why is perl better then PHP

2001-11-15 Thread rabs
Hi Ive been using perl for a few months now, most people I speak to seem to prefer PHP. Why? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

problem getting scalars out of array

2001-11-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all i am having a problem reading from an array. i wrote this script to query a database, get a certain record and based on the number of records returned write to a file 1.the unixtime, 2.the number of records in asteriks (ex. *** for 3 records) and 3.the number of records in digit form. i

Re: regexp

2001-11-15 Thread Piers Cawley
birgit kellner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Many thanks to Wagner-David for the code. I've slightly changed it, as below, but have still further questions. [...] ... checking on an initial digit is not specific enough, because in between a heading $counter and the next subheading $counter.1,

Re: Off-Topic (200%) - Where are you from?

2001-11-15 Thread Gustavo Jara
Hi! It's probably safe now to say that I'm the only on the list from Lima Peru, although there are two more of us here in South America. I think the location in the signature is a good idea. Gracias. --- patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm from Atlanta, Georgia. -- p a t r i c k d u

Help with PERL

2001-11-15 Thread Sherri
I am a student. I have an assign where my instructor asked me to do the following: (and I don't know where to begin, please advise, I would greatly appreciate it) Write a program that will merge two hashes together onto a third hash called %h3. Return a reference to %h3 to the main program

packages

2001-11-15 Thread Jon Jodi Vandine
I need to create a package called StringPrint. Place this package in a filename called StringPrint.pm. Include in the Perl module a subroutine, called print_str, that prints a string passed to the subroutine defined by the module.

Re: Off-Topic (200%) - Where are you from?

2001-11-15 Thread nafiseh saberi
I am the only person from IRAN... in this group. ___ A small part of world...Nafiseh Saberi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re:Win32::EventLog

2001-11-15 Thread Jorge Goncalvez
HI, I am using a script with Win32::EventLog on NT but I wonder if it is possible when I init my application to del all logs that are in the Event Log in the directory Application of the Event Log. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: expect interface in perl

2001-11-15 Thread Kilaru Sambaiah
On Thursday 08 November 2001 08:43 pm, Roy Peters wrote: Is there any way to imbed expect commands in perl like you could in Tcl? Thanks. HI Roy Peters, Expect module is available for per. regards, Sambaiah Kilaru -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Some advice needed on file locking with modperl'ed code

2001-11-15 Thread Andy McDowell
Hi All, I am writing a modperl webapp (the new web interface for the RipeNCC whois database server) and I have need to store some data to a file. Nothing heavy, just a few one liners like user query strings, screen used, server process time and a few others to do some analysis work on potential

Re: Off-Topic (200%) - Where are you from?

2001-11-15 Thread louie miranda
philippines here :) louie miranda (axishift.ath.cx) -- Security Is A Series Of Well-Defined Steps chmod -R 0 / ; and smile :) - Original Message - From: nafiseh saberi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gustavo Jara [EMAIL PROTECTED]; patrick [EMAIL

Re: Using PERL to script into a UNIX telnet session

2001-11-15 Thread Kilaru Sambaiah
On Monday 12 November 2001 10:36 pm, Erik Jacobsen wrote: I am looking for a way to use PERL to script into a open telnet session. The script would be executing on a Redhat 7.1 Box. I have played with system keyword, but it seems that that is for calling one specific proccess. Any help would

RE: Help with PERL

2001-11-15 Thread John Edwards
See the list FAQ. Section 2.2 http://learn.perl.org/beginners-faq Having said that, a good place to start would be http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1884777805/ref%3Dase%5Fthevirtualmirr or/103-8967786-7966216 and http://www.google.com/search?q=perl+merge+hash John -Original

Re: Sendmail alternatives

2001-11-15 Thread Kilaru Sambaiah
On Thursday 15 November 2001 02:50 am, Miles Sapp wrote: I've heard Sendmail isn't a very good mail program because of security holes, etc. Can anyone recommend a good alternative script for sending mail from an HTML form? Thanks! Miles Qmail and postfix. postfix is written by security in

Re: Sendmail alternatives

2001-11-15 Thread Karthik Krishnamurthy
postfix is a drop in replacement for sendmail. as such the sendmail commandline can still be used for delivering mails. Qmail has also been coded with security in mind. However (this is not thro personal experience), postfix seems to be quicker than qmail as far as queueing is concerned. Also

ugh. @INC

2001-11-15 Thread KeN ClarK
Recently I've had problems w/all of my scripts (and attempts) failing with a Can't locate _module.pm_name_ in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib... ... ) at nameofscript.pl line #. In example I am trying to make an html page of a directory that i've segregated certain mp3's. I am trying to use

