sorting in perl - help me

2002-01-11 Thread sanilkumar
Enyone can help me: how to do Quicksort , selection sort ,mergesort and external merge sort in perl that programes are exactly the same way that programes in C/C++ -- #

Re: Quoting Hash Keys; should I or shouldn't I?

2002-01-11 Thread Curtis Poe
--- Mark Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm wondering if there is a difference between: > > $foo{'bar'} > and > $foo{bar} > > Is there any important difference? I prefer to use > single quotes (my editor handles color coding better > that way), but in examples I see from the list

Re[2]: Code clean up help ---- PLEASE

2002-01-11 Thread Maxim Berlin
Hello Ronald, Friday, January 11, 2002, Yacketta, Ronald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: YR> No takers on my minor request for help from the guru's? don't know about gurus, but i feel something very strange about your code. please show rest of your code and tell, what this code should do for you. i'

RE: This Simple program won't work - why?

2002-01-11 Thread SathishDuraisamy
open (infile, "<>snert.cgi"); ^^ Use single '>'. open (infile, "snert.cgi"); [sathish] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Switches

2002-01-11 Thread Naveen Parmar
Any site that provides details on the different command line switches? Regds, - NP _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands

RE: Code clean up help ---- PLEASE

2002-01-11 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> No takers on my minor request for help from the guru's? Give us time! It is, however, bad email etiquette to demand help especially through a follow up. People give their assistance without payment or financial reward. They like to help others, and join in with challenges. I enjoy trying to

How to assign index array from opening file!

2002-01-11 Thread thuy tran
Hi dear team! Suppose I open the file looks like this Nov 1 2000 Page 1 UID LOGIN_NAME CPU_PRIME 0 root18 2 uucp1 4 giles 11 .. .. .. Nov 1 2000 Page 2 COMMAND NUMBER_CMDS bbkar256 .. .. How I assign UID, LOGIN_NAME and CPU_PRIME as the index array. And I hav

Help with encryption/decryption

2002-01-11 Thread Gary Luther
My head hurts. I am trying to build a Perl script to decrypt/encrypt some information. I have some test information for the project. Here is what I know about the data I need to decrypt: Algorithm - The block cipher DES is the standard cipher for all encryption/decryption operations. Padding -

Quoting Hash Keys; should I or shouldn't I?

2002-01-11 Thread Mark Ross
Hi all, I'm wondering if there is a difference between: $foo{'bar'} and $foo{bar} Is there any important difference? I prefer to use single quotes (my editor handles color coding better that way), but in examples I see from the list, etc. folks don't seem to use them. Is there a reason why I sh

Re: formmail.pl security

2002-01-11 Thread Roger Morris
At 12:18 PM 1/11/2002 -0800, Scott Lutz wrote: >I am curious if anyone is familiar with a way to tighten security on >this script? >We am experiencing some sort of script that is exploiting this code, and >am looking for some previous experience here . . > >please Is this the script available fro

formmail.pl security

2002-01-11 Thread Scott Lutz
I am curious if anyone is familiar with a way to tighten security on this script? We am experiencing some sort of script that is exploiting this code, and am looking for some previous experience here . . please Scott Lutz Pacific Online Support Phone: 604.638.6010 Fax: 604.638.6020 Toll Free:

Re: formmail.pl security

2002-01-11 Thread Curtis Poe
--- Scott Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am curious if anyone is familiar with a way to tighten security on > this script? > We am experiencing some sort of script that is exploiting this code, and > am looking for some previous experience here . . > > please > > Scott Lutz Assuming that

Net::HTTPTunnel.pm

2002-01-11 Thread timothy mccarthy
Hi- I was wondering if anyone had an example of usage for the Net::HTTPTunnel module. I can not quite get this module to work for me and I'm thinking if I saw a successful usage I would be able to use it... Thanks!! __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE v

Line Numbers and Posting Archives

2002-01-11 Thread Hewlett Pickens
Question 1: Is there an archive of past postings available? Would keep me from asking too many "really basic" question like the next one. Question 2: Is there a way to get line numbers printed on a script? For short scripts, compiler error messages for "Line n" aren't too hard too find, but a

Re: File::Basename, linux, and extensions

2002-01-11 Thread Sudarsan Raghavan
zentara wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 04:39:05 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John W. Krahn) wrote: > > >Zentara wrote: > > > >> I've been playing with File::Basename and > >> the docs are not absolutely clear on whether > >> you can get an extension on a linux system. > >> I have had no success trying

