href arguments

2001-08-07 Thread Francesco Scaglioni
Hi, THis is probably a simple question. Am new to perl and CGI so please have mercy. I have a script which displays a list of files with links to them. The links when hovered over in a browser show as: display_file.pl?filename=blahblah How can I extract the blahblah bit (which is the name of

Re: AW: href arguments

2001-08-07 Thread Francesco Scaglioni
## Alessandro Lenzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] on: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 13:21:22 +0200 ## :: Hello Francesco, alenzen:: alenzen:: first of all you should read the CGI.pm manpage if you want to write good alenzen:: CGIs. alenzen:: You don't need to use the CGI.pm module, but it is considered good

RE: href arguments

2001-08-07 Thread Sidharth Malhotra
Once again. This is a problem that can be easily solved reading the CGI module documentation at: http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/lib/CGI.html use the CGI module: Perl use CGI; my $q = new CGI; my $filename = $q-url_param('filename'); # or my $filename = $q-param('filename'); /Perl

making graphics..

2001-08-07 Thread Rob
Hi, I want to be able to create graphic logos witha perl script - any ideas on how to do this? What I mean is I will provide a list of titles and a list of font styles then the script will create a gif for each title using a random font style.. Can it be done? Is it difficult? I've never tried

Re: making graphics..

2001-08-07 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Rob wrote: I want to be able to create graphic logos witha perl script - any ideas on how to do this? What I mean is I will provide a list of titles and a list of font styles then the script will create a gif for each title using a random font style.. Can it be done?

Re: M$ Word to HTML

2001-08-07 Thread Adam Carson
I have tried that, and Word generates HTML documents (XML actually) that have consistently had incorrect formatting. Adam Carson MIS Department Berkeley County, SC Brett W. McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: M$ Word to HTML

2001-08-07 Thread Bradley M. Handy
If you have Dreamweaver you can use the 'Clean up Word HTML' option in the Modify menu on the toolbar. Brad Handy --www.jack-of-all-trades.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Adam Carson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 11:22 AM To: [EMAIL

RE: M$ Word to HTML

2001-08-07 Thread Adam Carson
Thanks. I'll try that. Adam Carson MIS Department Berkeley County, SC Bradley M. Handy [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/07/01 11:26AM If you have Dreamweaver you can use the 'Clean up Word HTML' option in the

RE: popup-menue in a html-page

2001-08-07 Thread Moon, John
Hope this helps ... you can run this from the command line then enter Ctrl+d to see what is generates... I'm sure there are other ways of doing this ... You make wish to check the permissions on /etc/password at your shop .. use CGI; $q-new CGI; while (($name,undef,$uid)= getpwent) {

RE: M$ Word to HTML

2001-08-07 Thread Mark Saunders
Yeah, the dreamweaver 'Clean up Word HTML' is amazing. It does miss some tags, like class, so you have to take an extra step or two to remove them. -Original Message- From: Bradley M. Handy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 11:26 AM To: Adam Carson; [EMAIL

Redirecting STDOUT

2001-08-07 Thread Mark Ross
Hi all, I have a Perl script that takes the contents of a form, feeds them to GnuPG for encryption and then emails me the encrypted document. GPG wants to either display the results in STDOUT or write a text file, both of which aren’t good. I was hoping redirect STDOUT to a variable for a short

Re: getting the calling function name.

2001-08-07 Thread Curtis Poe
--- Rajeev Rumale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Dwalu, But the what i need is the grep the name of the sub which is calling the loging sub. As you have suggested caller only gives only the name of current sub routine that is debugLogger it self. And I had to do call the caller before

Re: getting the calling function name.

