Re: pagination of dbi results on html browser

2003-11-28 Thread A L
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED], This continuation post is from another post at [EMAIL PROTECTED]; it's posted here because this is more relevant to CGI. Previously, I had 2 questions, one being pagination (the other question is yet addressed until pagination issue is understood). Now, after

Re: pagination of dbi results on html browser

2003-11-28 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
A L wrote: Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED], This continuation post is from another post at [EMAIL PROTECTED]; it's posted here because this is more relevant to CGI. Previously, I had 2 questions, one being pagination (the other question is yet addressed until pagination issue is understood). Now,

Re: pagination of dbi results on html browser

2003-11-28 Thread A L
Thanks. I'll work on it. Wiggins d'Anconia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:A L wrote: Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED], This continuation post is from another post at [EMAIL PROTECTED]; it's posted here because this is more relevant to CGI. Previously, I had 2 questions, one being pagination (the other

Re: Html::tokeparser::simple

2003-11-28 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Paul Kraus wrote: Someone want to show me how this module can help parse out html? I want to grap text between tdtext/td being able to apple regexp to get what I want. The problem is my text is among 10,000 td tags. With the only difference being what the above th tag has in it. So if th

Re: Glob and space in directory name

2003-11-28 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO wrote: Boris Shor wrote: And when I rename the directory to House 98 (space instead of underscore), the following does not: @filelist = glob(w:/stleg/Colorado/House 98/*.htm); I tried a number of things and was not able to

Re: perldoc perltoc WAS Using Benchmark module

2003-11-28 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Jerry Rocteur wrote: In as much as perldoc is your friend (Just like Google ;-) I find when you first use perldoc you get awfully confused as to which one to look for. I like to use perldoc perltoc and of course http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perltoc.html is the bees knees.. Sorry

Re: sendmail and attachment

2003-11-28 Thread R. Joseph Newton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have sendmail working ok with perl by calling sendmail (qmail-inject). However, now I need to send an attachment with it. Can someone tell me how this can be done? fw Is that the Mail::Sendmail module, or shelling out to an external sendmail utility? If its the

Re: Glob and space in directory name

2003-11-28 Thread Rob Dixon
Joseph wrote: Just remember that the enclosing double-quotes are always a part of Windows long filenames. When the the sytem processes the string expression offered as an argument, it takes only the textual content, and strips the quuotes. Enclose the whole string, including double-quotes,

Re: problem using bash variables with command-line perl in bash script

2003-11-28 Thread Marcus Claesson
Thanks for all your answers! I settled for the simplest of them all, by single quoting the shell variables: perl -wne 'if (/'$FILENAME'/) { s/\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}/'$UPDATED'/;print; }' updated_files.txt The reason I use bash here and not only good old perl is that the bash script is much bigger

Documentation of Implicit Functionality

2003-11-28 Thread Rob Dixon
John wrote: tr/// does not use regular expressions, only m// and s/// and split() use regular expressions. Hi John. Are you sure of that? I've just answered a private question about use of $_ from a guy who was insecure about its use. I said that the only places it was /altered/ was in

Re: problem using bash variables with command-line perl in bash script

2003-11-28 Thread John W. Krahn
Marcus Claesson wrote: I settled for the simplest of them all, by single quoting the shell variables: perl -wne 'if (/'$FILENAME'/) { s/\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}/'$UPDATED'/;print; }' updated_files.txt Actually, you are single quoting the perl program. The shell variables are outside the

Re: Testing Perl on a Web Page

2003-11-28 Thread Jeff Westman
R. Joseph Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try this: html head title Joseph's first Perl-based form /title /head body bgcolor=d0d0ff form method=POST action=FormTest.pl Name input name=Name type=text value= br Rank input name=Rank type=text value= br Serial Number input name=Serial

OFF TOPIC: Unix in a Nutshell Orielly 3rd edition

2003-11-28 Thread Paul Kraus
I need to beef up on my UNIX skills. Are major server is running Sco Open server. Will this book benefit me or is there another I should look at. Not on topic and I apologize but beyond perl the list seems to have many UNIX enthusiasts. Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

