Re: Using strict with DBI

2002-04-30 Thread Mark Bergeron
Rob, use strict; shouldn't really affect the syntax of any DBI handle or statement. I would help if you included an example for us to have look at here. -Original Message- From: Rob Roudebush[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon Apr 29 18:15:23 PDT 2002 Subject: Using strict

Re: do not print blank fields

2002-04-30 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; Yeah. The vim editor does paren/bracket matching and some other things that you might not expect. Not exactly an IDE and it isn't idiot proof. But you know what they say about things that are idiot proof! And did I mention that vim is available for nearly every platform in use today?

radio buttons

2002-04-30 Thread Greg D .
Ok i'm having problems getting information from the radio button once it is selected. this is the part that prints out the radio button $dbh = DBI-connect($database, $username, $passwd) || die Error connecting .. $dbh-errstr; $sth = $dbh-prepare(SHOW TABLES) || die 3: . $dbh-errstr;

RE: radio buttons

2002-04-30 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Greg D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 12:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: radio buttons Ok i'm having problems getting information from the radio button once it is selected. this is the part that prints out the

Re: Using strict with DBI

2002-04-30 Thread Todd Wade
Rob Roudebush [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I've seemed to have narrowed down the problem to $sth variable, I guess I can't declare this as a private variable because it prepares it and needs to have it at least local or global to access it?

Re: Serious problem with perl -pi -e

2002-04-30 Thread sharan
Hello Peter, I did this on Cygwin. I followed the same steps as mentioned by you. But still file got deleted. sharan@SHARAN ~ $ cat foo cat: foo: No such file or directory sharan@SHARAN ~ $ echo foo foo sharan@SHARAN ~ $ chmod 400 foo sharan@SHARAN ~ $ ll foo -r--r--r--1 sharan None

RE: Sorting

2002-04-30 Thread Jackson, Harry
-Original Message- From: Imtiaz ahmad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] And I want to sort @array_1 by szname which is the second column. How do I do it so that it includes all the column when sorting. What I have done

RE: Sorting

2002-04-30 Thread Jackson, Harry
-Original Message- From: Jackson, Harry Sent: 30 April 2002 09:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Sorting -Original Message- From: Imtiaz ahmad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] And I want to sort @array_1

waiting page

2002-04-30 Thread Alex Cheung Tin Ka
Dear All, I am going to ask an old question about how to generate a pending page for my cgi script. Here is my current situation. I have got a time consuming query to the database. After prepare the data, I should post those data on to a html page. But the problem is the accessing

RE: waiting page

2002-04-30 Thread Jackson, Harry
-Original Message- From: Alex Cheung Tin Ka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Dear All, I am going to ask an old question about how to generate a pending page for my cgi script. Here is my current situation. I have got a time consuming query to the database. After prepare the

Re: array numerical name...

2002-04-30 Thread Steven_Massey
Hi All - some interesting help - thanks drieux, chas, tim - all good pointers to resolve. I still cannot get the array naming to print - let me simplify $h=0; $TRY$h=3; print $TRY$h; does not work - I have tried ${TRY\$h} also any ideas ??? what am I missing ?? Thanks

RE: array numerical name...

2002-04-30 Thread Jackson, Harry
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi All - some interesting help - thanks drieux, chas, tim - all good pointers to resolve. I still cannot get the array naming to print - let me simplify $h=0; $TRY$h=3; print $TRY$h; does not work - I have tried ${TRY\$h} also any

Re: waiting page

2002-04-30 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
Here is my current situation. I have got a time consuming query to the database. After prepare the data, I should post those data on to a html page. But the problem is the accessing time is too long and the browser is going to be time out. Hi, Why not explore the tangent solutions... what

Re: waiting page

2002-04-30 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Tuesday 30 April 2002 10:02 am, Alex Cheung Tin Ka wrote: Dear All, I am going to ask an old question about how to generate a pending page for my cgi script. Here is my current situation. I have got a time consuming query to the database. After prepare the data, I should post those

RE: array numerical name...

2002-04-30 Thread Steven_Massey
Thats it Thanks Harry understand now.. Jackson, Harry [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/30/2002 11:07:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: RE: array numerical name... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi All - some interesting help - thanks drieux, chas, tim -

Re: CPAN?

