Re: CGI scripts permissions

2002-12-27 Thread zentara
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 19:39:58 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Pawley) wrote: I'm a newbie, so the below is a question: Is this problem of cgi permissions different when you are just running a perl script from a virtual include - as I am? Reading this thread, I did some tests and changed my

Simple question.

2002-12-27 Thread Michael Kramer
I need to make an array with multiple levels example: I'm new to perl and have been programming in VBscript for about 2 years now so the code here is in vb because i know that better. dim my_array(1,3) my_array(0,0) = fred my_array(0,1) = John my_array(0,2) = mike my_array(0,3) = dork

Re: *nix Perl - MS SQL Server?

2002-12-27 Thread LaVei
Michael Teter wrote: I need a reliable interface to the database server, including support for transactions, and ideally stored procedures. May be FreeTDS module can help You? -- WBRLaVei -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Mail Headers

2002-12-27 Thread Yupapa
Hello, I am writing a web-based email program in Perl and need some help about the mail headers. How do you remove them and display the content? And how do you know which part of the entire mail is an attachment? Generally, my program uses the Net::POP3 module for logging in and downloading mail

Re: ANDing IP addresses

2002-12-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 11:43:52AM +0530, Ramprasad wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 04:39:30PM -0500, Kipp, James wrote: Happy Hollidays I want to bitwize AND 2 IP adr strings, not sure of how to pack() them to be able to AND them. before i start playing with

Re: Simple question.

2002-12-27 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Michael Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] I need to make an array with multiple levels example: I'm new to perl and have been programming in VBscript for about 2 years now so the code here is in vb because i know that better. dim my_array(1,3) my @my_array;

Re: problems with @ARGV

2002-12-27 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Pam Derks [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm having difficulties with @ARGV... I have a several files: access_log.021204 access_log.021205 access_log.021206 that I want to read in using @ARGV and then pass these file names to 2 subroutines At the command line I've tried: myprogram.pl

simple string parsing

2002-12-27 Thread Robert Boardman
Hi all I'm attempting to write my first perl script to parse a couple of lines and would appreciate some help extracting data from the folloing example Data: programme start=20021221235500 UTC stop=20021222001000 UTC channel=carlton.com I want to extract 0021221235500 and 20021222001000 and

Multiple img src=spacer.gif

2002-12-27 Thread Mystik Gotan
Hiya! First of all, hope you had a merry christmas and you will have a happy new year. Okay, so I'm a beginner, but I'm trying to get some more experince with Perl (although I use CGI, anyway). (I'm trying to get a job soon so I can buy my own computer and I'll use Linux/XP so... ;)) Anyway,

Re: Multiple img src=spacer.gif

2002-12-27 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Friday 27 Dec 2002 12:35 pm, Mystik Gotan wrote: Hiya! First of all, hope you had a merry christmas and you will have a happy new year. Okay, so I'm a beginner, but I'm trying to get some more experince with Perl (although I use CGI, anyway). (I'm trying to get a job soon so I can buy my

RE: migrating to oracle from mysql

2002-12-27 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Ramprasad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 1:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: migrating to oracle from mysql Hello all , I have been using mysql as a database and Mysql.pm helped me do most of the work easily. Now

RE: Simple question.

2002-12-27 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Michael Kramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 1:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Simple question. I need to make an array with multiple levels example: I'm new to perl and have been programming in VBscript for about 2

RE: Mail Headers

2002-12-27 Thread Bob Showalter
-Original Message- From: Yupapa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 5:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail Headers Hello, I am writing a web-based email program in Perl and need some help about the mail headers. How do you remove them and

RE: ANDing IP addresses

2002-12-27 Thread Kipp, James
$ perl -e 'printf %vd\n, 192.168.1.1 255.255.0.0' 192.168.0.0 that is great I had used ipcalc etc for doing such a simple thing But sir can u tell me how is %vd interpreted in printf You can read about v strings in Programming Perl , chap 2 under , section V string literals and in the

RE: simple string parsing

2002-12-27 Thread Jensen Kenneth B SrA AFPC/DPDMPQ
$string = \programme start=\20021221235500 UTC\ stop=\20021222001000 UTC\ channel=\carlton.com\; ($programme, $stop, $channel) = ($string =~ m/\S+\s\S+\(\d+)\s\S+\s\S+\(\d+)\s\S+\s\S+\(\S+)\\/); If the were not actually part of the string, this will work the same ($programme, $stop, $channel) =

RE: Useradd and Passwd

2002-12-27 Thread Dan Muey
This may be totally late but First doesn't passwd need passwd username not passwd password? Second You could use backticks to execute and pw instead of passwd print `pw adduser ...`; # man pw for details, you can do tons with pw in just one command If this has already been addressed sorry, I