RE: OFF TOPIC: Unix in a Nutshell Orielly 3rd edition

2003-11-28 Thread Akens, Anthony
Sorry to hear you're running SCO. My sincerest sympathies. As for Unix books, the O'Reilly Unix in a Nutshell is a good book. I don't consider it quite as indispensible as Essential System Administration, but that book assumes you're a little more fluent in Unix. So if you're a user on the

Re: command line interface handling asynchronicity

2003-11-28 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Philipp Traeder wrote: ... b) How can I set up the ReadLine() part in a way that the user is able to type new actions, but can receive new messages (from finished long actions) as well? I have played around with Term::ReadKey, and ended up with something like this: Are you looking for

Re: command line interface handling asynchronicity

2003-11-28 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Philipp Traeder wrote: Hi Phillip, Sorry. That last example cheated with a long, hard-coded wait. Below is something that speaks a little more closely to the problem. ... b) How can I set up the ReadLine() part in a way that the user is able to type new actions, but can receive new messages

RE: OFF TOPIC: Unix in a Nutshell Orielly 3rd edition

2003-11-28 Thread Akens, Anthony
I'm sorry, small correction. The Unix CD Bookshelf does not contain Essential System Administration. It has: Unix Power Tools, 3rd Edition Learning the Unix Operating System, 5th Edition Learning the vi Editor, 6th Edition Mac OS X for Unix Geeks Learning the Korn Shell, 2nd Edition sed

Re: command line interface handling asynchronicity

2003-11-28 Thread drieux
On Thursday, Nov 27, 2003, at 17:49 US/Pacific, John W. Krahn wrote: Philipp Traeder wrote: [..] If I am not mistaken, this is more or less exactly what I am doing right now - the only problem I have got with this is that the user is interrupted in his work when the 'long_action' finishes - like

Re: OFF TOPIC: Unix in a Nutshell Orielly 3rd edition

2003-11-28 Thread drieux
On Friday, Nov 28, 2003, at 11:01 US/Pacific, Paul Kraus wrote: [..] I need to beef up on my UNIX skills. Are major server is running Sco Open server. Will this book benefit me or is there another I should look at. [..] as a general over-view it is a reasonable work. The question of course is

Re: problems with case insensitive tr/// regexp

2003-11-28 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Daniel Staal wrote: ... You definitely need the s/// operator, (unless you can use one of the HTML parsing modules). But let's fix that regrexp first, shall we? First off, you may have noticed I removed the first '.*' from your regrexp: that's because nothing is allowed between the opening

Re: OFF TOPIC: Unix in a Nutshell Orielly 3rd edition

2003-11-28 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Paul Kraus wrote: I need to beef up on my UNIX skills. Are major server is running Sco Open server. Will this book benefit me or is there another I should look at. Not on topic and I apologize but beyond perl the list seems to have many UNIX enthusiasts. I would echo the comments about the

Re: Glob and space in directory name

2003-11-28 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Rob Dixon wrote: Joseph wrote: Just remember that the enclosing double-quotes are always a part of Windows long filenames. When the the sytem processes the string expression offered as an argument, it takes only the textual content, and strips the quuotes. Enclose the whole string,

Re: OFF TOPIC: Unix in a Nutshell Orielly 3rd edition

2003-11-28 Thread Rob Dixon
Paul Kraus wrote: I need to beef up on my UNIX skills. I would love to know of a description of the Unix /philosophy/. Once sucked in to the surrounding ideas everything seems obvious, but I know of no book that explains stuff like processes, forking, signals and so on that underly the basic

Re: OFF TOPIC: Unix in a Nutshell Orielly 3rd edition

2003-11-28 Thread Saskia van der Elst
Rob said: I would love to know of a description of the Unix /philosophy/. Once sucked in to the surrounding ideas everything seems obvious, but I know of no book that explains stuff like processes, forking, signals and so on that underly the basic ideas of Unix. In essence it is a much

RE: OFF TOPIC: Unix in a Nutshell Orielly 3rd edition

2003-11-28 Thread Tom Kinzer
check out the O'Reilly Unix Bookshelf, you get a in a nutshell hard copy and 6 books in HTML on a cd. Makes a really great quick reference. I have the Perl and Linux/Webserver bookshelves as well. You can carry ~18 books around with you in your laptop case! -Tom Kinzer 714.404.9362

Viewing logs on other computers.

