slash question

2003-06-25 Thread Susan Aurand
If I want the following field to contain forwarded slashes - this is for a linux box, as follows. $dir=//ITC/home/techs; How do I get the forward slashes in there? I have tried: $dir ='//ITC'; $dir ='//ITC'; $dir =`//ITC`; Nothing works. Help. Thank you - Susan -- To unsubscribe,

Re: slash question

2003-06-25 Thread Kristofer Hoch
Susan, Since everything you wrote only contains forward slashes ('/'), I am a bit confused as to what you are trying to do. Are you trying to convert the forward slashes to back slashes ('\')? $dir =~ s!//!\\!g; Please clarify what you are trying to do:( Kristofer --- Susan Aurand

Re: slash question

2003-06-25 Thread Andrew Brosnan
On 6/25/03 at 10:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Susan Aurand) wrote: If I want the following field to contain forwarded slashes - this is for a linux box, as follows. $dir=//ITC/home/techs; How do I get the forward slashes in there? I have tried: $dir ='//ITC'; $dir ='//ITC'; $dir

Feedback form - Email Address Passed via emails

2003-06-25 Thread matthew gaskill-jones
All, I am new to Perl, and as such has only started to look at some simple commands, such as a guestbook email document. When on on page, I ask the user to complete an email field, when the email is received, the email address is changed to say :- [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL

File Handles in subroutines

2003-06-25 Thread Scott, Joshua
What do I need to do in order to use a filehandle that was opened earlier in a program within a subroutine? I've included an example of the code I have that is not doing what I would like. Basically, I never get any output to the file. If I change it so that it doesn't use the subroutine when

Simple doublt of $_ and print;

2003-06-25 Thread Chris San
It is supose this code prints the first line of file text.txt (which is not empty), but it doesn't print anything. $file = text.txt; open (file); file; print; close (file); I understood that file; gets a line (the first in this case) and, in this case, it puts the line in $_ . Also, print;

RE: Simple doublt of $_ and print;

2003-06-25 Thread Tim Johnson
That's because when you read from the file handle using the brackets, it doesn't automatically put the line into $_. You're just throwing away the result. print() does print $_, but in this case there's nothing in it. BTW, my personal advice would be to avoid the implied $_ magick until you

Re: Simple doublt of $_ and print;

2003-06-25 Thread Sudarshan Raghavan
Chris San wrote: It is supose this code prints the first line of file text.txt (which is not empty), but it doesn't print anything. $file = text.txt; open (file); file; The above statement does not store the result in $_, this is special only inside a while statement while (file) is

Re: Use of Perl for global changes

2003-06-25 Thread Peter Goggin
Thanks, that worked perfectly. Regards Peter Goggin - Original Message - From: Bakken, Luke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peter Goggin [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 1:06 AM Subject: RE: Use of Perl for global changes cd /whatever dir perl -i.bak

RE: File Handles in subroutines

2003-06-25 Thread Gupta, Sharad
Did open ever succeeded?? Check with: open(FILE,$logfile) or die $!; -sharad -Original Message- From: Scott, Joshua [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 11:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: File Handles in subroutines What do I need to do in order to use

Re: File Handles in subroutines

2003-06-25 Thread Sudarshan Raghavan
Scott, Joshua wrote: What do I need to do in order to use a filehandle that was opened earlier in a program within a subroutine? I've included an example of the code I have that is not doing what I would like. Basically, I never get any output to the file. If I change it so that it doesn't use

wrapping around with modulus

2003-06-25 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
It's funny how as soon as you learn/meet/hear/read something/someone/something you see/hear it/him/her everywhere. I saw this last night in an article by R. Schwartz and then this morning again somewhere else. Problem being - how to count to N and then start over (counting on your fingers, for

transactions in perl

2003-06-25 Thread Miguel Angel Morales
Hi All! I have the following trouble: I have an script in which several code lines must be executed so if one of these lines is not executed the other lines must neither be executed, and I would like to know if perl has something like asp transactions to force the execution of several code

