RE: What database would your recommend?

2002-06-07 Thread Joel Hughes
MySQL sounds like your answer Teddy. Runs perfectly well on Linux and Windows. -Original Message- From: Octavian Rasnita [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 June 2002 03:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: What database would your recommend? Hi all, I want to start learning a database

Re: How to use a module depending on a condition (was: What am I doing wrong?)

2002-06-07 Thread Janek Schleicher
Octavian Rasnita wrote at Fri, 07 Jun 2002 05:00:33 +0200: ... The important code with problem is: if ($^O =~ /MSWin/i) { print The OS is: $^O; #This line is not printed because the OS is Linux but the following line has problems use Net::SMTP; ... How can I avoid Linux complaining

Re: Is it a bug in Perl?

2002-06-07 Thread Janek Schleicher
Octavian Rasnita wrote at Wed, 05 Jun 2002 14:18:42 +0200: ... Then I've seen one more error in that file: Argument \n isn't numeric in numeric eq (==) at c:/Perl/lib/perl5db.pl line 572 That line is: for ($i = $line + 1; $i = $max $dbline[$i] == 0; ++$i) { #{ vi Is there any

Re: What database would your recommend?

2002-06-07 Thread Paul Arsenault
MySQL is a relational database. Taken from the mysql documentation page at http://www.mysql.org/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_Introduction.html#Features MySQL is a relational database management system. A relational database stores data in separate tables rather than putting all the

Re: How to blank out a form?

2002-06-07 Thread Fred Sahakian
I think what happends is that even though you place the blank field there, the text is still really there, try using the print command on the same page and take a look to see if it actually does erase the data or does it just erase it in the form text area, I had the same problem, I just let

Re: What database would your recommend?

2002-06-07 Thread Fred Sahakian
depends what you need to do, PHP has become VERY popular Octavian Rasnita [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/05/02 10:58PM Hi all, I want to start learning a database that works with Perl but I would like to learn a database that works under Windows and Unix also. Is there such a thing? Of course, I would

RE: subroutine or subroutine

2002-06-07 Thread kevin christopher
Janek: Thank you for explaining the difference between calling subroutines with vs. without the ampersand. I'm glad I'm on the beginners list. Sincerely, Kevin Christopher -- Original Message -- From: Camilo Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 6

RE: What database would your recommend?

2002-06-07 Thread Camilo Gonzalez
That's a good point. Are there still advantages to using Perl over using PHP? I'd be bummed to hear I'm using a dying language. -Original Message- From: Fred Sahakian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 10:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: What database

RE: What database would your recommend?

2002-06-07 Thread Fred Sahakian
99% of my databases have been small, so flatfile databases are fine, the Perl can handle it as well as the servers. When you get into hundreds of thousands of records, that's different-- then you need something stable, fast, and flexible. Camilo Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/07/02 11:56AM

RE: What database would your recommend?

2002-06-07 Thread Nikola Janceski
Perl a dying language? are you nutz?!?!?! Haven't you been reading the Apocalypse pages for PERL 6??!?!? http://dev.perl.org/perl6/apocalypse/ apocalypse 1-4 http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/04/apo5.html apocalypse 5 (pattern matching will never be the same) I get a w**dy just thinking about

Re: What database would your recommend?

2002-06-07 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi all, Having spoken to consultants/teachers that I know, their experience matches my own. When teaching, they prefer PHP. When programming they prefer Perl. It's basically horses for courses. I use PHP for what it's always been designed for which is creating dynamic web content. For

RE: What database would your recommend?

2002-06-07 Thread Camilo Gonzalez
Forgive me Nikola. In this business you need to stay as marketable as possible. I don't want to go to a potential employer with six years of Perl on my resume, to be beaten out by somebody with 2 years of PHP on theirs. -Original Message- From: Nikola Janceski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: What database would your recommend?

