Renaming files on the server

2002-02-07 Thread Troy May
Hello all, My friend (who doesn't English too well yet) has been emailing me asking about a guestbook he made. It sounds like he wants to archive his message files with a certain format and back them up automatically everyday. Here's his last email to me: i want to store all those message

File Upload Problem on IE and Opera

2002-02-07 Thread Elwyn Chow
Hi Everyone, I'm writing a program that allows people to send emails with attachments via a web page. It stores these attachments encoded on the hard disk like they would look in the final text file that gets send. For some reason, IE and Opera isn't reading a value from

To write a script that reads numbers from STDIN and print onSTDOUT.

2002-02-07 Thread Bruce Ambraal
Hi Could any one write some coding for the problem. In perl against Linx could someone help. I want to write a script that reads in four numbers from STDIN and add the first two together, and than adds the second 2 together. The input format is a number on a line.(press enter after every

regular expressions

2002-02-07 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hi all, Do you know where I can find a good free tutorial or manual for the regular expressions in Perl? Thank you. Teddy, My dear email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at

Re: To write a script that reads numbers from STDIN and print onSTDOUT.

2002-02-07 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Bruce Ambraal wrote: Could any one write some coding for the problem. In perl against Linx could someone help. I want to write a script that reads in four numbers from STDIN and add the first two together, and than adds the second 2 together. The input format is a

multipart/x-mixed-replace and image/gif

2002-02-07 Thread Hytham Shehab
Hi gurus, Am working on a script to generate a sequence of GIFs in an img tag, when i run this script from dos, it works OK and generate the appropriate headers, but when running under a web page - hosted by Apache v 1.3 on XP - it doesn't do anything, and i use CGI::Carp(fatalsToBrowser);

Re: To write a script that reads numbers from STDIN and print on STDOUT.

2002-02-07 Thread Jeremy Webster
.snip... The input format is a number on a line.(press enter after every number) I also want to ompare the resulting two numbers with or and print the largest on STDOUT. Is this a homework problem perchance? heh heh heh...I thought exactly the same thing when I read it. glad you

Passing Arrays In CGI

2002-02-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi there: I'm currently in a programming situation where my Perl CGI program a) displays an online merchandise database ... b) allows the end-user to select items from that database listing on an HTML page ... c) displays a summary screen ... and then d) sends the info to a secured server

Re: regular expressions

2002-02-07 Thread Shawn
- Original Message - From: Octavian Rasnita [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 4:37 PM Subject: regular expressions Hi all, Do you know where I can find a good free tutorial or manual for the regular expressions in Perl? Thank you. I don't

module errors

2002-02-07 Thread GsuLinuX
we wroted a perl code to fetch some information we want from a web site. The code is as below: #!/usr/bin/perl use LWP::Simple; use HTML::Parse; use HTML::FormatText; use CGI; $query = new CGI; my ($html, $ascii); $html = get(http://www.tcmb.gov.tr/kurlar/today.html;); defined $html or die

Re: module errors

2002-02-07 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, GsuLinuX wrote: we wroted a perl code to fetch some information we want from a web site. The code is as below: #!/usr/bin/perl use LWP::Simple; use HTML::Parse; snippage We have the debug error: Can't locate HTML/Parse.pm in @INC(@INC contains:

Re: module errors

2002-02-07 Thread Uwe Voelker
use HTML::Parse; The module is called HTML::Parser. uwe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: module errors

2002-02-07 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Uwe Voelker wrote: use HTML::Parse; The module is called HTML::Parser. A further investigation via CPAN showed me that HTML::Parse is part of the HTML::Tree bundle and is now actually a deprecated module, according to the readme. -- Brett

Passing a hash through a URL

2002-02-07 Thread Josiah Altschuler
I have a question about passing data through URL's. I'm passing hashes in a CGI script, but sometimes when I click on a link that passes a larger hash, nothing happens. I don't get any message. I'm guessing there is a limit to the amount of data I can pass through a URL? If this is the case,

RE: Passing a hash through a URL

2002-02-07 Thread Josiah Altschuler
Hi. Thanks for the response. I'm passing the hash with an href in this manner. So does this mean that I'm not using get or post? $query = CGI-new({red = [%{$clusArrayHash[$i]}]})-query_string; print pre h6 ( , a ({ -href = http://140.247.111.176/cgi-bin/redundancies.pl?red=$query; },

