Retrieving cookies

2001-06-01 Thread Stokes, John
I've figured out how to set a cookie, and I think I've retrieved it successfully (no errors, at least), but now how do I manipulate it? I can't figure out how to reference the cookie data. Here's an example of my code: use CGI; $q = new CGI(); $myCookie = $q-cookie(-name='Fyre',

Re: output CGI=HASH(0x80ca53c) ?

2001-06-01 Thread Curtis Poe
Oops! Sent this direct instead of to the list :( --- Maximilian Ronniger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $out= $data, As Brett pointed out, this line is in error. Try this: $out-p( $data ); Also, your read_document sub has a slight problem: return $data; close SOURCE; This

SSI - Variable Passing

2001-06-01 Thread Brian Sparr
Hello - I'm trying to use server side includes to invoke a perl script that just writes to a file and I want to be able to pass a variable to that script, but I'm running into problems. I know how to use the #set function to define the variable, but I'm stumped on how to get it passed to the

Re: Retrieving cookies

2001-06-01 Thread Stokes, John
OK, I'm still having a problem. I still can't seem to manipulate the cookie data. Say I want to record someone's name and then print out hello so-and-so when they return to my site. (That's not what this is actually for, but it's the same idea.) Why doesn't the code below work on the second

Re: Retrieving cookies

2001-06-01 Thread Curtis Poe
--- Stokes, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I'm still having a problem. I still can't seem to manipulate the cookie data. Say I want to record someone's name and then print out hello so-and-so when they return to my site. (That's not what this is actually for, but it's the same idea.) Why

Protocol issue

2001-06-01 Thread Curtis Poe
I've read the FAQ and I'm not sure to whom I should address this question. I joined the mailing list only a few days ago, yet I have answered quite a few questions. I certainly don't want to seem like a know-it-all and dominate the list. Should I wait longer before responding to ensure that

Regexp compilation in mod_perl?

2001-06-01 Thread Len Walter
G'day, I've got a problem with a script I'm writing which will run under mod_perl. It accepts a list of urls and a list of strings and returns a list of which urls contain which strings. That's not complicated and I got it working fairly quickly without any CGI involved. Then I tried to

Re: Regexp compilation in mod_perl?

2001-06-01 Thread Curtis Poe
In the mod_perl_traps page, when it refers to regexes only being compiled once, it is specifically referring to regexes that use the /o modifier: my $x =~ /$somevar/o; In regular Perl (and mod_perl), that causes the pattern to only be compiled once. If the value of $somevar changes, the

Large Data - POST

2001-06-01 Thread David E Culp - RR
Is there a way to perform an automatic POST ? David ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: test for real number

2001-06-01 Thread Piers Cawley
Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW, this is another use of the same sort of trick as { local $/ = undef; $file = FH; # slurp the whole file into $file } which is more efficient than while(FH) { $file .= $_ } or $file = join '', FH; Still, I have a coworker who

Re: SPLIT QUESTION

2001-06-01 Thread Piers Cawley
Jeff Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On May 31, Pedro A Reche Gallardo said: How can I split a string of caracters -any but blank spaces- into the individual caracters? So you want to split what's up, doc? into @chars = qw( w h a t ' s u p , d o c ? ); That is, every

Which DBD -Module do I need??

2001-06-01 Thread perl . mail
Hello, i will connect from Unix ( Client HP -UX OS) to a Microsoft SQL 7.0 database (SQL-Server Windows NT OS). I have installed the DBI Module, but I don' t know, which DBD - Module I am installing additionally?? Best Regards Hasan -- Machen Sie Ihr Hobby zu Geld bei unserem Partner 11!

Re: Which DBD -Module do I need??

2001-06-01 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i will connect from Unix ( Client HP -UX OS) to a Microsoft SQL 7.0 database (SQL-Server Windows NT OS). I have installed the DBI Module, but I don' t know, which DBD - Module I am installing additionally?? You might want to look at Free TDS

Re: getting pop forwarding it to local smtp

2001-06-01 Thread Gary Stainburn
Daft question, but have you looked at fetchmail? It worked for me, and I can't see why you would want to re-invent the wheel. Gary On Friday 01 June 2001 1:05 am, KeN ClarK wrote: Want to retrieve email from ISP pop server and view it locally. running sendmail. use PINE. Found module at

