changing user password

2002-06-24 Thread Pavel Koutn
I need to make CGI script for changing user password throught web browser. I have one, but doesn't work: I'm using FreeBSD 4.6 Apache 1.3.24 #!/usr/bin/perl -w use Expect; $suexec = /usr/bin/su; print Content-Type: text/html\n\n; sub ChangeUnixPassword { my ($account,$passwd) =

Re: changing user password

2002-06-24 Thread David vd Geer Inhuur tbv IPlib
Hi Pavel, I know that perl mostly doesn't like the sticky-bits on files such as : -r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 24576 Aug 6 1998 /usr/bin/su He just doesn't executes them. Personaly I haven't found a solution for this. I know a collegue of mine has written a C-programm around it.

Re: test.cgi hashing error

2002-06-24 Thread David T-G
Kyle, et al -- ...and then Kyle Babich said... % % This is what I have: % % my %pages = (Yahoo,http://www.yahoo.com/;, % Google, http://www.google.com/;, % All The Web, http://www.alltheweb.com/;); % % while ( my ($key, $pages) = each %pages ) { %print qq{a href=$pages$key/a};

text problem

2002-06-24 Thread Martin Pestun
Hi everybody I've got text file on the local machine and Apache too. What I don't know is how can I display this file like html file using cgi. The file looks like: USER PID PPID %CPUTIME COMMAND user 26794 26002 0.00:00 user 4687 4685 0.00:00 -ksh

Session and authentication

2002-06-24 Thread Niko Gunadi
Hi, I'm using a session for my login system. So the session will keep the user's username and password. My question is if we able to retrieve the session back (for another page), is it necessary to check the username and password against the database ? I do not want to have unnecessary

Re: text problem

2002-06-24 Thread David vd Geer Inhuur tbv IPlib
Hi, Multiple ways of doing this : #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; my $logfile = ...; open(FH, $file); my @contents = FH; close (FH); print pre @contents /pre; # - or print tabletrthUSER/ththPID/ththPPID .. /th/tr; foreach $line(@contents) { ## $line =~

Re: Session and authentication

2002-06-24 Thread Jordan Mclain
I usually use random numbers, and keys for things like this, for example: I have a users table in a database set up like this: id integer auto increment primary key usernamevarchar(32) passwordvarchar(32) rand_keyfloat this way I can set the users cookie

Re: test.cgi hashing error

2002-06-24 Thread David T-G
Kyle -- ...and then Kyle Babich said... % % That confuses me; I would just copy and paste and that would be it but % I would have no idea how that is working and I don't really want to put I think that's a wise course :-) % anything in that I don't understand yet. Is there a simpler way

Re: calling sub based on database list?

2002-06-24 Thread perl-dvd
No, this is quite a simple problem actually. Here's how. my $alias = home|htmlBody,Header,homebody,footer; my ($name, $subs) = split(/\|/, $alias); my @subs = split(/\,/, $subs); foreach $sub(@subs){ my $return_val = {$sub}($pass_in_vars); } So the first part I assume you've got where

What editor for Perl do you recommend?

2002-06-24 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hi all, Can you recommend me a good editor for Perl scripts that runs under Windows? It should: 1. Save the text with Unix end of lines. 2. Write somewhere the current line I am in. 3. Not necessary but it would be wonderful to have a hotkey to jump from subroutine to subroutine, or to list the

Re: test.cgi hashing error

2002-06-24 Thread Kyle Babich
That confuses me; I would just copy and paste and that would be it but I would have no idea how that is working and I don't really want to put anything in that I don't understand yet. Is there a simpler way that would be more like: my $links = #hash here ; Kyle, et al -- ...and then

RE: What editor for Perl do you recommend?

2002-06-24 Thread Pavel Koutn
I think that you want too much for Perl editing under Window$, but try Ultra Edit or JEdit. I recommend JEdit, it's probably best editor written in Java and it's designed for developers. Pavel -Original Message- From: Octavian Rasnita [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 24,

Re: What editor for Perl do you recommend?

2002-06-24 Thread alex
hiho Octavian and allperl comunity, the simple solution to this problem is called PROTON 3.1 and can be downloaded @ http://www.meybohm.de/ (http://www.meybohm.de/proton.html) you can do, what I did, and that is mounting your user homedir (with samba)as some drive X: or whatever, and code away!

