Re: Non-caching META-tags

2002-11-21 Thread Nick Malden
Thanks for the suggestions. The problem is that for these META-tags to work, they have to be in the header, not the body of the HTML. Thus if I use #*** Start HTML stuff *** print $q-header, $q-start_html(-title='New page', -style={'src'='mystyle.css'}); and then

Re: Non-caching META-tags

2002-11-21 Thread fliptop
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 at 13:58, Michael Kelly opined: MK:On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 02:02:05PM +, Nick Malden wrote: MK: MK:CGI.pm doesn't support http-equiv meta-tags, according to the documentation. MK:What about something as simple as: what? snippet from perldoc CGI: To create an HTTP-EQUIV

Weekly list FAQ posting

2002-11-21 Thread casey
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Re: Non-caching META-tags

2002-11-21 Thread Nick Malden
Perl/CGI really doesn't seem to like this way of doing META tags. I've trimmed the irrelevant stuff, am the core of what I'm trying is the following: #!/usr/local/bin/perl use POSIX; use CGI; $q = new CGI; print $q-header, $q-start_html(-title='New page',

Re: Non-caching META-tags

2002-11-21 Thread Mark Bergeron
sub mainHeader{ print $q-header( -type = text/html, -expires = now ), $q-start_html( -title = Your Title); This has always worked for me. I don't know if will do everything for you. -Original Message- From: Nick Malden[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed Nov 20

RE: Non-caching META-tags

2002-11-21 Thread VERHAEGHE Koen (BMB)
Hi, Try using use CGI qw/:standard/; Works for me Cheers Koen -Original Message- From: Nick Malden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 2:39 PM To: fliptop Cc: Michael Kelly; Perl Beginners CGI List Subject: Re: Non-caching META-tags Perl/CGI really doesn't

Error when using the LWP module

2002-11-21 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hello all, I've made a spider which gets cookies from web sites, then it sends it back to the next pages. The script works for some pages, but for others it gives me the following error message: [Thu Nov 21 19:10:31 2002] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Can't locate object method host via package

Re: listing perl modues on system

2002-11-21 Thread Jason Purdy
One easy way is to run the command: perldoc perllocal Jason Jerry M . Howell II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hello there, I was wondering if there is an easy way to list the perl modules that are installed on a system? -- Jerry M.

Re: console window

2002-11-21 Thread Jason Purdy
At the end of your perl program, add the line: system( PAUSE ); http://www.computing.net/programming/wwwboard/forum/3270.html HTH, Jason Gary Rocco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 001301c290f9$02bad3d0$93b500c7@hppavilion">news:001301c290f9$02bad3d0$93b500c7@hppavilion... when i ran perl

Re: Non-caching META-tags

2002-11-21 Thread fliptop
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 at 08:09, Michael Kelly opined: MK:On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 07:19:37AM -0500, fliptop wrote: MK: On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 at 13:58, Michael Kelly opined: MK: MK: MK:On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 02:02:05PM +, Nick Malden wrote: MK: MK: MK: MK:CGI.pm doesn't support http-equiv

RE: console window

2002-11-21 Thread Peter Kappus
Another quick dirty trick is to just put a STDIN; at the end of your script. This makes yours script wait for input. When you hit enter it will terminate and the window will close. Of course, this only works if your script gets to the end. If it runs into a compile error, you'll see the error

Re: listing perl modues on system

2002-11-21 Thread wiggins
I get no documentation found for this method (solaris w/ 5.6.1), but I would imagine that would only list the base modules. If you are on unix the following is more elegant, from the perldoc perlmodlib page (not sure why it took me so long to find again, grr..) To find out all modules

Parsing a comment

2002-11-21 Thread David Buddrige
Hi all, I am writing a program which will re-arrange a doc++ comment. A doc++ comment is a C/C++ comment that starts with an extra *. An example of a doc++ comment is this: /** @doc Some general info about a function. @precondition Any precondition that the function has @postcondition

Re: Parsing a comment

2002-11-21 Thread David Buddrige
Please also note that I am passing a reference to an array of strings that contains the doc++ comment to this subroutine. Subsequently, I get the array of strings that is the doc++ comment into a single string which I then attempt to use pattern matching to extract the different components of

Starter of a script

2002-11-21 Thread cedric gross
Hello every body, How to know what task have run a perl script ? I mean is possible to get within the code which process Id have start the script. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: passing an array and a hash to a subroutine.

