RE: Comparing text text::diff

2004-03-08 Thread Sethi, Pradeep
Hi Sara, I think ALgorithm::Diff is what you are looking for. http://search.cpan.org/dist/Algorithm-Diff/ -Prad -Original Message- From: Sara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 3/2/2004 5:08 AM To: beginners-cgi Cc: Subject:Comparing text text::diff I asked a

Re: Any CPAN module for creating thumbnails?

2004-03-08 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
B. Fongo wrote: I wander if here a way to create thumbnails using Perl? I want to implement functionality for my shop program to create a thumbnail of product pictures. A good instance of it may be that of eBay. Users can upload a picture of any dimension for their listing. EBay will

Weekly list FAQ posting

2004-03-08 Thread casey
NAME beginners-faq - FAQ for the beginners-cgi mailing list 1 - Administriva 1.1 - I'm not subscribed - how do I subscribe? Send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can also specify your subscription email address by sending email to (assuming [EMAIL PROTECTED] is your email

MIME::Lite

2004-03-08 Thread Sara
Is MIME::Lite only capable of sending email attachments present on your server? What If I want the users to give ability to attach files from their hard drives from a form input. Is there any other module for it? Thanks, Sara.

Re: MIME::Lite

2004-03-08 Thread Oliver Schnarchendorf
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 12:12:20 +0500, Sara wrote: Is MIME::Lite only capable of sending email attachments present on your server? Yes and No. You must be able to have a path to where the file is stored. This can even be a network path, but not an http/ftp path. What If I want the users to give

Re: PERL IDE

2004-03-08 Thread Robert
Alexander Douglas wrote: Hello I am new to perl , is there any good IDE to develop simple perl forms with firebird database which is a no brainer. Please advice Mohammed SciTE is a great little editor. Works on Windows and Linux equally. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [HOW TO] File Handles and Tokens

2004-03-08 Thread Paul Johnson
WC -Sx- Jones said: QUESTION - Can anyone tell me the trick to get __DATA__ to read the preceeding program code? seek DATA, 0, 0; -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: listing prime numbers in a range (Beginning Perl exercise)

2004-03-08 Thread John W. Krahn
R. Joseph Newton wrote: I just checked, and this is special magic with the __END__ and __DATA__ tags. For instance: Greetings! E:\d_drive\perlStuffperl -w while (DATA) { print; } __JABBERWOCK__ Hello Does not work, as we can see. If you want __JABBERWOCK__ to work then use

Re: Passing array as First argument

2004-03-08 Thread Angie Ahl
I must chime in. I've been learning perl for pretty much exactly a year now. I Still feel like a newbie. I haven't yet got to the chapters on Prototypes and Inheritance, I've read about the concepts but not yet applied them. I've been using subroutines and modules quite a bit and references

getting file name associated with file handler

2004-03-08 Thread N, Guruguhan \(GEAE, Foreign National, EACOE\)
Hi All, Is there anyway to get the file name associated with the file handler? Thanks Regards Guruguhan EACoE, India. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response

Re: getting file name associated with file handler

2004-03-08 Thread John W. Krahn
Guruguhan N wrote: Hi All, Hello, Is there anyway to get the file name associated with the file handler? You can do that on Linux. Which OS are you running? John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: HERE DOCUMENTS

2004-03-08 Thread Serguei Krivov
Bill, Would it not be better to post (copy) this message and the following postings to perl.tips oriented for beginners (like me) http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.tips Later it is going to be much easier to search perl.tips with 8 messages posted up to date then go through 61314

Substitutions

2004-03-08 Thread Hemond, Steve
Hi ppl, In an HP/GL2 file, there is a command called SP (select pen) which is associated to a pen number from 1 to 64. I have to parse the file and insert a command after each select pen command. Example : 10652PUPD515,10652PUPD515,2536PUSP61PU57531,8270PDPA57

