how to match email address

2001-08-09 Thread mingchun li
Hi folks: i have a file like this: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] from to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], tes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> aslgj, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sdgl, how can i sort out the email adrress? please give me direction thanks in advance _ Do You Yahoo

Problem with SNMP-4.2.0 and HEX values...

2001-08-09 Thread Hamish Whittal
Hi All, This is a perl related question. I am walking a mib and getting OCTETSTR values. However, some of these are hex values that I am wanting to convert into decimal. I know how to do the conversion no problem, but some values return a string in ascii (e.g. "Module 1 port 6") while other oid's

Re: how to match email address

2001-08-09 Thread Jos I. Boumans
you'll have to use regular expressions http://japh.nu for a basic tutorial on those and read perldoc perlretut if you want more specific advice, show us what you tried so far and what happened. hth, Jos > Hi folks: > > i have a file like this: > > mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] from > to: [EMAIL PR

Image not coming in perl script while displaying n simple html with the same path..Why?

2001-08-09 Thread Rahul Garg
hello Everybody , In perl script code goes like this... .. Its not running(image not shown)sorry is displayed ...but the complete perl script except this is working very fine if i run the same in simple html, image is shown.no path problem... ...is there anything that needs to be

Re: Image not coming in perl script while displaying n simple html with thesame path..Why?

2001-08-09 Thread Brent Michalski
Have you tried adding the path to the image? You didn't provide much information, so I am going to make a few assumptions: Assumption 1: - Your HTML file that you are testing is in the /htdocs directory Assumption 2: - Your CGI script is in the /cgi-bin directory I realize that you said you h

Re: recursive file copy

2001-08-09 Thread perl newbie
Hello, I am using the following code to do two things: 1) create a unique directory name using @ARGV, and 2) recursively copy the contents of a source directory into the target directories. However, when I attempt to do this, I am getting the following errors about infinite loops. % perl copy.

Can't get rid of warning message

2001-08-09 Thread Kevin Hundley
Hello! I have a program that uses the CGI module (v 2.36). Here is a code snippet: my $q = new CGI; # # some more code... # print $q->start_html(-title=>$callout_name, -onLoad=>$init, -script=>{-language=>'javascript', -sr

RE: WWW-Authenticate

2001-08-09 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Michael Leigh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 5:02 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: WWW-Authenticate > > > All, > > I am trying to write a program, which log's on to a password > protected web > page and runs a report. U

Creating a hash from a name stored in a variable ...

2001-08-09 Thread Elie De Brauwer
I searched google, asked some people on irc but no-one could answer me. $max_index is a value gotten from a database which contains the number of entry's for($i = 0, $i < $max_index, $i++){ %data$1{name} = #get the name from the database matching the index and store it here ...

Recursive file copy

2001-08-09 Thread perl newbie
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 05:16:38 -0700 (PDT) From: perl newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Block Address | Add to Address Book Subject: Re: recursive file copy To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I am using the following code to do two things: 1) create a unique directory name using @ARGV, an

RE: Creating a hash from a name stored in a variable ...

2001-08-09 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Elie De Brauwer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 8:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Creating a hash from a name stored in a variable ... > > > I searched google, asked some people on irc but no-one could > answer me. > >

RE: Creating a hash from a name stored in a variable ...

2001-08-09 Thread John Edwards
Here is a way of doing this. Tested and commented. But, like Bob says, you may well end up loosing track of what hashes you've created... --- code --- @indexNumbers = qw(1 2 3 4); foreach $number(@indexNumbers) { $hashname = "hash$number"; # Create a scalar with the name of the hash you

RE: A little off topic - VB & Perl

2001-08-09 Thread Busse, Rich
You can use the Shell function, according to my ancient VB 3.0 manual: Dim TaskId, Style TaskId = Shell ("perlscript.bat", Style) Simple? However: * You should also code an On Error in case VB can't run/find perlscript.bat. * 'Style' is a number 1-9 depending on how you want to run it.

RE: Creating a hash from a name stored in a variable ...

