Re: getOpt::long?

On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 21:50, Michael wrote: > I am a true perl newbie. I am supposed to: > > -- > -it does make a difference- >-michael- > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Okay, so what is the question? -- T

getOpt::long?

I am a true perl newbie. I am supposed to: Write a program that finds lines in an input file and copies them to an output file . The program takes the following arguments: an input file name (a mandatory argument) an output filename (an optional argument, set to STDOUT if omitted), a

Re: uploading without using forms :(

At 11:56 PM 3/11/02 -0600, Mariusz wrote: >Thanks Timothy. However, I'm not sure if I understand... >constraining to html? He said http, not html. >I said I wanted to avoid html and the need to supply >the path of the file via form. Below is my short script; all I want to do is >to be able to sp

Re: backreference question

M Z wrote: > > Hello Hello, > I was wondering if someone could point me in the right > direction for the following regex. > > s/(.{1,100}(?: |(\-))/$1$2\n/g; > > Please help on the second (?: |\-) > I am trying to match either a single space ' ' > or a - after 100 other characters and I want

Re: Perl & SQL help! Need to insert records into two tables

You said ... I'm trying to add a new record (new values) into one table and I have a second table that refers to the record number of the first table. I can get the SQL statement to grab the current value of the incrementing record number to work, but I need to translate this to operate in perl

PERL522 for Windows XP

Could someone help me with PERL522? Thank you in advance. Is there a certification process for PERL on supported platforms? We have PERL522 image on all our Clients (NT 4.0 with SP6, more than 8000 clients) and Servers (NT 4.0 with SP6a; HP, AIX). We are wondering if 522 is compatible/or cer

RE: session id

I usually use Session::Apache for that. It will allow for the creation of session ID's, storing data, and retreival of data. You will need to set up a table in a database, and then put some code in each page to fetch the session ID from the querystring or cookie so that it can initialize the ses

RE: DNS question

Add '127.0.0.1 localhost' to your /etc/hosts file. And then make sure that you have an entry matching the contents of /etc/hostname.*, for each active interface shown in 'ifconfig -a', which appears that you do since you can get to the network at all. The loopback (lo0 in Solaris 2.6) in 'ifconf

Re: problems with help commands

Well, sort of. POD is a documentation language that co-exists with Perl code. Sort of like an underpowered WEB implementation. Type "perldoc perlpod" for more info (now that you can). On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 15:37, Joe Echavarria wrote: > Thanks, > I did not know that. I suppose that POD(P

session id

Hello! i see in most PHP powered sites values like SID=02304028lkbah234, which is the session id in most cases, is there any way to do the same in PERL? Thanks -- Hytham Shehab

Re: problems with help commands

Thanks, I did not know that. I suppose that POD(Plain Old Documentation) is a perl help format. Thanks. --- Tanton Gibbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > perlre is a POD (Plain Old Documentation) file that > you can view using > perldoc. It is not an executable. To see it, do > perldoc perlre

RE: problems with help commands

How are you trying to execute it? "perldoc perlre" -Original Message- From: Joe Echavarria [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: problems with help commands On my perl distribution i can't execute "perlre", why? i always get

RE: backreference question

2 things.. first you are missing a closing parenth second you are doing it globally (/g) s/(.{100})(?: |(\-))/$1$2/; this will now take out a space after the 100th character or keep the - after the 100th character. -Original Message- From: M z [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday,

Re: problems with help commands

perlre is a POD (Plain Old Documentation) file that you can view using perldoc. It is not an executable. To see it, do perldoc perlre - Original Message - From: "Joe Echavarria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 3:29 PM Subject: problems with help

problems with help commands

On my perl distribution i can't execute "perlre", why? i always get an errore perlre: not found. When i try to find the executable file i jus find /usr/perl5/5.00503/pod/perlre.pod /usr/perl5/5.00503/pod/perlref.pod /usr/perl5/5.00503/pod/perlreftut.pod /us

backreference question

Hello I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction for the following regex. s/(.{1,100}(?: |(\-))/$1$2\n/g; Please help on the second (?: |\-) I am trying to match either a single space ' ' or a - after 100 other characters and I want to save the - but not the ' ' thereby $2

