Re: Fwd: Re: LWP/Protocol Errors
On 5/25/2015 12:31 PM, Lawrence Statton wrote: I sent this to the list, but it seems to have gotten clogged in the tubes ... here's another copy Forwarded Message Subject: Re: LWP/Protocol Errors Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 12:13:11 -0500 From: Lawrence Statton lawre...@cluon.com To: beginners@perl.org On 05/25/2015 12:02 PM, Mike Blezien wrote: Hello, I recently setup a Paypal IPN script which worked fine for some time now but now all of a sudden I keep getting these error message: * **Can't connect to www.paypal.com:443 (certificate verify failed)** **LWP::Protocol::https::Socket: SSL connect attempt failed with unknown error error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed at /usr/local/share/perl5/LWP/Protocol/http.pm line 41. *I use same IPN script on other servers without any issues except one. Is it possible that port 443 is being block or not open due a firewall on the server? Any suggestion would be appreciated. -- While it is *POSSIBLE* that a blocked port is causing your grief, that is not the most likely explanation. Has it *NEVER* worked on this server, or worked until recently? Your email was vague on this point. The exact error is telling you that the OpenSSL library (which is ultimately where LWP gets its SSL support) cannot verify the origin of the certificate chain that Paypal is offering. Compare the contents of /etc/ssl/certs (the exact directory will vary based on which Linux distribution you are using, but it will be something similar) on a 'working' server with the 'not-working' server. openssl s_client will allow you to attempt a connection and turn on substantial diagnostics to see the certificate that is being offered by the server, and (most importantly) the issuer for that certificate and the issuer's hash -- which will lead you to find the correct CA cert you need to add. (Alternatively, if your problem *is* a blocked port, you will get enough diagnostic from s_client to show you that it can't even GET the server's cert -- but the error message makes me 99% certain that you are already past that point in the SSL handshake) After further investigation running the following command from the shell prompt: openssl s_client -host paypal.com -port 443 I get these results: CONNECTED(0003) --- no peer certificate available --- No client certificate CA names sent --- SSL handshake has read 0 bytes and written 0 bytes --- New, (NONE), Cipher is (NONE) Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported Compression: NONE Expansion: NONE --- This is first time using this paypal script on this server and has not worked yet. I've used similar script on other servers without issues or other problems. Is this a port issue or something else? thanks, Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: [Bulk] Re: Fwd: Re: LWP/Protocol Errors
On 5/27/2015 7:46 AM, Lawrence Statton wrote: On 05/27/2015 07:33 AM, Mike Blezien wrote: *CONNECTED(0003) --- no peer certificate available --- No client certificate CA names sent --- SSL handshake has read 0 bytes and written 0 bytes --- New, (NONE), Cipher is (NONE) Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported Compression: NONE Expansion: NONE ---* Yeah - I retract everything I've thus far said -- that's pretty clear evidence that you're not getting the SSL handshake started. That's what I thought. Will check that the port is open on that server and try again. thanks, Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
LWP/Protocol Errors
Hello, I recently setup a Paypal IPN script which worked fine for some time now but now all of a sudden I keep getting these error message: Can't connect to www.paypal.com:443 (certificate verify failed) LWP::Protocol::https::Socket: SSL connect attempt failed with unknown error error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed at /usr/local/share/perl5/LWP/Protocol/http.pm line 41. I use same IPN script on other servers without any issues except one. Is it possible that port 443 is being block or not open due a firewall on the server? Any suggestion would be appreciated. -- Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: LWP/Protocol Errors
On 5/25/2015 12:27 PM, Lawrence Statton wrote: On 05/25/2015 12:02 PM, Mike Blezien wrote: Hello *I use same IPN script on other servers without any issues except one. Is it possible that port 443 is being block or not open due a firewall on the server? Another tidbit of information that just burbled to the top of my brain. On SOME platform (but I can't remember which now) when LWP was compiled to use openssl, the builder elected not to have ANY default CA path. This will require you to explicitly set the PERL_LWP_SSL_CA_PATH environment variable (or the 'all-in-one file variant'- read perldoc LWP ) to point to the local store of CA certificates. Ok thank you I'll check this out. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Regrex Question
Hello, Regular expression have never been my strong suite so hoping to get a litte help with a line in file I need to extract a portion of it. The text I need to extract from this line is November 21, 2013 from this line in the file, just the date: Posted by a href=mailto:someem...@email.com;Some Name/a on November 21, 2013 at 23:21:58:p what would be the regrex to use to extract the date from the line ? Thanks, Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: Regrex Question
Thank you for your and the other list members suggestions, gives me a good
place to start.
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From: Jim Gibson
To: Perl List
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: Regrex Question
On Nov 25, 2013, at 10:55 AM, Mike Blezien wrote:
Hello,
Regular expression have never been my strong suite so hoping to get a litte
help with a line in file I need to extract a portion of it.
The text I need to extract from this line is November 21, 2013 from this
line in the file, just the date:
Posted by a href=mailto:someem...@email.com;Some Name/a on November
21, 2013 at 23:21:58:p
what would be the regrex to use to extract the date from the line ?
The usual advice applies: don't use regular expressions to parse HTML.
However, lots of people do it anyway, myself included. Your success at
extracting usable data depends upon how rigid the format of the HTML is from
page to page.
In your case, if the date always follows a link ('/a') followed by 'on',
and the date is always followed by 'at' and a time. you can use this:
if( $line =~ m{ /a \s+ on \s+ (\w+ \s \d{1,2} , \s \d{4}) \s at}x ) {
print The date is $1\n;
}else{
print No match\n;
}
Note I am using the extended regular expression syntax with the x modifier.
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MIME::Lite setup
Hello, We've been using the MIME Lite module for some time now. I need to set it up now so one of our scripts so the when some one replies to an email sent that the replies to a 'Reply-To' address instead of the 'From' address. Here how I have it coded now: my($msg); $msg = MIME::Lite-new( From= 'f...@mydomain.com', To= 't...@anotherdomain.com', Reply-To= 'repl...@mydomain.com', Subject = 'Simple Test Email', Data= This is a simple test message using MIME::Lite., ); $msg-send() or die $!; when the email is sent out, and you click the reply it stills goes to the 'From' address instead of the 'Reply-To' address? I went through the docs for the module and I though it support the Reply-To field ? I'm I missing something here ? Any suggestions would be appreciated Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: MIME::Lite setup
Thanks for the correction. It works prefectly now. Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - Original Message - From: Lawrence Statton To: beginners@perl.org Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 9:04 AM Subject: Re: MIME::Lite setup On 08/03/2012 06:17 AM, Mike Blezien wrote: Hello, We've been using the MIME Lite module for some time now. I need to set it up now so one of our scripts so the when some one replies to an email sent that the replies to a 'Reply-To' address instead of the 'From' address. Here how I have it coded now: my($msg); $msg = MIME::Lite-new( From= 'f...@mydomain.com', To= 't...@anotherdomain.com', Reply-To= 'repl...@mydomain.com', Subject = 'Simple Test Email', Data= This is a simple test message using MIME::Lite., ); $msg-send() or die $!; when the email is sent out, and you click the reply it stills goes to the 'From' address instead of the 'Reply-To' address? I went through the docs for the module and I though it support the Reply-To field ? I'm I missing something here ? Any suggestions would be appreciated Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- You need to quote 'Reply-To' ... - is not in the list of characters that will be auto-quoted by = separator. If you had used strictures, you would have gotten an error about the bareword Reply. What it did was take the value of Reply subtract the value of To (with the result being 0) and assigned the repl...@mydomain.com to the 0 header - which was cheerfully ignored. --L -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
SMS services
Hello, we would like to setup a Perl script for sending SMS messages. I found several different Perl modules on CPAN for doing this and was wondering if there are recommended messaging services that others have used with these modules that they could recommend. And what module(s) they recommend. Thank you, Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: SMS services
Ok I'll need to check into this SMPP server, not real sure what that is though
thanks,
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- Original Message -
From: Kwaku Addo Ofori
To: Mike Blezien
Cc: beginners@perl.org
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: SMS services
Hi Mike,
You can try the code below after you have installed the module:
--code-begins--
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Net::SMPP;
$smpp = Net::SMPP-new_transceiver('127.0.0.1', port=1234,
system_id='username', password='password') or die;
$resp_pdu = $smpp-submit_sm(destination_addr = '+123456789', source_addr =
'4567', short_message = 'Test send sms to mobile') or die;
exit(0);
--code-ends--
You can replace new_transceiver with new_transmitter - you should still be
able to send sms. Replace 127.0.0.1 with the IP of the SMPP server, replace
1234 with the port of the SMPP server, put in a valid username and password.
Put in a valid destination address - phone number you want to send the text
message to. Put in a valid source address - shortcode or phone number you want
to send message from, this should be allowed by the SMPP server. You can then
put in your message.
NB. I only use this script and variations of it to test my SMPP server from
time to time. It's not very clean but it should work fine.
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net wrote:
Hello,
I was looking at this module you referred too. would you happen to have an
example of coding used to send a simple text message to a cell number by chance
that I could use as a sample, would appreciate it. All I need to do is send a
message to one cell number.
Thanks,
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- Original Message -
From: Kwaku Addo Ofori
To: Mike Blezien
Cc: Perl List
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: SMS services
Hi Mike,
If you want a simple smpp client, check out Net::SMPP. I've been using it
for years as a simple smpp client test tool without any issues. It's quite
simple to use.
Kwaku.
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wrote:
Hello,
we would like to setup a Perl script for sending SMS messages. I found
several different Perl modules on CPAN for doing this and was wondering if
there are recommended messaging services that others have used with these
modules that they could recommend. And what module(s) they recommend.
Thank you,
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Formatting Numbers
Hello, Need a little assistance formatting numbers pulled from a databaes. Many are like this: 179550, 45960, 890458 etc. what I need to do is format these values with a comma so they look like this: 179,550, 45,960, 890,458 What is the easiest way to do this? Thank you, Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Formatting Numbers
Thank you Rob this helps allot and should do the trick.
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- Original Message -
From: Rob Dixon
To: Perl Beginners
Cc: Mike Blezien
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: Formatting Numbers
On 12/02/2012 16:14, Mike Blezien wrote:
Need a little assistance formatting numbers pulled from a databaes. Many
are like this:
179550, 45960, 890458 etc.
what I need to do is format these values with a comma so they look like
this:
179,550, 45,960, 890,458
What is the easiest way to do this?
Hi Mike
I suggest the subtitution s/(\d+?)(?=(\d{3})+\b)/$1,/g which looks for
all sequences of digits that are followed by a multiple of three digits
and puts a comma after each of them. The program below illustrates this.
HTH,
Rob
use strict;
use warnings;
for (qw/ 179550 45960 890458 -12345678 1/) {
(my $n = $_) =~ s/(\d+?)(?=(\d{3})+\b)/$1,/g;
print $n\n;
}
**OUTPUT**
179,550
45,960
890,458
-12,345,678
1,000,000,000,000
Remote User Enviorment
Hello, Is there away to generate a remote_user enviorment without having to use the apache popup login form? What we are thinking of doing is create a static login form, they enter their username/password, then directing them to a password protected folder with the .htaccess file in the folder. This is setup as a password protected folder right now but what we would like to do, if possible, is to direct users to a static login form 1st., so they can enter their username/password, the same as the ones stored in the .htpasswd file used by the .htaccess file in the password protected folder. If they login successfully they would then be directed to the password protected folder but wouldn't need to enter their access info again. But I assume the remote_user enviorment would need to be created when they log in from a static form. Is this possible to do with Perl ? What the whole idea is if they attempt to bypass the static login form and try to go directly to the password protect folder then they would be prompted to enter their username/password via the apache popup window login, but if they successfully login via the static form then go directly to the password protected folder without having to enter their username/password again. Hope I explained this clearly :) thanks, Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Remove all HTML tags
Hello, Is there a perl module available, or a regex method, that will prase an HTML formatted file then remove ALL the HTML elements so you end up with just the text content of the file? Any help/suggestions appreciated. Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Better Regrex
Hello,
I'm working on a simple regrex issue which I got to work but I think there's a
better way to do this. This is what I have right now. I need to simply remove
the string section in red.
my($marker);
my $message = Why are we here? To bless, inspire and uplift one another. #TRB
#inspiration #loa;
if($message =~ /\#(.*)/i) { $marker = $1; }
$message =~ s!$mark!!gi;
$message =~ s!\#!!gi;
#Resulting String wanted:
Why are we here? To bless, inspire and uplift one another.
The method I'm using above works and we get the results wanted but I was
looking at it again and I think there's a better way to do this. Any suggested
would be appreciated.
Thx's
Mike(mickalo)Blezien
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Re: Better Regrex
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From: Chas. Owens chas.ow...@gmail.com
To: Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net
Cc: Perl List beginners@perl.org
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: Better Regrex
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 09:05, Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net wrote:
Hello,
I'm working on a simple regrex issue which I got to work but I think there's a
better way to do this. This is what I have right now. I need to simply remove
the string section in red.
my($marker);
my $message = Why are we here? To bless, inspire and uplift one another. #TRB
#inspiration #loa;
if($message =~ /\#(.*)/i) { $marker = $1; }
$message =~ s!$mark!!gi;
$message =~ s!\#!!gi;
#Resulting String wanted:
Why are we here? To bless, inspire and uplift one another.