2002-04-30 Thread Tim Musson
Hey Bryan, My MUA believes you used Lotus Notes Release 5.0.5 September 22, 2000 to write the following on Thursday, April 25, 2002 at 1:41:05 PM. BRH This is the beginners list, right? Yep BRH I heard that you could find code for almost anything at CPAN. How do you BRH go about this? Go

perl course

2002-04-30 Thread Tucker, Ernie
I am looking at putting together a class for my kids school on perl. I am looking for suggestions, course books, homework examples, etc. Thanks; Ernest P. Tucker II Network Technician The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and

RE: Getting contens of file into a hash

2002-04-30 Thread Anders Holm
Hi folks! 1st of all: Thanks to Ron Michael for giving me ideas and helping me out!! Here is the code resulting from my excercise. May be useful for others, who knows!! I'll be using it anyway, since I'm planning on kicking off my own Linux Distro. Will be using it for figuring out

Re: perl course

2002-04-30 Thread Felix Geerinckx
I am looking at putting together a class for my kids school on perl. I am looking for suggestions, course books, homework examples, etc. Have a look at the Beginner's Introduction to Perl by Doug Shepard at perl.com. The link for the first part is

RE: B/C - Re: Selftuition

2002-04-30 Thread Anthony Beaman
Great advice! Any more ideas (NT specific)? As I've stated before, I'm learning this on NT and my reason for learning Perl was to play around on NT and get a better idea of how it works. I've gotten the Roth NT Admin with Perl book and I'm browsing this (I can't wait until I'm savvy enough to

RE: B/C - Re: Selftuition

2002-04-30 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Tue, 30 Apr 2002 12:17:21 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Beaman) wrote: Great advice! Any more ideas (NT specific)? As I've stated before, I'm learning this on NT and my reason for learning Perl was to play around on NT and get a better idea of how it works. Perl for System

Re: Name resolution from IP

2002-04-30 Thread Tim Musson
Hey John, My MUA believes you used Internet Mail Service (5.5.2655.55) to write the following on Tuesday, April 30, 2002 at 9:32:33 AM. JE How can I resolve a machine name from an IP address? The machine JE that the script is running on is NT4. JE I've tried this (with use Socket qw(:DEFAULT

RE: array numerical name...

2002-04-30 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Apr 30, David Gray said: Hi all - should be simple - but I cannot figure it out basically i want to name an array with a subscript ie world0[0] and world1[0] the 0/1 being a variable, i have tried to produce a simple example For any help - thanks..

Re: Name resolution from IP

2002-04-30 Thread drieux
On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 06:32 , John Edwards wrote: [..] $machine_name = gethostbyaddr(inet_aton($userIP), AF_INET) or die Can't resolve $userIP: $!\n It works on the LAN, but not across a router to the remainder of our WAN. Any ideas? My complements to Tim Musson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: array numerical name...

2002-04-30 Thread bob ackerman
On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 03:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thats it Thanks Harry understand now.. for completion's sake: you were asking how to create a variable name programmatically and use it. $h='0'; $TRY = 'world'; $tryvar = $try.$h; # we have created a new variable

Re: array numerical name...

2002-04-30 Thread drieux
On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 03:07 , Jackson, Harry wrote: [..] $TRY = world; $h = 0; $TRY{$h}=3; print $TRY . $h . $TRY{$h}\n; of course in 'use strict' it will whine that it does not want to allow you my $TRY{$h} = 3; and would prefer that you pre-declare my %TRY;

RE: array numerical name...

2002-04-30 Thread Jackson, Harry
-Original Message- From: drieux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 03:07 , Jackson, Harry wrote: [..] $TRY = world; $h = 0; $TRY{$h}=3; print $TRY . $h . $TRY{$h}\n; of course in 'use strict' it will whine that it does not want to allow you my

Beyond Book Learning - the problem of Re: array numerical name...

2002-04-30 Thread drieux
On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 07:32 , David Gray wrote: [..] my $fred = 'one,two,three,four'; my $a = 0; @{array$a} = split ',', $fred; for(0..3) { print ${array$a}[$b] } File untitled text 2; Line 21: Name main::b used only once: possible typo File untitled text 2; Line 18: Can't

RE: array numerical name...

2002-04-30 Thread Timothy Johnson
While I agree with the premise of this article, I've objected in the past to sending people there to learn about the pitfalls of the so-called dynamically named variables. In general, if you want to convince someone of something, you don't tell them that they're stupid for wanting to do it.

