Re: How to accumulate Hashes of Array value with the same key?
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:03:40 -0400, Dave Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what you want to do here... do you want to combine all the values into one array reference, stored in $HoA{key1}? As you mention above. That is exactly what I mean: This sounds like it's part of a bigger question. Can you give us some more background info? What I am trying to do is to accumulate, every new HoA generated into existing HoA, and join the values if they have the same key. Dave Regards, Edward WIJAYA SINGAPORE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news.
Hello! This is very interesting thread. So, let me add some words to this. (Sorry in advance my English). Best of all, let me express my respect to Mr. Schwartz. I read your Lama-book and I think that's very useful for every Perl newbie. I got such chain: Lama-book, Camel-book and Cook-book :). I love Perl and work with it more often than Python, but... Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Gavin == Gavin Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gavin I really like Perl, but lately everywhere I seem to go and talk Gavin to say I shouldn't be learning Perl as it's old and Python is Gavin better. Perl is more powerful. Python is simpler. Python is for people who don't want to master a language -- just use it casually. This is no serious statement. Python is simple and power too. Read please Bruce Eckel why he left Perl and came to Python. At least, it's really object-oriented as against Perl and it has more funny syntax :). However, if you're gonna spend two or more hours a day hacking code, Perl is definitely the right place to be. Still. Those Python weenies are all just casual programmers complaining that for Perl, with great power comes great responsibility. Let'em. Perl's support only grows. I used to be able to follow the CPAN new modules list by examining the daily run at search.cpan.org/recent. But no more. Look at all the new modules just in the past *seven* days. (It's typically a full web page for each day!) If that doesn't show you an intense activity in the Perl community, I really don't know what else I could show you. Python community is large too (of course not yet as perl community because it's more young), and it grows too. Let me know please why this is a good - such enormous modules number for one task? In this case I'd like to think noone from them is clever and bugs free. That's enough one or two clever modules like in Python, that even could be included into standart distribution. Ask your Python friends where such a similar list exists. :) Python may be newer, but Perl is more mature, and here to stay. Remember new coke, and how long we had that. (If you're old enough to remember that fiasco.) -- Best regards, Nicolay http://www.soft411.com - Excellent soft archive http://www.spamliquidator.com - Kill spam -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: How to accumulate Hashes of Array value with the same key?
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:23:47 -0300, Shaw, Matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Matt, my %HoA = (key1 = ['A',1]); my %HoA2 = (key1 = ['B',2]); my %HoA3 = (key1 = ['C',2]); into: Only this one works push @{$HoA{key1}}, ( @{$HoA2{key1}}, @{$HoA2{key1}}); Not this Sorry this should read: @{$HoA{key1}}, ( @{$HoA2{key1}}, @{$HoA3{key1}}); However what it gives is that it create one single array, and not preserving the array that group ['A',1] etc, like before namely: print Dumper \%HoA; $VAR1 = { 'key1' = [ 'A', 1, 'B', 2, 'C', 2 ] }; not; $VAR1 = { 'key1' = ['A',1],['B',2],['C',2]}; Regards, Edward WIJAYA SINGAPORE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: modules
[snip] If you want to do as the Romans do, maybe you can sign up for a Gmail account or something that would be more flexible... Do u want to be one of the Romans? :-) Its hell good being Roman.. Amongst many other things just to name a few advantage of being Roman are u almost never might need to delete messages and the contacts are pretty easy to get around, short cut key etc.. 1000 mb to use as ur own sec storage space. Its pretty good. I feel great! That pretty much explains why Romans ruled this world once. :) [snip] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response -- Cheers, SanoBabu -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news.
Perl is more powerful. Python is simpler. Python is for people who don't want to master a language -- just use it casually. This is no serious statement. Python is simple and power too. Read please Bruce Eckel why he left Perl and came to Python. At least, it's really object-oriented as against Perl and it has more funny syntax :). Perl has OO support. In my opinion those funny syntax get u the job done quicker when your boss comes down to you with deadly deadlines. ~;-) I assume those syntax u are talking about is regular expression. -- Best regards, Nicolay http://www.soft411.com - Excellent soft archive http://www.spamliquidator.com - Kill spam [snip] -- Cheers, SanoBabu -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
RE: RFC on script
From: RichT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : im still very new to perl and, iv got my script : working, It doesn't work for me. What are you using on the command line to make it work? According to the usage shown below, this script should fail every time. : what is does in searches through a large data file finds the : segments i need and outputs the data in a more use-full : format. As i said id does work but im : no to convinced the structure is very clean : so i thort maybe some one could give me some pointers. : yours : most gratefully RichT First, I am going to piss off you or someone else on the list. That's not my intent. It's is my experience. My intent is to illustrate the errors in this script and the errors and inconsistencies in your programming style. It, in no way is meant to ridicule you or condemn your script. Second, some corrections are stylistic. For example, the one space indents for some foreach blocks don't make sense with all other indents being four spaces. This is your style. There nothing wrong with that (other than being inconsistent). Your style will not always match mine. Third, some errors are not errors. Some idioms are more accepted than others. Not using strict or warnings on a script sent to a mailing list is not really an error, but it is a very bad idea. Fourth, I am going to spend more time on the minuses than on the plusses. Live with it. Fifth, I'm not a big fan of mixed case variable names. Any multiple word variables I add will use underscores. I also hate parenthesies. I will quietly change them in rewrites. Last, my opinion is just that: my opinion. It is not fact and you do not have to follow my advice. Some of it may even be poor advice. Shop around and ask questions. : scanPoller.cfg.pl== : : #!/usr/local/bin/perl : : use strict; : use warnings; Great start. : use Getopt::Long; : : my($inFile,$USAGE,$showKey,$site,$found,$foundKeys, :@dataFile,@foundSegments,$value); : my($opt_inFile, $opt_showAll, $opt_help ) = (0,0,0); This is perl. It is not VB or C. Stop declaring your variables at the top of your code block. It WILL bite you in the ass. The rest of my comments will assume these were not declared here. Why is $USAGE in all caps? : my $feildName = agentAddress; : my $showFields = segment,agentAddress,community; Line up those assignments and don't use double quotes unless you're interpolating variables. my $fieldname = 'agentAddress'; my $showFields = 'segment,agentAddress,community'; : $USAGE = USAGE_TEXT; my $usage = USAGE_TEXT; [snipped info due to wrapping problems] : USAGE_TEXT : GetOptions ( inFile=s, : findFeild=s = \$feildName, : showFeilds=s = \$showFields, : showAll, : help|h|H|?|HELP : ); Field is spelled wrong. Get an editor that has a spell checker. Line things up and use single quotes over double quotes. When I see double quotes, I assume you have data in there to interpolate and I look for it. This slows me down. I assume it will slow down another script maintainer as well. We need to use global variables to use the above. Let's avoid them here. GetOptions ( 'inFile=s', = \$inFile, 'findField=s' = \$fieldName, 'showFields=s' = \$showFields, 'showAll' = \$opt_showAll, 'help|h|H|?|HELP' = \$opt_help, ); : if ($opt_help == 1) {print $USAGE; exit; } # print out # help and # exit Using trailing comments sparingly. Don't bunch up if statements. Either use a statement modifier. die $usage if $opt_help; Or spell it out. if ( $opt_help ) { print $usage; exit; } On my system (Windows XP) this doesn't work. $opt_help always remains 0. This works. use strict; use warnings; use Getopt::Long 'GetOptions'; my( $inFile, $showAll, $fieldName, $showFields ); { $fieldName = 'agentAddress'; $showFields = 'segment,agentAddress,community'; my $help GetOptions( 'inFile=s', = \$inFile, 'findField=s' = \$fieldName, 'showFields=s' = \$showFields, 'showAll' = \$showAll, 'help|h|H|?|HELP' = \$help, ); die usage() if $help; } sub usage { return USAGE_TEXT; usage: $0 [-inFile input filename] [-findField fieldName (default is agentAddress)] [-showFields fields to output (default is segment,agentAddress,community)] [-showAll show all fields] [-help this help text] USAGE_TEXT } __END__ : # start finding results : if ($inFile){ # find results if we have in -inFile Is the comment really needed? if ( $inFile ) pretty much says the same thing. Note that in the original script $inFile is never set to a value. This code block is never executed. Perhaps we can see the stupidity in
Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news.