The method I'm using above works and we get the results wanted but I was
looking at it again and I think there's a better way to do this. Any suggested
would be appreciated.
snip
Removal can be done with one substitution:
$message =~ s/\s*#\S+\s*//g;
That will remove any whitespace characters followed by a # followed by
one or more non-whitespace characters and the whitespace that follows
it.
If you want to save the markers, you will need to match first, then remove them:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $message = Why are we here? To bless, inspire and uplift one
another. #TRB #inspiration #loa;
my @markers = $message =~ /#(\S+)/g;
$message =~ s/\s*#\S+\s*//g;
print [$message]\nmarkers: , join(, , @markers), \n;
=
Thx's this work very well, allot cleaner.
Mike
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Extracting Data from PDF files
Hello, I posted a question earlier about creating a PDF file from a PDF form submission which we now have working. We are able to create the PDF file to be attached to an email. The issue I'm having now is the ability to extract some specific data from these PDF file created. We need to extract a couple of form field values from the PDF file created. I've been reviewing the various PDF modules and haven't been able to figure it out. The modules I've looking at are PDF::API2::Simple and PDF::FDF::Simple. These seem to just create/edit the PDF files, but I need to extract specific data from the created PDF file. Is there another way to do this with these modules or some other method ? Thanks, Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: Extracting Data from PDF files
- Original Message - From: shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com Cc: Perl List beginners@perl.org Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 5:22 AM Subject: Re: Extracting Data from PDF files On Mar 3, 2011 6:07 AM, Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net wrote: Hello, I posted a question earlier about creating a PDF file from a PDF form submission which we now have working. We are able to create the PDF file to be attached to an email. The issue I'm having now is the ability to extract some specific data from these PDF file created. We need to extract a couple of form field values from the PDF file created. I've been reviewing the various PDF modules and haven't been able to figure it out. The modules I've looking at are PDF::API2::Simple and PDF::FDF::Simple. These seem to just create/edit the PDF files, but I need to extract specific data from the created PDF file. Is there another way to do this with these modules or some other method ? Maybe I'm missing something but why don't you just dump all of the form data into a db and then you can create as many pdf as you like? I mean, I've used a pdf scraping module (you can even do ocr with one) but it isn't fun because the data is generally not nicely formatted for this. This probably isn't the case for you but who cares because you have access to the pre-processed data. Shawn, you mean dump it into a database(db) ? the data is mostly all binary so not sure how you'd scrape it to extract the data but I'm not real fimilar with this approach :) Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Extracting Data from PDF files
- Original Message - From: shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com Cc: Perl List beginners@perl.org Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 6:04 AM Subject: Re: Extracting Data from PDF files On Mar 3, 2011 6:35 AM, Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net wrote: - Original Message - From: shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com Cc: Perl List beginners@perl.org Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 5:22 AM Subject: Re: Extracting Data from PDF files On Mar 3, 2011 6:07 AM, Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net wrote: Hello, I posted a question earlier about creating a PDF file from a PDF form submission which we now have working. We are able to create the PDF file to be attached to an email. The issue I'm having now is the ability to extract some specific data from these PDF file created. We need to extract a couple of form field values from the PDF file created. I've been reviewing the various PDF modules and haven't been able to figure it out. The modules I've looking at are PDF::API2::Simple and PDF::FDF::Simple. These seem to just create/edit the PDF files, but I need to extract specific data from the created PDF file. Is there another way to do this with these modules or some other method ? Maybe I'm missing something but why don't you just dump all of the form data into a db and then you can create as many pdf as you like? I mean, I've used a pdf scraping module (you can even do ocr with one) but it isn't fun because the data is generally not nicely formatted for this. This probably isn't the case for you but who cares because you have access to the pre-processed data. Shawn, you mean dump it into a database(db) ? the data is mostly all binary so not sure how you'd scrape it to extract the data but I'm not real fimilar with this approach :) You said your data was coming from pdf form, right? I've never done this per se, however IIRC, the data is posted to a db, web cgi, or a text file. If this is the case, why not get the text from the db - its plain text at that point, no? I wish it was that simple. All the data passed is basically all binary from the PDF form, haven't be able to figure out how to extract the actual specific form field data in the file. Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Creating PDF/FDF files
Hello, I'm working on a small project that will require us to parse data submitted from an Adobe Reader form, i.e questionaires. Then we'll need to generate either a PDF or FDF temp file, attach it to an email, and send it to use. Now parsing the data from the Adobe Form with a Perl script shouldn't be a problem. My question is what is the best Perl module to use to create the PDF(needed for digital siginatures) or a FDF file for this type of application? I've been looking at CPAN for possible solutions but not real clear which is the best to handle this type of application for both PDF or FDF formats. any suggestions or tips would be appreciated. TIA, Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: Creating PDF/FDF files
- Original Message - From: David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com To: beginners@perl.org Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 11:53 AM Subject: Re: Creating PDF/FDF files On 03/01/2011 07:58 AM, Mike Blezien wrote: I'm working on a small project that will require us to parse data submitted from an Adobe Reader form, i.e questionaires. Then we'll need to generate either a PDF or FDF temp file, attach it to an email, and send it to use. Now parsing the data from the Adobe Form with a Perl script shouldn't be a problem. My question is what is the best Perl module to use to create the PDF(needed for digital siginatures) or a FDF file for this type of application? I've been looking at CPAN for possible solutions but not real clear which is the best to handle this type of application for both PDF or FDF formats. any suggestions or tips would be appreciated. http://rick.measham.id.au/pdf-api2/ PDF::API2 PDF::TextBlock HTH, David Thanks David I'll check this out. Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Creating PDF/FDF files
- Original Message - From: Shawn H Corey shawnhco...@gmail.com To: beginners@perl.org Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 10:09 AM Subject: Re: Creating PDF/FDF files On 11-03-01 10:58 AM, Mike Blezien wrote: Hello, I'm working on a small project that will require us to parse data submitted from an Adobe Reader form, i.e questionaires. Then we'll need to generate either a PDF or FDF temp file, attach it to an email, and send it to use. Now parsing the data from the Adobe Form with a Perl script shouldn't be a problem. My question is what is the best Perl module to use to create the PDF(needed for digital siginatures) or a FDF file for this type of application? I've been looking at CPAN for possible solutions but not real clear which is the best to handle this type of application for both PDF or FDF formats. any suggestions or tips would be appreciated. I would check out PDF::API2::Simple and PDF::FDF::Simple first. They may do everything you want and they are simple. Thanks Shawn, I like things simple :) Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Creating PDF/FDF files
This is kinda of a followup to my earlier message below and may not be directly related to Perl but hope there are some list members that are fimilar with Adobe. According to the Acrobat Pro's documentation, when you use the baked in submit form function within Adobe Acrobat (as I am doing), Acrobat sends the data to the server in whatever file format you specify when setting up the submit button. (Reference: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Acrobat/9.0/Standard/WS58a04a822e3e50102bd615109794195ff-7dd6.w.html ) The way I'm understanding this reference, the end user's Acrobat software is submitting the format that I've specified in the submit button (within the PDF form) ... if that's the case, can't the script read the MIME data, save a temp file based on that MIME data, then attach that temp file to an e-mail address. This is the end results we like to accomplish. Have the Perl script interupted the PDF form and read the MIME data. Is this possible to do? If so how would the script read the MIME data or the correct way to do this within the script? Thanks again for any assistance. Mike - Original Message - From: David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com To: beginners@perl.org Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 11:53 AM Subject: Re: Creating PDF/FDF files On 03/01/2011 07:58 AM, Mike Blezien wrote: I'm working on a small project that will require us to parse data submitted from an Adobe Reader form, i.e questionaires. Then we'll need to generate either a PDF or FDF temp file, attach it to an email, and send it to use. Now parsing the data from the Adobe Form with a Perl script shouldn't be a problem. My question is what is the best Perl module to use to create the PDF(needed for digital siginatures) or a FDF file for this type of application? I've been looking at CPAN for possible solutions but not real clear which is the best to handle this type of application for both PDF or FDF formats. any suggestions or tips would be appreciated. http://rick.measham.id.au/pdf-api2/ PDF::API2 PDF::TextBlock HTH, David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Calling a PHP function from a Perl script.
Hello, this is kinda of a crossover to PHP which I'm not that fimilar with. I have a Perl script that needs to call up a specific function from a PHP script, Entry.php calls Social_preformPost() function. I simply need to pass 2 variables to this function, SocialpreformPost($id,$message) My question is do I need to use the require ./Entry.php then call the function similar to the way you'd call a regular sub routine or how is this done? thx's Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: Unable to determine error source
- Original Message -
From: Rob Dixon rob.di...@gmx.com
To: beginners@perl.org
Cc: Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 10:29 PM
Subject: Re: Unable to determine error source
On 14/02/2011 16:10, Mike Blezien wrote:
I have a script that has been generating a strange error that I can't
seem to find the source. In the script, at the top, we have the
following to help trouble shoot it if any errors:
#!/usr/bin/perl
BEGIN { open (STDERR, ./scriptname_error.log); }
In the error_log file it generates we keep seeing the following
error:
Invalid offset:
And that's it. Normally it will indicate the line#, date, detailed
error, etc., like in the apache error_log file. but this is all it
shows. This is a cron script also.
Any ideas or help with this error would be much appreciated.
Searching my own Perl libraries, I find that exactly this error would be
produced by a call to DateTime::TimeZone-new with an undefined value
for the 'name' parameter. My version validates the parameters to the
call and produces a more informative error message, but it is very
likely that you have an earlier version that doesn't do that.
HTH,
Rob
Rob,
yes that was exactly it. finally found it after some extensive digging throught
the script.
Thx's
Mike
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Unable to determine error source
Hello,
I have a script that has been generating a strange error that I can't seem to
find the source. In the script, at the top, we have the following to help
trouble shoot it if any errors:
#!/usr/bin/perl
BEGIN { open (STDERR, ./scriptname_error.log); }
In the error_log file it generates we keep seeing the following error:
Invalid offset:
And that's it. Normally it will indicate the line#, date, detailed error, etc.,
like in the apache error_log file. but this is all it shows. This is a cron
script also.
Any ideas or help with this error would be much appreciated.