Re: Serious problem with perl -pi -e

2002-04-30 Thread drieux
On Monday, April 29, 2002, at 10:13 , sharan wrote: [..] first off note that chmod 400 did not take you where you expected. sharan@SHARAN ~ $ ll foo -r--r--r--1 sharan None4 Apr 30 10:39 foo ls -l foo -rw-r--r-- 1 drieux wheel 4 Apr 30 09:54 foo [jeeves:/tmp/drieux]

RE: array numerical name...

2002-04-30 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Apr 30, Jackson, Harry said: Is the following more suitable or is it bollocks as well. my $TRY = world; my $h = 0; my %TRY; $TRY{$h}=3; print $TRY . $h . $TRY{$h}\n; Well, except for the fact that $TRY and $TRY{$h} have nothing to do with each other... that is perfectly fine. You might

File extensions

2002-04-30 Thread Ned Cunningham
Does anybody know what the .mst files are on AIX system? Is there a PERL modules to read them? Thankx -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

gcc version for building new Perl

2002-04-30 Thread Kevin Old
Hello all, Quick question on building a new version of Perl. I have a Solaris 2.6 box that has Perl 5.005_3 on it and want to install a new version of perl. My version of gcc has been upgraded to 3.0.3. Perl quits during the configuration when it can't compile a simple C program that

Re: Serious problem with perl -pi -e

2002-04-30 Thread Shawn
On 04/30, sharan said something like: Hello Peter, I did this on Cygwin. I followed the same steps as mentioned by you. But still file got deleted. sharan@SHARAN ~ $ cat foo cat: foo: No such file or directory So far so good. sharan@SHARAN ~ $ echo foo foo sharan@SHARAN ~ $

directory browsing in TK

2002-04-30 Thread Eric Wang
Hi Guys, I am wondering which module and documentations I should look for if I need to allow users of this GUI program to browse their directory and pick a file. Thanks Eric

The Fine Art of Naming Things - Re: array numerical name...

2002-04-30 Thread drieux
On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 09:18 , Jackson, Harry wrote: Is the following more suitable or is it bollocks as well. keeping timothy's kind and gentle rebuke in mind. { my complements timothy!!! } There are two sets of competing concerns: a) get the code to work b)

RE: Beyond Book Learning - the problem of Re: array numerical name...

2002-04-30 Thread David Gray
On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 07:32 , David Gray wrote: [..] my $fred = 'one,two,three,four'; my $a = 0; @{array$a} = split ',', $fred; for(0..3) { print ${array$a}[$b] } File untitled text 2; Line 21: Name main::b used only once: possible typo File untitled text 2;

Pass variables from parent to child script

2002-04-30 Thread Rob
When executing a child script from a parent script using the system command, is there a way to allow the child script to recognize the variables declared by the parent script? In other words, can you replicate the export functionality of a UNIX shell script using PERL? Thanks -- To

Re: Pass variables from parent to child script

2002-04-30 Thread Frank Wiles
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 12:47:11 -0500 Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When executing a child script from a parent script using the system command, is there a way to allow the child script to recognize the variables declared by the parent script? In other words, can you replicate the export

RE: Pass variables from parent to child script

2002-04-30 Thread Nikola Janceski
what does your system command look like? Are you running this on UNIX? if so, why not use fork? you might be interested in reading the: perldoc perlipc There is usually a chapter in every perl book on IPC. Some are better than others. what kind of varibles do you want to pass? (how

RE: Pass variables from parent to child script

2002-04-30 Thread Nikola Janceski
Perhaps you should use a template file that contains what varibles are initialized to. I have run into this situation many times, and a file that contains some values to default to is better than anything else... so you would feed your command myscript.pl c:/path/to/template.file better to

RE: Pass variables from parent to child script

2002-04-30 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 1:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Pass variables from parent to child script When executing a child script from a parent script using the system command, is there a way to allow the

Please Help

2002-04-30 Thread Josef E. Galea
Hi I am a student an I'm new to Perl. For a university assignment I need to read the contents of a text file in an array. I am using Windows. The code I am writing is: $file = /test.txt; open (INFO, $file); lines = INFO; close(INFO); Altough this is supposed to work, I am getting a

RE: Please Help

2002-04-30 Thread David Gray
I am a student an I'm new to Perl. For a university assignment I need to read the contents of a text file in an array. I am using Windows. The code I am writing is: $file = /test.txt; open (INFO, $file); Always check to make sure your filehandle was actually opened: open (INFO, $file)

Re: Please Help

2002-04-30 Thread Tanton Gibbs
More than likely 1.) the file doesn't exist 2.) you don't have read permissions You might have meant ./test.txt which will read the file from your current directory instead of the root directory. - Original Message - From: Josef E. Galea [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: Please Help