RE: Code clean up help ---- PLEASE

2002-01-11 Thread Yacketta, Ronald
No takers on my minor request for help from the guru's? -Ron > -Original Message- > From: Yacketta, Ronald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 09:14 > To: Beginners (E-mail) > Subject: Code clean up help PLEASE > > > Folks, > > I have received a ton of use

Re: Help with File::Find

2002-01-11 Thread Nick_D_Montpetit
Michael, Thanks for your help! I'll bet that you have identified the problem, and I'll do some testing to confirm it. Unfortunately, the "ignore such files..." option won't help very much, since the point of my code is to identify those very files, so I guess I'll have to take the recompile ro

RE: Lists or hash

2002-01-11 Thread Scott
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Hanson, Robert wrote: > Hashes are slower than arrays, but I don't usually worry about those things > unless performance is an issue. I recommend (others will no doubt have > different opinions) that you use a hash when it makes your life easier... in > this case it might not

Re: Help with File::Find

2002-01-11 Thread Michael Fowler
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 10:57:48AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > all files (including the previously missed ones) are printed out (also > along with the directories now) as expected, but for the files that would > not have passed the (-e $_) test, the values assigned for filesize and age > in

Re: Help with File::Find

2002-01-11 Thread Nick_D_Montpetit
Thanks! In this case, at least, there aren't any symbolic links to worry about. "Tanton Gibbs"

Re: why does open()ing happen only at the line ?

2002-01-11 Thread Michael Fowler
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 06:24:33PM +, Prahlad Vaidyanathan wrote: > I'm guessing this has to do with how long it takes to invoke sudo (given > system load, etc). It does. > But, all the same, shouldn't it wait for the password to be entered > _before_ printing 'test' ? Now I'm totally stump

RE: "require"

2002-01-11 Thread Hanson, Robert
You can place "require" anywhere you want. If you use "require" inside a sub it will be the same as if you placed it at the top (except for the fact that the subs in the file won't be available until you "require" it). Rob -Original Message- From: Agustin Rivera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Help with File::Find

2002-01-11 Thread John W. Krahn
Nick D Montpetit wrote: > > Hi Everyone! Hello, > I'm fairly new to Perl, and completely new to submitting to the list, so > please be easy on me. :-) I'll try. > The purpose of the code I wrote (listed below) is to go through the current > directory and all of its subdirectories and report

Re: how-to update a passwd file

2002-01-11 Thread zentara
On 11 Jan 2002 14:06:56 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Morgan Norell) wrote: >Hi > >I have a passwd file for my ftp users. >I have written a script to add users but I have problems when I'm about >to add a uppdate function to the script. > >Does anyone have a tip how to read the passwd file and update

Re: Help with File::Find

2002-01-11 Thread Nick_D_Montpetit
I meant to post my original code, where line 11 used the -f file test (so that directories wouldn't be included in the output). My questions still apply when using -f instead of -e. If we could refer the email below for future discussion, that would be great! Sorry about the screwup. :-) Than

RE: Question!! number of line....

2002-01-11 Thread Curtis Poe
--- "WANG, SHIPING [AG/1000]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Question for your code: > > what is the meaning "require 5;" Require with just a version number means that you must be running Perl 5 or better. For example, let's say I was to use the 'our' keyword. That was introduced in 5.6,

RE: Help with File::Find

2002-01-11 Thread Nick_D_Montpetit
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RE: Question!! number of line....

2002-01-11 Thread WANG, SHIPING [AG/1000]
Hi, Question for your code: what is the meaning "require 5;" -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 3:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Question!! number of line require 5; sub get_line_

RE: Help with File::Find

2002-01-11 Thread John Edwards
Something I just found via a google search... foreach (@_) { $min = $_ if $min > $_; } $min now holds the smallest value of the array. BTW, shouldn't line 21 be write $fileref STDOUT? I've not gone over the code, but if you are looking for the smallest array value, then only writing out

RE: Help with File::Find

2002-01-11 Thread Kipp, James
> 8: > 9: sub wanted{ > 10: my $flag = 0; > 11: if (-e $_){ > 12: push(@filelist, [$File::Find::name, -s $_, -M $_]); don't know if you need the -e here, it is redundant. you might want to use -f test to just find and stat regular files. here is a snip from a script i did and use alot and

