Re: Mailing Script
Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Werner Otto writes: Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Do *not* send email to addresses taken from forms. Ever. why is that? Because you have no authentication of the requestor. Any fool can go to your website, enter [EMAIL PROTECTED], and all of a sudden, I get a big PDF shoved down my email box. Repeatedly. And yet it wasn't *me* that requested that. And yet I'll have no clue, except it came from you and you'll have no clue except it came from this IP addr. No. Do not go from web to mail. Bad idea, unless you've fully round-tripped the web requestor from a real mail address. I think you are exaggerating, Randal. How much convenience are you ready to sacrifice in order to fight possible abusers? If you want to contact me privately, you can click the link below. If you fill the form, including your own email address, and submit it, you'll receive a copy of the message. That's for your record, for your convenience. Personally I think that makes sense. That said, spammers and other abusers should certainly be taken into consideration when dealing with mail via the web. I think Randall has a point. It may behoove you to send a confirmation email with a link that when clicked will opt in a user. This double opt-in procedure has become standard operating procedure for considerate marketers and an integral part of customer relations management. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: use CGI qw(:standard);
Owen Cook wrote: On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Werner Otto wrote: I am making use of use CGI qw(:standard); to create my form. I need to amend the size of a submit button and need to tell the button which script to call (ie. action=test.cgi). Where can I find documentation on all the attributes of the components, or an example for my two queries would be appreciated. perldoc CGI look for HOW TO CREATE A SUBMIT BUTTON etc. Owen Methinks you may need to use style sheets to force the type size and thus the overall size smaller. Make sure to specify type size as pixels. See the CGI documentation for using style sheets with the CGI module. As an alternative, you can always make the submit button an image. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: CGI and mySQL book, any recommendation.
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Wiggins == Wiggins D'Anconia [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wiggins Agreed. I have requested this from him before, but didn't get much. I haven't responded because I've been using the net at 40 cents per minute from a satellite link on a ship this past week, and right now I'm using a 10 cents per minute cellphone modem. When I get back to a free link, I'll post more. But in short, MySQL was great when it was the only game in town. But PostgreSQL has leapfrogged MySQL now in every area including features, performance, *and* license. There's no point in starting a new project with MySQL, *except* for legacy. Mr. Schwartz, As I stated before, I have a non-trivial amount of admiration for your work, but in sounding the death knell for MySQL, I feel you ignore real world factors that may make it's use advantageous. First of all is the large installed basethe legacy you mentioned. Portability is not a small issue. Secondly, every review or comparison I have read touts MySQL as an easier database to learn. Yes, ease of use may come at the expense of a larger featureset, but not everyone needs every feature. IMO simplicity is a virtue. Thirdly, you seem to look at MySQL as a dead language, like Latin. Who is to say that the next versiom won't leapfrog PostgreSQL in some areas? Finally, Sir you are dealing with a group that thinks empiracly. Are we to take your word that PostgreSQL is faster? Give us some benchmarks. Back up your claims with unbiased third party testing. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: CGI and mySQL book, any recommendation.
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Remko == Remko Lodder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Remko I have the book MySQL and Perl from Paul Dubois, By the way... it's consensus amongst experts that MySQL has hit nearly end-of-life. If you're starting a new project, use PostgreSQL instead. A real Database... not a database wannabe. The only reason to use MySQL these days is ignorance or legacy. Hey, is this right? I respect Randal quite a bit but he has expressed a bias towards PostgreSQL. I'm studying MySQL and the vast majority of LAMP jobs I see still call for an expertise in MySQL. Am I wasting my time? Should I abandon Perl and go with PHP as well? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Uploading file
Ash Singh wrote:
Use this as an example, it converts the file to binary mode just in case its
not. It also strips out the path of the file coming from the user's local
machine.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI;
use strict;
my $cgi = new CGI; print $cgi-header;
my $query = CGI::new();
use CGI qw(param);
my ($bytesread,$buffer);
my $filename = $query-param('uploaded_file');
my $submit = $query-param('Submit');
#path on the server where the file will be saved
my $path = 'D:\webs\test\UploadFolder';
my $newFileName = $filename;
$newFileName =~ s/^.*(\\|\/)//; #get file name only (strip path)
my $FiletoWrite = $path\\$newFileName;
if (defined($filename)) {
open (OUTFILE,$FiletoWrite) || die print can't create file;
binmode $filename;
binmode OUTFILE;
while ($bytesread=read($filename,$buffer,1024)) {
print OUTFILE $buffer;
}
close(OUTFILE);
$filename = undef;
$path = undef;
$newFileName = undef;
$FiletoWrite = undef;
}
Thank you sir for your help. Evidently to compound matters, the FTP
program I was using to check on the success of my uploads had a bug in
it as well. However, your script is solid and works swimmingly.
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Uploading file
Okay, I'm totally stumped. I'm trying to upload a file using a browser
and a file upload field and saving the file to my server. The code is as
follows:
my $filename = $cgiobj-param('uploaded_file');
my $fh = $cgiobj-upload('uploaded_file');
open (OUTFILE, ../featImages/$filename) or die Can't open
featImages $filename $!;
while ($fh) {
print OUTFILE $fh or die Can't print to OUTFILE $!;
}
close OUTFILE;
The file will be binary. I can get it to print out to STDOUT just fine
but I don't want it in my webpage, I want it in the featImages directory.
Remember, I'm still a newbie so please be gentle. If you are a crabby
person, please don't reply to this.
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Standarized tests
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Re: matching newline
zsdc wrote:
Camilo Gonzalez wrote:
zsdc wrote:
Tracy Hurley wrote:
Camilo,
I don't think you need to put $email in quotes to do the check, but
it works if you do. Try this:
if $email =~/@.*@/g || $email =~ /\n/s;
It still might not be secure depanding on how $email is being used
later. Is it used in a system() call? In open()? In backticks? What
about the whitespace? What if there is \r in $email? What about
;? \0?
I would suggest to match safe characters, not the unsafe ones,
because it's easy to overlook something. Camilo, it's very good that
you use the taint mode here. Check out CGI::Untaint::email, this is
exactly what you need:
http://search.cpan.org/search?module=CGI::Untaint::email
http://search.cpan.org/search?module=CGI::Untaint
It's used like this:
use CGI::Untaint;
my $untaint = CGI::Untaint-new($cgiobj-Vars);
my $email = $untaint-extract(-as_email = 'email');
You should do the same with other parameters, like name and address.
You might need to write your own handler, but it's very easy. Here's
an example from the CGI::Untaint documentation, to match a single
digit:
package Mysite::CGI::Untaint::digit;
use base 'CGI::Untaint::object';
sub _untaint_re { qr/^(\d)$/ }
1;
Seems like a tad bit of overkill for my purpose. Thanks for the
caveat about other unsafe characters and I'll keep the CGI::Untaint
module in mind in the future.
It seems I needed to escape the backslash in '\n'. Here'smy new code
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -wT
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use strict;
use CGI;
my $cgiobj = new CGI;
$ENV{PATH} = ;
#Get parameters
my $name = $cgiobj-param('name');
my $address = $cgiobj-param('address');
my $email = $cgiobj-param('email');
die Print_Error if $email =~ /@.*@|\\n|;|\0|,/gs;
My advise about unsafe characters was to match _safe_ characters
instead of unsafe ones, i.e.:
die unless $email =~ /$ safe pattern ^/;
and never:
die if $email =~ /$ unsafe pattern ^/;
I haven't even showed every potentially dangerous character, those
were only few examples. To be honest I can't understand why this is an
overkill:
use CGI::Untaint;
my $untaint = CGI::Untaint-new($cgiobj-Vars);
my $email = $untaint-extract(-as_email = 'email');
while this isn't:
my $email = $cgiobj-param('email');
die Print_Error if $email =~ /@.*@|\\n|;|\0|,/gs;
especially when your regular expression has to be much longer, because
it still is unsafe. (By the way, it doesn't match a newline, only a
backslash followed by n).
How do you use the $mail variable later in your program? How do you
actually send the email? I'll tell you how it can be dangerous, but
only when I know how it is used.
My concern is to prevent a spammer from sending BCC messages using the
email field of my contact form. I figure if I can prevent him from
sending a line with more than one asterisk and/or a slash followed by an
n, I can prevent him from sending BCC messages. I realise there are lots
more dangerous characters out there but frankly, I'm too damn lazy to
look for them. I truly do appreciate your help and I apoligize if you've
taken umbrage with anything I've said, but TMTOWTDO, man. Chill. More of
my code follows if you've got the time and inclination to rip it further.