Re: module errors

2002-02-07 Thread GsuLinuX
Ok, you have reason, it must be parser but after it continues to give some module errors... Can u say me if my method is true, to fetch some information from a web site? thanks funky Istanbul - Original Message - From: Brett W. McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Uwe Voelker [EMAIL PROTECTED]

NET:TELNET

2002-02-07 Thread naive naive
Hi,I am using Perl ver 5.6.1. I have downloaded the NET::Telnet module and is able to log into telnet. But what I am unable to do is to open/edit a file from the client side. I had read the documenation and still unable to open the file using the fhopen method and get method. The documenation

Re: In-line editing..

2002-02-07 Thread Jon Molin
Steven M. Klass wrote: Hi all, Here is the general problem. I have a file that I need to edit but can't. im not sure i follow you here, making a backup copy is not an option? perl -pi.bak -e 's/foo/bar/g' weird_uneditable_file;some_app weird_uneditable_file;mv

Re: CMD command

2002-02-07 Thread walter valenti
man Net::Telnet Walter Hi anyone how to use the cmd command in the NET::TELNET module. I knows it issues command and retrieve output. I try using it in my program but there is no output. Is there anything I should prepare for in the server side before using the cmd command. Can anyone

Re: Complete Beginner Looking for Advise!

2002-02-07 Thread Murtini
Hi, I recommend using 'Perl By Example' author Ellie Quigley. I have no background programming experience at all, I am a Pharmacy student at Uni. I have been exposed to more than 3/4 of the book by doing examples and excercies at the end of each chapter; I've found it stimulating and excellent,

RE: .dat files

2002-02-07 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Scott Lutz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions to actually reading/modifying/making the infamous .dat files that are spread all over the Win32 file system? I would like to see what is in them, and maybe edit if I choose, and wonder if there is a

Re: Inserting and array into an Oracle db

2002-02-07 Thread Frank
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:12:38PM -0500, McElwee, wrote: Hi, I'm capturing data from a proprietary database to a flat file and I want to create tables and insert rows of data into those tables. From what I've read as long as the number of columns matches the number of elements in a row I

reg exp question

2002-02-07 Thread Stuart Clark
How do I match a pattern that starts with a 4 and has 16 numbers in it. I try /^4\d{16}/; Also how do I match a 16 digit number that starts with either 6565 or starts with a number in the range of 555000-555100 /(^6565(\d{16})|^{555000-555100}(\d{16}))/

Issuing multiple concurrent commands (to system)

2002-02-07 Thread Mason, Andrew
Is it possible to issue multiple concurrent commands to system (for instance) from within a perl script? If it is (and I strongly suspect that it must be) would someone please be so kind as to suggest some terms or perl commands to look up. (I suspect the term threading might appear but I don't

Date::Calc date returned format

2002-02-07 Thread patrick . kenneally
All, using the following code under W2K Activestate v5.6.1 (629), I get the date output as : 20 days ago, it was 20020118 I would like to drop the leading '20' in 2002 so it would read: 20 days ago, it was 020118. I know I could just rip it out but I would like to know how to return

Re: Complete Beginner Looking for Advise!

2002-02-07 Thread Frank
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:59:36PM -0500, RunningBarrels wrote: Also which books would you recommend to someone with limited programming experience and no perl? Learning Perl is a good place to start. I still use my copy if I forget something. It's a good read, like most of the O'Reilly

Re: reg exp question

2002-02-07 Thread Frank
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:10:14PM +1100, Stuart wrote: How do I match a pattern that starts with a 4 and has 16 numbers in it. I try /^4\d{16}/; If it consists of 16 numbers try: /^4\d{15}/; Also how do I match a 16 digit number that starts with either 6565 or starts with a number in

Re: CMD command

2002-02-07 Thread Matt C.
Man Net::Telnet? Sure. But not in the spirit of this list at all. I agree to encourage the use of documentation, but this is a little *too* terse. Matt --- walter valenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: man Net::Telnet Walter Hi anyone how to use the cmd command in the NET::TELNET module.

