Re: [OT] RE: POD vs. # Comments

2002-06-13 Thread John Brooking
--- David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... % Programming Perl?) says that comment, when used as % a translator keyword following =for, is by Whoa! You found that in there?? Do you have 3e or 2e? I couldn't find any POD commands in my 2e (Covers Perl5!) copy, which is why I kept

Weather data via Perl-- just sharing

2002-06-13 Thread Fred Sahakian
I got this from a Perl list at Builder.com, I thought it would be interesting to share, something folks may want to include it on their web sites: Retrieve weather data with Geo::WeatherNOAA Perl's WeatherNOAA module gives you easy access to current weather information and short-term

cgi report from another server

2002-06-13 Thread Martin Pestun
Hi everybody, I don't know to solve this CGI problem: My CGI script run on the one server1 and I want get the result from another server2 like this: #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w $delay = 10; $date = /bin/date; $stuff=rsh server2 -l user /bin/uname -X; print Refresh: , $delay, \n; print

Re: cgi report from another server

2002-06-13 Thread David vd Geer Inhuur tbv IPlib
Hi Martin, This is because you didn't use the back-tick's : $stuff=`rsh server2 -l user /bin/uname -X`; (Don't mix them up with the ' ); This will actualy execute the command, currently you only set a var. Also system() and exec() could help you out. Regs David Hi everybody, I don't

Re: Having problems with login

2002-06-13 Thread Ben Huyghebaert
It worked! I had to correct some syntax problems I had but after that I got it rolling. Thank you very much! I'll try suggestions next time before I just assume that they won't work. I'm still confused by it but I'll study it maybe understand why it works. LOL On Wed, 12 June 2002, David

RE: Having problems with login

2002-06-13 Thread Scot Robnett
You might want to think about crypting those passwords. Plain text still leaves the information somewhat vulnerable, especially if you have them in a flat text file that is being written to in a directory chmod'd 777. Two suggestions: - Check out Lincoln Stein's Crypt::CBC

Re: Re: form display problem

2002-06-13 Thread Mark Bergeron
Perl programming is like the Breakfast Bar at Shoneys! Take what you want and leave the rest. Ask questions, ask questions, ask questions. -Original Message- From: Janek Schleicher[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed Jun 12 01:42:23 PDT 2002 Subject: Re: form display

file uploading

2002-06-13 Thread Greg D .
Hello, I was wondering if anyone knew the best way to upload a file and then populate the text area with the text file you just selected. Is there any way to do that with perl and cgi instead of having to use javascript? Or if that is not possible in perl and cgi is there a way to

Net::SMTP question

2002-06-13 Thread Nate Brunson
I have been working on a simple mail script using Net::SMTP; and the script works fine...but I was wondering, we had some coldfusion mail scripts, that were written by an e-commerce company, stop working... then i was going over my code and i realized that I never used $smtp-quit; DUN dun dun

Re: file uploading

2002-06-13 Thread Ovid
--- Greg D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I was wondering if anyone knew the best way to upload a file and then populate the text area with the text file you just selected. Is there any way to do that with perl and cgi instead of having to use javascript? Or if that is not

Any web site teaching comparison of Shell and Perl?

2002-06-13 Thread Amy Kim
I am looking for web sites teaching differences or comparison of Shell and Perl. Does anybody know any good web sites for that? Amy

Re: Any web site teaching comparison of Shell and Perl?

2002-06-13 Thread David T-G
Amy -- First of all, you might get a better response to this on the beginners list, since it's not really a CGI matter. That aside, though, ... ...and then Amy Kim said... % % I am looking for web sites teaching differences or comparison of Shell and Perl. Does anybody know any good web

Perl Help

2002-06-13 Thread LinkS On WeB
using the stat function, say I was using $stat[9], which displays the time of the file, how would I make it just display the date. Month-DayofMonth-Year = __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup

RE: Perl Help

2002-06-13 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: LinkS On WeB [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 4:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Perl Help using the stat function, say I was using $stat[9], which displays the time

Re: Perl Help

2002-06-13 Thread David T-G
Links -- What a funny name you have... ...and then LinkS On WeB said... % % using the stat function, say I was using $stat[9], % which displays the time of the file, how would I make % it just display the date. Month-DayofMonth-Year Take the seconds that come out of stat and feed them to

Re: user name

2002-06-13 Thread Todd Wade
Spider Man wrote: I am writing a web CGI form for intranet network use. Everything is NT based and I need some secure verification. I can grab the information of what machine has been used to submit the form. However, is there any way I can find out the username used to log into the

Re: Having problems with login

2002-06-13 Thread Octavian Rasnita
I am a beginner but I have some comments: 1. You should keep the passwords crypted on the file. It is simple to crypt them 2. You can use foreach(...) but if you will have a big file, it will eat too much memory. It would be even more simple to use while(FILE) 3. Is the user allowed to choose

Re: Searching for a specific spot on a page

2002-06-13 Thread Janek Schleicher
Troy May wrote at Thu, 13 Jun 2002 04:51:34 +0200: Hello, I'm trying to do a news feed type of script from an admin page. I need to open up a page and find the line that starts with !--news feed-- and insert $html right after that. I'm drawing a blank on how to search for that line.