Inheritance frustration

2001-11-15 Thread Jon Cassorla
For some reason I have a problem with inheritance if the derived object using full namespace for the base object in the ISA. In the following, B derives from A. The directory structure is such that A.pm lives in the same directory as B.pm A.pm #!/usr/local/bin/perl package A; sub foo

Re: ugh. @INC

2001-11-15 Thread KeN ClarK
i'm afraid that's possibly my error. see, all i've used so far was CGI.pm. I went to cpan as root and got it. So where ever that would put it. let me look. that makes obvious sense. ken _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://quantifier.org _ Fortune's real

RE: Some advice needed on file locking with modperl'ed code

2001-11-15 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Andy McDowell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 6:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Some advice needed on file locking with modperl'ed code Hi All, I am writing a modperl webapp (the new web interface for the RipeNCC

RE: ugh. @INC

2001-11-15 Thread KeN ClarK
my big mistake and a wonderful learning experience. thanx ken _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://quantifier.org _ The only intuitive interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned. -Bruce Ediger, in comp.os.linux.misc, on X interfaces On Thu, 15

Printing with arrow notation

2001-11-15 Thread jonathan vandine
I am passing a hash as a reference to a subroutine and want to print its values using arrow notation. Such as.. %hash (value1, value2, etc..); PrintHash(\%hash); sub PrintHash { $rhash = @_; What would work here for print using arrow notation? } Thanks

RE: Printing with arrow notation

2001-11-15 Thread RArul
%hash =('key1'='value1','key2'= 'value2'); PrintHash(\%hash); sub PrintHash{ $rhash = shift; for(keys %{$rhash}){ print $_ = $rhash-{$_}\n; } } would work. -- Rex -Original Message- From: jonathan vandine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001

Re: Printing with arrow notation

2001-11-15 Thread register
$rhash-{$key} assuming $key is the value of the key of the hash so %hash = (key1=val1,key2=val2...etc) would result in $rhash-{key1} producing val1!! On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 04:08:18PM +, jonathan vandine shaped the electrons to read: I am passing a hash as a reference to a subroutine and

RE: Printing with arrow notation

2001-11-15 Thread Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs
First off, you want: my $rhash = shift; instead of $rhash = @_; The latter will assign the number of elements in @_ (which is 1) to $rhash. After that change you can say print $rhash-{value1}; or $rhash-{value1} = 7; Tanton -Original Message- From: jonathan vandine To: [EMAIL

[Follow-up]RE: Printing with arrow notation

2001-11-15 Thread RArul
In my response, shown below, if I replace $rhash=shift; # My approach with $rhash=@_;# Your Approach then nothing will be printed. The reason is that the results are interpreted in a scalar notation when you adopt the latter approach. Therefore, never attempt to do an

Regulare Expressions/ Substitution Question

2001-11-15 Thread Miretsky, Anya
I am trying to replace all occurences of the word St with St. without generating St.. in the incorrect substitutions of St. The code I have been playing with is something like: $item = 35 Main St. (it could also be 35 Main St in which case I want the substitution to happen) $varS = st; $item

RE: Some advice needed on file locking with modperl'ed code

2001-11-15 Thread Andy McDowell
Yeah, I was unsure about whether or not the o/s (slackware v8.0) would buffer the writes - not syswrite - if they occured concurrently, which is why I was looking into flock use. Many thanks Bob Andy On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Bob Showalter wrote: Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 10:40:17 -0500 From: Bob

RE: Regulare Expressions/ Substitution Question

2001-11-15 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Miretsky, Anya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 11:37 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Regulare Expressions/ Substitution Question I am trying to replace all occurences of the word St with St. without generating St.. in

Re: Regulare Expressions/ Substitution Question

2001-11-15 Thread birgit kellner
--On Donnerstag, 15. November 2001 11:37 -0500 Miretsky, Anya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to replace all occurences of the word St with St. without generating St.. in the incorrect substitutions of St. The code I have been playing with is something like: $item = 35 Main St. (it

RE: Regulare Expressions/ Substitution Question

2001-11-15 Thread Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs
What you want is a negative lookahead $iter =~ s/\b$varS(?!\.)/St./gi; That says to find any occurrence of $varS that is preceeded by a word boundry (so you don't replace things like worst) and is NOT followed by a . Tanton -Original Message- From: Miretsky, Anya To: '[EMAIL