TIA,
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Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period
it isn't for spam I assure you. A client of ours sends out 25-50, messages/quotes, a day to various spiritual web sites. And they have already been approved by the web sites they are posted too. They just wanted a solution to randomize when the messages go out so they are like a surprize when they appear. Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - Original Message - From: Mike McClain To: Perl List Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 10:31 PM Subject: Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 03:30:03PM -0600, Mike Blezien wrote: I'm trying to come up with a function to send out X number of message per day(24hr day) but we need to randomize the time factore each day. For snip Hope this makes sense, and someone may have done this before or may have some info the I can look into. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This sure looks like a spammer asking for help. What's the justification for this need? Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period
Uri, yes that does make sense but that's what the customer wants :) There always right aren't they !! Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - Original Message - From: Uri Guttman To: Mike Blezien Cc: Perl List ; Mike McClain Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 4:06 AM Subject: Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period MB == Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net writes: MB it isn't for spam I assure you. A client of ours sends out 25-50, MB messages/quotes, a day to various spiritual web sites. And they MB have already been approved by the web sites they are posted MB too. They just wanted a solution to randomize when the messages go MB out so they are like a surprize when they appear. given that email has random delays anyhow, why not just make them go out on a fixed period? the receivers will never know it wasn't random. and that is a lot of messages sent per day. if someone doesn't read email often, they will see a bunch in their inbox at a time. no randomness will be percieved there. i bet no one will ever say, they came in too regularly but i wanted more random spacing! uri -- Uri Guttman -- u...@stemsystems.com http://www.sysarch.com -- - Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support -- - Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix http://bestfriendscocoa.com -
Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period
What they have right now are about 25 messages they wish to spread out through out a 24hr period so they are sent out randomly during this 24 period, not a pre determined every X minutes or X hours. Why I'm not really sure, but that's what they want to do. I think I have it figured out though. thx's Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - Original Message - From: Uri Guttman To: Mike Blezien Cc: Perl List ; Mike McClain Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 5:06 AM Subject: Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period MB == Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net writes: MB Uri, MB yes that does make sense but that's what the customer wants :) MB There always right aren't they !! then do something very simple. send a message every N minutes where N is randomly picked from say 5-10. they will never know it wasn't a more random distribution. uri -- Uri Guttman -- u...@stemsystems.com http://www.sysarch.com -- - Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support -- - Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix http://bestfriendscocoa.com -
Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period
- Original Message - From: Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com To: Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net Cc: Perl List beginners@perl.org; Mike McClain mike.j...@nethere.com Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 9:35 AM Subject: Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period MB == Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net writes: MB What they have right now are about 25 messages they wish to spread MB out through out a 24hr period so they are sent out randomly during MB this 24 period, not a pre determined every X minutes or X MB hours. Why I'm not really sure, but that's what they want to MB do. I think I have it figured out though. as i said a simple solution is to slice up the 24 hours into fixed intervals. then pick a random time INSIDE each interval. random enough for those types of people. this is close to one message an hour so there is plenty of variability within each hour. and the coding is trivial. uri Uri, that's what I'm working on at the moment, trying to randomize the intervals after splitting up the 24hr period. Thx's Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period
- Original Message - From: Paul Johnson p...@pjcj.net To: Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com Cc: Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net; Perl List beginners@perl.org Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 11:05 AM Subject: Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 11:16:07AM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: MB == Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net writes: as i said a simple solution is to slice up the 24 hours into fixed intervals. then pick a random time INSIDE each interval. random enough for those types of people. this is close to one message an hour so there is plenty of variability within each hour. and the coding is trivial. MB Uri, MB that's what I'm working on at the moment, trying to randomize the MB intervals after splitting up the 24hr period. so what is taking so long? it is about 2 lines of code! seriously, just do int( rand( 60 ) and send it out that minute within the hour. (adjust 60 for the actual period from splitting the day). For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. H. L. Mencken. Of course you can redefine the problem this way, but it's more interesting to solve the original problem. To go with Rob's solution, here's something that's (more) correct: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my ($messages, $time_period) = @ARGV; # set up initial distribution my @times = map rand, 1 .. $messages; my $duration; $duration += $_ for @times; # spread over required time period my $factor = $time_period / $duration; $_ *= $factor for @times; # calculate actual times my $time = 0; $time = $_ += $time for @times; # shift down my $shift = rand $times[0]; $_ -= $shift for @times; my $n; printf %2d. %02d:%02d\n, ++$n, $_, ($_ - int $_) * 60 for @times; Paul, this works quiet well too. Appreciate the code, it save me allot time :) Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period
- Original Message - From: Paul Johnson p...@pjcj.net To: Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com Cc: Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net; Perl List beginners@perl.org Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 11:05 AM Subject: Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 11:16:07AM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: MB == Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net writes: as i said a simple solution is to slice up the 24 hours into fixed intervals. then pick a random time INSIDE each interval. random enough for those types of people. this is close to one message an hour so there is plenty of variability within each hour. and the coding is trivial. MB Uri, MB that's what I'm working on at the moment, trying to randomize the MB intervals after splitting up the 24hr period. so what is taking so long? it is about 2 lines of code! seriously, just do int( rand( 60 ) and send it out that minute within the hour. (adjust 60 for the actual period from splitting the day). For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. H. L. Mencken. Of course you can redefine the problem this way, but it's more interesting to solve the original problem. To go with Rob's solution, here's something that's (more) correct: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my ($messages, $time_period) = @ARGV; # set up initial distribution my @times = map rand, 1 .. $messages; my $duration; $duration += $_ for @times; # spread over required time period my $factor = $time_period / $duration; $_ *= $factor for @times; # calculate actual times my $time = 0; $time = $_ += $time for @times; # shift down my $shift = rand $times[0]; $_ -= $shift for @times; my $n; printf %2d. %02d:%02d\n, ++$n, $_, ($_ - int $_) * 60 for @times; Paul, quick question. my perl is a bit rusty, been away from it for awhile. But this line in your coding: my $n; printf %2d. %02d:%02d\n, ++$n, $_, ($_ - int $_) * 60 for @times; I need to put the code: %02d:%02dinto a variable to store it in a database, the hour:minute, how would I go about putting them into a variable? Thanks, Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period
- Original Message - From: Jim Gibson jimsgib...@gmail.com To: Perl List beginners@perl.org Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 4:04 PM Subject: Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period On 2/9/11 Wed Feb 9, 2011 1:05 PM, Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net scribbled: - Original Message - From: Paul Johnson p...@pjcj.net To: Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com Cc: Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net; Perl List beginners@perl.org Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 11:05 AM Subject: Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 11:16:07AM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: MB == Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net writes: as i said a simple solution is to slice up the 24 hours into fixed intervals. then pick a random time INSIDE each interval. random enough for those types of people. this is close to one message an hour so there is plenty of variability within each hour. and the coding is trivial. MB Uri, MB that's what I'm working on at the moment, trying to randomize the MB intervals after splitting up the 24hr period. so what is taking so long? it is about 2 lines of code! seriously, just do int( rand( 60 ) and send it out that minute within the hour. (adjust 60 for the actual period from splitting the day). For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. H. L. Mencken. Of course you can redefine the problem this way, but it's more interesting to solve the original problem. To go with Rob's solution, here's something that's (more) correct: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my ($messages, $time_period) = @ARGV; # set up initial distribution my @times = map rand, 1 .. $messages; my $duration; $duration += $_ for @times; # spread over required time period my $factor = $time_period / $duration; $_ *= $factor for @times; # calculate actual times my $time = 0; $time = $_ += $time for @times; # shift down my $shift = rand $times[0]; $_ -= $shift for @times; my $n; printf %2d. %02d:%02d\n, ++$n, $_, ($_ - int $_) * 60 for @times; Paul, quick question. my perl is a bit rusty, been away from it for awhile. But this line in your coding: my $n; printf %2d. %02d:%02d\n, ++$n, $_, ($_ - int $_) * 60 for @times; I need to put the code: %02d:%02dinto a variable to store it in a database, the hour:minute, how would I go about putting them into a variable? %02:%02d is not code as such. It is part of the format specifier for the printf function. You can use a string variable for the format specifier: my $fmt = %02d:%02d; print $fmt, $hour, $min; If that is not what you want, then maybe you want to put the string that is printed according to the specified format into a variable instead of writing to an output stream. To do that, use the sprintf function instead of printf: my $hhmm = sprintf(%02:%02,$hour,$min); Ok how would I go about getting this variable from this line or I'm I missing something: my $n; printf %2d. %02d:%02d\n, ++$n, $_, ($_ - int $_) * 60 for @times; instead of printing it output ? This where I get messed up. Thx's Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period
- Original Message -
From: Jim Gibson jimsgib...@gmail.com
To: Perl List beginners@perl.org
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period
On 2/9/11 Wed Feb 9, 2011 2:30 PM, Mike Blezien
mick...@frontiernet.net scribbled:
- Original Message -
From: Jim Gibson jimsgib...@gmail.com
To: Perl List beginners@perl.org
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period
On 2/9/11 Wed Feb 9, 2011 1:05 PM, Mike Blezien
mick...@frontiernet.net scribbled:
- Original Message -
From: Paul Johnson p...@pjcj.net
Paul,
quick question. my perl is a bit rusty, been away from it for awhile. But
this
line in your coding:
my $n; printf %2d. %02d:%02d\n, ++$n, $_, ($_ - int $_) * 60 for @times;
I need to put the code: %02d:%02dinto a variable to store it in a
database, the hour:minute, how would I go about putting them into a
variable?
%02:%02d is not code as such. It is part of the format specifier for the
printf function.
You can use a string variable for the format specifier:
my $fmt = %02d:%02d;
print $fmt, $hour, $min;
If that is not what you want, then maybe you want to put the string that is
printed according to the specified format into a variable instead of writing
to an output stream. To do that, use the sprintf function instead of printf:
my $hhmm = sprintf(%02:%02,$hour,$min);
Ok how would I go about getting this variable from this line or I'm I missing
something:
my $n; printf %2d. %02d:%02d\n, ++$n, $_, ($_ - int $_) * 60 for @times;
instead of printing it output ? This where I get messed up.
That statement is a little complex for a beginner's list (IMO), as is the
rest of Paul's program.
That one line above is equivalent to the following:
my $n;
for ( @times ) {
printf( %2d. %02d:%02d\n, ++$n, $_, ($_ - int $_) * 60);
}
You are only interested in the hour:minute part of the output, so you can
ignore the counter $n, and for multi-line loops you should use an explicit
loop variable instead of the default $_, giving:
for my $hr ( @times ) {
my $hhmm = sprintf( %02d:%02d, $hr, ($hr - int $hr) * 60);
# do something with $hhmm
}
The @times array contains numerical values in hours, so $hhmm will contain a
string of the form 23:59, depending upon the values entered for the number
of messages and the duration.
thanks Jim. After playing around with it for a while finally figured it myself.
just had look at a bit more. been out of the programming game for a while and
still rusty. but it's coming back. Thanks to all the other help that was posted.
Mike
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Randomizing a 24hr time period
Hello, I'm trying to come up with a function to send out X number of message per day(24hr day) but we need to randomize the time factore each day. For example if 50 messages are scheduled to be sent out in 24 hr time period we want to randomize the times they go out during this time period instead of a fixed time period. So if a message goes out at 1:25am, the next message goes out at some random time, the next message goes out at a random time, and so on. We will be setting up a cron job to run a script every minute to send out these messages but don't want to send them out a per determined times but to fully randomize the time factor for each 24 time period(ea day). Hope this makes sense, and someone may have done this before or may have some info the I can look into. Thx's Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period
Thanks Jim, this helps allot. You've given me a good starting point. Appreciate the help. Mike - Original Message - From: Jim Gibson To: Perl List Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 5:52 PM Subject: Re: Randomizing a 24hr time period On 2/7/11 Mon Feb 7, 2011 1:30 PM, Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net scribbled: Hello, I'm trying to come up with a function to send out X number of message per day(24hr day) but we need to randomize the time factore each day. For example if 50 messages are scheduled to be sent out in 24 hr time period we want to randomize the times they go out during this time period instead of a fixed time period. So if a message goes out at 1:25am, the next message goes out at some random time, the next message goes out at a random time, and so on. We will be setting up a cron job to run a script every minute to send out these messages but don't want to send them out a per determined times but to fully randomize the time factor for each 24 time period(ea day). You can generate uniform random numbers between 0 and 1 by using the built-in rand() function. See perldoc -f rand perldoc -q random: Why aren't my random numbers random? How do I get a random number between X and Y? So, for example, you can calculate a randomized time for the next message in the interval 1 to 59 with the expression (1 + int(rand(59)). The average interval will be 30 minutes, which will result in, on average, 48 messages per day. Some days will have more, some less. Intervals will range from 1 to 59 minutes. If that is too much variation, you can use a different interval, e.g. 20 to 39, which still has an average interval of 30. If you are starting an instance of your program every minute, you will have to save the time for the next message and only send a message when that time occurs, then compute the time for the next message. You can also compute the probability of sending a message as 50/1440 (0.0347222), compute a random number every minute, and only send the message if the random number is less than 0.0347222. You have no control over the interval between successive messages that way, however. If a uniform distribution is not desirable, see the Math::Random module for more distributions. The normal (gaussian) distribution (bell curve) is quite common in many applications. If having exactly 50 messages in a 24-hour period is important, then you will have to use a more adaptive probability calculator that looks at the number of messages issued so far in calculating whether or not to send a message at each minute. Search for probability distributions for more information. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Directory Size
Hello, I've been out of the programming game for a while and recently got back into some small programming projects. Just need to figure out if there is a Perl function to determine the total size of a folder and files? Meaning once we open/read a directory is to calculate the total, in MB's, the size of the files in a particular directory folder. Thanks, Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Directory Size
- Original Message - From: Owen rc...@pcug.org.au To: Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net Cc: Perl List beginners@perl.org Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 8:17 PM Subject: Re: Directory Size Hello, I've been out of the programming game for a while and recently got back into some small programming projects. Just need to figure out if there is a Perl function to determine the total size of a folder and files? Meaning once we open/read a directory is to calculate the total, in MB's, the size of the files in a particular directory folder. http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=168974 may help. -- Owen Thanks Owen for the reference very helpful. Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Directory Size
- Original Message -
From: Alan Haggai Alavi alanhag...@alanhaggai.org
To: beginners@perl.org; Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: Directory Size
On Thursday 28 Oct 2010 06:30:01 Mike Blezien wrote:
Hello,
I've been out of the programming game for a while and recently got back
into some small programming projects. Just need to figure out if there is
a Perl function to determine the total size of a folder and files? Meaning
once we open/read a directory is to calculate the total, in MB's, the size
of the files in a particular directory folder.
Thanks,
Mike(mickalo)Blezien
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Hi Mike,
You could make use of File::Find's find function along with stat.
=pod Example
use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Find;
my $size;
my $directory = '/path/to/some/directory';
sub determine_size {
if ( -f $File::Find::name ) {
$size += ( stat $File::Find::name )[7];
}
}
find( \determine_size, $directory );
$size /= 1024 * 1024;
print Total size: $size MB\n;
=cut
Relevant documents to read:
`perldoc File::Find` - http://perldoc.perl.org/File/Find.html
`perldoc -f stat` - http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/stat.html
Regards,
Alan Haggai Alavi.
