RE: Removing the end of line character?

2002-05-06 Thread Robert Howard
You could use the substitution function to do this. $test = \nText here; $test =~ s/^\n//; # removes that first end of line character. R.A. Howard -Original Message- From: Octavian Rasnita [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 2:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

should I write as perl module?

2002-05-06 Thread ktow
Hi dear all, 1. Should I write my code into perl module or simply just use a normal include file for common sub routine that need to use on more than 1 script (which is without adding the line package in front to make it a perl module). 2. Does this make a different in term of script loading

Re:cookies

2002-05-06 Thread mark
Hi, Parden me for being a dummy but I have noticed that all of my cookie files have the same type of four number series at the end of the file. I can not find any info explaining these in any documentation I have been able to find about cookies. I'm wondering if it's something my O.S. does

Question Using for loops in incrementations

2002-05-06 Thread Darryl Schnell
Please forgive the stupidity of this question but I'm stumped and need to get this program finished. I am currently working on a program that will select information from two databases. The program puts both into hashes and compares the two lists. If it finds information in table one but not in

a href Vs Form post

2002-05-06 Thread David vd Geer Inhuur tbv IPlib
Hi, I am strugling with my program that list the contents of a directory. Ones the directory contains files and you have permission it shows you a doc icon else it will show a directory-map followed by it's name as an a href The problem I have now is that using the a href command will have to

RE: logout

2002-05-06 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Teresa Raymond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 2:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: logout I have the following script to logout, but when you push the back button on the browser you can have access to the database. I would

Re: trouble setting up...

2002-05-06 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
On Sat, 04 May 2002 20:35:57 -0400, Superjeremy wrote: I just upgraded my os and I installed apache to work on some of my scripts. I put the .pl files into the cgi-bin directory and chmod 755 them. Check your httpd.conf and make sure you have either 1) set perl to handle .pl files (via an

RE: a href Vs Form post

2002-05-06 Thread David Gray
I am strugling with my program that list the contents of a directory. Ones the directory contains files and you have permission it shows you a doc icon else it will show a directory-map followed by it's name as an a href The problem I have now is that using the a href command will

lexical scopes vs. packages

2002-05-06 Thread Nate Brunson
ok so i didnt know who else to ask this question to... and it doesent really have to do with cgi or anything im just wondering say you have some code: sub read_input { my ($buffer, pairs, $pair, $name, $value, %FORM); $ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/; if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq

RE: lexical scopes vs. packages

2002-05-06 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Nate Brunson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 1:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lexical scopes vs. packages ok so i didnt know who else to ask this question to... and it doesent really have to do with cgi or anything im just

Re: a href Vs Form post

2002-05-06 Thread Michael Kelly
On 5/6/02 6:30 AM, David vd Geer Inhuur tbv IPlib [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hi David, I am strugling with my program that list the contents of a directory. Ones the directory contains files and you have permission it shows you a doc icon else it will show a directory-map followed by

Re: trouble setting up

2002-05-06 Thread jddaly
On Sat, 4 May 2002, Webster wrote: I just installed Mandrake 8.2 with Apache and I'm trying to get some of my scripts to run on it. I put them into the www/cgi-bin directory and chmoded them to 755 I also set their owner and group to apache But I'm still getting Forbidden...You dont

Little code fragment request

2002-05-06 Thread Rafael Cotta
Hi all, I know in this newsgroup nobody like to answer posts like Please, make my homework!, and I am not talking about homework at all. Can someone give me a little function that will receive a filename and a string, and append this string to the file referenced by filename? My problem is that

Re: Little code fragment request

2002-05-06 Thread drieux
On Monday, May 6, 2002, at 09:35 , Rafael Cotta wrote: [..] Can someone give me a little function that will receive a filename and a string, and append this string to the file referenced by filename? you mean something like: ### sub MakeTmpFile { ### my ($file, @mlist ) = @_; ###

Re: Little code fragment request

2002-05-06 Thread Rafael Cotta
Ehehe.. but I don't know how to lock. I always see examples that give me the impression that if the file is locked, because the script is writing to the file this will fail. Am I right or lock will wait the file stop being used and try to lock? Rafael Drieux [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu na

Re: Little code fragment request (Is this code ok?)