Re: What editor for Perl do you recommend?

2002-06-24 Thread Francesco Scaglioni
From: Octavian Rasnita [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: What editor for Perl do you recommend? Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 08:06:40 +0300 Hi all, Can you recommend me a good editor for Perl scripts that runs under Windows? It should: 1. Save the text with Unix end of lines. 2. Write somewhere the

Re: What editor for Perl do you recommend?

2002-06-24 Thread David T-G
Teddy -- ...and then Octavian Rasnita said... % % Hi all, Hello! % % Can you recommend me a good editor for Perl scripts that runs under Windows? % It should: vim. Maybe gvim if you're feeling decadent. % % 1. Save the text with Unix end of lines. Yep. % 2. Write somewhere the

HTML form another web site

2002-06-24 Thread Fred Sahakian
Is there an easy way to display the HTML from another website on your page without a redirect? for example, the below CGI just forwards you: #!/usr/local/bin/perl print Location:http://thecgibin.com/quickcode/redirect.shtml\n\n;; I would mlike a CGI to just get the HTML from another page

RE: HTML form another web site

2002-06-24 Thread Scot Robnett
You need to check out the LWP module. http://search.cpan.org/doc/RSE/lcwa-1.0.0/lib/lwp/lib/LWP.pm Scot R. inSite Internet Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.insiteful.tv -Original Message- From: Fred Sahakian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 9:49 AM To:

RE: how to change my password throught cgi

2002-06-24 Thread Scot Robnett
Assuming you are on UNIX, run your script suid. For example, if your script was called auth.cgi, here is what you would do: 1st, at the command line: chmod 4711 auth.cgi 2nd, change your shebang line in your script to include the -U (run as user) flag: #!/usr/bin/perl -U Now

RE: Object oriented variable question

2002-06-24 Thread Scot Robnett
You are trying to assign a static value to something that comes from the form. If you create a field called comments (or anything you want to call it, that's just what I chose) on your form and then type your test string, it will work with the following change to your code:

Re: return =1

2002-06-24 Thread perl-dvd
Octavian, Secondly, by your explanation, I'm not sure whether you know this, but your if should be like this: -- my $test = sub_name(); if ($test){ # stuff } -- Or -- if (sub_name()){ # stuff }

Re: text problem

2002-06-24 Thread perl-dvd
Martin, Well, you can use a simple html tag called pre. --- open(FILE, /path/file); local $/ = undef; # slurp mode, pull all data coming in one shot (so it all goes into a scalar) $contents_of_file = FILE; close(FILE); print qq^ pre $contents_of_file

Re: Session and authentication

2002-06-24 Thread Niko Gunadi
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 10:03:09AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Niko, If you don't want to compromise security then use .htaccess instead. Then base your session file off of the $ENV{'REMOTE_USER'}. Now of coarse this is assuming you are using Apache. Then yes you do need to check

Re: What editor for Perl do you recommend?

2002-06-24 Thread Jonathan Gines
definitely go with emacs and use perl-mode then font-lock-mode if you want syntax highlighting. At 03:51 PM 6/24/02 +, Francesco Scaglioni wrote: From: Octavian Rasnita [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: What editor for Perl do you recommend? Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 08:06:40 +0300 Hi all,

RE: What editor for Perl do you recommend?

2002-06-24 Thread Scot Robnett
emacs is a good one. I also like TextPad (www.textpad.com). Scot R. inSite Internet Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.insiteful.tv -Original Message- From: Jonathan Gines [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 11:19 AM To: Francesco Scaglioni; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

passing variables in POST

2002-06-24 Thread Niko Gunadi
Hii, I want to create a link to another page and want to pass some variables in which i do not want the user to know. (POST method) how to do that ? regards, niko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: What editor for Perl do you recommend?

2002-06-24 Thread John Brooking
Recognizing that this is a religious issue among many programmers, I submit for what it is worth that I use Ultra-Edit (Windows). It has everything you ask, you can extend the syntax for color-coding, run command line programs and capture the output in a window, edit remote files via FTP, record

Re: passing variables in POST

2002-06-24 Thread John Brooking
Only way I know of is to have the variables in their own private form somewhere on the page, such as: (HTML tags embedded in email message here!) form name=otherForm action=myScript.pl method=POST input name=var1 type=hidden value=val1 input name=var2 type=hidden

Running Modules

2002-06-24 Thread Theresa Mullin
Greetings All, I have the following code, from which I attempt to call the module “Test” #!/usr/local/bin/perl ### ### Program name: demo.pl ### Created By:Theresa Mullin require cgi.lib; ### Include the CGI stuff use CGI qw(:standard); ### Include the database access stuff use DBI;

My mind is numb!