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -wT
#use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use strict;
use CGI;
my $cgiobj = new CGI;
$ENV{PATH} = ;
#Get parameters
my $name = $cgiobj-param('name');
my $address = $cgiobj-param('address');
my $email = $cgiobj-param('email');
die Print_Error if $email =~ /@.*@|\\n|;|\0|,/gs;
my $comments = $cgiobj-param('comments');
#send emails to Camilo and sender
my $from ='Opensourceman';
my $subject = 'Contact Confirmation from Opensourceman';
my $reply = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]';
my $sendmail = '/usr/lib/sendmail -i -t';
open (SENDMAIL, |$sendmail) or die Cannot open sendmail: $!;
print SENDMAIL To: $email, $reply\n;
print SENDMAIL From: $from\n;
print SENDMAIL Reply-to: $reply\n;
print SENDMAIL Subject: $subject;
print SENDMAIL \n\n;
print SENDMAIL Thanks for contacting Opensourceman. Below is what you
submitted to us:\n
Name: $name\n
Address: $address\n
Email: $email\n
Comments: $comments \n\n
We will be contacting you shortly;
close(SENDMAIL);
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Re: matching newline
Tracy Hurley wrote:
Camilo,
I don't think you need to put $email in quotes to do the check, but it
works if you do. Try this:
if $email =~/@.*@/g || $email =~ /\n/s;
Hope it helps,
Tracy
New to the list, so apologies if I post incorrectly.
On Feb 28, 2004, at 11:50 PM, Camilo Gonzalez wrote:
Perl dudes,
I'm trying to match a newline to dissuade spammers from hijacking my
script. This is what I have
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -wT
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use strict;
use CGI;
my $cgiobj = new CGI;
$ENV{PATH} = ;
#Get parameters
my $name = $cgiobj-param('name');
my $address = $cgiobj-param('address');
my $email = $cgiobj-param('email');
die Print_Error if $email =~ /@.*@/g || /\n/s;
It finds the extra '@' but ignores any \n I put in the email field.
Any ideas?
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Sorry really didn't work. Didn't make much of a difference.
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Re: matching newline
zsdc wrote:
Tracy Hurley wrote:
Camilo,
I don't think you need to put $email in quotes to do the check, but
it works if you do. Try this:
if $email =~/@.*@/g || $email =~ /\n/s;
It still might not be secure depanding on how $email is being used
later. Is it used in a system() call? In open()? In backticks? What
about the whitespace? What if there is \r in $email? What about ;?
\0?
I would suggest to match safe characters, not the unsafe ones, because
it's easy to overlook something. Camilo, it's very good that you use
the taint mode here. Check out CGI::Untaint::email, this is exactly
what you need:
http://search.cpan.org/search?module=CGI::Untaint::email
http://search.cpan.org/search?module=CGI::Untaint
It's used like this:
use CGI::Untaint;
my $untaint = CGI::Untaint-new($cgiobj-Vars);
my $email = $untaint-extract(-as_email = 'email');
You should do the same with other parameters, like name and address.
You might need to write your own handler, but it's very easy. Here's
an example from the CGI::Untaint documentation, to match a single digit:
package Mysite::CGI::Untaint::digit;
use base 'CGI::Untaint::object';
sub _untaint_re { qr/^(\d)$/ }
1;
Seems like a tad bit of overkill for my purpose. Thanks for the caveat
about other unsafe characters and I'll keep the CGI::Untaint module in
mind in the future.
It seems I needed to escape the backslash in '\n'. Here'smy new code
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -wT
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use strict;
use CGI;
my $cgiobj = new CGI;
$ENV{PATH} = ;
#Get parameters
my $name = $cgiobj-param('name');
my $address = $cgiobj-param('address');
my $email = $cgiobj-param('email');
die Print_Error if $email =~ /@.*@|\\n|;|\0|,/gs;
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matching newline
Perl dudes,
I'm trying to match a newline to dissuade spammers from hijacking my
script. This is what I have
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -wT
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use strict;
use CGI;
my $cgiobj = new CGI;
$ENV{PATH} = ;
#Get parameters
my $name = $cgiobj-param('name');
my $address = $cgiobj-param('address');
my $email = $cgiobj-param('email');
die Print_Error if $email =~ /@.*@/g || /\n/s;
It finds the extra '@' but ignores any \n I put in the email field. Any
ideas?
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Re: Email text encoding
Eek! I've been told by my ISP that my Perl script to email myself and
the user of my form the contents on my contact form has been hijacked by
a spammer. My ISP has been deluged by recipients with complaints. Where
have I gone wrong? Please be kind, this is a beginners' list after all.
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -wT
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use strict;
use CGI;
my $cgiobj = new CGI;
$ENV{PATH} = ;
#Get parameters
my $name = $cgiobj-param('name');
my $address = $cgiobj-param('address');
my $email = $cgiobj-param('email');
my $comments = $cgiobj-param('comments');
#send emails to Camilo and sender
my $from ='Opensourceman';
my $subject = 'Contact Confirmation from Opensourceman';
my $reply = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]';
my $sendmail = '/usr/lib/sendmail -i -t';
open (SENDMAIL, |$sendmail) or die Cannot open sendmail: $!;
print SENDMAIL To: $email, $reply\n;
print SENDMAIL From: $from\n;
print SENDMAIL Reply-to: $reply\n;
print SENDMAIL Subject: $subject;
print SENDMAIL \n\n;
print SENDMAIL Thanks for contacting Opensourceman. Below is what you
submitted to us:\n
Name: $name\n
Address: $address\n
Email: $email\n
Comments: $comments \n\n
We will be contacting you shortly;
close(SENDMAIL);
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Re: special characters
J., In my experience, the numeric escapes where available seem to be more universal between browsers. J. Alejandro Ceballos Z. wrote: I may try with nueric equivalents (like #046;) or htmlspecialchars() or htmlentities() Octavian Rasnita wrote: Hi all, I want to create some web pages that use special characters for foreign languages (romanian), like staîâSTAÎÂ. Please tell me what can I do to make them show right in the visitors' browser. I've seen that if I just print them, they appear like a question mark instead (?). I've seen that other sites can print them right and I don't know how. Is there an HTTP header I need to set? Or are there any special Apache settings I need to make? Thank you for your help. Teddy, teddy.fcc.ro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Counter triggered on download
This is the sort of stuff I was talking about. Modules are great but
sometimes you just have to wrest back control.
zsdc wrote:
fliptop wrote:
merrill - i'm a little late on this thread, and the other suggestions
are
valid, but here's one way to serve up files w/o using a direct link by
taking advantage of CGI.pm's header() function:
my $cgi = new CGI;
print $cgi-header('application/pdf');
Actually, it's the same as just:
print Content-Type: application/pdf\n\n;
CGI.pm is great but it's an overkill for just printing HTTP
Content-Type header.
-zsdc.
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Re: Counter triggered on download
I would solve this by using the link to invoke a Perl script that would trip a counter and serve up the PDF document, shift-click be damned. Who uses shift-click anyway? Merrill Oakes wrote: I have a link to a PDF file on a web page. I want to count how many times that someone clicks on the link (i.e. downloads the PDF). The easy way (at least for me) would be to make them go to a download page first, and I could put a counter in the page, BUT this requires an extra step for the user. SO, is there any way to:#1. monitor how many a times a file has been downloaded, or maybe #2. have them click on a link (that is really a cgi script, that then increments the counter then starts the download/open of the PDF? Of course this last method will disable the ability to do a shift-click to download the doc. Thoughts, or pointers would be appreciated, Thanks, MO. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Perl line breaks
Yech, what a mess. I think you may need to escape the question mark and
or dots. In any case, why try to escape such an unwieldy string? Why not
use a heredoc? Laziness is the mark of a good programmer.
Mike Harrison wrote:
I was trying to find a log file to look at. I guess half the problem is I
am using a hosting service, and it is on a Microsoft IIS server (Windows
NT-based I think, but definitely not UNIX). I will have to ask the hosting
admin where I might find a log file...
Here is the part of the perl script that I start printing things to the
browser (see previous message for the html.pm script that contains the
HTML_header and HTML_ender subroutines):
my $header = 'Successful update';
my $msg = h2Your preferences have been updated
successfully.../h2hrbrbrbr;
# Finally, put up a HTML document announcing that the update was successful.
HTML_header($header);
print body\n;
print center\n;
print $msg\n;
print pReturn to the a href=\amtest.pl?uname=$uname\
onMouseover=\window.status='Back to account management'; return true\
onMouseout=\window.status=''; return true\Account Management/a
page/p\n;
print /center\n;
HTML_ender;
Note that I have also tried using print qq| ... | code as well.
I am now getting a CGI error message along the lines of
Cannot find a string terminator '' in ... line ... (the line above starting
with print p... . I can't find a problem with that line???
Thanks for your help so far guys! I am losing a bit of sleep on this one :(
Regards,
Mike.
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For troubleshooting a script you can take a look in the server's log file
and you will find there any error.
Teddy,
Teddy's Center: http://teddy.fcc.ro/
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...and you don't need to print the HTML header in the BEGIN {} block.
You can just print it at the top of the perl program or in the middle of
the
program but before anything else is printed.
if something is dieing in a module you are loading, you will never know
about it because it will never get to the Content-Type and therefore never
send anything good to your browser. if you use a BEGIN block, you might
catch things that happen in modules you load. i wouldn't recommend doing
that for your normal script, but it is a useful troubleshooting tool.
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Re: Why executable?
