Re: Assigning variables from an array?

2001-08-15 Thread Curtis Poe
--- Dianne Van Dulken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am receiving a lot of values from a form. I want to loop through them and set new variables, with the same name, to the same value. EG: I want the param value phone to be set to $phone. Sorry if it's too stupid a question, and you all go

Re: Re: Beginning CGI

2001-08-15 Thread Mark Bergeron
You can definetly run CGI's on IIS. Check out Active State http://www.activestate.com or Indigo Perl I think it's http://www.indigostar.com/indigoperl.htm GL, Mark -Original Message- From: Eric Wang[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark Bergeron[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: kahine Kldon[EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: Re: CGI on IIS - bad idea?

2001-08-15 Thread Curtis Poe
--- Mark Bergeron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Taint won't run on Win32 anyway. Mark, This is actually a common misconception. Taint checking works just fine on Win32 using ActiveState Perl. Try the following from the command line: perl -Te $x=shift;open TEST, qq/$x/ test.txt You will get

Re: Re: CGI on IIS - bad idea?

2001-08-15 Thread Eric Wang
So I can actually use a CGI to carry out the perl script in the front end and put the -T inside the cgi right? and the users cannot see which perl script was executed because it's on the server site. Is that right? eric On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Curtis Poe wrote: --- Mark Bergeron [EMAIL

Re: Re: CGI on IIS - bad idea?

2001-08-15 Thread Curtis Poe
--- Eric Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I can actually use a CGI to carry out the perl script in the front end and put the -T inside the cgi right? and the users cannot see which perl script was executed because it's on the server site. Is that right? eric Eric, You'll have to go

Re: Re: CGI on IIS - bad idea?

2001-08-15 Thread Mark Bergeron
This could be. When running under #!/usr/bin/perl -wT Too late for -T I'm running 626 on Win2K Pro IIS -Original Message- From: Curtis Poe[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CGI Beginners[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed Aug 15 09:50:54 PDT 2001 Subject: Re: CGI on IIS - bad idea? --- Mark Bergeron

Re: Re: CGI on IIS - bad idea?

2001-08-15 Thread Curtis Poe
--- Mark Bergeron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This could be. When running under #!/usr/bin/perl -wT Too late for -T I'm running 626 on Win2K Pro IIS Mark, If you see my reply to Eric Wang in this thread, I describe how to get around this problem. Basically, what's going on is that IIS

RE: cgi and html

2001-08-15 Thread Boex,Matthew W.
joel, i guess i didn't word that correctly. i have a set of cgi scripts, each of them need to be able to follow state information using hidden tags. i need to add some html design to these cgi's, make them look nicer. i would prefer to edit one file, with html and perl embedded in it, sort of

append to beginning of file

2001-08-15 Thread Quang Bui
Help. How do I append data to the beginning of a file? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: append to beginning of file

2001-08-15 Thread Sascha Kersken
Hi. What you should do is write both your new data and the contents of the old file to a new file. Afterwards, you might rename the new file to replace the old one. Like: #!/usr/bin/perl -w open (NEWFILE, your new file's name) or die Couldn't open new file: $!; print NEWFILE $new_data; # ...

Re: how many items in a hash?

2001-08-15 Thread Piers Cawley
Bob Showalter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Or, from perldoc perldata: If you evaluate a hash in scalar context, it returns false if the hash is empty. If there are any key/value pairs, it returns true; more precisely, the value returned is a string consisting of the number

Perl/Tk controling widgets

2001-08-15 Thread John Ertl
I have been working on three separate Perl/Tk programs and now I would like to have them all called from a single window. I am not sure how to do this without making the three, one. I tried making them modules but the windows are displayed before the main window. I have to then close them before

perl scripts

2001-08-15 Thread Rajeswary Santhiran
Hi, I am very new to perl. I am just using the perl script to run this application. I have this perl script in unix and i need to convert it to windows . can anyone help me? The error message that it shows when i run this script is , it cannot identify the HUP. and i don't know what is that?