2001-08-07 Thread Dwalu Z. Khasu
Good morning, 'caller' also takes an optional argument that specifies how far up the calling stack (list of embedded functions) to traverse. Try experimenting with caller($i) where $i 0 in your 'debugLogger' subroutine and you'll see what I mean. 'caller' in a list context prints out

RE: Redirecting STDOUT

2001-08-07 Thread Mark Ross
Have you taken a look at the GnuPG or Crypt::GPG modules on CPAN? Yep, I've looked (and longed), but my Web hosting service refers to them as hooky. I think he's hostile because they aren't version 1 or higher (not that it really makes much difference). I also don't have the ability to directly

double quotes within a cgi-argument

2001-08-07 Thread shawn
I've been scrounging the internet for this answer, but can't find one html code a href=edit.pl?submit=editid=$$row{'id'}title=$$row{'title'}description=$$ row{'description'}model=$$row{'model'}serial=$$row{'serial'}value=$$row{'

RE: Redirecting STDOUT

2001-08-07 Thread Curtis Poe
--- Mark Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you taken a look at the GnuPG or Crypt::GPG modules on CPAN? Yep, I've looked (and longed), but my Web hosting service refers to them as hooky. I think he's hostile because they aren't version 1 or higher (not that it really makes much

Re: double quotes within a cgi-argument

2001-08-07 Thread Curtis Poe
--- shawn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been scrounging the internet for this answer, but can't find one html code a href=edit.pl?submit=editid=$$row{'id'}title=$$row{'title'}description=$$ row{'description'}model=$$row{'model'}serial=$$row{'serial'}value=$$row{'

How to profile CGI scripts?

2001-08-07 Thread Jason Purdy
Disclaimer: I've read the docs, talked to several folks, and played around with the scripts, but I must be missing something. I'd like to get the tmon.out file output from the -d:DProf flag when my CGI scripts execute remotely on the web server that I'm developing on, but whenever I add the

Re: M$ Word to HTML

2001-08-07 Thread Morten Liebach
On 7, Aug, 2001 at 12:11:29PM -0400, Mark Saunders wrote: Yeah, the dreamweaver 'Clean up Word HTML' is amazing. It does miss some tags, like class, so you have to take an extra step or two to remove them. HTML-TIDY claims to be able to clean up dirty Word html, get it from

Re: How to profile CGI scripts?

2001-08-07 Thread Curtis Poe
--- Jason Purdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Disclaimer: I've read the docs, talked to several folks, and played around with the scripts, but I must be missing something. I'd like to get the tmon.out file output from the -d:DProf flag when my CGI scripts execute remotely on the web server that

Re: How to profile CGI scripts?

2001-08-07 Thread Jason Purdy
I just tested a command line script by putting -d:Dprof in the shebang line and didn't have any problem. Of course, I'm using ActiveState here and that might make a difference. Perhaps you could tell us what's in your error log? Yea ... that's another problem - I don't have access to

AW: href arguments

2001-08-07 Thread Alessandro Lenzen
Hello Francesco, first of all you should read the CGI.pm manpage if you want to write good CGIs. You don't need to use the CGI.pm module, but it is considered good programming practice and it saves a lot of time since you don't have to bother with a lot of things. The following code should help

AW: AW: href arguments

2001-08-07 Thread Alessandro Lenzen
Oh, I see. I'm a bit confused. Maybe it's my fault... Do you have a string like display_file.pl?filename=blahblah or are you calling the CGI with http://www.domain.it/display_file.pl?filename=blahblah ? The code I wrote is for the latter... In the first case, you could use regexes:

RE: href arguments

2001-08-07 Thread Joel Hughes
Sidrath, is there any need to adopt that surly attitude when responding? joel -Original Message- From: Sidharth Malhotra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 August 2001 13:23 To: 'Francesco Scaglioni' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: href arguments Once again. This is a problem

Newbie -- got a question

2001-08-07 Thread Lee Hoffner
I'm new to scripting in PERL (I've only done Javascript and Lingo before). I'm building a script to write an HTML page on the fly, using image files that are in a directory that is given to the script as a variable. How do I pass my variable to my script from the HREF link that my user clicks?