2002-11-21 Thread Timothy Johnson
Exactly. For those of you playing along at home, the way that you would do this is something like this: ## my @array = qw(one two three); my %hash = (first = 'Tim', last = 'Johnson', geek = 'yes'); my $scalar = This is my string.\n;

perl modules for a webhost

2002-11-21 Thread Jerry M . Howell II
Hello there all again, I would like to know what perl modules Are probably used most often on a webhost server. I had someone try and run the Ikonboard and I found out we didn't have the module installed, after I installed it the board ran flawless but it also got me thinking about all the

Re: passing an array and a hash to a subroutine.

2002-11-21 Thread Sudarshan Raghavan
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, David Buddrige wrote: Hi all, I am writing a subroutine which is intended to take an array of strings, and concatenate each string in the array into a single [very long] string. The subroutine is listed below. My problem is that for some reason when I print

RE: output from an array

2002-11-21 Thread Timothy Johnson
When you print() an array, do not put it in quotes unless you want Perl to put the default record separator between each element of the array. Take out the double-quotes and it will come out the way you want. -Original Message- From: Jose Malacara To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11/20/02

Re: output from an array

2002-11-21 Thread Sudarshan Raghavan
On 21 Nov 2002, Jose Malacara wrote: Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong here? I have a data file that looks like this: jason,texas,austin tim,denver,colorado jose,oregon,portland And a script to update the last field and output the results with the new city:

Re: output from an array

2002-11-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Jose Malacara said: Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong here? I have a data file that looks like this: jason,texas,austin tim,denver,colorado jose,oregon,portland And a script to update the last field and output the results with the new city. Without having tested, I would

Re: passing an array and a hash to a subroutine.

2002-11-21 Thread John W. Krahn
David Buddrige wrote: Hi all, Hello, I want to write a subroutine that takes an array and a hash as input parameters and then does some work on them. I can't seem to determine how to do this however; it seems that with a subroutine, all you can pass is a single array ( which appears as

Re: Starter of a script

2002-11-21 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
It is posible on unix like system ( must be possible on others too But I dont know ) On my machine which happens to be linux I do $Parent_id = `cat /proc/$$/status |grep PPid |awk '{print \$2}'` chomp $Parent_id If you want the process name too you will get it from /proc/$Parent_id/stat But

Re: Starter of a script

2002-11-21 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
It is posible on unix like system ( must be possible on others too But I dont know ) On my machine which happens to be linux I do $Parent_id = `cat /proc/$$/status |grep PPid |awk '{print \$2}'` chomp $Parent_id If you want the process name too you will get it from /proc/$Parent_id/stat But

Re: Starter of a script

2002-11-21 Thread John W. Krahn
Cedric Gross wrote: Hello every body, Hello, How to know what task have run a perl script ? I mean is possible to get within the code which process Id have start the script. perldoc -f getppid John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Weekly list FAQ posting

2002-11-21 Thread casey
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Email To Mysql.

2002-11-21 Thread Stephan Viljoen
Hi , I need to write an email that will port incomming emails directly to a Mysql DB. I'm running Linux with sendmail. Here's what I did so far , I'm forwarding all incoming emails to an alias that's piped to the perl script. Everything works fine , my only problem is to extract the message body

Re: Email To Mysql.

2002-11-21 Thread huan . huang
Hi, I am really new to Perl. I have set up Activeperl in my windows NT system. I have some source file. But I really get no idea how to run the source file. Could anybody give me a go? I have checked the following sites but found few introduction to windows user.

Re: Email To Mysql.

2002-11-21 Thread Sorin Marti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am really new to Perl. me too I have set up Activeperl in my windows NT system. I have some source file. But I really get no idea how to run the source file. Could anybody give me a go? try this: http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/Languages/Perl/Windows/ I have

RE: Email To Mysql.

2002-11-21 Thread Jim Blanchard
I am new too! I have tried Activeperl on my XP machine at home and found that you have to run the version I have in a command window. c:perl file name I hope this helps. Jim Blanchard -Original Message- From: Sorin Marti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002

Beginners -- a suggestion

2002-11-21 Thread Zemer Rick
I too am rather new to Perl, and have found the OpenPerlIDE debugger to be helpful. It is available on sourceforge.net and probably elsewhere. Hope that helps. -rz. She was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. -kv. -Original Message- From:

RE: Beginners -- a suggestion

2002-11-21 Thread Westgate, Jared
Just to help out Huan Huang below: Huan Huang wrote: I have set up Activeperl in my windows NT system. I have some source file. But I really get no idea how to run the source file. Could anybody give me a go? You basically need to associate the file type with the perl interpreter. I am not

Working with text files.Please help!

