Re: HTTP headers

2003-01-15 Thread Octavian Rasnita
You can use the CGI perl module to print headers, or you can print them directly like: print Content-type: text/plain\n\n; Teddy, Teddy's Center: http://teddy.fcc.ro/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Philip Pawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday,

execute the extern

2003-01-15 Thread Khalid . Naji
Hi, is there any way to execute the following script without using a file myfile.txt. I have tested with a variable @X whith the same content as myfile.txt ($command='prog @X' but dont work correctlly. Thanks for any suggestion KN #!/usr/local/bin/perl use IPC::Open3; my ($commande); $commande

Re: newbie need help

2003-01-15 Thread zentara
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 15:54:02 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glynn S. Condez) wrote: i have a web form that users can input a username and password and check if the username is valid by parsing or extracting the contents of a file, here the web form html: I'm not sure what you are trying to do with

Re: newbie need help

2003-01-15 Thread Octavian Rasnita
You need to use the CGI script: use CGI; my $cgi = new CGI; my $username = $cgi-param('username'); my $password = $cgi-param('password'); Teddy, Teddy's Center: http://teddy.fcc.ro/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Glynn S. Condez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: Graphs on the fly

2003-01-15 Thread T. Murlidharan Nair
Does this work for Unix? Which module do I use for Unix ... Thanks and Cheers always!! Murli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/14/2003 4:33:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can anybody tell me how to install GD for Active State Perl? Thanks a lot.

Re: execute the extern

2003-01-15 Thread drieux
On Wednesday, Jan 15, 2003, at 06:43 US/Pacific, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] #!/usr/local/bin/perl use IPC::Open3; my ($commande); $commande = 'prog myfile.txt'; $pid = open3(*SON_IN, *SON_OUT, *SON_ERR, $commande); close(SON_IN); @lignes_out = SON_OUT; @lignes_err = SON_ERR; print STDOUT:\n,

Re: Graphs on the fly

2003-01-15 Thread WilliamGunther
If your on a Unix system, you can install the GD modules very simply like you would any (check out the help files on cpan.org, and of GD itself. (perldoc -q install will work too)) The installation instructions I gave was for GD on a Widows ActivePerl system, because someone asked.

Retriving a file using cgi posted from a html form

2003-01-15 Thread LRMK
how do I retrieve save files that has been posted from a Html form to my cgi script. please send a piece of example code

Re: Retriving a file using cgi posted from a html form

2003-01-15 Thread fliptop
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 at 22:32, LRMK opined: L:how do I retrieve save files that has been posted from a Html form to L:my cgi script. have you read 'perldoc CGI'? L:please send a piece of example code from 'perldoc CGI' (for a plain text file): $fh = $query-upload('uploaded_file');

RE: Graphs on the fly

2003-01-15 Thread James Gu
Bill, Thanks for the help. I followed your instruction pretty well. Had to create a folder named as MSWin32-x86-multi-thread for the command work. However the compilation of my program failed at the statement use GD; in the align.pm. Wondering if the installation was successful or not. What

Re: newbie need help

2003-01-15 Thread Glynn S. Condez
From: zentara [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi it works now but why is it that it prints a lot of results and it seems that it reads the file line by line and do the output. Sorry i forgot to mention that the file contains duplicate entries of username, it something like: snip user: user1 realm:

cgi.pm generate html vs. print EndOfHTML;

2003-01-15 Thread Hughes, Andrew
I have to say that as a relative beginner, I have really noticed that using cgi.pm to generate forms and entire web pages is a more than a little time consuming. In the interest of time, I have been using print EndOfHTML; to print the html code (esp. forms) in my programs. There are limitations

Re: cgi.pm generate html vs. print EndOfHTML;

2003-01-15 Thread Octavian Rasnita
I haven't find any limitation when printing the HTML text directly with print eoh; eoh I find it more easy than using CGI.pm for this task. Teddy, Teddy's Center: http://teddy.fcc.ro/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Hughes, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

How 'global' are STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR?