Re: Perldoc question

type this at your command line: echo $PATH That should display a few folders (/usr/local/bin, /usr/bin, etc...). your perldoc executable should be located in a folder listed in your $PATH. Good luck, Tyler - Original Message - From: "Joe Echavarria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hanson, Ro

RE: Perldoc question

I really don ' t understand what you mean. I am new to Unix and Perl. Please help me out here. What i should to ?, read or what ? Thanks. Joe. --- "Hanson, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > perldoc isn't in your path most likely. > > Check your path environment variable (echo $PATH),

Re: Radio based network prototyping simulator

Gary Stainburn wrote: > > Hi all, Hello, > I've got a project where I need to develop an single-board-computer based > network device using packet modems connected to Amateur Radio equipment and > I'm trying to develop a simulator in Perl under Linux and I've got a few > questions. > > Basical

RE: Perldoc question

perldoc isn't in your path most likely. Check your path environment variable (echo $PATH), and make sure that perldoc is in one of those directories. If I had to guess you probably have a symlink to the perl executable in your path, but not the actual bin/ directory of perl. Rob -Original

Perldoc question

hi there, On my unix box when i try to get perl help from the command line using "perldoc print" or "perlfunc" i get these errores. perlfunc: not found perldoc: not found How can i fix this problem ? Thanks. Joe. __ Do You Yahoo!

Re: DNS question

This is the result of the ifconfig -a: lo0: flags=1000849mtu8232 index1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff00 hme0: flags=1000843 mtu 1500 index 2 inet 128.169.76.38 netmask ff00 broadcast 128.169.76.255 ether 8:0:20:90:c6:63 and my /etc/hosts file looks like this: 127.0.0.1

RE: write to an Excel document

(This is one of those topics that should be in the FAQ). Have you considered dumping your data into a CSV file with a CSV extension? Excel will open CSVs by default. It's the *easiest* way, but may not be what you want... -rjf > -Original Message- > From: Allison Ogle [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: DNS question

When the machine reboots, one of the messages that comes up is: starting rpc services: rpcbind done. is that the bind you were talking about? I haven't gotten any error messages when booting. HURT, CHRIS [Non-Pharmacia/1000] wrote: > I tried to dig your server - but it timed out - I would cont

RE: Multiline searching -

> -Original Message- > From: Steven M. Klass [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Subject: Multiline searching - > > > Hi all, > > I have a text that broken into sections. Each section > has comments(;) and > can be placed anywhere, Each section ends with "*ENDS" . > Each section

Re: write to an Excel document

Take a look at Spreadsheet::WriteExcel on CPAN (www.cpan.org). On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 12:18, Allison Ogle wrote: > Hi > > Does anyone know how to write to an Excel document? I've opened the > document using OLE but I cannot find any documentation on how to store data > in the spreadsheet. If an

Re: write to an Excel document

Dear Allison, > Does anyone know how to write to an Excel document? I've opened the > document using OLE but I cannot find any documentation on how to store data > in the spreadsheet. If anyone knows what the commands are to do this please > let me know. Thanks, > Try the SpreadSheet::Pars

Re: write to an Excel document

Check out Spreadsheet-WriteExcel available at www.cpan.org. Really great module for creating Excel spreadsheets. Craig A. Sharp Unix Systems Administrator DNS Administrator Roush Industries Office: 734-466-6286 Cell: 734-231-6769 Fax: 734-466-6939 [EMAIL PROTECTED] =

write to an Excel document

Hi Does anyone know how to write to an Excel document? I've opened the document using OLE but I cannot find any documentation on how to store data in the spreadsheet. If anyone knows what the commands are to do this please let me know. Thanks, Allison -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROT

RE: DNS question

I tried to dig your server - but it timed out - I would contact whomever controls the nameservers for assistance (if nothing else they'll be able to trace your queries - you can try this also - but if you're not a dns person it won't make much sense - execute nslookup (no options) - at the > prom

RE: Multiline searching -

> OPERATION, FOO, AND BAR. I want to read in this one section > at a time. I think it would be simpler to read the entire thing in at once, like so: open FILE,'; } > I want to know how to read this in by > section (as oposed > to line) that ends with (*ENDS). And split on *ENDS, like so

RE: DNS question

Joyce, Have you verified that your /etc/nsswitch.conf file is set to point to dns on the hosts and not just files. In otherwords, you should have a line in your /etc/nsswitch.conf file similiar to this: hosts: files dns If you are using NIS servers then your line would be: hosts: files nis

Re: DNS question

I don't have access to the name servers. How do I determine which version of bind they are running. I tried to do: nslookup server amethyst.it.utk.edu and got basically the same results. I think it can't talk to the name server, but I can't understand why. Also, my nsswitch.conf file has the lin

RE: Process large files quickly...how to?

I suppose it depends on what kind of processing you are doing. Can you give us examples? For that size of data, I would make sure you are reading the file in line by line (as opposed to reading it to an array). Also, anything that prints to the screen will slow things down considerably. I know i

RE: DNS question

- What version of bind are the nameservers running (I'm thinking you're not in "the view" maybe) - check for hidden characters in resolv.conf (vi - :set list) - but the messages indicate that nslookup can't talk to the defaults - run a "nslookup somehostname nameserverip" and see if it returns th

Re: DNS question

Yes. Ping works fine. I can reach the servers and I can do nslookup through these name servers from other servers. Joyce HURT, CHRIS [Non-Pharmacia/1000] wrote: > Can you reach those IP addresses (ping, etc) from the box in question? > > -Original Message- > From: Joyce Harris [mailto

RE: DNS question

Can you reach those IP addresses (ping, etc) from the box in question? -Original Message- From: Joyce Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 10:20 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: DNS question Ok, I know this is not the list to send this to, but it is the mo

DNS question

Ok, I know this is not the list to send this to, but it is the most responsive list. I have a DNS question. I just installed Solaris 8 on one of our servers. I reconfigured the network files back to the way they were originally. This is a copy of my /etc/resolv.conf file: domain it.utk.edu na

Re: Radio based network prototyping simulator

On Tuesday 12 March 2002 12:30 pm, Jon Molin wrote: [snip] > > I'm not sure i follow you here, will you have to process them at the > same time so > while (1) > { > read tail > check result > read keyboard > check result > read radio > check result > > do other stuff > } > won't do? T

RE: Regex Help

or you can remove the tick marks with the code... $line =~ s/'//g ; -rjf > -Original Message- > From: Hanson, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 09:45 > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Regex Help > > > Maybe something lik

Multiline searching -

Hi all, I have a text that broken into sections. Each section has comments(;) and can be placed anywhere, Each section ends with "*ENDS" . Each section begins with a *KEYWORD, where keyword is any word like DESCRIPTION, OPERATION, FOO, AND BAR. I want to read in this one section at

RE: Regex Help

Maybe something like this: @line = split /:/, $theLineOfData; @line = map { s/^'(.*)'$/$1/ } (@line); # removes the ticks And to match the whole word: if ( $field =~ /\bBRANCH\b/ ) { # matches word boundary } Or you could remove the whitespace as well to simply things... @line = split

Regex Help

Here is snippet of data: 'BRANCH ':'Kurt':'Strothenke' 'BRANCH ':'Michael':'Mulligan' 'BRANCH_SSC ':'Kevin':'Oaks' 'BRANCH_SSC ':'Thomas':'Grove' 'BRANCH_SSC ':'Stephen':'Orban' 'BRANCH_SSC ':'Gerald':'Parnell' 'BRANCH_SSC ':'Liane':'Mcintyre' 'BRANCHADMIN ':'Ann':'White' 'BRANCHAD

RE: How long can $_ be?