2002-05-06 Thread Rafael Cotta
Well, after searching I come to this: #--- sub WriteLog { open(OUTF,$filenamedate.dat) or die(Couldn't open $filenamedate.dat for writing: $!); # This locks the file so no other CGI can write to it at the # same time... flock(OUTF,2); # Reset the file pointer to the end of

Re: data structure

2002-05-06 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
hence since we are playing the @hash{@keys_oh_hash}; game we don't want to get that confused with the - component http://www.wetware.com/drieux/CS/lang/Perl/Beginners/BenchMarks/complexArrayHash_v_loop. txt for the details on the comparison looks like the double

printing from records ?

2002-05-06 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi im able to generate records of this kind: { 'bleh' = { 'ISHpix' = [], 'gelpix' = [], 'base' = [ '' ], 'norm' = [

Re: printing from records ?

2002-05-06 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Mon, 06 May 2002 08:32:11 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin A. Hansen) wrote: im able to generate records of this kind: my $records = { 'bleh' = { 'ISHpix' = [], 'gelpix' = [], 'base' = [

To exract data from text file

2002-05-06 Thread en_prashant
I had been assigned a work of extracting data from a text file.The text file has these datas 193.9.200.123,prashant , ,y,22/04/02,12:09:43, , , ,http://rediffmail.com. I have to fetch IP address,uesr name,date,time of log on,site or page visited.It is the log file created by proxy server

Re: To exract data from text file

2002-05-06 Thread Sudarsan Raghavan
Take a look at perldoc -f open perldoc -f split [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had been assigned a work of extracting data from a text file.The text file has these datas 193.9.200.123,prashant , ,y,22/04/02,12:09:43, , , ,http://rediffmail.com. I have to fetch IP address,uesr

Re: To exract data from text file

2002-05-06 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Mon, 06 May 2002 09:57:02 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (En Prashant) wrote: I had been assigned a work of extracting data from a text file.The text file has these datas 193.9.200.123,prashant , ,y,22/04/02,12:09:43, , , ,http://rediffmail.com. I have to fetch IP address,uesr

Re: printing from records ?

2002-05-06 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi felix the exists check works nicely :) but i cant get the print to work, using my version of your sub: sub print_record { my ( $record_key ) = @_; my $record; my $records; # read in records $records = read_recordfile; foreach $record ( keys %{ $records-{ $record_key } }

Re: To exract data from text file

2002-05-06 Thread bernabe diaz
following your sample If you have only one line in the text file you can do as follow: ($ip,$name,$tuff,$stuff,$fecha,$time_log,$junk) = split /,/,$textfile; print 'The IP address:.$ip.\n; print The name:.$name.\n; . . exit; OK , I hope it helps you Bernie Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: printing from records ?

2002-05-06 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Mon, 06 May 2002 10:21:55 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin A. Hansen) wrote: sub print_record { my ( $record_key ) = @_; my $record; my $records; # read in records $records = read_recordfile; foreach $record ( keys %{ $records-{ $record_key } } ) { print

Re: Quick Database guide

2002-05-06 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Sun, 05 May 2002 13:29:28 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arran Ubels) wrote: Can anyone provide a link (or possibly write) a quick start guide on databases in perl, i am migrating from Delphi. See M-J Dominus' A Short Guide to DBI at http://www.perl.com/pub/a/1999/10/DBI.html -- felix

Re: printing from records ?

2002-05-06 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi again im practicing handling structures. im very much a newbie at this so theres prolly something wrong with my code. If this is what you want, maybe you have an error in your read_recordfile? sub read_recordfile { my $records; { local ($/) = undef; open SOURCE,

Re: printing from records ?

2002-05-06 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Mon, 06 May 2002 10:54:36 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin A. Hansen) wrote: sub read_recordfile { my $records; { local ($/) = undef; open SOURCE, $recordfile or die Can't open file: $!; $records = eval SOURCE; die $@ if $@; close

Re: To exract data from text file

2002-05-06 Thread en_prashant
I haven't a single line .This is a log file which has more than thousands of line and not each data is of one line it is of two or three lines.The data is just like 193.9.200.127,prashant , , y,12/04/02,12:09:05, ,http, , http://rediffmail.com, , , ,. This line has 23 fields and it may be

Re: Cut Function

2002-05-06 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On May 6, Zielfelder, Robert said: Is there a way to make Perl truncate a single scalar variable by a given number of characters like the unix cut command can? For example, I have a scalar variable that is 7 characters long, but for another purpose I only want the last 5 characters of this