Re: Substitutions

2004-03-08 Thread jeffrey_n_Dyke
Hi ppl, In an HP/GL2 file, there is a command called SP (select pen) which is associated to a pen number from 1 to 64. I have to parse the file and insert a command after each select pen command. Example : 10652PUPD515,10652PUPD515,2536PUSP61PU57531,8270PDPA57

Re: HERE DOCUMENTS

2004-03-08 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Serguei Krivov wrote: Bill, Would it not be better to post (copy) this message and the following postings to perl.tips oriented for beginners (like me) http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.tips Later it is going to be much easier to search perl.tips with 8 messages posted up to date then go

Re: Substitutions

2004-03-08 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Hemond, Steve wrote: Example : 10652PUPD515,10652PUPD515,2536PUSP61PU57531,8270PDPA57 to : 10652PUPD515,10652PUPD515,2536PUSP61;NEW_COMMAND;PU57531,8270PDPA57 My actual way of doing it is :

Re: Substitutions

2004-03-08 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 3/8/2004 8:35 AM, Hemond, Steve wrote: Hi ppl, In an HP/GL2 file, there is a command called SP (select pen) which is associated to a pen number from 1 to 64. I have to parse the file and insert a command after each select pen command. Example :

RE : Substitutions

2004-03-08 Thread Hemond, Steve
Thanks to everybody for replying and for the good explanations. :-) Steve Hemond Programmeur Analyste / Analyst Programmer Smurfit-Stone, Ressources Forestières La Tuque, P.Q. Tel.: (819) 676-8100 X2833 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Randy W. Sims [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: HERE DOCUMENTS

2004-03-08 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Mar 8, 2004, at 7:49 AM, WC -Sx- Jones wrote: I am both pleased and annoyed that I have gotten very little flames over my How To posting -- not that I want to annoy people, I don't; I am simply trying to condense certain questions and thoughts that I myself had when I was starting out so

Re: listing prime numbers in a range (Beginning Perl exercise)

2004-03-08 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Mar 7, 2004, at 7:07 PM, Stuart White wrote: Ah, so there is a use for the for which is like foreach other than a shortcut. Can I do that with foreach? I see that what you are describing with the foreach loops above is what was going on with my nested foreach loops before. I believe this is

Creating accessors from AUTOLOAD

2004-03-08 Thread Randy W. Sims
I have the code below in a module I'm writing (Complete module is at www.thepierianspring.org/CPAN-Metadata-0.00_01.tar.gz). The three methods _mk_*_accessor are nearly identical. I would like to simplify this code, but I want to avoid a giant eval since it makes code more difficult to

Re: Appending an small array into a larger array in a foreach loop.

2004-03-08 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Jim Canfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm having trouble creating an 2 dimensional array that contains the values of other smaller arrays. For example: foreach (@files) { #...Get values @smallarray = ('$value1',$value2','$value3'); Whange the line above to my

Re: Creating accessors from AUTOLOAD

2004-03-08 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Randy W. Sims wrote: I have the code below in a module I'm writing (Complete module is at www.thepierianspring.org/CPAN-Metadata-0.00_01.tar.gz). The three methods _mk_*_accessor are nearly identical. I would like to simplify this code, but I want to avoid a giant eval since it makes code more

RFC on R/E for Single Letter TLDs ?

2004-03-08 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
I would like comments on: /[EMAIL PROTECTED](?:\w){2,})/ REJECT Invalid address format. ( to stop BS like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) I am working on a living postfix server which reconfigures itself to account for spamming/virus patterns. The above is supposed to block any address which

Weekly list FAQ posting

2004-03-08 Thread casey
NAME beginners-faq - FAQ for the beginners mailing list 1 - Administriva 1.1 - I'm not subscribed - how do I subscribe? Send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can also specify your subscription email address by sending email to (assuming [EMAIL PROTECTED] is your email address):