I mean real OO, but no perls dirty hack. Perl has OO support. In my opinion those funny syntax get u the job done quicker when your boss comes down to you with deadly deadlines. ~;-) I assume those syntax u are talking about is regular expression. -- Best regards, Nicolay http://www.soft411.com - Excellent soft archive http://www.spamliquidator.com - Kill spam -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news.
Hi guys, this thread seems to expand into something unworthy of this mailing list. You can not compare a cup of tea with a horse, these are two totally different things. Both Perl and Python have it's place under the sun, both have very good features, and some very difficult aspects, too. Both can be perfect for the right tasks, but may be terrible choices for others. THe real point if you write your code correct, know what you are doing and make possible for others to understand your source. The difference is between good and poor developer. IMHO I could write this about any other language, for example Cobol, too :- I am doing Python programming for living now, but create reports on my log useng Perl. Perfect, smooth and efficient. Gabaux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news.
Agreed! Gabor Urban wrote: Hi guys, this thread seems to expand into something unworthy of this mailing list. You can not compare a cup of tea with a horse, these are two totally different things. Both Perl and Python have it's place under the sun, both have very good features, and some very difficult aspects, too. Both can be perfect for the right tasks, but may be terrible choices for others. THe real point if you write your code correct, know what you are doing and make possible for others to understand your source. The difference is between good and poor developer. IMHO I could write this about any other language, for example Cobol, too :- I am doing Python programming for living now, but create reports on my log useng Perl. Perfect, smooth and efficient. Gabaux http://www.soft411.com - Excellent soft archive http://www.spamliquidator.com - Kill spam -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
RE: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and saysPerl is old news.
-Original Message- From: Gabor Urban [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 11:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and saysPerl is old news. Hi guys, this thread seems to expand into something unworthy of this mailing list. You can not compare a cup of tea with a horse, these are two totally different things. Both Perl and Python have it's place under the sun, both have very good features, and some very difficult aspects, too. Both can be perfect for the right tasks, but may be terrible choices for others. THe real point if you write your code correct, know what you are doing and make possible for others to understand your source. The difference is between good and poor developer. IMHO I could write this about any other language, for example Cobol, too :- I am doing Python programming for living now, but create reports on my log useng Perl. Perfect, smooth and efficient. Agreed as well ! Could you guys keep this thread constructive or STOP it ... Please ? Thx, José. DISCLAIMER This e-mail and any attachment thereto may contain information which is confidential and/or protected by intellectual property rights and are intended for the sole use of the recipient(s) named above. Any use of the information contained herein (including, but not limited to, total or partial reproduction, communication or distribution in any form) by other persons than the designated recipient(s) is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender either by telephone or by e-mail and delete the material from any computer. Thank you for your cooperation. For further information about Proximus mobile phone services please see our website at http://www.proximus.be or refer to any Proximus agent. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
RE: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and saysPerl is old news.
Could you guys keep this thread constructive or STOP it ... Please ? It's been very constructive for me :-) I have just read this famous peice: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3882mode=order=thold= I am going to learn both and make up my own mind. I think that's the best for any hacker. Gavin. -- Just getting into the best language ever... Fancy a [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just ask!!! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and saysPerl is old news.
Absolutely :) Gavin Henry wrote: Could you guys keep this thread constructive or STOP it ... Please ? It's been very constructive for me :-) I have just read this famous peice: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3882mode=order=thold= I am going to learn both and make up my own mind. I think that's the best for any hacker. Gavin. Best regards, Nicolay http://www.soft411.com - Excellent soft archive http://www.spamliquidator.com - Kill spam -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: sum a column
Rmck wrote: Are you serious. Indeed. Im not sure how to sum up the column... I tried by using the field and * it by the increment. That awkward attempt seems to be made by someone who hasn't a clue about programming. I have written every part of my script, The script author does have a clue about programming. -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news.
Nicolay == Nicolay A Vasiliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nicolay I mean real OO, but no perls dirty hack. There is nothing dirty or hack about Perl's OO. It is as functionally complete as nearly any other programming language. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: how do i describe a perl user?
Errin == Errin Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Errin I say 'Perler' when I'm addressing this list. Haven't had anyone Errin complain yet! I haven't seen anything else! Anyone else have some Errin suggestions? The 'Guru's on the web are at a site called Perl Errin Monks. But what do you call a devotee, not a guru? I've never heard of Perler (or seen you say it), and it sounds weird to my ears. Perl newbie Perl user Perl hacker That would cover most of the spectrum. Unless you're on P5P or P6-*, in which case you are a: perl hacker Note lowercase p. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Check for valid email address
Gunnar == Gunnar Hjalmarsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gunnar Or: This is a function I'm using in a couple of programs to check the Gunnar syntax, and that I believe is sufficient in practice: Gunnar sub emailsyntax { Gunnar return 1 unless Gunnarmy ($localpart, $domain) = shift =~ /^(.+)@(.+)/; Gunnar my $char = '[^()@,;:\/\s\'|.]'; Gunnar return 1 unless $localpart =~ /^$char+(?:\.$char+)*$/ or Gunnar$localpart =~ /^[^,]+$/; Gunnar $domain =~ /^$char+(?:\.$char+)+$/ ? 0 : 1; Gunnar } No, that incorrectly invalidates fred[EMAIL PROTECTED] which is a valid working address (try it! it's an autoresponder). Just use Email::Valid. It has the right idea. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and saysPerl is old news.
Gavin == Gavin Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gavin I have just read this famous peice: Gavin http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3882mode=order=thold= I'm pretty sure that Eric Raymond is not fully aware of test-first-development and Test::More and proper module packaging of Perl. Otherwise, he wouldn't keep spouting his Perl sucks for big projects mantra. Perl's object model is complete. Perl scales well to large projects. That Eric Raymond was unable to get it to scale is more telling about Eric than about Perl. I say this even though I consider Eric at least a strong acquaintence, having met him on quite a few occasions. Eric is doing a disservice to the Perl community though, and on that, I cannot let stand. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news.
Dear mr. Schwartz! Let me be unagreed. Functionally complete OO language at least means the next thing: when I create some object (ie, declare some variable, maybe string), this already have necessary methods like Python or Ruby. Even C++ haven't such functionality. Of course Perl haven't this too. I love Perl, it's great for concrete tasks class. But Python is good and clever too, don't you blacken this please even in a comedy form ;) Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Nicolay == Nicolay A Vasiliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nicolay I mean real OO, but no perls dirty hack. There is nothing dirty or hack about Perl's OO. It is as functionally complete as nearly any other programming language. -- Best regards, Nicolay http://www.soft411.com - Excellent soft archive http://www.spamliquidator.com - Kill spam -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news.
