Concatenating names from form
I want to be able to read in names from a web-based form and then take the first initial from the first name and concatenate it with the whole last name. I can do everything except isolate the first initial in the first name. Anyone know of an easy way to do this with a regex or reading the name into an array as individual characters and then using something like: $first_initial = $name[0]; Thanks, Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Concatenating names from form
So what's your input ? and you's your supposed output ? regards, Connie in sick _ - Original Message - From: Paul Arsenault [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 7:48 AM Subject: Concatenating names from form I want to be able to read in names from a web-based form and then take the first initial from the first name and concatenate it with the whole last name. I can do everything except isolate the first initial in the first name. Anyone know of an easy way to do this with a regex or reading the name into an array as individual characters and then using something like: $first_initial = $name[0]; Thanks, Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Check Mail then Fax
Hi all, This is a mess now... I even have no concept on how to start. I will working on something like this There are 2 interface as input. One is a Web interface, which will accept HTML tag and plain text by POST method, but by GET method, the input would be an URL. Another One is a mail box, like [EMAIL PROTECTED], maybe that's not really an interface, just a input channel. So, there are 3 sources will be needed to handle. GET, POST and Mail box. Then , whatever GET, POST, or Detected mail arrival, they will write into a log for waiting handle. What the meaning of handle is to FAX it out. === Problems : Q1) For Get method, How can I get the whole content of an URL ( including image and html layout ) and save it to my temp directory ? Q2) For Detecting mail arrival, I can do this. But how can I fetch those attachment data (Excel, Word) and dump to my printer driver (actually WinFax) ? Q3) How can I detect how many attachment(s) in a mail ? Because I would like to treat no attachment and attached more then 1 file as error. Q4) Refer to Q2, should I firstly split the attachemt file to a temp folder at first ? If so, how can I PICK UP the attachment from the mail ? === Any advice, module recommend, are very welcome. Thanks a lot, Connie in sick _''
What could go wrong with closing an FH ?
Hi All,
After a couple of emails about opening a file with a lower case FH, I have a
question. I see everyone opening a file with an or die statement, what I can
fully understand. But I see you also close the FH with an or die statement.
Why ? What can go wrong with closing an FH ?
Can anyone tell me the answer ? I am much interested.
Regs David
Ok, thank you, but now I'm having another problem with this:
open(TEXT,text.txt) or die (error: text.txt failed\n);
while (TEXT) {
my $text = TEXT;
}
close(TEXT) or die(error: close text.txt failed\n);
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Re: Concatenating names from form
on Wed, 03 Jul 2002 23:48:37 GMT, Paul Arsenault wrote: I can do everything except isolate the first initial in the first name. Anyone know of an easy way to do this my $firstname = 'Paul'; my $initial = substr($firstname, 0, 1); See perldoc -f substr -- felix -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Concatenating names from form
Thanks Felix, This is exactly what I was looking for! Paul From: Felix Geerinckx [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Concatenating names from form Date: 4 Jul 2002 10:37:33 - on Wed, 03 Jul 2002 23:48:37 GMT, Paul Arsenault wrote: I can do everything except isolate the first initial in the first name. Anyone know of an easy way to do this my $firstname = 'Paul'; my $initial = substr($firstname, 0, 1); See perldoc -f substr -- felix -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Fw: 2 Questions
--- Kyle Babich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for bothering everyone again, but could someone tell me what to change so that I can import variables from external files and get them to work in the current file? (see original message) Thank you, Kyle Copied from perldoc CGI: -- begin quote -- CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT FROM AN INPUT FILE $query = new CGI(INPUTFILE); If you provide a file handle to the new() method, it will read parameters from the file (or STDIN, or whatever). The file can be in any of the forms describing below under debugging (i.e. a series of newline delimited TAG=VALUE pairs will work). Conveniently, this type of file is created by the save () method (see below). Multiple records can be saved and restored. -- end quote -- Note that this requires use of CGI's object-oriented interface. So instead of use CGI qw/:standard/; print header, start_html; you instead say use CGI; my $query = new CGI(INPUTFILE); print $query-header, $query-start_html; or just my $query = new CGI; to get parameters the normal cgi way, or a variety of other ways which you can read about in perldoc CGI, which I encourage you to do. - John P.S. I'm about to unsubscribe to go on vacation. I will probably be back in a few weeks. = Now it's over, I'm dead, and I haven't done anything that I want; or, I'm still alive, and there's nothing I want to do. - They Might Be Giants, http://www.tmbg.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Username Password Question
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 08:30:35 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rhen Hernandez) wrote: hi everyone! I created a password and username for my website. My question is how can i direct the user to the homepage or main page of the website. Right now, the code is set for Permission Granted... I want to direct the user to the main page of the website after he/she is successful completed the form. Maybe I'm wrong here, I'm just quickly reading the code, but I don't think this approach gives you any REAL password protection. If you do the password check as you describe in your code, then redirect to a unprotected page, such as http://mygoodpassword.html what is to stop someone from bypassing your login page and entering the destination page directly in thier browser? You need to either .htaccess protect your destination page, which makes your logon form a waste of time, or you need to output your html from the cgi-script that does the password checking. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
too many headers from CGI script (max 200)
Hello, I keep receiving the following error message, but I have not found any information on the net as to what exactly this error means or how to correct it: [04/Jul/2002:08:53:13] failure ( 836): for host 172.21.xxx.xxx trying to GET /cgi-bin/template.cgi, cgi_scan_headers reports: the CGI program /appl/webdocs/cgi-bin/template.cgi did not produce a valid header (too many headers from CGI script (max 200)) Any suggestions? John Pitchko Data Services Saskatchewan Government Insurance
RE: too many headers from CGI script (max 200)
John, are you able to dump the total output (including headers) for this CGI? joel -Original Message- From: John Pitchko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 July 2002 15:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: too many headers from CGI script (max 200) Hello, I keep receiving the following error message, but I have not found any information on the net as to what exactly this error means or how to correct it: [04/Jul/2002:08:53:13] failure ( 836): for host 172.21.xxx.xxx trying to GET /cgi-bin/template.cgi, cgi_scan_headers reports: the CGI program /appl/webdocs/cgi-bin/template.cgi did not produce a valid header (too many headers from CGI script (max 200)) Any suggestions? John Pitchko Data Services Saskatchewan Government Insurance -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: too many headers from CGI script (max 200)
Thanks, but I think I solved the problem. I was loading an array with all the contents of a particular directory and I don't think it liked having so many (for some strange reason). Either Perl or CGI.pm was unhappy with that. Anyways, thanks for the help. John Pitchko Data Services Joel Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/04/02 09:54am John, are you able to dump the total output (including headers) for this CGI? joel -Original Message- From: John Pitchko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 July 2002 15:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: too many headers from CGI script (max 200) Hello, I keep receiving the following error message, but I have not found any information on the net as to what exactly this error means or how to correct it: [04/Jul/2002:08:53:13] failure ( 836): for host 172.21.xxx.xxx trying to GET /cgi-bin/template.cgi, cgi_scan_headers reports: the CGI program /appl/webdocs/cgi-bin/template.cgi did not produce a valid header (too many headers from CGI script (max 200)) Any suggestions? John Pitchko Data Services Saskatchewan Government Insurance -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