Re: MAIL::POP3

2001-06-01 Thread KeN ClarK
Fetchmail is working wonderfully, but I am going to give Mail::Audit a go. I appreciate everyone's advice. Ken On 1 Jun 2001, Piers Cawley wrote: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:58:40PM -0400, KeN ClarK wrote: I haven't done much of anything yet. But of

Re: Printing has me confused

2001-06-01 Thread Ondrej Par
On Thursday 31 May 2001 22:30, Ken wrote: If you're reading this input from a file maybe try using a chomp? chomp isn't always good. It's better to use s/\r?\n?$//; or even s/\s*$//; -- Ondrej Par Internet Securities Software Engineer e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +420 2 222 543 45

Re: Printing has me confused

2001-06-01 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Ondrej == Ondrej Par [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ondrej On Thursday 31 May 2001 22:30, Ken wrote: If you're reading this input from a file maybe try using a chomp? Ondrej chomp isn't always good. It's better to use Ondrej s/\r?\n?$//; Ondrej or even Ondrej s/\s*$//; Let's not introduce FUD

parsing and hashes

2001-06-01 Thread Ben Holm
Hey all. I'm fairly new to perl - I have to look almost every command up in the book still. I've volunteered to write a script to convert some C structs into C++ classes. For example: Input: struct my_servers_command_args { int foo; int bar; }; typedef struct my_servers_command_args

RE: Intershop

2001-06-01 Thread Scott Thompson
Sally/Kevin, :) The short answer is that Exporter is used when creating Perl modules. It allows other programs/modules to import functions and variables, either explicitly or implicitly, into their own namespace. Long answer -- see 'perldoc Exporter' on most systems with Perl

THANK YOU _Re:Printing has me confused

2001-06-01 Thread Gary Luther
The problem is solved. It was an unwanted \r that had snuck by my regexp. I think I was probably half brain dead yesterday (some would not qualify it that much :-) Thanks to the list. You guys/gals are great. Perl is awesome. I used to fiddle in APL and thought that was way cool. Perl is

problems following a refresh meta tag using LWP and open SSL

2001-06-01 Thread Hill, Ronald
Hello All, I am trying to connect to the Wells Fargo online bank using the LWP and open SSL modules and am having trouble getting past the Authenticating User screen. I was hopeing for a way to have the LWP useragent follow the refreash meta tag the same way it does for a redirect. Does

Re: how to wait 50 second ?

2001-06-01 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hi Michiel, Look at sleep() perldoc -f sleep Cheers, Kevin On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:53:17PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed forth: Hi, Is it possible to use a commando in Perl that will wait for example 50 seconds an then will continue ? Thanks in advance

Re: how to wait 50 second ?

2001-06-01 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:53:17PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to use a commando in Perl that will wait for example 50 seconds an then will continue ? Yes -- sleep(50) See perldoc -f sleep for more information. Walt

perl2exe

2001-06-01 Thread prachi shroff
Hi! I am tying to use the Perl2exe utility but am getting an error : Invalid Platform :win32 . I am running Win2000 and installed the exact versions recommended for the Perl I am using. Any suggestions on this will be great help. Thanks, Prachi

Re: how to wait 50 second ?

2001-06-01 Thread rob chanter
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:53:17PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is it possible to use a commando in Perl that will wait for example 50 seconds an then will continue ? sleep 50; That's assuming you meant command; a commando could probably do whatever the hell he wanted on my

Re: test for real number

2001-06-01 Thread Paul
--- Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW, this is another use of the same sort of trick as { local $/ = undef; $file = FH; # slurp the whole file into $file } which is more efficient than while(FH) { $file .= $_ } or

RE: HTTP::Date???

2001-06-01 Thread Hill, Ronald
[snipped] How do I get HTTP::Date? Anyone? Hi Dan, What version of libwww did you install? I just checked mine and the module is there. Did you receive any errors during the build? If so what were they? Ron

RE: Comparing time

2001-06-01 Thread Wagner-David
Unsure what you are really after? Some more info, like are they entering: 01 Jun 2001, 15:15 as the time to do the processing or 30 min to run in 30 minutes? Wags ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 04:19

Licensing

2001-06-01 Thread Robin Lavallee (LMC)
Hi people, Has anyone been able to conceive some kind of licencing scheme in Perl ? That is, I want to deploy a Perl program that the customer will only be able to use for 30-60-90-30n days. This causes great problem to implement in Perl since the customer could simply comment-out the