2002-06-24 Thread Ben Huyghebaert
I just spent about 5-6 hours going through some of the unix mans for perl. I'm trying to get a better grasp on perl/cgi because right now a lot of it still confuses me even after reading a whole book about it. I think I'm mostly confused because there are so many ways to do things and then

Re: My mind is numb!

2002-06-24 Thread Alfred Wheeler
Comfortably numb? ;-) This might help (a little more introductory...): Copyright: 2001 Format: Paper Bound w/CD-ROM, 1057 pp. ISBN: 0-13-028418-1 In Perl How to Program, the Deitels and their colleagues, Tem R. Nieto and David C. McPhie, discuss topics you need to build complete, Web-based

Re: Running Modules

2002-06-24 Thread drieux
On Monday, June 24, 2002, at 01:09 , drieux wrote: [..] use Test; [..] there is also a 'name space' clash here Test.pm already exists as a real module in most of the perl releases. cf: perldoc -m Test So you may want to get into h2xs a little sooner - so that you can feel safe about doing

Re: My mind is numb!

2002-06-24 Thread John Brooking
Ben, I have found any of the O'Reilly books (http://perl.oreilly.com/) to be an excellent resource. I own _Programming Perl_ (a.k.a. The Camel Book) and find it's writing style to be very easy to read (even if I still have to re-read the complicated bits several times to really understand them),

RE: Running Modules

2002-06-24 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Theresa Mullin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 2:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Running Modules Greetings All, I have the following code, from which I attempt to call the module Test

Fwd: passing variables in POST

2002-06-24 Thread WyvernGod
---BeginMessage--- what about a sesion id based on their IP? or soem relevent info like that? may be a stupid way to do it.. but i track the count of how many users are currently at my site by their IP/timestamp that is saved for 5 min. if someone accesses the web site 5+ min after a

sorting a hash by value.

2002-06-24 Thread Postman Pat
Greetings, I would like to sort a hash by value. The hash values are numbers. I would like to sort this by desceding order. How would I do this? I have searched and found nothing on it. I have found lots on sorting by key though... Please help dudes! Ciao LK -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

what does this pattern match?

2002-06-24 Thread Postman Pat
$_=~s/\n//msg; What does the above match? LK -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sorting a hash by value.

2002-06-24 Thread Shawn
Hello Pat, You can do it like so: my %hash; foreach(sort {$hash{$a} = $hash{$b} } keys %hash) { } Shawn - Original Message - From: Postman Pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 1:46 AM Subject: sorting a hash by value. Greetings,

Re: sorting a hash by value.

2002-06-24 Thread Shawn
Shouldn't that be values %hash for sorting the values (see below), also be aware that a hash has no order like an array so you just have to do what you want while in the foreach loop (or stick them into an array). my %hash; foreach(sort {$hash{$a} = $hash{$b} } values %hash) {

Re: sorting a hash by value.

2002-06-24 Thread Shawn
foreach(sort { $hash{$a} = $hash{$b} } values %hash) { print $_\n; } Err... This will not work... You will be trying to get a hash value based on the value... It's early my %hash=(thumb='122',tom='21',muffit='48',miss='31'); foreach(sort { $hash{$a} = $hash{$b} } values %hash) { print

Reading File

2002-06-24 Thread Karen Liew Ying Ping
Hi, Let's say I'm opening a file. How do I read the last line of the file? is there any function in doing so? Thanks.

Re: Reading File

2002-06-24 Thread Connie Chan
open (FILE, yourfile.txt); my @FD = FILE; close (FILE); my $lastline = $FD[$#FD] Hope this help, Smiley Connie =) - Original Message - From: Karen Liew Ying Ping [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 6:05 PM Subject: Reading File Hi, Let's say I'm

Re: what does this pattern match?