On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Nicolay A. Vasiliev wrote: Functionally complete OO language at least means the next thing: when I create some object (ie, declare some variable, maybe string), this already have necessary methods like Python or Ruby. Even C++ haven't such functionality. Of course Perl haven't this too. Huh? my $cgi = new CGI; And hey presto, $cgi has all the methods of the CGI class. And so on and so forth for all other OO Perl. (And most other languages with OO capabilities, for that matter, including C++.) What are you talking about? The fact that strings, scalars, etc aren't usually thought of as objects (even though they have both data and standard methods for operating on them)? Unlike what I suspect Randal would say, I like Python. I have no problem with it. It's a nice language. But that doesn't invalidate the fact that Perl does indeed have a complete and fully functional OO framework, even though the language didn't grow up around this framework the way Python did. -- Chris Devers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: How to accumulate Hashes of Array value with the same key?
Edward Wijaya wrote on 01.10.2004: On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:23:47 -0300, Shaw, Matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Matt, my %HoA = (key1 = ['A',1]); my %HoA2 = (key1 = ['B',2]); my %HoA3 = (key1 = ['C',2]); into: Only this one works push @{$HoA{key1}}, ( @{$HoA2{key1}}, @{$HoA2{key1}}); Not this Sorry this should read: @{$HoA{key1}}, ( @{$HoA2{key1}}, @{$HoA3{key1}}); However what it gives is that it create one single array, and not preserving the array that group ['A',1] etc, like before namely: print Dumper \%HoA; $VAR1 = { 'key1' = [ 'A', 1, 'B', 2, 'C', 2 ] }; not; $VAR1 = { 'key1' = ['A',1],['B',2],['C',2]}; So you want a hash of an array of arrays, right? This is adding another level of encapsulation. So you could do this #get the actual length of your target array and add one $array_element = $#HoA{key1}++; #push the new list of values into a new array inside the HoA push $HoA{key1}-[$array_element], @{$HoA2{key1}} Or did I get you wrong? - Jan -- There's no place like ~/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news.
Nicolay == Nicolay A Vasiliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nicolay Let me be unagreed. Functionally complete OO language at least means Nicolay the next thing: when I create some object (ie, declare some variable, Nicolay maybe string), this already have necessary methods like Python or Nicolay Ruby. Even C++ haven't such functionality. Of course Perl haven't this Nicolay too. I'm not quite following you, but I'm not sure why you think that Python or Ruby writes your code for you. There's as much (or little) work to create an object in Perl as there is in either of those other languages, in terms of what matters every day. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: How to accumulate Hashes of Array value with the same key?
Edward Wijaya wrote on 01.10.2004: On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:23:47 -0300, Shaw, Matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Matt, my %HoA = (key1 = ['A',1]); my %HoA2 = (key1 = ['B',2]); my %HoA3 = (key1 = ['C',2]); into: Only this one works push @{$HoA{key1}}, ( @{$HoA2{key1}}, @{$HoA2{key1}}); It is valid Perl code, but it should not have the desired effect. Note the double reference to HoA2, corrected below. Not this Sorry this should read: @{$HoA{key1}}, ( @{$HoA2{key1}}, @{$HoA3{key1}}); - Jan -- There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary, and those who don't -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and saysPerl is old news.
Randal L. Schwartz said: Gavin == Gavin Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gavin I have just read this famous peice: Gavin http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3882mode=order=thold= I'm pretty sure that Eric Raymond is not fully aware of test-first-development and Test::More and proper module packaging of Perl. Otherwise, he wouldn't keep spouting his Perl sucks for big projects mantra. Good to hear the other side of the coin. Perl's object model is complete. Perl scales well to large projects. That Eric Raymond was unable to get it to scale is more telling about Eric than about Perl. :-) I say this even though I consider Eric at least a strong acquaintence, having met him on quite a few occasions. Eric is doing a disservice to the Perl community though, and on that, I cannot let stand. Of course. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news.
To Randal and Chris. You all don't understand me. CGI is a module, earlier wrote and stored in a separate files. I don't mean such objects. Python and Ruby don't write the code for me. But look at this Python code: s = I am Perl guru; new_s = s.replace(Perl, Python); Huh? Remark, no addition modules. The similar way is in Ruby and other nice. By the way, these languages have people friendly exceptions handling ;) with try-except in Python and begin-rescue in Ruby. http://www.soft411.com - Excellent soft archive http://www.spamliquidator.com - Kill spam -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: sum a column
This is a beginner’s mailing list. I’m sorry my script is not at your level, I'm learning. I think telling someone on a beginners mailing list that they don’t have a clue is inappropriate. It shows me you have no clue. -Original Message- From: Gunnar Hjalmarsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 2:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sum a column Rmck wrote: Are you serious. Indeed. Im not sure how to sum up the column... I tried by using the field and * it by the increment. That awkward attempt seems to be made by someone who hasn't a clue about programming. I have written every part of my script, The script author does have a clue about programming. -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response -Original Message- From: Gunnar Hjalmarsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 2:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sum a column Rmck wrote: Are you serious. Indeed. Im not sure how to sum up the column... I tried by using the field and * it by the increment. That awkward attempt seems to be made by someone who hasn't a clue about programming. I have written every part of my script, The script author does have a clue about programming. -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
substitution and assignment fun ( was RE: Becoming Disenheartened )
Python and Ruby don't write the code for me. But look at this Python code: s = I am Perl guru; new_s = s.replace(Perl, Python); i always had trouble doing this in perl- just worked around it- then realized that this shouldn't be hard when reading your post... so i played... $s = I am Perl guru; $new_s = ($s =~ s/erl/ython/); print $s \t $new_s \n; #oops! PrintsI am a Python guru 1 #but ($new_s = $s) =~ s/erl/ython/; print $s \t $new_s \n; #prints I am a Perl guru I am a Python guru Perl can be surprisingly intuitive- using precedence rules to get this done makes good sense to me :) Huh? Remark, no addition modules. *shrug* eh- go figure willy http://www.hackswell.com/corenth -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news.
From: Nicolay A. Vasiliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear mr. Schwartz! Let me be unagreed. Functionally complete OO language at least means the next thing: when I create some object (ie, declare some variable, maybe string), this already have necessary methods like Python or Ruby. Even C++ haven't such functionality. Of course Perl haven't this too. Sorry? Oh you want substr() to be a method, not a function, you want to write $line.chomp(); instead of chomp($line); right? I'd rather not. Not everything has to be an object. Not everything has to be called like methods. Would you like to have to write $x = $y.sin().plus($y) instead of $x = sin($x) + $y; ? There is a big difference between a functionaly complete OO language and a language that forces everything to be an object. I love Perl, it's great for concrete tasks class. But Python is good and clever too, don't you blacken this please even in a comedy form ;) I did not see the word Python in Randal's message. Jenda = [EMAIL PROTECTED] === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz = When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news.