Re: Comparing time

2001-06-01 Thread Peter Cornelius
I'll be interested in any other solutions people have because I've got this going in a couple of programs now... Check out Time::timelocal(). It allows you to pass inthe results of localtime and bet back the seconds since the epoch. Since the results of localtime are things that you can

Re: Printing has me confused

2001-06-01 Thread Ondrej Par
You're right. But in my job, I often process DOS files on Linux server, thus I learned to be extremely careful with line endings :) On Friday 01 June 2001 15:15, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Ondrej == Ondrej Par [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ondrej On Thursday 31 May 2001 22:30, Ken wrote: If

Packages/Modules

2001-06-01 Thread David Michael
I am trying to use a package to hold all of my subs. I am calling the package in my main program: use control; In control.pm I have package control; at the top and 1; at the bottom. This is what the problematic area looks like: %USERINFO = control::memUserInfo($user); # Returns

Re: Printing has me confused

2001-06-01 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Ondrej == Ondrej Par [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ondrej You're right. But in my job, I often process DOS files on Ondrej Linux server, thus I learned to be extremely careful with line Ondrej endings :) But that's the point. You're in an unusual situation. Please don't say better without also

create a new file

2001-06-01 Thread Nichole Bialczyk
ok, so i know how to write to an existing file, how do i create the file, if it doesn't exist? i want to do something like, pseudocode -- ewww! if the file exists{ write to it } if the file does not exist{ create it write to it } close the file

RE: DBI

2001-06-01 Thread Michael Risser
Many thanks, I feel a litle stupid for not thinking of that myself :-) And I'm glad that I joined this list, if I had asked that question in one of the other lists, or in the news-groups I would have to jump in the water to douse the flames ;-) This list is simply the best thanks to people like

RE: create a new file

2001-06-01 Thread Andrew Prueser
open(FILEHANDLE, filename) the '' indicates open for append, or create if doesn't exist. checkout 'perldoc -f open' for all the fun things you can do with open. Andrew -Original Message- From: Nichole Bialczyk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 12:10 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: create a new file

2001-06-01 Thread Casey West
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:09:35AM -0500, Nichole Bialczyk wrote: : ok, so i know how to write to an existing file, how do i create the file, : if it doesn't exist? i want to do something like, Thankfully, when you open a file for apending (using ' somefile'), it will create the file if it

Re: create a new file

2001-06-01 Thread Paul
--- Nichole Bialczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, so i know how to write to an existing file, how do i create the file, if it doesn't exist? i want to do something like, pseudocode -- ewww! LOL!!! =o) if the file exists{ write to it } if the file does not exist{ create

RE: create a new file

2001-06-01 Thread Paul
--- Andrew Prueser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: open(FILEHANDLE, filename) the '' indicates open for append, or create if doesn't exist. Oops -- you just blasted the file! use two: open FILEHANDLE, filename or die $!; checkout 'perldoc -f open' for all the fun things you can do with

RE: create a new file

2001-06-01 Thread Brent Michalski
Oops, I think you are a bit confused... '' will overwrite the file NOT append. You want '' to append. Brent Andrew Prueser

Net::Telnet::Cisco

2001-06-01 Thread sue
Can someone give me an example of using this module to connect to my cisco devices?

thanks Re: create a new file

2001-06-01 Thread Nichole Bialczyk
thanks, all.

DBI and Oracle error

2001-06-01 Thread Swalve, Lane
I am using activeperl 5.6.1 on a Windows NT box. I have recently installed the DBI module with the oracle DBD driver. However when i try to use the module I get a error that reads like this install_driver(Oracle) failed: Can't load 'C:/Perl/site/lib/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.dll' for module

Re: HTTP::Date???

2001-06-01 Thread Peter Scott
At 08:38 AM 6/1/2001 -0600, Dan Egli wrote: I was using the CPAN module to install a couple of modules that I needed for programs, and I keep noticing that it says: Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz Database was generated on Wed, 30 May 2001 18:59:02 GMT

Re: Packages/Modules

2001-06-01 Thread Michael Fowler
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:45:31AM -0500, David Michael wrote: I am trying to use a package to hold all of my subs. I am calling the package in my main program: use control; You should be aware that all lowercase module names are reserved for Perl pragmas. This is not the source of your

Re: HTTP::Date???