2002-11-21 Thread Vitali Pokrovski
Dear friends, could you please show me the way,how to write the code forconverting data from input_file tooutput files (1001.out,1002.out,1003.out) format.(please see an example attached) I have already doing with this code writingabout four week,butunfortunatlly..,becouse i'm just

RE: Special Name for @ Element

2002-11-21 Thread Sturdevant-Contractor, Robert W
Thanks, Jeff. Yes, index ... with all the special names avail I thought there might be one to identify the position of the element within an array. Bob -Original Message- From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 9:45 PM To:

Using Net::Telnet

2002-11-21 Thread Murali S
Hi, I'm facing the same problem mentioned below Pattern match read eof. Any ideas what could be the reason? Thanks -- I'm trying to use the Net::Telnet module to talk to a port a remote machine. There is an application on the remote

RE: Working with text files.Please help!

2002-11-21 Thread Westgate, Jared
Hey Vitali, I am also a beginner, so I don't know if I am doing everything most efficiently... but, here is what I wrote to do this. I wouldn't normally just write a program for someone, but the problem intrigued me. Take a look through the code and it will hopefully make sense. I hope

Re: Special Name for @ Element

2002-11-21 Thread Michael Kelly
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 07:56:51AM -0500, Sturdevant-Contractor, Robert W wrote: Thanks, Jeff. Yes, index ... with all the special names avail I thought there might be one to identify the position of the element within an array. Bob I might be imagining this, but I thought I remembered

searching files

2002-11-21 Thread Chris Zampese
Hello everyone, I have a bunch of folders that I would like to search through for a particular string. Any hints on how to do this? I do not know the names of all the files, but would like to be able to return the name. Basically this is so I can search a bunch of files for a word, and be

RE: searching files

2002-11-21 Thread Kipp, James
on most *nix, you can use grep -rni example: grep -rni '*.dat' -Original Message- From: Chris Zampese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 4:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: searching files Hello everyone, I have a bunch of folders that I would

RE: searching files

2002-11-21 Thread wiggins
Well on unix you could do this with a bit of find and grep, but if you are not on unix or still want to do it the perlish way, you should check out the File::Find module, then perldoc -f open and perldoc -f grep. Aka find the files, open each, store the file to an array, run a grep on the

Perl with SSL

2002-11-21 Thread Pankaj
Any idea if we can use perl /perlldap with SSL. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Parsing a comment

2002-11-21 Thread david
David Buddrige wrote: Hi all, I am writing a program which will re-arrange a doc++ comment. A doc++ comment is a C/C++ comment that starts with an extra *. An example of a doc++ comment is this: /** @doc Some general info about a function. @precondition Any precondition that

Re: searching files

2002-11-21 Thread david
Chris Zampese wrote: Hello everyone, I have a bunch of folders that I would like to search through for a particular string. Any hints on how to do this? I do not know the names of all the files, but would like to be able to return the name. Basically this is so I can search a bunch

Re: Email To Mysql.

2002-11-21 Thread John W. Krahn
Stephan Viljoen wrote: Hi , I need to write an email that will port incomming emails directly to a Mysql DB. I'm running Linux with sendmail. Here's what I did so far , I'm forwarding all incoming emails to an alias that's piped to the perl script. Everything works fine , my only problem is

Re: Working with text files.Please help!

2002-11-21 Thread John W. Krahn
MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 11:39:22 +0200 (FLE Standard Time) Content-Type: Multipart/Mixed; boundary=Boundary-00=_MT6X12S0 X-Mailer: IncrediMail 2001 (1800838) References: 2E4528861499D41199D200A0C9B15BC031B895@FRISTX

should be a simple traverse and print

2002-11-21 Thread Tim Booher
Hello I am looking for ideas to traverse a directory structure and print all jpg files in the directory along with their parent directory. For example if I have Folder1 with 1.jpg 2.jpg 3.jpg Folder2 with A.jpg B.jpg C.htm By running test.pl in Folder1 and Folder2s parent directory

RE: should be a simple traverse and print

2002-11-21 Thread Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO
Depends on what you are really doing. If only one level, then opendir and readdir would be one way. If there are other folders and you need to go down them, then File::Find would probably be a good way to go. Wags ;) -Original Message- From: Tim Booher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Can't use string as hash ref?

2002-11-21 Thread chris
How do I do the following without getting the message Can't use string as hash ref while strict refs in use use warnings; #use strict; my($a, @b, $c); $a = '20020603'; $b[1] = 'name1'; $b[2] = 'name2'; $b[3] = 'name3'; my %h; $h{$a} = $a; $h{$a}-{$b[1]}= 1; $h{$a}-{$b[2]}= 2; $h{$a}-{$b[3]}= 3;

Fwd: Re: Declare $main::scalar in begin with 'use strict'

2002-11-21 Thread Dr. Poo
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Declare $main::scalar in begin with 'use strict' Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:51:43 -0600 From: Dr. Poo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dude, you rule. That's all i have to say besides, yah, you rule. This worked perfectly. Why the

Re: Can't use string as hash ref?

