Re: Counter problem

2001-06-03 Thread Luinrandir Hernson
Hallo and thanks for your help I ran the following from my index.htm with the space--> as you suggested result: nothing was returned to the htm page Error log said: [Sun Jun 3 22:28:48 2001] [error] [client 208.46.234.171] File does not exist: /var/www/html/homepage.com/home/homepage/cgi-bin/co

remove from this list

2001-06-03 Thread adelphia
This list if full of usefull info, but it's just out of control. How can I get removed from it? John

Re: Need to submit a form

2001-06-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Kevin" == Kevin Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kevin> Hi All Kevin> I need to write an application that submits a form to a www site and Kevin> accepts the return code. I have a URL I need to call and pass Kevin> parameters as if I had submitted a HTML form. This URL will then Kevin>

Need to submit a form

2001-06-03 Thread Kevin Hancock
Hi All I need to write an application that submits a form to a www site and accepts the return code. I have a URL I need to call and pass parameters as if I had submitted a HTML form. This URL will then return several values that I must evaluate and act on. I can write basic Perl and CGI appl

Graphics module gor perl

2001-06-03 Thread Roiy
Hi All, Does anybody know, worked with , an easy to use perl module that can create graphs and graphical images I tried installing GD::graph but I have to install much more libs back. maybe there is a simpler module

Re: perl2exe

2001-06-03 Thread Will W
[I'm not sure where to tack this on. Please don't put any significance on how I'm attaching this to the thread. Also, I sent the same material earlier today, but I think it went off into never-never-land. If you receive this twice, my apologies.] There is a lot of noise on this channel about perl

Re: Overloading

2001-06-03 Thread Richard Hulse
Jeff, I have sussed it. Page 353 of the Camel book says of the += operator "the result is assigned to the left hand operand..." The result of the '+ 1' method call is that a number in $self is modified. The last line of the method is: $self->{_time_offset} = $offset; ...which is fine until t

Re: perl2exe

2001-06-03 Thread Jody Lowes
BTW, I never said I used this product, if even why I would want to use it. I never assumed it did a good job, or even a bad job for that matter. I never said that is made the programs run faster, or even spoke of the size of the resulting exe. The question was whether or not it 'compiled' in

Re: Overloading

2001-06-03 Thread Richard Hulse
Hi Jeff, Thanks. According to the man pages Perl automatically substitutes + for += without fallback. The problem is that even if I substitute the += method for + it still doesn't work. Somehow $obj gets turned into the offset amount. I have spent several hours with the debugger trying to fin

Re: using print << within subroutines

2001-06-03 Thread Christian Campbell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > within my code. it works like a charm. however, when i try: > > sub header { > print << head; > Content-type: text/html\n\n > > Control Panel > > head > } > > is this not working because of a fault in my syntax? or is this not > possible withi

Re: using print << within subroutines

2001-06-03 Thread Me
> sub header { > print << head; > Content-type: text/html\n\n > > Control Panel > > head > } As dumb as this sounds, you can't have the 'head' at the end indented. Well, not without some extra stuff. If you run perldoc perldata You'll find: If you want you

Re: using print << within subroutines

2001-06-03 Thread Eric Beaudoin
At 16:42 2001.06.03, you wrote: >hello all- >quick question that is definitely from a neophyte. > >i am currently using: > >sub begin { > print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; > print "\n"; > print "Control Panel\n"; > print "\n"; >} > >sub footer { >print "\n"; >print "\n"; >} > > >wit

using print << within subroutines

2001-06-03 Thread charles
hello all- quick question that is definitely from a neophyte. i am currently using: sub begin { print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print "\n"; print "Control Panel\n"; print "\n"; } sub footer { print "\n"; print "\n"; } within my code. it works like a charm. however, when i

multi word strings (with spaces) in a hash key?

2001-06-03 Thread David Gilden
> Quick question: can I use multi word strings (with spaces) in a hash key? > > $hash{time to upgrade} # note the spaces, Well, yes, you can. But it's not a very good idea. If you absolutely must, enclose the string in quotes. $hash{'time to upgrade'} any comments on why this a b

Re: A good book?

