Re: getting values from a called subroutine
to mr meltzer, mr cline, and mr mccoy of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list: Thank You!!! that was it! i remember looking at return function before, briefly, but for some reason had thought it was only for working within control loops... please, don't ask me why, it seems stupid to me, too, now... but yep, that was it. in fact, that was the final piece of the puzzle... thanks to you you guys, my program is now running with all the basic functions i wanted in it (more will come in later releases, i'm sure), and without any errors. it isn't pretty. in fact, it could be called down right ugly (both the interface and the code), but after a couple of months pulling my hair out over a problem, solving it, then only to come accross another, it can wait a little while... woo-hoo! break out the champaigne, slice up the tallcake, and watch the female dancers pop out of it (maybe not in that order, though). -- /\--- Adam Theo --- //\\ Theoretic Solutions (www.Theoretic.com) /\ Software, Politics, and Advocacy /--||--\ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: Adam Theo 2000 ||jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 3617306 || Did you ever get the feeling the world was a tuxedo, || and you were a pair of brown shoes?
Re: beginner here - with basic cgi trouble
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Chip Wiegand wrote: - server log - [error](2)No such file or directory. exec of /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/ formparser.cgi failed [error][192.168.1.8] Premature end of script headers: /usr/local/apache/ cgi-bin/formparser.cgi - I see the file DOES exist as formparser.cgi in the directory path shown in the errors. - I run perl -c formparser.cgi and get the response Syntax OK It seems to me that the problem isn't that it can't find formparser.cgi, but there is some other file that formparser.cgi depends on to run that can't be found (the perl executable perhaps?). Checking the syntax isn't enough -- you need to see if the program will *run*. If it's executable, you should be able to at least do ./formparser.cgi and see where it's failing. -- Brett http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/ Gibble, Gobble, we ACCEPT YOU ...
Re: Regexp: Grouping and replacing with an unknown number of groups
Thanks,
I know there are plenty of wonderful Date manipulators (Date::Calc would
simply my life unimaginably) but I am still waiting to hear back from our
Legal Dept. regarding the use of the modules. I know that I should be
allowed to use them considering the modules found as part of perl often
come from CPAN anyways yet I am stuck in the mud of bureaucracy. :)
-
Craig Moynes
Internship Student
netCC Development
IBM Global Services, Canada
Tel: (905) 316-3486
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Matt Cauthorn
mattcauth@yah To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
oo.com cc:
Subject: Re: Regexp: Grouping and
replacing with an unknown number of
05/08/01 09:38groups
PM
Not sure if this will help you at this point, but I strongly recommend the
Date::Manip module for anything involving parsing dates. It does everything
you can
imagine with dates and more. Tell it to parse your dates, and boom you can
print
them however you want, get differences, etc. There are plenty of other date
mods on
CPAN as well, but I've used Date::Manip and can say that it is awesome.
Check it
out.
--- Craig Moynes/Markham/IBM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Continuing with the problems for my 'date formatting' script.
I am reading in a complete record from a logfile. I check to see if the
regexp matches to something inside the record.
Then I want to find the what each grouped mini-regexp matched up with in
the monster one at the bottom of the email.
The number of mini-regexp differs depending on the date format line the
user enters. So i find out how make keys there are (thus the number of
mini-regexps)
and try to construct a string that will print out whatever the
mini-regexp
matched up with. But of course it doesn't work ;)
snip
$completeRec = [Wed Aug 2 16:00:02 2000] [notice] caught SIGTERM,
shutting down;
my $numOfKeys = keys %{$self-{DF_TOKENS}};
for ( $counter = 1; $counter $numOfKeys; $counter++)
{
$replaceString.=\$$counter ;
}
my $values = $completeRec;
$values =~ s/.*$self-{DF_REGEXP}.*/$replaceString/g;
print $values\n;
code done
Where $self-{DF_REGEXP} = something like :
(?-xism:((?-xism:Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat|Sun))) (?-xism:((?
-xism:Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec))) (?-xism:((?
-xism:
[ ][1-9]|[1-2][0-9]|3[0-1]))) (?-xism:((?-xism:[01][0-9]|2[0-3]))):(?
-xism:
((?-xism:[0-5][0-9]))):(?-xism:((?-xism:[0-5][0-9]))) (?-xism:((?
-xism:[0-9]{4})))
This prints out something like:
$1 $2 $3 $4 $5
for each record. Which is not to useful ;)
However if I change the $replaceString to $1 $2 $3 etc it works
perfectly.
So what are my options guys and gals ?