2002-11-21 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
chris wrote: How do I do the following without getting the message Can't use string as hash ref while strict refs in use use warnings; #use strict; my($a, @b, $c); $a = '20020603'; $b[1] = 'name1'; $b[2] = 'name2'; $b[3] = 'name3'; my %h; $h{$a} = $a; $h{$a} = {}; Or leave this line out all

RE: Can't use string as hash ref?

2002-11-21 Thread Timothy Johnson
Well, you can stop trying to use a string as a hash reference? For starters, you should never name variables $a or $b because these are special variables if you ever do a sort. Besides that, though, you are assigning $a the value '20020603'. Then you assign the value of $a to the hash key $a,

Re: Can't use string as hash ref?

2002-11-21 Thread chris
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 07:42:55 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wiggins D'Anconia) wrote: chris wrote: How do I do the following without getting the message Can't use string as hash ref while strict refs in use use warnings; #use strict; my($a, @b, $c); $a = '20020603'; $b[1] = 'name1'; $b[2]

exporting Constants

2002-11-21 Thread Tom Allison
How do I export a Constant from a module? Test.pm: package Test; @EXPORT_OK = qw(__what__); use constant FOO = 123; -- In the land of the dark the Ship of the Sun is driven by the Grateful Dead. -- Egyptian Book of the Dead -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

create a directory

2002-11-21 Thread Tim Booher
I dont know why I am having such a tough time creating a directory. I have the following code, but for some reason I cant create a directory: #!/usr/bin/perl -w # Microsoft Windows Win32 use strict; use File::Find; my $i; my $cs; my @myArray; # array to hold matches my

extra characters return plus 0 in script

2002-11-21 Thread mike
I'm getting confused - I have the following script open(DESK,gtkdoclist) or die cant open; @desk1=DESK; foreach $desk1 (@desk1){ chomp $desk1; print $desk1\n; $gtkdoc1=system(grep -h gtk_doc_min_version= $desk1); chomp $desk1; print $gtkdoc1; however the output is this (notice the zeros at the

upgrading PPM

2002-11-21 Thread Clinton
On Win running 5.6.0 build 623- How do I upgrade my version of PPM 2.12 to 3.01 Help appreciated Regards Clinton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Can perl read a word doc

2002-11-21 Thread Johnstone, Colin
Gidday all, Can I use Perl to open a word document ? Our press releases come to us as word docs, we cut and paste the text into our cms(Interwoven Teamsite), and then publish on the web. Im wondering if I can write some perl code so we can just upload the document and perl will do the rest.

Re: create a directory

2002-11-21 Thread Sudarshan Raghavan
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Tim Booher wrote: I don't know why I am having such a tough time creating a directory. I have the following code, but for some reason I can't create a directory: #!/usr/bin/perl -w # Microsoft Windows Win32 use strict; use File::Find; The find function of

Re: extra characters return plus 0 in script

2002-11-21 Thread John W. Krahn
Mike wrote: I'm getting confused - I have the following script open(DESK,gtkdoclist) or die cant open; @desk1=DESK; foreach $desk1 (@desk1){ chomp $desk1; print $desk1\n; $gtkdoc1=system(grep -h gtk_doc_min_version= $desk1); chomp $desk1; print $gtkdoc1; however the output is this

removing white space

2002-11-21 Thread Mariusz K
Hi, One part of my script ads several strings into one: $text = $part1.$part2.$part3.(...etc) However, if the part3 through part10 were empty I get that many white spaces at the end of $text. I thought the best thing would be just to remove the spaces at the end, but how? (maybe search and

Re: removing white space

2002-11-21 Thread Sudarshan Raghavan
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Mariusz K wrote: Hi, One part of my script ads several strings into one: $text = $part1.$part2.$part3.(...etc) However, if the part3 through part10 were empty I get that many white spaces at the end of $text. I thought the best thing would be just to remove the

RE: upgrading PPM

2002-11-21 Thread Timothy Johnson
Why not just upgrade to ActivePerl 5.6.1 build 633? -Original Message- From: Clinton To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11/21/02 7:52 PM Subject: upgrading PPM On Win running 5.6.0 build 623- How do I upgrade my version of PPM 2.12 to 3.01 Help appreciated Regards Clinton -- To

eval and alarm timeout for slow process (XML post)

2002-11-21 Thread jeff loetel
Does this look correct below. I know that I should test but due to the environment that this program lives it is difficult track down problems. It is a trigger off of a db. Can anyone take a few seconds to provide feedback. Is there a betterway? The problem that I am trying to solve here is a slow