RE: simple string parsing

2002-12-27 Thread Kipp, James
$string = \programme start=\20021221235500 UTC\ stop=\20021222001000 UTC\ channel=\carlton.com\; ($programme, $stop, $channel) = ($string =~ m/\S+\s\S+\(\d+)\s\S+\s\S+\(\d+)\s\S+\s\S+\(\S+)\\/); If the were not actually part of the string, this will work the same ($programme,

Re: Programming Perl - Pick your own quotes pg 63-64

2002-12-27 Thread George M Gunderson
On Friday, December 27, 2002, at 11:00 AM, Paul Kraus wrote: Ok I am working through the programming Perl book and I don't understand what you would use this for? top of pg64 $chunk_of_code = q { if ($condition) { print Gotcha!; } }; is $chunk_of_code supposed to contain Perl code?

RE: Programming Perl - Pick your own quotes pg 63-64

2002-12-27 Thread Kipp, James
top of pg64 $chunk_of_code = q { if ($condition) { print Gotcha!; } }; is $chunk_of_code supposed to contain Perl code? If so why? When would you use this? What does this assign to the variable? I am assuming a true false value but I am not sure.

Re: Simple question.

2002-12-27 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Hi Michael, A couple others have already advised you on Perl arrays, so for your immediate issue, I'd say go with their advice. Bear in mind though, that Perl arrays will not teach you the standards for managing arrays that you need in orfer to be truly portable in your programming skills. I

RE: ANDing IP addresses

2002-12-27 Thread Kipp, James
I want to bitwize AND 2 IP adr strings, not sure of how to pack() them to be able to AND them. before i start playing with pack,sprintf,socket,etc.. I was wondering if someone already had a way. $ perl -e 'printf %vd\n, 192.168.1.1 255.255.0.0' 192.168.0.0 quoting the string in

Re: simple string parsing

2002-12-27 Thread R. Joseph Newton
my $InString = programme start=20021221235500 UTC stop=20021222001000 UTC channel=carlton.com if ($InString =~ /\bprogramme start=\(.*)\ stop=\(.*)\ channel=\(.*)\/) { my $programme = $1; my $start = $2; my $channel = $3; } What happens here is that the parentheses around each

RE: *nix Perl - MS SQL Server?

2002-12-27 Thread Timothy Johnson
You should be able to use DBI with the DBD::ODBC driver, I think. I haven't used it from *nix, but I don't think it's a W32-only module. -Original Message- From: LaVei [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 9:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: *nix Perl - MS

RE: Simple Question

2002-12-27 Thread Dan Muey
If you puy that javascript into a static html page does it work? If so compare the static page's working javascript to the script generated javascript. Did you backslash any single or double quotes? It could be that perl treats them like this : Original javascript : d1_12 -=

Hooking a perl script to xinetd

2002-12-27 Thread Michael Weber
I have a script that listens on a port for a connection, receives some data over that connection, and writes it to a file. This works, but it takes up CPU cycles, RAM etc. when it waits. I am trying to get the script to use xinetd instead. That way the tcp daemon will launch it when needed and

Re: simple string parsing

2002-12-27 Thread Robert Boardman
Thank you to everyone I now have a much better understanding of parsing lines, Robb PS could you recommend any good starter perl books? On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 16:50, R. Joseph Newton wrote: my $InString = programme start=20021221235500 UTC stop=20021222001000 UTC channel=carlton.com if

RE: single quote and substitutions

2002-12-27 Thread Dan Muey
1- Have you tried doing the regex without the vars? s/(name1|name2)/(surname1|surname2)/g; Does that do what you want? If not you need to write a regex that does what you want without vars then incorporate that into your vars. 2- This may work, try : { s/$original/$new/g; print; } Dan

Re: simple string parsing

2002-12-27 Thread Michael Weber
Ellie Quigley's Perl by Example is fantastic. Robert Boardman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/27/02 11:50AM Thank you to everyone I now have a much better understanding of parsing lines, Robb PS could you recommend any good starter perl books? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

RE: simple string parsing

2002-12-27 Thread Paul Kraus
in this order ( All O'Reilly) --- Learning Perl Programming Perl mastering reg expr The first book is an easy fun read that you can learn a lot from in a short time. -Original Message- From: Michael Weber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 2:16 PM To:

Term Overloading

2002-12-27 Thread Paul Kraus
Programming Perl makes many references to overloading something. For instance overloading the angle brackets. What does this term mean. I am assuming it just mean changing the default behavior but I wanted to make sure. Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company 216.267.5775 Voice

Device::Serial could not find ioctl definitions!