Re: perl scripts

2001-08-15 Thread Jos I. Boumans
it's in the last line: kill 'HUP',`cat $PIDFILE`; it's a unix command to kill *nix processes... which of course won't work on windows... what is the purpose of using this on windows? it's structure is quite different... hth Jos - Original Message - From: Rajeswary Santhiran [EMAIL

XML::Parser -- Problem with undefined entities in element attributes

2001-08-15 Thread KAVANAGH, Michael
Hi there, I've been bumping my head up against this problem all morning now, and can't come up with an answer, maybe someone with XML::Parser experience can help. The XML::Parser documentation doesn't really have any suggestions. Normally you can use the NoExpand method to prevent the parser

Re: XML::Parser -- Problem with undefined entities in element attribu tes

2001-08-15 Thread Michel Rodriguez
On Wednesday 15 August 2001 12:28, KAVANAGH, Michael wrote: Is there any way to handle entity references in attribute values? My problem is I have tags in my xml that contain entity references like this: section name=text reg;/section and XML::Parser generates the following error:

RE: XML::Parser -- Problem with undefined entities in element attribu tes

2001-08-15 Thread KAVANAGH, Michael
That is very helpful Michel, thanks. And thanks for the reference to the mailing list... I didn't know about that one. One final follow-up point... Interestingly, in testing this problem, I found that XML::Parser handles #174; in the attribute fine, but not, as I said, reg;. The ascii value

regular expressions and newline characters

2001-08-15 Thread Joe Bellifont
I have a file that looks like this FNAMEjoe/FNAME SURNAMEbloggs/BLOGGS QDETAILS herein lies the question posed by the user the question can be multi-lined like this one. /QDETAILS == I'm trying to read the various tag content into variables: == sub ParseFile { my

Re: XML::Parser -- Problem with undefined entities in element attributes

2001-08-15 Thread Michel Rodriguez
On Wednesday 15 August 2001 13:19, KAVANAGH, Michael wrote: Interestingly, in testing this problem, I found that XML::Parser handles #174; in the attribute fine, but not, as I said, reg;. The ascii value entity seems to be handled ok. Can you confirm that in your experience this is the case

Re: regular expressions and newline characters

2001-08-15 Thread Michel Rodriguez
On Wednesday 15 August 2001 13:20, Joe Bellifont wrote: I have a file that looks like this FNAMEjoe/FNAME SURNAMEbloggs/BLOGGS QDETAILS herein lies the question posed by the user the question can be multi-lined like this one. /QDETAILS == I'm trying to read the various tag

RE: index inside foreach{ ..}

2001-08-15 Thread Chris Rogers
I don't know if you can do it using a foreach but I would use a for loop. It may be just a tad slower but you'll get the results you're looking for. Using the loop below will start at the last index of the array @a and loop down to the first (assuming that the first index of the array is 0).

Module Administration question

2001-08-15 Thread Steve Starer
Greetings all, I am the perl administrator here, and new to both perl as a programming language, and as the site admin. I've got no problem getting modules. My question is how do I remove them? In particular, I'm in a Solaris site, and had to install the DBD bundle and Sybase DBI. I ended up

how do I know what modules are installed

2001-08-15 Thread Joe Bellifont
I have to install the xml parser module. I have root access. How do I know if it is already installed and how can I get a list of all installed modules thanks. -J _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at

Re: how many items in a hash?

2001-08-15 Thread John Sands
--- Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that the number of used buckets isn't (necessarily) the same as the number of items in the hash. Can you give an example of how they could be different? __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls

Re: how do I know what modules are installed

2001-08-15 Thread Michel Rodriguez
On Wednesday 15 August 2001 14:29, Joe Bellifont wrote: I have to install the xml parser module. I have root access. How do I know if it is already installed and how can I get a list of all installed modules If you try to use it and you can't then it is not installed ;--) Or just try

Problem running script on WinNT4 machines. - Win32::Netadmin

2001-08-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, Hopefully someone could help me with a small problem that im having, part of one of my scripts uses functions from Win32::NetAdmin and it works fine when running from a windows 2000 pc but not an NT4 pc. Basically the script takes the name of a pc as input, lists the members of the

status messages as the program progresses

2001-08-15 Thread Tyler Longren
Hello everyone, I have a while loop that loops through a text file for quite a while (10 min or so). Is there any way to print a status-type message while it's looping through? I did something like this now: my $i=0; while ($i le 1000) { print Processing\r; } And that works, but