Question Using for loops in incrementations

2002-05-06 Thread Darryl Schnell
Please forgive the stupidity of this question but I'm stumped and need to get this program finished. I am currently working on a program that will select information from two databases. The program puts both into hashes and compares the two lists. If it finds information in table one but not in

Re: Question Using for loops in incrementations

2002-05-06 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On May 6, Darryl Schnell said: Please forgive the stupidity of this question but I'm stumped and need to get this program finished. I am currently working on a program that will select information from two databases. The program puts both into hashes and compares the two lists. You're not using

Re: To exract data from text file

2002-05-06 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Mon, 06 May 2002 11:01:54 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (En Prashant) wrote: I haven't a single line .This is a log file which has more than thousands of line and not each data is of one line it is of two or three lines.The data is just like This is hard to believe. Are you sure your

Re: Question Using for loops in incrementations

2002-05-06 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Mon, 06 May 2002 12:36:49 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darryl Schnell) wrote: [...] If it finds information in table one but not in table two it is to perform certain commands to place that user in table two, and vice versa. [...] Why don't you use hashes to collect your information?

Error message

2002-05-06 Thread Ho, Tony
Hi guys, Has anybody seen the following message before ? Can't locate object method connect via package DBI (perhaps you forgot to load DBI?) at ./test.pl line 150 I would be most grateful with any advice Thanks in advance Tony -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: Error message

2002-05-06 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Mon, 06 May 2002 13:54:48 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Ho) wrote: Hi guys, Has anybody seen the following message before ? Can't locate object method connect via package DBI (perhaps you forgot to load DBI?) at ./test.pl line 150 Yes, a few times :-) Is there a line use DBI;

RE: data structure

2002-05-06 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: drieux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 5:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: data structure On Sunday, May 5, 2002, at 12:17 , Jonathan E. Paton wrote: following is a shorter replacement: print join ( : , $_-{qwdir tpl

Sorting problem

2002-05-06 Thread Richard Adams
Hello, I've got an array of arrays, and want to sort by the 3rd element of the subarray. I then want to print out the sorted array, showing the index and values. E.g., @AoA = ( [23.56, 65.2, 12.4], [13, 56, 87], [45,876, 23], etc ) And then the printout should

RE: Sorting problem

2002-05-06 Thread Nikola Janceski
take out the spaces @sorted = {$a-[2] = $b-[2]} @AoA but this gives a cannot ^ ^ No spaces should be here -Original Message- From: Richard Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 10:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: Sorting problem

2002-05-06 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Richard Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 10:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sorting problem Hello, I've got an array of arrays, and want to sort by the 3rd element of the subarray. I then want to print out the sorted

Re: Sorting problem

2002-05-06 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Mon, 06 May 2002 14:17:39 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Adams) wrote: [Please don't retype code - cut and paste instead] I've tried @sorted = {$a -[2] = $b -[2]} @AoA You forgot the 'sort' function. You put spaces before the '-'. You got the sort order reversed. Try my

Re: Sorting problem

2002-05-06 Thread Michael Lamertz
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 03:17:39PM +0100, Richard Adams wrote: Hello, I've got an array of arrays, and want to sort by the 3rd element of the subarray. I then want to print out the sorted array, showing the index and values. E.g., Hmm, works for me with the exception of... I've tried

Re: Sorting problem

2002-05-06 Thread Richard Adams
Thanks for all your help...I just forgot the sort in my post... The reason it wasn't working wasn't the sort, it was just that $AoA[0] was undefined.. But sort {$a-[2] = $b-[2]} @AoA[1..$#AoA] works just fine. Thanks again! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

use strict

2002-05-06 Thread Jason Frisvold
I have a question about 'use strict' ... Yeah, I guess this counts as a duh! question... :-) I put 'use strict' at the beginning of one of my scripts... It basically broke the script... (or fixed it, if you want to look at it that way) The problem is that it wanted explicit package

Re: use strict

2002-05-06 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On May 6, Jason Frisvold said: I put 'use strict' at the beginning of one of my scripts... It basically broke the script... (or fixed it, if you want to look at it that way) The problem is that it wanted explicit package names for all of the globals... So, what is the proper way to