2002-06-07 Thread Nikola Janceski
well.. I have 6 years Perl.. but I don't do web design, and no PHP programmer has been me out of a position yet. I am not shooting down PHP, but Perl has many many advantages over PHP, but PHP is better for DB access via a web front. But Perl is better at backend access and overall reporting (not

RE: What database would your recommend?

2002-06-07 Thread Mike Rapuano
Camilo -- If you've done any research at all you would know that learning perl will not make you less marketable. And if I were you, I would not Marry myself to one scripting language;) Mike -Original Message- From: Camilo Gonzalez Sent: Fri

RE: What database would your recommend?

2002-06-07 Thread Fred Sahakian
dont put your eggs in one basket, as they say... Mike Rapuano [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/07/02 12:24PM Camilo -- If you've done any research at all you would know that learning perl will not make you less marketable. And if I were you, I would not Marry myself to one scripting language;) Mike

RE: What database would your recommend?

2002-06-07 Thread James Kelty
I would go for Postgres, if I were you. Relational, transactions, and foreign key assignments. May be a little slower than MySQL, but pretty much the same in stability. -James -Original Message- From: Octavian Rasnita [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 7:59 PM

[OT] Re: What database would your recommend?

2002-06-07 Thread John Brooking
Not to be pedantic, but isn't PHP a *language*, not a database? So you could use almost any particular database with either PHP or Perl. Or does PHP have it's own built-in database and that's what you meant? (I looked at PHP a little once, and I have to admit a knee-jerk negative reaction to a

Re: [OT] Re: What database would your recommend?

2002-06-07 Thread David T-G
John, et al -- ...and then John Brooking said... % % Not to be pedantic, but isn't PHP a *language*, not a % database? So you could use almost any particular Yes, it is; it doesn't have its own database built in. For someone starting out doing web stuff it wouldn't be bad to pick up, even if

Re: What database would your recommend?

2002-06-07 Thread David T-G
Paul -- Thanks for the reply. ...and then Paul Arsenault said... % % MySQL is a relational database. % % Taken from the mysql documentation page at % http://www.mysql.org/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_Introduction.html#Features % % MySQL is a relational database management system.

webBotting a Job Hunt

2002-06-07 Thread drieux
volks, this is probably more an ethical question than a technical question - since over the plays here I have become better at reverse engineering what webServers want pushed at them in the way of URI by get or puts but is it kosher to reverse engineer how various public web sites do this

RE: webBotting a Job Hunt

2002-06-07 Thread Nikola Janceski
Depends... there are those that don't know Perl, so I see nothing wrong with it unless you are using this for profitable purposes. Remember, if it's free, how is it wrong? If you think it's wrong that it is free, then help them make it less free. Linus idea, followed by Gates idea. I think this

Re: webBotting a Job Hunt

2002-06-07 Thread David T-G
drieux, et al -- ...and then drieux said... % % volks, Hi! % % this is probably more an ethical question % than a technical question - since over the % plays here I have become better at reverse engineering % what webServers want pushed at them in the way of URI % by get or puts *grin*

Re: What database would your recommend?

2002-06-07 Thread David T-G
Paul, et al -- ...and then Paul Arsenault said... % % MySQL is a relational database. I've followed up and have more information -- sort of. My pal couldn't provide hard data but pointed not only to extra stuff like transactions (I don't think anyone is saying that transactions are part of

Re: webBotting a Job Hunt

2002-06-07 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Is any of this relevent to this list? I don't think so. Again, please stay on topic. Cheers, Kevin On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 10:51:57AM -0700, drieux ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: volks, this is probably more an ethical question than a technical question - since over the

Re: What database would your recommend?

2002-06-07 Thread Paul Arsenault
Relational databasing just means that there are keys associated between the different databases that allows the database software to easily make matches from one database table to another very quickly and efficiently. I don't know if you've ever heard the term primary key before, but it

Re: webBotting a Job Hunt

2002-06-07 Thread drieux
On Friday, June 7, 2002, at 11:38 , Kevin Meltzer wrote: Is any of this relevent to this list? I don't think so. Again, please stay on topic. my apologies, I thought the ethics of using a given technology might be a relevant topic. Since in essence I am simply reusing the 'test harness'

Re: What database would your recommend?

