the aliasing for
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Chris wrote:
I have been looking in the Learning Perl book, and cannot find it.
There isn't a syntactical element in Perl to do case statements (aka
switch in C/C++ Java). However, they can be done in a variety of ways:
I forgot to add that there is also a FAQ entry
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Steven M. Klass wrote:
Can you guys clue me in to what this means?
How do I use it, and why would I use it?
perldoc perlpod
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Tyler Cruickshank wrote:
Ive been using perl for a year or so on various platforms (Sun/UNIX,
linux, NT-cygwin, Active State). Do people recommend ActiveState over
cygwin for the NT system - how about ActiveState on Linux? Not being a
system guru Id like to use the
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Jon Serra wrote:
Greetings, I am trying to read a text file into a scalar variable line by line
until EOF or a search test if fullfilled. I have been reading files in like
this:
chomp (@line = `cat filename`);
I do not want to do this beacuse my file is quite large,
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Joe Echavarria wrote:
I am looking for a perl module that can be used to
make phone calls using a voice modem so when the phone
is picked up the user can hear a recorded message
(mp3 file). Any idea where i can find that module.
Oh, boy, phone spam.
-- Brett
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Kevin Old wrote:
I was wondering if anyone still used cgi-lib.pl anymore or used any of its
subroutines for processing data in their applications. I am writing a
secure application and don't see any harm in using the ReadParse subroutine
for processing the data, but
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, bob ackerman wrote:
is there a way to share uncompiled perl scripts? that is, to include the
subroutines of one script file into another script file.
failing that, can i easily compile a perl script and use it in a script?
why am i having trouble figuring this out?
Take
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Nestor Florez wrote:
I was wondering about the shift inside a subroutine.
I have never used it. What is the purpose of it been there?
It pulls off the first element of the array passed to it. Using shift
with no arguments always pulls from @_ -- it returns $_[0] and
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Curtis Poe wrote:
Great description with one minor caveat: shift with no arguments will
pull from @ARGV if not used in a subroutine.
Yes, thanks for pointing that out.
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Booher Timothy B 1stLt AFRL/MNAC wrote:
You simply enclose your unix commands in ''.
i.e.
#!untested
'ls -la'
I think you mean ` `, (backticks), right?
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, phinney wrote:
I have an object method that allocates quite a bit of memory through
fillung up an array. I then pass that array back to the calling
program. Now, if I destroy the array that I passed back (though an
undef), the memory still seems to be allocated by the
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Tony McGuinness wrote:
I have the following code and the system call just does not happen.
Furthermore there is no error message.
$arg = $Basedir/ftpscr;
system($arg) == 0 or die cannot execute ftpscr $!;
At this stage $Basedir/ftpscr exists and is an executable ksh
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Nikola Janceski wrote:
I have old perl code, but it still does what it needs to, and is currently
being used.
Now I need to make changes to the code, (about once every 4 months).
Over time we all code better -- learning better ways to write things,
clearer ways to write
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can somebody help me on what is wrong in the following piece of code?
foreach (@prv_lst)
{
$item = $_;
@list_prv = grep (/$item/, @txn_log);
print The foll. are the Txn details for Trading Partner $item \n;
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Daniel Falkenberg wrote:
Just wondering how I check if a variable contains nothing or not. I
thought it was something like the following...
if ( $string eq '' ) {
print String contains nothing;
} else {
print The string contains the following: $string;
}
Yes,
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, David Gilden wrote:
option value=kayak touring rescue techniquesKayak Touring Rescue
Techniques/option
Or do I need to use underscores,
option value=kayak_touring_rescue_techniquesKayak Touring Rescue
Techniques/option
I believe the spaces will get replaced with %20.
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
Thanks! That works great!
But!!!:
[root@iodine root]# man perlvars
No manual entry for perlvars
[root@iodine root]# perldoc perlvars
No documentation found for perlvars.
[root@iodine root]#
Should be perldoc
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Dermot Paikkos wrote:
Does anyone know how to either get the ctime as a string or convert
the interger into a date that is meaning full??
Sure:
my @stats = stat($file);
print Create Time: , scalar(localtime($stats[10])), \n;
See perldoc -f localtime
-- Brett
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Brett W. McCoy wrote:
Does anyone know how to either get the ctime as a string or convert
the interger into a date that is meaning full??
Sure:
my @stats = stat($file);
print Create Time: , scalar(localtime($stats[10])), \n;
I'm sorry, that's not the create
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Paul Farley wrote:
I have an application that I am using a perl script to do pattern matching
and then execute commands specific to that application. I need a way to
handle an error in my script if one of the `cmd blah`; doesn't work and send
it to an error subroutine.