Okay then, how should scripts be called? Let's say I'm using a form. What would the action be? Kristofer Hoch wrote: You should never be able to guess the implementation language by looking at a URL. Wrong. Wrong. I couldn't agree more. None of my scripts are executed directly...IE there is not script called 'index.pl'. Alternatly, I use HTML::Mason for dynamic web content. The Mason handler calls the scripts and does something meaningful with the information it gets back. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] = -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GIT d s+:++ a C++ UL++ US+ P+++ L++ W+++ w PS PE t++ b+ G e r+++ z --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Perl line breaks
Mike Harrison wrote: Hello all, Well, I have spent the last few nights messing around trying to work out why one of my PERL programs doesn't work. If anybody can shed some light on this, I might be able to get some sleep :) I am using a hosting service to host my web site, and they use a Microsoft NT-based server system (sorry, I don't know the nitty-gritty details). They allow user cgi programs (PERL, PHP etc.), and until now most of my PERL programs have worked as expected. I am using NTEmacs as a text editor for my HTML PERL programming. With one program, I am getting an error message as follows: CGI Error The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are: (nothing else is printed to the screen after 'The headers it did return are:') My question is: Are line breaks important with PERL programs, and if so, any tips? If line breaks are not likely to be the problem in this case, does anybody know why I am getting this error? Note that I have a similar PERL program in the same directory that works fine. So I think it is my program and not the web server... It might be I have overlooked an important detail that I can't see on the screen - such as line breaks or other non-printable characters??? Thanks in advance for any help, Mike. How are you generating your HTTP headers? Can you post some code? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail::Send question
Todd W. wrote: Camilo Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Definitely avoid this if possible, there are numerous mail message modules, one of them is bound to provide what you need. Why is sendmail held in such low regard by this group? Most on this list will agree sendmail is one of the Internet's first killer apps. But because interfacing directly with the sendmail binary can be confusing and bug prone there are modules on the CPAN that use sendmail as the transport mechanism. These modules abstract sendmail's intricacies from the user, providing a simple API to send mail. Therefore, modules are the preferred way to send mail from a perl program. Todd W. I sometimes wonder if all this shielding of intricacies is necessarly a good thing. Shouldn't I know how to use sendmail? I guess I'm a DIY kind of guy and I want to know how sendmail works. Fine, if a module makes it all easier, I'll certainly use it. But I want to know how the abstraction occurs. What happens if the module I'm using in lieu of sendmail is buggy and I have no idea why or how to circumvent the problem? Do I have control issues? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail::Send question
Wiggins d'Anconia wrote:
Scot Robnett wrote:
Is there any way to force Mail::Send to accept a From name, as
opposed to
simply sending and using the hostname by default? I don't see
anything in
the docs about setting the From field in the headers.
(of course, I can just open a pipe to sendmail, but I want to see if
there's
a way to pull this off first...)
Definitely avoid this if possible, there are numerous mail message
modules, one of them is bound to provide what you need.
Why is sendmail held in such low regard by this group?
example:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
require Mail::Send;
my $mailbody = blah blah blah;
my $to = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]';
my $from = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]';
my $msg = new Mail::Send;
# $msg-from($from) # doesn't work and mail
# doesn't get sent if you
# use it
It appears that 'from' isn't one of the proper header methods, you
should try using the 'set' or 'add' methods to add the header you
want. For instance:
$msg-set('From' = $from);
$msg-to($to);
$msg-subject('Mail from SomeBusiness.com');
my $fh = $msg-open;
print $fh $mailbody;
$fh-close;
# When this mail comes in, it comes from
# mywebaccountuserID@mywebhostdomain
If this doesn't suffice you might try one of the other mail modules
that is slightly more robust.
http://danconia.org
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Where's the Perl jobs, baby?
I'm not sure if this question has been asked before but it may never be as relevant. I'm a Perl programmer trying to survive the Bush recession. What's a good resource for finding jobs? All I ever see are job listings for that icky Microsoft stuff. What options are open to the nattering contrarian? Has anyone on this list been affected by outsourcing yet? Are Perl people as vulnerable? If this query is totally off base, please don't hesitate to tell me so (somehow, I don't think that will be a problem). However, I believe this list is supposed to be a resource and I don't think the employment issue is necessarily off base. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: saving a textarea to a text file
Wrong. Try:
use CGI;
my $q = new CGI;
my $record = $q-param('text_field');
open(OUTFILE, output.txt) or die Can't open output.txt: $!;
print OUTFILE $record;
close OUTFILE;
Andrew Brosnan wrote:
On 6/26/03 at 10:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob X) wrote:
How would I go about saving the textarea of an HTML page to a text
file?
use CGI;
my $q = new CGI;
my $record = $q-param('text_field');
open(OUTFILE, output.txt) or die Can't open output.txt: $!;
print OUTFILE $record;
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Memory shortage
Okay, I'm still struggling here. My problem is I have a client who has a
rather large tab delimited text file I am attempting to slurp up and
place in a MySQL table. The file is almost 6 megs large but my ISP only
allows 2 megs of RAM per user. I can slurp up only about 1.5 megs before
I get an error message. I would like to read in only about 1.5 megs at a
time but if I use the following I exceed memory limits:
while (sysread (TEMP, $temp, 1_500_000))
{
# read into MySQL
}
Is there a way to step through a large file and process only what I read
in? I'm so stymied I wanna puke.
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Need more memory
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RE: uninitialized values
I'm kinda a stupid moronic idiot, but it seems to me you're calling a
variable out of its scope. Try declaring it globally. If it doesn't work use
sarcasm on me
-Original Message-
From: t [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 2:26 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: uninitialized values
Hello:)
in my script my values come from my html form. I define them with:
my $OptOut = $q-param( OptOut );
BUT, when i try to get them to print in the e-mail, i get the uninitialized
value error Use of
uninitialized value at /cgi-bin/newreg.cgi line 316.
(thE FOLLOWING STARTS WITH line 316)
if ($OptOut eq Yes)
{print MAIL \t-Do not use my information\n\n;}
else {print MAIL \t-not checked\n\n;}
I am using the cgi.pm module on an IHS server. Besides the error, it also
gives me a screen after
i hit submit on the form that says i have a header error. But it doesn't do
it everytime, so i
don't know if i really have one or not:(
Anyone ever come across this before? I would really appreciate your help:)
ty
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RE: retain same file name when uploading
Naomi, The purpose of this list is not for us to write programs for you but to help you overcome any specific problems you may have. Please post specifically what you think the problem(s) are and the kind Perl gurus here will be all too happy to assist you. -Original Message- From: Naomi Arries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 2:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: retain same file name when uploading I have noticed that when uploading a file (say c:\input.txt) to the upload directory on my apache server then that file gets uploaded with another name( C__input.txt. See below the script called upload.pl. Could you someone modify it such that the same name remain consistant during (client to server) upload. Thanks in advance Naomi == Find businesses and have your business found: http://www.brabys.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: retain same file name when uploading
Nevermind. -Original Message- From: Christopher G Tantalo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 3:11 PM To: Camilo Gonzalez Cc: 'Naomi Arries'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: retain same file name when uploading Camilo Gonzalez wrote: Naomi, The purpose of this list is not for us to write programs for you but to help you overcome any specific problems you may have. Please post specifically what you think the problem(s) are and the kind Perl gurus here will be all too happy to assist you. Camilo, umm, didnt he post his code and ask for help with a specific part of it? bob seemed to answer his question after looking at the problem. Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Viruses
Antibiotics won't work against viruses. Like the anti-windows message though. -Original Message- From: Shawn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 9:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Viruses zentara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 23:21:06 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Admin) wrote: Please ensure your computers are virus free before sending attachments through this mailing list. In the past 2 weeks I have received notification from my Microtrend PC-cillin of no less than 6 worm/trojan infected files sent through this group. If others on this list do not have adequate virus protection please beware of possible viruses circulating through this email list. I havn't received any viruii thru this list, exactly which messages are you talking about. Maybe you should get rid of MS Windows. Hey, while your at it, why not stop breathing, since they come that way too... Or maybe that is a bit harsh, I guess you could get an antibiotic instead. Norton has seemed to work quite well for the past several years. Shawn -- 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]
Benchmarking
Good Kind Perl Gurus, I see mention of benchmarking CGI scripts to see how quickly they run. What's the best way to do this? I'm in a hosted Unix IRIX environment so may not have access to the shell and other areas. #!/usr/local/bin/perl print ' EOF' Camilo Gonzalez Web Developer Taylor Johnson Associates [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.taylorjohnson.com http://www.taylorjohnson.com/ EOF
RE: Subroutines
Theresa, Paul Duboise in his book Perl and MySQL puts all connection schemes in a library. Would that work for you? -Original Message- From: Theresa Mullin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 2:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Subroutines Hi Everyone, I am writing a program in which I am connecting to an oracle database. I would like to put the environment variables and the connection routine into a separate subroutine, so I don't have to keep re-copying the code. What's the best way to go about this? Thanks, Theresa Theresa M. Mullin Programmer/Analyst Administrative Computing Northern Essex Community College 100 Elliott Way Haverhill, MA 01830 (978) 556-3757 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Displaying counter
Dude, Make it easy on yourself, use an animated GIF. It's close enough. You don't really mean 600 seconds do you? -Original Message- From: Jim Lundeen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 2:58 PM To: begin begin Subject: Displaying counter Hello all, I know this probably isn't the appropriate list for my question, but I don't want to receive email on other lists too! So, if you know the answer, I'd appreciate your help... I have the following in my HTML output: head meta http-equiv=refresh content=600;URL=program.cgi /head Question: Is there a way to display the counter? I want to have my page say You will be transferred to blah in NNN seconds... I want the message to actually show the active counter... 600 changes to 599, then 598, and so on... Thanks! -- 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]
RE: tail -f with cgi