2002-06-07 Thread fliptop
Paul Arsenault wrote: database. As for transactions, only very high-end commercial databases (such as your friend's Oracle) support transactions. They are only that's not true - postgresql supports transactions. and according to this page:

Re: CGI::Graph --- description

2002-06-07 Thread David T-G
Konrad -- ...and then Konrad Foerstner said... % % Hi! Hello! % % I would like to write some scipts to produce plots and % saw CGI::Graph is a good solution for that. The problem is % that I can't find a good introduction or description of % it in the web. Has anyone a good link for me?

Re: CGI::Graph --- description

2002-06-07 Thread Konrad Foerstner
Yes, I had checked this befor, but I need more exmaples and introduction. On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 13:41:09 -0500 David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Konrad -- ...and then Konrad Foerstner said... % % Hi! Hello! % % I would like to write some scipts to produce plots and % saw

Re: How to send an email without Net::SMTP

2002-06-07 Thread Eric Wang
Use Mail::Sendmail Eric On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote: Hi all, Is it complicated to send email with an SMTP mail server if the Net::SMTP module is not installed? Thank you. Teddy, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Refresh dynamic content using query_string

2002-06-07 Thread Jason Ostrom
I was wondering if there was any way to refresh and have the same dynamically-created page viewed every 5 seconds? I'm trying to do it like this: my $URL2 = ds0.cgi?$ENV{QUERY_STRING}; ### HTML part print $q-header( -Refresh='5; URL=$URL2' ), But this doesn't work. The URL that is recreated

Re: Refresh dynamic content using query_string

2002-06-07 Thread David T-G
Jason -- ...and then Jason Ostrom said... % % I was wondering if there was any way to refresh and have the same % dynamically-created page viewed every 5 seconds? % % I'm trying to do it like this: % % my $URL2 = ds0.cgi?$ENV{QUERY_STRING}; % ### HTML part % print $q-header( -Refresh='5;

Re[2]: Refresh dynamic content using query_string

2002-06-07 Thread Jason Ostrom
David, You are the man. That worked. Just when I was figuring out that this was a variable interpolation problem. I could use $URL4 instead of $URL2, and it still wasn't interepreted as a variable, and $URL4 wouldn't be declared anywhere in the program. Thanks man! -Jason David T-G Jason --

Re: webBotting a Job Hunt

2002-06-07 Thread Ovid
--- drieux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: volks, this is probably more an ethical question than a technical question - since over the plays here I have become better at reverse engineering what webServers want pushed at them in the way of URI by get or puts but is it kosher to reverse

Am I doing something wrong?

2002-06-07 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hi all, I use: =start; =cut I use this statement to comment out more lines. However, I have seen in Lama Book that there is no block comment in Perl. I thought this statement is used to comment more lines. What is this statement used for, and is it something wrong if I use it just for

Using strict and a configuration file?

2002-06-07 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hi all, Is it possible to use use strict; if I get the variables from a configuration file? I've tried: use strict; require f:/xxx/config.txt; #In the configuration file I have a line like my $test = test test test; print Content-type: text/html\n\n; print $test; This gives me an error that

Sorting a hash by values?

2002-06-07 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hi all, I want to make a script that sorts the values from a hash. I want to make a top with the most downloaded files. I know how to sort the hash by keys but I couldn't sort it by values. I have a hash like: %hash = ( file1 = 3, file2 = 11, file3 = 6, fileN = 22 ); I would like to

RE: Am I doing something wrong?

2002-06-07 Thread Scot Robnett
What you are doing is not commenting; you're creating POD documentation. To comment out lines in Perl, use the # character. #!/usr/bin/perl -w print Hello, world! \n; # This is a comment where you # can write about what you're # doing in a particular block # so other programmers won't # be

Re: Search engines and SSI

2002-06-07 Thread Shawn
Hey Troy, They do on the many sites that I maintain. As far as they are concerned, they can not see the SSI since it is parsed on the server, and the general public doesn't even know that you are running with SSI. They see the same source the you do when you look at it in the browser.