Re: Array References - Concatenation

2001-11-15 Thread Andrea Holstein
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friends, I have two, two-dimensional array references, and I need to join the rows of each array. $array1 = [ [11,12], [21,22], [31,32] ]; and $array2 = [

How to pass two hashes to a sub

2001-11-15 Thread Tomasi, Chuck
Perl 5.6.0 Sun Solaris 2.7 I'd like to send two or more associative arrays (hashes) to a sub. It looks like the first one makes it but the values of the second never get passed. Am I doing something wrong or is there a better way to do this (I'm hoping you don't say by reference or I'll have to

Re: How to pass two hashes to a sub

2001-11-15 Thread Andrea Holstein
Chuck Tomasi wrote: I'd like to send two or more associative arrays (hashes) to a sub. It looks like the first one makes it but the values of the second never get passed. Am I doing something wrong or is there a better way to do this (I'm hoping you don't say by reference or I'll have to

Re: How to pass two hashes to a sub

2001-11-15 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Nov 15, Tomasi, Chuck said: I'd like to send two or more associative arrays (hashes) to a sub. It looks like the first one makes it but the values of the second never get passed. Am I doing something wrong or is there a better way to do this (I'm hoping you don't say by reference or I'll

RE: Regulare Expressions/ Substitution Question

2001-11-15 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 12:08 PM To: 'Miretsky, Anya '; ''[EMAIL PROTECTED]' ' Subject: RE: Regulare Expressions/ Substitution Question What you want is a negative lookahead $iter =~

Re: How to pass two hashes to a sub

2001-11-15 Thread register
Alternatively just read them all in as one big hash inyour sub if you know the keys are unique to each other .. On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:53:47AM -0600, Tomasi, Chuck shaped the electrons to read: Perl 5.6.0 Sun Solaris 2.7 I'd like to send two or more associative arrays (hashes) to a sub.

So many lists!

2001-11-15 Thread Jon Topper
Hi, Probably utterly the wrong place to ask this question, but there were so many lists to choose from I was going dizzy just reading them! I'm working on a project which involves the embedding of a number of perl interpreters in a thread-based C++ server. I'm having a couple of problems with

Day of the month

2001-11-15 Thread Glenn Cannon
Given the month and the year, how can I derive what day the first landed on? Glenn Cannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Level II Certified DCI Judge 'There is no spoon.' www.eventsbeyondbelief.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Inheritance frustration

2001-11-15 Thread Michael Fowler
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 08:22:51AM -0600, Jon Cassorla wrote: A.pm #!/usr/local/bin/perl package A; sub foo { print STDOUT A::foo\n; } sub bar { print STDOUT A::bar\n; } 1; B.pm #!/usr/local/bin/perl package B; our @ISA=qw(A); sub foo { print STDOUT B::foo\n; }

Re: problem getting scalars out of array

2001-11-15 Thread David Wall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 15 Nov 2001: i am having a problem reading from an array. i wrote this script to query a database, get a certain record and based on the number of records returned write to a file 1.the unixtime, 2.the number of records in asteriks (ex. *** for

RE: How to pass two hashes to a sub

2001-11-15 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Tomasi, Chuck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 2:26 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: How to pass two hashes to a sub Arg, I was hoping I wouldn't have to do that (not that I can't), but it

Re: Day of the month

2001-11-15 Thread Etienne Marcotte
if you are on the list since a couple of weeks, there was a really good topic from japhy on this (he was helping me out) There ya go: quoting I suggest you use the % operator (modulus) to save yourself a bit of work. Also, the rules for determining leap year are thus: divisible by 4 BUT

Re: Day of the month

2001-11-15 Thread Adam Turoff
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:08:48PM -0500, Glenn Cannon wrote: Now all I need is a way to work out the last day of the month. Most of them should be easy, but that damn February... Find the first day of the next month (remember december/january rollover) and subtract one day: ## hacking

RE: Day of the month

2001-11-15 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Nov 15, Glenn Cannon said: Now all I need is a way to work out the last day of the month. Most of them should be easy, but that damn February... Just find out the FIRST day of the month AFTER it, and subtract one. -- Jeff japhy Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Day of the month

2001-11-15 Thread Etienne Marcotte
Heheh yeah for the day name only (not the actual date number) it's the way to go!! Way faster Etienne Adam Turoff wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:08:48PM -0500, Glenn Cannon wrote: Now all I need is a way to work out the last day of the month. Most of them should be easy, but that