RE: use strict

2002-05-06 Thread Nikola Janceski
I am going to try to answer this one, (I think I understand it): use strict; package Foo; my $var1; our $var2; package Bar; $Foo::var1; # this how you call var1 from package Foo; $var2; # this how you call var2 (our makes it global across packages [and modules?]) [our == use vars qw()]

RE: use strict

2002-05-06 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Jason Frisvold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 11:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: use strict I have a question about 'use strict' ... Yeah, I guess this counts as a duh! question... :-) I put 'use strict' at the

Re: Sorting problem-part2

2002-05-06 Thread Richard Adams
Now I've got an array of hashes, where each hash can have different keys e.g., @aoh = ( {H3 =234, H1 =127, DNA =1, p135 =167}, {H4=24, H3=1550, DNA =25, p39 =67}, {H3 =34, H2A =125, DNA =5, p32 =7}, {H3 =24, H4 =156, DNA =123, p12 =13} ) And I'd like to

RE: rmtree

2002-05-06 Thread David Gray
I have a directory Abs with a file abc in it. I am using rmtree to rm this dir as follows use File::Path; rmtree(Abs,1,1) or die dir not del; print done; The output is unlink ../htdocs/store/newpages/Abstract/abc It neither prints the die statement nor the done -

Re: data structure

2002-05-06 Thread Chas Owens
On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 18:47, drieux wrote: On Sunday, May 5, 2002, at 03:07 , Jonathan E. Paton wrote: [..] print join ( , @hash{qwkey1 key2}); sick, but it works No, this is sick: #array interpolation uses ' ' to join print @hash{qwkey1 key2}\n; Appears the array symbol is

RE: use strict

2002-05-06 Thread Jason Frisvold
Actually, I'm not writing a package, per se, here... (I do use 'use strict' in my packages) ... This is the main program that I'm writing in which I use globals... I'll start playing with the use strict stuff in my main program since that appears to be the proper way to do things... :)

Re: data structure

2002-05-06 Thread drieux
On Sunday, May 5, 2002, at 11:24 , Jonathan E. Paton wrote: http://www.wetware.com/drieux/CS/lang/Perl/Beginners/BenchMarks/complexArrayHash_v_loop. txt for the details on the comparison looks like the double loop is faster but it may not be in some other configuration of

RE: A very beginner

2002-05-06 Thread David Gray
Good Lord, you're gonna scare away the beginners who have questions about perl! Hi, I'm a beginner that doesn't even have perl yet. I woul like to know whether Perl is faster or Java for business applications. Paul has already provided the correct Party Line from the typical Perl

foreach, my, and arrays

2002-05-06 Thread Jason Frisvold
Here's another simple question I have an array of arrays and I want to use a foreach to do something with each entry... currently I do this : foreach my $item (@myarray) { my ($item1, $item2) = @$item; do stuff here } Is there a way to combine the first 2 lines? Is it any

RE: Running PubDrills - Re: dynamic variable declaration?

2002-05-06 Thread David Gray
To appease the powers that be, does anyone know if you can bind columns to a hash: i.e. $sth-bind_columns(undef,\$val{a},\$val{b},\$val{c}); # ? All of which leaves me scritching my head as to why that would be a case of 'dynamic variable declaration' If I didn't ask a question

RE: Sorting problem-part2

2002-05-06 Thread David Gray
Now I've got an array of hashes, where each hash can have different keys e.g., @aoh = ( {H3 =234, H1 =127, DNA =1, p135 =167}, {H4=24, H3=1550, DNA =25, p39 =67}, {H3 =34, H2A =125, DNA =5, p32 =7}, {H3 =24, H4 =156, DNA =123, p12 =13} ) And

Re: data structure

2002-05-06 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
http://www.wetware.com/drieux/CS/lang/Perl/Beginners/BenchMarks/complexArrayHash_v_loop. txt for the details on the comparison looks like the double loop is faster but it may not be in some other configuration of data... The dereference is probably wasting cycles, why

Re: A very beginner

2002-05-06 Thread drieux
On Monday, May 6, 2002, at 09:07 , David Gray wrote: Good Lord, you're gonna scare away the beginners who have questions about perl! my apologies - that was clearly not my intentions Rather it was to re-assure those who are new to perl that yes all the generalized rules about how one