On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Nicolay A. Vasiliev wrote: To Randal and Chris. You all don't understand me. There is a misunderstanding, but I'm not sure that it's Randal me. CGI is a module, earlier wrote and stored in a separate files. I don't mean such objects. And Python objects live where -- the sky? The stars? Python and Ruby don't write the code for me. But look at this Python code: s = I am Perl guru; new_s = s.replace(Perl, Python); No, you're using Python's built in string operators. Perl has them too: $s = I am a Perl guru; ( $new_s = $s ) =~ s/perl/python/; Remark, no additional modules. Huh? Remark, no addition modules. You're using methods defined by modules that live with Python. Why bother splitting this hair? It's a distinction without a difference. By the way, these languages have people friendly exceptions handling ;) with try-except in Python and begin-rescue in Ruby. You haven't come across eval{...} yet, have ya? The differences among Perl, Python, and Ruby are mostly semantic -- each of them can accomplish all the same tasks, but they wrap up the way to implement these tasks in ever-so-slightly different syntax. But so what? Any of them are *much* more pleasant to work with than Java, C/C++, or *shudder* Visual Basic. -- Chris Devers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
newbie problem with Mail::POP3Client;
I'm sure you've seen this one hundreds of times! I copied the following script, downloaded and installed the POP3Client module but it doesn't want to connect to an external POP3 server for me, for some reason. I have put in the correct pop3 server, username and password, at least the same ones that work for me and will connect Mozilla. Any thoughts about how to find the problem and/or debug? It runs, but I get You have -1 messages I suspect the -1 means the variable has not been initialized or for some reason it will not connect to the server. TIA Jim #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use Mail::POP3Client; my($pop, $num_mesg, $i); $pop = new Mail::POP3Client( USER = username, PASSWORD = password, HOST = www.host.name ); $num_mesg = $pop-Count; #How many messages are there? print (You have .$num_mesg. new messages.\n); for ($i = 1; $i = $num_mesg; $i++) { print $pop-Head($i), \n;#print header for each message } -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Help needed: urgent
Always group reply so that others can help and be helped and to avoid getting (accidentally) ignored. --- But I need the output as an array like @db_results which would be sent to a HTML template. The @db_results would look like db_results[0] = A 90 89 0 0 db_results[1] = B 70 71 71 0 db_results[2] = C 0 73 97 0 In this case you need to make an attempt. I have shown you an easy way to build a structure that will make manipulating the data simple. You need to put the effort into taking it the next step, if you fail, show us what you tried and what the errors are, we are not here to write it for you. perldoc -f push perldoc -f sprintf Should give you a hint. http://danconia.org - Regards Rohit Satabhai --- Wiggins d Anconia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: == Using DBI Perl Programming I get a database o/p as below Student SubjectCodeMarks A 190 A 289 B 170 B 271 B 371 C 273 C 397 - Subject code may vary to any value. I need a report o/p in the following format and displayed in HTML Student 1 2 3 4 A 90 89 B 70 71 71 C 73 97 - I am not sure why you chose an array as your top level structure. Assuming each student is unique, and each subject is unique, you can use a hash of students, with the values of that being a hash of subjects, with the value being the mark. This eliminates the need for all the index munging. For me it would look something like: use strict; use warnings; my $sth = [ { 'student' = 'A', 'subject' = '1', 'mark' ='90' }, { 'student' = 'A', 'subject' = '2', 'mark' ='89' }, { 'student' = 'B', 'subject' = '1', 'mark' ='70' }, { 'student' = 'B', 'subject' = '2', 'mark' ='71' }, { 'student' = 'B', 'subject' = '3', 'mark' ='71' }, { 'student' = 'C', 'subject' = '2', 'mark' ='73' }, { 'student' = 'C', 'subject' = '3', 'mark' ='97' }, ]; my $students; foreach my $row (@$sth) { #while (my $row = $sth-fetchrow_hashref) { $students-{$row-{'student'}}-{$row-{'subject'}} = $row-{'mark'}; } foreach my $student (sort keys %$students) { print $student, \t; foreach my $subject (sort keys %{$students-{$student}}) { print \t, $students-{$student}-{$subject}; } print \n; } I have simulated your select above with the data you provided, switch the Cforeach to the commented Cwhile to have it use the actual statement handle. You can use Cprintf or formats to get the columns to line up right. snip code = Is there any other way in which this could be coded efficiently. Regards Rohit There is always another way. Better is always debatable Some Lite reading: perldoc perllol perldoc perldsc perldoc perlreftut perldoc perlref http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner online. http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony/ X-UIDL: Q`!!QdS!aj8!D3'#! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Problem with subroutines with hash and var as input
Dear Sirs, I have the following code, that take Hash of Hash as an iput. Then I have function (see below) that takes a hash and a variable as input. This function will count the elements of secondary hashes and delete the hash, if it is below certain variable limit. So with this : my %new_hoh = reduce_hash(%hoh,3); it should return my %hoh = ( key2 = {A = 'foo', B = 'bar', C = 'qux'}, ); But my subroutine doesn't work as it should. Is there anything wrong with it? Yours again, Edward WIJAYA SINGAPORE __BEGIN__ use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my %hoh = ( key1 = { A = 'foo', B = 'bar',}, key2 = {A = 'foo', B = 'bar', C = 'qux'}, key3 = {A = 'foo',} ); my %new_hoh = reduce_hash(%hoh,3); print Dumper \%new_hoh; #---Subroutine that do the job--- sub reduce_hash { my (%HoH,$limit) = @_; foreach my $k ( keys %HoH ) { my $count = 0; for my $k2 ( keys %{ $HoH{$k} } ) { $count++; } if ($count $limit){ delete $HoH{$k}; } } return %HoH; } __END__ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: newbie problem with Mail::POP3Client;
I'm sure you've seen this one hundreds of times! Uh, nope. Which is really nice. I copied the following script, downloaded and installed the POP3Client module but it doesn't want to connect to an external POP3 server for me, for some reason. I have put in the correct pop3 server, username and password, at least the same ones that work for me and will connect Mozilla. Any thoughts about how to find the problem and/or debug? Did you turn on the DEBUG switch? There is a section in the docs that state that it will give an indication of errors. I copied your script, turned it on, saw that the connection was successful by login was not. I then attempted switching the AUTH_MODE for my connection to PASS (yes I know what this means, do you? If not, learn before doing so.) and everything then worked. It runs, but I get You have -1 messages The docs state that currently the only way to check for successful connection is to ask for the number of messages, with -1 indicating connection failure. I suspect 0 is success but empty, and 1 meaning success and with messages. Granted this is fairly annoying and I would think getting that switched is high on their list. I suspect the -1 means the variable has not been initialized or for some reason it will not connect to the server. -1 is initialization of the variable, just not a connection. TIA Jim snip code http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: newbie problem with Mail::POP3Client;