Thank you Alan I think this was exactly what I was looking for, now I recall how
it's done again. :)
MIke
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Strange Error
Hello, I'm getting a strange error and for the life of me can't figure out what causing it. All that's in the error log is the following: [Mon Apr 19 13:01:37 2010] index.cgi: Invalid offset: 1 Would anyone have any ideas what to look for that would cause this type of error message ? Thanks, Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: Strange Error
Hi Jim, After futher digging we found the problem it had to do with a DateTime string. Thanks for the help. Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - Original Message - From: Jim Gibson jimsgib...@gmail.com To: Perl List beginners@perl.org Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 4:14 PM Subject: Re: Strange Error On 4/19/10 Mon Apr 19, 2010 11:07 AM, Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net scribbled: Hello, I'm getting a strange error and for the life of me can't figure out what causing it. All that's in the error log is the following: [Mon Apr 19 13:01:37 2010] index.cgi: Invalid offset: 1 Would anyone have any ideas what to look for that would cause this type of error message ? It could be an explicit test in the program that is running. It looks like you are running a CGI program. Is it written in Perl? Do you have access to the source code? If so, find the source code (index.cgi?) and search for the string 'Invalid offset:' and look at the code just before it. That string does not turn up in 'perldoc perldiag', so might be issued by the program explicitly, or maybe a module used by the program. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
PayPal API
Hello, we are in the process of setting up an API for Paypal's Masspay and was looking at the module: Business::PayPal::API::MassPay Has anyone had any experience using this module? Any bugs in it? Thanks, Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
LWP error returned
Hello, I've run into an error while using the LWP module which I haven't come accross before and was wondering what is means. This is the coding I'm using: -- use LWP::UserAgent; my $USERNAME = XX; my $PASSWORD = XX; my $URL = http://technet.rapaport.com/HTTP/RapLink/download.aspx?Polish=I,EX,VG,G,F,PSymm=I,EX,VG,G,F,PSortBy=ownerWhite=1Fancy=1Programmatically=yes;; my $URL = qq~https://technet.rapaport.com/HTTP/RapLink/download.aspx?Shape=BCaratSizeFrom=0.4CaratSizeTo=3.5ColorFrom=DColorTo=JClarityFrom=FLClarityTo=SI1CutFrom=ICutTo=GGradeReport=GIA,AGSPolish=I,EX,VG,GSymmetry=I,EX,VG,GFluorescenceIntensity=N,VSL,F,M,SSellerLogin=67155,60745,32235,39321,43460,28426,43412,67000,68708,50841SortBy=ownerWhite=1Programmatically=yes~; my $ua = LWP::UserAgent-new(); $ua-timeout(60); #create request my $req = new HTTP::Request 'POST' = $URL; $req-content_type(application/x-www-form-urlencoded); #add creadentials to request $req-authorization_basic($USERNAME,$PASSWORD); my $res = $ua-request($req); my $content = $res-content(); --- The error/content is returns is Length Required not exactly sure what that means. Any help much appreciated. TIA, Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: LWP error returned
- Original Message - From: Dermot paik...@googlemail.com To: Perl List beginners@perl.org Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 10:14 AM Subject: Re: LWP error returned On 10 February 2010 15:47, Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net wrote: Hello, I've run into an error while using the LWP module which I haven't come accross before and was wondering what is means. This is the coding I'm using: -- use LWP::UserAgent; my $USERNAME = XX; my $PASSWORD = XX; my $URL = http://technet.rapaport.com/HTTP/RapLink/download.aspx?Polish=I,EX,VG,G,F,PSymm=I,EX,VG,G,F,PSortBy=ownerWhite=1Fancy=1Programmatically=yes;; my $URL = qq~https://technet.rapaport.com/HTTP/RapLink/download.aspx?Shape=BCaratSizeFrom=0.4CaratSizeTo=3.5ColorFrom=DColorTo=JClarityFrom=FLClarityTo=SI1CutFrom=ICutTo=GGradeReport=GIA,AGSPolish=I,EX,VG,GSymmetry=I,EX,VG,GFluorescenceIntensity=N,VSL,F,M,SSellerLogin=67155,60745,32235,39321,43460,28426,43412,67000,68708,50841SortBy=ownerWhite=1Programmatically=yes~; my $ua = LWP::UserAgent-new(); $ua-timeout(60); #create request my $req = new HTTP::Request 'POST' = $URL; $req-content_type(application/x-www-form-urlencoded); #add creadentials to request $req-authorization_basic($USERNAME,$PASSWORD); my $res = $ua-request($req); my $content = $res-content(); --- The error/content is returns is Length Required not exactly sure what that means. A pure guess would be that the host requires a 'content-length' header OR the web service requires a length parameter. Is there something else I need to add to the coding the to pass this parameter ?? Thx's Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Working with Excel spreadsheets
Hello, we need to extract data from uploaded Excel spreadsheets, XLS binary files. What is the best perl module to accomplish this with ?? Thanks, Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Working with Excel spreadsheets
- Original Message - From: Owen rc...@pcug.org.au To: Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net Cc: Perl List beginners@perl.org Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 6:14 PM Subject: Re: Working with Excel spreadsheets Hello, we need to extract data from uploaded Excel spreadsheets, XLS binary files. What is the best perl module to accomplish this with ?? Updated yesterday, Spreadsheet::ParseExcel Put 'excel' into the box at http://search.cpan.org/ and you may find others, like Spreadsheet::DataFromExcel Thanks Owen. I was reading through that module but wanted to find something bit simpler to use, like the DataFromExcel or Excel2Text then work with the exported data. Think we'll do some testing and see which one will suite our need. Thanks for the help Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Working with Excel spreadsheets
Yes this seem quiet easy to use also. I must have missed this one while browsing through CPAN's site. thanks, Mike - Original Message - From: ANJAN PURKAYASTHA To: Mike Blezien Cc: rc...@pcug.org.au ; Perl List Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 7:59 PM Subject: Re: Working with Excel spreadsheets Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Simple is the simplest module to use. Very user friendly. I use it often. HTH, Anjan On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net wrote: - Original Message - From: Owen rc...@pcug.org.au To: Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net Cc: Perl List beginners@perl.org Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 6:14 PM Subject: Re: Working with Excel spreadsheets Hello, we need to extract data from uploaded Excel spreadsheets, XLS binary files. What is the best perl module to accomplish this with ?? Updated yesterday, Spreadsheet::ParseExcel Put 'excel' into the box at http://search.cpan.org/ and you may find others, like Spreadsheet::DataFromExcel Thanks Owen. I was reading through that module but wanted to find something bit simpler to use, like the DataFromExcel or Excel2Text then work with the exported data. Think we'll do some testing and see which one will suite our need. Thanks for the help Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/ -- = anjan purkayastha, phd * research associate* fas center for systems biology, * harvard university * =
Basic Domain and IP Info
Hello, I've been looking for some basic domain/IP info that we can generate for domain/IP addresses entered from a form. I've been searching CPAN without much luck, but maybe looking in the wrong places. What I like to do is obtain the following information for the domain/IP address: Name Servers for the domain name IPs associated with the domain What/How many sites are using the IP Reverse IP Lookup HTTP Status Code Are there any Perl modules, toolkits, available that do these type of task? any help or suggestion much appreciated, Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Basic Domain and IP Info
- Original Message - From: Jeff Peng jeffp...@netzero.net To: Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net Cc: Perl List beginners@perl.org Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 8:05 PM Subject: Re: Basic Domain and IP Info 在 2010-01-17日的 11:16 -0600，Mike Blezien写道： Hello, I've been looking for some basic domain/IP info that we can generate for domain/IP addresses entered from a form. I've been searching CPAN without much luck, but maybe looking in the wrong places. What I like to do is obtain the following information for the domain/IP address: Name Servers for the domain name IPs associated with the domain What/How many sites are using the IP Reverse IP Lookup HTTP Status Code Are there any Perl modules, toolkits, available that do these type of task? Hi, What you want is an integrative Perl program, not just a perl module. The 1st,2nd and 4th could be done by Net::DNS module. For the 3rd item, do you mean how many virtual hosts are located in an IP? That is not easy to gather, unless you are the hostmaster of those IPs. For the 5th item, you may look at HTTP::Status following with LWP::UserAgent module if I understand for you correctly. HTH. Thanks Jeff, this gives me some places to start with. Regarding item#3 I was getting at how many domains share the same IP entered in a form. I.E. on one of our dedicated servers the main IP address is 75.125.1.226 which has approx., 12 domains sharing that same IP address. Not that critical though. :) Thx's Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
What does the __FILE__ mean?
Hello, I have sub routine in a module that creates a MD5 hash: make_md5(__FILE__); what exactly does this __FILE__ represent, the current filename ? thanks for any help, Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: What does the __FILE__ mean?
Ok, thanks I think I found what I was looking for, Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - Original Message - From: Shawn H Corey shawnhco...@gmail.com To: Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net Cc: Perl List beginners@perl.org Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 3:21 PM Subject: Re: What does the __FILE__ mean? Mike Blezien wrote: Hello, I have sub routine in a module that creates a MD5 hash: make_md5(__FILE__); what exactly does this __FILE__ represent, the current filename ? See `perldoc perldata` and search for /Special Literals/ http://perldoc.perl.org/perldata.html -- Just my 0.0002 million dollars worth, Shawn Programming is as much about organization and communication as it is about coding. I like Perl; it's the only language where you can bless your thingy. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Convert PHP functions to Perl
Hello, I'm working on converting some PHP coding to a Perl system. come across a couple of functions I'm not familiar with and was hoping we have some experienced PHP programmer on the list that can help out. These are the functions I need to switch over to Perl: str_shuffle() microtime() What is the Perl equivalent to these functions ? thx's and happy holidays, Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing http://www.thunder-rain.com/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: Convert PHP functions to Perl
Hi Shlomi,
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From: Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il
To: beginners@perl.org; Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net
Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2009 7:38 AM
Subject: Re: Convert PHP functions to Perl
On Sunday 27 Dec 2009 15:12:24 Mike Blezien wrote:
Hello,
Hi Mike!
I'm working on converting some PHP coding to a Perl system. come across a
couple of functions I'm not familiar with and was hoping we have some
experienced PHP programmer on the list that can help out. These are the
functions I need to switch over to Perl:
str_shuffle()
microtime()
What is the Perl equivalent to these functions ?
Here you go:
#!/usr/bin/perl
# Implement PHP's str_shuffle() and microtime() in Perl 5.
# Written by Shlomi Fish ( http://www.shlomifish.org/ )
#
# Copyright by Shlomi Fish, 2009 and licensed under the MIT/X11 License (
# http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php ).
#
# If you like this code, please consider contributing to either me:
# http://www.shlomifish.org/meta/how-to-help/ or the Perl Foundation:
# http://www.perlfoundation.org/ .
use strict;
use warnings;
use List::Util qw(shuffle);
# See
# http://php.net/manual/en/function.str-shuffle.php
sub str_shuffle
{
my $string = shift;
return join(, shuffle(split //, $string));
}
sub test_str_shuffle
{
my $string = shift;
print sprintf(qq{Shuffling of %s is %s.\n},
$string, str_shuffle($string)
);
}
use Time::HiRes qw(gettimeofday);
# See:
# http://php.net/manual/en/function.microtime.php
sub microtime
{
my $get_as_float = shift;
my ($secs, $microsecs) = gettimeofday();
if ($get_as_float)
{
return $secs + ($microsecs * 1e-6);
}
else
{
return $microsecs $secs;
}
}
sub test_microtime
{
my $get_as_float = shift;
print Microtime( .
($get_as_float ? true : false) . ) = .
microtime($get_as_float) . \n
;
}
test_str_shuffle(HelloWorld);
test_str_shuffle(This sentence is false.);
test_microtime(1);
test_microtime();
microtime() seems like it is badly designed and you may wish using
Time::HiRes's gettimeofday() directly.