2002-06-24 Thread John W. Krahn
Postman Pat wrote: $_=~s/\n//msg; What does the above match? That matches the newline character (\n) globally (/g) and replaces it with nothing. The /m option is not needed because the ^ and $ anchors are not used and the /s option is not needed because there is no . in the regular

Re: Simulate `sh -x'

2002-06-24 Thread David T-G
Peter -- ...and then Peter Scott said... % % At 06:01 AM 6/23/02 -0500, David T-G wrote: % % Would you like tracing that goes off when you go into a function? % Suppose % % if you gave a numeric argument to 't' it would trace up to that depth % % in subroutine calls beneath the current level

Re: Reading File

2002-06-24 Thread David vd Geer Inhuur tbv IPlib
Hi, I added one. The seek didn't work. I don't have the ReadBackwards, but at least some timeing results : Benchmark: timing 1 iterations of complete, frk, pop... complete: 21 wallclock secs (16.93 usr + 0.80 sys = 17.73 CPU) @ 564.02/s (n=1) frk: 83 wallclock secs ( 1.34

RE: if-statement and grep in one go

2002-06-24 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: David vd Geer Inhuur tbv IPlib [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 6:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: if-statement and grep in one go Hi, I need some help on the following. In my script I show users some infodocs after they

Re: Reading File

2002-06-24 Thread WyvernGod
could puting the entire file into an aray then i think there is a function to get the number of elements... then just use that to know what the last element would be? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to include a subroutine from external file?

2002-06-24 Thread drieux
On Sunday, June 23, 2002, at 10:11 , Timothy Johnson wrote: [..] If you put the module above in a file called UC.pm in the site/lib/Tim folder, you will have a module with your reusable subroutine. The only weird part: Don't forget that the last line should be just a '1'. Just put a use

Re: Reading File

2002-06-24 Thread Tor Hildrum
could puting the entire file into an aray then i think there is a function to get the number of elements... then just use that to know what the last element would be? my @array = FH; print $array[-1]; Tor -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

RE: Reading File

2002-06-24 Thread Timothy Johnson
I can't test this here, but would this work? while(FILE){ $scalar = $_; } print $scalar; $scalar should have the last line in it unless the EOF gets passed or something. That way you still end up reading through the entire file, but you don't have to slurp up the entire file to memory.

Simple Search (Hit List)

2002-06-24 Thread FlashGuy
Hello, I require a simple search (hit list) for my website. Its done in ASP. Are there any scripts that I could download and easily add it to my site? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

use 5.6.1

2002-06-24 Thread Gbio Qi
Hi expert, I am install a Bioinformatics application, which is useperl module. In Makefile.PL, there is 'use 5.6.1;', but I have only perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3), and I have no 5.6.1 module. I search CPAN, I can not find this module, do I need install perl5.6.1, do I have other

RE: use 5.6.1

2002-06-24 Thread Shishir K. Singh
Hi expert, I am install a Bioinformatics application, which is useperl module. In Makefile.PL, there is 'use 5.6.1;', but I have only perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3), and I have no 5.6.1 module. I search CPAN, I can not find this module, do I need install perl5.6.1, do I have other

Re: use 5.6.1

2002-06-24 Thread drieux
On Monday, June 24, 2002, at 07:08 , Shishir K. Singh wrote: [..] You are out of luck. You have to install the latest 5.6.1 perl. You can overwrite your current one or install it in some other place. Better to have all your working script confirm to one version cause it gets messy after

Re: sorting a hash by value.

2002-06-24 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jun 24, Postman Pat said: I would like to sort a hash by value. The hash values are numbers. I would like to sort this by desceding order. How would I do this? I have searched and found nothing on it. I have found lots on sorting by key though... Where did you search? A single check to

Sockets

2002-06-24 Thread Jason Frisvold
Greetings all, I'm going to be starting a project shortly where I will require the ability to communicate with the program via TCP/IP... Does anyone have any experience with this? Any suggestions on where I should start looking for information? It needs to be fairly secure with some

help Grading my test

2002-06-24 Thread FLAHERTY, JIM-CONT
hello , I have a quiz script. I randomly generates questions up to an certain number ( what is ever set in the quiz name settings table) , passes it ina variable to a grade.cgi. the variable looks like this !34!56!5!67! all question numbers seperated by a delimiter. all these questions

#!/usr/bin/perl - is there a macro for this?