2001-06-03 Thread Fco. Javier Valladolid Hdez.
The book for learning Perl is de facto Learning Perl by Randal L. Schwartz and Tom Christiansen, follow by Programming Perl, both from O'REilly If you want learn CGI with Perl, I recommend CGI Programmin with Perl, from O'reilly, also CGI Programming 101, by Linda Hamilton. Best Regards.- At

Re: $str++ $str--

2001-06-03 Thread Jeff Pinyan
On Jun 3, Abdulaziz Ghuloum said: >Incrementing and decrementing strings are quiet puzzling to me. I don't >seem to figure out the rationale behind the use of the increment (++) >and decrement (--) operators when it comes to strings. Let me >illustrate: Here's the short answer: Auto-increment

Re: don't understand word boundary

2001-06-03 Thread Jeff Pinyan
On Jun 3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Could someone please explain this to me clearly so I >can actually understand word boundaries? I've tried to do this in Chapter 3, "Extending and Controlling", of my upcoming book, "Regular Expressions in Perl". If you read it, it might help shed some light on

Re: perl2exe

2001-06-03 Thread Jody Lowes
> And "perl2exe" isn't. It's an installer maker, not a compiler. I haven't installed it yet but this is from the readme file: # Copied from pxman.html About This Program Perl2Exe is a command line utility for converting Perl scripts to executable files. This allows you to create stand alo

Re: perl2exe

2001-06-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Jody" == Jody Lowes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jody> On Sunday 03 June 2001 10:26, you wrote: >> And "perl2exe" isn't. It's an installer maker, not a compiler. Jody> I haven't installed it yet but this is from the readme file: So let's look at the lies or truth-stretching... Jody>

Re: a trivial problem...

2001-06-03 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 12:08:52AM -0500, Brent Alan Buckalew wrote: > Hello all, > > I've constructed a perl script to extract certain lines of data and print > them out and use them in a later analysis. The catch I've run into is > that the style I used for the first batch doesn't work for > t

Re: don't understand word boundary

2001-06-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "You" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: You> on page 83 of Learning Perl, they give a regex You> example: You> /abc\bdef/; You> #never matches (impossibe for a boundary there) You> Could someone please explain this to me clearly so I You> can actually understand word boundaries? First

Re: perl2exe

2001-06-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Gerrit" == Gerrit P Haase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gerrit> prachi shroff schrieb am 2001-06-01, 11:04: >> 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 fo

Re: Licensing (warning: plug included)

2001-06-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Adam" == Adam Theo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adam> on the matter of compiling perl: this is something i have also been Adam> wanting to look into, for the reason of speeding up my programs, As the FAQ entry says, Perl is already compiled by the time it hits runtime, so there's not much

RE: don't understand word boundary

2001-06-03 Thread Peter Scott
At 12:14 PM 6/3/2001 -0400, Eduard Grinvald wrote: >The equivalent of specifying a word boundary would be roughly the following >regex: >/[^a-zA-Z0-9-_][a-zA-Z0-9-_]+[^a-zA-Z0-9-_]/ >Something that's not in a word, followed by something in a word, followed by >something not in a word. Sorry, this

RE: don't understand word boundary

2001-06-03 Thread Eduard Grinvald
Hey, Ok, basically a word boundary is considered something that could be in a traditional word, surround by something that can't be in a word (spaces, tabs, non-printable chars, etc). The equivalent of specifying a word boundary would be roughly the following regex: /[^a-zA-Z0-9-_][a-zA-Z0-9-_]+[

don't understand word boundary

2001-06-03 Thread patroclus_1
on page 83 of Learning Perl, they give a regex example: /abc\bdef/; #never matches (impossibe for a boundary there) Could someone please explain this to me clearly so I can actually understand word boundaries? thanks... __ Do You Yahoo!?

Re: a trivial problem...

2001-06-03 Thread Greg Meckes
Well you could do it this way, if you're trying to read each line and process the same way (Assuming you only want lines starting with Nitrogen, and the lines are all structured the same): ## START while(){ if (/^Nitrogen/) { @List = split (/\s+/); if ($List[1] <= 0.0) {

Re: $str++ $str--

2001-06-03 Thread Abdulaziz Ghuloum
On 03 Jun 2001 11:18:57 AST, Abdulaziz Ghuloum said: oops, $str should be 'ab9' not 'ab1' in this example. > $str = 'ab1'; > $str++; > print "$str\n"; # can you take a guess? Answer: 'ac0' _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co

$str++ $str--

2001-06-03 Thread Abdulaziz Ghuloum
Hello everybody Incrementing and decrementing strings are quiet puzzling to me. I don't seem to figure out the rationale behind the use of the increment (++) and decrement (--) operators when it comes to strings. Let me illustrate: $str = 'hello'; $str++; print "$str\n"; # here we get "hellp".

Re: Overloading

2001-06-03 Thread Jeff Pinyan
On Jun 3, Richard Hulse said: >I have a module which overloads a few operators > >snippet: >use overload > "+" => \&addoffset, > "-" => \&subtractoffset, > q("") => \&printit; > >Even if I allow Perl to magically make the += happen for me it still does >the same (wrong) thing. Are y

Re: probably a simple matter but...