RE: Help with File::Find

2002-01-11 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 11:58 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Help with File::Find > > > Hi Everyone! > > I'm fairly new to Perl, and completely new to submitting to > the list, so > please be easy

RE: Help with File::Find

2002-01-11 Thread Wagner-David
$_ in the Find::File setup has only the filename. You need to check $Find::File::name which holds the full filename. Wags ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 08:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help with File:

"require"

2002-01-11 Thread Agustin Rivera
I use require 'scripts/lib/pollstarpm' for often used functions in most of my scripts. The question is this.. do I always have to declare "require" near the top or can I "require" only when I need it? If so, what happens if I "require" during a subroutine? As always, many thanks. Agustin Rivera

Help with File::Find

2002-01-11 Thread Nick_D_Montpetit
Hi Everyone! I'm fairly new to Perl, and completely new to submitting to the list, so please be easy on me. :-) The purpose of the code I wrote (listed below) is to go through the current directory and all of its subdirectories and report the filename, size and age of the x largest files, where

Re: File::Basename, linux, and extensions

2002-01-11 Thread zentara
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 04:39:05 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John W. Krahn) wrote: >Zentara wrote: > >> I've been playing with File::Basename and >> the docs are not absolutely clear on whether >> you can get an extension on a linux system. >> I have had no success trying, so does this mean >> that lin

Re: Compile .cgi programs

2002-01-11 Thread zentara
On 11 Jan 2002 05:56:08 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kondreddy Rama Koti Reddy) wrote: >2) when i try to generate exe from .pl files with >perllcc -o =0D=0AIt's giving the following error. > > >/tmp/ccdiyw10.o: In function `xs_init': >/tmp/ccdiyw10.o(.text+0x33b9): undefined reference to `boot_D

Re: mail

2002-01-11 Thread Christopher Solomon
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Pieter Blaauw wrote: > Hi guys > > How would I do the following. Platform is a Red Hat 7.2 Linux box with > Pine 4.44 as my mail client. Now pine stores all your mail in the usual > /var/spool/mail/ > > Can I use perl to extract all the mail from 2001 into another big file >

Re: Returning values from the Find Function

2002-01-11 Thread John W. Krahn
Frank McCollum wrote: > > I am not getting the Find Function. (FILE::FIND). I have found all of > these great examples on the web describing how to use the find function > under the following two conditions... > > 1) You know the exact File Name you are looking for, or you just want a > list

Re: Returning values from the Find Function

2002-01-11 Thread Sudarsan Raghavan
"McCollum, Frank" wrote: > I am not getting the Find Function. (FILE::FIND). I have found all of > these great examples on the web describing how to use the find function > under the following two conditions... > > 1) You know the exact File Name you are looking for, or you just want a > list

Re: how to read a line from a file and find its subtr?

2002-01-11 Thread Sudarsan Raghavan
Sorry, This will return a true value even if the search string is embedded in another string. index ("Hello World", "Wor") will return not return -1, eventhough that may not be what you wanted. Try if ($string_from_file =~ m/\b$search_string\b/) This may be the one you are looking for hth, Sudar

Re: how to read a line from a file and find its subtr?

2002-01-11 Thread John W. Krahn
Yun yun wrote: > > How can I read a line from a file, and judge whether > this line include some substr? > Now I only can open(HANDLE," then how should I do? #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $substr = 'something'; open HANDLE, ' ) { # method 1 if ( /$substr/ ) { # $substr is i

Returning values from the Find Function

2002-01-11 Thread McCollum, Frank
I am not getting the Find Function. (FILE::FIND). I have found all of these great examples on the web describing how to use the find function under the following two conditions... 1) You know the exact File Name you are looking for, or you just want a list of every file in a directory 2) You

Re: how to read a line from a file and find its subtr?

2002-01-11 Thread Sudarsan Raghavan
Use index (preldoc -f index). index ($str_from_file, $search_string); This will return a -1 if $search_string is not present in $str_from_file. hth, Sudarsan > How can I read a line from a file, and judge whether > this line include some substr? > Now I only can open(HANDLE," then how should I d

Re: interesting JAPH, how does this work?

2002-01-11 Thread zentara
On 10 Jan 2002 18:10:20 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael R. Wolf) wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zentara) writes: > >> I get it, so "perl" equals 285075 in a base24 number >> system, with the alphabet as it's units. > >24? What's 24? There are _26_ letters in the alphabet! Or >was "24" a base _11

RE: Lists or hash

2002-01-11 Thread Hanson, Robert
Hashes are slower than arrays, but I don't usually worry about those things unless performance is an issue. I recommend (others will no doubt have different opinions) that you use a hash when it makes your life easier... in this case it might not, but that is up to you to decide. The only time I

how to read a line from a file and find its subtr?