Newbie, where did I go wrong?

2002-06-07 Thread Mark-Nathaniel Weisman
Writing a script for ActiveState's ActivePerl 5.6.1 which (if the darn thing worked) would do the same thing on a Windows box (with Perl installed, of course) that wget does on a Linux box. What I have (HTML comments added just in case anyone is reading w/ a browser): !-- use LWP::Simple;

debugging statements and such

2002-06-07 Thread David T-G
Hi, all -- The recent post containing print statements this is one and so on reminded me of an old question that I've never had answered: what's a good way to trace your program as it runs, preferably without getting into the debugger? I realize that that's sort of a loaded question and that

changing behavior by user command

2002-06-07 Thread David T-G
Hi, all -- So I have this mp3 database script idea and I'm starting to move into it (it feels good to think perlishly again, and I'm going to want to be able to ignore case or not and search on substrings or not in my code. That's always been a problem for me: how can I modify my behavior based

RE: debugging statements and such

2002-06-07 Thread Hanson, Robert
Well you could toy around with source filters. A source filter allows you to manipulate your code after it is read into memory but before it is executed. Here is a good article on it, and even has an example of handling debug output. http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1287/sam03030004/ You

DBI and DBD:: Oracle problem

2002-06-07 Thread Naser Ali
U have this program which connects to an Oracle 8i database but I get the following error message. Can anyone help please, = #!/usr/bin/perl -w # use DBI;# Load the DBI module use DBD::Oracle; ### Perform the connection using the

RE: debugging statements and such

2002-06-07 Thread Nikola Janceski
I have to say this: I thought debugging would be hard... and it really isn't, (for 90% of the cases). The most reason I have to debug is to see what my data structures look like and what they contain at a part in my program. My old method was: local $ = \n; print @stuff in here\n; etc.

Re: DBI and DBD:: Oracle problem

2002-06-07 Thread Joe Raube
What does your table look like? What is the data type of the 4th field? --- Naser Ali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: U have this program which connects to an Oracle 8i database but I get the following error message. Can anyone help please, =

RE: changing behavior by user command

2002-06-07 Thread Nikola Janceski
perhaps use qr// to precompile the search instead and use that new precompiled var within your loop so you don't evaluate the if conditions each looptime. my $search; if ( $WholeMatchOnly ) { if ( $IgnoreCase ) { $search = qr/^\($pattern\)$/i } else { $search =

RE: DBI and DBD:: Oracle problem

2002-06-07 Thread Naser Ali
It is a refernce to an address_type. -Original Message- From: Joe Raube [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 8:57 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: DBI and DBD:: Oracle problem What does your table look like? What is the data type of the 4th field? --- Naser

Re: Newbie, where did I go wrong?

2002-06-07 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Fri, 07 Jun 2002 07:30:44 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark-Nathaniel Weisman) wrote: $link_extor = HTML::LinkExtor-new(\handle_links); This is just for setting up the handler. Add the following line to do the real work. $link_extor-parse($html); [Note: Could it be that you used the

Re: changing behavior by user command

2002-06-07 Thread David T-G
Nikola, et al -- ...and then Nikola Janceski said... % % perhaps use qr// to precompile the search instead and use that new % precompiled var within your loop so you don't evaluate the if conditions % each looptime. Oh, cool! Thanks! % % my $search; ... Thanks also for the example, since

DBD::CSV

2002-06-07 Thread Jason Frisvold
Is anyone here familiar with DBD::CSV? I seem to be hitting a limit (I think) but I'm not sure how to figure it out... I have a CSV file with about 114 columns in it (I'm not generating these myself, it's Steel Belted Radius doing it) and I want to use DBD::CSV to pull the fields I want and