2001-08-09 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Elie De Brauwer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 9:01 AM > To: Bob Showalter > Subject: Re: Creating a hash from a name stored in a variable ... > > > > > I searched google, asked some people on irc but no-one could > > > answer me

Re: Recursive file copy

2001-08-09 Thread Maxim Berlin
Hello perl newbie, Thursday, August 09, 2001, perl newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: pn> I am using the following code to do two things: pn> 1) create a unique directory name using @ARGV, and pn> 2) recursively copy the contents of a source directory pn> into the target directories. [..] pn>

compilation error - simple program

2001-08-09 Thread uhna2
I am just now learning perl. I have written a program that ought to simply read a file a write its contents to another file. However, I get the following message: "Syntax error at perl.txt line 8, near "$x". Execution of perl.txt aborted due to compilation errors." Here is the code: #!/usr/

RE: compilation error - simple program

2001-08-09 Thread Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1
> #!/usr/bin/perl > open(INFILE, "testin"); > open(OUTFILE, ">testout"); > > $x=getc(INFILE); > while($x!=eof(INFILE){ ^ You have mismatched parentheses here. Should be: while ($x!=eof(INFILE)){ >print ("$x"); >$x=getc(INFILE); > } > close(INFILE); > close(OUTFILE

on returning subroutine arguments

2001-08-09 Thread Birgit Kellner
I have a script that prints out database records after a search operation. For each hit in the database, it calls the subroutine sub_one to first turn the record with the hit into a hash and then print out results in html. Now, there's one of these hash values which I would then like to use in a

RE: on returning subroutine arguments

2001-08-09 Thread John Edwards
Try this, having put return $value at the end of sub_one my ($numhits, @hits) = @_; for (0 .. $numhits - 1) { $returnedValue = &sub_one(&array_to_hash($_, @hits));} -Original Message- From: Birgit Kellner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 August 2001 15:36 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

Re: compilation error - simple program

2001-08-09 Thread Troy Denkinger
On Thursday 09 August 2001 10:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "Syntax error at perl.txt line 8, near "$x". > Execution of perl.txt aborted due to compilation errors." > > $x=getc(INFILE); > while($x!=eof(INFILE){ You'e missing a closing paren here. However, even when I fix that this doesn't seem

timeit()

2001-08-09 Thread Yacketta, Ronald
Folks, I have been reading up on the Benchmark.pm, I thought it was possible to time a sub routine with timeit as such $gt = timeit( 1 , &some_sub ); but I am getting errors in the Benchmark.pm Use of uninitialized value at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/Benchmark.pm line 312. bad time value ()

Re: timeit()

2001-08-09 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Yacketta, Ronald wrote: > I have been reading up on the Benchmark.pm, I thought it was possible to > time > a sub routine with timeit as such > > $gt = timeit( 1 , &some_sub ); I think you mean $gt = timeit( 1, \&some_sub); You need a coderef there, an anonymous sub or a st

RE: compilation error - simple program

2001-08-09 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 10:33 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: compilation error - simple program > > > I am just now learning perl. I have written a program that > ought to simply read a file a wr

colored text

2001-08-09 Thread Tyler Longren
Hello everyone, I was wondering if there was anyway to print colored text at the command line. I'm using linux. Something kind of like how the directories and executables are colored when you do an 'ls' in linux... Thanks, Tyler Longren Captain Jack Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.captain

help with printf formatting please

2001-08-09 Thread Yacketta, Ronald
Folks, I have this little tad bit of code my $left = $timer - time(); my $min = $left / 60 % 60; my $sec = $left % 60; sleep $ARGV[1]; printf OFN "Time remaining until next egrep: %d:%d\n", $min, $sec; works like a champ! except the output formatting The

Re: help with printf formatting please

2001-08-09 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Yacketta, Ronald wrote: > I do not get the 0 as in 09 , 08, 07 ,06 etc.. > > what could I do to ensure that the $sec is _always_ 2 digits? Precede your format specifier with 0#: ~$ perl -e 'printf("%02d\n", 6);' 06 ~$ perl -e 'printf("%03d\n", 6);' 006 -- Brett

RE: help with printf formatting please

2001-08-09 Thread Yacketta, Ronald
Thanxs! I was thinking I had to use a float > -Original Message- > From: Brett W. McCoy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 11:35 > To: Yacketta, Ronald > Cc: Beginners (E-mail) > Subject: Re: help with printf formatting please > > > On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Yac

Re: colored text

2001-08-09 Thread Mark Ross
> I was wondering if there was anyway to print colored > text at the command > line. I actually was looking for this today as well. Check out: http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perlfaq8.html#How%20do%20I%20print%20something%20out%20in%20color%3f > Thanks, > Tyler Longren > Captain Jack Communi

Re: colored text

2001-08-09 Thread Tyler Longren
That's pretty cool. Works great. Thank you! Tyler Longren Captain Jack Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.captainjack.com On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 08:33:58 -0700 (PDT) Mark Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was wondering if there was anyway to print colored > > text at the command > > line.