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Agustin Rivera wrote:
How would I keep the character (or characters) that I am splitting by?
for example,
@tags=split(//, $line);
I would like to keep the .
In other words, you have the string 'blahbluhblug', you want to split
it, and end up with (blah, bluh, blug) ?
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, GsuLinuX wrote:
It worked on normal submit buttons but problem on image submit button.
I couldn't manage to work it with
image submit buttons. Fot example if their 2 image submit buttons as :
input type=image border=0 name=button3 value=This is button 3
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Chris wrote:
if left($result,3) = 500 Then
Do whatever
Else
Blah Blah Blah
End If
In Perl I want to do:
if (left($result), 3) = 500 {
Do whatever;
} else {
Blah Blah Blah;
}
How can I do the left in Perl
if(substr($result, 0, 3) == 500)
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Brian Johnson wrote:
I need a string in the form
Wed, 18 Jul 2001 14:20
Of course my line doesn't quite cut it.
my $emaildate = join , $record-{day}, $record-{month},
$record-{year}, $record-{hour}, $record-{minute};
Just interpolate the variables directly
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Dittrich G. Michael wrote:
I do:
$lowerlimit = 89 le 100;
response
I do:
$lowerlimit = 89 le 99;
response 1
please help me! I dont get it! is this a bug? or am I nuts?
You are comparing strings here when you really want to be comparing
numbers. In terms of
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Russ Foster wrote:
I have string, something like:
$String = aaa bbb: fffd: sdfsdf qweqd: adfsdf qwcdsfs: qwdq qchuti:
qwiojd;
Now, I want to extract everything from the start of the string, up through
the FIRST colon : -- in this case aaa bbb. My regex looks
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Matthew Peter Lyon wrote:
hey, leading off this... a question for the group... are the ways in
programming to solve problems / situations called 'design patterns' ?
Well, sorta... 'design patterns' refers to a specific way of analyisng
software design. It actually comes
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, terri harrison wrote:
If my input is in the form:
Name: Happy, Species: Cat, Gender: Male
Name: Peanut, Species: Hamster, Gender: Female
how come
foreach (keys %names) {
if ($names{$_} =~ /\s*Gender:\s*$gen\s*/i) {
AND
if ($names{$_} =~ /\s*Species:\s*$sp\s*/i) {
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Pankaj Warade wrote:
This is work
my @array = ( 1, 2, 3, 4 );
print $#array; --- size of array.
No, $#array is the index of the last element of the array. To get the
size of an array, just put the array into a scalar context:
my $size = @array;
print scalar(@array);
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, John wrote:
I have a scalar variable containing HTML that needs to be converted
to XML. It's not the best HTML so it has invalid characters (like
smart quotes, 1/2 character, etc.). I need to determine if these
characters exist in the data and throw an error if they
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Balint, Jess wrote:
Hello all. I have a script that uses alot of data and calculates a
cumulative percent of this data. That cumulative percent should be 100.00 at
the end. What I get is:
99.8
I need to truncate this to 2 decimal places and hopefully round
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, W P wrote:
my problem is simple. i have a number of scripts on my server, and i
would like all of them to initially run a function defined by me.
however, it would be burdensome to write that function over for every
script. creating a custom module, however, doesn't
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Steven M. Klass wrote:
Let's start off with some simple code..
my $arg = SomeFunction ( my @arry = qw/one two three/)
sub SomeFunction {
my @array = @_[0];
No, you are only grabbing the first element of @_. You should either pass
the array as a reference
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Kevin Butters wrote:
I have an array that I want to insert elements into. I
want to insert elements at specific points in the
array.
Example:
use strict:
@week = (Monday, Wednesday, Friday);
I want to expand the array to include Tuesday after
element 0 and
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Michael Fowler wrote:
Consider:
@week = qw(Monday Wednesday Friday);
print @week\n;
splice(@week, 1, 0, Tuesday);
print @week\n;
splice(@week, 3, 0, Thursday);
print @week\n;
Duh, didn't even consider using a 0 offset in my example.
--
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
To store the file in an array, then to insert the changed value in that
array, and then to write that array to the file, or to use a temporary file
to store each line from the source file and twhen I want to modify a line, I
have just to insert it
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Allen Wang wrote:
I want to change the string d:\orant\oracle to d:\\orant\\oracle
Anyone know how to do this?
$string =~ s|\\||g;
(\ is used to escape metacharacters in a regexp, so you need to escape \
also).