2003-01-15 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi all - I am developing a perl 5.8 application using the new threading model. I use this technique (thanks Jenda!) to dup STDIN to a temp file handle: ... open SAVIN, 'STDIN'; open (STDIN,'' . $tmpfh-fileno) or die ...; my $out = `some-command 21`; open STDIN, 'SAVIN'; close $tmpfh;

how to: perl and gnuplot ???

2003-01-15 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi i have script which generates a set of xy coordinates. how can i get the script to generate a gnuplot postscript file from theses xy-pairs? martin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to: perl and gnuplot ???

2003-01-15 Thread David T-G
Martin, et al -- ...and then Martin A. Hansen said... % % hi Hi! % % i have script which generates a set of xy coordinates. % % how can i get the script to generate a gnuplot postscript file from theses % xy-pairs? It's been a while since I've played with gnuplot, so I have no idea of the

Re: File Handling

2003-01-15 Thread John W. Krahn
Colin Johnstone wrote: Gidday all, Hello, Im having trouble reading and writing to this file, It's probably just something silly. Heres my code. I have set the permissions on the file to 775. code my ($filename); $filename =

RE: File Handling

2003-01-15 Thread Colin Johnstone
John, Thank you for your help. Colin -Original Message- From: John W. Krahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 15 January 2003 11:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: File Handling Colin Johnstone wrote: Gidday all, Hello, Im having trouble reading and writing to

pipe in perl ???

2003-01-15 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi how to use an array as input for a external command called within a perl script? im looking to pipe the array to the extarnal program ... martin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pipe in perl ???

2003-01-15 Thread John W. Krahn
Martin A. Hansen wrote: hi Hello, how to use an array as input for a external command called within a perl script? im looking to pipe the array to the extarnal program ... open PIPE, '| somecommand' or die Cannot open pipe to somecommand: $!; print PIPE @array; close PIPE or die Cannot

RE: Recommend an email module?

2003-01-15 Thread Bill Akins
Hi Paul, I have used Mail::Sender with good success with attachments. Sample code snipet from an NT install follows. The entire program created a spreadsheet of SMTP stats through Spreadsheet::WriteExcel and this portion mailed off the completed .xls file on the 1st of every month. @MailMe

Network Administration and Perl

2003-01-15 Thread Paul Kraus
What are some of the ways you guys use Perl for network administration? Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company 216.267.5775 Voice 216-267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pipe in perl ???

2003-01-15 Thread Martin A. Hansen
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 05:34:59AM -0800, John W. Krahn wrote: Martin A. Hansen wrote: hi Hello, hi again how to use an array as input for a external command called within a perl script? im looking to pipe the array to the extarnal program ... open PIPE, '| somecommand' or

Re: pipe in perl ???

2003-01-15 Thread wiggins
Sorry if I already missed a post where you said you couldn't (have had the flu), but could you use one of the various modules in CPAN to control gnuplot instead of trying to manipulate it yourself? A quick search: http://search.cpan.org/search?query=Gnuplotmode=all

Random Number Generation

2003-01-15 Thread Maurice O'Prey
Hi All How do I extract a whole number from the rand function. I am using rand 25000; which generates a random number with many decimal places, e.g. 16235.2587965, I need a whole number as the answer. Sorry if this is simple... Regards Maurice -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

printing number with commas in it

2003-01-15 Thread Johnson, Reginald (ECCS)
I am trying to print a number with commas in it. I cannot find the correct syntax to do this with printf. I considered using the substr function but this depends on mealways knowing the size of the number. Can you help me with this? Reggie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

determining variable types

2003-01-15 Thread OROSZI Balzs
Hello! Is it possible to get the type of a variable at run time? Suppose I have $var which may be a ref to a hash, or a ref to an array or a scalar (maybe a ref to it). Should I try to hack it out from the address (the weird thing, for example ARRAY(0x...))? Or is there any other way? Please,

determining variable types

2003-01-15 Thread OROSZI Balzs
Hello! Is it possible to get the type of a variable at run time? Suppose I have $var which may be a ref to a hash, or a ref to an array or a scalar (maybe a ref to it). Should I try to hack it out from the address (the weird thing, for example ARRAY(0x...))? Or is there any other way? Please,

