RE: Escaping a plus sign

2006-05-31 Thread Ken Lehman
Is it the if ($MGMTCMNT =~ /$MGMTNM/) part that is tripping you up? I believe you could change it to if ($MGMTCMNT =~ /\Q$MGMTNM\E/) if you need to keep the regular expression. Another idea might be to change it to if ( ($start = index($MGMTCMNT, "$MGMTNM (")) > 0) { -Original Message-

howto: array index inside a foreach loop

2002-11-22 Thread Ken Lehman
Say I have a foreach loop that I used to modify elements when they match a pattern that I am searching for, but there is one special case where I get a match and I need the index for that element. Can I get that index or do I have to go with a for() loop. If this can be done how would I use it? Tha

RE: howto: array index inside a foreach loop

2002-11-22 Thread Ken Lehman
ECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 4:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: howto: array index inside a foreach loop Ken Lehman wrote: > Say I have a foreach loop that I used to modify elements when they match a > pattern that I am searching for, but there is one special case where I ge

does perl have boolean variables?

2002-12-04 Thread Ken Lehman
I can't say: #!/yadayada/perl -w use strict; $seen = true; if( $seen ) { #whatever } else { #something different } I get a bareword error, I'm using perl 5.004_04. Does perl support booleans like this, do I need to use a package? Thanks in advance -Ken ---

RE: include .pl in html

2002-12-11 Thread Ken Lehman
This works where I am at, you could give it a try -Original Message- From: Adam Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 11:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: include .pl in html Hi, can anyone help me, i want to include the ouput of a perl file within an h

HOWTO use system call on windows with a space in the path

2002-12-11 Thread Ken Lehman
I would like to write a perl script for windows that in the right situation fires off another program, the problem is I can't get it to work using system or exec calls. The file is in the program files directory I tried system("c:\program files\etc...") and some variations but I can't get it to wo

catch kill -9 from unix command prompt

2002-12-17 Thread Ken Lehman
Is there a way for my program to execute a few lines of code before dying when it is sent a kill -9 from a unix shell? The book I have says no, I don't want to ignore the signal, just some clean up. Thanks. -Ken -

RE: Cgi Win xp Perl

2003-01-07 Thread Ken Lehman
Try putting the -T after the -w at the top of your perl script, make sure that your script ends in .cgi and your iis is setup to run scripts and change print $q->header ("text/plain"); to print $q->header ("text/html"); -Original Message- From: Paul Kraus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] S

RE: Cgi Win xp Perl

2003-01-07 Thread Ken Lehman
cgi mailing list. -Ken -Original Message- From: Paul Kraus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 3:11 PM To: 'Ken Lehman'; 'Perl' Subject: RE: Cgi Win xp Perl It still just displays the contents of my script rather then running it. Do I need to some

RE: Perl book

2003-01-15 Thread Ken Lehman
Pink is first edition, blue is second edition, i think there is a third edition out now, may as well go for the latest and greatest -Ken -Original Message- From: Robbie Staufer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Perl boo

How do I test a variable to see if it is a scalar or a hash?

2003-01-23 Thread Ken Lehman
How do I test a variable to see what type of variable it is(scalar, array, hash, etc...)? What I am trying to accomplish is I have a hash and some values are scalar data and some values are nested hashes and I need a way to tell the difference. Book or web site references are welcome, thanks in adv

RE: Formatting Variables.

2003-02-11 Thread Ken Lehman
Have you tried using printf? -Original Message- From: Ramón Chávez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 9:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Formatting Variables. Hello boys and girls. Is there a way to give format to a Variable. I mean, if I don't want to get

Can I set '$!' ?

2003-12-16 Thread Ken Lehman
I want to be able to return a true or false value from a function in a module and populate the $! variable with the specific errors. Is this possible? Is there documentation on how to do this? I can find docs on how to use $! but not how to set it. Thanks for any help -Ken ---

howto: open/create a file as executable

2003-03-28 Thread Ken Lehman
Is it possible to open/create a file with open that does not exist and give it a umask that makes it executable, say for the purpose of generating shell scripts? For example, say open OUT_FILE, MAGIC_UMASK, "/scripts/new_script"; where the current umask is 2. Is the only option to chmod the file

hex to dec and dec to hex

2003-06-11 Thread Ken Lehman
Is there an easy way to go back and forth between decimal and hex in perl. I know of the hex function which solves my hex to dec problem but how about a dec->hex function or module? I need the value which is why printf isn't working for me. Thanks for any help. -Ken ---

HOWTO:Dynamically getting all of the global variables and their v alues

2003-07-01 Thread Ken Lehman
I would like to write a function that will get all the global variables that are declared in my script plus their values( which will all be strings if that matters). This is what I have so far: my ( $varName, $globValue ); while ( ($varName, $globValue) = each %main:: ) { print "\$$varName $glo