PERL format utility -error

2003-06-25 Thread Leaw, Chern Jian
Hi, I have the script below which outputs some values in a tabular form into the body of a mail. I'm using the format utility in PERL to output the values in a tabular form as in: PROG NO VERSION PROTOCOLPORTSERVICE RESPONSE

Passing an array to a subroutine

2003-06-25 Thread Dermot Paikkos
Hi gurus, I have a script that is causing me some trouble. I haven't pasted the whole script here as it is a bit long and I can't submit any test data. Basically the script copies and renames file. At the end I would like to print out a report of all the files it has renamed. These reports

(kein Betreff)

2003-06-25 Thread magelord
hi, i wrote this little program. it shows a directory structure using tree and hlist. it reads the directoycontent from a file. when i display small directories, the program starts fast, but as soon as the directory is big, it takes a long time to start. for example when i use the /var directory.

perl redirection

2003-06-25 Thread Miguel Angel Morales
Does anybody know how to redirect from a perl page with a print Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n; code line? Thank you very much. Miguel Angel * Madrid 2003 Global IPv6 Summit Presentations and videos on-line at: http://www.ipv6-es.com

RE: transactions in perl

2003-06-25 Thread NYIMI Jose (BMB)
Yes, Have a look to this : http://search.cpan.org/src/TIMB/DBI_AdvancedTalk_2002/sld050.htm HTH, José. -Original Message- From: Miguel Angel Morales [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 11:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: transactions in perl Hi All! I have

Accessing MSSQL database

2003-06-25 Thread Sparrow, Dave
OK, please keep it simple... Where can I find an introduction on using Perl to access an MSSQL database? Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Array Question

2003-06-25 Thread Anthony Beaman
Hi! I'm still wallowing in Chapter 3 (Arrays. Why can't I get it?!?!?!? ARGH!) of Learning Perl on Win32 Systems. I'm trying to create an exercise but I'm not getting the results that I want. Here's what I'm trying to do: I'm asking for a list of names: print Name your friends: ; @names

Mastering Learning Perl on Win 32 Systems

2003-06-25 Thread Anthony Beaman
Any advice on getting through the LP/Win 32 book? I know I can do it but I'm getting tripped up. I've moved on to other chapters and I'm about to read Chapter 7 but I still haven't gotten arrays and hashes. My study routine consists of reading and taking notes; studying the notes; going through

RE: File Handles in subroutines

2003-06-25 Thread Kipp, James
What do I need to do in order to use a filehandle that was opened earlier in a program within a subroutine? I've included an example of the code I have that is not doing what I would like. Basically, I never get any output to the file. If I change it so that it doesn't use the

RE: Mastering Learning Perl on Win 32 Systems

2003-06-25 Thread Paul Kraus
Put the book down. Go and buy learning perl from oriely. You can whip through this book in a day or two and it will lay down all of the ground work for you. Plus it is setup with exercise at the end of every chapter. Then after you finish the book make up a project and try to apply everything you

RE: Array Question

2003-06-25 Thread Derek Byrne
Hi Anthony, grabbed this from O'Reilly's Learning Perl : @rocks = qw/ bedrock slate lava /; foreach $rock (@rocks) { $rock = \t$rock; # put a tab in front of each element of @rocks $rock .= \n; # put a newline on the end of each } print The rocks are:\n, @rocks;

RE: Mastering Learning Perl on Win 32 Systems

2003-06-25 Thread Anthony Beaman
I'm on NT and I got it because it was the NT version of Learning Perl. I think it's the same book but edited for NT users. And it's the exercises that are killing me!! I feel that I've got but then when I do an exercise BAM! Wrong answer! I think I'm just getting a little frustrated but I KNOW