2002-04-30 Thread Josef E. Galea
Thanks for your reply Dave. Now I am getting 'No such file or directory' when i am sure that the file exists I changed line 1 to: $file = D:/test.txt; The problem is that the file is there for sure! Sorry to bother you again! - Original Message - From: David Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: Please Help

2002-04-30 Thread Dave K
I am using Windows. $file = 'D:\\test.txt'; should help out as will the good advice about checking to see if the open succeeds Josef E. Galea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 002201c1f07d$15712780$b9669ec3@josvio">news:002201c1f07d$15712780$b9669ec3@josvio... Hi I am a student an I'm new to

Re: Please Help

2002-04-30 Thread Kojo Idrissa
Are you absolutely sure that the file is in the root directory of your D drive? Most Windows machines are setup with C as the primary drive. Do you have two hard drives, or a hard drive with two partitions? At 09:37 PM 4/30/2002 +0200, Josef E. Galea wrote: Thanks for your reply Dave. Now I

Re: Please Help

2002-04-30 Thread Tim Musson
Hey Josef, My MUA believes you used Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 to write the following on Tuesday, April 30, 2002 at 3:37:35 PM. JEG Thanks for your reply Dave. Now I am getting 'No such file or JEG directory' when i am sure that the file exists JEG I changed line 1 to: JEG $file =

Brand New Perl Beginner - trouble using activePerl

2002-04-30 Thread Larry
Hey ))) I am learning perl now for use with CGI. I installed active Perl on both windows Millenium AND windows XP systems. Both of the fail to run a .pl file. I see a window flash on the screen for a part of a second and then disappear.the window looks like it is a DOS command window.

Need help

2002-04-30 Thread Najamuddin, Junaid
Hi, I need little help I wrote these lines which basically pings a server one time and if ping goes fine, nothing is done But if pings fails it sends email What I want is that it should ping three times in a row when the ping fails and then sends email It should not send email if it fails to ping

RE: Brand New Perl Beginner - trouble using activePerl

2002-04-30 Thread Nikola Janceski
try opening a command prompt in the directory with the perlscript and type in the name of the perl script: c:\scripts test.pl -Original Message- From: Larry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 6:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Brand New Perl Beginner -

Re: Help Please

2002-04-30 Thread Josef E. Galea
Ok guys, thank you all for your suggestions. I solved the problem. It consisted of a bug with the text editor that saved the file as test.txt.txt. Rather lame actually. Thank you all Josef

Re: Brand New Perl Beginner - trouble using activePerl

2002-04-30 Thread Josef E. Galea
Try running the script from a command promt window (Start Run cmd.exe) using perl scriptname.pl so that if there is an output, you see it. Also try to use perl -w scriptname.pl to locate possible bugs - Original Message - From: Larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Import debug commands from file?

2002-04-30 Thread Nikola Janceski
What up people? I find myself debugging this giant script (yes I have already split it down to modules and this is as small as it gets), but I would like to be able to import debug commands from a file (to set some basic breakpoints and at commands), because I don't like to constantly type them

RE: Brand New Perl Beginner - trouble using activePerl

2002-04-30 Thread David Gray
I am learning perl now for use with CGI. I installed active Perl on both windows Millenium AND windows XP systems. Both of the fail to run a .pl file. I see a window flash on the screen for a part of a second and then disappear.the window looks like it is a DOS command window.

RE: Beyond Book Learning - the problem of Re: array numerical name...

2002-04-30 Thread Timothy Johnson
I also find that it's only more confusing to be sesquipedalian in response to posts that only need a simple, clear answer. Sesquipedalian is a pretty big word. :) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Beyond Book Learning - the problem of Re: array numerical name...