Re: foreach, my, and arrays

2002-05-06 Thread Michael Lamertz
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 12:04:14PM -0400, Jason Frisvold wrote: Here's another simple question I have an array of arrays and I want to use a foreach to do something with each entry... currently I do this : foreach my $item (@myarray) { my ($item1, $item2) = @$item; do

Re: foreach, my, and arrays

2002-05-06 Thread Dave K
Jason, Play with the script below: my @a1 = qw( one ace ); my @a2 = qw( two deuce ); my @a3 = qw( thr tri ); my @a4 = qw( fou quad ); my @a5 = qw( fiv quat ); my @myarray = (\@a1, \@a2, \@a3, \@a4, \@a5); foreach my $item (@myarray) { my($item1, $item2) = @$item; print $item1 and

RE: foreach, my, and arrays

2002-05-06 Thread Jason Frisvold
Yeah, I thought of doing it that way too However, my purpose was to skip the unnecessary step and pump the data right into variables. This way I drop the memory needed to go that extra step and I retain readability of code... I can live with it the way it is now, I guess... Just one of

Re: foreach, my, and arrays

2002-05-06 Thread Chas Owens
On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 12:04, Jason Frisvold wrote: Here's another simple question I have an array of arrays and I want to use a foreach to do something with each entry... currently I do this : foreach my $item (@myarray) { my ($item1, $item2) = @$item; do stuff here }

Re: Sorting problem-part2

2002-05-06 Thread Michael Lamertz
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 12:22:15PM -0400, David Gray wrote: Now I've got an array of hashes, where each hash can have different keys e.g., @aoh = ( {H3 =234, H1 =127, DNA =1, p135 =167}, {H4=24, H3=1550, DNA =25, p39 =67}, {H3 =34, H2A =125, DNA =5, p32

make test of Text::Reflow

2002-05-06 Thread Deb
Hello, I installed perl module Text::Reflow on perl v5.6.1 for Solaris. It built fine, but make test fails in that it hangs on the first test. cpan test Text::Reflow Running test for module Text::Reflow Running make for M/MW/MWARD/Text-Reflow-1.04.tar.gz Is already unwrapped into

[OT] Re: Serious problem with perl -pi -e

2002-05-06 Thread Shawn
Setting this variable will be helpful, and will make the FS behave more like a std unix one. It will support things like sticky bit, 000 perms, etc etc by mapping NTFS acl stuff. However, the cygwin files you have in your system, after setting this, will be like rwxrwxrwx. This is because when

Re: make test of Text::Reflow

2002-05-06 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
--- Deb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Hiya! I installed perl module Text::Reflow on perl v5.6.1 for Solaris. It built fine, but make test fails in that it hangs on the first test. Okay, try again... does it still fail? If yes, then download the module manually and follow the

Re: make test of Text::Reflow

2002-05-06 Thread Deb
Meanwhile, =?iso-8859-1?q?Jonathan=20E.=20Paton?= says: | | --- Deb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hello, | | Hiya! :-) Thanks for the swift reply. | I installed perl module Text::Reflow on perl v5.6.1 for Solaris. | | It built fine, but make test fails in that it hangs on the | first

Unique list

2002-05-06 Thread Lance Prais
I would like to create a unique list. For example, I have two separate lists of solution ids and there is the potential of over lapping results. How would I best eliminate the duplicates and have a unique list of results. Does anyone have an example of some code they used to do this? I am

Re: Sorting problem-part2

2002-05-06 Thread Michael Lamertz
Took me some time, but... On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 04:41:03PM +0100, Richard Adams wrote: Now I've got an array of hashes, where each hash can have different keys e.g., @aoh = ( {H3 =234, H1 =127, DNA =1, p135 =167}, {H4=24, H3=1550, DNA =25, p39 =67}, {H3 =34,

compare dates

2002-05-06 Thread Lance Prais
Hello, How do you compare dates to see if dates are between? For example in SQL I would do it like this to find the values between now and seven days prior:. X is Between(sysdate-7) and sysdate Thank you, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: Unique list

2002-05-06 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
I would like to create a unique list. Buy the Cookbook or search the archives, since this is a common question. Basically one of the following two solutions is best. %seen = (); @unique = grep { not $seen{$_}++ } @list_A, @list_B; OR: %seen = (); $seen{$_}++ for @list_A, @list_B; @unique =