Re: Day of the month

2001-11-15 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Nov 15, Adam Turoff said: Find the first day of the next month (remember december/january rollover) and subtract one day: my ($mon, $year) = (11, 2001); my $first = timelocal(0,0,0, 1, $mon % 12, ($year-1900 + int($mon/12))); You'll probably want to use noon if you're going to subtract

RE: Regulare Expressions/ Substitution Question

2001-11-15 Thread Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs
No, \bst\b won't work because . is treated as a word boundry and therefore st. will be turned into st.. You might try s/\bst\s/st./ instead -Original Message- From: Bob Showalter To: 'Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs'; 'Miretsky, Anya '; ''[EMAIL PROTECTED]' ' Sent: 11/15/2001 12:05 PM Subject:

RE: How to pass two hashes to a sub

2001-11-15 Thread Tomasi, Chuck
Dang, I could swear I tried that and it wasn't behaving like it was a ref. Now that I've tried it, I'll have to use it that way. Thanks a lot! -Original Message- From: Bob Showalter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 2:00 PM To: 'Tomasi, Chuck'; '[EMAIL

highlight words.

2001-11-15 Thread Houda Araj
I want to highlight words. I provide the code and the errors generated by the code. Can somebody help me to fix the problem. Thanks Source.txt Your AdWords text ads appear on search result pages for the keywords you buy, and can be targeted by language and country. So, to reach collectors of

Re: highlight words.

2001-11-15 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Nov 15, Houda Araj said: open my $fh, $phrase_file or die $phrase_file: $!; You're using an older version of Perl that can't handle this. Do open PHRASES, $phrase_file or die $phrase_file: $!; instead. And then read from PHRASES. Do something similar here too: open my $fh,

Re: Array References - Concatenation

2001-11-15 Thread Andrea Holstein
Andrea Holstein wrote: TMTOWTDI: @joined_array = map { [ @$array1[$_], @$array2[$_] ] } (0..$#array1); Please excuse my little bugs: I wrote a little script that helps to understand: Hallo! use strict; my $array1 = [ [11,12], [21,22],

What is bubble sort?

2001-11-15 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
(Cross-posted to the Perl Beginners List) On Nov 15, Tommy Butler said: What's a bubble sort ? I believe I heard the term used on this list a while back. I have some kind of idea of what it is, and how it would be implemented, but I'd like to find out for sure. Could someone tell me what it

RE: What is bubble sort?

2001-11-15 Thread Sidharth Malhotra
While were on this, I'm taking an intro to Data Structures class and were learning all about the different sorting methods ... Insertsort, mergesort etc. What kind of sorting method perl's sort() use? Sid. -Original Message- From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: What is bubble sort?

2001-11-15 Thread Curtis Poe
--- Sidharth Malhotra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While were on this, I'm taking an intro to Data Structures class and were learning all about the different sorting methods ... Insertsort, mergesort etc. What kind of sorting method perl's sort() use? Sid. Sid, Perl's sort function is a

IP accounting

2001-11-15 Thread Daniel Falkenberg
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Adding a line to the end of /etc/shadow

2001-11-15 Thread Daniel Falkenberg
Hey all, Just a quick question I want to be able to a line from /etc/passwd and append it to the end of /etc/shadow. So far I have the following. #!/usr/bin/perl -w my $passwdFILE = '/etc/passed'; #System password file my #shadowFILE = '/etc/shadow'; my $user = 'test'; #User details to be

test

2001-11-15 Thread Andrew
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Re: [PBML] Re: open filehandle in lowercase produce warning, why?

2001-11-15 Thread MerryChristmas!
Thanks Damien ! Unquoted string justaname may clash with future reserved word .. The above seems to imply that it is better to put quotes on file-handles. Therefore to prevent clashes with future-reserved-keywords, would I be right to say that it is better to put quotes on filehandles. Of

sub-routine help needed.

2001-11-15 Thread MerryChristmas!
Sigh ! My mind simply refuses to work. What must I do to print the number of records $count in line 3. Thanks 1.@array = qw ( hello world hello how are you ); 2.$match = 'HEllo'; 3.print Your search for $match returns $subroutine $count recordsbr\n; $subroutine = count; sub count {

registry Security permissions.

2001-11-15 Thread Veeraraju_Mareddi
Dear All, Is there any way to controll registry security permissions as we can do it from REGEDT32.exe in NT. This is very Urgent. Please respond if any. Thank you very much. With Regards Raju -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]