Thanks for this. I'm not completely new but haven't found any sort of comprehensive docs, only cryptic ones. Where might I find it? By debug switch do you mean the optional debug_flag ? No I haven't but about to. No idea what AUTH_MODE means, and my two oreilly perl books don't tell me either but I'll try and Google for it. Thanks, have moved on a little! Jim Did you turn on the DEBUG switch? There is a section in the docs that state that it will give an indication of errors. I copied your script, turned it on, saw that the connection was successful by login was not. I then attempted switching the AUTH_MODE for my connection to PASS (yes I know what this means, do you? If not, learn before doing so.) and everything then worked. It runs, but I get You have -1 messages The docs state that currently the only way to check for successful connection is to ask for the number of messages, with -1 indicating connection failure. I suspect 0 is success but empty, and 1 meaning success and with messages. Granted this is fairly annoying and I would think getting that switched is high on their list. I suspect the -1 means the variable has not been initialized or for some reason it will not connect to the server. -1 is initialization of the variable, just not a connection. TIA Jim snip code http://danconia.org -- == Jim Maas Ph.D. 29 Amber Close Earley, Reading, UK RG6 7ED 0118-935-3283 0771-985-8698 jamaas at btinternet dot com
Re: Problem with subroutines with hash and var as input
Dear Sirs, I have the following code, that take Hash of Hash as an iput. Then I have function (see below) that takes a hash and a variable as input. This function will count the elements of secondary hashes and delete the hash, if it is below certain variable limit. So with this : my %new_hoh = reduce_hash(%hoh,3); The above call will not work, because Perl flattens your hash (along with the 3) into a single argument list. You either need to set the order of arguments, and collect the hash at the end, or pass by reference. This is an FAQ, see, perldoc -q 'How can I pass' For more. it should return my %hoh = ( key2 = {A = 'foo', B = 'bar', C = 'qux'}, ); But my subroutine doesn't work as it should. Is there anything wrong with it? Yours again, Edward WIJAYA SINGAPORE __BEGIN__ use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my %hoh = ( key1 = { A = 'foo', B = 'bar',}, key2 = {A = 'foo', B = 'bar', C = 'qux'}, key3 = {A = 'foo',} ); my %new_hoh = reduce_hash(%hoh,3); Essentially the above becomes, my %new_hoh = reduce_hash(\%hoh, 3); print Dumper \%new_hoh; #---Subroutine that do the job--- sub reduce_hash { my (%HoH,$limit) = @_; And the above will stick everything in @_ into the hash. Instead it becomes, my ($HoH, $limit) = @_; And then you must dereference $HoH as a hash reference. foreach my $k ( keys %HoH ) { my $count = 0; for my $k2 ( keys %{ $HoH{$k} } ) { $count++; } if ($count $limit){ delete $HoH{$k}; } } return %HoH; } __END__ http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Problem with subroutines with hash and var as input
Edward Wijaya wrote: Dear Sirs, I have the following code, that take Hash of Hash as an iput. Then I have function (see below) that takes a hash and a variable as input. This function will count the elements of secondary hashes and delete the hash, if it is below certain variable limit. So with this : my %new_hoh = reduce_hash(%hoh,3); it should return my %hoh = ( key2 = {A = 'foo', B = 'bar', C = 'qux'}, ); But my subroutine doesn't work as it should. Is there anything wrong with it? Did you not see the warning message Odd number of elements in hash assignment? Because your code should produce that warning. __BEGIN__ use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my %hoh = ( key1 = { A = 'foo', B = 'bar',}, key2 = {A = 'foo', B = 'bar', C = 'qux'}, key3 = {A = 'foo',} ); my %new_hoh = reduce_hash(%hoh,3); print Dumper \%new_hoh; #---Subroutine that do the job--- sub reduce_hash { my (%HoH,$limit) = @_; You are assigning everything in @_ to %HoH and nothing to $limit. Either put the scalar first in the list or pass a reference to the original hash. foreach my $k ( keys %HoH ) { my $count = 0; for my $k2 ( keys %{ $HoH{$k} } ) { $count++; } if ($count $limit){ delete $HoH{$k}; } No need for $count or the second for loop: delete $HoH{ $k } if keys %{ $HoH{ $k } } $limit; } return %HoH; } __END__ John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: newbie problem with Mail::POP3Client;
Please bottom post Thanks for this. I'm not completely new but haven't found any sort of comprehensive docs, only cryptic ones. Where might I find it? Documentation for modules available on CPAN are always available online in a quite readable format, for example, http://search.cpan.org/~sdowd/Mail-POP3Client-2.16/POP3Client.pm Also you can access most modules documentation after installation by issuing, perldoc module name perldoc Mail::POP3Client By debug switch do you mean the optional debug_flag ? No I haven't but about to. Well yes, but it is 'DEBUG', and is passed to the constructor. No idea what AUTH_MODE means, and my two oreilly perl books don't tell me either but I'll try and Google for it. AUTH_MODE sets the mode that the POP client will use to send the password. The POP3 server on the other end may or may not support encrypted (actually hashed but that's another topic) passwords in which case the AUTH_MODE may need to be set to tell the client to send the password in clear text. Setting AUTH_MODE to BEST seems to allow the most flexibility. Thanks, have moved on a little! Jim No problem. http://danconia.org Did you turn on the DEBUG switch? There is a section in the docs that state that it will give an indication of errors. I copied your script, turned it on, saw that the connection was successful by login was not. I then attempted switching the AUTH_MODE for my connection to PASS (yes I know what this means, do you? If not, learn before doing so.) and everything then worked. It runs, but I get You have -1 messages The docs state that currently the only way to check for successful connection is to ask for the number of messages, with -1 indicating connection failure. I suspect 0 is success but empty, and 1 meaning success and with messages. Granted this is fairly annoying and I would think getting that switched is high on their list. I suspect the -1 means the variable has not been initialized or for some reason it will not connect to the server. -1 is initialization of the variable, just not a connection. TIA Jim snip code http://danconia.org -- == Jim Maas Ph.D. 29 Amber Close Earley, Reading, UK RG6 7ED 0118-935-3283 0771-985-8698 jamaas at btinternet dot com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: How to accumulate Hashes of Array value with the same key?
$VAR1 = { 'key1' = ['A',1],['B',2],['C',2]}; That isn't going to do what you think it is... What you're asking for there is to use the ['B', 2] array reference as a hash key... $VAR1 = { 'ARRAY(0x804ca54)' = ['C',2], 'key1' = ['A',1] }; In order to get close to what I think you're trying to describe, you'd have to have another array reference and stuff those three arrays in there. $HoA = ( key1 = [ ['A',1], ['B',2], ['C',3] ]); Which is clunky when you want to detect duplicates, which is why I suggested the hash. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: How to accumulate Hashes of Array value with the same key?
On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:51:50 -0400, Dave Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $VAR1 = { 'key1' = ['A',1],['B',2],['C',2]}; That isn't going to do what you think it is... What you're asking for there is to use the ['B', 2] array reference as a hash key... $VAR1 = { 'ARRAY(0x804ca54)' = ['C',2], 'key1' = ['A',1] }; Actually, the string representation of the ['B',2] is what gets used, so the actual ['B',2] array gets thrown away. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: How to accumulate Hashes of Array value with the same key?
On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:51:50 -0400, Dave Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $HoA = ( key1 = [ ['A',1], ['B',2], ['C',3] ]); Which is clunky when you want to detect duplicates, which is why I suggested the hash. I think you are right Dave. I will follow your suggestion. Regards, Edward WIJAYA -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news.