-
Craig Moynes
Internship Student
netCC Development
IBM Global Services, Canada
Tel: (905) 316-3486
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Re: beginner here - with basic cgi trouble
Brett W. McCoy wrote: On Tue, 8 May 2001, Chip Wiegand wrote: - server log - [error](2)No such file or directory. exec of /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/ formparser.cgi failed [error][192.168.1.8] Premature end of script headers: /usr/local/apache/ cgi-bin/formparser.cgi - I see the file DOES exist as formparser.cgi in the directory path shown in the errors. - I run perl -c formparser.cgi and get the response Syntax OK It seems to me that the problem isn't that it can't find formparser.cgi, but there is some other file that formparser.cgi depends on to run that can't be found (the perl executable perhaps?). Checking the syntax isn't enough -- you need to see if the program will *run*. If it's executable, you should be able to at least do ./formparser.cgi and see where it's failing. -- Brett http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/ Gibble, Gobble, we ACCEPT YOU ... Chip, Briet is right. But also do perl -d ./formpargser.cgi that will put you in debug state and should bring up a prompt. See below: Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.0402 Emacs support available. Enter h or `h h' for help. main::(suggestion.cgi:6): $mailprog = '/usr/lib/sendmail'; DB1 The DB1 is a prompt and by type and N means to step thru the code watch it execute. That may also help trouble shoot the problem further. -- *** Phillip B. Bruce *** *** http://pbbruce.home.mindspring.com *** *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** *** *** Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than*** *** you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you*** *** is a maniac. - George Carlin***
IDE for perl?
I'm using perl through emacs, but I want to bring along some people on NT4.0. They're accustomed to Visual Studio, and want IDE features, such as project directories, global search and replace, debugger linking, source code error hilighting, etc. Can anyone suggest a good group environment for developing perl? My first urge is to set up Ultra-Edit with some appropriate customization.
Re: IDE for perl?
At 10:19 AM 09-05-01 -0400, Rod Suter wrote: I'm using perl through emacs, but I want to bring along some people on NT4.0. They're accustomed to Visual Studio, and want IDE features, such as project directories, global search and replace, debugger linking, source code error hilighting, etc. Can anyone suggest a good group environment for developing perl? My first urge is to set up Ultra-Edit with some appropriate customization. EditPlus is very good. Joe Yates
RE: IDE for perl?
ActiveState Komodo is nice for those needing an IDE - http://www.ActiveState.com. I prefer Emacs and use it at home, but I work in a M$ shop. John Gilger Technical Writer Acres Gaming, Inc. 702.914.5585 -Original Message- From: Rod Suter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 07:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IDE for perl? I'm using perl through emacs, but I want to bring along some people on NT4.0. They're accustomed to Visual Studio, and want IDE features, such as project directories, global search and replace, debugger linking, source code error hilighting, etc. Can anyone suggest a good group environment for developing perl? My first urge is to set up Ultra-Edit with some appropriate customization.
gzip or Compress::Zlib
Hello, Can somebody advice on whether to use UNIX gzip or the perl Compress::Zlib for compressing a tar file. If it is going to be Compress::Zlib, I would appreciate if somebody can give me a basic syntax. Thx Kailash
Re: gzip or Compress::Zlib
Hi Kailash, If you are doing the compression from with a Perl script, use Archive::Tar (which uses Compress::Zlib in the background). After installing the modules, use the following commands to see their documentation (which will give you the basic syntax): perldoc Archive::Tar perldoc Compress::Zlib Cheers, Kevin On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:23:16PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed forth: Hello, Can somebody advice on whether to use UNIX gzip or the perl Compress::Zlib for compressing a tar file. If it is going to be Compress::Zlib, I would appreciate if somebody can give me a basic syntax. Thx Kailash -- [Writing CGI Applications with Perl - http://perlcgi-book.com] Never laugh at a live dragon. -- The Hobbit
Re: gzip or Compress::Zlib
Hi Kevin, Thanks for your info. Somebody in this mailing list previously told me to use UNIX tar utility rather than Archive::Tar. So, I decided to use UNIX tar. But now I want to compress the tar file and that's the reason for this question. But it looks like you are suggesting to use perl Archive::Tar utility to tar the files. Can I not just use the Compress utility of perl without Archive::Tar if it is better that UNIX gzip ? Thx Kailash From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AT INTERNET on 05/09/2001 12:23 PM To: Kailash Subramanian/ATL/ALLTELCORP cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AT INTERNET@CCMAIL Subject: Re: gzip or Compress::Zlib Hi Kailash, If you are doing the compression from with a Perl script, use Archive::Tar (which uses Compress::Zlib in the background). After installing the modules, use the following commands to see their documentation (which will give you the basic syntax): perldoc Archive::Tar perldoc Compress::Zlib Cheers, Kevin On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:23:16PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kailas [EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed forth: Hello, Can somebody advice on whether to use UNIX gzip or the perl Compress::Zli b for compressing a tar file. If it is going to be Compress::Zlib, I would appreciate if somebody can give me a basic syntax. Thx Kailash -- [Writing CGI Applications with Perl - http://perlcgi-book.com] Never laugh at a live dragon. -- The Hobbit
Re: Process a single field file
At 05:49 PM 5/9/01 +1000, you wrote:
Hi very new to perl... am getting some books asap.