Re: Newbie -- got a question

2001-08-07 Thread Curtis Poe
--- Lee Hoffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new to scripting in PERL (I've only done Javascript and Lingo before). I'm building a script to write an HTML page on the fly, using image files that are in a directory that is given to the script as a variable. How do I pass my variable to my

Re: Newbie -- got a question

2001-08-07 Thread Lee Hoffner
I think you might want to see my script, to see where I am trying to go. As this is my first day on this list, I'd like to know if it's okay for me to post an entire script before I do. It's 69 lines, with a lot of comments stating what I am trying to do. Would you all mind if I post it, or would

Re: Newbie -- got a question

2001-08-07 Thread Curtis Poe
--- Lee Hoffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you might want to see my script, to see where I am trying to go. As this is my first day on this list, I'd like to know if it's okay for me to post an entire script before I do. It's 69 lines, with a lot of comments stating what I am trying to

Re: Newbie -- got a question

2001-08-07 Thread Lee Hoffner
Thanks, Curtis! Below is the script. (I hope it's clear!) #!/usr/local/bin/perl #This script will be called using the POST method, #contained in a HREF that the #site visitor clicked on. #The call will contain an argument, which will #be

Re: M$ Word to HTML

2001-08-07 Thread Richard Hulse
Adam, I needed a clean output from Word for very large docs that only have paragraph styles. So I wrote a little VB macro that tags anything in Word with its style. It only handles para styles not other formatting. So after running the macro: a heading1 styled paragraph would be end up as

Re: Newbie -- got a question

2001-08-07 Thread Lisa Nyman
Hi, On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Lee Hoffner wrote: use strict; use CGI qw/:standard/; my $dir = param('dir'); #Verify that the requested directory exists. #I imagine I want to say something like: if (-d $dir) { print END; Content-Type: text/html\n\n html body table END

Re: getting the calling function name.

2001-08-07 Thread Me
caller only gives only the name of current sub You didn't read the docs carefully enough... caller($calldepth) perldoc -f caller -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PERL and HTML question...

2001-08-07 Thread Tom Malone
The difference between HTML version 3.2 and version 4.0 is the number and type of tags that are available to you. The browsers don't really know the difference between the different versions - they just either support the latest version (4.0) or they don't. You'll find out when you try to use

Re: PERL and HTML question...

2001-08-07 Thread Michael Fowler
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 03:16:44PM +0930, Daniel Falkenberg wrote: printHTML; head HELLO WOLRD! /head HTML If this HTML is being run with Perl which it is of coarse how would I know what version of the HTML it is. HTML is not run, it's not a programming language, or

Compare large files memory error

2001-08-07 Thread Mbedish
Is there a better way to compare large files than this snippet, which runs out of memory if files 30mb. It is also slow, about the same speed as comparing in a text editor! Thank you. __SNIP__ @file1 = (IN1); @file2 = (IN2); $are_equal = compare_arrays(\@file1, \@file2); if ($are_equal)

Upgrade woes!

2001-08-07 Thread d_c_s
Hi all, I wonder if someone can shed any light on this for me. I run a Solaris 8 machine (sparc) at work and had problems installing DBI for perl 5.6.0 - for future reference (for other newbies) if your perl has come precompiled on your system, and you install gcc to compile modules, perl

connectivity

2001-08-07 Thread vsarunkumar
hai i tried to pass three variables obtain the output to be in table format .but i could not get any output. The code is as follows. my html program (calling) html head title h2 Post Method /h2 /title /head body pre form method = post action = http://mc6308/cgi-bin/check.cgi;br Name input

Re: Compare large files memory error

2001-08-07 Thread Maxim Berlin
Hello Mbedish, Tuesday, August 07, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mac Is there a better way to compare large files than this snippet, Mac which runs out of memory if files 30mb. Mac It is also slow, about the same speed as comparing in a text editor! Mac Thank you. Mac

Re: Compare large files memory error

2001-08-07 Thread Jos I. Boumans
if you're just interested in *EXACTLY* the same files, use MD5 (get it from search.cpan.org) even one BIT of difference (literally) will result in a different checksum thorough and fast hth Jos Boumans - Original Message - From: Maxim Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: connectivity

2001-08-07 Thread Abdulaziz Ghuloum
Hello, Why are you not using CGI.pm? Why are you parsing the data yourself? Doing so is very error prone and you *will* get into trouble. Try doing the following in your script: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use CGI qw/param/; my $name = param('Name'); my $age = param('Age'); my $city =

RE: ideas to clean this up?