RE: Random Number Generation

2003-01-15 Thread Ed Christian
-Original Message- From: Maurice O'Prey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 9:28 AM Hi All How do I extract a whole number from the rand function. I am using rand 25000; which generates a random number with many decimal places, e.g. 16235.2587965, I

Re: ppm: No suitable installation target for package G

2003-01-15 Thread David Eason
Thanks! Now I have another problem. Is there a ppm repository for File-DosGlob or do I need to figure out how to get the cpan shell working in Windows? Jenda Krynicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 3E21CB2D.30323.C586393@localhost">news:3E21CB2D.30323.C586393@localhost... From: David Eason

Time Clock Idea

2003-01-15 Thread Paul Kraus
I am thinking about designing a new time clock system for my work. I was looking at the digital persona u.are.u devices. Has anyone written any code to work with these for authentication? Is it even possible. It would be nice to just through up a couple sensors. An employee comes in. Sticks his

Re: pipe in perl ???

2003-01-15 Thread Martin A. Hansen
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 08:27:13AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if I already missed a post where you said you couldn't (have had the flu), but could you use one of the various modules in CPAN to control gnuplot instead of trying to manipulate it yourself? hi i did look at it, but i

perl confusion/ and passwd

2003-01-15 Thread Edmund
Hi, I need some help getting cleared up with an issue I had this afternoon (and still trying to figure out now). I have Perl 5.6.1 installed at work. It didn't come (AFAIK) with NDBM_FILE.pm. (Required for chpass... which brings me to a different question that I'll ask after this). So I go to

RE: Random Number Generation

2003-01-15 Thread Dylan Boudreau
int(rand 25000) Dylan -Original Message- From: Maurice O'Prey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: January 15, 2003 10:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Random Number Generation Hi All How do I extract a whole number from the rand function. I am using rand 25000; which generates a

RE: determining variable types

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Muey
Do you realize you've posted this message three times so far today and I think yesterday as well? Check your mail prog. -Original Message- From: OROSZI Balzs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 3:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: determining variable types

RE: printing number with commas in it

2003-01-15 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi Reggie! -Original Message- From: Johnson, Reginald (ECCS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 11:32 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: printing number with commas in it I am trying to print a number with commas in it. I cannot find the correct syntax

Re: CSV File Creation

2003-01-15 Thread zentara
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 08:46:04 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Johnstone) wrote: Is a CSV a comma delimited list. If so when creating a CSV how does one cope with fields that have commas in them. An address filed for example could be written suite 2, lvl 3. Do you write the field names out with

RE: determining variable types

2003-01-15 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - -Original Message- From: OROSZI Balzs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 11:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: determining variable types Hello! Is it possible to get the type of a variable at run time? Suppose I have $var which may be a ref to a

RE: perl confusion/ and passwd

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Muey
You may want to try using some unix functions to do this. If you're really good at verifying that their input is legal, that the user exists, that their old password is right and that the new ones match and you're 100% sure oyu want to do this you could always do backtick execution. man pw man

Perl book

2003-01-15 Thread Dylan Boudreau
I have already read Learning Perl and am looking to get another book to learn more what would people recommend? Thanks, Dylan

RE: printing number with commas in it

2003-01-15 Thread Westgate, Jared
Reggie Wrote: I am trying to print a number with commas in it. I cannot find the correct syntax to do this with printf. I considered using the substr function but this depends on mealways knowing the size of the number. Can you help me with this? I like to use the method listed in the

RE: printing number with commas in it

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Muey
Hi Reggie! -Original Message- From: Johnson, Reginald (ECCS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 11:32 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: printing number with commas in it I am trying to print a number with commas in it. I cannot find the

RE: printing number with commas in it

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Muey
Disregard my last post! That was the regex of the day to replace the one in that commati routine. Works like a charm. Dan -Original Message- From: Westgate, Jared [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 9:18 AM To: Johnson, Reginald (ECCS) Cc: [EMAIL