2002-04-30 Thread Chas Owens
On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 16:45, Timothy Johnson wrote: I also find that it's only more confusing to be sesquipedalian in response to posts that only need a simple, clear answer. Sesquipedalian is a pretty big word. :) Come on now, we need to eschew obfuscation. -- Today is Setting

Re: Help Please

2002-04-30 Thread Josef E. Galea
RE: Help PleaseYep it reads each line in an array location i.e. in array location 0 it reads the first line, in array location 1 the second line etc... The complete code is: $file = your text file name; open (FILE, $file); @contents = FILE; close (FILE); This is all the code, feel free to use

Re: Sorting

2002-04-30 Thread Teresa Raymond
John, Could you please comment/explain the following lines please? my @sorted = map { (split/\0/)[1] } sort map { @{[(split)[1,0,2]]}\0$_ } @array; John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

RE: Help Please

2002-04-30 Thread Mark Anderson
This code will read the entire file into the array. This works fine for SMALL files. When you get into large files, the program will take up more RAM than the file takes on disk. You also probably won't eliminate your loops. They may no longer be while loops, but you will likely still need to

Re: Please Help

2002-04-30 Thread Roger
Around Tue,Apr 30 2002, at 09:37, Josef E. Galea, wrote: Thanks for your reply Dave. Now I am getting 'No such file or directory' when i am sure that the file exists I changed line 1 to: $file = D:/test.txt; try $file=D:\\test.txt; -- Roger

Re: Please Help

2002-04-30 Thread Harry Jackson
From: Josef E. Galea[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi I am a student an I'm new to Perl. For a university assignment I need to read the contents of a text file in an array. I am using Windows. The code I am writing is: $file = /test.txt; open (INFO,

Re: Brand New Perl Beginner - trouble using activePerl

2002-04-30 Thread Harry Jackson
From: Larry[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Hey ))) I am learning perl now for use with CGI. I installed active Perl on both windows Millenium AND windows XP systems. Both of the fail to run a .pl file. I see a window flash on the screen for a part of a second and then

Re: Need help

2002-04-30 Thread Harry Jackson
From: Najamuddin, Junaid[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] It is not ideal but will count each fail and if it reaches three it will execute whatever you want. I think you can change ping to only ping so many times. Hope it helps. #!PERL use strict; use warnings; my $count = 0; my $line; my

RE: Sorting

2002-04-30 Thread David Gray
John, Could you please comment/explain the following lines please? my @sorted = map { (split/\0/)[1] } sort map { @{[(split)[1,0,2]]}\0$_ } @array; It's fun trying to figure out what the heck John's code does :) Split each element of @array on

Re: Please Help

2002-04-30 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Apr 30, Harry Jackson said: #!perl # # These are a must of course. use strict; use warnings; # Note I am trying to avoid flames # by including all the usaul # warnings stricts etc # my $CurrentLine; # # Please enter your own pathname # open (INFILE, c:\\hello.txt) || die Unable to open

RE: Beyond Book Learning - the problem of Re: array numerical nam e...

2002-04-30 Thread Harry Jackson
From: Timothy Johnson[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I also find that it's only more confusing to be sesquipedalian in response to posts that only need a simple, clear answer. Sesquipedalian is a pretty big word. :) There is a lot of information on the net and I try to read the

Re: Brand New Perl Beginner - trouble using activePerl

2002-04-30 Thread Michael M. L. Broggy
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Larry wrote: Anyway, I do not see the program run. Of course I am doing something very basic wronganyone know what it is??? Thanks !!! What program is it? You likely won't see it do much in the GUI in the normal course of things, as Perl will usually do things to

Strings as Numbers (was: Re: simple problem)

2002-04-30 Thread Todd Wade
Jeffrey Seger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... if ( $tablename 1) is going to evaluate to false since the numeric value of any string is 1. Actually, its a little more complicated than this. A string that starts with non-numeric alphanumeric

select from oracle and write to file

2002-04-30 Thread garrett esperum
Hello all, Solaris, Oracle 8.1.6, Perl 5 How do I write my selected row from Oracle out to a new file? Below is what I have so far. I can select the row, but I don't know how to write it to a new file: #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w # # REMEMBER! Set the environment variable:

mod_perl with existing apache (with apologies for parroting...)

2002-04-30 Thread Beau
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I'm trying to install mod_perl (and, ultimately, embperl) following instructions at http://take23.org/intro/index.xml/3. I've upgraded my perl dist to v5.6.1 fo i686-linux. Apache's (1.3.20) already running, tweaked for php, which in

Functional dependency

2002-04-30 Thread William.Ampeh
I got this problem from a friend and was wondering if anyone could help out. The following is a set of functional dependency for a relation R (A,B,C,D,E,F) with A-D, BE-CDF, C-E, D-B where A-D implies A determines D or D is functionally dependent on A. Questions: 1. Show with explanation

RE: Functional dependency

2002-04-30 Thread Timothy Johnson
The first one is easy enough. When we trace the dependencies of F we see that F depends on B and E, so we get something like this: A-D-B-F C-E-F -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 3:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: select from oracle and write to file

2002-04-30 Thread garrett esperum
Thanks for the help!! I think it's almost there. This is what my script look like now: use strict; use DBI; open(TEXTFILE,output.txt); my $dbh = DBI-connect( 'dbi:Oracle:db', 'user', 'passwd', {

Re: Beyond Book Learning - the problem of Re: array numerical name...