2001-06-01 Thread Dan Egli
Watch: I'll quote directly from my server: [root@shortcircuit /root]# perl -MCPAN -e 'install HTTP::Date' Can't locate object method install via package HTTP::Date (perhaps you forgot to load HTTP::Date?) at -e line 1. [root@shortcircuit /root]# - Original Message - From: Peter Scott

Re: Help with arrarys / lists

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Pinyan
On Jun 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I want to take the output of a df -k command and take the first column and put it into a nice array or list that I can then later put each seperate line into a command. I have tried a few different versions and can't figure it out. I'm new to this and I'm sure

Re: HTTP::Date???

2001-06-01 Thread Peter Scott
At 11:15 AM 6/1/2001 -0600, Dan Egli wrote: [root@shortcircuit /root]# perl -MCPAN -e 'install HTTP::Date' Can't locate object method install via package HTTP::Date (perhaps you forgot to load HTTP::Date?) at -e line 1. Sorry, I had to ask. You have some strange problem with your CPAN module.

A little confused

2001-06-01 Thread jbarry
OK first of all, I'm a total perl newbie. I've been programming in VB for a couple years, but I'm gradutating into perl. May god have mercy on us all. My question is more conceptual: I have two comma delimited text files, that are essentially database tables. One is materials, one is orders.

Re: A little confused

2001-06-01 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK first of all, I'm a total perl newbie. I've been programming in VB for a couple years, but I'm gradutating into perl. May god have mercy on us all. Congratulations. Once you start working with Perl, VB will seem extremely chidlish. :-) My

Re: HTTP::Date???

2001-06-01 Thread Dan Egli
It only seems to happen on certain modules. I'm suspecting it's more a damaged perl install. this is a RH 7.1 box and I downloaded/installed perl 5.6.1 on it to replace the 5.6.0 that it came with. I'm re-running the make install from the perl build dir (Thankfully I saved it) and when it's done

Re: Help with arrarys / lists

2001-06-01 Thread Michael Fowler
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:16:45PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please help. foreach $_ (`df`){ ($fs, $kb, $used, $avail, $cap, $mount) = split ( ,/(\S+\\/n)); print $fs if /dsk/; } This doesn't answer your asked question, but you may want to consider using one of the various

recursion and memory use... a lot of memory use.

2001-06-01 Thread Peter Cornelius
I have this program that recurses through a directory structure building Default.htm files. The idea here was to quickly generate a bunch of these things to replace the default index listing you normally see. The part that's giving me trouble is the navbar that should have a nested structure

Re: HTTP::Date???

2001-06-01 Thread Timothy Kimball
Dan Egli wrote: : It's odd tho. I type: : : perl -MCPAN -e 'install GD' and it works fine. Only with thinks like : HTTP::Date and Data::Dumper does it work. I'm not sure whats up. I get the same result with Data::Dumper 5.6.0 unless I quote the module name: perl -MCPAN -e 'install

Re: create a new file

2001-06-01 Thread bobby robinson
you might also find the unix command 'touch' useful. read the man page for specifics. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.quantifier.org ___ If I had any humility I would be perfect. --

Re: HTTP::Date???

2001-06-01 Thread Timothy Kimball
I replied: : Dan Egli wrote: : : It's odd tho. I type: : : : : perl -MCPAN -e 'install GD' and it works fine. Only with thinks like : : HTTP::Date and Data::Dumper does it work. I'm not sure whats up. : : I get the same result with Data::Dumper 5.6.0 unless I quote : the module name: : :

printf and other stuff

2001-06-01 Thread David Gilden
Good afternoon, Is there a way to combine the last two statements? #!/usr/bin/perl -w $sort_order =0; $sort_type = ($sort_order) ? 'Newest First' : 'Oldest First'; # are the () optional? print $sort_type; ##this does not work print ($sort_order) ? 'Newest First' : 'Oldest First';

Re: HTTP::Date???