Looks like Lincoln Stein's Network Programming with Perl would be apposite...
I am writing a script to create named.conf records from a single field
text file
eg, domain.fle
domain1.com
domain2.net
domain3.org
and then create a named.conf entry from;
$namedconf=/etc/namedb/named.conf ;
$namednow=/etc/namedb/named.conf.$now ;
$namedtmp=/etc/namedb/named.conf.tmp ;
unless (-e $namedconf) { die $namedconf does not exist! }
You'll probably want to put a \n in that die.
open (NAMEDNOW, $namednow) || die Cannot open $namedtmp for
writing\n\n ;
Er, the file in the die is not the same as the one in the open...
open (NAMED, $namedconf) || die Cannot open $namedconf for reading\n\n ;
Lock::wlock(NAMED);
while (NAMED) {
if ((/nextprimary/) ($domaintype eq primary)) {
print NAMEDNOW ENUF;
zone $domainname {
type master;
allow-query { any; } ;
file zones/$domainname;
};
ENUF
Newbie please be gentle...
You're asking for a critique? The above code is incomplete, so that's hard
to do. I don't see a -w/use warnings or use strict in there, so those
would be essential to add. Also, the script at least as it appeared to me
didn't have indentation inside blocks; pretty code layout is far more
important than most people think.
Otherwise, style and usage are fine. I'm not familiar with the Lock module
you appear to be using, and I don't see it on CPAN.
--
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http://www.perldebugged.com
Re: gzip or Compress::Zlib
I won't comment on what is 'better'. I like using the Perl modules, that is what they are there for (and I have never had any problems). If you want to know if you can use Compress::Zlib, please read the documentation which comes with it and see if it fits your needs. I suggest you do that with all your options, see how they fit into what you wish to do.. benchmark if you need to, and form your own educated opinion to what way is 'better' for your project. Cheers, Kevin On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:38:00AM -0500, Kailash Subramanian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed forth: Hi Kevin, Thanks for your info. Somebody in this mailing list previously told me to use UNIX tar utility rather than Archive::Tar. So, I decided to use UNIX tar. But now I want to compress the tar file and that's the reason for this question. But it looks like you are suggesting to use perl Archive::Tar utility to tar the files. Can I not just use the Compress utility of perl without Archive::Tar if it is better that UNIX gzip ? Thx Kailash From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AT INTERNET on 05/09/2001 12:23 PM To: Kailash Subramanian/ATL/ALLTELCORP cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AT INTERNET@CCMAIL Subject: Re: gzip or Compress::Zlib Hi Kailash, If you are doing the compression from with a Perl script, use Archive::Tar (which uses Compress::Zlib in the background). After installing the modules, use the following commands to see their documentation (which will give you the basic syntax): perldoc Archive::Tar perldoc Compress::Zlib Cheers, Kevin On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:23:16PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kailas [EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed forth: Hello, Can somebody advice on whether to use UNIX gzip or the perl Compress::Zli b for compressing a tar file. If it is going to be Compress::Zlib, I would appreciate if somebody can give me a basic syntax. Thx Kailash -- [Writing CGI Applications with Perl - http://perlcgi-book.com] Never laugh at a live dragon. -- The Hobbit -- [Writing CGI Applications with Perl - http://perlcgi-book.com] Number one ain't you... You ain't even number two. -- Frank Zappa
RE: IDE for perl?
At 10:41 AM 5/9/01 -0600, blowther wrote: I recommend wscite when I teach perl classes. The code highlighting is pretty good. No inline debugger tho. We use ptkdb for graphical debugging. --all of these are free.-- I think it's pretty clear, given the requirement for project directories, and group environment, that the poster should take a look at Activestate Visual Perl (http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/VisualPerl/), since it allows Visual Studio to provide those features. Since it sounds as though money's available, they may want to check out their ASPN Perl package also (http://www.activestate.com/Products/Productivity/ASPN_Perl/). Disclaimer: I don't work for ActiveState. -Original Message- From: Rod Suter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 8:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IDE for perl? I'm using perl through emacs, but I want to bring along some people on NT4.0. They're accustomed to Visual Studio, and want IDE features, such as project directories, global search and replace, debugger linking, source code error hilighting, etc. Can anyone suggest a good group environment for developing perl? My first urge is to set up Ultra-Edit with some appropriate customization. -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies http://www.perldebugged.com
mv'ing a file from within perl (w/out /bin/mv)
I just want an efficient mv subroutine or module which has such a thing, but none of the File::* things seem to have mv. I would rather not shell out 1 times just to, in the vast majority of cases, move a file from on dir to another in the same fs. Can someone help? -- Hob Goblin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... the establishment defends itself by complicating everything to the point of incomprehensibility. - Sir Fred Hoyle
RE: IDE for perl?