2001-08-07 Thread Yacketta, Ronald
Peter, Thanxs for the help! I found a little typo in your code tho foo (@{$logFiles{$key}) should be foo (@{$logFiles{$key}}) missed that trailing } ;) -Ron -Original Message- From: Peter Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 15:20 To:

Re: Executing the kill command from within an suid script.

2001-08-07 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Jeff Rouse/NCO/CEtv [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *I have been an SA and DBA for 7 years and have worked in a lot of different *environments for several companies and I didn't go into apoplectic shock at *my suggestion :-) Look at the suidperl source code, you will :) suid, even if root is not

magic import of extensions?

2001-08-07 Thread Edwin Günthner
Hi there, I am wondering if it is possible to create my own module and to allow programers to use it without any importing or so. For example, if MyPackage has subs like init, doThis, doThat - is it possible to have a script that looks like: scr.pl: init; doThis $someArg; doThat $anotherArg

RE: magic import of extensions?

2001-08-07 Thread Tu, Hanming
Yes. Here is how 1) In your MyPackage.pm, you import the Exporter module as require Exporter; our @ISA = qw(Exporter); our @EXPORT = qw(init doThis doThat); 2) install MyPackage in a search directory, i.e., including your path in @INC 3) Then in your scr.pl or other programmer's scripts use

RE: Remove White Space

2001-08-07 Thread Scott Martin
Ahh!! Thanks for help. That did it. -Scott -Original Message- From: Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 11:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Perl Help Subject: RE: Remove White Space On Aug 7, Scott Martin said: I am stumped, none

Re: ideas to clean this up?

2001-08-07 Thread Romek Krisztián
Hello! And your exec code ought not to have to change. If you're used to doing something that says foo (@files) then just do instead foo (@{$logFiles{$key}) where $key is one of the hash keys - obviously now you can loop through all of them. Sorry, but did you

Newbie Question about subroutine

2001-08-07 Thread Barry Carroll
Hi all, i want to have a subroutine for checking user input: here is a snippet of the code: print (Is your Terminal ANSI compliant?\nYes or No, \(y\) or \(n\)?\n); chomp ($input = STDIN); verifyInput($input); sub verifyInput { # Subroutine to verify input #

Perl script to telnet into another box ... help ...

2001-08-07 Thread innovative-peripherals
I have a project where I have to run a job on demand on another box. Since I can telnet into that box from the server I'm running my Perl scripts on, I'd like to write a script that would telnet into that box. But I think my problem would be adding whatever symbol to the end of my login ID

length of an array

2001-08-07 Thread Romek Krisztián
Hello! @array[$a] = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]; How can I determine the length of an array inside an array? I tried the followings: $length = $#array[$a]# -- syntax error $length = scalar(@array[$a]) # -- ARRAY(blablabla) Any ideas? Krisztian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

pls ignore last msg

2001-08-07 Thread Barry Carroll
sorry guys i got it, silly mistake -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: ideas to clean this up?