thx's and happy holidays,
Happy holidays and a happy new year to you too.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
Works prefectly! Thank you. Using the gettimeofday() directly does work better
:)
Have a safe and great new year ... to all :)
Mike(mickalo)Blezien
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Re: XML::Simple question
- Original Message - From: Jenda Krynicky je...@krynicky.cz To: Perl List beginners@perl.org Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 6:44 PM Subject: Re: XML::Simple question From: Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.net Hello, were using the XML/Simple module to process a XML response using the code below. But for some reason the module can't read the $xmlresponse data unless we create a temp file first to store the data then pass that to the module. Is there a way to do this without having to create a temp file first. ?? Everything does work, the response is return. We used the Data/Dumper module to verify the data first. = my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent; $ua-timeout(10); $ua-agent(HTTP/1.1); my $req = new HTTP::Request 'POST' = $xmlscript; DO NOT QUOTE VARIABLES! If the $variable already contains a string, you just unnecessary make a copy. If it contains a number (well it can contain both, but I mean the case when it contains just the number), you force Perl to convert the number to string (and store that string alongside the number in the variable) and make a copy of the string. And possibly later it will have to convert the string back to number. And these are the cases when it actually works, even if it's inefficient. As soon as you quote like this a variable that contains a reference or an object (a reference bless()ed to a package), you end up with useles string, that will just look like a reference when printed out. Do not quote variables! my $req = new HTTP::Request 'POST' = $xmlscript; is enough! my $simple = new XML::Simple(KeyAttr=[]); # read XML file my $xmldata = $simple-XMLin($xmlresponse); OK, you are safe from automatic key related transformations ... what about tags with optional attributes? Or tags that are sometimes but not always repeated? See http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=697036 Jenda Jenda, thanks for the info, I nomarlly don't quote variables like that, just didn't catch that one. Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing http://www.thunder-rain.com/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
XML::Simple question
Hello, were using the XML/Simple module to process a XML response using the code below. But for some reason the module can't read the $xmlresponse data unless we create a temp file first to store the data then pass that to the module. Is there a way to do this without having to create a temp file first. ?? Everything does work, the response is return. We used the Data/Dumper module to verify the data first. = my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent; $ua-timeout(10); $ua-agent(HTTP/1.1); my $req = new HTTP::Request 'POST' = $xmlscript; $req-content_type(application/x-www-form-urlencoded); $req-content($xmlrequest); my $res = $ua-request($req); my $error = $res-is_error(); my $success = $res-is_success(); # Data returned in XML Format my $xmlresponse = $res-content(); my $simple = new XML::Simple(KeyAttr=[]); # read XML file my $xmldata = $simple-XMLin($xmlresponse); # can't read the response in this manner === Thanks and happy holidays, Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing http://www.thunder-rain.com/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Re: XML::Simple question
- Original Message - From: Robert Wohlfarth rbwohlfa...@gmail.com To: Perl List beginners@perl.org Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 5:47 PM Subject: Re: XML::Simple question On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Mike Blezien mick...@frontiernet.netwrote: were using the XML/Simple module to process a XML response using the code below. But for some reason the module can't read the $xmlresponse data unless we create a temp file first to store the data then pass that to the module. Is there a way to do this without having to create a temp file first. ?? Everything does work, the response is return. We used the Data/Dumper module to verify the data first. = my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent; $ua-timeout(10); $ua-agent(HTTP/1.1); my $req = new HTTP::Request 'POST' = $xmlscript; $req-content_type(application/x-www-form-urlencoded); $req-content($xmlrequest); my $res = $ua-request($req); my $error = $res-is_error(); my $success = $res-is_success(); # Data returned in XML Format my $xmlresponse = $res-content(); my $simple = new XML::Simple(KeyAttr=[]); # read XML file my $xmldata = $simple-XMLin($xmlresponse); # can't read the response in this manner === Try the parse_string method instead. The documentation says that XMLin guesses based on the presence of and characters. It appears that XMLin guesses wrong in your case. parse_string explicitly expects an XML string. So there's no logic to confuse. -- Robert Wohlfarth Thanks Robert, that did the trick :) Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing Custom Programming Web Hosting Services http://www.thunder-rain.com/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Google/Checkout API
Hello, We are in the process of setting up a checkout page using Paypal and Google's Checkout, using the Google Checkout HTML API. This is simple setup with 3 different single items that can be ordered using Paypal or Google Checkout. Now setting up the Paypal API no problems there. But I haven't worked with the GoogleCheckout HTML API before and have been trying to figure out the best way to set it up. All we need to do is have a checkout button/form to process a single item purchase and receive instant notification that the payment was validated, sucessfull or not, similar to how Paypal works. I've been trying to go through Google docs on their site and the info within the Perl API docs but it's a bit confusing to say the least :) I was hoping someone on the list may have worked with Google's Checkout API with a similar simple setup like this and can steer me in the right direction, creating the payment order form to submit the payment and which API module(s) need to be utilized. There are bunch of different modules/examples scripts used but I'm sure not all of them are needed to process a simple single item order payment and receive the notification. Any help or suggestion would be appreciated. Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing http://www.thunder-rain.com/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Tucows OpenSRS Module
Hello, I'm trying to use the Net::OpenSRS module to post new domain registrations for the Tucows API. I've been attempting to grasp the method for posting a new domain registration but haven't been able to understand how this module works for posting to Tucows. I've looked at the module info posted on Cpan but haven't grasp how this works yet. Was hoping someone has used the module and maybe share an example of how to post the request. Any help would be appreciated. TIA, Mike(mickalo)Blezien === Thunder Rain Internet Publishing Providing Internet Solution that Work http://www.thunder-rain.com === -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
Using MIME::Lite to send via SMTP
Hello,
we've been trying to setup MIME::Lite to send email via SMTP but keep getting
the following error:
-
SMTP auth() command failed: Incorrect authentication data
-
we have verified that the SMTP information, smtp host, username and password are
correct. the code that sends out the email:
$msg-send('smtp',$host,AuthUser=$user,AuthPass=$pwd,Timeout=60) or die $!;
Now I've setup the identical script on a different server, which uses the same
MTA(Exim) and it worked fine just changed the host, username and password.
If we use the Mail::Sender module on this same server which has the problem
sending it with MIME::Lite, to send out SMTP email, then it works fine, and
using the same identical host, username and password info as used in the
MIME::Lite script. I realize we can use the Mail::Sender module instead, as this
works fine, but would prefer to use MIME::Lite ... just a personal preference :)
So I was wondering if there is some sort of trick to get MIME::Lite to work
correctly. I have also verified that the MIME::Base64 Authen::SASL modules,
used by MIME::Lite, are installed.
Any help or tips much appreciated,
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Reading SQLite db
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Re: Reading SQLite db
Chas,
Worked like a charm! thanks so much for the help :)
Mike
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From: Chas. Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mike Blezien [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Perl List beginners@perl.org
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: Reading SQLite db
On Jan 24, 2008 1:49 PM, Mike Blezien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello
I've attached a sqlite db file and have been trying to find a way to read
this
type of file w/Perl. Is there a module or a way with Perl to read/extract
data
from this type of file ??
snip
Use the DBI module with DBD::SQLite:
#! /usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use DBI;
my $dbh = DBI-connect(
dbi:SQLite:dbname=sms.db,
'',
'',
{
ChopBlanks = 1,
AutoCommit = 1,
PrintError = 0,
RaiseError = 1,
FetchHashKeyName = 'NAME_lc'
}
) or die DBI-errstr;
my $sth = $dbh-prepare(select * from message order by 1);
$sth-execute;
while (my $row = $sth-fetch) {
print join(, , @$row), \n;
}
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SoapLite Error
Hello,
we're trying to put together a SOAP::Lite application but keep getting this
error message:
===
soaptest.cgi: Element 'XMLRequest' can't be allowed in valid XML message. Died.
at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/SOAP/Lite.pm
===
this is a snip of code being used, the line
SOAP::Data-name(XMLRequest=$xmllines),
seems to be causing the error.
===
my $soap = SOAP::Lite
- uri('https://www.edentifyservices.com/')
- proxy('https://www.edentifyservices.com/XMLGateway/Request.asmx')
- on_action( sub { return 'http://tempuri.org/ProcessRequest' });
# Format the SOAP envelope
my $method = SOAP::Data-name('ProcessRequest')-attr({xmlns
='http://tempuri.org/'});
# Format the SOAP body
my $query = SOAP::Data-name(ProcessRequest = SOAP::Data-value(
SOAP::Data-name(ServiceName='idalert'),
SOAP::Data-name(XMLRequest=$xmllines),
SOAP::Data-name(Userid=$conf{edentify}-{Userid}),
SOAP::Data-name(password=$conf{edentify}-{Password}),
SOAP::Data-name(Options=''))
);
# Query the web service
my $result = $soap-call($method = $query);
=
This is the way it suppose to be setup according to documentation provided by
the service provider, Edentify. The $xmllines is a XML request formatted file
sent in the request. The $xmllines looks like this and passed to the
'XMLRequest= :
=
idalertusernameTotalPayroll/usernamecandidatescandidate
firstnameKaren/firstnamemiR/milastnameJones/lastname
suffix/suffixssn339448854/ssndob6/25/1965/doblocatorDD-987654321/locator
addressaddress18585 N. Center Ave./address1address2/address2
cityJonestown/citystateNE/statezip66654/zip/address
/candidate/candidates/idalert
=
Any help would be much appreciated. This is my first crack using SoapLite :)
Thx's
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Hello, we have been looking for a Perl written shopping cart that has the PayPal's Website Payments Pro integrated with it, but haven't found any. There several PHP carts that do have it, but prefer to stay with Perl. Was hoping someone on the list may know of a Perl cart that has this feature. Look at the Business-PayPal-API modules which would also do the trick, but was hoping to find something already setup, if there is one :) thx's for any feedback. Mike(mickalo)Blezien === Thunder Rain Internet Publishing === -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Parsing large XML file - Revisited
Mirod,
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From: mirod [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: beginners@perl.org
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: Parsing large XML file - Revisited
On Jul 22, 3:33 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr.Ruud) wrote:
Mike Blezien schreef:
my $article_number = $elt-first_child_text('article_number');
my $dist_number= $elt-first_child_text('distributor_number');
my $dist_name = $elt-first_child_text('distributor_name');
my $artist = $elt-first_child_text('artist');
my $ean_upc= $elt-first_child_text('ean_upc');
my $set_total = $elt-first_child_text('set_total');
That looks awful. Isn't there some way with the module to do it cleaner?
Or do it more like:
my @text_tags = qw(article_number distributor_number etc);
my %data;
for my $tag (@text_tags) {
$data{_text}{$tag} = $elt-first_child_text($tag);
}
just a quick note, that first_child_text can also be written field,
which often
makes more sense in a data oriented context.
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that was an excellent idea :) Alot cleaner and alot less coding involved. Still
fairly new working with XML parsing.
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Re: Parsing large XML file - Revisited
Rob,
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From: Rob Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: beginners@perl.org
Cc: Mike Blezien [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: Parsing large XML file - Revisited
Mike Blezien wrote:
Mirod wrote:
On Jul 22, 3:33 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr.Ruud) wrote:
Mike Blezien schreef:
my $article_number = $elt-first_child_text('article_number');
my $dist_number= $elt-first_child_text('distributor_number');
my $dist_name = $elt-first_child_text('distributor_name');
my $artist = $elt-first_child_text('artist');
my $ean_upc= $elt-first_child_text('ean_upc');
my $set_total = $elt-first_child_text('set_total');
That looks awful. Isn't there some way with the module to do it cleaner?
Or do it more like:
my @text_tags = qw(article_number distributor_number etc);
my %data;
for my $tag (@text_tags) {
$data{_text}{$tag} = $elt-first_child_text($tag);
}
just a quick note, that first_child_text can also be written field,
which often makes more sense in a data oriented context.
that was an excellent idea :) Alot cleaner and alot less coding involved.
Still fairly new working with XML parsing.
Hi Mike
Using a shorter synonym for a method isn't a significant improvement. I prefer
the 'first_child_text' name as it is more descriptive, and if I was using
exactly the code above I would rewrite it as:
my ($article_number, $dist_number, $dist_name, $artist, $ean_upc, $set_total)
= map {
$elt-first_child_text($_)
} qw/article_number distributor_number distributor_name artist ean_upc
set_total/
But I made no changes to your code apart from to correct the semantics as it
wasn't
at all obvious what you're doing. The code you posted just extracts XML field
text
values into a number of lexical variables and then discards them. If you give
us an
idea what your final intention is then I'm sure we can help, and it probably
won't
involve using 'field' instead of 'first_child_text'; but it is likely that a
hash
structure would be more appropriate.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, it's important to separate XML nodes from
their
textual content. XML::Twig methods return both types of data and it's best not
to mix
them up. More importantly, you can always extract the text data value from an
XML node,
but the reverse isn't true.
Obviously there are several approaches to accomplish this task. With the help of
yourself and others who posted, I have been able to put together a fairly
efficient script, as we need to process parse approx., 5000+ XML files
averaging 9-1000KB's in size. So far it has been working smoothly :)
Mike
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Re: Parsing large XML file - Revisited
Rob,
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From: Rob Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Perl List beginners@perl.org
Cc: Mike Blezien [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: Parsing large XML file
Mike Blezien wrote:
we need to parse some very large XML files, approx., 900-1000KB's filesize. A
sample of a typical XML file can be view here that would be parsed:
http://projects.thunder-rain.com/uploads/01.xml
I was planning on using the XML::Twig module to do this, using the following
code snip to loop through each of the product /product elements. Not
every single element is needed but most within each loop of each
product/product
# Code snip:
my $xmlfile = '/path/to/upload/01.xml';
my $cgi = new CGI();
my $twig = new XML::Twig(twig_handlers = {
product = \get_products,
});
$twig-parsefile($xmlfile);
sub get_products {
my($t,$elt) = @_;
# loop through each product.
my $article_number = $elt-first_child_text('article_number');
my $ean_upc= $elt-first_child_text('ean_upc');
my $distributor_number = $elt-first_child_text('distributor_number');
my $distributor_name = $elt-first_child_text('distributor_name');
my $artist = $elt-first_child_text('artist');
# now loop through each
tracksnumber_of_tracks/number_of_tracksplaytime/playtime
# track sound /sound /track/tracks for each product.
# number_of_tracks element determines total tracks .. track sound
/sound /track .. /tracks
# # in loop.
$t-purge();
}
exit();
#
Now the areas I'm have alot of problem is with the elements within each
product, the
tracks /tracks and looping through each of the tracks child
elements and sound/sound
-
product
...
tracks
number_of_tracks/number_of_tracksplaytime/playtime
track
sound ..
/sound
/track
/tracks
/product
Is there a better way to do this to obtain all the data within each of the
product ... /product elements? I've never really worked with XML files
this large and complex tree. Any help or suggestions would be much
appreciated.