Re: Module Administration question

2001-08-15 Thread Thomas A . Lowery
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 08:07:25AM -0400, Steve Starer wrote: I am the perl administrator here, and new to both perl as a programming language, and as the site admin. I've got no problem getting modules. My question is how do I remove them? In particular, I'm in a Solaris site, and had to

Tk::FileDialog -FPat question

2001-08-15 Thread Thomas_P_Murnane
Is there a way to show upper and lower case pattern match for the -FPat option for a dialog box default pattern: sub browse_files { my $save_name = $b_file; $status-configure(-text=Browse directories); if ($base ) { $b_file = $file_dialog-Show( -Path = $base, -FPat =

Re: how do I know what modules are installed

2001-08-15 Thread Salvador Lopez
running `perl -e 'use XML:Parser'` should do the trick. If you get the prompt back, it's installed. Otherwise, you get the Can't locate... message. --sal --- Michel Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 15 August 2001 14:29, Joe Bellifont wrote: I have to install the xml parser

RE: Module Administration question

2001-08-15 Thread Steve Starer
Thanks for the quick reply! I think my greater question is how to remove/uninstall any module. This all got started when I began working through the Perl DBI book. The very first example program bombed when it hit the ADO module. The module is missing something it needs - Win32/OLE/Variant.pm.

RE: how many items in a hash?

2001-08-15 Thread Wagner-David
I am using a hash to iterate over and when I get a hit, I delete the key: HashStart: 148/256 #- start of processing Pass 1 130 74/256 Pass 2 41 39/256 Pass 3 23 17/256 Pass 4 11 7/256 Pass 5 7 0 # hash is cleared I don't

RE: status messages as the program progresses

2001-08-15 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Tyler Longren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 10:13 AM To: Perl-Beginners Subject: status messages as the program progresses Hello everyone, I have a while loop that loops through a text file for quite a while (10 min or

Re: status messages as the program progresses

2001-08-15 Thread Tyler Longren
:) forgot to add the $i++. And that was just an example. On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:55:58 -0400 Bob Showalter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Tyler Longren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 10:13 AM To: Perl-Beginners Subject: status

Re: XML::Parser -- Problem with undefined entities in element attributes

2001-08-15 Thread M.W. Koskamp
- Original Message - From: KAVANAGH, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 12:28 PM Subject: XML::Parser -- Problem with undefined entities in element attributes Hi there, I've been bumping my head up against this problem all morning now,

Re: perl scripts

2001-08-15 Thread Michael Fowler
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:14:25PM +0200, Jos I. Boumans wrote: it's in the last line: kill 'HUP',`cat $PIDFILE`; it's a unix command to kill *nix processes... which of course won't work on windows... kill does work on Windows, and in 5.6.1 (possibly 5.6.0 too) even works on arbitrary

Re: perl scripts

2001-08-15 Thread Jos I. Boumans
i was referring to the entire line (ie, the command). and i stand by my former reply: try the win32::* modules for interaction with windows first, before reinventing the wheel. Jos - Original Message - From: Michael Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jos I. Boumans [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

System command via CGI not working....but should

2001-08-15 Thread K Old
Hello, I am trying to get a CGI script to run a system command.for example system `/usr/sbin/adduser larry' or die User was not added $?; I have this line in a script and have set Apache to be run as root (don't worry, all this is being done on a test box...I know the security risks) and

URL access

2001-08-15 Thread Tyler Cruickshank
Hello. Im looking for a little direction: I want to write a very simple script that goes out to a particular set of web sites (weather maps) and prints/saves their contents. Ive been reading about sockets and networking but I havent been able to glean the information that I think I need.