I think it's pretty clear, given that the poster is asking for feedback that they are looking for options. Disclaimer: I don't work for free. -Original Message- From: Peter Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 10:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: IDE for perl? At 10:41 AM 5/9/01 -0600, blowther wrote: I recommend wscite when I teach perl classes. The code highlighting is pretty good. No inline debugger tho. We use ptkdb for graphical debugging. --all of these are free.-- I think it's pretty clear, given the requirement for project directories, and group environment, that the poster should take a look at Activestate Visual Perl (http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/VisualPerl/), since it allows Visual Studio to provide those features. Since it sounds as though money's available, they may want to check out their ASPN Perl package also (http://www.activestate.com/Products/Productivity/ASPN_Perl/). Disclaimer: I don't work for ActiveState. -Original Message- From: Rod Suter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 8:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IDE for perl? I'm using perl through emacs, but I want to bring along some people on NT4.0. They're accustomed to Visual Studio, and want IDE features, such as project directories, global search and replace, debugger linking, source code error hilighting, etc. Can anyone suggest a good group environment for developing perl? My first urge is to set up Ultra-Edit with some appropriate customization. -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies http://www.perldebugged.com
Loading extra modules.
Folks, how do I load extra modules? I got Date::Manip today, and I know I should be putting it in the search-path of perl (@INC ?), but how do I do it? Can I get a small code snippet? I do not have su privileges on the machine I work, and would like the search-path to have my modules dir, $HOME/perlmodules in it. TIA, -tir
Re: mv'ing a file from within perl (w/out /bin/mv)
: I just want an efficient mv subroutine or module which has such a thing, : but none of the File::* things seem to have mv. perldoc -f rename -- tdk
Re: mv'ing a file from within perl (w/out /bin/mv)
At 12:13 PM 5/9/01 -0500, Shawn wrote: I just want an efficient mv subroutine or module which has such a thing, but none of the File::* things seem to have mv. I would rather not shell out 1 times just to, in the vast majority of cases, move a file from on dir to another in the same fs. Can someone help? % perldoc -f rename rename OLDNAME,NEWNAME Changes the name of a file; an existing file NEWNAME will be clobbered. Returns true for success, false otherwise. Behavior of this function varies wildly depending on your system implementation. For example, it will usually not work across file system boundaries, even though the system mv command sometimes compensates for this. Other restrictions include whether it works on directories, open files, or pre-existing files. Check the perlport manpage and either the rename(2) manpage or equivalent system documentation for details. -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies http://www.perldebugged.com
RE: Loading extra modules.
If you got it in a tar'ed package, it will come with a Makefile.PL script.
The general procedure is:
perl Makefile.PL
make test
make install {su'ed to root}
If you didn't get the tar'ed package, and just have .pm, then I would
recommend getting the tar'ed package instead. This would vary somewhat if
you're on a Windows NT box.
-Original Message-
From: Tirthankar C.P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 11:44 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Loading extra modules.
Folks, how do I load extra modules? I got Date::Manip today, and I know I
should be putting it in the search-path of perl (@INC ?), but how do I do
it? Can I get a small code snippet?
I do not have su privileges on the machine I work, and would like the
search-path to have my modules dir, $HOME/perlmodules in it.
TIA,
-tir
Re: Loading extra modules.
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Tirthankar C.P wrote: Folks, how do I load extra modules? I got Date::Manip today, and I know I should be putting it in the search-path of perl (@INC ?), but how do I do it? Can I get a small code snippet? I do not have su privileges on the machine I work, and would like the search-path to have my modules dir, $HOME/perlmodules in it. Be careful -- you can't just move modules into a directory and expect them to work, since some depend on loading native code shared libraries. If you have a module you want to use, you can do something like: use lib '/path/to/modules'; #MyModule.pm is in this directory use MyModule; -- Brett http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/ Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility goes before honour. -- Psalms 18:12
Very beginner question
I feel strange putting such a simple question on this list, but then
again, that is why I did not join the experts list.
Any how, if I have a file called try.txt with the following line:
(name = john)
if I am trying to just extract john for the value $b, why would the
following script not work. I thought it would take bothIt returns the
full (name=john)
#!user/local/bin/perl -w
open TRY , try.txt;
while (TRY) {
(my $b=$_) =~ s/^(\() (\w+)/$2/;
print $b;
}
Thank you for humiliating me with this simple question.