There is no limit on the length of a scalar in Perl other than the amount of memory you have. It is possible that it is splitting the newline because you are using a multi-byte character set, or the global variable $/ (input record seperator) was changed in the script, or you are working with bin

RE: How long can $_ be?

Perl 5.004_04 on my Solaris 5.6 machine had no problems making $_ of length 178956970. Of course I have an elephant crap load of memory on this sucker. Exactly how long/big are we talking of making $_? -Original Message- From: David Gray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 1

Re: Perl & SQL help! Need to insert records into two tables

From: "Brian Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm trying to add a new record (new values) into one table and I have a > second table that refers to the record number of the first table. > > I can get the SQL statement to grab the current value of the incrementing > record number

RE: uploading without using forms :(

> Thanks Timothy. However, I'm not sure if I understand... > constraining to html? I said I wanted to avoid html and the > need to supply the path of the file via form. Below is my > short script; all I want to do is to be able to specify the > path of the file within the script, instead of wa

RE: How long can $_ be?

> Is there some limit in how long the contents of the variable $_ can > be? Not that I'm aware of, no. > I encounter this problem on Solaris machines running Perl 5.005. > On Windows with Perl 5.6.1. no such problem was encountered. > > What could cause the problem? I suppose it might be a

Perl & SQL help! Need to insert records into two tables

I'm trying to add a new record (new values) into one table and I have a second table that refers to the record number of the first table. I can get the SQL statement to grab the current value of the incrementing record number to work, but I need to translate this to operate in perl (I'm not used

Re: Radio based network prototyping simulator

Gary Stainburn wrote: > > Hi Jon, > > On Tuesday 12 March 2002 11:54 am, Jon Molin wrote: > > Gary Stainburn wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I've got a project where I need to develop an single-board-computer based > > > network device using packet modems connected to Amateur Radio equipment >

Re: web to sms

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Matthew Harrison wrote: > what do i need to send sms messages to mobile phones from my website? is > it just the script or do i need emmitters, satellites and whatnot? is > there a site that allows you to target one of their scripts with a form on > your site. > You need a

Re: Radio based network prototyping simulator

Hi Jon, On Tuesday 12 March 2002 11:54 am, Jon Molin wrote: > Gary Stainburn wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've got a project where I need to develop an single-board-computer based > > network device using packet modems connected to Amateur Radio equipment > > and I'm trying to develop a simulator i

Re: Radio based network prototyping simulator

Gary Stainburn wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've got a project where I need to develop an single-board-computer based > network device using packet modems connected to Amateur Radio equipment and > I'm trying to develop a simulator in Perl under Linux and I've got a few > questions. > > Basically I'm

web to sms

what do i need to send sms messages to mobile phones from my website? is it just the script or do i need emmitters, satellites and whatnot? is there a site that allows you to target one of their scripts with a form on your site. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional comma

Radio based network prototyping simulator

Hi all, I've got a project where I need to develop an single-board-computer based network device using packet modems connected to Amateur Radio equipment and I'm trying to develop a simulator in Perl under Linux and I've got a few questions. Basically I'm going to have X number of nodes runni

Re: passing hash to a function question

Roiy Zysman wrote: > > Hi all, Hello, > What is the meaning of the '+' sign before the shift command in my test sub. > Why doesn't it works without the '+' sign ? perl looks at %{shift} and sees the variable %shift. You have to tell it that shift is not a variable name using either %{shift()}

How long can $_ be?

Hi! Is there some limit in how long the contents of the variable $_ can be? The problem I have is following: my script reads a file line by line. These lines are fairly long. As soon as I work with the long lines problems arise. The script chops off the first part of the line. When I print

passing hash to a function question

Hi all, What is the meaning of the '+' sign before the shift command in my test sub. Why doesn't it works without the '+' sign ? 10x Roy test_sub({'key1'=>'value1','key2'=>'value2'}); sub test_sub{ my %htest = %{+shift}; #why doesn't it works without the + sign print keys(%htest);