RE: printing number with commas in it

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Muey
-Original Message- From: Dan Muey Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 9:19 AM To: Beau E. Cox; Johnson, Reginald (ECCS); [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: printing number with commas in it Hi Reggie! -Original Message- From: Johnson, Reginald (ECCS) [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Perl book

2003-01-15 Thread Paul Kraus
Programming Perl by Oreilly -Original Message- From: Dylan Boudreau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Perl book I have already read Learning Perl and am looking to get another book to learn more what would

RE: Perl book

2003-01-15 Thread Beau E. Cox
HI - -Original Message- From: Dylan Boudreau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 5:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Perl book I have already read Learning Perl and am looking to get another book to learn more what would people recommend? Thanks,

RE: pipe in perl ???

2003-01-15 Thread Bob Showalter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i need to translate the following commandline to perl: (echo set term post; echo plot '-' w l; cat data) | gnuplot data.ps open(F, | gnuplot data.ps) or die $!; print F set term post\n, plot '-' w l\n; print $_\n for @commands; close F or die $!; --

RE: pipe in perl ???

2003-01-15 Thread Bob Showalter
Bob Showalter wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i need to translate the following commandline to perl: (echo set term post; echo plot '-' w l; cat data) | gnuplot data.ps open(F, | gnuplot data.ps) or die $!; print F set term post\n, plot '-' w l\n; print $_\n for @commands;

RE: Perl book

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Muey
The black books are very nice. I like them better than the Orielly ones. Not to start a flame war, I just like em better. Also there's the 'using perl' for specifci jobs, system admin, web programming, database, algorythms, etc Can't remember the publisher off hand, sorry. Depends on what

Re: Perl book

2003-01-15 Thread Ben Siders
My Perl libary consists of Learning Perl, Programming Perl, The Perl Cookbook, Advanced Perl Programming, and I just ordered the DBI book. Most people probably don't need all those, and I probably wouldn't have them all if I hadn't received most of them during some professional training

RE: Perl book

2003-01-15 Thread Dylan Boudreau
I am a network administrator maintaining strictly Unix boxes of some type or another. I want to become as proficient at Perl as I possibly can because I see scripting as the week point on my resume. I have the Oreilly book Perl for System Administrators but I want to read another book before I

RE: printing number with commas in it

2003-01-15 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hey Reggie - why are your messages getting posted 2,3,or 4 times? -Original Message- From: Dan Muey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 5:26 AM To: Dan Muey; Beau E. Cox; Johnson, Reginald (ECCS); [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: printing number with commas in

Re: pipe in perl ???

2003-01-15 Thread Martin A. Hansen
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 10:33:45AM -0500, Bob Showalter wrote: Bob Showalter wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i need to translate the following commandline to perl: (echo set term post; echo plot '-' w l; cat data) | gnuplot data.ps open(F, | gnuplot data.ps) or die $!;

RE: Perl book

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Muey
I'd say go to the library then and check out some books ( have them get them other libraries if they don't have them ) and when you find one you jive with go buy it. I love 'The Black Book of Perl' and have learned most all I do from it and I to do a lot of Unix Administration. One reason I

RE: Perl book

2003-01-15 Thread wiggins
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:39:04 -0400, Dylan Boudreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a network administrator maintaining strictly Unix boxes of some type or another. I want to become as proficient at Perl as I possibly can because I see scripting

RE: Perl book

2003-01-15 Thread Paul Kraus
According to Amazon the Perl black book is out of print. :( you got me all hyped about checking it out :) -Original Message- From: Dan Muey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 11:12 AM To: Dylan Boudreau; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Perl book I'd

RE: Perl book

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Muey
According to Amazon the Perl black book is out of print. :( That's a crime! you got me all hyped about checking it out :) Sorry :) I get feverish on occasion about stuff. Maybe I should be in sales? N -Original Message- From: Dan Muey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

OSX Aqua and Perl

2003-01-15 Thread Brian Ling
Hi all, Does anyone know a way of creating GUI interfaces directly from Perl, that will work with OS X's native Aqua interface? Thanks for any info. Brian BBCi at http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views