2001-08-07 Thread Peter Scott
[My rule is that beginners' questions arising from a thread on the beginners' list get answered on the list, FYI. I may make mistakes that others will catch.] At 09:37 AM 8/7/01 -0400, Yacketta, Ronald wrote: Peter, Does this look correct? exec egrep, $lookFor, @{$logFiles{$_}} unless

Re: Newbie Question about subroutine

2001-08-07 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Barry Carroll wrote: here is a snippet of the code: print (Is your Terminal ANSI compliant?\nYes or No, \(y\) or \(n\)?\n); First of all, get rid of those backslashes. No need to put your string in parens. You can do this: print Is your Terminal ANSI compliant?\nYes or

RE: pls ignore last msg

2001-08-07 Thread Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1
Too late -- i already posted. Oh, well! ;) -Original Message- From: Barry Carroll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 11:12 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: pls ignore last msg sorry guys i got it, silly mistake -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

RE: Newbie Question about subroutine

2001-08-07 Thread Barry Carroll
Thanks, I didn't know that, i got around the problem with this: print (Is your Terminal ANSI compliant?\nYes or No, \(y\) or \(n\)?\n); chomp ($input = STDIN); verifyInput($input); sub verifyInput { # Subroutine to verify input # Will return the correct value # and

Re: length of an array

2001-08-07 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Romek Krisztián wrote: @array[$a] = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]; Should be $array[$a] = [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ]; How can I determine the length of an array inside an array? I tried the followings: $length = $#array[$a]# -- syntax error $length = scalar(@array[$a]) # --

Re: Compare large files memory error

2001-08-07 Thread Peter Scott
At 09:59 AM 8/7/01 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Randal, Thanks for the file compare tip, it is incredibly fast! However it doesnt tell me where the difference is. Can I get it to print out the first block of data that is different? Does your system have the 'cmp' program on it? IIRC this

Re: ideas to clean this up?

2001-08-07 Thread Peter Scott
At 09:29 AM 8/7/01 +0200, Romek Krisztián wrote: And your exec code ought not to have to change. If you're used to doing something that says foo (@files) then just do instead foo (@{$logFiles{$key}) where $key is one of the hash keys - obviously now you can

Re: getting the calling function name.

2001-08-07 Thread Me
[Rajeev, please keep beginner topics on the list] Thanks again You're welcome : But how to calculate the $calldepth value here. Actually I tried with the values for $i or $calldepth as given in the docs. (Note that I just made up the variable name $calldepth.) I understand that 1

using system?

2001-08-07 Thread insomniak
Hi, What is the best way to find out if a command is suceesful/finished when using system(); Im trying things like die if system(some command); or warn if system(some command); - not really worried about why it fails only if it fails and when it has finished This works but I would like to be

RE: using system?

2001-08-07 Thread Matt Crapo
System commands return zero for true, some other value for failure. This is backwards from perl's logic. You need to test for a return of zero, or use and instead of or like this: if ((system(system command)) == 0) { success } or system(system command) and die $!\n; # AND says Did I get a

RE: ideas to clean this up?

2001-08-07 Thread Yacketta, Ronald
Peter, Sorry about the off list email, I did a reply vice a reply to all the code actualy uses exec $cmd, $lookFor, @{$logFiles{$_}} unless $pid=fork; # fork new process for cmd I replaced the $cmd for some stupid reason I am not sure why, but this does not work I can print the members of

file size limitation

2001-08-07 Thread Michael Moore
hello-- i was wondering if anyone knew what the file size limitation is for perl and if there are any work arounds. i tried to compile it with the gcc flags that are necessary for LFS, but to no avail. i dont have a problem with large files under other programs. any ideas? i am running redhat

Re: using system?

2001-08-07 Thread Sudarsan Raghavan
I am new to perl myself. Maybe I am missing something here, but still $? contains the exit status of the system call. $? 8 will give the exact signal with which the call exited. 0 for success and anything else for failure. Sudarsan insomniak wrote: Hi, What is the best way to find out if a

To read from a file using RegExp

2001-08-07 Thread Qiang Qiang
I have a file as follows: .SUBCKT JTJTAG Z@@793 Z@@753 Z@@109 Z@@86 Z@@15 Z@@296 Z@@61 Z@@207 Z@@135 + Z@@275 Z@@313 Z@@1134 Z@@232 Z@@184 Z@@162 Z@@976 Z@@1014 Z@@253 Z@@954 Z@@39 + Z@@138 Z@@622 Z@@1060 Z@@405 Z@@368 Z@@735 Z@@xxx stands for a node. What I need to do is that read every

Re: Can I use a pointer as key of a hash?