2001-06-01 Thread Peter Scott
At 02:15 PM 6/1/01 -0400, Timothy Kimball wrote: : I get the same result with Data::Dumper 5.6.0 unless I quote : the module name: : : perl -MCPAN -e 'install Data::Dumper' To elaborate, now that I've had a minute to think about it: when perl sees install GD, it takes GD as a bareword (i.e., an

Installing Perl on AIX platform

2001-06-01 Thread Swappan Das
Please some body help me . I download the latest Unix version from CPAN then I followed as: gzip -dc latest.tar.gz | tar xvf - output from the above command: x perl-5.6.1 x perl-5.6.1/AUTHORS, 27914 bytes, 55 media blocks. x perl-5.6.1/Artistic, 6111 bytes, 12 media blocks. x

Re: printf and other stuff

2001-06-01 Thread Ken
Remove the ()'s and it works. For the 0's: printf On %02d/%02d/%04d At %02d:%02d you wrote:br\n\n, $month, $mday, $year, $hour, $min; see perldoc -f printf for more info. - Original Message - From: David Gilden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 1:05 PM

Re: printf and other stuff

2001-06-01 Thread John Joseph Trammell
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:05:59PM -0400, David Gilden wrote: [snip -- was there a question about '?:' ?] printf question-- ### get time my($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $month, $year) = (localtime)[0..5]; $year += 1900; $mday = 0 . $mday if $mday 10; $month++; # perl counts from -1 on

Re: printf and other stuff

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Pinyan
On Jun 1, David Gilden said: $sort_order =0; $sort_type = ($sort_order) ? 'Newest First' : 'Oldest First'; # are the () optional? In this case, yes, you don't need those parens. print ($sort_order) ? 'Newest First' : 'Oldest First'; Remove the parens, or add them around the entire argument

Re: printf and other stuff

2001-06-01 Thread Me
I'll just answer the 'other stuff'. ##this does not work print ($sort_order) ? 'Newest First' : 'Oldest First'; Perl sees this as a function() call followed by the rest. Instead, do: print $sort_order ? 'Newest First' : 'Oldest First'; In general, Perl works to minimize the number

Re: printf and other stuff

2001-06-01 Thread Christian Campbell
David Gilden wrote: Is there a way to combine the last two statements? [...] $sort_type = ($sort_order) ? 'Newest First' : 'Oldest First'; # are the () optional? print $sort_type; print $sort_order ? 'Newest First' : 'Oldest First'; or print( $sort_order ? 'Newest First'

Re: printf and other stuff

2001-06-01 Thread Timothy Kimball
David Gilden wrote:: ##this does not work : : print ($sort_order) ? 'Newest First' : 'Oldest First'; Perl thinks you're doing this: print($sort_order) ? 'Newest First' : 'Oldest First'; that is, it's taking $sort_order as an argument to print(). Either remove the parens: print

append a file to another file

2001-06-01 Thread Nichole Bialczyk
i understand how to open and create files, but let's say that i want to open several files and insert them all into one large file. how would i do that? thanks, nichole

Re: HTTP::Date???

2001-06-01 Thread Timothy Kimball
Peter Scott wrote: : Okay, I geddit... it's because HTTP::Date is required by CPAN.pm (perldoc : -m CPAN | grep -i http). So perl sees the module name as being one it : already knows of and turns it into the indirect object syntax as you say. OK, that makes more sense. (I wasn't entirely

Re: Installing Perl on AIX platform

2001-06-01 Thread Sandor W. Sklar
it sounds like your download was incomplete. You may want to try downloading it again. FYI, AIX 4.3.3 comes with perl; other binary distributions are available from various places. -s- At 3:11 PM -0400 6/1/01, Swappan Das wrote: Please some body help me . I download the latest Unix

Re: append a file to another file

2001-06-01 Thread M.W. Koskamp
- Original Message - From: Nichole Bialczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 9:30 PM Subject: append a file to another file i understand how to open and create files, but let's say that i want to open several files and insert them all into one large

Re: append a file to another file - NEVER MIND

2001-06-01 Thread Nichole Bialczyk
i think i found it. copy(file1, file2); that was too easy On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:30:53PM -0500, Nichole Bialczyk wrote: i understand how to open and create files, but let's say that i want to open several files and insert them all into one large file. how would i do that? thanks,

Re: append a file to another file

2001-06-01 Thread Craig Moynes/Markham/IBM
from a newbie to another newbie something like: [snip] my $newfile = newfile name # can get from parameters if you so desire my $line; unless(open( FILE, $newfile ) ) { # do fail stuff } foreach my $file ( @files ) # Setup @files with the list of filenames you want to open { # You may