Re: reg exp question

2002-02-07 Thread Frank
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 12:17:42PM +, 'Perl wrote: /^(6565\d{12})|(555[10]00\d{10})/ Perhaps.. not tested mind. evidently.. /^(6565\d{12})|(555[10]\d{12})/ will manage numbers in the range 555000-555199, not ideal /^((6565\d{2})|(555(0\d{2})|(100))\d{10})/ will manage the right

Re: Issuing multiple concurrent commands (to system)

2002-02-07 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Mason, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it possible to issue multiple concurrent commands to system (for instance) from within a perl script? If it is (and I strongly suspect that it must be) would someone please be so kind as to suggest some terms or perl commands to

RE:Kill a process

2002-02-07 Thread Jorge Goncalvez
HI, I wanted to kill a process INETD by code:by hand in the cygwin bash i tried this: ps |awk '/INETD/{print $1}'|xargs kill and it works, now i wanted to do it by Perl code: I tried: system( c:\\cygwin\\bin\\bash.exe('ps |awk '/INETD$/{print $1}|xargs kill')) or system(c:\\cygwin\\bin\\ps.exe

TCl/Expect Question

2002-02-07 Thread Pankaj Warade
Title: Glacier I am developing the text file browser for the file of size 100MB. "less" Unix command is pager for doing the same . I am developing the GUI interface for the same. I am using the Expect/ TCL/ TK to build the GUI for the unix command "less". In "less", 'f' key forwards the

Open a brand new browser window with Perl

2002-02-07 Thread Ron Goral
Is it possible to open a brand new browser window and set it's size, location and characteristics (no menu bar, no status bar, etc.) using Perl or is it necessary to always use the same window that has called the script? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Renaming files on the server

2002-02-07 Thread Troy May
Hello all, My friend (who doesn't English too well yet) has been emailing me asking about a guestbook he made. It sounds like he wants to archive his message files with a certain format and back them up automatically everyday. Here's his last email to me: i want to store all those message

Re: Complete Beginner Looking for Advise!

2002-02-07 Thread Dave Benware
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I'm a complete newbie to perl and programming. I'm a computer science freshman at Cal Poly SLO, and am only in CPE 102 where we are studying the fundamentals of JAVA. However, because I make websites I am very interested in perl, and would like to

Re: run from command line

2002-02-07 Thread Carl Rogers
At 03:58 PM 2/6/2002 -0600, Booher Timothy B 1stLt AFRL/MNAC wrote: Hello. I am trying to run a simple command to remove all the leading spaces from a file and it just isn't working. No errors, just no results - still a lot of leading spaces on each line. %perl -pi.bak -e 's/^\s+//' bomb1.txt

RE: Date::Calc date returned format

2002-02-07 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 7:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Date::Calc date returned format All, using the following code under W2K Activestate v5.6.1 (629), I get the date output as :

simple question

2002-02-07 Thread Stuart Clark
Hi all, Can anyone help please? # example values $Charge = 55; $CreditCard = 423452345654532; $VisaCard = /^4\d{15}/; $BankCard = /^(6565\d{12})|(555[10]00\d{10})/; if ($Charge 0 (($VisaCard|$BankCard),$CreditCard) ) { # This bit doesn't work? Print The credit card number is

RE: Issuing multiple concurrent commands (to system)

2002-02-07 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Mason, Andrew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 7:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Issuing multiple concurrent commands (to system) Is it possible to issue multiple concurrent commands to system (for instance) from within

Re: decimal point

2002-02-07 Thread Motherofperls
In a message dated 1/28/02 1:16:55 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a sub routine that I use for making all numbers calculate to two decimals places which I use for calculating money values. I will place it on my website. The site is new and only displays well in

Re: simple question

2002-02-07 Thread Frank
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 01:44:17AM +1100, Stuart wrote: Hi all, Can anyone help please? # example values $Charge = 55; $CreditCard = 423452345654532; $VisaCard = /^4\d{15}/; $BankCard = /^(6565\d{12})|(555[10]00\d{10})/; does something like: $okayflag = /^4\d{15}/ ||

Re: simple question

2002-02-07 Thread Sudarsan Raghavan
Stuart Clark wrote: Hi all, Can anyone help please? # example values $Charge = 55; $CreditCard = 423452345654532; $VisaCard = /^4\d{15}/; $BankCard = /^(6565\d{12})|(555[10]00\d{10})/; The regular expressions will try to match the contents of $_ here. From your previous posts I

Re: Open a brand new browser window with Perl

2002-02-07 Thread Morbus Iff
Is it possible to open a brand new browser window and set it's size, location and characteristics (no menu bar, no status bar, etc.) using Perl or is it necessary to always use the same window that has called the script? With Perl, no. But you can certainly tell Perl to send some javascript

Never had this happen before!