Re: debugging statements and such

2002-06-07 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Fri, 07 Jun 2002 12:31:52 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David T-G) wrote: The recent post containing print statements this is one and so on reminded me of an old question that I've never had answered: what's a good way to trace your program as it runs, preferably without getting into the

RE: :CSV

2002-06-07 Thread Hanson, Robert
As an alternative you could use Text::CSV to split the fields. Rob -Original Message- From: Jason Frisvold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 9:36 AM To: Beginners@Perl. Org (E-mail) Subject: DBD::CSV Is anyone here familiar with DBD::CSV? I seem to be hitting a

split a particular chunk, mebbe to pipe

2002-06-07 Thread David T-G
Hi, all -- I have some large files (1G-2G) that I want to split into 600M chunks for writing to CD; unfortunately, I don't have enough spare space to hold two copies (or I'd just use split). It seems that it should be straightforward to open the file, seek forward (chunksize*(chunknum-1))

RE: changing behavior by user command

2002-06-07 Thread Janek Schleicher
Nikola Janceski wrote at Fri, 07 Jun 2002 15:02:22 +0200: perhaps use qr// to precompile the search instead and use that new precompiled var within your loop so you don't evaluate the if conditions each looptime. my $search; if ( $WholeMatchOnly ) { if ( $IgnoreCase )

Re: changing behavior by user command

2002-06-07 Thread David T-G
Janek, et al -- ...and then Janek Schleicher said... % % Nikola Janceski wrote at Fri, 07 Jun 2002 15:02:22 +0200: % % perhaps use qr// to precompile the search instead and use that new precompiled var within your % loop so you don't evaluate the if conditions each looptime. ... % % Even

regex

2002-06-07 Thread Eduardo Cancino
Hi. I'm parsing a text file with this estrcuture line: 'here is a quote'. Autor (birth year - death year); occupation nationality. == I need to separate from the beggining to the first dot, ignoring the dots in side the two ''. but i have tried to escape the ' (\'), but no use, what i'm

RE: regex

2002-06-07 Thread Hanson, Robert
I think what you want is [^']* , meaning anything except single quote = zero or more times. Like this... my $line = 'here is a quote'. Autor (birth year - death year); occupation nationality.; $line =~ /'([^']*)'/; print $1; Rob -Original Message- From: Eduardo Cancino [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: regex

2002-06-07 Thread drieux
On Friday, June 7, 2002, at 07:57 , Eduardo Cancino wrote: Hi. I'm parsing a text file with this estrcuture line: 'here is a quote'. Autor (birth year - death year); occupation nationality. == I need to separate from the beggining to the first dot, ignoring the dots in side

RE: regex

2002-06-07 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Fri, 07 Jun 2002 15:02:36 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Hanson) wrote: $line =~ /'([^']*)'/; print $1; The regex is OK, but you should always check the return value of the match, as in print $1 if $line =~ /'([^']*)'/; because $1 will keep the value from a previous match if it

RE: :CSV

2002-06-07 Thread Jason Frisvold
Ugh... I figured out what it's choking on by using Text::CSV instead of DBD::CSV ... Some of the entries look something like this : 06/06/02,22:16:23,Some stuff here,LDAP JUNK DN=\\HERE\123 AT=7 US= SI=12345More junk,,, The problem, I believe, is that LDAP JUNK I think those quotes

renaming all files in a directory

2002-06-07 Thread Jeff Hooge
All right, first off I'm a total perl newbie (about 2 days now) and am looking for some resources on how to do a few things. Resources, meaning, don't tell me how to write the script just point me in the right direction of where to start. Also this may be an easy thing to do but remember I'm

Thanx to all

2002-06-07 Thread Ankit Gupta
Many thanks to all for help. Regards, Ankit Gupta Ankit Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hello, I am facing a problem in using regular expression on array. My code is written below: open(FILE, $dirvalue) ; my @lines