RE: Mastering Learning Perl on Win 32 Systems

2003-06-25 Thread Kipp, James
Any advice on getting through the LP/Win 32 book? I know I can do it but I'm getting tripped up. I've moved on to other chapters and I'm about to read Chapter 7 but I still haven't gotten arrays and hashes. My study routine consists of reading and taking notes; studying the notes; going

RE: Mastering Learning Perl on Win 32 Systems

2003-06-25 Thread Anthony Beaman
Could I be putting too much stock into the exercises? That's where I'm getting frustrated. For example, I'm treating them as test exercises and when I don't get them correct, I deem the chapter a failure, which is silly since there are 2 or 3 questions per chapter. Maybe I should treat them as

RE: Mastering Learning Perl on Win 32 Systems

2003-06-25 Thread Derek Byrne
What kind of error messages are you getting. Running Win2k over here. Can you give an example of a script which doesn't work? -Original Message- From: Anthony Beaman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 June 2003 13:46 To: Kipp, James; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Mastering Learning Perl

RE: perl redirection

2003-06-25 Thread Kipp, James
Does anybody know how to redirect from a perl page with a print Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n; code line? are you trying to redirect a client to another web site or page? you can try a google search for redirect web page and get tons of info you can use a cgi script like below: use

RE: Mastering Learning Perl on Win 32 Systems

2003-06-25 Thread Paul Kraus
Give us some examples. -Original Message- From: Anthony Beaman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 8:46 AM To: Kipp, James; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Mastering Learning Perl on Win 32 Systems Could I be putting too much stock into the exercises? That's where

RE: Mastering Learning Perl on Win 32 Systems

2003-06-25 Thread Anthony Beaman
Mostly the exercises for the chapters on Arrays and Hashes. Hashes killed me! I didn't get any right! It's getting better because I've re-read the chapter and studied my notes again and I actually feel better about it. Sorry for this post! I guess I was venting or something. Ah...I feel much

RE: Mastering Learning Perl on Win 32 Systems

2003-06-25 Thread Kipp, James
Post the exercise and the code you tried. we will help you -Original Message- From: Anthony Beaman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 8:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Kipp, James; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Mastering Learning Perl on Win 32 Systems Mostly

RE: Mastering Learning Perl on Win 32 Systems

2003-06-25 Thread Paul Kraus
Glad you figured it out. For future reference try and post an example of something you are having trouble with. Being vague likes this makes it impossible to help you. This list is an awesome resource. Have a problem and 9 out of 10 times you not only have a solution but you have an

RE: Mastering Learning Perl on Win 32 Systems

2003-06-25 Thread Anthony Beaman
Thanks! I apologize for using this list as a form of therapy (venting over the frustrations of not getting an answer right). :-) You're right! This IS an awesome resource!! I'll be more specific next time. -Original Message- From: Paul Kraus

Re: Array Question

2003-06-25 Thread Rob Anderson
Hi Anthony Anthony Beaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! I'm still wallowing in Chapter 3 (Arrays. Why can't I get it?!?!?!? ARGH!) of Learning Perl on Win32 Systems. I'm trying to create an exercise but I'm not getting the results that I want. Here's what I'm

Re: Array Question

2003-06-25 Thread Paul Johnson
Anthony Beaman said: Hi! I'm still wallowing in Chapter 3 (Arrays. Why can't I get it?!?!?!? ARGH!) of Learning Perl on Win32 Systems. I'm trying to create an exercise but I'm not getting the results that I want. Here's what I'm trying to do: I'm asking for a list of names: print

RE: Array Question

2003-06-25 Thread Anthony Beaman
Hi! I'm on Windows 98 at the moment (at work) but I'll try this on my NT machine when I get home. Here's what I got when I ran your script: C:\perl hello.pl Joe Mary Sue Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) at hello.pl line 5, STDIN line 1. I know . Got an error but then I got the