Re: append a file to another file

2001-06-01 Thread Paul
--- Nichole Bialczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i understand how to open and create files, but let's say that i want to open several files and insert them all into one large file. how would i do that? At the simplest level, let's assume you have the filenames in an array named @files, and want

Re: append a file to another file - copy

2001-06-01 Thread Nichole Bialczyk
well, so the copy didn't work. it required me to place 'use File::Copy;' in my script, but i got an error message. to be more specific, i want to do this: read and delete all of the lines from a log file, except for the first one. i keep thinking grep, but isn't that only a unix command? and

Re: append a file to another file - copy

2001-06-01 Thread Paul
--- Nichole Bialczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to be more specific, i want to do this: read and delete all of the lines from a log file, except for the first one. open IN, $file or die $file:$!; IN;# throw away first line; print IN; # print the rest of the file.

Re: append a file to another file - delete

2001-06-01 Thread Nichole Bialczyk
so how do i delete the lines that i read in? (keeping the first one so that the file still exists) On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:08:25PM -0700, Paul wrote: --- Nichole Bialczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to be more specific, i want to do this: read and delete all of the lines from a log

Re: append a file to another file - copy

2001-06-01 Thread KeN ClarK
So anycrack could write to it prior to it being 'moved' right? And then you have non-world-writeable data under the premise it is untampered. What's the difference? Ken On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Nichole Bialczyk wrote: well, so the copy didn't work. it required me to place 'use File::Copy;' in my

Re: append a file to another file - delete

2001-06-01 Thread Bill Stilwell
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 04:17:06PM -0500, Nichole Bialczyk wrote: so how do i delete the lines that i read in? (keeping the first one so that the file still exists) On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:08:25PM -0700, Paul wrote: --- Nichole Bialczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to be more

Re: append a file to another file - delete

2001-06-01 Thread Bill Stilwell
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 02:39:31PM -0700, Bill Stilwell wrote: How embarrasing. My first post and I left out a semi-colon. It's there now. my $new_file; open IN, $file or die $file: $!\n; while (IN) { if ($. == 1) { $new_file = $_; } else { # your processing goes here

Re: append a file to another file - copy

2001-06-01 Thread Nichole Bialczyk
apparently it makes him feel better about it knowing that there is only a 24 hour period that it could be tampered with. i can't imagine anyone *wanting* to tamper with our data, but apparently there is a lot of rivalry in the university system and he wants to limit what they have access to.

Re: append a file to another file - delete

2001-06-01 Thread Nichole Bialczyk
oh, thank you so much! i was really getting down to the wire here. On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 09:30:01PM -0400, Chas Owens wrote: I can think of two ways: if your system implements truncate you can say: open IN, $file or die $file:$!; $temp = IN;# don't throw away first line;

Re: append a file to another file - delete

2001-06-01 Thread Chas Owens
I can think of two ways: if your system implements truncate you can say: open IN, $file or die $file:$!; $temp = IN;# don't throw away first line; print IN; # print the rest of the file. truncate IN, length($temp); # only keep the first length($temp) bytes or

looping over an array of hashes

2001-06-01 Thread Chuck Ivy
First post, quick question: I've got an array of hashes that I'm defining the most basic way I can... my $gSeasonID; my @season_list = ''; while (@fields = $sth-fetchrow_array) { $gSeasonID = $fields[0]; $season_list[$gSeasonID]{number} = $fields[1];

just testing if I made it in

2001-06-01 Thread Rowan Reid

Re: looping over an array of hashes

2001-06-01 Thread Chas Owens
First ugly thought goes like this: my @season_list = ''; while (my @fields = $sth-fetchrow_array) { for (my $i = 1; $i @fields; $i++) { $season_list[$fields[0]]{('number', 'title', 'active')[$i]} = $fields[$i]; } Second thought is: Why not use $sth-fetchrow_hashref? The only

Re: looping over an array of hashes

2001-06-01 Thread Bill Stilwell
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:29:43PM -0700, Chuck Ivy wrote: First post, quick question: I've got an array of hashes that I'm defining the most basic way I can... my $gSeasonID; my @season_list = ''; while (@fields = $sth-fetchrow_array) { $gSeasonID = $fields[0];

Re: looping over an array of hashes

2001-06-01 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:29:43PM -0700, Chuck Ivy wrote: First post, quick question: I've got an array of hashes that I'm defining the most basic way I can... my $gSeasonID; my @season_list = ''; while (@fields = $sth-fetchrow_array) { $gSeasonID = $fields[0];