Hi Mike
Your application of XML::Twig seems exactly right. I'm not sure what it is you
don't understand, but if you use this as your 'get_products' subroutine I hope
it answers some questions. All it does is print the title of the product and
the title of all the tracks in that product. Post again if you have any
trouble
understanding what I've written.
sub get_products {
my $product = $_;
my $product_title = $product-first_child('title');
print $product_title-trimmed_text, \n;
my $tracks = $product-first_child('tracks');
return unless $tracks;
foreach my $track ($tracks-children('track')) {
my $track_title = $track-first_child('title');
print ' ', $track_title-trimmed_text, \n;
}
print \n;
}
we've run a few test and everything seems to be working as expected, but got one
little problem I haven't been able to figure out, we keep getting this error
(code snipt below)
Can't call method first_child_text on an undefined value
at .. /sample.cgi line 56 which is this line my $tracknums =
$tracks-first_child_text('number_of_tracks');
a value for the $tracknums is returned and all other values are presented
after it parses the XML file. Haven't been able to figure out why I keep getting
this error??
my $twig= new XML::Twig(twig_handlers = { product = \get_products });
$twig-parsefile($xmlfile); $twig-purge();
sub get_products {
my($t,$elt) = @_;
my($track_title,$trackno,$setno,$soundtype,$codec,$file);
# process each product loop.
my $article_number = $elt-first_child_text('article_number');
my $dist_number= $elt-first_child_text('distributor_number');
my $dist_name = $elt-first_child_text('distributor_name');
my $artist = $elt-first_child_text('artist');
my $ean_upc= $elt-first_child_text('ean_upc');
my $set_total = $elt-first_child_text('set_total');
my $tracks= $elt-first_child('tracks');
# LINE 56 here
my $tracknums = $tracks-first_child_text('number_of_tracks');
return unless $tracks;
for my $track ($tracks-children('track'))
{
$track_title = $track-first_child_text('title');
$trackno = $track-first_child_text('trackno');
$setno = $track-first_child_text('setno');
for my $sound ($track-children('sound'))
{
$soundtype = $sound-first_child_text('sound_type');
$codec = $sound-first_child_text('codec');
$file = $sound-first_child_text('file');~;
}
} # close for $track loop
# free up memory
$t
Re: Parsing large XML file - Revisited
Rob,
- Original Message -
From: Rob Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Perl List beginners@perl.org
Cc: Mike Blezien [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: Parsing large XML file - Revisited
Mike Blezien wrote:
Rob Dixon wrote:
Mike Blezien wrote:
[snip]
we've run a few test and everything seems to be working as expected,
but got one little problem I haven't been able to figure out, we keep
getting this error (code snipt below)
Can't call method first_child_text on an undefined value
at .. /sample.cgi line 56 which is this line my $tracknums =
$tracks-first_child_text('number_of_tracks');
a value for the $tracknums is returned and all other values are presented
after it parses the XML file. Haven't been able to figure out why I keep
getting this error??
my $twig = new XML::Twig(twig_handlers = { product = \get_products });
$twig-parsefile($xmlfile);
$twig-purge();
sub get_products {
my($t,$elt) = @_;
my($track_title,$trackno,$setno,$soundtype,$codec,$file);
# process each product loop.
my $article_number = $elt-first_child_text('article_number');
my $dist_number= $elt-first_child_text('distributor_number');
my $dist_name = $elt-first_child_text('distributor_name');
my $artist = $elt-first_child_text('artist');
my $ean_upc= $elt-first_child_text('ean_upc');
my $set_total = $elt-first_child_text('set_total');
my $tracks= $elt-first_child('tracks');
# LINE 56 here
my $tracknums = $tracks-first_child_text('number_of_tracks');
return unless $tracks;
for my $track ($tracks-children('track'))
{
$track_title = $track-first_child_text('title');
$trackno = $track-first_child_text('trackno');
$setno = $track-first_child_text('setno');
for my $sound ($track-children('sound'))
{
$soundtype = $sound-first_child_text('sound_type');
$codec = $sound-first_child_text('codec');
$file = $sound-first_child_text('file');~;
}
} # close for $track loop
# free up memory
$t-purge();
}
Hello Mike
First of all, your call
$twig-parsefile($xmlfile);
should properly be
$twig-parsefile($xmlfile);
as there is no point in forcing Perl to interpolate a string when the result
is simply the string itself.
Your code works fine on the sample 01.xml file that you posted. What must
be happening is that there is a product in your live data that has no tracks
element. The line
return unless $tracks;
is meant to protect against this, but you have use the value of $tracks before
the check. If you change your code to:
my $tracks = $elt-first_child('tracks');
return unless $tracks;
my $numtracks = $tracks-first_child_text('number_of_tracks');
for my $track ($tracks-children('track')) {
:
}
then your warning should go away, although you may want to do more than just
ignore any products without a tracks tag.
An alternative method, which checks the actual number of tracks instead of
relying on the accuracy of the number_of_tracks value is to put the track
elements into an array and measure its size before iterating over it:
my $tracks = $elt-first_child('tracks');
return unless $tracks;
my @tracks = $tracks-children('track');
my $numtracks = @tracks;
for my $track (@tracks) {
:
}
Which of these techniques you choose is up to you.
That's exactly what the problem was, some of the XML files do not have the
tracks elements, which I wasn't aware of till just now. After making some code
changes, the error has gone away. :)
Again, thank you for your very useful help and information. Save me alot of
head-scratching!
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Re: Parsing large XML file
Rob,
- Original Message -
From: Rob Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: beginners@perl.org
Cc: Mike Blezien [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 5:04 AM
Subject: Re: Parsing large XML file
Mike Blezien wrote:
Rob Dixon wrote:
Mike Blezien wrote:
we need to parse some very large XML files, approx., 900-1000KB's filesize.
[snip]
Your application of XML::Twig seems exactly right. I'm not sure
what it is you don't understand, but if you use this as your
'get_products' subroutine I hope it answers some questions. All it
does is print the title of the product and the title of all the
tracks in that product. Post again if you have any trouble understanding
what I've written.
sub get_products {
my $product = $_;
my $product_title = $product-first_child('title');
print $product_title-trimmed_text, \n;
my $tracks = $product-first_child('tracks');
return unless $tracks;
foreach my $track ($tracks-children('track')) {
my $track_title = $track-first_child('title');
print ' ', $track_title-trimmed_text, \n;
}
print \n;
}
HTH,
Rob
Ok, this helps getting me in the right direction, much appreciate the help.
The only question I have now, is while looping through the track /track
we have another loop inside each for the track
.
.
sound
file ... /file
sound_type ... /sound_type
codec ... /codec
bitrate ... /bitrate
channelsmono/channels
/sound
..
...
/track
can one do something like this:
foreach my $track ($tracks-children('track'))
{
for my $sound ($track-first_child('sound'))
{
my $soundtype = $sound-first_child_text('sound_type');
my $codec = $sound-first_child_text('codec');
}
my $track_title = $track-first_child('title');
print ' ', $track_title-trimmed_text, \n;
}
Would this work or is there a better way to do this ?
Almost right. You need
for my $sound ($track-children('sound')) {
:
}
(and you also need to test it!)
One thing to be careful of is that all the variables in my code were XML
nodes which could be both used to locate child nodes and to extract their
text values. You have variables which contain just the text values such as
my $codec = $sound-first_child_text('codec');
which is ok as long as you understand the difference and can keep track
of which is which. You may want to stick with variables being XML nodes
throughout, such as:
my $codec = $sound-first_child('codec');
print $codec-trimmed_text, \n;
HTH,
Rob
Ok, appreciate all your help advise. Going to do some testing later and see
how well this all works ;)
Thanks,
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Parsing large XML file
Hello,
we need to parse some very large XML files, approx., 900-1000KB's filesize. A
sample of a typical XML file can be view here that would be parsed:
http://projects.thunder-rain.com/uploads/01.xml
I was planning on using the XML::Twig module to do this, using the following
code snip to loop through each of the product /product elements. Not
every single element is needed but most within each loop of each
product/product
# Code snip:
my $xmlfile = '/path/to/upload/01.xml';
my $cgi = new CGI();
my $twig = new XML::Twig(twig_handlers = {
product = \get_products,
});
$twig-parsefile($xmlfile);
sub get_products {
my($t,$elt) = @_;
# loop through each product.
my $article_number = $elt-first_child_text('article_number');
my $ean_upc= $elt-first_child_text('ean_upc');
my $distributor_number = $elt-first_child_text('distributor_number');
my $distributor_name = $elt-first_child_text('distributor_name');
my $artist = $elt-first_child_text('artist');
# now loop through each
tracksnumber_of_tracks/number_of_tracksplaytime/playtime
# track sound /sound /track/tracks for each product.
# number_of_tracks element determines total tracks .. track sound
/sound /track .. /tracks
# # in loop.
$t-purge();
}
exit();
#
Now the areas I'm have alot of problem is with the elements within each product,
the
tracks /tracks and looping through each of the tracks child elements
and sound/sound
-
product
...
tracks
number_of_tracks/number_of_tracksplaytime/playtime
track
sound ..
/sound
/track
/tracks
/product
Is there a better way to do this to obtain all the data within each of the
product ... /product elements? I've never really worked with XML files this
large and complex tree. Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.
TIA
Mike(mickalo)Blezien
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Re: Parsing large XML file
Rob,
- Original Message -
From: Rob Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Perl List beginners@perl.org
Cc: Mike Blezien [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: Parsing large XML file
Mike Blezien wrote:
we need to parse some very large XML files, approx., 900-1000KB's filesize. A
sample of a typical XML file can be view here that would be parsed:
http://projects.thunder-rain.com/uploads/01.xml
I was planning on using the XML::Twig module to do this, using the following
code snip to loop through each of the product /product elements. Not
every single element is needed but most within each loop of each
product/product
# Code snip:
my $xmlfile = '/path/to/upload/01.xml';
my $cgi = new CGI();
my $twig = new XML::Twig(twig_handlers = {
product = \get_products,
});
$twig-parsefile($xmlfile);
sub get_products {
my($t,$elt) = @_;
# loop through each product.
my $article_number = $elt-first_child_text('article_number');
my $ean_upc= $elt-first_child_text('ean_upc');
my $distributor_number = $elt-first_child_text('distributor_number');
my $distributor_name = $elt-first_child_text('distributor_name');
my $artist = $elt-first_child_text('artist');
# now loop through each
tracksnumber_of_tracks/number_of_tracksplaytime/playtime
# track sound /sound /track/tracks for each product.
# number_of_tracks element determines total tracks .. track sound
/sound /track .. /tracks
# # in loop.
$t-purge();
}
exit();
#
Now the areas I'm have alot of problem is with the elements within each
product, the
tracks /tracks and looping through each of the tracks child
elements and sound/sound
-
product
...
tracks
number_of_tracks/number_of_tracksplaytime/playtime
track
sound ..
/sound
/track
/tracks
/product
Is there a better way to do this to obtain all the data within each of the
product ... /product elements? I've never really worked with XML files
this large and complex tree. Any help or suggestions would be much
appreciated.
Hi Mike
Your application of XML::Twig seems exactly right. I'm not sure what it is you
don't understand, but if you use this as your 'get_products' subroutine I hope
it answers some questions. All it does is print the title of the product and
the title of all the tracks in that product. Post again if you have any
trouble
understanding what I've written.
sub get_products {
my $product = $_;
my $product_title = $product-first_child('title');
print $product_title-trimmed_text, \n;
my $tracks = $product-first_child('tracks');
return unless $tracks;
foreach my $track ($tracks-children('track')) {
my $track_title = $track-first_child('title');
print ' ', $track_title-trimmed_text, \n;
}
print \n;
}
HTH,
Rob
Ok, this helps getting me in the right direction, much appreciate the help.
The only question I have now, is while looping through the track /track we
have another loop inside each for the track
.
.
sound
file ... /file
sound_type ... /sound_type
codec ... /codec
bitrate ... /bitrate
channelsmono/channels
/sound
..
...
/track
can one do something like this:
foreach my $track ($tracks-children('track'))
{
for my $sound ($track-first_child('sound'))
{
my $soundtype = $sound-first_child_text('sound_type');
my $codec = $sound-first_child_text('codec');
}
my $track_title = $track-first_child('title');
print ' ', $track_title-trimmed_text, \n;
}
Would this work or is there a better way to do this ?