2001-06-03 Thread Jeff Pinyan
On Jun 3, M.W. Koskamp said: >> #sample of the text >> Nitrogen 0.0 -5.78 0.0 0.0 0.0 >> >> #sample of the program. >> while(){ >> >> if (/(Nitrogen) *([0-9.\-]*) *([0-9.\-]*) *([0-9.\-]*) *([0-9.\-]*) >> *([0-9.\-]*) >> /) { >> if ($2 <= 0.0) { >> $name = $1; $nitrogen1 = $2; $nitrogen2 =$3;

Re: audible beep

2001-06-03 Thread Paul
--- "Todd A. Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Re: perl to build html

2001-06-03 Thread srl
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, KeN ClarK wrote: > I bought O'Reilly's PERL In A Nutshell last evening and have been lurking > here for awhile. I'm curious if any answers exist for this question: > > I want to take mp3's in a directory and create html page with href links > to these files. There are far too

[OT] on the right track

2001-06-03 Thread Paul
> > A little time makes for a lot of education. > > I think it's a worthwhile endeavor. ;o] > > > Your helpfulness has encouraged me to re-subscribe to the beginner's > list. As long as you and others like you are willing to supply your > little time for the "lot of education" on the part of be

a trivial problem...

2001-06-03 Thread Brent Alan Buckalew
Hello all, I've constructed a perl script to extract certain lines of data and print them out and use them in a later analysis. The catch I've run into is that the style I used for the first batch doesn't work for the second. I was wondering if any of you had a better/different way of getting t

Overloading

2001-06-03 Thread Richard Hulse
I have a module which overloads a few operators snippet: use overload "+" => \&addoffset, "-" => \&subtractoffset, q("") => \&printit; the functions are called OK when I code: $obj + 7; print $obj; ...although I get a Perl warning saying addition is useless which I would expect

Re: Counter problem

2001-06-03 Thread Christian Campbell
Luinrandir Hernson wrote: > ## opens, reads number of hits and closes the file acording to the web page its >called from. > open(FILE,"/home/homepage/cgi-bin/data/$file"); > flock (FILE, 2); > $count = ; > flock (FILE, 8); > close(FILE); > > ## adds a hit to the variable > $count++; > > ## open

perl to build html

2001-06-03 Thread KeN ClarK
I bought O'Reilly's PERL In A Nutshell last evening and have been lurking here for awhile. I'm curious if any answers exist for this question: I want to take mp3's in a directory and create html page with href links to these files. There are far too many of them to just create the page raw. Assur

Re: probably a simple matter but...

2001-06-03 Thread M.W. Koskamp
- Original Message - From: Brent Buckalew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 9:28 AM Subject: probably a simple matter but... > Hello all, > > I've constructed a perl script which takes number from a large text file > and prints them as well as manip

Re: perl2exe

2001-06-03 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
prachi shroff schrieb am 2001-06-01, 11:04: > 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. Ind

Re: doubt about do/until

2001-06-03 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 2001-05-31, 18:30: > Hi gurus, > In http://www.cpan.org/doc/FMTEYEWTK/is_numeric.html, ( Is it a > number? ), Tom Christiansen writes: > >-- > If you do care about ge

Re: unknown CPAN variables

2001-06-03 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Paul Cotter schrieb am 2001-05-31, 16:28: > Can someone explain the following. The file /etc/inputrc certainly has the 'wrong' >lines in it, but I am loathe to delete them without understanding > what I am doing. (mmm, I wonder where I screwed up..) As the error messages show, you should choo

Re: 'while' confusion

2001-06-03 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
E. Alan Hogue schrieb am 2001-05-30, 20:56: Instead of this: > foreach $field (@fld_vals) { > while ($field = '') { you want that: == while ($field == '') { # '==' for ints, 'eq' for strings > push (@nulls,$id); > } > } > [...] > while statement was actually

Re: installing perl

2001-06-03 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Gil Tucker [ateliermobile] schrieb am 2001-05-30, 10:09: >Hi everybody, > Does anybody knows the fastest and easiest way tzo > install Perl on Get IndigoPerl HERE: http://www.indigostar.com/ Apache already included. -gph -- =^..^=

Re: Licensing (warning: plug included)

2001-06-03 Thread Adam Theo
Hello, all, Adam Theo here; i didn't catch the first half of this thread, just the posts from the last digest. on the matter of compiling perl: this is something i have also been wanting to look into, for the reason of speeding up my programs, and being able to distribute my programs to people w

probably a simple matter but...

2001-06-03 Thread Brent Buckalew
Hello all, I've constructed a perl script which takes number from a large text file and prints them as well as manipulates them later on. I've use a crude way of getting the data but it's working for one set of files but not the other. What happens is that it reads in the numbers until there is