Alright, what's a tail -f? -Original Message- From: Bob Showalter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 11:09 AM To: 'Max Clark'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: tail -f with cgi -Original Message- From: Max Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 7:44 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: tail -f with cgi Hi, I am trying to write a cgi program to tail -f a log file. I have a perl script that will open and print the log file, however it closes as soon as it reads whatever is in the file at that particular time. How do I mimic tail -f functionality? CPAN has a File::Tail module. But a CGI script isn't designed to be long-running like this. The web server will eventually time out the request and kill your script. -- 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]
RE: Accessing Extra Information in die()
Will $! suffice for you? -Original Message- From: John Pitchko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 10:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Accessing Extra Information in die() Hello, I wrote a custom error message to be displayed in my CGI pages instead of the standard die. It works fine, but I was wondering if there was a way I could access all the special/extra information that is included in a die message, such as line number and filename of the error. Thanks, John Pitchko Data Services Saskatchewan Government Insurance -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Using strict and configuration files
Bob, Exactly what does our do? I understand my and even local but have yet to grasp the our concept. -Original Message- From: Bob Showalter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 9:12 AM To: 'Octavian Rasnita'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Using strict and configuration files -Original Message- From: Octavian Rasnita [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2000 4:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Using strict and configuration files Hi all, I want to use: use strict; And I want to use a configuration file in a Perl script. The configuration file uses: %page1=( ); %page2=( ); This way I get errors if I run the script because the variables are not defined with my. I've tried putting in the configuration file: my %page1=( ); But this method doesn't work. I use a configuration file and I would like to put the settings only in this file without modifying the script. Is it possible? Yes. In your main program: use strict; require config.pl; our ($foo); print foo is $foo\n; In your config file: $foo = Hello, world; use strict applies only to the current file, so you don't need to change your config file. You need to add the our declaration to your main program to make use strict happy. A more formal way to handle this would be to use a module and import symbols: File MyConfig.pm: package MyConfig; use strict; require Exporter; our @ISA = qw(Exporter); our @EXPORT = qw($foo); our $foo = Hello, world; 1; Main program: use strict; use MyConfig; print foo is $foo\n; If you import a symbol with use, you don't need the our declaration. -- 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]
RE: Using strict and configuration files
So the following are equivalent: use vars qw(foo) our $foo = -Original Message- From: Bob Showalter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 9:17 AM To: 'Camilo Gonzalez'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Using strict and configuration files -Original Message- From: Camilo Gonzalez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 10:16 AM To: 'Bob Showalter'; 'Octavian Rasnita'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Using strict and configuration files Bob, Exactly what does our do? I understand my and even local but have yet to grasp the our concept. It just declares that a global variable will be used without a qualifying package name. Basically, it makes use strict happy. perldoc -f our -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: What database would your recommend?
That's a good point. Are there still advantages to using Perl over using PHP? I'd be bummed to hear I'm using a dying language. -Original Message- From: Fred Sahakian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 10:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: What database would your recommend? depends what you need to do, PHP has become VERY popular Octavian Rasnita [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/05/02 10:58PM Hi all, I want to start learning a database that works with Perl but I would like to learn a database that works under Windows and Unix also. Is there such a thing? Of course, I would like to learn something as simple as possible because I am a beginner in Perl. Thank you. Teddy, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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]
RE: What database would your recommend?
Forgive me Nikola. In this business you need to stay as marketable as possible. I don't want to go to a potential employer with six years of Perl on my resume, to be beaten out by somebody with 2 years of PHP on theirs. -Original Message- From: Nikola Janceski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 11:06 AM To: 'Camilo Gonzalez'; 'Fred Sahakian'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: RE: What database would your recommend? Perl a dying language? are you nutz?!?!?! Haven't you been reading the Apocalypse pages for PERL 6??!?!? http://dev.perl.org/perl6/apocalypse/ apocalypse 1-4 http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/04/apo5.html apocalypse 5 (pattern matching will never be the same) I get a w**dy just thinking about it. -Original Message- From: Camilo Gonzalez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 11:57 AM To: 'Fred Sahakian'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: RE: What database would your recommend? That's a good point. Are there still advantages to using Perl over using PHP? I'd be bummed to hear I'm using a dying language. -Original Message- From: Fred Sahakian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 10:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: What database would your recommend? depends what you need to do, PHP has become VERY popular Octavian Rasnita [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/05/02 10:58PM Hi all, I want to start learning a database that works with Perl but I would like to learn a database that works under Windows and Unix also. Is there such a thing? Of course, I would like to learn something as simple as possible because I am a beginner in Perl. Thank you. Teddy, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] The views and opinions expressed in this email message are the sender's own, and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Summit Systems Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: subroutine or subroutine
Janek,
Wouldn't it print:
foo:
foo:A B C
Also, I believe that you must declare the subroutine before you are allowed
to reference it without the . Am I right about that?
-Original Message-
From: Janek Schleicher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 5:10 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: subroutine or subroutine
Kevin Christopher wrote at Wed, 05 Jun 2002 04:58:38 +0200:
Yes, you can call subroutines either way, with or without the . The
only case when the
subroutine must be prefixed with an ampersand is, I believe, when you're
assigning a reference
variable, eg:
$reference_x = \subroutine_y;
But that's another story.
Oh, I'm afraid that's not the truth :-)
subroutine without any arguments calls the subroutine with the implicit @_
array,
while subroutine only calls subroutine() without any argument.
Look at this snippet:
@_ = qw(A B C);
print 'foo:'; foo; print \n;
print 'foo:'; foo; print \n;
sub foo {
print @_;
}
It prints:
foo:
foo:ABC
Greetings,
Janek
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RE: subroutine or subroutine
Bob, Since this is a list for newbies, can you please be a bit more specific why you are opposed to those things you list. I'm quite fond of using the foo or foo(args) calling styles. Is this just a personal preference? -Original Message- From: Bob Showalter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 8:30 AM To: 'Octavian Rasnita'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: subroutine or subroutine -Original Message- From: Octavian Rasnita [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 2:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: subroutine or subroutine Hi all, I've seen some subroutines are ran without the sign in front of the subroutine name, like: subroutine_name; instead of subroutine_name; Is it the same thing or there is a difference? Janek gave you the difference, and it's fully documented in perldoc perlsub. Note that the first is not allowed under use strict unless the sub has been declared or defined above the usage, or imported. Here are my recommendations for new code (others may want to debate these): 1. Always use strict; 2. Don't use prototypes. 3. Don't use the foo or foo(args) calling styles. 4. To call a sub with no arguments, use an empty set of parens: foo() (Exception: method calls can leave off the parens, e.g: $sth-execute; since there is no ambiguity with a method call). -- 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]
RE: website keywords
Hytham, This a HTML question, not a CGI one but here goes: Keywords are usually stored in the meta tags at the top of a page. They follow the form meta name=keywords content=some list of keywords -Original Message- From: Hytham Shehab [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 6:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: website keywords hi guys, how can i access the keyword section of any web page? thx -- Hytham Shehab -- 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]
RE: Content Warning from MailScan to Mail-Sender!
I think 'HAHAHA' is one of the subject lines used by a virus. -Original Message- From: drieux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 11:15 AM To: cgi cgi-list Subject: Fwd: Content Warning from MailScan to Mail-Sender! can one of the more elegantly enabled in our world explain to me why and/or how HAHAHA became a 'restricted content' I am aware that the American Attorney General has turned up the heat on the pro-terrorist fellow travellor types who are not fully backing the war against evil - but, uh, is the following simply a badly designed piece of software run amuck for want of any competent driver at the wheel Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue Jun 04, 2002 08:38:32 US/Pacific To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Content Warning from MailScan to Mail-Sender! Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from gatekeeper2.mahindrabt.com([203.197.15.67]) (1625 bytes) by wetware.wetware.com via sendmail with P:esmtp/D:user/T:local (sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) id [EMAIL PROTECTED] for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 09:05:12 -0700 (PDT) (Smail-3.2.0.114 2001-Aug-6 #1 built 2002-Jan-4) Received: from mahindrabt.com (mailscan.mahindrabt.com [10.2.0.50]) by gatekeeper2.mahindrabt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id VAA11589 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 21:25:22 +0530 Received: from mahindrabt.com by mahindrabt.com ; 4 Jun 2002 21:08:39 +0530 X-Smtp-Sending-Ip: 127.0.0.1 X-Originator: MailScan Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=MailScanBoundary0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The following email you sent was not delivered to the intended recipients as it had restricted contents in it! The restricted content present was HAHAHA. Action taken: The email was Deleted. = The Mail came from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Mail recipient: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject of the Mail : The Cannons of True Faith Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Use MailScan on your EMail Servers and eScan on your Windows-based PCs and Servers for maximum protection from Internet-borne viruses. ciao drieux --- -- 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]
RE: The size of the uploaded file
Why not just set up a FTP site? I assume the people who want to upload those large files will be familiar with FTP. -Original Message- From: Octavian Rasnita [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 11:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The size of the uploaded file Hi all, I've seen for more times that it is not recommended to upload big files with a web form. I know that if the connection brokes down, the file will be probably lost, but are there any other problems? I would like to make a form for uploading big files on my server. Not for the public, but I want to be able to upload files that have 30 MB or even more. Do I create special problems for the server? Thanks. Teddy, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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]
What is cat?