Win32 reg?

2002-06-13 Thread Langa Kentane
Greetz, Any ideas if there is a mod out there that I can use to set Windows 2K DNS settings or is there any other way that I can set this? I have been battling with this for a while and have not been able to find a workable solution from MS Technet. The only way that I could find entails using

Re: How to read formulas from an Excel file

2002-06-13 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Thu, 13 Jun 2002 00:20:25 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob) wrote: I need to write to an existing excel file, which is not supported by any existing module. Did you check out Win32::OLE? -- felix -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: Setting NT/Win2k networking params

2002-06-13 Thread Nigel Peck
You should be able to do this through Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) which is a service that you will need to start on 2K and a download for NT (http://www.microsoft.com/scripting/ I think). This opens up an object oriented interface to doing just about anything you want to Windows. I

Controlling Novell products with Perl

2002-06-13 Thread Nigel Peck
Does anyone have experience of using Perl to control any Novell products such as Netware, eDirectory (NDS) etc. I don't have a specific requirement at present but we do a lot of Novell stuff and I am interested to know what can be/has been done. Apologies if this question is a bit general but I

Re: Hash reference

2002-06-13 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: W. Huang [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a refence to a hash, which is $hashref. I want to print out the name of the hash ( which is %hash ) from $hashref, but don't know how. Could you please help? thanks! #- %hash= { apple = red, bana = yellow, }; $hashref =\%hash; print

Re: Writing to an existing MS Excel file

2002-06-13 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone have any advice on how to write to an EXISTING MS Excel file? The goal is to have a script update values in an excel file. Thanks, Rob use Win32::OLE; $excel = new Win32::OLE 'Excel.Application', 'quit()'; #$excel-{Visible} = 1;

perl EXCEL app/Win32::OLE

2002-06-13 Thread M z
Dear all, i have a simple and silly question really..I downloaded this from the web, tried it, checked several times to ensure that my file location was correct and still had problemsthe error message is very obvious but I've checked file location SEVERAL times...please help...oh yeah, I do

Re: Searching for a specific spot on a page

2002-06-13 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
Do it this way if( open(IN,$file)) { local($/)=undef; $filestr = IN; } close IN; $SEARCH = '!--news feed--'; $filestr=~s/$SEARCH/$SEARCH $HTML/; open(OUT,$file) || die $!; print OUT $filestr; close OUT; Troy May wrote: Hello, I'm trying to do a news feed type of script from an

Re: perl EXCEL app/Win32::OLE

2002-06-13 Thread Arul, Rex\(NEA-IMAP\)
perl EXCEL app/Win32::OLEYou should have your pathSeparatorChar as \\ and not /. Since you are using Microsoft's Excel Engine, the Excel APIs are very strict about the path syntax and therefore, Perl's separatorChar of / (forward slash) will not work! Cheers, Rex - Original Message -

Re: Hash reference

2002-06-13 Thread Chas Owens
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 23:30, W. Huang wrote: Hi, I have a refence to a hash, which is $hashref. I want to print out the name of the hash ( which is %hash ) from $hashref, but don't know how. Could you please help? thanks! #- %hash= { apple = red, bana = yellow, };

RE: Win32 reg?

2002-06-13 Thread Langa Kentane
I tried that but unfortunately does not seem to have an effect on it. If you look further down the structure under interfaces that's where i should be setting the DNS server but unfortunately that will not be the same from computer to computer and I have not been able to find a way to determine

RE: Changing a map on an HL server via Perl

2002-06-13 Thread Ron Powell
Some asking around on the hlds_linux mailing list produced this: http://kkrcon.sourceforge.net Its very cool :) Ron -Original Message- From: Joey Tesmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 5:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Changing a map on an HL server

How to open STDOUT ?