RE: Perl book

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Muey
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:39:04 -0400, Dylan Boudreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a network administrator maintaining strictly Unix boxes of some type or another. I want to become as proficient at Perl as I possibly can because I

RE: Perl book

2003-01-15 Thread Dylan Boudreau
It is out of print according to amazon.com but if you check chapters.ca it is listed as being available and shipped within 24 hrs. Dylan -Original Message- From: Paul Kraus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: January 15, 2003 12:21 PM To: 'Dan Muey'; 'Dylan Boudreau'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Perl book

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Muey
It may be 'Perl Black Book' actually, I don't have it with me right now but I'll get the info and post it later today. There's a whole series of 'Balck Books' for different programming languages and stuff. An excellent reference but also better learning tools because of example situations for

RE: OSX Aqua and Perl

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Muey
Hi all, Does anyone know a way of creating GUI interfaces directly from Perl, that will work with OS X's native Aqua interface? Good question! If not we need to get someone on it asap. OS X is awesome! Unix and mac and microsoft free!!! Oh what a wonderful thing! I've wondered this myself

RE: Local Apache Server and CGI?

2003-01-15 Thread Ben Crane
Hi list, Please forgive what must be seen as amazingly naive! I have just managed to get an apache server loaded locally (so I can test my scripts/etc) without putting them on our corporate server all the time. Now I've managed to get php to work...but a simple *.cgi script that prints script

Re: Network Administration and Perl

2003-01-15 Thread Brian McGraw
1. Log into FTP and get new AV dats, if a new version is posted. 2. Securely copy logs from one network to another for analysis. (Thanks File::Remote) 3. Consolidate account creation process. (Creating accounts for services while creating user accounts). 4. Paul Kraus [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Local Apache Server and CGI?

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Muey
Are the .cgi scripts perl? Is .cgi associated with perl? Do they work if you use .pl instead? Do they work if you run them form the dos prompt? Are they executable ( not sure about how windows does that ) ? Do you need the Exec cgi directive in Apache for that directory or for a cgi-bin

Re: Perl book

2003-01-15 Thread Ben Siders
I generally like the O'Reilly Perl books, and I've had good luck with them. I can't use them as my only Perl reference, though. I don't pick up the condescending tone in them that you seem to have, but I definately agree that they're overrated. The Perl books, in general, are excellent, but

RE: Perl book

2003-01-15 Thread Paul Kraus
WOW the black book is almost 70 bucks!!! BUT CHECK THIS OUT. Amazon has it used for around 10 bucks with the CD woo who!! -Original Message- From: Dan Muey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 11:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Dylan Boudreau; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Checking to see if input has valid data.

2003-01-15 Thread Dylan Boudreau
The input must be an email address and I am checking it the following way: print Enter an address to replace: ; chomp (my $search = STDIN); unless ($search =~ /@/){ die Search field must be an email address!\n; } print Enter a replacement address: ; chomp

RE: Perl book

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Muey
WOW the black book is almost 70 bucks!!! BUT CHECK THIS OUT. Amazon has it used for around 10 bucks with the CD woo who!! $70? Mine was $20 but I think I got the smaller version, no CD The big one is still pretty sexxy though from what I've seen of it It may be worth $70 but if you can get it

Create Text File

2003-01-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello all, I need to create a .txt file and then print some text to it Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks in advance... Kurt

RE: Local Apache Server and CGI?

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Muey
-Original Message- From: Ben Crane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:55 AM To: Dan Muey Subject: RE: Local Apache Server and CGI? --- Dan Muey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are the .cgi scripts perl? *YES Is .cgi associated with perl?

Re: Perl book

2003-01-15 Thread Robbie Staufer
There is a pink and a blue camel book from O'Reilly. What is the difference, and which comes most highly recommended? Robbie -- -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Robbie Staufer NCAR/SCD 1850 Table Mesa Dr. Rm. 42 Boulder, CO. 80305 (303) 497-1836 -- To unsubscribe,

RE: Checking to see if input has valid data.