I see the word 'cat' being used an awful lot lately here and have encountered it in other readings. What is cat and what is it used for? #!/usr/local/bin/perl print ' EOF' Camilo Gonzalez Web Developer Taylor Johnson Associates [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.taylorjohnson.com http://www.taylorjohnson.com/ EOF
RE: The size of the uploaded file
David, Since there are a lot of newbies here, can you please enumerate on the pains and differences between both FTPs and what SCP is? -Original Message- From: David T-G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 9:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Camilo Gonzalez Subject: Re: The size of the uploaded file Camilo, et al -- and then Camilo Gonzalez said... % % Why not just set up a FTP site? I assume the people who want to upload those Well, anon ftp has its own pains, as does non-anon ftp to some guest account... It's good to move away from ftp to anonymous scp or http puts or such when you can. % large files will be familiar with FTP. Typically true, but web browsers are pretty ubiquitous these days and many folks, believe it or not, don't know a thing about ftp :-)/2 HTH HAND :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: HTML in E-mail
Fred,
Thank Jah this problem was recently successfully solved! Try this:
open(MAIL,|$mailprog -t);
print MAIL Content-Type: text/html\n;
print MAIL To: $comm\@courts.state.ny.us\n;
print MAIL From: fsahakia\
@courts.state.ny.us\n;
print MAIL Subject: Forwarded \n\n;
print MAIL This person has requested \n;
etc...
-Original Message-
From: Fred Sahakian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 2:19 PM
To:
Subject: HTML in E-mail
What am doing wrong? Im try to send an e-mail that will appear as formatted
HTML, Im missing something but dont know what. In my example below I have a
hyperlink which I would like to appear as HTML and a font color, but they
appear in the e-mail as raw HTML, what am I leaving out? A Mime?:
open(MAIL,|$mailprog -t);
print MAIL To: $comm\@courts.state.ny.us\n;
print MAIL From: fsahakia\
@courts.state.ny.us\n;
print MAIL Subject: Forwarded \n;
print MAIL This person has requested \n;
print MAIL font color=redtest text/fonta
href=http://www.SOMETHING.COM;LINK/A\n;
print MAIL County: $contents{'county'}
Name: $contents{'first'} $contents{'last'}
Address: $contents{'street'} $contents{'city'}
$contents{'zip'}
Date of Birth: $contents{'month'}
$contents{'day'} $contents{'year'}
Home Telephone: $contents{'htel'}
close MAIL;
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RE: HTML in E-mail
David, I admire your principles. This is something that has come up before and after some trial and error, what I proposed to him seemed to work. I too feel HTML email is evil but some of us are stuck being prostitutes to keep the wolves from our door. -Original Message- From: David T-G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 3:11 PM To: perl beginners cgi Cc: Camilo Gonzalez; 'Fred Sahakian' Subject: Re: HTML in E-mail Fred, Camilo, et al -- and then Camilo Gonzalez said... % % Fred, % % Thank Jah this problem was recently successfully solved! Try this: % % open(MAIL,|$mailprog -t); % print MAIL Content-Type: text/html\n; % print MAIL To: $comm\@courts.state.ny.us\n; Note that, although he's posted to the CGI list, he's asking about email. In this case you've stuck on a lovely C-T: header (missing an extra newline, though) as though you were spitting out to a web page, but that's not what he's doing. What he *wants* is to output something like To: ... From: ... Subject: ... Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary=HTML-email-is-really-bad This is a MIME message. Only a really cool mailreader can see this. --HTML-email-is-really-bad Content-Type: text/html; Here is your boldfreakin'/bold HTML mail. --HTML-email-is-really-bad which properly describes the message body in the headers, leaves a blank line to identify the header end and the body begin, and then lays out the body pieces. No, I don't know how to write it in perl. I think I'd feel dirty if I did; this is bad enough ;-) I'm sure there's a module, though. HTH HAND :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Counter and scoping(?) issue
Gack, you Perl Lords once again save my butt. Thanks Roberto, it worked like
a charm.
-Original Message-
From: Kevin Meltzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 7:30 AM
To: Roberto Ruiz
Cc: Camilo Gonzalez; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Counter and scoping(?) issue
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 03:05:36AM -0500, Roberto Ruiz
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to:
Hi, God bless you.
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 12:45:53PM -0500, Camilo Gonzalez wrote:
if ( $confirm_counter = 1){
^ May be this your problem?
In the indicated if condition below you are allways assigning 1 to
$confirm_counter instead of comparing it to 1. Should be:
if($confirm_counter==1) {
...
}
You don't need the quotes if you are doing a numeric check.
if($confirm_counter == 1) {
...
}
Cheers,
Kevin
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Opening Filehandles under taint check
Dudes,
Someone has to have some inkling how to open filehandles for writing whilst
running in taint mode (-T). C'mon there are some of the best Perl minds in
the world here. Is it impossible?
I've tried untainting the data I'm using to write with this snippet:
#untaint $count
if ($count =~ /^([-\@\w.]+)$/){
$count = $1;
}
but kept getting this error, Insecure dependency in open while running with
-T switch at /u/web/lega63/cgi-local/SecureMail.pl line 455. HELP! I don't
want to run this program without taint checks.
The full filehandle portion is:
if ($mailPrefix[0]) {
open (COUNTER,$mailPrefix[0]Counter.txt) or die Couldn't read
counter, $! \n;
$count=COUNTER;
++$count;
close (COUNTER);
#untaint $count
if ($count =~ /^([-\@\w.]+)$/){
$count = $1;
}
else {
die Bad data in $count;
}
#The next line is line 455
open (COUNTER,$mailPrefix[0]Counter.txt) or die Couldn't write
counter, $! \n;
print COUNTER $count;
close (COUNTER);
unless ($skip eq yes){
open (COUNTER,$mailPrefix[0]Report.txt) or die Couldn't write
Report, $! \n;
print (COUNTER ${count}. $Config{'email'} on $date\n);
close (COUNTER);
}
}
}
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RE: Matt Wright's formMail
Verio, the world's largest ISP. -Original Message- From: Dave Cross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 12:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Matt Wright's formMail On Mon, 13 May 2002 16:07:54 +0100, Camilo Gonzalez wrote: I've just been informned by my ISP that Matt Wright's formMail will no longer be allowed on any of their servers due to glaring security concerns. I know now I shouldn't have used it but back then I was stupid and not a subscriber to this fine list. Let this serve as a warning to those still using his crap. Does anyone have the URL of that site that offers alternatives to Matt's scripts? Can you please tell me which ISP this is. I'm tring to keep a list of ISPs that have come to their senses and banned Matt's scripts. Dave... -- Don't you boys know any _nice_ songs? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: yahoo mail did't compile HTML mail
Doh! Sorry, try this: --- START source--- open(MAIL,|$mailp -t); print MAIL Content-Type: text/html\n\n; print MAIL To: $email\n; print MAIL From: $wemail\n; print MAIL Subject: $subject\n\n; print MAIL $contents\n; close (MAIL); --- END source--- -Original Message- From: messag from ESS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 4:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: yahoo mail did't compile HTML mail Thanks to all these brains which give a help to us, 1- I tried this with many options but didnt work, Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 2-This and give me error not for simicolon only, --- START source--- open(MAIL,|$mailp -t); print MAIL Content-Type: text/html\n\n; print MAIL To: $email\n; print MAIL From: $wemail\n; print MAIL Subject: $subject\n\n; print MAIL $contents\n; close (MAIL); --- END source--- anyone try to make like me before? Thankx again From: Camilo Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED], messag from ESS [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: yahoo mail did't compile HTML mail Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 11:47:32 -0500 Dude, Try this --- START source--- My source is:open(MAIL,|$mailp -t); print MAIL Content-Type: text/html\n\n; print MAIL To: $email\n; print MAIL From: $wemail\n; print MAIL Subject: $subject\n\n; print MAIL $contents\n; close (MAIL); --- END source--- -Original Message- From: Kevin Meltzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 9:35 AM To: messag from ESS Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: yahoo mail did't compile HTML mail You need a Content-Type header. Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 (or whatever your charset is) Cheers, Kevin On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 04:28:44PM +0300, messag from ESS ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: hi all I konw you havn't much time then I will begain directly Probem is: 1- I make a program to send a mail. 2- I send an HTML mail normaly to yahoo and hotmail. 3- The hotmail compile it and display as a web bage. 4- The yahoo did't compile it and display the HTML source !. Needed: 1- why yahoo mail did not compile it. 2- solve of this problem, or a way to solve it. --- START source--- My source is:open(MAIL,|$mailp -t); print MAIL To: $email\n; print MAIL From: $wemail\n; print MAIL Subject: $subject\n\n; print MAIL $contents\n; close (MAIL); --- END source--- THANKS FOR YOUR HELP -- [Writing CGI Applications with Perl - http://perlcgi-book.com] Life Is Pain, Highness. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something. -- The Dread Pirate Wesley, in the Princess Bride. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Matt Wright's formMail
I've just been informned by my ISP that Matt Wright's formMail will no longer be allowed on any of their servers due to glaring security concerns. I know now I shouldn't have used it but back then I was stupid and not a subscriber to this fine list. Let this serve as a warning to those still using his crap. Does anyone have the URL of that site that offers alternatives to Matt's scripts? #!/usr/local/bin/perl print ' EOF' Camilo Gonzalez Web Developer Taylor Johnson Associates [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.taylorjohnson.com http://www.taylorjohnson.com/ EOF
RE: Matt Wright's formMail