2002-02-07 Thread Motherofperls
I was happily programming, getting close to the end of my project just trying to figure out table placement in html within my largest function on the page. All of a sudden my function won't function! I didn't change any of the perl code! And it was fine except for table placement! Well, I

Re: Never had this happen before!

2002-02-07 Thread Jon Molin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was happily programming, getting close to the end of my project just trying to figure out table placement in html within my largest function on the page. All of a sudden my function won't function! I didn't change any of the perl code! And it was fine except

Re: Using =~ with a list

2002-02-07 Thread Lysander
This doesn't seem to work... My webhost is running PERL 5.004_04 I tried just the following test.pl #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use strict; my @body; $body[0] = Test Data:\n; $body[1] = foo\n; $body[2] = I should be below bar\n; s/foo/bar/ for @body; print @body; and I get syntax

RE: Open a brand new browser window with Perl

2002-02-07 Thread Ron Goral
I hate it when I make a post and then answer my own questions, but Morbus made me recall the window resizing and moving methods useable via JavaScript. If I were to print the new page with an onLoad event that called the resizeTo and moveTo methods, I can resize and move my windows anywhere I

Re: Using =~ with a list

2002-02-07 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Lysander [EMAIL PROTECTED] This doesn't seem to work... My webhost is running PERL 5.004_04 s/foo/bar/ for @body; Too old perl for this. Use for (@body) { s/foo/bar/; } instead. Jenda === [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==

Re: Never had this happen before!

2002-02-07 Thread Motherofperls
My program won't compile when the sub routine is in the program, but when I remove it from the program and put it into another file that I call test.pl, and compile test.pl which contains only the sub routine I'm checking, it compiles fine! Why does it do that?

Re: Never had this happen before!

2002-02-07 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My program won't compile when the sub routine is in the program, but when I remove it from the program and put it into another file that I call test.pl, and compile test.pl which contains only the sub routine I'm checking, it compiles fine! Why

RE: Never had this happen before!

2002-02-07 Thread John Edwards
Magic?? Why don't you start by posting the errors that perl reports. It will save us having to guess... John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 February 2002 15:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Never had this happen

RE:pidof a process

2002-02-07 Thread Jorge Goncalvez
Hi, Iw onder if there is a way to obtain the PID of a process with perl? Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: .dat files

2002-02-07 Thread Scott Lutz
The file(s) I really wanted to look into is the index.dat that contains all cookie information, and browser session info. I am going to try a hex editor to see what I can see. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Jenda Krynicky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002

Re: pidof a process

2002-02-07 Thread walter valenti
Jorge Goncalvez wrote: $pid=$$; ### the special variable $$ contains the owner process Walter Hi, Iw onder if there is a way to obtain the PID of a process with perl? Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: simple question

2002-02-07 Thread Darren Simpson
what do the below actually do? they look like dutch to me $VisaCard = /^4\d{15}/; $BankCard = /^(6565\d{12})|(555[10]00\d{10})/; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: simple question

2002-02-07 Thread Nikola Janceski
I think the match is wrong... $BankCard = /^(6565\d{12})|(555[10]00\d{10})/; should be $BankCard = /^(?:(6565\d{12})|(555[10]00\d{10}))/; the first says starting with 6565 and 12 more digits or contains 555 and 0 or 1 and 00 and 10 digits So dlsfkj55500099 will match. the second won't

RE: simple question

2002-02-07 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Darren Simpson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 11:17 AM To: Perl List Subject: RE: simple question what do the below actually do? they look like dutch to me $VisaCard = /^4\d{15}/; /^4\d{15}/ is a regular expression match

Re: Never had this happen before!