RE: on returning subroutine arguments

2001-08-09 Thread Birgit Kellner
--On Donnerstag, 09. August 2001 15:49 +0100 John Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try this, having put return $value at the end of sub_one > > my ($numhits, @hits) = @_; > for (0 .. $numhits - 1) { > $returnedValue = &sub_one(&array_to_hash($_, @hits));} > thanks - I had foolishly assumed t

Perl equivalent to awk's 'getline'

2001-08-09 Thread Frank Newland
Readers: awk has a function called 'getline' which reads the next line of input without changing control of the script. My input file contains pairs of records. When I find a record that matches my search pattern, I want that record and the next record. In awk, I used the 'getline' which did ju

Re: platform win ME

2001-08-09 Thread Peter Scott
At 10:12 AM 8/9/01 -0600, Kent Mercer wrote: >- Original Message - >From: "Peter Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >How do I begin my first script? > > > > > >And how do I save it ? > > > > > >Something simple like "Hello World" > > > > > >Just started 2 days ago > > >Need pointed in the rig

Re: Perl equivalent to awk's 'getline'

2001-08-09 Thread Peter Scott
At 11:35 AM 8/9/01 -0500, Frank Newland wrote: >Readers: >awk has a function called 'getline' which reads the next line of input >without changing control of the script. > >My input file contains pairs of records. When I find a record that matches >my search pattern, I want that record and the ne

Re: Perl equivalent to awk's 'getline'

2001-08-09 Thread Adam Turoff
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:35:13AM -0500, Frank Newland wrote: > Readers: > awk has a function called 'getline' which reads the next line of input > without changing control of the script. Perl is unlike sed and awk in this respect; program control is not determined by reading sequential lines

Matching strings

2001-08-09 Thread Sofia
I am having problems matching strings. I have the following code that reads a file with computer names and if a named passed to the script is in the file print yes otherwise print no, for example. The computer names are in the format n-4.t-1 meaning node four on rack 1. while() { $line = $_;

RE: platform win ME

2001-08-09 Thread Crandell, Daniel (TIFPC)
Kent there will be some key things in your IIS or PWS that you will need to do. Your .pl needs to be associated like this. go to control panel. open administrative tools folder. Open computer management folder. In right window you should see a internet information services icon with a + Open

Over 9000 posts

2001-08-09 Thread Casey West
I am ready to clean out my [EMAIL PROTECTED] inbox because mutt can't handle the messages. I have 9000 messages saved since May 20. That's less than 3 months and we've had 9000 messages! I want to say congrats to both the beginners and the experts here. Thank you for making this list work. C

RE: Over 9000 posts

2001-08-09 Thread Crandell, Daniel (TIFPC)
way to go everyone, keep it up -Original Message- From: Casey West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 11:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Over 9000 posts I am ready to clean out my [EMAIL PROTECTED] inbox because mutt can't handle the messa

Re: Matching strings

2001-08-09 Thread Brent Michalski
Don't diddle with $_ so much... You make things more confusing Here is what I see (forgive any formatting errors, using Lotus NOTes)... while() { $line = $_; # You are setting $line to the current value from chomp($line); # Getting rid of \n's etc.. (EOL chars) # Now here, why a

Re: Matching strings

2001-08-09 Thread Lynn Glessner
I think that you just need to match the other way around to get the partial match. Instead of looking for the fileline within the name_passed, look for the name_passed within the fileline. Something like this should do the desired partial match, and be shorter and clearer (at least to me, another

RE: Perl equivalent to awk's 'getline'

2001-08-09 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Frank Newland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 12:35 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Perl equivalent to awk's 'getline' > > > Readers: > awk has a function called 'getline' which reads the next > line of input > without cha

RE: A little off topic - VB & Perl

2001-08-09 Thread Tim Noll
Here are three other possibilities: 1) You might be able to avoid VB entirely by using the Spreadsheet::ParseExcel module, although I haven't tried it and can't vouch for it. 2) If Excel is installed on the machine that's running the Perl Script, you should be able to call the Excel object direc