2001-08-07 Thread Troy Denkinger
On Monday 06 August 2001 22:26, Qiang Qiang wrote: Can I use a pointer as key of a hash? I wanted to do this way however, it failed and output nothing. Then I change to use the content of the pointer as key, it works. Can you post a bit of code illustrating what you were trying to do? The

RE: To read from a file using RegExp

2001-08-07 Thread Wagner-David
Better point would be a hash and use split on whitespace to isolate the node info. Then using what is in the hash, you can read a file and check whether the node info for that particular node is in the hash or not. Then you can process accordingly. Wags ;) -Original Message-

Variable Recalculation

2001-08-07 Thread Michael Kelly
Is there any way to recalculate a certain variable when another variable's value changes? For instance if, $a = 5; $b = $a * 4; $a = 10; At the end of that, $a will be 10, but $b will still be 20 (5 * 4). Is there any way, short of manually recalculating $b every time $a might change, to have

RE: ideas to clean this up?

2001-08-07 Thread Yacketta, Ronald
Peter, I have tried a few different perl: ways to grep for patterns in files (~1500 files totaling ~350MB) cleanly and efficiently. each timed I thought of something / tried something it was ridiculously slow. I have tried a foreach on an array of files and parsing the $_ etc.. that took nearly

Re: Variable Recalculation

2001-08-07 Thread Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan
On Aug 7, Michael Kelly said: Is there any way to recalculate a certain variable when another variable's value changes? For instance if, $a = 5; $b = $a * 4; $a = 10; You can use my DynScalar module from CPAN. use DynScalar; $x = 5; $y = dynamic { $x * 4 }; print $x * 4 = $y\n; $x

RE: Newbie Question about subroutine

2001-08-07 Thread Russell Kroboth
or you could just change this: my $vInput = @_; to thisL my $vInput = @_[0]; -Original Message- From: Barry Carroll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 12:03 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Newbie Question about subroutine Hi all, i want to have a subroutine

RE: To read from a file using RegExp

2001-08-07 Thread Russell Kroboth
this might do it: $file=SUBCKT JTJTAG Z\@\@793 Z\@\@753 Z\@\@109 Z\@\@86 Z\@\@15 Z\@\@296 Z\@\@61 Z\@\@207 Z\@\@135 + Z\@\@275 Z\@\@313 Z\@\@1134 Z\@\@232 Z\@\@184 Z\@\@162 Z\@\@976 Z\@\@1014 Z\@\@253 Z\@\@954 Z\@\@39; $node=Z\@\@323; if ($file=~/$node/){ print found\n; } else {

Re: magic import of extensions?

2001-08-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 04:30:12PM +0200, Edwin Günthner wrote: .. so what I am looking for is a mechanism to automatically load MyPackage whenever Perl starts. Is that possible? export PERL5LIB=-MMyPackage Or the equivalent for your shell. But it's really not terribly sociable. Your

RE: Variable Recalculation

2001-08-07 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Michael Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 2:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Variable Recalculation Is there any way to recalculate a certain variable when another variable's value changes? For instance if, $a = 5;

RE: magic import of extensions?

2001-08-07 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 2:25 PM To: Edwin Günthner Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: magic import of extensions? On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 04:30:12PM +0200, Edwin Günthner wrote: .. so what I am looking

Hashes with multiple values per key

2001-08-07 Thread Sophia Corwell
Hello Perl Help, Does anyone have any ideas on what is a good way to check the existance of a value for a key that has multiple values? Thanks in advance, __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger

Re: magic import of extensions?