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Muey
=~ m/^(\w+).*\(\w+)@(\w+).*\.(\w+)$/ Would match [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] But not joemama@joemam Or [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is even a better way to do it instead of the .* which will match Joemama~$%*(()_)+=-:{}|?hi@hi~!#%^*().com Which is obviously bad but this is at least somewhat

RE: Create Text File

2003-01-15 Thread Paul Kraus
#!/usr/bin/perl -w open TEXT,mytext.txt; print TEXT add some text to text file\n; print TEXT add some more text to text file\n; close TEXT; -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 12:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Create Text File

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Muey
Use open() to open a file for writing and it will be created automatically. open(FILE, 'file.txt'); print FILE $stuff; close(FILE); perldoc -f open -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 11:06 AM To: [EMAIL

RE: Create Text File

2003-01-15 Thread Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I need to create a .txt file and then print some text to it Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks in advance... Kurt By opening, printing, you will have a text file: open(MYTEXTFILE, text.txt) || die Unable to open

RE: Local Apache Server and CGI?

2003-01-15 Thread Bob Showalter
Ben Crane wrote: ... a simple *.cgi script that prints script working suddenly prints the contents of the program, i.e: apache isn't seeing *.cgi as a script and is dumping it as a txt file onto the browser... You have to configure Apache through the httpd.conf to treat specific directories

RE: Perl book

2003-01-15 Thread Ken Lehman
Pink is first edition, blue is second edition, i think there is a third edition out now, may as well go for the latest and greatest -Ken -Original Message- From: Robbie Staufer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Perl

RE: Checking to see if input has valid data.

2003-01-15 Thread Bob Showalter
Dylan Boudreau wrote: The input must be an email address and I am checking it the following way: [snip] This does work but I am sure there must be a better way. The whole program is a search and replace utility for email addresses on all our mailing lists so when someone changes their

Re: How 'global' are STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR?

2003-01-15 Thread Mark Goland
Threads share U area , thats where file descripters are stored for your process. All threads are in one process. I sedjest using semaphors for contolling access to any resources. Mark - Original Message - From: Beau E. Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Beginners [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

waitpid

2003-01-15 Thread Mark Goland
Hello Perl lovers, I am developing a script which runs in TCSH 6.x shell. I have two questions 1. I need to be able to set an global enviernment variable. The shell has a build in command setenv which would enable me to do what I need. This is what I try, system(setenv DESTDIR /mnt); ...but

Re: Checking to see if input has valid data.

2003-01-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I use this for email verification $str =~ /^[^@]+@[^.]+\.[^.]/); - Original Message - From: Dylan Boudreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 11:57 AM Subject: Checking to see if input has valid data. The input must be an email address and

RE: Local Apache Server and CGI?

2003-01-15 Thread wiggins
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:47:45 -0600, Dan Muey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are the .cgi scripts perl? Is .cgi associated with perl? Do they work if you use .pl instead? Do they work if you run them form the dos prompt? Are they executable

Re: printing number with commas in it

2003-01-15 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Johnson, Reginald (ECCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am trying to print a number with commas in it. I cannot find the correct syntax to do this with printf. I considered using the substr function but this depends on mealways knowing the size of the number. Can you help me with this? use

Script that runs on my Win98 box and the Unix server

2003-01-15 Thread Rob Richardson
Greetings! I have been using my Win98 box to modify some scripts that will be run on a Unix server. Within the body of the script, I can surround OS-specific things like test code I want my machine to execute and calls that throw errors under Win98 like flock() with checks to see what operating

RE: How 'global' are STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR?

2003-01-15 Thread Beau E. Cox
Thanks Mark - I thought maybe that was the case... well now I have to evaluate the performance penality and look into my other options, Aloha = Beau; -Original Message- From: Mark Goland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 7:43 AM To: Beau E. Cox Cc: perl

RE: waitpid

2003-01-15 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - -Original Message- From: Mark Goland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 7:56 AM To: perl Subject: waitpid Hello Perl lovers, I am developing a script which runs in TCSH 6.x shell. I have two questions 1. I need to be able to set an global

Re: How 'global' are STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR?