RE: Array Question

2003-06-25 Thread Anthony Beaman
I typed in 3. For example, Sam Mary Joe. I expect to get I know Mary, since she's [1] but I'm getting a blank space. I've tried this on NT and on my 98 machine here at work. -Original Message- From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Accessing MSSQL database

2003-06-25 Thread Dan Muey
OK, please keep it simple... Where can I find an introduction on using Perl to access an MSSQL database? perldoc DBI http://search.cpan.org Yu use DBI to connect to the DB then do sql and such with it Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

RE: Array Question

2003-06-25 Thread Rich Fernandez
Hi Anthony, LF (\n) is the default record separator, so if you type 3 names and press enter, all 3 names get placed in $array[0]. The next item(s) get placed in $array[1], etc depending on where you press enter. If your input looks like this: Fred Barney enter Wilma Betty enter your program

Re: Array Question

2003-06-25 Thread Rob Anderson
Anthony Beaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message ? news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I typed in 3. For example, Sam Mary Joe. I expect to get I know Mary, since she's [1] but I'm getting a blank space. I've tried this on NT and on my 98 machine here at work. Hmm, are you just putting spaces between your

dynanic declaration of arrays

2003-06-25 Thread Tim McGeary
Can I dynamically declare an array by doing something like: for (keys %codes_hash) { my @$_; { so that I have an array for each code in my hash that I can push data to whatever array is associated with the code that I searching on at that iteration? Tim -- Tim McGeary [EMAIL

Re: dynanic declaration of arrays

2003-06-25 Thread Sudarshan Raghavan
Tim McGeary wrote: Can I dynamically declare an array by doing something like: for (keys %codes_hash) { my @$_; { so that I have an array for each code in my hash that I can push data to whatever array is associated with the code that I searching on at that iteration? What you are

removing a row in a two-dimensional array

2003-06-25 Thread Sitha Nhok
Hi, I was wondering if someone could help me with a problem I am having. I have a two dimensional array, but I would like to delete an entire row. What is the most efficient way of doing that? I tried using splice, but it only shrinks the number of cols and it doesn't get rid of the entire

Re: dynanic declaration of arrays

2003-06-25 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Tim McGeary [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can I dynamically declare an array by doing something like: for (keys %codes_hash) { my @$_; { so that I have an array for each code in my hash that I can push data to whatever array is associated with the code that I searching on at that iteration?

RE: Array Question

2003-06-25 Thread Derek Byrne
Quick question, is there another way of ending the input of information into an array? Didn't know that CTRL-Z had to be used to terminate the input from the user before the rest of the prog would work. :o) like, for example, is there a way of limiting the size of the array to only 1 or 2

RE: Array Question

2003-06-25 Thread Anthony Beaman
This makes a lot of sense and I think it may be the solution BUT my Ctr-z isn't working on my machine! I'm on Win98 and when I press ctrl-z it goes to a DOS prompt (no output). Any ideas on fixing this? If not, I can try this on my NT machine at home. -Original

Re: perl redirection

2003-06-25 Thread Miguel Angel Morales
Yes James, I'm trying to redirect to a php page, but as I use print Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n; whe I user your cgi use CGI; my $q = new CGI; . print $q-redirect( ../index.php ); it only writes Status: 302 Moved Location: ../index.php - Original Message - From: Kipp, James

RE: basic question: handling input to TCP/IP server

2003-06-25 Thread McMahon, Christopher x66156
I think this situation is handled by the The Camel's code that has a die clause. Here's a direct quote from my working program, the relevant part copped straight from page 441: use IO::Socket::INET; $server_port = 33000; $server = IO::Socket::INET-new (LocalPort = $server_port,

RE: perl redirection

2003-06-25 Thread Kipp, James
Yes James, I'm trying to redirect to a php page, but as I use print Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n; whe I user your cgi use CGI; my $q = new CGI; . print $q-redirect( ../index.php ); it only writes Status: 302 Moved Location: ../index.php can you explain what you are trying

slash

2003-06-25 Thread Susan Aurand
If I want the following field to contain forwarded slashes - this is for a linux box, as follows. $dir=//ITC/home/techs; How do I get the forward slashes in there? I have tried: $dir ='//ITC'; $dir ='//ITC'; $dir =`//ITC`; Nothing works. Help. Thank you - Susan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