Olivier
The one who still has a long way to go with Perl
Re: Very beginner question
On May 9, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
(name = john)
if I am trying to just extract john for the value $b, why would the
following script not work. I thought it would take bothIt returns the
full (name=john)
Let's run your regex through the regex explainer:
(my $b=$_) =~ s/^(\() (\w+)/$2/;
NODE EXPLANATION
--
(?-imsx: group, but do not capture (case-sensitive)
(with ^ and $ matching normally) (with . not
matching \n) (matching whitespace and #
normally):
--
^the beginning of the string
--
(group and capture to \1:
--
\( '('
--
)end of \1
--
' '
--
(group and capture to \2:
--
\w+ word characters (a-z, A-Z, 0-9, _) (1 or
more times (matching the most amount
possible))
--
)end of \2
--
)end of grouping
--
You can see that it's matching a '(', and then a ' '. You don't have a
space after the ( though. :(
Perhaps you want to use:
while (TRY) {
my ($name) = /^\(\w+ = (\w+)\)$/;
print got: $name\n;
}
That regex matches the (, and then some word, then = , and then saves
the next word it finds.
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newbie: CPAN module usage.
Hi, I would like to install some of the CPAN modules. How can I do that. I am using ActivePerl on Windows. Any pointers would be greatly helpful. regards, inssic. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: Loading extra modules.
Be careful -- you can't just move modules into a directory and expect them to work, since some depend on loading native code shared libraries. Brett was right. I tried installing it, but wasn't successful. I then got the Sys Admin folks to install it, and it went just fine!! Apparently, even if I give PREFIX= as a command line param, you get the following errors: Manifying blib/man3/Date::Manip.3 Skipping /home/tir/COMP/perl/modules/lib/site_perl/5.005/Date/Manip.pm (unchanged) Skipping /home/tir/COMP/perl/modules/lib/site_perl/5.005/Date/Manip.pod (unchanged) Installing /home/tir/COMP/perl/modules/lib/site_perl/5.005/Date/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Date/Manip.pm Installing /home/tir/COMP/perl/modules/lib/site_perl/5.005/Date/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Date/Manip.pod Installing /home/tir/COMP/perl/modules/lib/site_perl/5.005/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/auto/Date/Manip/.packlist Skipping /home/tir/COMP/perl/modules/lib/perl5/man/man3/Date::Manip.3 (unchanged) Installing /home/tir/COMP/perl/modules/lib/perl5/man/man3/lib/perl5/man/man3/Date::Manip.3 Writing /home/tir/COMP/perl/modules//lib/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/auto/Date/Manip/.packlist /bin/sh: /home/tir/COMP/perl/modules//lib/5.00503/i386-linux/perllocal.pod: No such file or directory make: [doc_site_install] Error 1 (ignored) Appending installation info to /home/tir/COMP/perl/modules//lib/5.00503/i386-linux/perllocal.pod I don't know what to make of this!! Thanks anyway, -tir
Re: newbie: CPAN module usage.
Brett... Try 'ppm' at the command line. ___ C:\WINNT\Profiles\sneu\Desktopppm PPM interactive shell (2.1.2) - type 'help' for available commands. PPM Commands: exit - leave the program. help [command]- prints this screen, or help on 'command'. install PACKAGES - installs specified PACKAGES. quit - leave the program. query [options] - query information about installed packages. remove PACKAGES - removes the specified PACKAGES from the system. search [options] - search information about available packages. set [options] - set/display current options. verify [options] - verifies current install is up to date. version - displays PPM version number PPM Stephen Neu Internet Development Characterlink.net (630) 323-9800 ext. 235 The camel was not designed to smell good. Neither was Perl. --Larry Wall - Original Message - From: SS HK [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 12:09 PM Subject: newbie: CPAN module usage. Hi, I would like to install some of the CPAN modules. How can I do that. I am using ActivePerl on Windows. Any pointers would be greatly helpful. regards, inssic. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: newbie: CPAN module usage.
On Wed, 9 May 2001, SS HK wrote: I would like to install some of the CPAN modules. How can I do that. I am using ActivePerl on Windows. You will need a C compiler in most cases. However, ActiveState has a lot of CPAN modules packaged via their PPM facility. You should consult their documentation on how to use it. -- Brett http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/ Calm down, it's *only* ones and zeroes.
Re: newbie: CPAN module usage.
Brett... Try 'ppm' at the command line. ___ C:\WINNT\Profiles\sneu\Desktopppm PPM interactive shell (2.1.2) - type 'help' for available commands. PPM Commands: exit - leave the program. help [command]- prints this screen, or help on 'command'. install PACKAGES - installs specified PACKAGES. quit - leave the program. query [options] - query information about installed packages. remove PACKAGES - removes the specified PACKAGES from the system. search [options] - search information about available packages. set [options] - set/display current options. verify [options] - verifies current install is up to date. version - displays PPM version number PPM Stephen Neu Internet Development Characterlink.net (630) 323-9800 ext. 235 The camel was not designed to smell good. Neither was Perl. --Larry Wall - Original Message - From: SS HK [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 12:09 PM Subject: newbie: CPAN module usage. Hi, I would like to install some of the CPAN modules. How can I do that. I am using ActivePerl on Windows. Any pointers would be greatly helpful. regards, inssic. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: newbie: CPAN module usage.