Re: URL access

2001-08-15 Thread Jos I. Boumans
This is exactly what LWP is for... it comes standard with activestate's distro of perl (www.activestate.com) but not with *nix iirc. you can grab the module from cpan and just read up on the docs of LWP::Simple it does all you need =) hth Jos - Original Message - From: Tyler

RE: URL access

2001-08-15 Thread Jennifer Pan
Apologize for the naivety, but there are so many modules related with LWP at cpan ( I searched for LWP), which one do I download? And how do I know if we already have LWP module at our local machine? thank you very much!! -Jennifer Pan -Original Message- From: Jos I. Boumans

Re: URL access

2001-08-15 Thread Jos I. Boumans
to be on the safe side, just get bundle::lwp it has all you'll ever need probably! - Original Message - From: Jennifer Pan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jos I. Boumans [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 9:51 PM Subject: RE: URL access Apologize for the

RE: URL access

2001-08-15 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Jennifer Pan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 3:51 PM To: Jos I. Boumans Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: URL access Apologize for the naivety, but there are so many modules related with LWP at cpan ( I searched for LWP),

Perlembed in Perl 5.6.1?

2001-08-15 Thread Philip Dhingra
Anybody attempt to embed Perl in C with Perl 5.6.1. It works fine in Perl 5.0053. But in the newer version, it says that Dynamic loading is not available in this perl. I already compiling perl with -Dusedl and such, but to no avail. - philipd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

GetOpt::Long - Usage question

2001-08-15 Thread pn
Hi, I am unable to get the following inherited code, using Getopt::Long, to work. It is my understanding that Perl will automatically create a $opt_help variable ( for a -help command line option). However, when I try to print it's value, it returns a null value. In addition, the help mesage is

Re: GetOpt::Long - Usage question

2001-08-15 Thread Michael Fowler
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 02:49:34PM -0700, pn wrote: #/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; # Forward declarations my $opt_help; This is your problem right here. Getopt::Long sets the package global $main::opt_help, but now that you've declared the variable lexical, anytime you access it

binary files

2001-08-15 Thread Tyler Cruickshank
Hello. Im still struggling with converting a binary file to an ascii file. I just dont understand how to use seek and unpack. I understand that one needs to know the format of the binary file, therefore, I have pasted below FORTRAN code that reads the ascii file and writes a binary file.

wheelmouse

2001-08-15 Thread tom
hello dont know if its the right place to ask such a question please pardon me im actually practicing perl/tk how can i make my wheel mouse to works with scrollable text/entry ... widgets ?? any help will be greatly appreciated tom -- si quelqun peut me dire comment avoir son propre

s/^W+//;

2001-08-15 Thread Clinton
Hi I'm reading data from MSAccess, joining 2 fetched values with a comma and writing to another table. The data seems to be padded. My resultant column shows some space between the two values eg valuefromFirstcolumn, valuefromSecondcolumn I have tried applying a regex

Re: binary files

2001-08-15 Thread Peter Scott
At 04:58 PM 8/15/01 -0600, Tyler Cruickshank wrote: Hello. Im still struggling with converting a binary file to an ascii file. I just dont understand how to use seek and unpack. I understand that one needs to know the format of the binary file, therefore, I have pasted below FORTRAN code

Re: s/^W+//;

2001-08-15 Thread Michael Kelly
On 8/15/01 4:28 PM, Clinton wrote: Hi I'm reading data from MSAccess, joining 2 fetched values with a comma and writing to another table. The data seems to be padded. My resultant column shows some space between the two values eg valuefromFirstcolumn, valuefromSecondcolumn

Re: s/^W+//;

2001-08-15 Thread Clinton
Thank you Michael. I missed the \.Works fine now. - Original Message - From: Michael Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 9:43 AM Subject: Re: s/^W+//; On 8/15/01 4:28 PM, Clinton wrote: Hi I'm reading data from MSAccess, joining 2 fetched

constructor modification/inheritance

2001-08-15 Thread Blair Burns
Hi *, I am rather a beginner to Perl (and programming) but am nevertheless faced with maintaining a complex OO environment. Yikes! Anyway, here is my problem: I have two classes whose constructors return a db handle. A accepts parameters for user/password, while B, although it uses A to connect