2002-02-07 Thread Motherofperls
Sorry , I have been programming all night and found an oversight on my part. Perl reported and error in a sub routine, but the error was above the routine above some of my comment lines where I didn't expect it to be. !-- END COLUMN HEADINGS OF CART -- That was part of html code that was

Re: reg exp question

2002-02-07 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Feb 7, Stuart Clark said: How do I match a pattern that starts with a 4 and has 16 numbers in it. I try /^4\d{16}/; That's quite vague. Do you mean the string must start with a 4 and consist ONLY of 16 digits? /^4\d{15}$/ Also how do I match a 16 digit number that starts with either

Re: more reg exp help please

2002-02-07 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Feb 8, Stuart Clark said: if ($Charge 0 (($VisaCard|$BankCard),$CreditCard) ) { # This bit doesn't work? What is ((A | B), C) trying to do? Perhaps you want: (($VisaCard || $BankCard) $CreditCard) }elsif ($CreditCard = $Charge 0 ) { # Is ok for a null entry? You need to use eq

Re: simple question

2002-02-07 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Feb 8, Stuart Clark said: $Charge = 55; $CreditCard = 423452345654532; $VisaCard = /^4\d{15}/; $BankCard = /^(6565\d{12})|(555[10]00\d{10})/; You can't store regexes that way. You need to use the qr// operator. $VisaCard = qr/^4\d{15}$/; # likewise for $BankCard if ($Charge 0

HELP! : To write a script that reads numbers from STDIN andprint on STDOUT.

2002-02-07 Thread Bruce Ambraal
Hi ALL Could any one write some coding for the following problem. In perl against Linx could someone help. --- I want to write a script that reads in four numbers from STDIN and add

Re: TCl/Expect Question

2002-02-07 Thread William.Ampeh
This will do it: #!/usr/local/bin/expect -f #exp_internal 1 #--- you could uncomment this to turn debug mod on set timeout 2 set prompt (%|#|\\$) $;# default prompt log_user 1 catch {set prompt $env(EXPECT_PROMPT)} eval spawn

RE: HELP! : To write a script that reads numbers from STDIN and print on STDOUT.

2002-02-07 Thread John Edwards
Yeah. I can write code to do that. Thanks for asking. This has the hallmarks of a homework assignment... John -Original Message- From: Bruce Ambraal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 February 2002 16:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HELP! : To write a script that reads numbers from

Re: HELP! : To write a script that reads numbers from STDIN andprint on STDOUT.

2002-02-07 Thread Tanton Gibbs
If you could show us what you have already done, maybe we could help show you what you are doing wrong...we normally don't do homework for other people :) - Original Message - From: Bruce Ambraal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 11:31 AM Subject:

Insert delimiter between number and alpha

2002-02-07 Thread Frank Newland
All, My input looks like this == 5544#1341343BORIS 6200#321BOWSER 89232652#6213VERONICA === I want to put a delimiter (#) between the rightmost number and the left most alpha Resulting in 5544#1341343#BORIS 6200#321#BOWSER 89232652#6213#VERONICA

RE: Insert delimiter between number and alpha

2002-02-07 Thread Nikola Janceski
s/(\d)([a-z])/$1#$2/i; that's not a very good way to store women's phone numbers. I like to us a little black book. -Original Message- From: Frank Newland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 12:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Insert delimiter between number

Re: Insert delimiter between number and alpha

2002-02-07 Thread Frank
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:27:53AM -0600, Frank wrote: All, My input looks like this == 5544#1341343BORIS 6200#321BOWSER 89232652#6213VERONICA === I want to put a delimiter (#) between the rightmost number and the left most alpha Resulting in

Re: Insert delimiter between number and alpha

2002-02-07 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Feb 7, Frank Newland said: I want to put a delimiter (#) between the rightmost number and the left most alpha s/(\d)([^\W\d])/$1#$2/; You can't just say (\d)(\w), because \w INCLUDES \d. You could write something like (\d)(?!\d)(\w), which requires that the \w character after the \d NOT

Re: Using =~ with a list

2002-02-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Lysander == Lysander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lysander This doesn't seem to work... My webhost is running PERL 5.004_04 That's your problem. For older Perls, you can use for (@body) { s/foo/bar/ } This works: s/foo/bar/ for @body; presuming you have a reasonably modern

how big can I make it?

2002-02-07 Thread Nikola Janceski
I want to store a really really big integer... like: 184884258895036416 in a varible and do a -- on it. how can I store such a number? and what's the limit? (this is on a Solaris 2.6 machine). Nikola Janceski Summit Systems, Inc. 212-896-3400 If the facts don't fit the theory, change the

Re: how big can I make it?