RE: Binary file conversion

2003-06-25 Thread McMahon, Christopher x66156
Good thinking! Might be any ISAM file, for that matter. -Chris -Original Message- From: Josimar Nunes de Oliveira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 3:11 PM To: Ned Cunningham; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Binary file conversion Hi all, May be Cobol

RE: removing a row in a two-dimensional array

2003-06-25 Thread NYIMI Jose (BMB)
perldoc -f delete http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/func/delete.html delete $array[0];#should delete the first row for example José. -Original Message- From: Sitha Nhok [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 4:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: removing a row in

RE: slash

2003-06-25 Thread Miller, Joseph S
Susan, Try: $dir = '//ITC/home/techs'; Your first example should have worked. You didn't need to put additional set of quotes around the string like you did in the latter examples. -Original Message- From: Susan Aurand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 9:34

RE: Use of Perl for global changes

2003-06-25 Thread McMahon, Christopher x66156
Cool. That's way better than using sed. I wish I'd known this at my last job. -Chris -Original Message- From: Peter Goggin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 1:08 AM To: Bakken, Luke; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Use of Perl for global changes

RE: perl redirection

2003-06-25 Thread NYIMI Jose (BMB)
Better if you send some relevant lines of your code :) José. -Original Message- From: Miguel Angel Morales [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 4:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: perl redirection It is an IPv6 tunnelbroker, and when the

RE: perl redirection

2003-06-25 Thread Kipp, James
Yes James, I'm trying to redirect to a php page, but as I use print Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n; whe I user your cgi use CGI; my $q = new CGI; . print $q-redirect( ../index.php ); it only writes Status: 302 Moved Location: ../index.php forgot to mention.

RE: Mastering Learning Perl on Win 32 Systems

2003-06-25 Thread McMahon, Christopher x66156
I always find that I learn best by attempting to solve a practical problem, then using the parts of the manual(s) that apply to the problem. My first Perl program was for my own amusement. It throws the I Ching for you and prints the hexagrams to STDOUT. That was cool, it had

Re: OFF TOPIC: Emacs MMM mode

2003-06-25 Thread Gabor Urban
HI, I do not remember the link correctly, but u could look emacs mailing list. start at www.gnu.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: perl redirection

2003-06-25 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
Miguel Angel Morales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : Yes James, I'm trying to redirect to a php page, but : as I use print Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n; : when I user your cgi : : use CGI; : my $q = new CGI; : . : print $q-redirect( ../index.php ); : : it only writes Status: 302 Moved

RE: Accessing MSSQL database

2003-06-25 Thread Tim Johnson
There is also a dbi-users mailing list that can be very helpful for DBI related questions. -Original Message- From: Dan Muey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 6:08 AM To: Sparrow, Dave; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Accessing MSSQL database OK, please keep it

Regex problem

2003-06-25 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi All - This script: use strict; use warnings; my $string = 'I love c++'; my $compare = 'some compare string'; if ($compare =~ /$string/) { print $compare contains $string\n; } else { print $compare does not contain $string\n; } gives this error: Nested quantifiers in regex; marked

Re: [Mason] OFF TOPIC: Emacs MMM mode

2003-06-25 Thread Randy Kobes
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Paul Kraus wrote: I am running xemacs on windows. I use it for all of my editing for perl, html, ect... Great editor. However I just started playing with html::mason and I need to install the mmm mode in order to get the editor to work well with embedded material. I

Re: OFF TOPIC: Emacs MMM mode

2003-06-25 Thread Vctor Peinado
Paul Kraus wrote: I am running xemacs on windows. I use it for all of my editing for perl, html, ect... Great editor. However I just started playing with html::mason and I need to install the mmm mode in order to get the editor to work well with embedded material. Dowload the .el file and