2001-08-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 02:38:52PM -0400, Bob Showalter wrote: export PERL5LIB=-MMyPackage That should be PERL5OPT, not PERL5LIB Right, thanks. I had even looked it up to make sure too -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: Hashes with multiple values per key

2001-08-07 Thread Casey West
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:14:55PM -0700, Sophia Corwell wrote: : Hello Perl Help, : : Does anyone have any ideas on what is a good way to : check the existance of a value for a key that has : multiple values? I'm not quite sure what you're asking for so I'm going to try and rephrase your

RE: getting the calling function name.

2001-08-07 Thread Wagner Jeff Civ Logicon/TTMS
The following rough code example will get you what you want. The parameter passed to caller tells the function how many frames to go back in the call stack. The fourth list element (which is number 3, starting at 0) contains the name of the subroutine at that frame.

Re: magic import of extensions?

2001-08-07 Thread Edwin Günthner
Actually, i think the 'use MyPackage' statement is what Edwin is trying avoid, hence the term magic ... ? Yep, thats exactly what I am looking for. It's not really a good idea to do this, but you could create a second perl command in another location (or rename it in the same location ...)

RE: ideas to clean this up?

2001-08-07 Thread Peter Scott
At 01:28 PM 8/7/01 -0400, Yacketta, Ronald wrote: Peter, Sorry about the off list email, I did a reply vice a reply to all the code actualy uses exec $cmd, $lookFor, @{$logFiles{$_}} unless $pid=fork; # fork new process for cmd I replaced the $cmd for some stupid reason I am not sure why,

RE: ideas to clean this up?

2001-08-07 Thread Peter Scott
At 02:02 PM 8/7/01 -0400, Yacketta, Ronald wrote: Peter, I have tried a few different perl: ways to grep for patterns in files (~1500 files totaling ~350MB) cleanly and efficiently. each timed I thought of something / tried something it was ridiculously slow. I have tried a foreach on an array

Re: Hashes with multiple values per key

2001-08-07 Thread Luke Bakken
Does anyone have any ideas on what is a good way to check the existance of a value for a key that has multiple values? I'll assume that your hash table has the following structure: $hash{$key} = [ ]; that is, the value of each hash element is an array reference. Let's say you're looking

Re: Upgrade woes!

2001-08-07 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Hi all, I wonder if someone can shed any light on this for me. * *I run a Solaris 8 machine (sparc) at work and had problems installing DBI for perl 5.6.0 - for future reference (for other newbies) if your perl has come precompiled on your system,

Re: list archives

2001-08-07 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1 [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Got a question related to this list: * *I went to the specified archive because i wanted to find an older post, but *it looks like the list only contains this month's postings. Does anyone *know where the older posts are? Are they lost and

Re: Compare large files memory error

2001-08-07 Thread Mbedish
No, I am using Win NT. Regards, Mark Surrey,UK Does your system have the 'cmp' program on it? IIRC this is a standard or fairly standard Unix utility which does exactly what you want and you could just call it from Perl... Regards Mark Bedish Surrey,UK In a message dated Tue, 7 Aug

RE: list archives

2001-08-07 Thread Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1
Yes, i know--that's where i went in the first place, but 'dateindex' only has posts from May 29-June 1, and those are repeated over and over again. Something gives me the impression that this MHonArc thing that they're using isn't working properly ... -Original Message- From: Elaine

Re: Variable Recalculation

2001-08-07 Thread Michael Kelly
On 8/7/01 11:05 AM, Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan wrote: You can use my DynScalar module from CPAN. snip On 8/7/01 11:36 AM, Bob Showalter wrote: In addition to Jeff's suggestions, snip Thank you both! Although it wasn't real, the example I gave modeled what I'm trying to do quite precicely,

Frustrated installing modules!?!

2001-08-07 Thread John Way
I am truly frustrated that I can't even find any documentation on how to install a module from, say, CPAN! I have activestate's installation of Perl 5.6.1.628 for Windows2000. I downloaded the binary version and have been learning perl for about 4 months or so. The FAQ's say to use ppm to instal

RE: Frustrated installing modules!?!