Re: compare dates

2002-05-06 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
[Cross-posted reply to cross-posted article... to avoid] [further duplication only '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' should ] [be used for further correspondence on this thread.] [Remove PBML from the header before replying! Jonathan] Hi, Please don't cross post questions between PBML and [EMAIL

Re: compare dates

2002-05-06 Thread Sean O'Leary
On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 13:53, Lance Prais wrote: Hello, How do you compare dates to see if dates are between? For example in SQL I would do it like this to find the values between now and seven days prior:. X is Between(sysdate-7) and sysdate Thank you, Use a Date:: module to make

Re: Unique list

2002-05-06 Thread drieux
On Monday, May 6, 2002, at 10:34 , Lance Prais wrote: sub createUniquePartitionFile { my %args = ( PARTITION = '', PARTITIONFILE = '', OUTPUTFILENAME = '', @_, ); $status = 0; $partitionFile =

Doing a little formatting

2002-05-06 Thread Batchelor, Scott
I am listing several variables...but I would like to make them all a certain length to keep the format of the report somewhat...well formatted. Is there an easy way to do this? Right now I am just doing prprint $ext_id\t$lastname,

RE: Doing a little formatting

2002-05-06 Thread Nikola Janceski
perldoc -f printf it's just like C's printf. -Original Message- From: Batchelor, Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 3:14 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Doing a little formatting I am listing several variables...but I would like to make them all

RE: Doing a little formatting

2002-05-06 Thread Timothy Johnson
Check out the format command. perldoc -f format perldoc perlform -Original Message- From: Batchelor, Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 12:14 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Doing a little formatting I am listing several variables...but I would like to

Creating an interactive calendar

2002-05-06 Thread Ron
I'm in the midst of writing a PERL script that will display a calendar in table form. I have a database (mySQL) with the events sorted by date. I'm trying to write the calendar to place a hyperlink on those days that an event is listed in the database. So far I have no problem creating the

@INC

2002-05-06 Thread Seth Lilly
I am brand spanking new to Perl, and Im working with Plain Blacks WebGUI software. Im having difficulty specifying the directories for some of my *.pm files. Is there a way to edit a @INC file of some type (if such a thing exists) to include those directories? Thanks, everyone, for

Sorry for the format confusion...

2002-05-06 Thread Seth Lilly
Sorry for sending out that last message in HTML...plain text from now on... Seth Lilly Help Desk Technician West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission 1018 Kanawha Blvd E Suite 700 Charleston WV  25301 304.558.2101 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hepc.wvnet.edu  -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Unique list

2002-05-06 Thread drieux
On Monday, May 6, 2002, at 10:34 , Lance Prais wrote: Thank you in advance http://www.wetware.com/drieux/CS/lang/Perl/Beginners/BenchMarks/FileWayuniqDeList. txt may help see the complications of doing this with File IO I can understand the habit of 'directly porting' from /bin/sh

Re: @INC

2002-05-06 Thread drieux
On Monday, May 6, 2002, at 12:45 , Seth Lilly wrote: I am brand spanking new to Perl, and I’m working with Plain Black’s WebGUI software. I’m having difficulty specifying the directories for some of my *.pm files. Is there a way to edit a @INC file of some type (if such a thing exists)

unfamiler errors

2002-05-06 Thread Lance Prais
I am using the following code to extract data from a db and write to a file and getting errors that I am not familiar with: Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? #!/usr/local/bin/perl #ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES $CUSTOM = /data/verity/custom-kb; $SERVICE= xxx;

RE: unfamiler errors

2002-05-06 Thread Shah, Urmil
add 'my' in front of these variables.. my @row; my $oid; Urmil -Original Message- From: Lance Prais [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 3:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: unfamiler errors I am using the following code to extract data from a db and write to a

RE: @INC

2002-05-06 Thread Mike Rapuano
As an alternative, how about this... short sweet and lazy;) BEGIN { $current_dir = 'd:\\my_directory'; push(@INC, $current_dir); } print @INC\n; -Original Message- From: drieux Sent: Mon 5/6/2002 4:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unfamiler errors

2002-05-06 Thread drieux
On Monday, May 6, 2002, at 01:15 , Lance Prais wrote: [..] while( @row = $sth-fetchrow_array ) { $oid=$row[0]; print TEXTFILE$oid\n; } [..] Error message: Global symbol @row requires explicit package name at

problems with libwww-perl module

2002-05-06 Thread Pedro A Reche Gallardo
Hi all, one more time I need some help. In the past I have used the libwww-perl module to execute and get the information from that remote web server. This was actually quite simple because I did not have to post any data. Now I wrote an script that it will have to post some data to the server