2002-01-11 Thread yun yun
How can I read a line from a file, and judge whether this line include some substr? Now I only can open(HANDLE,") is used for end of file or end of a line? _ Do You Yahoo!? µÇ¼Ãâ·ÑÑÅ»¢µçÓÊ! http://mail.yahoo.com.cn ÎÞÁÄ£¿ÓôÃÆ£¿¸ßÐË£¿Ã»ÀíÓÉ

Lists or hash

2002-01-11 Thread Scott
Thank you to everyone on this list who has been most helpful and patient! I was able to track down the Camel Book at a bookstore and I have not stopped reading. I do have a question concerning list and hash and the performance. I am reading a file into a list and then formatting it to prepar

RE: Chop and Split

2002-01-11 Thread Hanson, Robert
split() doesn't modify the variable being cut up. So if you split $_ it will not be modified. chop() on the other hand does modify it's argument (or $_ if no argument is given). My guess is that you are seeing code like this, or something like it: foreach $item ( split(/,/, $_) ) { # do stu

Re: whois

2002-01-11 Thread John W. Krahn
Darren Simpson wrote: > > Hello all. I don't know if this is the right list to post to but i am a > beginner in perl. we have a bsd unix distribution with perl 5. I am > wondering if anyone knows of a decent whois function written in perl. http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=whois

RE: Data manipulation problem

2002-01-11 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Conor Lillis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 8:08 AM > To: PERL Beginners (E-mail); Perl-Win32-Users (E-mail) > Subject: Data manipulation problem > > ... > # split @data1, to isolate the e-mail address from the name eg. > [EM

Code clean up help ---- PLEASE

2002-01-11 Thread Yacketta, Ronald
Folks, I have received a ton of useful info from the list.. a great deal of it of late has gone to help me with my current project to automate (somewhat) a testing procedure. I have finally made my way to the final stage of the script.. execution of the test.. I have the following (be for warned

RE: Column names and etc..

2002-01-11 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Marius Keraitis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 5:40 AM > To: DBI Perl; Begginers Perl > Subject: Column names and etc.. > > > Hi, > > I have a problem with getting colunm count and their names. > > I have to get the list of all

RE: Data manipulation problem

2002-01-11 Thread John Edwards
OK. I've been over all your code. Here is the way I would do this. N.B I've not checked for errors or typos. It's commented to explain the changes. Basically instead of having to grep the second file for every iteration of the foreach loop, you initialize a hash with the data from the second file

Chop and Split

2002-01-11 Thread David Milstead
- Forwarded by David Milstead/Raleigh/IBM on 01/11/2002 08:25 AM - Ask Bjoern Hansen

whois

2002-01-11 Thread Darren Simpson
Hello all. I don't know if this is the right list to post to but i am a beginner in perl. we have a bsd unix distribution with perl 5. I am wondering if anyone knows of a decent whois function written in perl. Thank you in advance -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional comma

RE: Data manipulation problem

2002-01-11 Thread John Edwards
Try changing to this. printf "emaildata is $emaildata[0]"; $emaildata[0] is using the element in a scalar format @emaildata[0] is using the element in an array format, which is converted to scalar by perl when printing out in this case. The array only has the one element [0]. When you take an ar

how-to update a passwd file

2002-01-11 Thread Morgan Norell
Hi I have a passwd file for my ftp users. I have written a script to add users but I have problems when I'm about to add a uppdate function to the script. Does anyone have a tip how to read the passwd file and update the password field. I use htpasswd to generate passwords now. /Raven --

Data manipulation problem

2002-01-11 Thread Conor Lillis
Hi all, hopefully someone can help me with this, I will describe my problem as best as I can. I am opening 2 files, one has a list of NT account names, The 2nd has a list of NT account names & e-mail addresses. I am trying to match an NT account name from the first list to an e-mail address in the

Mail::Sendmail module error trap

2002-01-11 Thread freiref
I have a CGI program that use the Mail::Sendmail module. The situation is that at the end of the script it send a email notification with the Mail::Sendmail but because the Mail::Sendmail check for the email address to see if its valid, when the user enter an invalid email address the modul