Mike
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Re: [OT] Email Notifications
- Original Message - From: Rob Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: beginners@perl.org Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 7:47 AM Subject: Re: [OT] Email Notifications Mike Blezien wrote: we have been using the Disposition-Notification-To: from in the mail header(Request Read Receipt) to be notified when an email has been received, but this does require the recipient to respond Yes or No to send response. I was just wondering if there was another way to track a mailing to see if it was read, automatically or other means of tracking email that has been received/read without the recipient intervention? Are there any type of Perl Mail modules that can do this, we use MIME::Lite, among some of the other more popular modules, but haven't come accross a programable way of doing this. Any suggestion would be appreciated. You're asking how to spy on people. Can't be done. Shouldn't be done. Rob I should have clarified. This is for a client who is sending out a new marketing email to his subscribers ONLY, listed in a mysql database and NO OTHER people. So this is only being sent to his members, NOT SPAM. But as stated, it probably is not a very good idea. Thx's Mickalo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
Re: [OT] Email Notifications
- Original Message - From: yitzle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Blezien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: beginners@perl.org Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 8:41 AM Subject: Re: [OT] Email Notifications If you're using email, it can't be done. What you /could/ do is set up a message system on a website and send messages there. You can email them when a message gets sent and tell them to log in to read the message. In that scenario, you could monitor who read the message and who didn't. Very good idea :) Thx's Mickalo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
[OT] Email Notifications
Hello, we have been using the Disposition-Notification-To: from in the mail header(Request Read Receipt) to be notified when an email has been received, but this does require the recipient to respond Yes or No to send response. I was just wondering if there was another way to track a mailing to see if it was read, automatically or other means of tracking email that has been received/read without the recipient intervention? Are there any type of Perl Mail modules that can do this, we use MIME::Lite, among some of the other more popular modules, but haven't come accross a programable way of doing this. Any suggestion would be appreciated. TIA, Mike(mickalo)Blezien === Thunder Rain Internet Publishing Providing Internet Solution that Work === -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
Re: XML Parsing
- Original Message -
From: mirod [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: beginners@perl.org
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 2:46 AM
Subject: Re: XML Parsing
On Jun 25, 3:47 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Blezien) wrote:
I need to parse a fairly largeXMLresponse file and would like some
suggestions
on whichXMLmodule would work the best. We've been using theXML::Simple
module, but I don't think that's the right one for the job. Below is theXML
file we need to parse. In particular getting the data from the elements
within
the message/message
Would theXML::Twigmodule work better for this ?? Any suggestion would be much
appreciated.
Hi Mike,
XML::Twig would probably work fine, you can for example do
XML::Twig-new( twig_roots = { message = sub { push @messages, $_-
text; $_-purge;}, },)
-parsefile( 'file.xml');
message texts will be in @messages
If you need more information than just the text of the message
elements, then you can use twig_handlers instead of
twig_roots, look at the docs for the difference.
That said if the files are the size of your example, that's really
small, so there should be no need to switch from a module that
loads the entire file in memory. OTOH if message elements can contain
mixed content (embedded markup like b for example),
then that would be a reason to avoid XML::Simple.
I hope that helps.
--
mirod
Yes, I've been looking through the info on XML::Twig, I think this will do the
trick quiet nicely. Thanks for the info.
Mike
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Re: XML Parsing
Karjala,
- Original Message -
From: Karjala [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: beginners@perl.org
Cc: Mike Blezien [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: XML Parsing
You could use XML::MyXML for this job (works well), if you know the exact
position in the XML tree where message is located.
Say $xml holds your XML.
Then:
use XML::MyXML qw(:all);
$obj = xml_to_object($xml)
$msg_obj =
$obj-path('response/idalertresponse/candidateresults/candidateactivity/messaging/raiserisklevel/message');
$message = $msg_obj-value();
print $message;
can this handle multiple elements with the same name? IE. the path used above
may have more then one message/message element within the
raiserisklevelmessage ... /messagemessage ... /message
/raiserisklevel
Mike
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Re: XML Parsing
- Original Message -
From: mirod [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: beginners@perl.org
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 2:46 AM
Subject: Re: XML Parsing
On Jun 25, 3:47 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Blezien) wrote:
I need to parse a fairly largeXMLresponse file and would like some
suggestions
on whichXMLmodule would work the best. We've been using theXML::Simple
module, but I don't think that's the right one for the job. Below is theXML
file we need to parse. In particular getting the data from the elements
within
the message/message
Would theXML::Twigmodule work better for this ?? Any suggestion would be much
appreciated.
Hi Mike,
XML::Twig would probably work fine, you can for example do
XML::Twig-new( twig_roots = { message = sub { push @messages, $_-
text; $_-purge;}, },)
-parsefile( 'file.xml');
message texts will be in @messages
If you need more information than just the text of the message
elements, then you can use twig_handlers instead of
twig_roots, look at the docs for the difference.
That said if the files are the size of your example, that's really
small, so there should be no need to switch from a module that
loads the entire file in memory. OTOH if message elements can contain
mixed content (embedded markup like b for example),
then that would be a reason to avoid XML::Simple.
I hope that helps.
--
mirod
XML Snip:
raiserisklevel
message . /message
message . /message
/raiserisklevel
When using the 'twig_handlers' which may have multiple child elements, IE:
my $twig = new XML::Twig(twig_handlers = {raiserisklevel =\print_message});
$twig-parsefile('/path/to/xml_file');
sub print_message {
my($t,$elt) = @_;
my $message = $elt-first_child('message')-text;
print qq~Message: $message
$t-purge;
}
Will this print all the text within the message elements??
Mike
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Re: XML Parsing
- Original Message -
From: Karjala [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: beginners@perl.org
Cc: Mike Blezien [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 11:35 AM
Subject: Re: XML Parsing
Mike Blezien wrote:
can this handle multiple elements with the same name? IE. the path used above
may have more then one message/message element within the
raiserisklevelmessage ... /messagemessage ... /message
/raiserisklevel
Mike
It can, as follows:
my @message_objects =
$obj-path('response/idalertresponse/candidateresults/candidateactivity/messaging/raiserisklevel/message');
foreach my $msg_obj (@message_objects) {
print $msg_obj-value();
}
Ok, thanks for the info and help :)
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XML Parsing
I need to parse a fairly large XML response file and would like some suggestions on which XML module would work the best. We've been using the XML::Simple module, but I don't think that's the right one for the job. Below is the XML file we need to parse. In particular getting the data from the elements within the message/message Would the XML::Twig module work better for this ?? Any suggestion would be much appreciated. === XML snip: messaging raiserisklevel messageRecords exist which match your SSN and Last Name, but with a different first name/message /raiserisklevel lowerrisklevel/lowerrisklevel informational messageThere has been a recent increase in records that match the consumers SSN but where the name bears little or no resumblance to consumers/message messageThere has been a recent increase in records which match your SSN and Last Name, but with a different first name/message /informational /messaging Entire XML file: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? EdentifyResponse responsetypeSuccess/responsetype code0/code messageService Request Processed./message transactionidf15fa75b-1982-4bb3-b9a0-891257c5aa4f/transactionid response idalertresponse candidateinformation firstnameJerry/firstname middle / lastnameJone/lastname suffix /ssn***-**-4512/ssn DOB1/1/0001/DOB address1 / address2 / city / state / zip / recordlocatorDD-100510/recordlocator scandate6/24/2007/scandate scanid81273/scanid processedbyTotalPayroll/processedby nametypeu/nametype /candidateinformation candidateresults candidateactivity messaging raiserisklevel messageRecords exist which match your SSN and Last Name, but with a different first name/message /raiserisklevel lowerrisklevel/lowerrisklevel informational messageThere has been a recent increase in records that match the consumers SSN but where the name bears little or no resumblance to consumers/message messageThere has been a recent increase in records which match your SSN and Last Name, but with a different first name/message /informational /messaging /candidateactivity /candidateresults resultssummary Other scandetail code = SMO count = 2 active = 12 yrs 10 mos lastactive = 1 yrs 3 mos rundate = 200706 / /Other Suspects scandetail code = SU count = 24 active = 24 yrs 8 mos lastactive = 11 mos rundate = 200706 / /Suspects /resultssummary ScanDetails permissableuse=false scandetail riskgroup / name / ssn / ssnvalid / dob / address / sources source vendor= type= //sources /scandetail /ScanDetails /idalertresponse /response /EdentifyResponse --- Mike(mickalo)Blezien === Thunder Rain Internet Publishing === -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
Using SOAP::Lite
Hello,
I appologize for the long posting, but was hoping to get some feedback as to
what we are doing wrong. We are trying to integrate with a XML Gateway that uses
SOAP. This our first time at trying to use SOAP w/Perl and not having alot of
luck. Below is the code snip and Request/Response structures used by the
gateway. If you have experience with using SOAP and Perl, I'd really appreciate
your assistance. If there is a better way to do this, please contact me directly
off the list and be happy to discuss hiring you to put this together correctly.
#
# CODE SNIP
my $soap = SOAP::Lite
- uri('https://www.edentifyservices.com/')
- proxy('https://www.edentifyservices.com/XMLGateway/Request.asmx')
- on_action( sub { return 'http://tempuri.org/ProcessRequest' });
# Format the SOAP envelope
my $method = SOAP::Data-name('ProcessRequest')-attr({xmlns
='http://tempuri.org/'});
# Format the SOAP body
my $query = SOAP::Data-name(ProcessRequest = SOAP::Data-value(
SOAP::Data-name(ServiceName='idalert'),
SOAP::Data-name(XMLRequest='XMLRequestLine'), # THIS LINE PRODUCES SOAP ERROR
SOAP::Data-name(Userid='USERID'}),
SOAP::Data-name(password='PWD'),
SOAP::Data-name(Options='OPTIONS'))
);
# Query the web service
my $result = $soap-call($method = $query);
print $cgi-header();
if($result-fault)
{
print Edentify Web Service Failed!\n;
print join ',
',$result-faultcode,$result-faultstring,$result-faultdetail;
}
else
{
# Print out the results one by one
print ResponseType = .
$result-valueof('//ProcessRequestResponse/ProcessRequestResult/EdentifyResponse/responsetype')
. br;
print Code = .
$result-valueof('//ProcessRequestResponse/ProcessRequestResult/EdentifyResponse/code')
. br;
print Message = .
$result-valueof('//ProcessRequestResponse/ProcessRequestResult/EdentifyResponse/message')
. br;
print TransID = .
$result-valueof('//ProcessRequestResponse/ProcessRequestResult/EdentifyResponse/transactionid')
. br;
# NO RESULTS RETURNED.
}
# END CODE SNIP
#
# XMLRequest format for above XMLRequest:
XMLRequestLine=idalertusernameUSERNAME/usernamecandidates
candidatefirstnameFNAME/firstnamemiMNAME/milastnameLNAME/lastname
suffixSUFFIX/suffix
locatorID/locatorssnSSN/ssndobBDAY/dob
addressaddress1ADDR1/address1address2ADDR2/address2cityCITY/city
stateSTATE/statezipZIP/zip/address/candidate/candidates/idalert
# SOAP REQUEST/RESPONSE STRUCTURES
# REQUEST
POST /XMLGateway/Request.asmx HTTP/1.1
Host: www.edentifyservices.com
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length
SOAPAction: http://tempuri.org/ProcessRequest;
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance;
xmlns:xsd=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema;
xmlns:soap=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/;
soap:Body
ProcessRequest xmlns=http://tempuri.org/;
ServiceNamestring/ServiceName
XMLRequeststring/XMLRequest
Useridstring/Userid
passwordstring/password
Optionsstring/Options
/ProcessRequest
/soap:Body
/soap:Envelope
###
RESPONSE
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance;
xmlns:xsd=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema;
xmlns:soap=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/;
soap:Body
ProcessRequestResponse xmlns=http://tempuri.org/;
ProcessRequestResultstring/ProcessRequestResult
/ProcessRequestResponse
/soap:Body
/soap:Envelope
#
Mike(mickalo)Blezien
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ScanAlert XSS warnings
Hello, there is a script on our site, that receives this warning from the HackSafe scanalerts -- ... The remote web application appears to be vulnerable to cross site scripting (XSS). General Solution: HTML encode data before sending it to the browser. Filtering and alone will not solve all cross site scripting attacks. It is suggested you also attempt to filter out open and closing parenthesis or convert them to their encoded equivalents. ... I have gone through the script serveral times and though we had it corrected. Has anyone on the list experience this problem and may have some suggestions on how to correct this XSS scripting. This takes a POST from a standard type registration form. TIA, Mike(mickalo)Blezien === Thunder Rain Internet Publishing === -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
Re: ScanAlert XSS warnings
Tom, - Original Message - From: Tom Phoenix [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Blezien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Perl List beginners@perl.org Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:46 PM Subject: Re: ScanAlert XSS warnings On 5/31/07, Mike Blezien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there is a script on our site, that receives this warning from the HackSafe scanalerts -- ... The remote web application appears to be vulnerable to cross site scripting (XSS). Have you seen these reference pages? http://www.cgisecurity.com/articles/xss-faq.shtml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting Hope this helps! --Tom Phoenix Stonehenge Perl Training Thanks for the information. Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Crypt::GCrypt error on new method
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From: JOHN FISHER [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: beginners@perl.org
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:32 AM
Subject: Crypt::GCrypt error on new method
I am attempting to use gcrypt using a Perl interface
I have perl -MCPAN -e 'install Crypt::GCrypt' and installed it successfully.
I attempted to run the code in Perldoc, but get this error
Can't locate object method new via package GCrypt::Cipher (perhaps you
forgot to load GCrypt::Cipher?) at gcrypt_testing.pl line 5.
Any ideas?