2002-02-07 Thread Tanton Gibbs
You can use the Math::BigInt module. perldoc Math::BigInt - Original Message - From: Nikola Janceski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 12:54 PM Subject: how big can I make it? I want to store a really really big integer... like:

ignoring some fields in a comparision of hashes

2002-02-07 Thread Chas Owens
I have two hashes (%a and %b) that contain data for one person from two different systems and I want to compare these hashes to see if the systems are out of sync. The catch is I know that some of the fields will always be different and I want to ignore those fields. Below is my solution, does

how can i do it? (RE: how big can I make it?)

2002-02-07 Thread Nikola Janceski
Let me be a little more specific. I want to take a BIG hex number and subtract 1 from it and print it out again. ie: FFF - FE -Original Message- From: Tanton Gibbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 12:57 PM To: Nikola Janceski;

Re: ignoring some fields in a comparision of hashes

2002-02-07 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Feb 7, Chas Owens said: I have two hashes (%a and %b) that contain data for one person from two different systems and I want to compare these hashes to see if the systems are out of sync. The catch is I know that some of the fields will always be different and I want to ignore those fields.

RE: how can i do it? (RE: how big can I make it?)

2002-02-07 Thread Nikola Janceski
The onlym thing I can think of is to split the string into an array and write a subroutine to properly add one to correct elements. I am hoping there is something easier. -Original Message- From: Nikola Janceski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 1:17 PM To:

Re: ignoring some fields in a comparision of hashes

2002-02-07 Thread Chas Owens
On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 13:21, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: On Feb 7, Chas Owens said: I have two hashes (%a and %b) that contain data for one person from two different systems and I want to compare these hashes to see if the systems are out of sync. The catch is I know that some of the fields

is Shell.pm deprecated?

2002-02-07 Thread Christopher Solomon
Whenever I've had to execute system or shell commands, I use the backtick operator, the system command, or filehandle half-pipes (or whatever they are called :). And I've always seen these recommended whenever someone asks how to do that. But recently, I saw the use of the Shell.pm module:

Re: help with scalar references

2002-02-07 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jan 16, Karthik Gurumurthy said: ($a,$b,$c) = (\1,\2,\3); %hash = ($a=hello,$b=Perl); You cannot use references as the keys to a hash, because hash keys must be strings. If you're REALLY desperate, you can use Tie::RefHash, but I don't think you should be so desperate. -- Jeff japhy

multiple quotes

2002-02-07 Thread Mike Smith
How do I get this to work? (too many quotes) print pimg border=0 src=BD08906_.gif width=190 height=156\n; Mike Smith -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: multiple quotes

2002-02-07 Thread Hanson, Robert
Two different ways. Use the qq operator or escape the quotes. print qq[pimg border=0 src=BD08906_.gif width=190 height=156\n]; print pimg border=\0\ src=\BD08906_.gif\ width=\190\ height=156\n; Rob -Original Message- From: Mike Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February

Re: multiple quotes

2002-02-07 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Feb 7, Mike Smith said: How do I get this to work? (too many quotes) print pimg border=0 src=BD08906_.gif width=190 height=156\n; You can either escape the with a backslash... print like \this\...; but that gets to look REALLY ugly, REALLY fast. So use a different quoting operator

Re: multiple quotes

2002-02-07 Thread Chas Owens
On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 14:01, Mike Smith wrote: How do I get this to work? (too many quotes) print pimg border=0 src=BD08906_.gif width=190 height=156\n; Mike Smith try qq (see perldoc perlop) example print qq(pimg border=0 src=BD08906_.gif width=190 height=156\n); /example -- Today is

Re: multiple quotes

2002-02-07 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Mike Smith wrote: How do I get this to work? (too many quotes) print pimg border=0 src=BD08906_.gif width=190 height=156\n; print qq(pimg border=0 src=BD08906_.gif width=190 height=156\n); qq() is the generic form of . You can also use qq{}, qq##, etc. See the perlop

RE: multiple quotes

2002-02-07 Thread Murphy, Land
Use single quote marks inside your print statement. for instance print pimg border='0' src='BD08906_.gif' width='190' height=156\n; Better yet, use CGI instead. HTH -Original Message- From: Mike Smith To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2/7/2002 1:01 PM Subject: multiple quotes How do I

Re: ignoring some fields in a comparision of hashes

2002-02-07 Thread Christopher Solomon
%ignore = map { $_ = 1 } @ignore; @diff = map { $a{$_} ne $b{$_} } grep { !$ignore{$_} } keys %a; @diff will end up with a list of key/value pairs of %a that are different from %b, excluding those of %ignore. note: this is untested. Chris On 7 Feb 2002, Chas Owens wrote: I have

What is the URL for the perlop page?