On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 09:21:45 -0400 (EDT), Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Nicolay A. Vasiliev wrote: To Randal and Chris. You all don't understand me. There is a misunderstanding, but I'm not sure that it's Randal me. CGI is a module, earlier wrote and stored in a separate files. I don't mean such objects. And Python objects live where -- the sky? The stars? Python and Ruby don't write the code for me. But look at this Python code: s = I am Perl guru; new_s = s.replace(Perl, Python); No, you're using Python's built in string operators. Perl has them too: $s = I am a Perl guru; ( $new_s = $s ) =~ s/perl/python/; Remark, no additional modules. Huh? Remark, no addition modules. You're using methods defined by modules that live with Python. Why bother splitting this hair? It's a distinction without a difference. By the way, these languages have people friendly exceptions handling ;) with try-except in Python and begin-rescue in Ruby. You haven't come across eval{...} yet, have ya? The differences among Perl, Python, and Ruby are mostly semantic -- each of them can accomplish all the same tasks, but they wrap up the way to implement these tasks in ever-so-slightly different syntax. But so what? Any of them are *much* more pleasant to work with than Java, C/C++, or *shudder* Visual Basic. -- Chris Devers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response Just as a building contractor shows up to the job site with a tool box full of conventional and power tools, the customer will only ask questions regarding his capability, when he shows up with only a screwdriver. Paul Cox, President Genesys Software Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: newbie problem with Mail::POP3Client;
Hi Wiggins, It works! Thanks a bunch. I'm no computer newbie but am new to Perl, and where does one get started? It was the AUTH_MODE, which had to be set to 'PASS'. The machine it is connecting to is a Sun running Linux, but I don't know the flavour or what mailer. This is just a demo/prototype but will try to upgrade this security in future. I know the module installed the MAIL::POP3Client documentation when it installed but my bash just says no such command as perldoc ... Another challenge! Thanks Jim Wiggins d Anconia wrote: Please bottom post Thanks for this. I'm not completely new but haven't found any sort of comprehensive docs, only cryptic ones. Where might I find it? Documentation for modules available on CPAN are always available online in a quite readable format, for example, http://search.cpan.org/~sdowd/Mail-POP3Client-2.16/POP3Client.pm Also you can access most modules documentation after installation by issuing, perldoc module name perldoc Mail::POP3Client By debug switch do you mean the optional debug_flag ? No I haven't but about to. Well yes, but it is 'DEBUG', and is passed to the constructor. No idea what AUTH_MODE means, and my two oreilly perl books don't tell me either but I'll try and Google for it. AUTH_MODE sets the mode that the POP client will use to send the password. The POP3 server on the other end may or may not support encrypted (actually hashed but that's another topic) passwords in which case the AUTH_MODE may need to be set to tell the client to send the password in clear text. Setting AUTH_MODE to BEST seems to allow the most flexibility. Thanks, have moved on a little! Jim No problem. http://danconia.org Did you turn on the DEBUG switch? There is a section in the docs that state that it will give an indication of errors. I copied your script, turned it on, saw that the connection was successful by login was not. I then attempted switching the AUTH_MODE for my connection to PASS (yes I know what this means, do you? If not, learn before doing so.) and everything then worked. It runs, but I get You have -1 messages The docs state that currently the only way to check for successful connection is to ask for the number of messages, with -1 indicating connection failure. I suspect 0 is success but empty, and 1 meaning success and with messages. Granted this is fairly annoying and I would think getting that switched is high on their list. I suspect the -1 means the variable has not been initialized or for some reason it will not connect to the server. -1 is initialization of the variable, just not a connection. TIA Jim snip code http://danconia.org -- == Jim Maas Ph.D. 29 Amber Close Earley, Reading, UK RG6 7ED 0118-935-3283 0771-985-8698 jamaas at btinternet dot com -- == Jim Maas Ph.D. 29 Amber Close Earley, Reading, UK RG6 7ED 0118-935-3283 0771-985-8698 jamaas at btinternet dot com
Re: substitution and assignment fun ( was RE: Becoming Disenheartened )
No doubt please, I know about regular expressions and Python/Ruby support them fully. I only showed the approach of method calling. There could be not replace method. William M West wrote: Python and Ruby don't write the code for me. But look at this Python code: s = I am Perl guru; new_s = s.replace(Perl, Python); i always had trouble doing this in perl- just worked around it- then realized that this shouldn't be hard when reading your post... so i played... $s = I am Perl guru; $new_s = ($s =~ s/erl/ython/); print $s \t $new_s \n; #oops! Prints I am a Python guru 1 #but ($new_s = $s) =~ s/erl/ython/; print $s \t $new_s \n; #prints I am a Perl guru I am a Python guru Perl can be surprisingly intuitive- using precedence rules to get this done makes good sense to me :) Huh? Remark, no addition modules. *shrug* eh- go figure willy http://www.hackswell.com/corenth -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Problem with subroutines with hash and var as input
On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 07:41:43 -0700, John W. Krahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, No need for $count or the second for loop: John, your one-liner certainly makes my sub looks better. Either put the scalar first in the list or pass a reference to the original hash. Now, I also tried with pass by reference my ($HoH,$limit) = @_; foreach my $k ( keys %$HoH ) { # This two don't work delete $HoH{ $k } if keys %${ $HoH{ $k } } $limit;# What's wrong with my deref? } return %HoH; What's wrong with my deref? Regards Edward WIJAYA SINGAPORE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: substitution and assignment fun ( was RE: Becoming Disenheartened )
On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Nicolay A. Vasiliev wrote: No doubt please, I know about regular expressions and Python/Ruby support them fully. I only showed the approach of method calling. There could be not replace method. You're arguing about semantics, but you concede that the functionality you're describing exists just as succinctly in both languages. So, again -- so what ? It's a difference without a distinction. Python Ruby implement these operations with a .method() syntax. Perl generally implements them with a function() syntax. The two sides are far more similar than different. Who cares? -- Chris Devers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
RE: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news.
-Original Message- From: Nicolay A. Vasiliev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 2:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news. To Randal and Chris. You all don't understand me. CGI is a module, earlier wrote and stored in a separate files. I don't mean such objects. Python and Ruby don't write the code for me. But look at this Python code: s = I am Perl guru; new_s = s.replace(Perl, Python); With this willing to treat everything as object you end up with Ugly code such as the following: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/CgiScripts #!/usr/bin/env python import cgi print Content-type: text/html print print print html headtitleSample CGI Script/title/head body h3 Sample CGI Script /h3 form = cgi.FieldStorage() if form.has_key( message ): message = form[message].value else: message = (no message) print pPrevious message: %s/p pform:/p form method=post action=index.cgi pmessage: input type=text name=message//p /form /body /html % message That I let the beginners-list to show you how it can be nicer written in Perl :) José. DISCLAIMER This e-mail and any attachment thereto may contain information which is confidential and/or protected by intellectual property rights and are intended for the sole use of the recipient(s) named above. Any use of the information contained herein (including, but not limited to, total or partial reproduction, communication or distribution in any form) by other persons than the designated recipient(s) is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender either by telephone or by e-mail and delete the material from any computer. Thank you for your cooperation. For further information about Proximus mobile phone services please see our website at http://www.proximus.be or refer to any Proximus agent. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Passing options to command in a system call
Hi, I try to call wget using system like this: system(wget -O /dev/null, http://janeden.org/test/file.txt;); This does not work: Can't exec wget -O /dev/null: No such file or directory at ./wgetrec.pl line 6. Ok, so how about this: system(wget, -O /dev/null http://janeden.org/test/file.txt;); No go: wget: missing URL Without additional options, system(wget, http://janeden.org/test/file.txt;); works fine. How can I pass an option to system's first argument in a setting like this? (I know I can use a module instead of calling wget, but this is a more general issue.) Thanks, Jan -- If all else fails read the instructions. - Donald Knuth -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
RE: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news.
I won't even reply to the person that said, perl is old news. And that everyone talks about Python. That is just stupid. Most people either talk about C, C++, or Java. Then comes perl. Perl is still way more talked about than Python In my Experience. Perl makes things much simpler. NYIMI Jose (BMB) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Nicolay A. Vasiliev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 2:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news. To Randal and Chris. You all don't understand me. CGI is a module, earlier wrote and stored in a separate files. I don't mean such objects. Python and Ruby don't write the code for me. But look at this Python code: s = I am Perl guru; new_s = s.replace(Perl, Python); With this willing to treat everything as object you end up with Ugly code such as the following: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/CgiScripts #!/usr/bin/env python import cgi print Content-type: text/html print print print Sample CGI Script form = cgi.FieldStorage() if form.has_key( message ): message = form[message].value else: message = (no message) print Previous message: %s form: message: [input] % message That I let the beginners-list to show you how it can be nicer written in Perl :) José. DISCLAIMER This e-mail and any attachment thereto may contain information which is confidential and/or protected by intellectual property rights and are intended for the sole use of the recipient(s) named above. Any use of the information contained herein (including, but not limited to, total or partial reproduction, communication or distribution in any form) by other persons than the designated recipient(s) is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender either by telephone or by e-mail and delete the material from any computer. Thank you for your cooperation. For further information about Proximus mobile phone services please see our website at http://www.proximus.be or refer to any Proximus agent. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Do you Yahoo!? vote.yahoo.com - Register online to vote today!
Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news.