=
use Crypt::GCrypt;
$cipher = GCrypt::Cipher-new(
type = 'cipher',
algorithm = 'aes',
mode = 'cbc'
);
$cipher-start('encrypting');
$cipher-setkey('my secret key');
$cipher-setiv('my init vector');
$ciphertext = $cipher-encrypt('plaintext');
$ciphertext .= $cipher-finish;
$plaintext = $cipher-decrypt($ciphertext);
==Thanks,John
=
Shouldn't that be
$cipher = Crypt::GCrypt-new( . );
Mike
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Parsing XML data
Hello, I am working with a XML gateway system which sends back response results in XML format. I have been trying to work w/XML::Simple to parse the data, but not too much success. This is a sample of the XML response data, the * indicate the data we need to extract from XML file. I tried used Data::Dumper to help, but didn't get the results I though, any help would be much appreciated as the best way to parse this data. -- EdentifyResponse *responsetypesuccess/responsetype *code100/code *message/message *transactionidde7556e-4875-8da1-26521e504ec9/transactionid response idalertresponse *fullnameJohn Smith/fullname *last4ssn1234/last4ssn *locatorLOCATOR/locator *datecreatedDATECREATED/datecreated *lastscandateLASTSCANDATE/lastscandate *riskratingRISKRATING/riskrating *confirmsCONFIRMS/confirms *chg_confirmsCHG_CONFIRMS/chg_confirms *suspectsSUSPECTS/suspects *chg_suspectsCHG_SUSPECTS/chg_suspects *surnamematchSURNAMEMATCH/surnamematch *chg_surnamematchCHG_SURNAMEMATCH/chg_surnamematch *differentsurnameDIFFERENTSURNAME/differentsurname *chg_differentsurnameCHG_DIFFERENTSURNAME/chg_differentsurname *ssnmatchonlySSSMATCHONLY/ssnmatchonly *chg_ssnmatchonlyCHG_SSNMATCHONLY/chg_ssnmatchonly *riskindicatorsRISHKINDICATORS/riskindicators /idalertresponse /response /EdentifyResponse --- Mike(mickalo)Blezien === Thunder Rain Internet Publishing === -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Parsing XML data
- Original Message - From: David Moreno Garza [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: beginners@perl.org Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 8:23 PM Subject: Re: Parsing XML data Mike Blezien wrote: Hello, I am working with a XML gateway system which sends back response results in XML format. I have been trying to work w/XML::Simple to parse the data, but not too much success. This is a sample of the XML response data, the * indicate the data we need to extract from XML file. I tried used Data::Dumper to help, but didn't get the results I though, any help would be much appreciated as the best way to parse this data. I suggest you to use XML::TreePP. thanks, I think this'll do the trick. Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
Assign a delimiter variable
Hello, this one has been driving me nuts and I'm sure it's something very simple I maybe overlooking. I need to assign a delimiter variable IE: Pipe or Comma delimiter: my $del = '|'; # use either a '|' or ',' my $dataline = 0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9; my @data = split(/$del/, $dataline); This does not work, it won't split the file line with the '|' delimiter, and get no errors. But if I do this: my $dataline = 0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9; my @data = split(/\|/, $dataline); Then it works prefectly, it splits the line as expected. What am I missing ?? Mike(mickalo)Blezien === Thunder Rain Internet Publishing === -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Assign a delimiter variable
Hello, - Original Message - From: Xavier Noria [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Perl List beginners@perl.org Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Assign a delimiter variable On May 15, 2007, at 6:42 PM, Mike Blezien wrote: Hello, this one has been driving me nuts and I'm sure it's something very simple I maybe overlooking. I need to assign a delimiter variable IE: Pipe or Comma delimiter: my $del = '|'; # use either a '|' or ',' my $dataline = 0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9; my @data = split(/$del/, $dataline); This does not work, it won't split the file line with the '|' delimiter, and get no errors. But if I do this: my $dataline = 0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9; my @data = split(/\|/, $dataline); Then it works prefectly, it splits the line as expected. What am I missing ?? The actual regexp is what you get _after_ interpolation. Since the pipe is a metacharacter it is being interpreted as such, as if you directly wrote split /|/, ... To prevent this there's quotemeta(), which is available in literals as \E: my @data = split(/\E$del/, $dataline); -- fxn Actually it was the /\Q that worked. Your suggestion got me looking back at the books and found it, thanks :) Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
Curl Process for Perl
Hello, I have a PHP(..Ouch!! ..) snip using Curl to send data, in XML format, to a payment gateway, and would like to convert this into Perl coding, but can't seem to find any information or module(s) that implement Curl in the same manner. Below is the PHP snip. SNIP $posturl = https://; . $host . $path; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $posturl); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, Array(Content-Type: text/xml)); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $content); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0); $response = curl_exec($ch); /SNIP Was hoping someone may have used something similar in Perl or steer me in the right direction utilizing Curl w/Perl in the same manner or module that can be used. TIA, Mickalo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
Asterisk Web-CallBack
Hello, Where attempting to setup on a Asterisk server the follow using Perl: A Web-CallBack Panel for Asterisk Server : 1. Provide a web form for end user fill with userID/psw phone#1, Phone#2 2. Make two(2) call-out use the end user account thought Asterisk 1st call to phone#1 with time delay (optional) call to phone#2 phone#1 talk with phone#2 3. Billing count in two call (two channel) 4. Can custom messages.. Was wonder if someone has done this or something similar and may suggestion required Perl Module(s)(IE: Asterisk::AGI or other modules) or possibly an out of the box solution available, not much luck finding anything. Appreciate any info or feedback on this. Thx's Mike(mickalo)Blezien === Thunder Rain Internet Publishing Providing Internet Solution that Work === -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
Mimic SMTP server
Hello, I need to create a simple perl script that can mimic an SMTP server. Having some difficulty coming up with a workable solution. The script will need to run as a daemon (24/7) accepting connections on port 25. When a request comes in, the script will take in the email as any SMTP server, parse out the header and message. What is the best way to accomplish this? Are there available modules to can do this? Mickalo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
OT. Cron jobs
Hello, Sorry for the OT question, but couldn't find the info I was looking for and thought could get a quick answer from the list. We have a perl script that needs to run 4 times a minute. Can this be done via cron or is there an easier way to do this within the Perl script itself? This 4 times a minute every day. Mike(mickalo)Blezien === Thunder Rain Internet Publishing === -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
Re: OT. Cron jobs
Jay, - Original Message - From: Jay Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Beginners List beginners@perl.org; Mike Blezien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 5:11 PM Subject: Re: OT. Cron jobs On 3/10/07, Mike Blezien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Sorry for the OT question, but couldn't find the info I was looking for and thought could get a quick answer from the list. We have a perl script that needs to run 4 times a minute. Can this be done via cron or is there an easier way to do this within the Perl script itself? This 4 times a minute every day. Mike, As far as I know, cron doesn't have control finer-grained than a minute. Your best best would be to create a script that continuously forks and then sleeps for 15 seconds. See the docs for your system's deamon management service (init on *ix, launchd on OS X) to find out how to make sure it stays alive. Since sleep only handle's whole seconds, you'll want to take a look at Time::HiRes if you really need to execute exactly four times every minute. That way you can time the fork() call and adjust the sleep microseconds accordingly. Otherwise, you'll eventually get some accumulated error in the sleep cycle. Not much, of course, but it sounds like precision counts here. HTH, -- jay -- thx's we'll check out the Time::HiRes module. Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
Word counts
Hello, we need to do read uploaded files(PDF DOC files types), and count the words in these type of files. what would be the best approach to do this, and specific module(s) that can accomplish this fairly easily ? Just need to open the files when uploaded to do a word count, if this is possible to do. any help of suggestions would be appreciated. thx's Mike(mickalo)Blezien === Thunder Rain Internet Publishing === -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
Re: Word counts
David, - Original Message - From: David Moreno Garza [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Blezien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Perl List beginners@perl.org Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 2:55 PM Subject: Re: Word counts Mike Blezien wrote: we need to do read uploaded files(PDF DOC files types), and count the words in these type of files. what would be the best approach to do this, and specific module(s) that can accomplish this fairly easily ? Just need to open the files when uploaded to do a word count, if this is possible to do. This might help you a bit: http://search.cpan.org/~clotho/CAM-PDF-1.08/lib/CAM/PDF.pm#Document_reading thx's, looks like a good place to start w/PDF files, now to find some info on DOC files :) Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
Re: redirecting cgi via post method
You may also want to check out the WWW::Mechanize module this will do what your looking for. Mike - Original Message - From: Mumia W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Beginners CGI beginners-cgi@perl.org Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 12:49 PM Subject: Re: redirecting cgi via post method On 02/16/2007 12:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I have a CGI that receives some parameters, and after processing them (it generates a file) it must be redirected to another CGI (external domain) to process it. What I want to do is similar to redirect(http://somedomain.com/cgi-bin/myscript.cgi?param1=someparam2=stuff;); but using POST method instead of GET. At first point, I imagine a solution with LWP::UserAgent using the POST method for the new user agent; but later, I don't know how to be redirected to the new address. my $ua_this = LWP::UserAgent-new; $ua_this-post(http://somedomain.com/cgi-bin/myscript.cgi;, [ param1 = some, param2 = stuff ] ); redirect($ua_this); # -this? I don't think so Any help will be appreciated. Alejandro You probably want a status 307 redirect: use strict; use warnings; use CGI; # You set the $location. print CGI::header( -status = '307 Temporary Redirect', -location = $location, ); __HTH__ HTTP Spec: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2616.txt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
non-root module install
Hello, I need to install a perl module, Crypt::SSLeay, for a client in their local folder, /home/username it's been quiet some time since I've installed a module in this manner, to use to using either cpan or direct root installs. What is the correct procedure to installing modules in this manner, as a non-root user in their own directory? TIA, Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: non-root module install
Prefect! :) thx's Mike - Original Message - From: Tom Phoenix [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Blezien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Perl List beginners@perl.org Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:42 PM Subject: Re: non-root module install On 10/19/06, Mike Blezien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to install a perl module, Crypt::SSLeay, for a client in their local folder, /home/username it's been quiet some time since I've installed a module in this manner, to use to using either cpan or direct root installs. What is the correct procedure to installing modules in this manner, as a non-root user in their own directory? Does the perlmodinstall manpage cover what you need? http://perldoc.perl.org/perlmodinstall.html Hope this helps! --Tom Phoenix Stonehenge 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
Automatied downloads
Hello,
I have a PHP script that automatically downloads a file from a hyper link:
a href=./download.php?file=somefile.pdfdown load here/a
CODE:
//* path to download folder *//
$filedir = '../temp/';
$filename = basename($_GET['file']);
$path = $filedir . $filename;
if (!is_file($path) OR connection_status() != 0) { exit(); }
ob_end_clean();
header('Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate');
header('Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0', false);
header('Pragma: no-cache');
header('Expires: '. gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s', mktime(date('H')+2, date('i'),
date('s'), date('m'), date('d'), date('Y'))).' GMT');
header('Last-Modified: '. gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s').' GMT');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Length: '. @filesize($path));
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='. $filename .'');
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
if ($file = @fopen($path, 'rb'))
{
while (!feof($file) AND connection_status() == 0)
{
echo fread($file, 1024 * 8);
}
flush();
}
@fclose($file);
###
I've been trying to convert this to a Perl script with not much luck. Was hoping
to get some tips on how to convert this to Perl or a similar method using Perl
so when the link is clicked on, the file will be automatically downloaded
instead of clicking on the link to do a Save As.
TIA
Mike(mickalo)Blezien
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Re: Automatied downloads
Hello,
- Original Message -
From: Mumia W. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Beginners List beginners@perl.org
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: Automatied downloads
On 10/14/2006 06:05 AM, Mike Blezien wrote:
Hello,
Hello
[ php script snipped ]
###
I've been trying to convert this to a Perl script with not much luck. Was
hoping to get some tips on how to convert this to Perl or a similar method
using Perl so when the link is clicked on, the file will be automatically
downloaded instead of clicking on the link to do a Save As.
Can you show us your Perl program for doing this?
Most likely it's just a matter of setting the Content-Disposition the way you
did before.
This is what I've come up with so far, not tested yet tho:
# code snip
##
use CGI qw(:standard);
use strict;
my $bytes_read =0;
my $size='';
my $buffer ='';
my $download_dir = '/path/to/downloadable_files';
my $original_file = 'some_file.pdf';
$file = $download_dir/$original_file;
open (ZIP, $file) || die Can't open $file: $!;
# Not sure if this should be a 'inline' or 'attachement' here
print header(-type='application/octet-stream', 'Content-Disposition'=inline;
filename=$original_file);
binmode(ZIP);
while ($bytes_read=read($file,$buffer,4096))
{
$size += $bytes_read;
print $buffer;
}
close (ZIP);
# End snip
#
but I think this should do the job ... maybe? Or is there a better way to
accomplish this?
TIA,
Mike
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finding matches in multiple arrays
Hello, I have two arrays, IE: @arrayA = qw(1 3 5 6); @arrayB = qw(2 3 6 4); what I am attempting to do is finding a match from @arrayA in @arrayB ... what is the best way to accomplish this? TIA, Mike(mickalo)Blezien Thunder Rain Internet Publishing -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: finding matches in multiple arrays
Tom, - Original Message - From: Tom Phoenix [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mike Blezien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Perl List beginners@perl.org Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 10:10 AM Subject: Re: finding matches in multiple arrays On 9/17/06, Mike Blezien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what I am attempting to do is finding a match from @arrayA in @arrayB ... what is the best way to accomplish this? Are you trying to find the intersection of two arrays? I believe this is covered in the FAQ, and there's probably a module on CPAN as well. Or are you trying to do something else? Cheers! I found the List::Compare module on CPAN, which does exactly what I needed. Makes it alot easier. :) thx's Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