Re: append a file to another file - delete

2001-06-01 Thread Paul
--- Nichole Bialczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so how do i delete the lines that i read in? (keeping the first one so that the file still exists) In the code segment I posted below, the first thig I do after openeing the file is read a line from it -- which I do nothing with, so it gets thrown

contitional use of modules

2001-06-01 Thread Chas Owens
I want to load a module if it is there or set a flag to turn of (or modify) code that uses the module if it is not there. Example: BEGIN FILE #!/usr/bin/perl my $gtk = eval use Gtk ; return 1; if ($gtk) { Gtk-init; my $window = new Gtk::Window; $window-add(new Gtk::Label(Hello

Re: append a file to another file - copy

2001-06-01 Thread Chas Owens
The difference is his boss feels (emphasis on feels) safer. On 01 Jun 2001 17:39:31 -0400, KeN ClarK wrote: So anycrack could write to it prior to it being 'moved' right? And then you have non-world-writeable data under the premise it is untampered. What's the difference? Ken On Fri, 1

conditionaly using modules based on wether they are installed

2001-06-01 Thread Chas Owens
I want to add functionality to a script using a module, but not do not want to require the modules use. It looks like the following code works, but is it the best way to achieve my goal (yes, I know TMTOWTDI)? START CODE #!/usr/bin/perl -w use Gtk -init; use DBI; $xls = eval use

Re: Large Data - POST

2001-06-01 Thread Christian Campbell
David, David E Culp - RR wrote: Is there a way to perform an automatic POST ? This is a pretty wide-open question. I think the most common way to handle POSTing is via HTTP::Request (see its manpage and the other LWP manpages). Most uses are essentially trivial. I don't know what you mean by

Fw: Fileposting

2001-06-01 Thread Bernhard
Ich weis immernoch nicht, wie ich jetzt ein Bild mit Hilfe von Perl uploaden kann. Der Code da unten erzeugt immer nen Fehler: Software error: syntax error at singles.pl line 266, near /([\w.-]+)/; Execution of singles.pl aborted due to compilation errors. Welchen Content Type muss ich dann in

Re: Fw: Fileposting

2001-06-01 Thread Peter Scott
At 02:50 AM 6/2/01 +, Bernhard wrote: syntax error at singles.pl line 266, near /([\w.-]+)/; Execution of singles.pl aborted due to compilation errors. Sorry, typo on that line, should be: my ($name) = ($fh =~ /([\w.-]+)/); Welchen Content Type muss ich dann in der form nochmal

audible beep

2001-06-01 Thread ~kc~
wouldn't suppose any of you know the syntax to put an audible beep in a print line in perl? ~kc~

Re: audible beep

2001-06-01 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, ~kc~ wrote: wouldn't suppose any of you know the syntax to put an audible beep in a print line in perl? \a is the bell character, but it doesn't always work. For example, my terminal ignores the bell character for some reason I've never determined, so it doesn't make any

push(@everyline, $_); vers $longstring .= $_;

2001-06-01 Thread David Gilden
Is one of these preferred over the other? open(FROMFILE,$filename); while(FROMFILE){ push(@everyline, $_); } $longstring = join(,@everyline); @oldentries = split(/!--NEWENTRY--/,$longstring); ---OR--- open(FROMFILE,$filename); while (FROMFILE){

baffled by while conditional

2001-06-01 Thread mikemckee
Greetings, This unenlightened neophyte finds that this problem is beyond his humble understanding and seeks guidance from those more wise in the mysterious ways of Perl. The following short program was offered for this one's edification but proves beyond his grasp. #1/usr/bin/perl -w

Re: baffled by while conditional

2001-06-01 Thread Jeff Pinyan
On Jun 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: $i = 1; $power = 1; print Input a number:\n; chomp ( $x = STDIN ); print Input the value you want the number raised to\n; chomp ( $y = STDIN) ; while ( $i= $y ) { $power *= $x; ++ $i; } This loop is basically a for-loop in extended form.

spaces...

2001-06-01 Thread Paul Fontenot
I have a file that for 1/2 the month has one space between every word, I use this to split. However the other half the month it has two spaces in one place and all the rest have one space. Using s/ /#/g to change all spaces to # so I can use that for the split doesn't work. How can I get the