-- Brett
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Josiah Altschuler wrote:
Is there a way to use an image button in CGI.pm to submit?
Sure:
print image_button(-name='name', -src='path/to/img');
will produce:
input type=image name=name src=/path/to/img /
This is documented in the CGI.pm documentation, accessible via
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
Has anyone developed any method to drop messages that
are cross-posted to both [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
[EMAIL PROTECTED]?
Here's the procmail recipe I use for duplicates:
:0 Whc: msgid.lock
| formail -D 8192 msgid.cache
:0 a:
DUPLICATES
-- Brett
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, FLAHERTY, JIM-CONT wrote:
$ aver = $total_hours/$total_jobs
some times comes up with 24.97 . I would like to round or trim to
24.99 for example . any Ideas ??
my $aver = sprintf(%.2f, $total_hours/$total_jobs);
perldoc -f sprintf
-- Brett
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Balint, Jess wrote:
Hello all. I am getting wierd errors on the following piece of code.
95:for( 0..$#vars ) {
96:if( defined( $vars[$_] ) ) {
97:$freqidx{$key}[$_] += $fields[$vars[$_]];
98:}
99:
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Ned Cunningham wrote:
I guess this means nobody knows anyway to do this???
With Perl, you can manipulate Access tables using DBI and the DBD::ODBC
driver. But if Access is not loaded on the system, you could have trouble
if you don't have the correct ODBC driver for
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Balint, Jess wrote:
That errors seems to be quieted. THank you. Now, there is this
114: foreach( sort( keys( %freqidx ) ) ) {
115: print( $_| );
116: print( $_| ) foreach( @{$freqidx{$_}} );
117: print( \n );
118: }
I get the error:
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Balint, Jess wrote:
Nope. Not possible. There are array refs stored in each $freqidx{$_}. It is
spitting out that error messages tons of times.
Then what about the array elements in @{$freqidx{$_}} -- could
uninitialized values be there?
-- Brett
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Balint, Jess wrote:
Only if counts as uninitialized. I would mind making be zero in that
case.
Nope, counts as a value, one that returns boolean false, but still a
value that will return true if you test for definedness.
-- Brett
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Eric Jones wrote:
Hello, I have perused the archives but can't find an answer to my problem.
I have built a perl program, I use DBI.pm in it.
Upon running the program I get the following return:
Can't locate loadable object for module DBI in @INC (@INC contains:
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Eric Jones wrote:
Yes that is what I am getting.
IF the object exists but is unloadable and I have run cpan to load mods
what is the best move? uninstall and install cpan or is this possible?
or just run CPAN again and make changes to the info?
I'd try reinstalling first
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Eric Jones wrote:
Done and so far that works except it won't connect to the DB now through
socket 111. But at least I know it's no longer perl mods acting up and
I know what to look for and how to fix it next time.
thanks for the advice
Out of curiosity, what database
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Bruce Ambraal wrote:
Could any one write some coding for the problem.
In perl against Linx could someone help.
I want to write a script that reads in four numbers from STDIN and add
the first two together, and than adds the second 2 together.
The input format is a
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, GsuLinuX wrote:
we wroted a perl code to fetch some information we want from a web site. The code is
as below:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use LWP::Simple;
use HTML::Parse;
snippage
We have the debug error:
Can't locate HTML/Parse.pm in @INC(@INC contains:
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Uwe Voelker wrote:
use HTML::Parse;
The module is called HTML::Parser.
A further investigation via CPAN showed me that HTML::Parse is part of the
HTML::Tree bundle and is now actually a deprecated module, according to
the readme.
-- Brett
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My program won't compile when the sub routine is in the program,
but when I remove it from the program and put it into another file
that I call test.pl, and compile test.pl which contains only the sub
routine I'm checking, it compiles fine!
Why
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Mike Smith wrote:
How do I get this to work? (too many quotes)
print pimg border=0 src=BD08906_.gif width=190 height=156\n;
print qq(pimg border=0 src=BD08906_.gif width=190 height=156\n);
qq() is the generic form of . You can also use qq{}, qq##, etc.
See the perlop
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Mike Smith wrote:
What is the URL for the perlop page?
At the command line (Unix or Windows) type 'perldoc perlop'. It's bundled
with your Perl installation.
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Jenda Krynicky wrote:
I guess there are two reasons.
1) Noone knows about it.
2) With the current version it's not possible to specify a path to the
program to run.
But IMHO if enhanced a bit, this could be the easies way to run an
external command.
Jenda --
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