RE: Matching strings

2001-08-09 Thread Wagner-David
But don't you need to distinguish between: n-4.t-1 and n-4.t-11? And if you are passed only t-1 then that should be distinguised from t-11 or t-100? I looked at : $mylead = ''; while() { chomp; $mylead = '^'; if ( $named_passed =~ /^t/ ) { $mylead = ''

Weekly list FAQ posting

2001-08-09 Thread casey
NAME beginners-faq - FAQ for the beginners mailing list 1 - Administriva 1.1 - I'm not subscribed - how do I subscribe? Send mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You can also specify your subscription email address by sending email to (assuming [EMAIL PROTECTED] is your email address)

Re: recursive file copy

2001-08-09 Thread Michael Fowler
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 05:16:38AM -0700, perl newbie wrote: > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > use strict; > use POSIX; > > ## > ###MAIN PROGRAM### > ## > > > # set environment variables. > > $ENV{WORK_AREA} = "/tmp/regr_tests"; Why are you using e

test, please ignore

2001-08-09 Thread Zen
Just testing, please ignore this message. -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GIT/U d-->(---) s: a->? C++(---) U*++>L+++ P+>+ L+(++)> E- W+++$ N++@ K w(---) !O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5-- X+ R@ tv-->--- b+>+++ D+++ G e>++ h- r*- y-++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--

RE: Matching strings

2001-08-09 Thread Sofia
What does $mylead = '^' and if (/${mylead}$name_passed$/) mean? --- Wagner-David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But don't you need to distinguish between: n-4.t-1 > and n-4.t-11? And > if you are passed only t-1 then that should be > distinguised from t-11 or > t-100? > > I looked at

Re: beginners Digest 9 Aug 2001 12:42:51 -0000 Issue 305

2001-08-09 Thread Richard J. Barbalace
"Kevin Hundley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The code does exactly what I want. However, I get the following message > (when the perl -w option is enabled): > Use of uninitialized value at (eval 11) line 17. > > Is this message something I should just live with (or turn off the -w > option)

What's Perl DBI module?

2001-08-09 Thread Kehai Li
what's Perl DBI module? How can I execute a web-database in Perl language? thanks in advance

Repetitive code

2001-08-09 Thread Sofia
I have the following code: %compilers = ( system1 => "compiler_a", system2 => ["compiler_b", "compiler_c"], system3 => "compiler_d", ); foreach $compiler (@{$compilers{$system}}) ( $compiler_passwd = $compilers{$system} . "_passwd"; open ($compiler, "< $compiler_passwd"

Re: What's Perl DBI module?

2001-08-09 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Kehai Li wrote: > what's Perl DBI module? How can I execute a web-database in Perl language? Here's a good place to start: http://dbi.symbolstone.org/index.html -- Brett http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/ ---

Wanted: Serial Port Communication Example

2001-08-09 Thread chris morris
Can someone post a sample Perl script(is that what they are called, scripts?) that communicates with the serial port (for *nix OS). Just something that opens for read/write, sends "Hello" then reads a reply would be great. I've read the info in perlfaq8 and termios but I am having trouble puttin

Re: Wanted: Serial Port Communication Example

2001-08-09 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, chris morris wrote: > Can someone post a sample Perl script(is that what they are called, > scripts?) that communicates with the serial port (for *nix OS). Just > something that opens for read/write, sends "Hello" then reads a reply > would be great. I've read the info in pe

Re: Image not coming in perl script while displaying n simple html with the same path..Why?

2001-08-09 Thread Mel Matsuoka
At 05:09 PM 08/09/2001 +0530, Rahul Garg wrote: >hello Everybody , > >In perl script code goes like this... >.. > > > >Its not running(image not shown)sorry is displayed ...but the complete perl script except this is working very fine >if i run the same in simple html, image is shown.n

problems with a for-loop

2001-08-09 Thread Birgit Kellner
I'm stuck with a for-loop and would appreciate any help I can get. I hope the code is somewhat intelligible, as it comes out of a larger script. The code serves to print out individual search results for a flatfile database query, called in a cgi-script. All matching records are stored in @hits

escape sequence for @

2001-08-09 Thread uhna2
How do I print an e-mail address to a file. For example, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: platform win ME

2001-08-09 Thread murphy, daniel (BMC Eng)
Better yet, get "Learning Perl on Win32 Systems" (O'Reilly) Dan Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] EMC Corp.508-435-1000 x14559 Hopkinton, MA 01748 EMC2 where information lives -Original Message- From: Peter Scott [mail

RE: escape sequence for @

2001-08-09 Thread Mooney Christophe-CMOONEY1
If you need to use double quotes, you can say: print "somebody\@somewhere.com" but if you're not using any other escape sequences or variables, then just use single quotes: print '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Single quotes force perl to take the string as it is instead of trying to inse

RE: platform win ME

2001-08-09 Thread Ryan Ware
The 3rd edition of Learning Perl just came out. I like it it takes a more platform independent approach, whereas before there were 2 learning perls now there is only one. > -Original Message- > From: murphy, daniel (BMC Eng) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 3:11

Telnet ..... send control characters in oct or hex?