Re: debugging statements and such

2002-06-07 Thread Peter Scott
At 07:31 AM 6/7/02 -0500, David T-G wrote: The recent post containing print statements this is one and so on reminded me of an old question that I've never had answered: what's a good way to trace your program as it runs, preferably without getting into the debugger? You have to use the/a

RE: When to chomp

2002-06-07 Thread Kipp, James
Thanks. I was asking because i was wondering where the new lines in my case were coming from. -- my @dirs = `du -sk $path/*`; ... foreach (@dirs) { . #this is where i had to chomp the shell command added new lines after each entry, that is what i had to chomp. wierd though

IP address

2002-06-07 Thread Shishir K. Singh
Hello, I have a requirement to get the IP address of a user logged from a remote machine on to UNIX machine. Now the user can be using multiple logins through VPN or otherwise. I need to create something akin to command finger which will return the user his IP address based on his current

Re: debugging statements and such

2002-06-07 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] The recent post containing print statements this is one and so on reminded me of an old question that I've never had answered: what's a good way to trace your program as it runs, preferably without getting into the debugger? You might like

Re: renaming all files in a directory

2002-06-07 Thread Janek Schleicher
Jeff Hooge wrote at Fri, 07 Jun 2002 17:49:37 +0200: All right, first off I'm a total perl newbie (about 2 days now) and am looking for some resources on how to do a few things. Resources, meaning, don't tell me how to write the script just point me in the right direction of where to start.

renaming all files in a directory

2002-06-07 Thread Bryan R Harris
Here's a script that does something different, but that you may be able to cannibalize. (Be aware that I've cannibalized this from a script by Larry Wall with some customizations thanks to some folks on the list... It isn't mine by any means.) - B #!/usr/bin/perl -w # # Batch file renaming

RE: renaming all files in a directory

2002-06-07 Thread Nikola Janceski
ACK... all beginners should learn to: use strict; use warnings; and what these two lines mean... but for now if this is your first time scripting in perl, write the program without these two lines at the top. ONCE your script is finished and works, add this two lines in a copy of the script and

RE: :CSV

2002-06-07 Thread Timothy Johnson
I think that will give just about any CSV parser some trouble. Quotes in CSV files are used to denote fields that may contain commas. Is there any way to get Radius to use another string delimiter? -Original Message- From: Jason Frisvold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June

RE: :CSV

2002-06-07 Thread Janek Schleicher
Jason Frisvold wrote at Fri, 07 Jun 2002 17:42:52 +0200: Ugh... I figured out what it's choking on by using Text::CSV instead of DBD::CSV ... Some of the entries look something like this : 06/06/02,22:16:23,Some stuff here,LDAP JUNK DN=\\HERE\123 AT=7 US= SI=12345More junk,,,

Re: changing behavior by user command

2002-06-07 Thread Janek Schleicher
David T-G wrote at Fri, 07 Jun 2002 16:45:38 +0200: I'm not sure about the ignore case... If I read it right, some $pattern will become (?i)$pattern. I guess, then, (?i)pat is like /pat/i otherwise? Yep. The (?i) switches ignorecase in regexes on, while (?-i) switches it off. You could

Formatting in perl

2002-06-07 Thread Danial Magid
Hi, I am trying to put together a process that will format and print out checks (pay stbus), so I need to do a bit of formatting and combine the right fonts. I was wondering if there are any books or urls I could use for reference. Thanks, Danial

Re: Formatting in perl

2002-06-07 Thread David T-G
Danial -- ...and then Danial Magid said... % % Hi, Hello! % % I am trying to put together a process that will format and print out % checks (pay stbus), so I need to do a bit of formatting and combine the % right fonts. Who needs fonts? COURIER RUL3Z AND ASC11 IS DA B0MB, D00D! ;-) % %

Re: IP address

2002-06-07 Thread drieux
On Friday, June 7, 2002, at 09:41 , Shishir K. Singh wrote: I have a requirement to get the IP address of a user logged from a remote machine on to UNIX machine. Now the user can be using multiple logins through VPN or otherwise. I need to create something akin to command finger which