PPM Module for DB:Oracle

2004-03-08 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
I have implemented Perl 5.8 from ActiveState. Now I need the PPM Module for DB:Oracle. I couldn't find it on ActiveState's web site. Where can I find this module? Thanks, Ken Janusz, CPIM

Re: listing prime numbers in a range (Beginning Perl exercise)

2004-03-08 Thread Stuart White
--- James Edward Gray II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 7, 2004, at 7:07 PM, Stuart White wrote: Ah, so there is a use for the for which is like foreach other than a shortcut. Can I do that with foreach? I see that what you are describing with the foreach loops above is what was

Re: PPM Module for DB:Oracle

2004-03-08 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 03/08/04 12:36, KENNETH JANUSZ wrote: I have implemented Perl 5.8 from ActiveState. Now I need the PPM Module for DB:Oracle. I couldn't find it on ActiveState's web site. Where can I find this module? I don't know if you'll be able to find a ppm for that as I think it needs to be linked

comparing a string to elements of an array

2004-03-08 Thread Stuart White
I'm reading in lines of text, and extracting the relevant parts of it. These relevant parts are then being pushed onto an array. My trouble is that these parts are a maximum of 24 unique names. However, when pushed onto the array, there is no mechanism for comparison where the repeated names

Re: RFC on R/E for Single Letter TLDs ?

2004-03-08 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
I would like comments on: /[EMAIL PROTECTED](?:\w){2,})/ REJECT Invalid address format. ( to stop BS like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) I am working on a living postfix server which reconfigures itself to account for spamming/virus patterns. The above is supposed to block any

RE: comparing a string to elements of an array

2004-03-08 Thread Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO
Stuart White wrote: I'm reading in lines of text, and extracting the relevant parts of it. These relevant parts are then being pushed onto an array. My trouble is that these parts are a maximum of 24 unique names. However, when pushed onto the array, there is no mechanism for comparison

Re: Disable Screensaver with Keyboard input

2004-03-08 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Stefan Lubitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have the problem that after 10 minutes the Screensaver of my PC is getting activated. I am not able to change it, because it is a W2k Domain policy. Now I thought, that I could write a small Perl Script, which is turning on and off the Scrolllock Key,

Re: problems parsing web form information into a perl script

2004-03-08 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: WC -Sx- Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Martin wrote: Hi, I've got a web form that allows a user to browse to an excel file on their computer and input it and the year as parameters to run a perl script FORM : input type=file value=excel name=file size=15 How do you know

RE: comparing a string to elements of an array

2004-03-08 Thread Stuart White
In the end, I want @SAN to have all the unique names within the file. Any ideas? You just described a Hash. Use %hash and then either uppercase or lowercase the the incoming key. YOu could then add a count to the Hash so you know you are looking at all things or not. The keys for

RE: comparing a string to elements of an array

2004-03-08 Thread Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO
Stuart White wrote: In the end, I want @SAN to have all the unique names within the file. Any ideas? You just described a Hash. Use %hash and then either uppercase or lowercase the the incoming key. YOu could then add a count to the Hash so you know you are looking at all things or

how big is my data structure

2004-03-08 Thread Michael C. Davis
Hi, is there a good way to tell how much memory a given data structure is consuming? I realize that there are issues in using this number to determine runtime memory requirements (like the fact that, in some circumstances, a running Perl process does not give back allocated memory to the

Modifying text in a shell script from Perl

2004-03-08 Thread Rajesh Dorairajan
Hello All, I am using Perl to launch installer written in Shell script on Solaris. I am supplying the arguments for all the prompts made by the installer from Perl, such as path, port number etc., The installer displays a copyright page that has multiple pages when it is launched and then prompts

Re: comparing a string to elements of an array

2004-03-08 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Mar 8, 2004, at 1:24 PM, Stuart White wrote: If I had a hash, I'd have to have a key and a value though. I'm just looking for one or the other. I suppose I could have key value pairs in the %SAN hash like so: Perl hashes are pretty versatile. As Wags was saying, just stick each item in the