2002-04-30 Thread drieux
On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 11:34 , David Gray wrote: [..] given the quandery: basically i want to name an array with a subscript ie world0[0] and world1[0] the 0/1 being a variable, i have tried to produce a simple example why take the convolutions???

searching arrays with foreign element

2002-04-30 Thread Johnson, Shaunn
Howdy: I'm looking for examples of how to use element 0 in one array as a search pattern and looking in other arrays for that pattern. Here's what I have so far ... [snip code] #!/usr/bin/perl -w use diagnostics; # test to read two files into two arrays # do a search for each *FIRST* element

CGI, submit buttons, using them as variables.

2002-04-30 Thread Tor Hildrum
First of all, I would just like to apologize for not sending this to the CGI-list, but I prefer this list. As this is where I've gotten the best help in the past. Blame yourself :) I was reading CGI.pm when I discovered that you could use the -value argument from submit buttons, and assign them

Re: Beyond Book Learning - the problem of Re: array numerical nam e...

2002-04-30 Thread drieux
On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 01:57 , Chas Owens wrote: On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 16:45, Timothy Johnson wrote: I also find that it's only more confusing to be sesquipedalian in response to posts that only need a simple, clear answer. Sesquipedalian is a pretty big word. :) Come on now,

Re: CGI, submit buttons, using them as variables.

2002-04-30 Thread bob ackerman
On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 04:17 PM, Tor Hildrum wrote: First of all, I would just like to apologize for not sending this to the CGI-list, but I prefer this list. As this is where I've gotten the best help in the past. Blame yourself :) I was reading CGI.pm when I discovered that

Re: searching arrays with foreign element

2002-04-30 Thread bob ackerman
On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 04:07 PM, Johnson, Shaunn wrote: Howdy: I'm looking for examples of how to use element 0 in one array as a search pattern and looking in other arrays for that pattern. Here's what I have so far ... [snip code] #!/usr/bin/perl -w use diagnostics; #

Re: searching arrays with foreign element

2002-04-30 Thread drieux
On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 04:07 , Johnson, Shaunn wrote: $file=command.txt; $file2=command2.txt; @array=file; @array2=file2; wouldn't it be nice if open(file, $file ) or die unable to open file $file:$!\n; open(file2, $file2 ) or die unable to open file $file2:$!\n;

using strict and -w

2002-04-30 Thread Beau
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy, Thanks to Matt for pointing me in the right direction re: mod_perl. Here's my latest: working through the perl tutorial docs at http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/Perl/Perl101/Perl101_2/page3.html I've created the code that follows;

tutorials to avoid?

2002-04-30 Thread Beau
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On the heels of my last note, I'm thinking a tutorial that doesn't teach automatic use of -w and use strict is a Bad Thing. So I'm looking at http://www.perl.com/cs/user/query/q/6?id_topic=74 where there is a wealth of tutorials and such. Can

Re: using strict and -w

2002-04-30 Thread drieux
On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 05:27 , Robert Beau Link wrote: [..] #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; print Number, please...; $alpha = STDIN; print Another, please...; $beta = STDIN; $sum= $alpha + $beta; $diff = $alpha - $beta; $product = $alpha * $beta; $quotient = $alpha / $beta;

checking if domain or IP address

2002-04-30 Thread David Ulevitch
Hello beginners, I have a small perl script which checks to see if input is a hostname or an IP address before writing it to a file. I was just checking to see if the first char was a number or a digit but there are some cases where a hostname can start with a number. (like

Re: checking if domain or IP address

2002-04-30 Thread David Ulevitch
Hello David, Tuesday, April 30, 2002, 7:51:29 PM, you wrote: DU I was just checking to see if the first char was a number or a digit DU but there are some cases where a hostname can start with a number. DU (like 3.14159.com for example) Sorry to reply to my own post, but a friend just

Re: checking if domain or IP address

2002-04-30 Thread drieux
On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 05:51 , David Ulevitch wrote: [..] I was just checking to see if the first char was a number or a digit but there are some cases where a hostname can start with a number. (like 3.14159.com for example) So the question is, if I have a variable like