RE: IP address

2002-06-07 Thread Shishir K. Singh
Thanks!! But I want something akin to the value of $REMOTEHOST under tcsh. This can be generalized under unix by doing who am i | sed 's/.*(\(.*\))$/\1/' # as was suggested by one the member..thanks to him!! but will not work under non Unix envi. Here comes in the perl. I was hoping for

The Ethics of WebBotting a Job Hunt

2002-06-07 Thread drieux
volks, this is probably more an ethical question than a technical question - since over the plays here I have become better at reverse engineering what webServers want pushed at them in the way of URI by get or puts but is it kosher to reverse engineer how various public web sites do this

[ADMIN - THREAD CLOSED] Re: The Ethics of WebBotting a Job Hunt

2002-06-07 Thread Kevin Meltzer
I just said on cgi-beginners that this isn't on topic, now it is being posted here. #1 don't cross-post, #2 stay on topic. This thread is closed. Cheers, Kevin On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:35:21AM -0700, drieux ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: volks, this is probably more

Re: DBD::CSV

2002-06-07 Thread Michael Fowler
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 09:35:52AM -0400, Jason Frisvold wrote: Is anyone here familiar with DBD::CSV? I seem to be hitting a limit (I think) but I'm not sure how to figure it out... I have a CSV file with about 114 columns in it [snip] I think I'm hitting a max column limit [snip] What

Re: renaming all files in a directory

2002-06-07 Thread Eric Wang
the use of the term system come to mind or the character `systemcommands` or @filelist = `dir *.mp3 /b` also comes to mind. ^^ Eric On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Jeff Hooge wrote: All right, first off I'm a total perl newbie (about 2 days now) and am looking for some resources on how to do a few

Re: renaming all files in a directory

2002-06-07 Thread Bryan R Harris
Also look into globs... - B __ the use of the term system come to mind or the character `systemcommands` or @filelist = `dir *.mp3 /b` also comes to mind. ^^ Eric On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Jeff Hooge wrote: All right, first off I'm a total perl newbie (about 2 days now) and

[ADMIN - THREAD CLOSED] Re: The Ethics of WebBotting a Job Hunt

2002-06-07 Thread Bryan R Harris
So much for the kinder, friendlier list mom... __ I just said on cgi-beginners that this isn't on topic, now it is being posted here. #1 don't cross-post, #2 stay on topic. This thread is closed. Cheers, Kevin On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:35:21AM -0700, drieux ([EMAIL

Re: IP address

2002-06-07 Thread drieux
On Friday, June 7, 2002, at 11:28 , Shishir K. Singh wrote: But I want something akin to the value of $REMOTEHOST under tcsh. This can be generalized under unix by doing which is of course useful only to those running tcsh 8-) [..] but will not work under non Unix envi. Here comes in

Re: The Ethics of WebBotting a Job Hunt

2002-06-07 Thread drieux
On Friday, June 7, 2002, at 11:35 , drieux wrote: [..] can we divorce ethics from Technology? and piously stand behind the fact that we merely made the bomb, we did not drop it I am now confused - a ruling on cgi-beginner is also mandated for beginners??? these are the same mailing

Re: split a particular chunk, mebbe to pipe

2002-06-07 Thread John W. Krahn
David T-G wrote: Hi, all -- Hello, I have some large files (1G-2G) that I want to split into 600M chunks for writing to CD; unfortunately, I don't have enough spare space to hold two copies (or I'd just use split). It seems that it should be straightforward to open the file, seek

RE: IP address

2002-06-07 Thread Timothy Johnson
For the Win32 command, something like `ipconfig` =~ /(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)/; would work if you just want the ip address, providing you can have the client run it... -Original Message- From: drieux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 12:33 PM To: begin begin

RE: DBD::CSV

2002-06-07 Thread Jason Frisvold
Actually, I found out it's a matter of the CSV file not being very CSV like... :) Not using double quotes properly... *sigh* --- Jason H. Frisvold Senior ATM Engineer Engineering Dept. Penteledata CCNA Certified - CSCO10151622 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Help with Ranges