Thank you all for this link. -Original Message- From: Kevin Meltzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 10:53 AM To: Camilo Gonzalez Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Matt Wright's formMail try the rewrite from NMS: http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/ Cheers, Kevin On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:07:54AM -0500, Camilo Gonzalez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: I've just been informned by my ISP that Matt Wright's formMail will no longer be allowed on any of their servers due to glaring security concerns. I know now I shouldn't have used it but back then I was stupid and not a subscriber to this fine list. Let this serve as a warning to those still using his crap. Does anyone have the URL of that site that offers alternatives to Matt's scripts? #!/usr/local/bin/perl print ' EOF' Camilo Gonzalez Web Developer Taylor Johnson Associates [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.taylorjohnson.com http://www.taylorjohnson.com/ EOF -- [Writing CGI Applications with Perl - http://perlcgi-book.com] Disciple - Master, why isn't everything perfect? Zen Master - It is. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Matt Wright's formMail
The problems seem to be that it uses the Referer environmental variable to exclude spammers and it gives the option of encoding data in the URL. I've been told both are considered security risks. My ISP does not think even the latest release addresses these issues and refuses to let Formmail on its servers. -Original Message- From: drieux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 11:14 AM To: cgi Subject: Re: Matt Wright's formMail On Monday, May 13, 2002, at 08:52 , Kevin Meltzer wrote: try the rewrite from NMS: http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/ Cheers, Kevin which version of the code is the 'problem' version? what is the current specific 'security' issue? there was a security update to v1.92 on 04/21/02 has there been some new issue arise??? since then? ciao drieux --- -- 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]
RE: Matt Wright's formMail
After a quick perusal it seems the replacement form's greatest contribution
seems to be to limit the number of recipients that may be emailed at any one
time. There seem to a number of other improvements and it looks like the
code is updated more to what is recommended here. I do understand the
objections to Matt's style, after all he wrote this stuff when he was just
14 and Perl has come a long way since then. I don't share the animosity,
after all he has done a great deal to popularize Perl. It's just too bad he
did it with poor code and continues to write bad code.
-Original Message-
From: John Brooking [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 3:53 PM
To: cgi
Subject: Re: Matt Wright's formMail
I must confess I'm not intimately familiar with the
script in question, so I don't completely understand
what the code snippet that drieux included does,
therefore how it is or is not sufficiently secure.
However, I have some more general comments in the way
of clarification.
It seems to me that the *fact* of using the referers
environment variable is not the security risk, but
that relying on it *only* is the risk. My introduction
to this issue was getting publicly flamed on perl
beginners last summer partially for not knowing this.
(Don't worry, the burns healed quickly.) Since then,
I've at least read enough to know that anyone with the
LWP module or any other HTTP API in any language can
build a web client with any referer header they want.
But I would think that means that using referers in
itself is not inherently dangerous, only thinking that
it's doing you any good security-wise is. The danger
that this ignorance makes possible depends on what the
rest of your script does with the input it gets.
Encoding data in the URL - well, all GET parameters
work that way, in the broadest definition of the term
data. The question is, what does the script *do*
with that data? As all good readers of the security
chapter of O'Reilly's CGI Programming with Perl
(among others) will know, the biggest security hole
with user input is when that data is used for input to
a shell process. Is that what Matt's script does? If
so, is the generally approved work-around one of the
two fix-ups recommended by that book: (1) filter the
input string to disallow bad characters such as
shell escapes, or better yet, (2) use a combination of
fork and exec rather simply opening a pipe to a
process? How does the NMS replacement code handle
this, and what do you all do in similar cases?
- John
--- drieux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday, May 13, 2002, at 09:21 , Camilo Gonzalez
wrote:
[..]
The problems seem to be that it uses the Referer
environmental variable to
exclude spammers and it gives the option of
encoding data in the URL. I've
been told both are considered security risks. My
ISP does not think even
the
latest release addresses these issues and refuses
to let Formmail on its
servers.
[..]
in the main I have heard the same things - I can
appreciate that
ISP's are at liberty to do as they will - I was just
trying to
track down my exposure - given as our ISP is running
v1.92
it could be that if one's ISP is doing a lot of
virtual hosting
then the simplification of
@referers = ('wetware.com','199.108.16.17');
could get messy hence the following guard code:
sub check_url {
# Localize the check_referer flag which
determines if user is
valid.local($check_referer) = 0;
# If a referring URL was specified, for each
valid referer, make sure
#
# that a valid referring URL was passed to
FormMail.
#
if ($ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'}) {
foreach $referer (@referers) {
if ($ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'} =~
m|https?://([^/]*)$referer|i) {
$check_referer = 1;
last;
}
}
} else { $check_referer = 1; }
# If the HTTP_REFERER was invalid, send back
an
error.if ($check_referer != 1)
{ error('bad_referer') }
}
is not sufficiently robust enough
where that code is preventing spamming is with:
@recipients = fill_recipients(@referers);
sub fill_recipients {
local(@domains) = @_;
local($domain,@return_recips);
foreach $domain (@domains) {
if ($domain =~ /^\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+$/) {
$domain =~ s/\./\\\./g;
push(@return_recips,'^[\w\-\.]+\@\[' .
$domain . '\]');
} else {
$domain =~ s/\./\\\./g;
$domain =~ s/\-/\\\-/g;
push(@return_recips,'^[\w\-\.]+\@' .
$domain);
}
}
return @return_recips;
}
and I have tested this anti-spam piece - and the
only thing that survives is aimed where it is
suppose to go.
As for 'using old perl' - I'm
RE: Matching string (here I am again)
Try /[a-z]*\d[2]/ -Original Message- From: Rafael Cotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 12:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Matching string (here I am again) First of all, special thanks to Drieux. I need to check if a string with the following patern: lowercase charactersnumbernumber.html Like cae01.html or djavan10.html (without quotes). I tryied $musica =~ /([a-z]*)[0-9][0-9]\.html/ but this matches djavan001.html, when this should not. Wich regexpr can I use? This time a link to a howto will be very welcome, once this is not the unique regexpr I'll need to build myself. Rafael -- 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]
RE: Does CGI.pm have escapeURL?
Try 'escapeHTML()'. -Original Message- From: John Brooking [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 12:49 PM To: Beginners CGI Subject: Does CGI.pm have escapeURL? Does CGI.pm have some kind of URL escape function, similar to escapeHTML? I couldn't find any documentation on it in perldoc CGI, and I tried the obvious, escapeURL, with negative results. I suppose that the reason there is no obvious function for this is if you have a form submitted with GET, the escaping happens automatically. But what I need to do is build my own query string to redirect to, so I need to do the escaping myself. I know what the algorithm is and have even done it before, but if CGI.pm provides it, I should be using that one, right? - John __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com -- 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]
RE: html in a cgi script
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RE: Camel Book
The one you seek is called Programming Perl and is indeed an O'Reilly book. However, if you're new to programming you may want to consider first reading Learning Perl which has a gentler learning curve. -Original Message- From: matt stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 8:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Camel Book i'd imagine it'll be an o'reilly book - all their books have some kind of animal on the front. -Original Message- From: Octavian Rasnita [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 March 2002 12:29 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Camel Book Hi all, I heard about that famous Camel Book for Perl but I don't know its real name. Please tell me if you know. Thank you. Teddy, My dear email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.338 / Virus Database: 189 - Release Date: 14/03/02 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.338 / Virus Database: 189 - Release Date: 14/03/02 -- 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]
Regex fro email addresses
Does anyone have a regex handy that will extract email adresses and nothing but? I have a large document with email addresses scattered throughout. The addresses are preceeded and followed by a space. #!/usr/local/bin/perl print ' EOF' Camilo Gonzalez Web Developer Taylor Johnson Associates [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.taylorjohnson.com http://www.taylorjohnson.com/ EOF
RE: buton names
You're asking for a peck of trouble. One solution I would consider is
JavaScript's onSubmit() method.
-Original Message-
From: GsuLinuX [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 2:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: buton names
Hola! ,
There are 2 submit butons under my form and the information entered to the
form will be send to different cgi's. How can i do this?
One idea i thougt is to give names to the buttons and in the cgi :
if buton name is buton1
{ code1 }
if buton name is buton2
{code2 }
how can i do that if it's possible
thanx
funky
Istanbul
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RE: buton names
I understood his request differently, that he wanted to send the parameters
to different scripts depending on the submit button pushed.