Re: Module Administration question

2001-08-15 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Steve Starer [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Thanks for the quick reply! I think my greater question is how to *remove/uninstall any module. This all got started when I began working *through the Perl DBI book. The very first example program bombed when it hit Nope, there isn't any function that

Re: how do I know what modules are installed

2001-08-15 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Joe Bellifont [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *How do I know if it is already installed and *how can I get a list of all installed modules http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_installed_modules e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: constructor modification/inheritance

2001-08-15 Thread Peter Scott
At 05:36 AM 8/15/01 -0700, Blair Burns wrote: Hi *, I am rather a beginner to Perl (and programming) but am nevertheless faced with maintaining a complex OO environment. Yikes! Anyway, here is my problem: I have two classes whose constructors return a db handle. A accepts parameters for

cgi syslog

2001-08-15 Thread Frank Wu
Hi all, I'm writing a simple perl cgi script to populate some infomation from syslog file, open FILE, | tail /var/log/daemon.log; but always got permission denied, no matter what i do about $, $ Does anybody know how to access root owned file via cgi script? Thank in advance Frank

I have a list of Directories and FIles, how do I sort them out

2001-08-15 Thread Vincent Lim
Hello, I have a listing of directories and files in a root directory which I need to recreate at another Windows NT DOS shell machine. The alogrithm I have implemented in general works like this: # check if the listing exist in target machine # if exist, check if it is a file in target

Re: Converting into exe

2001-08-15 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Junaid Najamuddin wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me the procedure in detail please how to convert a Perl script into an executable Thanks Junaid Check out IndigoStar Software. 'http://www.indigostar.com/perl2exe.htm' -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

question from beginner

2001-08-15 Thread Corey Epps
I'm trying to access log files on different Novell Servers. Path is servername\sys\arcserve.6\nwagent.txt Here is the problem and why I'm trying to do this with Perl. The log file is extensive, and is sorted by date. Example line: Aug-14 20:11:42 Job request from SERVERNAME @ IP

Re: cgi syslog

2001-08-15 Thread Morbus Iff
Does anybody know how to access root owned file via cgi script? Not unless your webserver (which runs the cgi script with its own permissions) is set as root, and that's normally a big no-no. There is a Syslog module though - you may want to look into that (I know nothing about it, though)...

RE: I have a list of Directories and FIles, how do I sort them out

2001-08-15 Thread Steve Howard
It might be helpful if you posted at least the part of the code that is having trouble. it's difficult to say what went wrong when we can't really see what is even happening. Steve H. -Original Message- From: Vincent Lim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 9:35

RE: question from beginner

2001-08-15 Thread Steve Howard
With only one line from a logfile to work with, I have to do a little guessing about format, but if all lines are formatted like that one, and if days always have a two digit format, and if a lot of other assumptions, This snippet does what you are looking to do: my ($mon, $mday) =

file date checking

2001-08-15 Thread Hal Wigoda
i need to remove files that are more than 30 days old. I know the foreach loop part but my if statement is not working. See below. #!/usr/bin/perl use File::stat; use File::Find; $dirname=/opt/ilbackup/status; opendir(DIR, $dirname) or die can't opendir $dirname: $!; while ( defined (

Calculation the total of my column

2001-08-15 Thread Daniel Falkenberg
List, I have a problem here that I am having a little bit of trouble trying to resolve. Firstly I have a Perl script that connects to a PostgreSQL database using the DBI module. I want to be able to SELECT a column from the database and return the total result. For example if I do the

(Answer to my own question) RE: Calculation the total of my column

2001-08-15 Thread Daniel Falkenberg
Dan, :) $sth = $dbh -prepare( qq{ SELECT SUM(time_track_minutes) FROM table WHERE status = 'COMPLETE' } ) || die $dbh-errstr; ; $sth-execute; Regards, Daniel

Re: Calculation the total of my column

2001-08-15 Thread Jim Conner
I would do it like this (taking a stab at this...critique is welcomed): At 03:17 PM 08.16.2001 +0930, Daniel Falkenberg wrote: List, I have a problem here that I am having a little bit of trouble trying to resolve. Firstly I have a Perl script that connects to a PostgreSQL database using the