2002-06-07 Thread Rasoul Hajikhani
Hello folks, I am trying not to re-invent the wheels. So I was wondering whether there is a little program that you good people might know of the would do the following for me: Here's an example: input: 1,2,3,4,5,6,17-25,32-101:4 output: 1 6 1 17 25 1 32 100 4 output is start end increment

RE: Help with Ranges

2002-06-07 Thread Nikola Janceski
... is the operator. for ( 1 .. 1000 ){ print $_\n; } -Original Message- From: Rasoul Hajikhani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 3:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help with Ranges Hello folks, I am trying not

Re: [ADMIN - THREAD CLOSED] Re: The Ethics of WebBotting a Job Hunt

2002-06-07 Thread Kevin Meltzer
I hope no mom looks like me. If you don't think I am friendly, you don't know what you are talking about. I let MANY things slide on these lists which many others wouldn't. But when I close a thread on one list, just to see it posted on a sister-list, it is frustrating. I have told certain people

questions looking for an appropriate forum

2002-06-07 Thread drieux
perchance someone can help me find the appropriate forum for the technical discussions of implementing solutions that have legal ramifications for both the coder as well as the sites from which their code is run... [..] Personally, I think it would be kosher/ethical for you to do it for

RE: Help with Ranges

2002-06-07 Thread Nikola Janceski
oops. extra dot ... perldoc perlop -Original Message- From: Nikola Janceski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 3:59 PM To: 'Rasoul Hajikhani'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Help with Ranges ... is the operator. for ( 1 .. 1000 ){ print

Re: The Ethics of WebBotting a Job Hunt

2002-06-07 Thread Kevin Meltzer
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 12:36:44PM -0700, drieux ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: I am now confused - a ruling on cgi-beginner is also mandated for beginners??? If you read the list FAQs you would not be confused (section 2.4). If you can keep in your mind these are BEGINNERS

Re: split a particular chunk, mebbe to pipe

2002-06-07 Thread David T-G
John, et al -- ...and then John W. Krahn said... % % David T-G wrote: % ... % I have some large files (1G-2G) that I want to split into 600M chunks % for writing to CD; unfortunately, I don't have enough spare space to hold % two copies (or I'd just use split). ... % % Perhaps you want

Re: Help with Ranges

2002-06-07 Thread David T-G
Nikola, et al -- ...and then Nikola Janceski said... % % ... Fixed to .. per your followup, but I still don't get it. % % % is the operator. % % for ( 1 .. 1000 ){ % print $_\n; % } I just don't see how this would help him. What this will do is spit out a bunch of numbers,

RE: IP address

2002-06-07 Thread Timothy Johnson
Maybe I misunderstood what he was asking. I thought he wanted to find out what the local IP of the clients that were connected were. This would work only if you can have the client run it. -Original Message- From: drieux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 1:08 PM

RE: IP address

2002-06-07 Thread Shishir K. Singh
My faultI meant the remote hostname. -Original Message- From: Timothy Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 4:38 PM To: 'drieux'; begin begin Subject: RE: IP address Maybe I misunderstood what he was asking. I thought he wanted to find out what the

RE: IP address

2002-06-07 Thread Timothy Johnson
Oh, in that case (again clientside) you can check $ENV{COMPUTERNAME} unless the client is a Win9x system. -Original Message- From: Shishir K. Singh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 1:43 PM To: begin begin Subject: RE: IP address My faultI meant the remote

RE: Help with Ranges

2002-06-07 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - Here's something that gives your output (2nd example): use strict; use warnings; my $input = '1,2,3,4,5,6,17-25,32-101:4,1,2,3,5'; my @ina = split /,/, $input; my @outa; my $i = 0; for (@ina) { if (/(\d+)-(\d+):(\d+)/) { $outa[$i][0] = $1;

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