Brett... Try 'ppm' at the command line. ___ C:\WINNT\Profiles\sneu\Desktopppm PPM interactive shell (2.1.2) - type 'help' for available commands. PPM Commands: exit - leave the program. help [command]- prints this screen, or help on 'command'. install PACKAGES - installs specified PACKAGES. quit - leave the program. query [options] - query information about installed packages. remove PACKAGES - removes the specified PACKAGES from the system. search [options] - search information about available packages. set [options] - set/display current options. verify [options] - verifies current install is up to date. version - displays PPM version number PPM Stephen Neu Internet Development Characterlink.net (630) 323-9800 ext. 235 The camel was not designed to smell good. Neither was Perl. --Larry Wall - Original Message - From: SS HK [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 12:09 PM Subject: newbie: CPAN module usage. Hi, I would like to install some of the CPAN modules. How can I do that. I am using ActivePerl on Windows. Any pointers would be greatly helpful. regards, inssic. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
RE: Loading extra modules.
: perl Makefile.PL
:
: make
:
: make test
: make install {su'ed to root}
When you do make test and you haven't done make,
make will be done automatically.
-- tdk
RE: RE: Help with Perl (fwd)
Somebody please help me uderstand the deal with qq. I have run tests on all three lines of code below and it turns out that #1 and #3 work but #2 does not. I am under the impression that qq acts as double quotes. So why doesn't #2 work isn't it the same as #1? NO COMPRENDE!!! Thanks, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. print qq/I said Help me!!.\n/; 2. print I said Help me!!.\n; 3. print I said /Help me!!/.\n;
RE: RE: Help with Perl (fwd)
On May 9, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Somebody please help me uderstand the deal with qq. I have run tests
on all three lines of code below and it turns out that #1 and #3 work
but #2 does not. I am under the impression that qq acts as double
quotes. So why doesn't #2 work isn't it the same as #1? NO COMPRENDE!!!
1. print qq/I said Help me!!.\n/;
2. print I said Help me!!.\n;
3. print I said /Help me!!/.\n;
#1 works, but #2 and #3 do not. I think you meant to use \ instead of
/ in #3.
qq() is double-quoted context, but it is a replacement for physical
double-quotes. By using qq//, it's like / is now your quote.
Just like
he said hi to me
is invalid, so is
qq/he said /hi/ to me/
To get that to work, you'd need to backslash the quoting character:
he said \hi\ to me
qq/he said \/hi\/ to me/
but that should be a sign that you should've chosen a different character.
Using qq(), qq[], qq{}, or qq allows you to nest the quotes:
qq(I think (since I'm ill) I won't go to class today.)
--
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Re: Cookies
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:48:54PM -0400, Casey West wrote: : On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 03:45:40PM -0400, Brian Shoemaker wrote: : : I'm having trouble getting a script to set a cookie. : : : : It works when I type the URL of the script into the browser and press : : enter.. it works that's way and a cookie is set. : : : : But when I place that script in a HTML page like this : : !--#exec cgi=/cgi-bin/test/cookie_get.pl-- : : the cookie won't set. : : : : Is there something special you are supposed to do to set the cookie when : : executing the script like that? : : You must set the Cookie in the HTTP Headers that get sent first with a : web page, by using SSI to include your cookie_get.pl, you're too late : to get the cookies. If you don't want to write a CGI program for the : page, you could use JavaScript to handle the Cookies but then you : limit yourself on usefullness, since you don't really have much access : to the server side. I really should try to post to the list. :) : Casey West : : -- : Shooting yourself in the foot with Internet : You put your foot in your mouth, shoot it, then spam the bullet so : that everybody gets shot in the foot. Casey West -- If unix is the face of the future I wanna go back to quill pens. -- Joseph Snipp
RE: newbie: CPAN module usage.
SS HK writes .. I would like to install some of the CPAN modules. How can I do that. I am using ActivePerl on Windows. Any pointers would be greatly helpful. while others have mentioned 'ppm' which should be your first port of call .. there are only a limited number of modules (albeit the commonly used ones) that have been made available via ppm so .. if you need to grab a module from CPAN then you will need nmake.exe for building the modules .. in some instances you will also need a C compiler nmake comes with Microsoft Visual C++ .. which also has nmake .. so if you have access to that then install it otherwise .. you can get a free version of nmake from Microsoft .. which will mean that you will not be able to install any modules that require compilation .. but you can install pure Perl modules (which accounts for a fairly high proportion) I'm not going to tell you where the free nmake is because you'll learn a lot more than I'm telling you here by reading the ActivePerl documentation - which also tells you where to find nmake get to the ActivePerl documentation on your Start Programs menu .. read the section of the ActivePerl FAQ entitled Modules Samples .. and then read all the rest of the FAQ .. it has all the information you need (one hint: where it talks about gzip and tar - you can use WinZip for both untarring and ungzipping the archives) -- jason king In Denmark, if a horse carriage is trying to pass a car and the horse gets uneasy, the car is required to pull over and stop. If necessary to ease the horse down, you are required to cover the car up. - http://dumblaws.com/
RE: Very beginner question
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes ..