2002-06-24 Thread LRZ
Is there? So that I don't have to constantly type it. Thanks. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

RE: #!/usr/bin/perl - is there a macro for this?

2002-06-24 Thread Balint, Jess
Maybe you are writing too many perl programs. Else use the m4 macro processor and then run it through every time. -Original Message- From: LRZ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 12:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: #!/usr/bin/perl - is there a macro for this? Is

Re: #!/usr/bin/perl - is there a macro for this?

2002-06-24 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jun 24, LRZ said: Is there? So that I don't have to constantly type it. What would you do with the time you saved?! -- Jeff japhy Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for Regular

Re: #!/usr/bin/perl - is there a macro for this?

2002-06-24 Thread drieux
On Monday, June 24, 2002, at 09:20 , Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: On Jun 24, LRZ said: Is there? So that I don't have to constantly type it. What would you do with the time you saved?! the other idea is to have 'template files'. cf:

Re: #!/usr/bin/perl - is there a macro for this?

2002-06-24 Thread David T-G
LRZ -- ...and then LRZ said... % % Is there? So that I don't have to constantly type it. What editor are you using? If you're using vim, the Real Man's* Editor, you could define a command that checks each *.pl file you open for the shebang line and puts it there if it's missing. I have an

Re: Reading File

2002-06-24 Thread Connie Chan
Hi everybody, I've done a dummy test, and finalized that David's method is the Goal Method, that's really Really Very Great !!! I've made a 50MB Text file ( Fixed length, 1001 char per line, with \n) for this test, and have the following results : SCRIPT 1 # Suggested by Johnson

Re: use 5.6.1

2002-06-24 Thread drieux
On Monday, June 24, 2002, at 09:15 , LoBue, Mark wrote: [..] Upgrading perl isn't always an option, I would love to use 5.6.1. Yes, Intellectually I understand this, so please forgive the 'flippancy' in my general response - I somewhat take the approach that since it is available for 'macs' -

no subject

2002-06-24 Thread Richard Adams
Hi, I have a long sequence of letters ( an amino acid sequence). I want to extract 4letters either side of each S and get them into an array. e.g., ADFGTREDSWQACVDFRSSSGHYT would get TREDSWQAC VDFRSSSGH DFRSSSGHY etc. I have worked out how to do this by using substr() but wondered if

Re: no subject

2002-06-24 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jun 24, Richard Adams said: @peptides = $sequence =~ /(\w{4}S\w{4})/g; this works up to a point, but if there are 2 adjacent 'S' the 2nd one is not extracted, I guess because the regexp engine continues after the end of the previous match ie., it doesn't extract DFRSSSGHY above. Here's the

RE: use 5.6.1

2002-06-24 Thread LoBue, Mark
-Original Message- From: drieux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 9:55 AM To: begin begin Subject: Re: use 5.6.1 On Monday, June 24, 2002, at 09:15 , LoBue, Mark wrote: [..] Upgrading perl isn't always an option, I would love to use 5.6.1. Yes,

Elsif and problems

2002-06-24 Thread Bradley J. Seward
I'm not sure as to proper naming scheme, so bear with me... When I parse my input line, the url thingy, http://www...stuffcgi?newuser, the if statement works and jumps to the correct subroutine which displays an html page with a form. When this form is submitted it goes to

RE: no subject

2002-06-24 Thread Timothy Johnson
It sounds then, like what you essentially want to match is: four word characters followed by one or more S followed by four word characters which could be represented like so: @peptides = $sequence =~ /(\w{4}S+\w{4})/g; The one fallacy of this algorithm is that if you have a

RE: Reading File

2002-06-24 Thread Shishir K. Singh
Hi everybody, I've done a dummy test, and finalized that David's method is the Goal Method, that's really Really Very Great !!! I've made a 50MB Text file ( Fixed length, 1001 char per line, with \n) for this test, and have the following results : SCRIPT 1 # Suggested by Johnson

Binary File Pattern Matching

2002-06-24 Thread Andrew Stone
Hello all, I'm having a problem with (I suppose) pattern matching. Here's the task: To take binary data from windows(little-endian) and convert to Unix(big-endian). If the file is all numeric, I don't have a problem, but it isn't. I need to be able to recognize that one of the four bytes is

Re: HTML::Template

2002-06-24 Thread Peter Scott
At 10:37 PM 6/23/02 -0400, Shawn Bower wrote: I'm trying to use the HTML::Template package, I got it all set up with a template web page and I have set up the parameters in my perl script and it runs fine when I run it from the command line but when I load it using my browser the variable don't

Re: #!/usr/bin/perl - is there a macro for this?