2002-02-07 Thread Mike Smith
What is the URL for the perlop page? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What is the URL for the perlop page?

2002-02-07 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Mike Smith wrote: What is the URL for the perlop page? At the command line (Unix or Windows) type 'perldoc perlop'. It's bundled with your Perl installation. -- Brett http://www.chapelperilous.net/

Re: What is the URL for the perlop page?

2002-02-07 Thread Chas Owens
On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 14:23, Mike Smith wrote: What is the URL for the perlop page? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] perlop is a section of the perl manual. try man perlop or perldoc perlop or if you must have a web page

RE: Hash Question

2002-02-07 Thread Balint, Jess
After hours of pondering and sitting in wonder of simple it is, I have come up with something. I do believe that this: for my $i (0..$#keys) { Quite possibly should be foreach ( @keys ) { Otherwise, why would you have my @keys = (0, 1, 2, 3); Instead of just $keys = 3 and

Re: is Shell.pm deprecated?

2002-02-07 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Christopher Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whenever I've had to execute system or shell commands, I use the backtick operator, the system command, or filehandle half-pipes (or whatever they are called :). And I've always seen these recommended whenever someone asks how to

Re: is Shell.pm deprecated?

2002-02-07 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Jenda Krynicky wrote: I guess there are two reasons. 1) Noone knows about it. 2) With the current version it's not possible to specify a path to the program to run. But IMHO if enhanced a bit, this could be the easies way to run an external command. Jenda -- I

append local file to remote file

2002-02-07 Thread Alex Harris
Apologies for the loosely interpreted perl issue below. I have rsh on my system and nothing else is available that I know of. I need to send a local file to a remote system and APPEND the local file to the remote file. All I can find in the man pages however is how to do just the reverse.

Re: multiple quotes

2002-02-07 Thread McDonald Patrick
you need to escape your inner quotes with a backslash like so. print pimg border=\0\ src=\BD08906_.gif\ width=\190\ height=156\n; Pat - Original Message - From: Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 2:01 PM Subject: multiple quotes How

Changing the default output channel

2002-02-07 Thread Balint, Jess
Hello all. Might one be able to tell me how to change the default output channel so that instead of: print FILE, text; I might use print text; ? Thank you. --Jess -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

retrieving info from function

2002-02-07 Thread Jesse Ahrens
The gethostbyname() function returns 5 variables, the last on addrs is an array. How do I specify the function to only return that array rather than the 4 strings and 1 array? It's a menage a trois you and me and Heineken... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

RE: Changing the default output channel

2002-02-07 Thread Balint, Jess
Whoops! I know that comma is not supposed to be in the first code snippet. Sorry! -Original Message- Hello all. Might one be able to tell me how to change the default output channel so that instead of: print FILE, text; I might use print text; ? Thank you. --Jess -- To

Re: retrieving info from function

2002-02-07 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Jesse Ahrens wrote: The gethostbyname() function returns 5 variables, the last on addrs is an array. How do I specify the function to only return that array rather than the 4 strings and 1 array? gethostbyname() returns a list. You can coerce that list to become an array

RE: is Shell.pm deprecated?

2002-02-07 Thread Dean Theophilou
So, Jenda, what's the eta on the enhancement? :) Dean Theophilou P.S. Don't forget to update the docs too (preferably in Word or html format). : -Original Message- From: Brett W. McCoy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 12:13 PM To: Jenda Krynicky Cc:

memory issues reading large files

2002-02-07 Thread Brian Hayes
Hello all. I need to read through a large (150 MB) text file line by line. Does anyone know how to do this without my process swelling to 300 megs? I have not been following the list, so sorry if this question has recently come up. I did not find it answered in the archives. Thanks, Brian

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