RE: Regex problem

2003-06-25 Thread Shishir K. Singh
Hi All - This script: use strict; use warnings; my $string = 'I love c++'; my $compare = 'some compare string'; if ($compare =~ /$string/) { print $compare contains $string\n; } else { print $compare does not contain $string\n; } gives this error: Nested quantifiers in regex; marked

RE: Regex problem

2003-06-25 Thread Tim Johnson
Try this: my $string = 'I love c++'; my $compare = 'some compare string'; if ($compare =~ /\Q$string/) { #disables metacharacters until \E print $compare contains $string\n; } else { print $compare does not contain $string\n; } -Original Message- From: Beau E. Cox [mailto:[EMAIL

dbi: Pg and Oracle 9i

2003-06-25 Thread Johnson, Shaunn
Howdy: At the risk of sounding silly, does anyone know of a way to export data from PostgreSQL to Oracle via perl featuring DBI? Background: I'm running PostgreSQL 7.2.1 on RedHat Linux 7.2 and I have Oracle 9i on the same box. PostgreSQL is dying and the tool to dump the data (pg_dump) no

RE: Mastering Learning Perl on Win 32 Systems

2003-06-25 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
Whenever I do an exercise from one of the books that assume a unix environment, I skip the code that gets user input. If the code is written like this: my @names = STDIN; I change it to: my @names = ( qw/ joe bob jack / ); Then I type (or copy) the rest of the code from the

RE: Array Question

2003-06-25 Thread Rich Fernandez
Sorry, I'm a unix guy...ctrl-d works on my unix box. You might try that instead, just to see :) richf -Original Message- From: Anthony Beaman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 10:24 AM To: Rich Fernandez Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Array Question This

RE: [Mason] OFF TOPIC: Emacs MMM mode

2003-06-25 Thread Paul Kraus
Ok this lets me compile them. As long as I don't end my emacs session all the modes are available but if I exit emacs and go back into I have to re-byte compile them in order to have access to the modes. Any ideas? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: removing a row in a two-dimensional array

2003-06-25 Thread Sitha Nhok
I don’t think that works because delete doesn’t fill the gap if you remove it from the middle, but I'm really not sure. I tried to use delete too, but it is returning the address, and not the actual content when I tried to do something like this: Array[$x][$y] = {some list}; Delete

Re: Regex problem

2003-06-25 Thread Beau E. Cox
Thanks Tim ans Shishir - Works! Aloha = Beau; - Original Message - From: Tim Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Beau E. Cox' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 5:30 AM Subject: RE: Regex problem Try this: my $string = 'I love c++'; my $compare = 'some

RE: Array Question

2003-06-25 Thread Anthony Beaman
The plot thickens! I can get it to work if I have a data in the array, such as my script below: print Here are your friends: ; @friends = qw (Sam Joe Sally); print @friends\n; print I know $friends[1]; I still can't grab the element of an array that requests user input though.

RE: Array Question

2003-06-25 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
Anthony Beaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : I still can't grab the element of an array that : requests user input though. Forget about the user input part. You're getting hung up on the wrong concept. The exercise is about arrays not user input. HTH, Charles K. Clarkson -- Head Bottle

Re: removing a row in a two-dimensional array

2003-06-25 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Hi, (Please don't just reply to a list message if you are starting a new subject or thread.) In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sitha Nhok wrote: Hi, I was wondering if someone could help me with a problem I am having. I have a two dimensional array, but I would like to delete an entire

Re: OFF TOPIC: Emacs MMM mode [try maybe comp.editors]

2003-06-25 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Kraus wrote: I am running xemacs on windows. I use it for all of my editing for perl, html, ect... Great editor. However... [...] Just a quick note - not sure how much emacs is there, but I've found the ng comp.editors to be a great help with vi(m).