2002-12-27 Thread Jeff Liu
Hi, I have a problem to install perl module Device-SerialPort-0.13 into Redhat 8(perl 5.8.0) due to above errors. In the past, I had installed it into RedHat6/RedHat7 many many times. Do not know how to fix that. Any help will be highly appreciate. Below is the whole error message. Happy new

RE: Term Overloading

2002-12-27 Thread Kipp, James
Read Chapter 13 -Original Message- From: Paul Kraus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 2:26 PM To: 'Perl' Subject: Term Overloading Programming Perl makes many references to overloading something. For instance overloading the angle brackets. What does

RE: Hooking a perl script to xinetd

2002-12-27 Thread Kipp, James
I have a script that listens on a port for a connection, receives some data over that connection, and writes it to a file. This works, but it takes up CPU cycles, RAM etc. when it waits. I am trying to get the script to use xinetd instead. That way the tcp daemon will launch it when

Why do these two statements generate different output?

2002-12-27 Thread Paul Kraus
$1 from reg expr is equal to 2300,150.17 $org = $1; $org=~s/,//g; Generates 2300150.17. Which is correct. $org = $1 =~ s/,//g; Generates 17904. Now if I am correct the binding =~ has precedence over =. So it should generate the same output. Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company

RE: Why do these two statements generate different output?

2002-12-27 Thread Paul Kraus
ok I was wrong. Its Friday so I am half alert :) the 17094. is actually the tail end of this error. Modification of a read-only value attempted at armonth.pl line 30, AGING line 17904. Are you able to make an assignment like this? -Original Message- From: Paul Kraus [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Why do these two statements generate different output?

2002-12-27 Thread Jensen Kenneth B SrA AFPC/DPDMPQ
Yes ($org) = ($1 =~ s/,//g); Is the same as $1 =~ s/,//g; $org = $1; -Original Message- From: Paul Kraus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 2:21 PM To: 'Paul Kraus'; 'Perl' Subject: RE: Why do these two statements generate different output? ok I was wrong. Its

RE: Why do these two statements generate different output?

2002-12-27 Thread Paul Kraus
actually it needed to be ($org=$1)=~s/,//g; Because $1 is read-only (regular expression variable). But your code gave me the clue I needed. -Original Message- From: Jensen Kenneth B SrA AFPC/DPDMPQ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 3:23 PM To: 'Paul Kraus';

window size

2002-12-27 Thread Mariusz
My cgi outputs an html page. Is there any way to open it as a new window and also specify the size? Or is javascript the only solution? And if so, what do I do in case someone doesn't support JavaScript? thanks M

Re: Simple Question

2002-12-27 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Hi, If you are moving from a ten-line Javascript routine to perl, do you cgi first on a simple form with two or t\hree fields. You must learn to crawl before you try to run a marathon. When you've made a couple simple cgi forms work, and get back to this, here are some preliminary tips: 1)

Re: Term Overloading

2002-12-27 Thread Rob Dixon
Hi Paul Operator overloading is using the same operator to serve for multiple data types. For instance a language that differentiated between string and numeric data may overload the '+' operator to perform string concatenation. It is frequently used in object-oriented programming to define the

Re: Why do these two statements generate different output?

2002-12-27 Thread Rob Dixon
Jensen Kenneth B Sra Afpc/Dpdmpq [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Yes ($org) = ($1 =~ s/,//g); Is the same as $1 =~ s/,//g; $org = $1; Actually not quite. ($org) = ($1 =~ s/,//g); is assigning the result of the =~ operator to $org.

setting up mysql and DBI package on win98

2002-12-27 Thread Patricia Hinman
I have set up mysql application server on my pc, and added a class path to the bin. When I use the Mysql Manager Tools Query it throws a 10050 connection failure message. I'm using the word localhost for the server name and 127.0.0.1 for host. And have installed perl 5.8, and used cpan to

Keyboard processing

2002-12-27 Thread Pavle Lukic
Hi all, Is it possible to process keyboard entries, character by character, without displaying content (e.g. for password fields), using only core ActivePerl 5.8.0 build 804 for Windows 2000 Professional SP 3. (no additional CPAN modules like Term/ReakKey, no 'use' statement). I ask for a simple

FW: Simple Question

2002-12-27 Thread Dan Muey
Are you talking about a form where you type in say '10' in fieed one and '15 in field two and the actual html page changes to say '25' as soon as you type them in without hitting submit? If so, yes you'll need javascript, and getting it to work is a javascript issue. As far as javascript goes

Re: window size

2002-12-27 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
CGI is server side, what you are trying to accomplish is client side, so Javascript or a similar client side script must be used. Probably the best answer is not to do it, in general users dislike it anyways, if it is for a specific app for a specific set of users than you should be able to

Scalar reference, pointer to pointer meaning

2002-12-27 Thread Gary Hawkins
I have a variable using module Win32::API that would be a pointer to a pointer in C. If I do: $var = $lplpBuffer; print \$var $var\n; $var = \$lplpBuffer; print \$var $var\n; $var = \$lplpBuffer[0]; print \$var $var\n; ...it prints: $varÆ╢☺ $var