2001-08-09 Thread Atul Vohra
Hi, I am using Telnet.pm module where I telnet to a router successfully. Now, I would like to send some control characters like "ctrl]". Is there a way to send octal or hex values in perl Thanks Atul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECT

It's your fault pt.2

2001-08-09 Thread John
why are you sending me copies of all email in and out of [EMAIL PROTECTED]? here you can have them back Better yet, get "Learning Perl on Win32 Systems" (O'Reilly) Dan Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] EMC Corp.508-435-1000 x14559 Hopkin

It's your fault pt.1

2001-08-09 Thread John
why are you sending me copies of all email in and out of [EMAIL PROTECTED]? here you can have them back   Just testing, please ignore this message. -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GIT/U d-->(---) s: a->? C++(---) U*++>L+++ P+>+ L+(++)> E- W+++$ N++@ K w(---) !O? M-- V?

It's your fault pt.3

2001-08-09 Thread John
why are you sending me copies of all email in and out of [EMAIL PROTECTED]? here you can have them back   NAME beginners-faq - FAQ for the beginners mailing list 1 - Administriva 1.1 - I'm not subscribed - how do I subscribe? Send mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You can al

Check file permissions

2001-08-09 Thread Baartmans, Hans
Is there a module or command that returns the permissions of a file or directory? Thanks, Hans

RE: Check file permissions

2001-08-09 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Baartmans, Hans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 4:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Check file permissions > > > Is there a module or command that returns the permissions of a file or > directory? perldoc -f stat -- T

Re: Check file permissions

2001-08-09 Thread Mel Matsuoka
At 03:47 PM 08/09/2001 -0500, Baartmans, Hans wrote: >Is there a module or command that returns the permissions of a file or >directory? > >Thanks, >Hans use the stat() function. Aloha; mel -- mel matsuokaHawaiian Image Productions Chief Executive Alphageek (vo

Re: Check file permissions

2001-08-09 Thread Richie Crews
perldoc -f stat Stat is a great command... $mode = (stat($filename))[2]; printf "Permissions are %04o\n", $mode & 0; On 09 Aug 2001 16:47:00 -0400, Baartmans, Hans wrote: > Is there a module or command that returns the permissions of a file or > directory? > > Thanks, > Hans -- -=-=-=-=

RE: Telnet ..... send control characters in oct or hex?

2001-08-09 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Atul Vohra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 4:22 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Telnet . send control characters in oct or hex? > > > Hi, > > I am using Telnet.pm module where I telnet to a router > successfully. Now,

Re: Check file permissions

2001-08-09 Thread Sara Taillon
You can use stat as others recommended, but stat can be expensive. Stat is good for getting all permissions, but if you just want to see if you can write, execute or read a file, try using the file test operators. For example, to see if a file is writable: if (-w $filename) { ... } Sara. Hans

Date Validation Regex

2001-08-09 Thread sacrh
Hi , Can anybody help me to write regex for date validation. The validation criterion will be as below, with date in format dd/mm/ & dd - should be less than 31 mm - should be less than 12 - no validation Thanks, Anand

Re: Check file permissions

2001-08-09 Thread Peter Scott
At 02:47 PM 8/9/01 -0700, Sara Taillon wrote: >You can use stat as others recommended, but stat can be expensive. Stat >is good for getting all permissions, but if you just want to see if you >can write, execute or read a file, try using the file test operators. >For example, to see if a file is

Re: Date Validation Regex

2001-08-09 Thread Peter Scott
At 05:43 PM 8/9/01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi , > > Can anybody help me to write regex for date validation. The > validation criterion will be as below, > >with date in format dd/mm/ & > >dd - should be less than 31 Really? You're starting from 0? >mm - should be less than 12