2002-06-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 09:18:01AM -0700, LRZ wrote: Is there? So that I don't have to constantly type it. # ln -s /usr/bin/perl /p Thanks. You're welcome :-) -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

RE: Debugging the debugger

2002-06-24 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Harry Putnam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 3:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Debugging the debugger Just going thru the debug tutorial: perldoc perldebtut Following along having writen the example script to disk. I

RE: Binary File Pattern Matching

2002-06-24 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Andrew Stone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 1:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Binary File Pattern Matching Hello all, I'm having a problem with (I suppose) pattern matching. Here's the task: To take binary data from

Dear answerers (was Re: no subject)

2002-06-24 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Richard Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a long sequence of letters ( an amino acid sequence). I want to extract 4letters either side of each S and get them into an array. e.g., ... I would like to ask all the people who invest their time and answer the questions in

when to use hashes...

2002-06-24 Thread Bryan R Harris
(This is still the beginner's list, right?) I'm surprised at how often the answer to a question is You should be using a hash, not an array. So my question is, how many keys is too many? Is there a rule of thumb? (like if you have over 500,000 items, use a 2-d array instead of a hash) TIA.

Re: Elsif and problems

2002-06-24 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Bradley J. Seward [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure as to proper naming scheme, so bear with me... When I parse my input line, the url thingy, http://www...stuffcgi?newuser, the if statement works and jumps to the correct subroutine which displays an html page with

Re: when to use hashes...

2002-06-24 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Bryan R Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] (This is still the beginner's list, right?) I'm surprised at how often the answer to a question is You should be using a hash, not an array. So my question is, how many keys is too many? Is there a rule of thumb? (like if you have over 500,000

RE: when to use hashes...

2002-06-24 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Bryan R Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 2:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: when to use hashes... (This is still the beginner's list, right?) Sure, why not? I'm surprised at how often the answer to a question is

RE: Elsif and problems

2002-06-24 Thread Bradley J. Seward
but the two keyword variables are completely unrelated. Not sure what you mean? I know they are separate, which means the elsif is unaffected by the other... if I understand. I'll send you the file attached if you want. But here's the parse_input subroutine: sub parse_input { if

RE: Binary File Pattern Matching

2002-06-24 Thread Andrew Stone
Sorry about that...forgot to reply to all. Working with 4 languages at once tends to turn my brain to mush. -Original Message- From: Bob Showalter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 2:41 PM To: 'Andrew Stone' Subject: RE: Binary File Pattern Matching Send this to

Re: Dear answerers (was Re: no subject)

2002-06-24 Thread George Gunderson
On Monday, June 24, 2002, at 02:23 , Jenda Krynicky wrote: I would like to ask all the people who invest their time and answer the questions in this list to ignore the posts whose authors were too lazy to specify a meaningful subject. If they do not get any reply, they might start

RE: Elsif and problems

2002-06-24 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Bradley J. Seward [EMAIL PROTECTED] but the two keyword variables are completely unrelated. Not sure what you mean? I know they are separate, which means the elsif is unaffected by the other... if I understand. I mean ... you are passing the parse_input() a variable, and later on

Re: when to use hashes...

2002-06-24 Thread drieux
On Monday, June 24, 2002, at 11:21 , Bryan R Harris wrote: [..] I'm surprised at how often the answer to a question is You should be using a hash, not an array. because of the 'tree search' structure that simplifies the query for the value - rather than the linear 'walk array and test all

RE: when to use hashes...

2002-06-24 Thread Bryan R Harris
Use a hash when you want to access data by a key. (like if you have over 500,000 items, use a 2-d array instead of a hash) Perl doesn't have 2-d arrays. Sure it does, it just takes a little more work to implement them. =) If you have 500,000 of something, that gets in to the realm of

RE: when to use hashes...

2002-06-24 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Bryan R Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] So about how many keys do you have to have before you start questioning whether you should be using a hash? Is 15,000 keys too many? I've got lots of data files with 15000+ x,y,z values. The x,y values are the same, but the z's are different between

RE: when to use hashes...