-Original Message-
From: Hanson, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 3:44 PM
To: 'GsuLinuX'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: buton names
You can do it just like that.
Given this HTML form:
form action=/cgi-bin/test.cgi
input type=submit name=button1 value=This is button 1
input type=submit name=button2 value=This is button 2
/form
You can use this script:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI qw/:standard/;
print header();
if ( param('button1') ) {
print Button 1 was pushed!;
}
elsif ( param('button2') ) {
print Button 2 was pushed!;
}
Camilo, why is that a problem? Is there inconsistencies between how
browsers handle that info? I don't know of any problems with it offhand,
and I have used it in the past (a long, long, time ago... nothing recent).
Rob
-Original Message-
From: GsuLinuX [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 3:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: buton names
Hola! ,
There are 2 submit butons under my form and the information entered to the
form will be send to different cgi's. How can i do this?
One idea i thougt is to give names to the buttons and in the cgi :
if buton name is buton1
{ code1 }
if buton name is buton2
{code2 }
how can i do that if it's possible
thanx
funky
Istanbul
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Career
I'm an open source freak and I was wondering about my prospects for finding a job. Are there like-minded companies or am I doomed to Windoze? Are Perl programmers in great demand? #!/usr/local/bin/perl print ' EOF' Camilo Gonzalez Web Developer Taylor Johnson Associates [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.taylorjohnson.com http://www.taylorjohnson.com/ EOF
RE: Using SSI in a CGI program
Troy, Not sure why you're doing that. SSI won't work on parsed pages. You're already generating a page so why not include header.html in your template or as a heredoc or open it as a filehandle and print it? -Original Message- From: Troy May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 4:52 PM To: Beginners CGI List Subject: Using SSI in a CGI program Hello, I have an HTML template which gets inserted into a CGI program. I need to insert an SSI into it, but when the page is created it will not show up like it does with a standard HTML file. Do I need to do anything different to this to execute it correctly so it will work like a standard SSI on my page? Here's what I need to insert: !--#include virtual=/path/to/header.html -- When I view source on the ending page of the CGI program I can see it there, but it doesn't execute like it should. Any ideas? Thanks! -- 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]
RE: 2 Q's, Google and Me - can you spell it out?
This is a common problem. The heredoc terminator must be on a line all by
itself, no spaces, no tabs. Here you have it preceeded by spaces.
-Original Message-
From: Henk van Ess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 9:22 AM
To: Bob Showalter; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 2 Q's, Google and Me - can you spell it out?
Dear Bob, dear all,
I followed your suggestion and installed Active Perl for a local test. If I
run the script below, I get the following error:
Too late for -T option at C:\spriet.nl
When I remove the first line #!/usr/bin/perl -wT
i get the error:
Can't find string terminator END_HTMLanywhere before EOF at C:\spriet.pl
line 31
Hope you can help ...
Henk van Ess
#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use strict;
use CGI qw/:standard/;
use URI::Escape;
# if we came from the form, grab the values and create the URL
if ( param )
{
# get the form data
# see perldoc CGI
my $_prefix = param( 'prefix' ) || '';
my $_search = param( 'search' ) || '';
# untaint it
# see perldoc perlsec
my ( $prefix ) = ( $_prefix =~ /^([a-zA-Z\d\s_:]+)$/ ); #create
appropriate regex
my ( $search ) = ( $_search =~ /^([a-zA-Z\d\s_:]+)$/ ); #create
appropriate regex
# escape characters with special meaning in URIs
# see perldoc URI::Escape
$prefix = uri_escape( $prefix );
$search = uri_escape( $search );
print redirect(
http://www.google.com/search?q=$prefix%20$search; );
}
# otherwise, print the Web page
else
{
print header;
print END_HTML;
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd;
html
head
titleTest page/title
/head
body
form action=spriet.cgi method=get
input type=checkbox name=prefix value=allintitle: /
All in titlebr /
input type=text name=search /
input type=submit name=Submit /
/form
/body
/html
END_HTML
}
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RE: 2 Q's, Google and Me - can you spell it out?
The last part of your script looks like this /form /body /html END_HTML } It should look like this /form /body /html END_HTML } In other words, the END_HTML token needs to be on its own line with a return immediately before and after it and no extraneous characters, including spaces. Does that make sense? -Original Message- From: Henk van Ess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 9:49 AM To: Camilo Gonzalez; Bob Showalter; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 2 Q's, Google and Me - can you spell it out? Ty for your fast answer, but I;m still puzzled. Could you paste the script and add the proper syntax? You really would help me with that Henk van Ess -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
scheduling
Anyone know of a module or method that will run a Perl script on a given
time each day? I need to FTP a file from one site to another daily and I was
hoping to automate it.
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RE: scheduling
How can I find out about cron? -Original Message- From: fliptop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 4:30 PM To: Camilo Gonzalez Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: scheduling Camilo Gonzalez wrote: Anyone know of a module or method that will run a Perl script on a given time each day? I need to FTP a file from one site to another daily and I was hoping to automate it. can you write a cron job to do it? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Docs
Where's a good place to find documentation in HTML of the CGI and DBI
modules?
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RE: Easy way to get output from system()
Dude, assign it to a variable. $tempdir = system(ls -l /tmp) -Original Message- From: Chuck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:42 PM To: PERL-CGI List Subject: Easy way to get output from system() I have several CGI's that use system() to get various OS details. What is the most reliable way to glean this information after using this command: For example: #!/bin/perl system(ls -l /tmp) How can I get that data? Thanks, CC -- 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]
RE: ultimate stupidity
Yeah, don't worry about it. We're all bozos on this bus. -Original Message- From: Brett W. McCoy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 10:43 AM To: Francesco Scaglioni Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ultimate stupidity On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Francesco Scaglioni wrote: Answer: I had inadvertently put a space in front of the # at the beginning of the #!. The space is, of course covered by the cursor when I visit the beginning of the file an I had failed to notice the implied space ( implied because I could still see the # ). Is this a record for the most stupid mistake ever made? Boy have I got much to learn. Don't feel bad -- we've all done similar things. You know why programmers have flat foreheads. Beacuse they are constantly slapping their forehead and going 'Doh!' Being able to admit an error (even one you think is stupid) is a good quality to have. -- Brett http://www.chapelperilous.net/ Sir, it's very possible this asteroid is not stable. -- C3P0 -- 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]
RE: How to save and retreive form
Doesn't PostgreSQL have a reputation as being somewhat pokey? Is it open source? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 4:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to save and retreive form Brett == Brett W McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brett MySQL is very simple to set up and easy to use. /me whispers in 2001 and beyond, MySQL is spelled p o s t g r e s q l MySQL is dead. Long Live PostgreSQL. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
foreach loop scoping
Ack!
Fellow programmers,
I have what is probably a rudimentary problem I hope some one can solve. I'm
trying to construct a hash of hashes from a form. The relevant code is as
follows:
for $modelkey (@model) {
$datum = shift @data;
@fields = (split //, $datum);
for $field(@fields) {
($key, $value) = split /=/, $field;
$bigData{$modelkey}{$key} = $value;
print
$modelkeyBR$keyBR$bigData{$modelkey}{$key}P;
}
if ($bigData{$modelkey}{deleting} =~
/delete/) {
$trash = shift @data;
$trash = shift @model;
}
}
A sample of the results are as follow:
301
Sqft
900
301
Type
1br/1ba
301
Price
$194,900
301
Assesments
$223.12
302
Sqft
1084
302
Type
2br/2ba
302
Price
Sold
302
Assesments
$286.08
The problem is that I can print while the print statement is where its at
now but once I try to print outside the second foreach loop, nothing prints.
I'll eventually need to sort %bigData by the outer hash keys which means
%bigData's scope needs to extend beyound the second foreach loop.
Does anyone have any ideas why this scoping problem occurs? Does anyone have
any ideas on how to overcome it?
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RE: search and return a value from a table
Hmmm, didn't we cover overly general questions recently? Are you new to this group, Cynhsieh? Have you read any Perl books or taken any Perl classes? I apoligize if I sound a bit harsh. I'm no Perl expert by any means. I applaud you for choosing Perl for this task. You must realise however, that what you are asking would take some time to explain and judging from your question, one would wonder whether you have any experience with Perl at all. Even amoung newbies, a certain level of knowledge must be presumed. What you are asking this group to do is write a program for you. In the long run, this would cheat you out of learning. -Original Message- From: cynhsieh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 10:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: search and return a value from a table Hi, I am trying to create a database program. I want to search and return a value from a table. How do I do that? eg. Name ID Age zzz 2389 28 yyy 7653 40 how do I use zzz to search zzz's age? please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanx! -- 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]
RE: How to open a http or https url, as if it was a file
Why not open the file itself? In other words, try: open (FILE, 'somefile.html') or die Can't open HTML document $!; I don't think you can open and search an entire site. -Original Message- From: Gael PEGLIASCO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 8:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to open a http or https url, as if it was a file Hello, I'm looking for a way to open a http url, in order to retrieve parts of its content and display it in a cgi script. I'd like to do things like : open (FILE, 'http://www.myurl.com'); or open (FILE, 'https://www.myurl.com'); Do you know how I could do that ? Thanks for your reply, With kind regards, Gael, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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]
RE: Hash of hashes
The @model array is composed of condo unit numbers, 301-627ish. The values may later be names so I'm treating them as strings. -Original Message- From: fliptop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 7:02 PM To: Camilo Gonzalez Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hash of hashes [reply posted to list] Camilo Gonzalez wrote: Yes, Fliptop. I wrote that in my orignal email. Would appreciate any advice in that regard. ok, good. now, what is in the @model array? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Hash of hashes
Fliptop,
Haven't studied all of CGI.pm's capability's yet. Is there an easier way to
build a hash of hashes using it?