2003-01-15 Thread Mark Goland
Thanks Mark - I thought maybe that was the case... well now I have to evaluate the performance penality and look into my other options, Aloha = Beau; Good Luck, if Threads are well implemented they should be flying fast in general. Mark - Original Message - From: Beau E. Cox [EMAIL

Re: waitpid

2003-01-15 Thread Mark Goland
2. system ($cmd) and `$cmd` do _wait_ for the command to finish before returing (the difference being system retuns the command's return code and `` returns the output). A series of these should do what you want. thats what I though, but aparently thats not the case. This maybe do to a

RE: Script that runs on my Win98 box and the Unix server

2003-01-15 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - -Original Message- From: Rob Richardson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 8:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Script that runs on my Win98 box and the Unix server Greetings! I have been using my Win98 box to modify some scripts that will be run

RE: waitpid

2003-01-15 Thread wiggins
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:55:39 -0500, Mark Goland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Perl lovers, I am developing a script which runs in TCSH 6.x shell. I have two questions Remember your script runs in Perl not in the shell, you run the perl

Re: Checking to see if input has valid data.

2003-01-15 Thread Ben Siders
The quest for an email validation script is becoming ancient and legendary. I'm sure somebody else already has sounded off on this, but the short answer is that there's no sure-way to validate email. There's any number of potential problems: 1. The email address does not conform to the RFC

RE: Script that runs on my Win98 box and the Unix server

2003-01-15 Thread Rob Richardson
Beau, Perhaps then my question would have been better to ask on the CGI list. The script in question is a CGI script being executed through Internet Explorer and Apache. When the first line of my script is #!perl, the script executes as desired. When the first line is #!usr/bin/perl, the

RE: Create Text File

2003-01-15 Thread Jakob Kofoed
Hi there, Just another way to do it! Cheers, Jakob #!/usr/bin/perl -w open FILE, , yourfile.dat; print FILE EOF; Here you can write what you whant without having to type print FILE before every line! EOF close FILE; -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Random Number Generation

2003-01-15 Thread Christopher D . Lewis
On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 08:28 AM, Maurice O'Prey wrote: How do I extract a whole number from the rand function. int() is your friend, if you want an integer from rand. I am using rand 25000; which generates a random number with many decimal places, e.g. 16235.2587965, I need a

RE: printing number with commas in it

2003-01-15 Thread Danny Grzenda
here a sub that i use. $number = 123456 ; $number = commify($number) ; sub commify { local($_) = shift; 1 while s/^(-?\d+)(\d{3})/$1,$2/; return $_; } -Original Message- From: Jenda Krynicky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 12:21 PM To: '[EMAIL

RE: question regarding a query agains a text file

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Muey
-Original Message- From: Le Blanc, Kerry (Kerry) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 1:39 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: Le Blanc, Kerry (Kerry) Subject: question regarding a query agains a text file Greetings, Here is my question. In the below

RE: question regarding a query agains a text file

2003-01-15 Thread Le Blanc, Kerry (Kerry)
Kerry LeBlanc Materials Auditor Process Owner 75 Perseverence Way Hyannis, MA. 02601 1-508-862-3082 http://www.vsf.cape.com/~bismark #make sure $part_num is formatted correctly to keep someone form doing bad things with the backtick execution I am not familiar with the term backtick

RE: question regarding a query agains a text file

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Muey
Kerry LeBlanc Materials Auditor Process Owner 75 Perseverence Way Hyannis, MA. 02601 1-508-862-3082 http://www.vsf.cape.com/~bismark #make sure $part_num is formatted correctly to keep someone form doing bad things with the backtick execution I am not familiar with the

Adding to multi-dimensional array dynamically via push...

2003-01-15 Thread Liss, Mike
Hello, I would like to know if it is possible to do somthing like this: ( I know I can't do it this way as Perl barfs when I tried it ) $SizeOfMyArray = 2; $MyArray[ $SizeOfMyArray ]; push( @MyArray[ 0 ], 0 ); --- complains here with ERROR (see below ) push( @MyArray[ 1 ],

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