2002-06-24 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Bryan R Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 2:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: when to use hashes... Use a hash when you want to access data by a key. (like if you have over 500,000 items, use a 2-d array

Re: Running Modules

2002-06-24 Thread drieux
On Monday, June 24, 2002, at 11:30 , Theresa Mullin wrote: [..] use Test; [..] …Here is module Test: #!/usr/bin/perl ### Program Name: Test.pm ### Created By:Theresa Mullin ### Date: 5/20/02 package Test; $dbase = TEST; print And to all a good night \n; The code

Re: My mind is numb!

2002-06-24 Thread drieux
On Monday, June 24, 2002, at 12:47 , Ben Huyghebaert wrote: I just spent about 5-6 hours going through some of the unix mans for perl. phase one error: documentation is written in a non-formalized language code is written in almost like a formalized language the

Re: Running Modules

2002-06-24 Thread bob ackerman
On Monday, June 24, 2002, at 01:00 PM, drieux wrote: On Monday, June 24, 2002, at 11:30 , Theresa Mullin wrote: [..] use Test; [..] …Here is module Test: #!/usr/bin/perl ### Program Name: Test.pm ### Created By:Theresa Mullin ### Date: 5/20/02 package Test;

matching extracharacters

2002-06-24 Thread Pedro A Reche
Hi all, I would like to match a string variable in a longer string retreiveing the match plus 5 extra characters at each side of the match. This what I mean: $var = 'something'; $line = 'SDFGHAsomethingWDFTsft'; and, I would like to get in a new variable the string 'DFGHAsomethingWDFTs'. Any

RE: matching extracharacters

2002-06-24 Thread Shishir K. Singh
Hi all, I would like to match a string variable in a longer string retreiveing the match plus 5 extra characters at each side of the match. This what I mean: $var = 'something'; $line = 'SDFGHAsomethingWDFTsft'; and, I would like to get in a new variable the string 'DFGHAsomethingWDFTs'. Any

Re: matching extracharacters

2002-06-24 Thread Craig Moynes/Markham/IBM
@matches = $var =~ m/\w{5}$something\w{5}/g should work I believe - Craig Moynes [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: matching extracharacters

2002-06-24 Thread David T-G
Pedro -- ...and then Pedro A Reche said... % % Hi all, % I would like to match a string variable in a longer string retreiveing % the match plus 5 extra characters at each side of the % match. This is pretty popular today. See the no-subject thread from Richard Adams earlier today,

RE: matching extracharacters

2002-06-24 Thread Balint, Jess
How exactly does on pre-compile the regex? I would be interested in seeing this. [Jess] -Original Message- From: Shishir K. Singh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 5:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: matching extracharacters Hi all, I

Re: matching extracharacters

2002-06-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 04:55:07PM -0400, Pedro A Reche wrote: Hi all, I would like to match a string variable in a longer string retreiveing the match plus 5 extra characters at each side of the match. This what I mean: $var = 'something'; $line = 'SDFGHAsomethingWDFTsft'; and, I

RE: matching extracharacters

2002-06-24 Thread Shishir K. Singh
How exactly does on pre-compile the regex? I would be interested in seeing this. [Jess] Three cases: a) Hardcode - /(\w{5})(something)(\w{5})/ b) Intepolate variable in the search variable, value remaining constant throughout the program $var = something /(\w{5})(something)(\w{5})/o

Re: Running Modules

2002-06-24 Thread bob ackerman
On Monday, June 24, 2002, at 01:48 PM, drieux wrote: On Monday, June 24, 2002, at 01:34 , bob ackerman wrote: [..] yes but there is not a place to easily grasp the idea of using h2xs. a little holdhanding would help. [..] thanks for keeping me honest homeboy we'll be back with

RE: matching extracharacters

2002-06-24 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Shishir K. Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] How exactly does on pre-compile the regex? I would be interested in seeing this. [Jess] Three cases: a) Hardcode - /(\w{5})(something)(\w{5})/ b) Intepolate variable in the search variable, value remaining constant throughout the program

Textarea element returns carriage return/line feed but I want just the \n

2002-06-24 Thread Brad Fike
All, I have written a small cgi script that allows my users to submit some text to a db. everything work well except that it seems to be doubling their return keys. Each time they modify their entry the lines get one return key further apart. I read this in one of the Oreilly books... Upon

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