2002-06-13 Thread Franck FASANO
Hi, I have recuperated a module from the web and I interfaced with it but STDOUT is closed . If I do a : print STDOUT hello\n in my script, nothing appeared . I don't know where STDOUT is closed and how to re-open it ? If someone have an idea... ? Thanks in advance. Franck. -- To

literal to regex

2002-06-13 Thread Nikola Janceski
I want to convert a bunch of strings to regexs but I want all special characters to be interpreted as themselves literally. so . will be \. and * will \*. so what do I need to change here: my @idl_object_ext = map { qr/$_/ } qw( _g.h s_g.cc c_g.cc ); Delivery Queue

RE: literal to regex

2002-06-13 Thread Shishir K. Singh
Think you need to use \Q$string\E -Original Message- From: Nikola Janceski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 11:05 AM To: Beginners (E-mail) Subject: literal to regex I want to convert a bunch of strings to regexs but I want all special characters to be

Re: literal to regex

2002-06-13 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Nikola Janceski [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want to convert a bunch of strings to regexs but I want all special characters to be interpreted as themselves literally. so . will be \. and * will \*. so what do I need to change here: my @idl_object_ext = map { qr/$_/ } qw( _g.h s_g.cc

RE: Killing Idle Users

2002-06-13 Thread Akens, Anthony
This solution seems to kill anything, here's a snippet of the log. As you can see, it's hitting things low idle times. (I of course commented out the kill line) mmorgan killing process idPID 80350 on pts/0 because minutes equal 1 CLanko killing process idPID 109034 on pts/1 because

RE: Win32 reg?

2002-06-13 Thread Timothy Johnson
Hmm. Im in training all week, and I feel so powerless without my tools. If I remember correctly, then what you need to do is find the W2k key where the NICs are enumerated and retrieve a list of GUIDs, then head back to the key below and use the information you just got to find and change the

Re: perl EXCEL app/Win32::OLE

2002-06-13 Thread M z
Dear Sir, Thanks again. could you please help me do something very basic again as you saved me before. I'm trying to retrieve a certain row, column, for example A1. instead of traversing each row and column I want to have control over specific cells and print out a specific cell. Do you know

Formatting output

2002-06-13 Thread Frank Newland
All, I want to format the output of my database query. Current code while (@row =$sth-fetchrow() ) { print join(',',@row); } Results 1.38, .0396,.0076 Desired Results 1.38, 0.0396, 0.0076 Here's what I've tried.. but none of these formats appear $row[0] = sprintf(%04d,$row[2]); ##

Re: Killing Idle Users

2002-06-13 Thread John W. Krahn
Anthony Akens wrote: From: John W. Krahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] John W. Krahn wrote: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $results = '/home/danb/killemresults'; open RES, '', $results or die Cannot open $results: $!; print \n . localtime() . \nStarting\n; for my

Re: Formatting output

2002-06-13 Thread Ovid
I want to format the output of my database query. Current code while (@row =$sth-fetchrow() ) { print join(',',@row); } Results 1.38, .0396,.0076 Desired Results 1.38, 0.0396, 0.0076 Frank, It's tough for me to be sure exactly what you are wanting for formatting, so I would

Re: Formatting output

2002-06-13 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jun 13, Frank Newland said: Results 1.38, .0396,.0076 Desired Results 1.38, 0.0396, 0.0076 $row[0] = sprintf(%04d,$row[2]); ## results in == 0. $row[1] = sprintf(%0d.%04d,$row[4]); ## results in ==0. %d is for INTEGERS. You have floating points, so use %f. -- Jeff japhy

Re: display a section of text

2002-06-13 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] How can I scan a text file for a key word then display it down to a second keyword. I know in VB the command is somthing like instr() If you want a direct counterpart of the VB's inStr() then it's index() perldoc -f index (This is supposed to be run.

scripting windoze

2002-06-13 Thread Reed Lawson
Hi, Is there a way to: Launch a win32 app Send keyboard commands to it wait for it to finish close it from perl? I'm making a CDRW every day for testing and I am tired of running my perl based build script starting Easy CD Creator start

Update ODBC

2002-06-13 Thread Ned Cunningham
I am trying to update an Access database table field with a increment number. I cant seem to place the update piece in the right place. Is this the right path to take? Snip #!/usr/bin/perl use Win32::ODBC; $DSN = KIDSN; $Dir = E:/kimcon/conv/; $DBase = Ki720.mdb; $Driver = Microsoft Access

Re: accessing database via network using DBI

2002-06-13 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: learn perl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi folks, need some help in accessing a ODBC database (SQL server) using DBI via the nextwork. usually, if the database is on local machine, I just use the datasource $dbh=DBI-connect(DBI:ODBC:databasename,$username, $password, %attr); but how do I

Re: Controlling Novell products with Perl

2002-06-13 Thread Bill Akins
I would also be interested in seeing what others have come up with. Bill Akins, CNE Sr. OSA Emory Healthcare (404) 712-2879 - Office 12674 - PIC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nigel Peck [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/13/02 04:03AM Does anyone have experience of using Perl to control any Novell products such as

Re: accessing database via network using DBI

2002-06-13 Thread learn perl
Thanks, that's what I thought of doing. But is there a way to connect to the remote database (MS SQL server) w/o going thru DSN? Thanks Eric On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Jenda Krynicky wrote: From: learn perl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi folks, need some help in accessing a ODBC database (SQL server)