(name = john)
-
if I am trying to just extract john for the value $b, why would the
following script not work. I thought it would take bothIt returns the
full (name=john)
#!user/local/bin/perl -w
open TRY , try.txt;
while (TRY) {
(my $b=$_) =~ s/^(\() (\w+)/$2/;
print $b;
}
in the name of TMTOWTDI
while(TRY)
{
chop( my $name = substr $_, rindex( $_, ' ')+1);
print $name, \n;
}
but I suspect (from the statement about the output being '(name=john)') that
those spaces might not always be there .. in which case
while(TRY)
{
/=\s*(.*)\)/ print $1, \n;
}
--
jason king
In Denmark, if a horse carriage is trying to pass a car and the horse
gets uneasy, the car is required to pull over and stop. If necessary
to ease the horse down, you are required to cover the car up. -
http://dumblaws.com/
@INC
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 how do i add new directories to @INC? i've managed to bungle one of my debian systems, and apt-get relies pretty heavily on some .pm's that aren't in the stock @INC locations. - -- ) ,_) (-(__ -|- __ ) | (/_\/(/_ ( ___ | mailto : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | linux : http://exitwound.org | | mozart : http://mozart.sourceforge.net| | buck : http://www.BuckOwensFan.com | ___ | Nothing increases your golf score like| | witnesses.| ___ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6+eynr9c0KwefYXMRAg9LAKCJJErE+lxc5WTVvy/jfZMHzJ4xIACfUIB/ rmG3quvJ/83+UMrp8pFesS8= =87LP -END PGP SIGNATURE-
RE: @INC
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 10 May 2001, King, Jason wrote: Stephen E. Hargrove writes .. how do i add new directories to @INC? i've managed to bungle one of my debian systems, and apt-get relies pretty heavily on some .pm's that aren't in the stock @INC locations. there's a hand module called 'lib' that's part of the CORE distribution .. it basically just unshifts your list onto the @INC array in a BEGIN block use lib qw'/dirs/for /inclusion /in/INC'; doesn't this just make the adjustment at compile time? what i'm really needing is something that will modify @INC for all time. can that be done? - -- ) ,_) (-(__ -|- __ ) | (/_\/(/_ ( ___ | mailto : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | linux : http://exitwound.org | | mozart : http://mozart.sourceforge.net| | buck : http://www.BuckOwensFan.com | ___ | I go on working for the same reason a hen | | goes on laying eggs. -- H.L. Mencken | ___ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6+fSNr9c0KwefYXMRAjAtAKCEp3TrDOcWtaNyMu8AYaOrxozDWwCePChM I1/wWd7XBwa+9JpwIDY6Bhg= =dGAV -END PGP SIGNATURE-
RE: @INC
Stephen E. Hargrove writes .. On Thu, 10 May 2001, King, Jason wrote: Stephen E. Hargrove writes .. how do i add new directories to @INC? i've managed to bungle one of my debian systems, and apt-get relies pretty heavily on some .pm's that aren't in the stock @INC locations. there's a hand module called 'lib' that's part of the CORE distribution .. it basically just unshifts your list onto the @INC array in a BEGIN block use lib qw'/dirs/for /inclusion /in/INC'; doesn't this just make the adjustment at compile time? what i'm really needing is something that will modify @INC for all time. can that be done? you need to recompile Perl then .. the directories included in the @INC array are stored in the perl binary when Perl was originally built .. you can't change them without rebuilding Perl if you wanted to avoid hardcoding the @INC directories in every script you write you could put your own module into one of the @INC directories to be called by all your programs - and it would - in turn - load the other @INC directories .. ie. your module might be as follows package my_lib; use lib qw'/dirs/for /inclusion /in/INC'; 1; then in all your programs you'd have #!perl -w use strict; use my_lib; # .. code .. __END__ -- jason king In Denmark, if a horse carriage is trying to pass a car and the horse gets uneasy, the car is required to pull over and stop. If necessary to ease the horse down, you are required to cover the car up. - http://dumblaws.com/
RE: @INC
On May 9, Stephen E. Hargrove said: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 10 May 2001, King, Jason wrote: Stephen E. Hargrove writes .. how do i add new directories to @INC? i've managed to bungle one of my debian systems, and apt-get relies pretty heavily on some .pm's that aren't in the stock @INC locations. there's a hand module called 'lib' that's part of the CORE distribution .. it basically just unshifts your list onto the @INC array in a BEGIN block use lib qw'/dirs/for /inclusion /in/INC'; doesn't this just make the adjustment at compile time? what i'm really needing is something that will modify @INC for all time. can that be done? You can't do it for EVERYTHING unless you recompile Perl. You can do it for yourself all the time by setting the PERL5LIB environment variable to a colon-separated list of directories to add to @INC automatically. -- Jeff japhy Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ Are you a Monk? http://www.perlmonks.com/ http://forums.perlguru.com/ Perl Programmer at RiskMetrics Group, Inc. http://www.riskmetrics.com/ Acacia Fraternity, Rensselaer Chapter. Brother #734
Re: beginner here - with basic cgi trouble
On Thu, 10 May 2001, lemoninsz wrote: hi,i have the same problem,when i do ./emailupload.cgi,error like this: bash: ./emailupload.cgi: No such file or directory the other cgi scripts work well,but emailupload.cgi.the following is the emailupload.cgi: #!/usr/bin/perl ^ Is this the correct path to Perl? -- Brett http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/ Lewis's Law of Travel: The first piece of luggage out of the chute doesn't belong to anyone, ever.