On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 11:04 +0200, Gabor Urban wrote: Hi guys, this thread seems to expand into something unworthy of this mailing list. You can not compare a cup of tea with a horse, these are two totally different things. Don't be ridiculous, of course they don't compare, a horse is _way_ more useful than a cup of tea, horses plow fields, they provide transportation, and when attached to a Hansom Cab, they can even get men laid! A cup of tea has none of these features. So please, no more disparaging horses by comparing them to cups of tea, this sort of madness _must_ stop! --uv signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
RE: Passing options to command in a system call
Jan Eden wrote: Hi, I try to call wget using system like this: system(wget -O /dev/null, http://janeden.org/test/file.txt;); This does not work: Can't exec wget -O /dev/null: No such file or directory at ./wgetrec.pl line 6. Ok, so how about this: system(wget, -O /dev/null http://janeden.org/test/file.txt;); No go: wget: missing URL Without additional options, system(wget, http://janeden.org/test/file.txt;); works fine. How can I pass an option to system's first argument in a setting like this? This is explained in 'perldoc -f system' You either need to separate all the args yourself, or pass a single string to system so the shell can split the args. You're trying to do both. either: system(wget -O /dev/null http://janeden.org/test/file.txt;) or: system('wget', '-O', '/dev/null', 'http://janeden.org/test/file.txt') -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Passing options to command in a system call
I haven't used the wget program before, but try adding a comma after your -O. I did that and I got it working. Jan Eden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hi, I try to call wget using system like this: system(wget -O /dev/null, http://janeden.org/test/file.txt;); This does not work: Can't exec wget -O /dev/null: No such file or directory at ./wgetrec.pl line 6. Ok, so how about this: system(wget, -O /dev/null http://janeden.org/test/file.txt;); No go: wget: missing URL Without additional options, system(wget, http://janeden.org/test/file.txt;); works fine. How can I pass an option to system's first argument in a setting like this? (I know I can use a module instead of calling wget, but this is a more general issue.) Thanks, Jan -- If all else fails read the instructions. - Donald Knuth -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news.
On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 11:04 +0200, Gabor Urban wrote: Hi guys, this thread seems to expand into something unworthy of this mailing list. You can not compare a cup of tea with a horse, these are two totally different things. Don't be ridiculous, of course they don't compare, a horse is _way_ more useful than a cup of tea, horses plow fields, they provide transportation, and when attached to a Hansom Cab, they can even get men laid! A cup of tea has none of these features. So please, no more disparaging horses by comparing them to cups of tea, this sort of madness _must_ stop! --uv Teach a man to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. Careful some of the Briton's are probably pretty sensitive over their tea ;-) I think this thread has definitely deteriorated. http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news.
Chris Devers wrote: CGI is a module, earlier wrote and stored in a separate files. I don't mean such objects. And Python objects live where -- the sky? The stars? To create $cgi = new CGI you should make declaration use CGI, shouldn't you? I meant only this Python and Ruby don't write the code for me. But look at this Python code: s = I am Perl guru; new_s = s.replace(Perl, Python); No, you're using Python's built in string operators. Perl has them too: Python doc quotation: 2.3.6.1 String Methods ... replace( old, new[, count]) Return a copy of the string with all occurrences of substring old replaced by new. If the optional argument count is given, only the first count occurrences are replaced. $s = I am a Perl guru; ( $new_s = $s ) =~ s/perl/python/; Remark, no additional modules. Agreed, but this is RE approach. This is supported by Python/Perl, but I meant another thing (hope you understand me). You haven't come across eval{...} yet, have ya? The differences among Perl, Python, and Ruby are mostly semantic -- each of them can accomplish all the same tasks, but they wrap up the way to implement these tasks in ever-so-slightly different syntax. But so what? Agreed. I am against the blacking of these languages expressed by Mr. Randal. -- - Nicolay A. Vasiliev http://www.spamliquidator.com - Real spam fighter http://www.soft411.com - Excellent soft archive -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Problem with subroutines with hash and var as input
Edward Wijaya wrote: On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 07:41:43 -0700, John W. Krahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Either put the scalar first in the list or pass a reference to the original hash. Now, I also tried with pass by reference my ($HoH,$limit) = @_; foreach my $k ( keys %$HoH ) { # This two don't work delete $HoH{ $k } if keys %${ $HoH{ $k } } $limit;# What's wrong with my deref? Since $HoH now contains a reference to a hash you have to dereference it properly. delete $HoH-{ $k } if keys %${ $HoH-{ $k } } $limit; } return %HoH; return %$HoH; But you don't really have to return the hash now as you are using a reference to the original hash which means that the original hash is modified by your subroutine. John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Passing options to command in a system call
On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 17:41:50 +0200, Jan Eden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hello! SNIP How can I pass an option to system's first argument in a setting like this? (I know I can use a module instead of calling wget, but this is a more general issue.) Thanks, Jan -- This is ironic: If all else fails read the instructions. - Donald Knuth First, check out 'perldoc -f system' The answer to you question is in the first paragraph! Second, try passing EACH argument as a seperate value: ((WARNING: I don't have wget, so I couldn't test this!)) system(wget, -O, /dev/null, http://janeden.org/test/file.txt;); --Errin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Problem with subroutines with hash and var as input
On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 08:58:44 -0700, John W. Krahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since $HoH now contains a reference to a hash you have to dereference it properly. delete $HoH-{ $k } if keys %${ $HoH-{ $k } } $limit; return %$HoH; I apologize for insisting John. Tried as you suggested: 64: sub reduce_hash2 { 65:my ($HoH,$limit) = @_; 66:foreach my $k ( keys %${HoH} ) { 67: delete $HoH-{ $k } if keys %${ $HoH-{ $k } } $limit; 68:} 69: return %$HoH; 70: } with this command: my %new_hoh = reduce_hash2(\%hoh,2); Gives error: Not a SCALAR reference at testcode.pl line 67. Regards, Edward WIJAYA SINGAPORE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
RE: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news.
With this willing to treat everything as object you end up with Ugly code such as the following: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/CgiScripts (code snipped to save space) i found the Python script to be very readable- i am far more comfortable with Perl syntax, but it worked for me. I think there are two arguments which can be made here- both good. 1. code syntax (limitation/flexibility/readability) - how languages differ and language preference. 2. Language strengths and weaknesses (outside of syntax). My impression was that OO in Perl has historically been fraught with CPU overhead - this will change in Perl 6? (argument number 2) I like the functional() as apposed to the menthod.syntax() because i can more easily visualise the path that data takes through the code. makes my life easier (argument number 1) for me something like $new_s = change($s, $string); just works better for me. anyway, the advantages of encapsulation are easily produced in functional() code with good coding practices. of course, now we're talking about meta topics as apposed to particular Perl questions- but I think the argument is worth while. willy http://www.hackswell.com/corenth -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news.
Nicolay == Nicolay A Vasiliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nicolay Python and Ruby don't write the code for me. But look at this Python code: Nicolay s = I am Perl guru; Nicolay new_s = s.replace(Perl, Python); $s = I am a Perl guru; ($new_s = $s) =~ s/Perl/Python/; No additional modules. Nicolay By the way, these languages have people friendly exceptions handling ;) with try-except in Python and begin-rescue in Ruby. Just like Perl, again. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Passing options to command in a system call
Thanks, Errin, Doug and Bob, Errin Larsen wrote on 01.10.2004: On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 17:41:50 +0200, Jan Eden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I pass an option to system's first argument in a setting like this? This is ironic: If all else fails read the instructions. - Donald Knuth First, check out 'perldoc -f system' The answer to you question is in the first paragraph! I *did* read the perldoc, of course. But I obviously misunderstood it and carefully avoided *both* working combination (single argument or four arguments to system). I thought that using three arguments (command, options, url) would cause Perl to execute wget -O /dev/null http://janeden.org Obviously, it only does this when getting the whole string split on whitespace *or* in one piece. Should have tried before wasting your time. Sorry. - Jan -- How many Microsoft engineers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None. They just redefine dark as the new standard. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news.