2003-11-28 Thread Mark Weisman
I've got several BSD boxes running in my organization, and I'd like to make a singular interface into them for viewing the logs. That's all I want to do, I don't want to give permissions to the users of this interface to do anything else, just review the logs. I've got my scripts working fine on

Re: OFF TOPIC: Unix in a Nutshell Orielly 3rd edition

2003-11-28 Thread John W. Krahn
Rob Dixon wrote: Paul Kraus wrote: I need to beef up on my UNIX skills. I would love to know of a description of the Unix /philosophy/. The UNIX Philosophy by Mike Gancarz Linux and the Unix Philosophy by Mike Gancarz The UNIX Programming Environment by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob

Re: OFF TOPIC: Unix in a Nutshell Orielly 3rd edition

2003-11-28 Thread drieux
On Saturday, Nov 29, 2003, at 15:10 US/Pacific, Saskia van der Elst wrote: Rob said: I would love to know of a description of the Unix /philosophy/. Once sucked in to the surrounding ideas everything seems obvious, but I know of no book that explains stuff like processes, forking, signals and so

Re: Viewing logs on other computers.

2003-11-28 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Mark Weisman wrote: I've got several BSD boxes running in my organization, and I'd like to make a singular interface into them for viewing the logs. That's all I want to do, I don't want to give permissions to the users of this interface to do anything else, just review the logs. I've got my

Stupid Question

2003-11-28 Thread Jason Dusek
Hi Perl Beginners, Let's say I have a hash of hashes. And I want to use it over and over again, so I need to reinitialize it often. I suppose I could go through each key in the hash of hashes, and go through each key in the little hashes and use delete on each of them. But isn't there some

Re: Stupid Question

2003-11-28 Thread John W. Krahn
Jason Dusek wrote: Hi Perl Beginners, Hello, Let's say I have a hash of hashes. And I want to use it over and over again, so I need to reinitialize it often. I suppose I could go through each key in the hash of hashes, and go through each key in the little hashes and use delete on each

hash of hashes problem - Re: Stupid Question

2003-11-28 Thread drieux
On Nov 28, 2003, at 6:26 PM, Jason Dusek wrote: Let's say I have a hash of hashes. And I want to use it over and over again, so I need to reinitialize it often. There are two issues here, a. how did you initialize it to begin with and why not simple re-use that solution b. have you

Re: OFF TOPIC: Unix in a Nutshell Orielly 3rd edition

2003-11-28 Thread drieux
On Nov 28, 2003, at 4:09 PM, John W. Krahn wrote: [..] Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment by W. Richard Stevens [..] I should note that, as myFascistHousemate just whined at moi, that we need to make sure that we are clear about the distinctions between unix philosophy

Re: Stupid Question

2003-11-28 Thread Jason Dusek
Hi Everyone, On Friday, November 28, 2003, at 08:51 PM, drieux wrote: a. how did you initialize it to begin with and why not simple re-use that solution The hash consists of filenames, line numbers and strings. $HASH{$file}{$line} = line of code from some file. So the script goes

Re: Stupid Question

2003-11-28 Thread Jason Dusek
Hi Everyone, I guess drieux was write about perldoc -f 'delete' - it completely solved my problem. So as an act of penance to the Perl community, I will flagellate myself right here on this list! for (1..108) { print 'wap'; print 'ouch'; } That'll teach me to write to the list

Re: Stupid Question

2003-11-28 Thread drieux
On Nov 28, 2003, at 8:54 PM, Jason Dusek wrote: Hi Everyone, On Friday, November 28, 2003, at 08:51 PM, drieux wrote: a. how did you initialize it to begin with and why not simple re-use that solution The hash consists of filenames, line numbers and strings. $HASH{$file}{$line} = line

Re: problems with case insensitive tr/// regexp

2003-11-28 Thread Daniel Staal
--As off Friday, November 28, 2003 1:08 PM -0800, R. Joseph Newton is alleged to have said: s[\/?font.*?\][]gsi Cool! Thanks, Daniel, that is very nice work. I could feel myself going back over those first steps in using regexes as I followed your post. --As for the rest, it is mine. Heh,