Re: Date Validation Regex

2001-08-09 Thread Peter Scott
At 03:16 PM 8/9/01 -0700, I wrote: >At 05:43 PM 8/9/01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Hi , >> >> Can anybody help me to write regex for date validation. The >> validation criterion will be as below, >> >>with date in format dd/mm/ & >> >>dd - should be less than 31 > >Really? You're s

Re: Date Validation Regex

2001-08-09 Thread Peter Scott
At 03:59 AM 8/10/01 +0530, you wrote: >Hi Peter, > > I have made the changes already. Thanks a lot but its hurtning. Just > started with Regxes. I assure u, Here after u will get some thing > apprciabely ok. Can u suggest better site for regexes Get Jeff Friedl's book 'Mastering Regular Expres

can I get source for modules... CPAN?

2001-08-09 Thread Matthew Lyon
I'm looking for the source to Getopts::Long . pm I glanced at the repository over at cpan.org and it led me to a page about the programmer and so forth but there really wasn't an explicit "click here for the source code"-link. anyone else ever hacked an existing module apart? --- -mL x2121 -

Writing to file not working......

2001-08-09 Thread CDitty
Can someone take a look at this and see what is wrong? I am still learning perl and this is giving me a tough time. The email.txt file is an empty file and has the correct permissions. Thanks Chris # This section needs to cycle through the emails.txt file. # Once it has cycled through the f

Re: Repetitive code

2001-08-09 Thread Michael Fowler
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:15:01AM -0700, Sofia wrote: > %compilers = ( >system1 => "compiler_a", >system2 => ["compiler_b", "compiler_c"], >system3 => "compiler_d", > ); > > foreach $compiler (@{$compilers{$system}}) ( This code shouldn't work. Have you made this modification recen

Re: Writing to file not working......

2001-08-09 Thread Michael Fowler
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 06:53:15PM -0500, CDitty wrote: > The email.txt file is an empty file and has the correct permissions. You're reading from a file, expecting data to be there, but the file is empty. Could this be your problem? > # This section needs to cycle through the emails.txt file

NEWBEE Question

2001-08-09 Thread fazertech
Hi, I am new to Perl and I wanted to know one simple thing. Lets say that I want to creat a program that would ask you for your age. Somewhat like this: Please enter your age: Then when the user enters his/her age, then it would print the age that the user typed. Like this: Please enter your age:

NEWBEE Question

2001-08-09 Thread fazertech
Hi, I am new to Perl and I wanted to know one simple thing. Lets say that I want to creat a program that would ask you for your age. Somewhat like this: Please enter your age: Then when the user enters his/her age, then it would print the age that the user typed. Like this: Please enter your age:

Re: NEWBEE Question

2001-08-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 08:40:55PM -0400, fazertech wrote: > this is what I ask for and i know that it is pretty simple, so please can > any one help me here?? Yes, it's pretty simple. The sort of thing you might give someone as an exercise to help them learn Perl, for example. Show us your co

Re: NEWBEE Question

2001-08-09 Thread Casey West
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 08:42:28PM -0400, fazertech wrote: : Hi, : : I am new to Perl and I wanted to know one simple thing. Lets say that I want : to creat a program that would ask you for your age. Somewhat like this: : Please enter your age: : Then when the user enters his/her age, then it wou

Re: can I get source for modules... CPAN?

2001-08-09 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Matthew Lyon wrote: > I'm looking for the source to Getopts::Long . pm It should be right there on your system. Nothing mysterious. On my machine it was under /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/Getopt/Long.pm It's just plain ol' Perl. No XS files or anything. > I glanced at the

result of regexps into a string

2001-08-09 Thread Tyler Longren
Hello everyone, I have a string from an apache log file: 192.168.1.1 - - [05/Jul/2001:22:48:51 -0500] "GET /test.php HTTP/1.1" 200 995 How could I get the IP (192.168.1.1) out of that? I've been playing with regexps like this: if/(.*)\s-\s-\s/; but I have no idea if that's correct or not. Can

Reminder about Subject lines

2001-08-09 Thread Casey West
I'd like to remind everyone that subject lines are very important. It is important to try and be as descriptive as possible ( in 70 characters or less :). When you are about to begin a thread ( that usually means asking a question here ), please think about your subject lines. This is a very hi

Re: result of regexps into a string

2001-08-09 Thread Casey West
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 08:35:42PM -0500, Tyler Longren wrote: : Hello everyone, : : I have a string from an apache log file: : 192.168.1.1 - - [05/Jul/2001:22:48:51 -0500] "GET /test.php HTTP/1.1" : 200 995 : How could I get the IP (192.168.1.1) out of that? I've been playing : with regexps l

Re: result of regexps into a string

2001-08-09 Thread Akshay Arora
since you know that the first thing on the log file is the IP number you only need to get the beginning of the line IP numbers have the format ddd.ddd.ddd.ddd ranging from 1 to 3 digits, so if(/$(\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3})/) would grab the IP and put it in $1 the above will match IP numb

Re: can I get source for modules... CPAN?

