Re: getting $var = system(command)

2003-05-29 Thread Eric Amick
I'm having an issue getting system() to put the contents of the output into a variable on a winxp box. The following is the command I'm testing with. $var = system(arp -a); print $var; $var always equals 0. system() is working exactly as documented; its return value is the return

Test, please disregard.

2003-05-29 Thread Juan Carlos Cruz Dada
Sorry for this email, but the list has been rejecting my posts. regards, -Juan Carlos Cruz DadaSenior DeveloperCital Web Solutions

Re: Win32::ODBC hangs unless I run in debugger

2003-05-29 Thread Toni M. Vatcher
I forgot to mention, this is an Oracle database with the Oracle ODBC driver version 8.01.05.00 At 5/28/2003 10:27 AM, Toni M. Vatcher wrote: Hi - I am using the following: perl 5.005_03 ActivePerl Build 522 ActiveState Perl Debugger 1.2 Windows 2000 I didn't have any problems on Windows NT.

RE: getting $var = system(command)

2003-05-29 Thread Mumper, Jay
As far as I know this is standard Perl functionality -- I've used it on Solaris, Linux and Windows (ActiveState Perl)... --Jay -Original Message- From: Adym Lincoln [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 1:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: getting $var =

Re: Why is PHP popular?

2003-05-29 Thread Mark Mielke
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 10:22:18AM -0700, intertwingled wrote: viktoras wrote: Though I certainly do not think PHP is better than Perl simply because PHP is just a language for www, I disagree with that. PHP is in fact a general purpose scripting language, and I have used it as such. As a

SSLeay package not found

2003-05-29 Thread Liu, Jack
Hi, How can I get https working in Perl? It looks like I need SSLeay package. However, when I try to issue ppm install SSLeay, I got cannot find SSLeay. Does Perl really support SSL? If not, I have to look for other alternative. Thanks Jack

Re: Test, please disregard.

2003-05-29 Thread intertwingled
Worked for me. Tony Juan Carlos Cruz Dada wrote: Sorry for this email, but the list has been rejecting my posts. regards,- Juan Carlos Cruz Dada Senior Developer Cital Web Solutions -- Even the safest course is fraught with peril.

Re: Why is PHP popular?

2003-05-29 Thread intertwingled
Mark, you have ONE 100,000 line perl procedure? Geesh, ever thought about dividing that puppy up into modules? =) Friend of mine on efnet #php just informed me that he has written and IRC bot that is about 10,000 lines of PHP code. Not too bad. Sure, PHP is a baby perl. But remember, perl

Re: Why is PHP popular?

2003-05-29 Thread Mark Mielke
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:43:15AM -0700, intertwingled wrote: Mark Mielke wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 10:22:18AM -0700, intertwingled wrote: As a baby Perl, sure. How many 100,000 lines PHP applications have you managed? (100,000 lines of HTML with PHP snippets throughout do not count)

Re: Why is PHP popular?

2003-05-29 Thread Juan Carlos Cruz Dada
AS I stated before, each language has some stronger functions than others... and we as developers, architects, analysts or whatever we are have the ability to get the most of them and combine them for the most efective solutions. ;-) While we don't get addicted to just one development language,

RE: Why is PHP popular?

2003-05-29 Thread Robert Friberg
Hi all, First, a clarification: The LANGUAGE is seriously flawed. * One single namespace polluted with global functions. * Ridiculously similar functions: - sort, asort, ksort, usort, uasort, uksort, rsort, arsort - ereg, eregi - mysql_connect, mysql_pconnect -

Re: Why is PHP popular?

2003-05-29 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: intertwingled [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh, I use Perl to write CGI scripts all the time. I just don't use CGI.pm, because I think it's a silly module. Tony I agree to a degree. Especialy yhe HTML generation code should have been in a different module. What do use? Jenda = [EMAIL