2001-08-07 Thread Wagner-David
Here is my setup for AS using ppm: PPM interactive shell (2.1.2) - type 'help' for available commands. PPM set Commands will be confirmed. Temporary files will be deleted. Case-insensitive searches will be performed. Package installations will continue if a dependency cannot be

RE: Frustrated installing modules!?!

2001-08-07 Thread Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1
What's PPM? Is this similar to CPAN? -Original Message- From: Wagner-David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 3:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Frustrated installing modules!?! Here is my setup for AS using ppm: PPM interactive shell (2.1.2) -

Create an array of arrrays from a scalar

2001-08-07 Thread Chris Rogers
Maybe I'm crazy, but I would like to create an array of arrays from a single string. Here's an example of a string: ((TEXT PLAIN (format flowed) NIL NIL 7BIT 206 4 NIL NIL NIL)(TEXT PLAIN (name Display.txt format flowed) NIL NIL 8BIT 16330 412 NIL (attachment (filename Display.txt)) NIL) mixed

RE: Create an array of arrrays from a scalar

2001-08-07 Thread Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1
hehe -- i tried to do the exact same thing last year. The solution? Mail::*Client from CPAN (your example looks like IMAP, but i'm not sure ...) You may not be crazy now, but if you continue down this dark path, you'll certainly end up there. Trust me. ;) -Original Message- From:

RE: Hashes with multiple values per key

2001-08-07 Thread RArul
I am afraid, I have different stats with my study: I ran for 100,000 loops and for 1,000,000 loops but yet, the map,grep contexts are giving me efficient stats than the foreach loop stuff. Since our comparing contexts differ, there might be significant difference between the two approaches, I

Re: Hashes with multiple values per key

2001-08-07 Thread Sophia Corwell
Thanks for the reply eventhough my question was not clear. Let me explain what I am trying to do. I have a hash named %orgjobs whose keys have multiple values. The keys are department numbers and the values are job_titles. There is a also a text file that has a list of departments, users, and

how to compare two references (pointers)?

2001-08-07 Thread Qiang Qiang
Who knows how to compare two references (pointers) in OOPerl? A reference is neither a numeric or a string, thus == and eq are useless. Of course, I can use what they point at (the objects) to compare, however, I want to know how to deal with references. Thanks a lot:-) brbrbrBest Regards,

Re: list archives

2001-08-07 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1 [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Yes, i know--that's where i went in the first place, but 'dateindex' only *has posts from May 29-June 1, and those are repeated over and over again. Are you sure you looked at that second URL? It begins some time in May and lists everything

Re: how to compare two references (pointers)?

2001-08-07 Thread Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan
On Aug 7, Qiang Qiang said: Who knows how to compare two references (pointers) in OOPerl? A reference is neither a numeric or a string, thus == and eq are useless. Of course, I can use what they point at (the objects) to compare, however, I want to know how to deal with references. Thanks

Re: Frustrated installing modules!?!

2001-08-07 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
John Way [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *I am truly frustrated that I can't even find any documentation on how to *install a module from, say, CPAN! I have activestate's installation of Perl You must have missed the FAQ link on the front page of CPAN. http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html also,

Re: Please help with perl library path problem!

2001-08-07 Thread Chidi
I am getting an error on my solaris 5.6 sparc box when I try to run a Perl program with the Sybperl CTLIB extension. Specifically, I get the following error message: Can't load '/tools/ver/perl-5.005_03/lib/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris/auto/Sybase/CTlib /CTlib.so' for module Sybase::CTlib:

RE: Please help with perl library path problem!

2001-08-07 Thread Matt Crapo
Oops - forgot to share... -Original Message- From: Matt Crapo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 4:19 PM To: 'Chidi' Subject: RE: Please help with perl library path problem! I may be off in left field here, but I've had similar error messages (keyword ld.so.1).

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