Re: [Mason] OFF TOPIC: Emacs MMM mode

2003-06-25 Thread Tim Ayers
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html HTH, tim Paul Kraus wrote: I am running xemacs on windows. I use it for all of my editing for perl, html, ect... Great editor. However I just started playing with html::mason and I need to install the mmm mode in order to get the editor to

Re: CGI remote_user versus user_name

2003-06-25 Thread Todd Wade
Dan Muey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CGI's remote_user() rturns $ENV{'REMOTE_USER'}; While sub user_name { my ($self) = self_or_CGI(@_); return $self-http('from') || $ENV{'REMOTE_IDENT'} || $ENV{'REMOTE_USER'}; } SO if I'm trying to get the login

RE: perl redirection

2003-06-25 Thread Dan Muey
Does anybody know how to redirect from a perl page with a print Location: http://www.yahoo.com\n\n;; That's the header anywho. You wouldn't really need the Content-type line then as there will be not content for that document. HTH DMuey print Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n; code line?

RE: Pg and Oracle 9i

2003-06-25 Thread Dan Muey
Howdy: Howdy At the risk of sounding silly, does anyone know of a way to export data from PostgreSQL to Oracle via perl featuring DBI? Background: I'm running PostgreSQL 7.2.1 on RedHat Linux 7.2 and I have Oracle 9i on the same box. PostgreSQL is dying and the tool to dump the

RE: transactions in perl

2003-06-25 Thread Dan Muey
Hi All! Howdy! I have the following trouble: I have an script in which several code lines must be executed so if one of these lines is not executed the other lines must neither be executed, and I would like to know if perl has something like asp transactions to force the execution

Re: Parsing .csv file

2003-06-25 Thread Todd Wade
Dave Sparrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Take a look at Text::CSV or Text::CSV_XS Ah, but here's the kicker... Most people who I will give this script to will be running Perl 5.6 and WILL NOT have the ability to use any external modules, even those such as 'use

RE: CGI remote_user versus user_name

2003-06-25 Thread Dan Muey
CGI's remote_user() rturns $ENV{'REMOTE_USER'}; While sub user_name { my ($self) = self_or_CGI(@_); return $self-http('from') || $ENV{'REMOTE_IDENT'} || $ENV{'REMOTE_USER'}; } SO if I'm trying to get the login name I should use user_name since it will return

RE: Last Post today I swear - use in package

2003-06-25 Thread Dan Muey
On Tuesday, June 24, 2003 at 4:15 PM, Dan Muey stated: : : This is last post for me today I swear!!! But . . . On Tuesday, June 24, 2003 at 4:38 PM, Dan Muey posted: : Cool, Thanks again Jenda, it's coming slowly, : bit by bit. Just can't trust that guy!:) Sorry

Re: Cookies rejected

2003-06-25 Thread Todd Wade
Aman Thind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi All On receiving no reply to my previous post, I myself struggled a bit and came up with the following code to login to the site : -- use LWP::UserAgent; use

RE: Array Question

2003-06-25 Thread Perry, Alan
Unlike others that are suggesting that you forget about user input, I thought you might want to see how it can work on Windows. I know that it would bug me as to how to do this if I were in your position... print Name your friends: ; @names = split(/[ \n]+/, STDIN); print I know $names[1].\n;

RE: Array Question

2003-06-25 Thread Perry, Alan
Oops, the second batch of code has a problem... It should read: print Name your friends: ; $friends = STDIN; chomp($friends); @names = split(/ +/, STDIN); print I know $names[1].\n; Sorry about that... - Alan -Original Message- From: Perry, Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: Array Question

2003-06-25 Thread Anthony Beaman
Here's what I got when I ran it: C:\perl hello2.pl Name your friends: Joe Sam Sally I know . (good news is that ctrl-z appears to be working again) When I ran it a second time and skipped a line, it when to the print message after I skipped a line after Sam. C:\perl hello2.pl Name your