Re: Formatting output

2002-06-13 Thread John W. Krahn
Frank Newland wrote: I want to format the output of my database query. Current code while (@row =$sth-fetchrow() ) { print join(',',@row); } Results 1.38, .0396,.0076 Desired Results 1.38, 0.0396, 0.0076 $ perl -le'print join , , map { sprintf %.4f, $_ } ( 1.38, .0396, .0076

Re: accessing database via network using DBI

2002-06-13 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: learn perl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, that's what I thought of doing. But is there a way to connect to the remote database (MS SQL server) w/o going thru DSN? $db = DBI-connect( 'DBI:ODBC:Driver=SQL Server; Server=The_name_or_IP_of_Server;

Re: accessing database via network using DBI

2002-06-13 Thread learn perl
Hi Jenda, Thanks for your info~ it wasn't on the book any where? =) as for DSN lookup I have my own code to search for available drivers ^^ Eric #begin code #!d:\perl\bin\perl.exe -w #This tool is used to check for connection strings to the

Re: display a section of text

2002-06-13 Thread Michael Pratt
Well that doesnt give me what I want. I want to search a text file for a Key word then display the contents to a second keyword. For example take the above paragraph and display just ' want to search a text file for a Key word ' thats it. Thanks Mike Jenda Krynicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: display a section of text

2002-06-13 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Michael Pratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well that doesnt give me what I want. I want to search a text file for a Key word then display the contents to a second keyword. For example take the above paragraph and display just ' want to search a text file for a Key word ' thats it. I assumed

Re: Syntax of mkdir()

2002-06-13 Thread bss96kci
Hallo! I'm a novice Perl programmer. I want to make a subdirectory in the path: /data/home/collette/exponat. My code looks like this: $invnummer = $FORM{'invnummer'}; $path = /data/home/collette/exponat; chdir(path); if ($invnummer ne ) { mkdir($invnummer, 0755) || die (Cannot mkdir $invnummer

Re: Syntax of mkdir()

2002-06-13 Thread John W. Krahn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo! Hello, I'm a novice Perl programmer. I want to make a subdirectory in the path: /data/home/collette/exponat. My code looks like this: $invnummer = $FORM{'invnummer'}; $path = /data/home/collette/exponat; chdir(path); You are missing the

Re: How to open STDOUT ?

2002-06-13 Thread Todd Wade
Franck Fasano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hi, I have recuperated a module from the web and I interfaced with it but STDOUT is closed . If I do a : print STDOUT hello\n in my script, nothing appeared . I don't know where STDOUT is closed

Re: lazy variable declaration

2002-06-13 Thread Todd Wade
Janek Schleicher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... use strict; use warnings; wasn't made only to make the Perl Community luckier. It can help to avoid typical mistakes like (a) mispelling of a variable (b) using of an undefined variable

Re: How to open STDOUT ?

2002-06-13 Thread John W. Krahn
Todd Wade wrote: Franck Fasano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I have recuperated a module from the web and I interfaced with it but STDOUT is closed . If I do a : print STDOUT hello\n in my script, nothing appeared . I don't know

RE: scripting windoze

2002-06-13 Thread Timothy Johnson
Look for the Win32::SetupSup module. I think it has the functions you need. -Original Message- From: Reed Lawson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 6/13/02 11:17 AM Subject: scripting windoze Hi, Is there a way to: Launch a win32 app Send keyboard commands to it

Re: lazy variable declaration

2002-06-13 Thread Todd Wade
David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hmmm... Well, I'll grant you that, but what about the example above? It would only be undef for the first N lines that are short, and once it gets loaded then it will get reset instead. It seems more

RE: Searching for a specific spot on a page

2002-06-13 Thread Troy May
Thank you, that worked! :) By the way, I'm thinking of a new thing that I want to do. How would I alter this to open another page the same way, but replace the html code BETWEEN two !--news feed-- with the same $html? I could rename the second !--news feed-- if that would be easier. But I'm

Re: Searching for a specific spot on a page

2002-06-13 Thread Shawn
my $string=someHTML; my @split=split(/(!--news feed--)/,$string); my $newstring=@split[0,1].$replacement.@split[3,4]; or my $string=someHTML; $string=~s/(.*?!--news feed--).*?(!--news feed--.*)/$1$replacement$2/ms; Not sure if the 'm' modifier is needed on the substitution... Anyway, these

RE: Searching for a specific spot on a page

2002-06-13 Thread Troy May
Thank you Shawn! That worked too! You guys are great! :) Troy -Original Message- From: Shawn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 9:19 PM To: Troy May; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Searching for a specific spot on a page my $string=someHTML; my