Apache
Hello, I installed a webserver Apache on my Workstation, the OS is Windows NT4.0 and have a Perl version 5.0.3 My problem is, that I can not execute CGI - SCRIPTS. I get the error message: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/1st-cgi.pl on this server. Apache/1.3.12 Server at fn0676.zff.zf-group.de Port 3000 I edit the http.conf file, you can see it: Thank´s a lot.. Hasan -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net # # Based upon the NCSA server configuration files originally by Rob McCool. # # This is the main Apache server configuration file. It contains the # configuration directives that give the server its instructions. # See URL:http://www.apache.org/docs/ for detailed information about # the directives. # # Do NOT simply read the instructions in here without understanding # what they do. They're here only as hints or reminders. If you are unsure # consult the online docs. You have been warned. # # After this file is processed, the server will look for and process # C:/Programme/Apache Group/Apache/conf/srm.conf and then C:/Programme/Apache Group/Apache/conf/access.conf # unless you have overridden these with ResourceConfig and/or # AccessConfig directives here. # # The configuration directives are grouped into three basic sections: # 1. Directives that control the operation of the Apache server process as a # whole (the 'global environment'). # 2. Directives that define the parameters of the 'main' or 'default' server, # which responds to requests that aren't handled by a virtual host. # These directives also provide default values for the settings # of all virtual hosts. # 3. Settings for virtual hosts, which allow Web requests to be sent to # different IP addresses or hostnames and have them handled by the # same Apache server process. # # Configuration and logfile names: If the filenames you specify for many # of the server's control files begin with / (or drive:/ for Win32), the # server will use that explicit path. If the filenames do *not* begin # with /, the value of ServerRoot is prepended -- so logs/foo.log # with ServerRoot set to /usr/local/apache will be interpreted by the # server as /usr/local/apache/logs/foo.log. # # NOTE: Where filenames are specified, you must use forward slashes # instead of backslashes (e.g., c:/apache instead of c:\apache). # If a drive letter is omitted, the drive on which Apache.exe is located # will be used by default. It is recommended that you always supply # an explicit drive letter in absolute paths, however, to avoid # confusion. # ### Section 1: Global Environment # # The directives in this section affect the overall operation of Apache, # such as the number of concurrent requests it can handle or where it # can find its configuration files. # # # ServerType is either inetd, or standalone. Inetd mode is only supported on # Unix platforms. # ServerType standalone # # ServerRoot: The top of the directory tree under which the server's # configuration, error, and log files are kept. # # Do NOT add a slash at the end of the directory path. # ServerRoot C:/Programme/Apache Group/Apache # # PidFile: The file in which the server should record its process # identification number when it starts. # PidFile logs/httpd.pid # # ScoreBoardFile: File used to store internal server process information. # Not all architectures require this. But if yours does (you'll know because # this file will be created when you run Apache) then you *must* ensure that # no two invocations of Apache share the same scoreboard file. # ScoreBoardFile logs/apache_status # # In the standard configuration, the server will process httpd.conf, # srm.conf, and access.conf in that order. The latter two files are # now distributed empty, as it is recommended that all directives # be kept in a single file for simplicity. The commented-out values # below are the built-in defaults. You can have the server ignore # these files altogether by using /dev/null (for Unix) or # nul (for Win32) for the arguments to the directives. # #ResourceConfig conf/srm.conf #AccessConfig conf/access.conf # # Timeout: The number of seconds before receives and sends time out. # Timeout 300 # # KeepAlive: Whether or not to allow persistent connections (more than # one request per connection). Set to Off to deactivate. # KeepAlive OFF # # MaxKeepAliveRequests: The maximum number of requests to allow # during a persistent connection. Set to 0 to allow an unlimited amount. # We reccomend you leave this number high, for maximum performance. # MaxKeepAliveRequests 100 # # KeepAliveTimeout: Number of seconds to wait for the next request from the # same client on the same connection. # KeepAliveTimeout 15 # # Apache on Win32 always creates one child process to handle requests. If it # dies, another child