RE: Array Question

2003-06-25 Thread Derek Byrne
Try This Then : --START-- print Name your friends: ; $friends = STDIN; #chomp($friends); @names = split(/ +/, STDIN); print I know $names[0].\n; --END-- I get the following result (which is slightly better) --START-- C:\SCRIPTS\testperl names4.pl Name your friends: Derek Byrne I know

RE: Array Question

2003-06-25 Thread Anthony Beaman
You did it! I just tried your first one: print Name your friends: ; @names = split(/[ \n]+/, STDIN); print I know $names[1].\n; It works!! It'll send you to the I know... message if you try to skip a line, though. But the most important thing is that it'll grab an element from the user's

RE: Array Question

2003-06-25 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Anthony Beaman wrote: Here's what I got when I ran it: C:\perl hello2.pl Name your friends: Joe Sam Sally I know . This has been answered already (you have one item in your array), so $array[1] is empty. (good news is that ctrl-z appears to be working

Re: File Handles in subroutines

2003-06-25 Thread John W. Krahn
Joshua Scott wrote: What do I need to do in order to use a filehandle that was opened earlier in a program within a subroutine? perldoc -q filehandle Found in /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/pod/perlfaq5.pod How do I flush/unbuffer an output filehandle? Why must I do this? How

Re: wrapping around with modulus

2003-06-25 Thread John W. Krahn
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: It's funny how as soon as you learn/meet/hear/read something/someone/something you see/hear it/him/her everywhere. I saw this last night in an article by R. Schwartz and then this morning again somewhere else. Problem being - how to count to N and then start over

Re: PERL format utility -error

2003-06-25 Thread John W. Krahn
Chern Jian Leaw wrote: Hi, Hello, I have the script below which outputs some values in a tabular form into the body of a mail. I'm using the format utility in PERL to output the values in a tabular form as in: PROG NO VERSION PROTOCOLPORTSERVICE RESPONSE

Re: Regex problem

2003-06-25 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jun 25, Beau E. Cox said: my $string = 'I love c++'; my $compare = 'some compare string'; if ($compare =~ /$string/) { print $compare contains $string\n; } else { print $compare does not contain $string\n; } Why don't you want to use if (index($compare, $string) -1) { ... }

Re: File Handles in subroutines

2003-06-25 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Hi John, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], John W. Krahn wrote: [...] perldoc -q filehandle Found in /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/pod/perlfaq5.pod How do I flush/unbuffer an output filehandle? Why must I do this? How can I make a filehandle local to a subroutine? How do

Re: wrapping around with modulus

2003-06-25 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], John W. Krahn wrote: Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: It's funny how as soon as you learn/meet/hear/read something/someone/something you see/hear it/him/her everywhere. I saw this last night in an article by R. Schwartz and then this morning again somewhere else.

Re: slash

2003-06-25 Thread John W. Krahn
Susan Aurand wrote: If I want the following field to contain forwarded slashes - this is for a linux box, as follows. $dir=//ITC/home/techs; How do I get the forward slashes in there? I have tried: $dir ='//ITC'; $dir ='//ITC'; $dir =`//ITC`; Nothing works. Help. Slashes are not

Re: Regex problem

2003-06-25 Thread John W. Krahn
Beau E. Cox wrote: Hi All - Hello, This script: use strict; use warnings; my $string = 'I love c++'; my $compare = 'some compare string'; if ($compare =~ /$string/) { print $compare contains $string\n; } else { print $compare does not contain $string\n; } gives this

RE: Regex problem

2003-06-25 Thread Derek Byrne
Newbie answer here - if you change the line my $string = 'I love c++'; to be my $string = 'I love c\++'; it runs, but, you also get this output : C:\SCRIPTS\testperl lovec.pl some compare string does not contain I love c\++ DerekB -Original Message- From: John W. Krahn

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