-Original Message-
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To: Camilo Gonzalez
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: Hash of hashes
Camilo Gonzalez wrote:
$i=0;
for $fields(split //, @data) {
($key, $value) = split /=/, $fields;
$bigData{$model[$i]}{$key} = $value;
$i++;
}
why do i get the feeling when i look at this code that this person is
trying to parse a cgi query string without using cgi.pm?
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RE: Copy and past HTML into a perl script
Bradley, I'm not sure your second example would work. I don't think single quotes block interpolation -Original Message- From: Bradley M. Handy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 12:56 PM To: Tony Paterra; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Copy and past HTML into a perl script Your quotes may be mismatched. Meaning that you are enclosing the entire HTML source with double quotes and you have unescaped double quotes in your HTML source. That would confuse perl. For example: print img src=image.gif; # in this line image.gif is a bareword. You should do this: print 'img src=image.gif'; # this does not interpolate variables though. or print img src='image.igf'; # this does interpolate variables. or print HTML; # this does interpolate variables if you use double quotes. img src=image.gif HTML But if you're looking for a longer term solution. Here are my suggestions: 1. Use the Template Toolkit set of modules available at: http://search.cpan.org/search?module=Template 2. Use the HTML::Template module available at: http://search.cpan.org/search?module=HTML::Template 3. Put your HTML in a separate file, open it and the print the lines as you read them. If you do one of the above then you can modify your HTML source and not worry about screwing up your code. Plus it makes your code more readable. Brad Handy --www.jack-of-all-trades.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Tony Paterra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 1:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Copy and past HTML into a perl script I have a cgi script that I need to past approx 40 lines of HTML into. I was hoping I could just get away with having a print paste HTML here; and get away with that but sadly no, I get incomplete set of headers errors. Any suggestions? Thanks, Tony -- 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] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Copy and past HTML into a perl script
That's true, but if you have double quotes inside of single quotes, the double quotes will still interpolate. In other words, the enclosing single quotes will not block the mighty interpolative power of the enclosed double quotes. Please let me know if you believe this yo be incorrect. -Original Message- From: Brett W. McCoy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 2:35 PM To: Camilo Gonzalez Cc: 'Bradley M. Handy'; Tony Paterra; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Copy and past HTML into a perl script On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Camilo Gonzalez wrote: I'm not sure your second example would work. I don't think single quotes block interpolation What do you mean by that? Variables do not interpolate if the string is delimited by single quotes or q(); -- Brett http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/ It is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour. -- Francis Bacon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Copy and past HTML into a perl script
So let's clarify this. You believe the following to be equivalent: print ( 'The rain in $Spain' ); print ( 'The rain in $Spain' ); -Original Message- From: Bradley M. Handy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 2:58 PM To: Camilo Gonzalez; 'Brett W. McCoy' Cc: Tony Paterra; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Copy and past HTML into a perl script I believe that to be incorrect. The outermost quotes win. Brad --www.jack-of-all-trades.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Camilo Gonzalez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 3:55 PM To: 'Brett W. McCoy'; Camilo Gonzalez Cc: 'Bradley M. Handy'; Tony Paterra; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Copy and past HTML into a perl script That's true, but if you have double quotes inside of single quotes, the double quotes will still interpolate. In other words, the enclosing single quotes will not block the mighty interpolative power of the enclosed double quotes. Please let me know if you believe this yo be incorrect. -Original Message- From: Brett W. McCoy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 2:35 PM To: Camilo Gonzalez Cc: 'Bradley M. Handy'; Tony Paterra; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Copy and past HTML into a perl script On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Camilo Gonzalez wrote: I'm not sure your second example would work. I don't think single quotes block interpolation What do you mean by that? Variables do not interpolate if the string is delimited by single quotes or q(); -- Brett http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/ It is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour. -- Francis Bacon -- 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]
RE: Copy and past HTML into a perl script
Yes it does, thank you. I'm afraid I'll have to disagree with you. My Programming Perl book tells me otherwise. I still consider myself a newbie, however and welcome other comments. -Original Message- From: Bradley M. Handy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 3:10 PM To: Camilo Gonzalez; 'Brett W. McCoy' Cc: Tony Paterra; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Copy and past HTML into a perl script No they aren't equivalent. The first prints out - The rain in $Spain The second prints out - The rain in $Spain Does that clarify things? -Original Message- From: Camilo Gonzalez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 4:08 PM To: 'Bradley M. Handy'; Camilo Gonzalez; 'Brett W. McCoy' Cc: Tony Paterra; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Copy and past HTML into a perl script So let's clarify this. You believe the following to be equivalent: print ( 'The rain in $Spain' ); print ( 'The rain in $Spain' ); -Original Message- From: Bradley M. Handy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 2:58 PM To: Camilo Gonzalez; 'Brett W. McCoy' Cc: Tony Paterra; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Copy and past HTML into a perl script I believe that to be incorrect. The outermost quotes win. Brad --www.jack-of-all-trades.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Camilo Gonzalez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 3:55 PM To: 'Brett W. McCoy'; Camilo Gonzalez Cc: 'Bradley M. Handy'; Tony Paterra; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Copy and past HTML into a perl script That's true, but if you have double quotes inside of single quotes, the double quotes will still interpolate. In other words, the enclosing single quotes will not block the mighty interpolative power of the enclosed double quotes. Please let me know if you believe this yo be incorrect. -Original Message- From: Brett W. McCoy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 2:35 PM To: Camilo Gonzalez Cc: 'Bradley M. Handy'; Tony Paterra; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Copy and past HTML into a perl script On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Camilo Gonzalez wrote: I'm not sure your second example would work. I don't think single quotes block interpolation What do you mean by that? Variables do not interpolate if the string is delimited by single quotes or q(); -- Brett http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/ It is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour. -- Francis Bacon -- 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]
Nasty
I don't work with a lot of programmers. I hope to get into a situation where I do. Is it fair to say the majority are *holes? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bucks
I've been writing PERL scripts for over two years now. It's the only type of CGI I know. Would any of you more seasoned programmers say that there's still a market for PERL programmers? I've read of Python and possibly PHP taking over PERL's place as THE CGI language. I've also heard ASP takes up fewer server resources than PERL and is easier to write. Do you see ASP replacing PERL? I'm a web designer and developer who knows PERL, Javascript and HTML. What else should I learn? What do you guys think I should be making?
RE: Script written HTML won
Mine too. See if you have an unclosed table tag or even a missing /HTML or /FORM tag -Original Message- From: Bradley M. Handy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 12:53 PM To: Mark Bergeron; Samuel Brown; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Script written HTML won It can happen. Generally the reason is an unclosed literal string somewhere in the HTML source. At least that's been my experience with that problem. Brad Handy --www.jack-of-all-trades.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Mark Bergeron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 1:48 PM To: Samuel Brown; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Script written HTML won Let me get this straight. You can see the source but not the HTML output in the browser? Mark Bergeron -Original Message- From: Samuel Brown[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue Jul 10 10:20:57 PDT 2001 Subject: Script written HTML won't display Here's a wierd problem for the gurus: I've just set up a fresh install of Active State Perl on this Win2k box, and have written a quick test script for the web server. The script runs correctly from the command prompt, without reporting errors. The script runs for a web browser without reporting errors, likewise. I can 'view source' and see that it returned everything correctly, even. (Well, I can't see the header in the source, natch. But yes, i did make sure to include one; yes, one with TWO carriage returns.) The issue is that of the computers and web browsers I've tried to run this script from, none of them display the text! Netscape displays a portion of the first body character, and nothing else. IE doesn't even display that. Again, a 'view source' in either will show a perfectly mundanely formatted little block of HTML text. Because i try not to go whining to mailing lists, I have taken the time to read over a half dozen FAQs, and short of chasing down every 400 page book they cross reference, I think I've fulfilled the obligations of researching this one on my own before taking up you all's valuable time and bandwidth. Anybody with more experience than me know the answer to my little connundrum? S. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ /~_. _ | _ _ _ _ \_/|(_||| | |(_)| | _| ___ GO.com Mail Get Your Free, Private E-mail at http://mail.go.com
RE: Shifting bits
Yes, and -Original Message- From: Brian Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 12:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Shifting bits Unfortunately I don't have any Perl books available to me at this time and I am trying to find the answer to this on the web, but have had no luck thus far...does anyone know if there is a shift operator in Perl that allow me to shift bits.
RE: floor
Use integer, e.g. print her age is integer($age); The function will round up to the next highest number. -Original Message- From: Thomas Jakub [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 3:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: floor in c++ you can floor a variable to drop the decimal points. How can you do this with perl? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