RE: @INC

2002-05-06 Thread Hanson, Robert
There are a few ways listed in the FAQ's. perldoc -q search word will search the FAQ's on a specific word. Below is what was found when I searched on the word library. Depending on your needs using the PERL5LIB environment variable might be the best option (Just create a new environment

Re: Unique list

2002-05-06 Thread Michael Lamertz
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 11:40:10AM -0700, drieux wrote: I'm very confused by the idea of my %args = ( PARTITION = '', PARTITIONFILE = '', OUTPUTFILENAME = '', @_, ); why not the simpler my ( $outputFile,

connection error

2002-05-06 Thread Lance Prais
I am getting a connection error. I used this same connection string all though out my scripts in this application without problems except in this case. Does anyone know why I could be getting this error? Connection String: use DBI; my $connect_string=DBI:Oracle:$SERVICE; my $dbh =

Re: connection error

2002-05-06 Thread John W. Krahn
Lance Prais wrote: I am getting a connection error. I used this same connection string all though out my scripts in this application without problems except in this case. Does anyone know why I could be getting this error? Connection String: use DBI; my

backquoted return values

2002-05-06 Thread HENRY,MARK (HP-Roseville,ex1)
Hi All, A question regarding process mgmt. Using the system() call, you can call an os command a test for the return value of the command in question, proceeding based on the return value. However, using backquotes, is there a way to do the same? This method returns the output of the program

Re: connection error

2002-05-06 Thread drieux
On Monday, May 6, 2002, at 02:36 , Lance Prais wrote: [..] Does anyone know why I could be getting this error? not sure - you might want to also re-read http://search.cpan.org/doc/TIMB/DBI-1.21/DBI.pm Connection String: use DBI; my $connect_string=DBI:Oracle:$SERVICE; my $dbh =

RE: connection error

2002-05-06 Thread Lance Prais
One more issue: When using this: use DBI; my $connect_string=DBI:Oracle:$SERVICE; my $dbh = DBI-connect($connect_string,$oracle_user,$oracle_password, { AutoCommit= 0, LongTruncOk= 'TRUE', PrintError = 1, ChopBlanks= 'TRUE',LongTruncOk= 'TRUE',LongReadLen= 5, RaiseError = 1 }) or

Re: backquoted return values

2002-05-06 Thread drieux
On Monday, May 6, 2002, at 03:09 , HENRY,MARK (HP-Roseville,ex1) wrote: Hi All, A question regarding process mgmt. Using the system() call, you can call an os command a test for the return value of the command in question, proceeding based on the return value. However, using backquotes,

Summary: make test of Text::Reflow

2002-05-06 Thread Deb
Answering myself here - found out it was the perl binary. For some reason the binary compiled for 64-bit execution would not make this module properly, but the 32-bit does. Go figure. Someone else is looking into why this might be the case. For now, I'm happy to use the 32-bit version. deb

Re: Summary: make test of Text::Reflow

2002-05-06 Thread drieux
On Monday, May 6, 2002, at 04:58 , Deb wrote: Answering myself here - found out it was the perl binary. For some reason the binary compiled for 64-bit execution would not make this module properly, but the 32-bit does. Go figure. I presume that you are working in solaris 8 or higher?

Taking data from the screen to a file

2002-05-06 Thread Melissa.Cama
Hi, I'm just new to Perl and have no idea where to start with the task that I have to complete. Any help would be appreciated. Currently when a particular .exe is run, the following is displayed in the command window - License server on host kronos. Running since Monday 4/04/96 15:53:13.

Re: Taking data from the screen to a file

2002-05-06 Thread drieux
On Monday, May 6, 2002, at 10:04 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ACTIVE users: that's rather the key - its a reasonably clear line or build up the regular expression from the next line either way cf: perldoc perlre I presume you can do something in windows that is the equivolent of a

Re: Taking data from the screen to a file

2002-05-06 Thread Sudarsan Raghavan
I'm just new to Perl and have no idea where to start with the task that I have to complete. Any help would be appreciated. Currently when a particular .exe is run, the following is displayed in the command window - License server on host kronos. Running since Monday 4/04/96 15:53:13.

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