CGI is a module, earlier wrote and stored in a separate files. I don't mean such objects. And Python objects live where -- the sky? The stars? To create $cgi = new CGI you should make declaration use CGI, shouldn't you? I meant only this Err, you keep arguing about pointless things: #!/usr/local/bin/python import cgi cgi.test() ... Does cgi.test() still work without the import cgi ? So you have to do basically the equivalent of use CGI to be able to use the cgi object and therefore have access to all its functions. And if you say, Well I don't have to do my $cgi = new CGI so its better is like me saying that perl is better because my shebang line takes up less file space that your python path. It's just pointless. Python and Ruby don't write the code for me. But look at this Python code: s = I am Perl guru; new_s = s.replace(Perl, Python); No, you're using Python's built in string operators. Perl has them too: Python doc quotation: 2.3.6.1 String Methods ... replace( old, new[, count]) Return a copy of the string with all occurrences of substring old replaced by new. If the optional argument count is given, only the first count occurrences are replaced. $s = I am a Perl guru; ( $new_s = $s ) =~ s/perl/python/; Remark, no additional modules. Agreed, but this is RE approach. This is supported by Python/Perl, but I meant another thing (hope you understand me). No I don't understand. Who cares if you do a regex or a built in function/method that does the regex for you? You're arguments are all like My dad can beat up your dad when the truth is, in different circumstances either dad could beat up either dad. Its better to you because you understand it, which doesn't make it better or worse. In my opinion and experience Perl does everything I've ever needed to do programming wise, its easy to learn and expand, and has been easier to do that with than any other language I've played with. Your experience may be different. So in that sense my dad can beat up your dad, but in your experience it would seem your dad can beat up my dad :) So to the OP: chin up! Python (or any other language) isn't going to replace Perl (and Perl is not going to replace any other languages), especially with lame arguments for Python like we've seen here ;p Nobody's mentioned Moto yet :) Its pretty cool Just my .02 :) Lee.M - JupiterHost.Net (By the way we offer Python as one of our features to appeal to more customers, can't we all just get along ;p) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: sum a column
Rmck wrote: Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: Rmck wrote: Im not sure how to sum up the column... I tried by using the field and * it by the increment. That awkward attempt seems to be made by someone who hasn't a clue about programming. I have written every part of my script, The script author does have a clue about programming. This is a beginner's mailing list. I'm sorry my script is not at your level, I'm learning. Please show us that you are learning! Prove that I'm wrong by showing us how you applied Wiggins' helpful advice in your code. I think telling someone on a beginners mailing list that they don't have a clue is inappropriate. But I didn't say that about the script author, and you claim to be the script author, so what's the problem? -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
cgi scripts
Hello, I am trying to send form data via a UNIX CGI Perl script to a MS Access database. The form and the CGI script are both on a secure web server. The unix script must be used to process the credit card information from the form. I intend to use the POST method of sending the form data to the CGI script. If the credit card is rejected for any reason, then the UNIX CGI script will send an error message to the user's browser and stop processing things. If the credit card has been successfully processed, I need to strip out the credit card info (using perl regular expressions or something else) and pass the remainder of the data to a MS ASP script on a Windows server which will insert the data in to the database. My question: How do I get the form data to the MS window ASP script using the POST method? I have tried using the GET method successfully ( print Location: http://ip_address?ENV{'QUERY_STRING;'} ) but I don't want any data in the URL. Lawrence Adamiec Unix Manager Rm. 525B 565 W. Adams St. Chicago-Kent College of Law Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, Illinois 312-906-5301 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
RE: sum a column
But I didn't say that about the script author, and you claim to be the script author, so what's the problem? -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl looks like a communications problem... The script author does have a clue about programming. is easy to misread as saying does not if you pass your eyes over it quickly...i did that the first time i saw it... *shrug* willy http://www.hackswell.com/corenth -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news.
I didn't mean CGI, only standart types. JupiterHost.Net wrote: CGI is a module, earlier wrote and stored in a separate files. I don't mean such objects. And Python objects live where -- the sky? The stars? To create $cgi = new CGI you should make declaration use CGI, shouldn't you? I meant only this Err, you keep arguing about pointless things: #!/usr/local/bin/python import cgi cgi.test() ... Does cgi.test() still work without the import cgi ? -- - Nicolay A. Vasiliev http://www.spamliquidator.com - Real spam fighter http://www.soft411.com - Excellent soft archive -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: cgi scripts
Larry Adamiec wrote: How do I get the form data to the MS window ASP script using the POST method? I have tried using the GET method successfully ( print Location: http://ip_address?ENV{'QUERY_STRING;'} ) but I don't want any data in the URL. Check out the libwww-perl package, e.g. LWP::UserAgent. -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Check for valid email address
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Gunnar == Gunnar Hjalmarsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gunnar Or: This is a function I'm using in a couple of programs to check the Gunnar syntax, and that I believe is sufficient in practice: Gunnar sub emailsyntax { Gunnar return 1 unless Gunnarmy ($localpart, $domain) = shift =~ /^(.+)@(.+)/; Gunnar my $char = '[^()@,;:\/\s\'|.]'; Gunnar return 1 unless $localpart =~ /^$char+(?:\.$char+)*$/ or Gunnar$localpart =~ /^[^,]+$/; Gunnar $domain =~ /^$char+(?:\.$char+)+$/ ? 0 : 1; Gunnar } No, that incorrectly invalidates fred[EMAIL PROTECTED] which is a valid working address I never claimed the function to be perfect, and I said in practice. Noone is using such an address in real life unless they are asking for trouble; I'm sure you don't either. Randal, you have that address only to demonstrate shortcomings in various attempts to check email syntaxes, right? ;-) Just use Email::Valid. It has the right idea. I suggested that also, but the reason I don't use it in those two programs I mentioned is that the programs are publicly available for downloading, and I always think twice before making such programs dependent on non-standard modules. -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news.
Nicolay A. Vasiliev wrote: I didn't mean CGI, only standart types. Everyone is just using your own examples as examples of why your arguments are moot :) That's the last .02 I'm spending on this crazy thread :) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Check for valid email address
Gunnar == Gunnar Hjalmarsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gunnar I never claimed the function to be perfect, and I said in Gunnar practice. Noone is using such an address in real life unless they are Gunnar asking for trouble; I'm sure you don't either. A frequent poster of past to comp.lang.perl.misc, whom I've met a few times when I was hanging out at NY.pm, uses the Email address of [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I'm planning on shifting all stonehenge email addresses to something with in them soon, to prevent them from being scraped wherever they appear. So yes, you better darn well support 822, or you'll upset a lot more than my toy user. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news.
William == William M West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: William My impression was that OO in Perl has historically been fraught with William CPU overhead - this will change in Perl 6? (argument number 2) FUD FUD FUD. *All* late binding takes a bit of time. Perl caches what it can. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
How TO CREATE RUNTIME CONTROLS
Hi All, I want to create runtime controls on the same webpage. For example, my webpage will contain a textbox, a hyperlink a submit button. I want to achieve the following functionality : That is, if i click on the hyperlink, a new textboxes should be placed below the first one, if i click the second time on the hyperlink, another new textbox will be appended/placed below the 2nd one...and so on... Then on submit button, a new page is called where the data will be displaced which the user enters. kindly help me, thanks in advance, atul. ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response