RE: Changing the name of a sub item under a tree view list

2002-01-11 Thread Tillman, James
> I have tree view structure ,like directory structure in windows. > Now I want to select and change the name of a particular sub > Item under a > item . > How can I do this using perl ? What GUI system have you written this in? Win32::GUI? wxWindows? Perl/TK? Some detail would be necessary; s

Re: File::Basename, linux, and extensions

2002-01-11 Thread John W. Krahn
Zentara wrote: > > Hi, Hello, > I've been playing with File::Basename and > the docs are not absolutely clear on whether > you can get an extension on a linux system. > I have had no success trying, so does this mean > that linux is not capable of dealing with extensions? > > As an example fro

File::Basename, linux, and extensions

2002-01-11 Thread zentara
Hi, I've been playing with File::Basename and the docs are not absolutely clear on whether you can get an extension on a linux system. I have had no success trying, so does this mean that linux is not capable of dealing with extensions? As an example from perldoc File::basename:

Re: Log Users

2002-01-11 Thread Scott Taylor
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the OT, but I saw this email address and immediately went into headers looking for a spammer. lmao Nice address. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Changing the name of a sub item under a tree view list

2002-01-11 Thread Abhra Debroy
Hi I have tree view structure ,like directory structure in windows. Now I want to select and change the name of a particular sub Item under a item . How can I do this using perl ? Thanks in advice Abhra -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PRO

mail

2002-01-11 Thread Pieter Blaauw
Hi guys How would I do the following. Platform is a Red Hat 7.2 Linux box with Pine 4.44 as my mail client. Now pine stores all your mail in the usual /var/spool/mail/ Can I use perl to extract all the mail from 2001 into another big file that I could use as a backup of last years mail. I have o

Re: Log Users

2002-01-11 Thread Leon
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I already have a user registration form set up, but now I want to be able to > display the last 10 visitors which logged into my site. What you can do is everytime a visitor logs in, it is captured into a file, placing the last entry on to

Column names and etc..

2002-01-11 Thread Marius Keraitis
Hi, I have a problem with getting colunm count and their names. I have to get the list of all tables in the users account (Oracle). This I do by selecting * from cat. Second step is to show every table contents (by clicking on link with table name). To do this I need to know how many columns is

Re: Sorry for off topic, please reply as interested, and off list....

2002-01-11 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> now, I am writing a script which to let user modify the > password of their email account automatically, but our > email server will encrypy the password in some ways... > so it makes me unable to cmp or write. This sounds like security through obscurity - which is often considered worse than n

RE: Using SMPT on Windows NT

2002-01-11 Thread John Edwards
I regularly use a nice script, available here http://www.liquidsilver.com/scripts, called Form2Mail. It's intended to provide a generic interface to mail data from a web form. It had a nice example of using sockets to send mail. This should be portable between OSs as all mail code is done via a s

Sorry for off topic, please reply as interested, and off list....

2002-01-11 Thread Connie Chan
now, I am writing a script which to let user modify the password of their email account automatically, but our email server will encrypy the password in some ways. so it makes me unable to cmp or write. such as, if I give "A" as a new pass, it encrypted as QQ== in the user's profile. if I gi

make *.pl to *.exe

2002-01-11 Thread yun yun
I use perlcc to make a .pl file to the corresponding *.exe file like this: perlcc -o xxx xxx.pl but it tells me three warnings, and then when I run the xxx.exe directly, it says that produce some errors in reading the ram. Why? Do you make executable files through perlcc command? Thanks! __

Re: return code

2002-01-11 Thread Briac Pilpré
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ahmed Moustafa wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm calling a Java application using "system". How can I know the return > code of the called Java application? perldoc -f system (...) The return value is the exit status of the program as returned by the "wait" call. To g

Re: return code

2002-01-11 Thread Jon Molin
here are two ways: my $exit_code = system ($cmd); system ($cmd); print "exit code = $?\n"; /Jon Ahmed Moustafa wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm calling a Java application using "system". How can I know the return > code of the called Java application? > > Your help will be appreciated so much. >

Re: Compile .cgi programs

2002-01-11 Thread Jon Molin
I'm not sure I really understand what you're after, i get the feeling you're normaly using windows. If you set the mod to 755 (rwxrxrx) the perlscript will be executable, there's no need t compile it with perlcc. If it's speed you're after, you should use mod_perl instead (perl.apache.org) as th