2001-08-09 Thread Akshay Arora
also, if you have already downloaded the package via CPAN, then check the ~/.cpan/build directory for the source code as well "Brett W. McCoy" wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Matthew Lyon wrote: > > > I'm looking for the source to Getopts::Long . pm > > It should be right there on your system.

Re: PERL_LIB Questions

2001-08-09 Thread Teresa Raymond
Make sure you have created a "lib" folder in your CGI-BIN, upload the folder(MIME)/module(Lite.pm) into it. Make sure you've set permissions to read all, search/execute all. Example on using Mime Lite. The following two lines go into your script: use lib '/www/yourdomain/cgi-bin/lib'; use MI

How can i read out data from a file ?

2001-08-09 Thread foxy
I´d like to know how i can read out data from a file with for example, a newsletter, like 1.) first news 2.) 2nd news 3.)... and print it out as html ? How do i only print sentence no.2 ? Thanx for help foxy

Re: PERL_LIB Questions

2001-08-09 Thread Michael Fowler
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 10:23:47PM -0500, Teresa Raymond wrote: > Make sure you have created a "lib" folder in your CGI-BIN, upload the > folder(MIME)/module(Lite.pm) into it. Make sure you've set > permissions to read all, search/execute all. Placing anything other than CGI scripts, that are

Fw: result of regexps into a string

2001-08-09 Thread Kehai Li
- Original Message - From: "Akshay Arora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tyler Longren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "perl-beginners" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 7:24 PM Subject: Re: result of regexps into a string > since you know that the first thing on the log file is th

Re: Date Validation Regex

2001-08-09 Thread Peter Scott
At 04:30 AM 8/10/01 +0530, sachidanand haldankar wrote: >Hi Peter, > > with the regex u sent I am still able to enter invalid date > >31/25/2001 > >my perl code is, > >$var1 = ; >$var1 =~ m#^(\d\d)/(\d\d)/(\d{4})$# && $1<31 && $2<12; >print $&; >Can u please correct the error, There's nothi

Re: PERL_LIB Questions

2001-08-09 Thread Teresa Raymond
If you don't have the access to install a module in the root directory, this is the way you can do it - unless you ask the web host to install the module you want specifically. And I believe a module is meant to be executable, so I'm unclear about your remark there. >On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at

Re: Date Validation Regex

2001-08-09 Thread Kehai Li
But, can this code to test if 31/6/2001 is valid or not? we know there are totally 30 day in June. Thanks. - Original Message - From: "Peter Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "sachidanand haldankar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 10:00 PM Subject: R

Re: Date Validation Regex

2001-08-09 Thread Teresa Raymond
Yes, it does. I believe, that this code only makes sure that only digits are used, that there are 2 digits for the day slot, 2 digits for the month slot, 4 digits for the year slot, that the day will not exceed 31, and the month will not exceed 12 (someone please correct me if I am not readin

Fw: changes visible when passing a list by value

2001-08-09 Thread Rizwan Majeed
- Original Message - From: Rizwan Majeed To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 6:05 PM Subject: changes visible when passing a list by value It is known that passing a list by value to a function does not make visible to the calling function changes made to the lis

Create html extract from plain text file (was Re: How can i read out data from a file ?)

2001-08-09 Thread Me
> I´d like to know how i can read out data from a file with > for example, a newsletter, like >1.) first news >2.) 2nd news >3.)... >and print it out as html ? How do i only print sentence no.2 ? First, some questions about what you already know. Do you know: Basic perl? Basic HTML?

Re: Date Validation Regex

2001-08-09 Thread Peter Scott
At 12:33 AM 8/10/01 -0500, Teresa Raymond wrote: >Yes, it does. I believe, that this code only makes sure that only digits >are used, that there are 2 digits for the day slot, 2 digits for the month >slot, 4 digits for the year slot, that the day will not exceed 31, and the >month will not exc