Re: comparing a string to elements of an array

2004-03-08 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Mar 8, 2004, at 1:37 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote: my @words = qw(dog cat dog lizard dog wombat dog); my %seen; foreach (@words) { $seen{$_}++; } my @words = keys %seen; Egad, I'm dumb today, drop the my in the above line. Sorry. print @words\n; # only prints one dog James -- To

Re: how big is my data structure

2004-03-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:20:26PM -0600, Michael C. Davis wrote: Hi, is there a good way to tell how much memory a given data structure is consuming? I realize that there are issues in using this number to determine runtime memory requirements (like the fact that, in some circumstances, a

Re: Modifying text in a shell script from Perl

2004-03-08 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Rajesh Dorairajan wrote: cat copyright | more Useless use of cat award. Wonder why didnt the author use more copyright or less copyright? I am trying to edit the script and modify it as: cat copyright I am trying the following command from perl: system(perl -p -i.bak -e \s/cat copyright |

Browser-specific perl error (taint mode)

2004-03-08 Thread Erik Rieselbach
Hi, Can anyone explain to me why I would get a perl error in one web browser but not in any others? All I¹m doing is taking an email address from a form, feeding it to a validation sub that untaints it, then using it with the ­f option to sendmail. It works fine in Mozilla browsers on both Mac

Re: how big is my data structure

2004-03-08 Thread Michael C. Davis
At 08:57 PM 3/8/04 +0100, Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:20:26PM -0600, Michael C. Davis wrote: Hi, is there a good way to tell how much memory a given data structure is consuming? I realize that there are issues in using this number to determine runtime memory requirements

RE: comparing a string to elements of an array

2004-03-08 Thread Stuart White
--- Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stuart White wrote: In the end, I want @SAN to have all the unique names within the file. Any ideas? You just described a Hash. Use %hash and then either uppercase or lowercase the the incoming key.

Re: comparing a string to elements of an array

2004-03-08 Thread Stuart White
--- James Edward Gray II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 8, 2004, at 1:24 PM, Stuart White wrote: If I had a hash, I'd have to have a key and a value though. I'm just looking for one or the other. I suppose I could have key value pairs in the %SAN hash like so: Perl hashes are

Re: Substitutions

2004-03-08 Thread John W. Krahn
Randy W. Sims wrote: On 3/8/2004 8:35 AM, Hemond, Steve wrote: In an HP/GL2 file, there is a command called SP (select pen) which is associated to a pen number from 1 to 64. I have to parse the file and insert a command after each select pen command. Example :

Re: comparing a string to elements of an array

2004-03-08 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Mar 8, 2004, at 4:19 PM, Stuart White wrote: Conceptually, what you say the result is, is what I want, thanks. When I read it though, without the comment, I'd guess that the program would pair those words like so: dog:cat, dog:lizard, dog:wombat with dog:lizard overwriting dog:cat, and

Re: comparing a string to elements of an array

2004-03-08 Thread John W. Krahn
Stuart White wrote: I'm reading in lines of text, and extracting the relevant parts of it. These relevant parts are then being pushed onto an array. My trouble is that these parts are a maximum of 24 unique names. However, when pushed onto the array, there is no mechanism for comparison

Re: how big is my data structure

2004-03-08 Thread John W. Krahn
Wc -Sx- Jones wrote: Michael C. Davis wrote: Hi, is there a good way to tell how much memory a given data structure is consuming? I realize that there are issues in using this number to determine runtime memory requirements (like the fact that, in some circumstances, a running Perl

Re: Passing array as First argument

2004-03-08 Thread Robin Sheat
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 12:41:18AM +, Angie Ahl wrote: However I get them now. And for any other newbies out there... go look up references right now... really. In my case it was references and lists-vs-arrays (and how hashes fit into all this) that caught me. The moment they both had

Re: Modifying text in a shell script from Perl

2004-03-08 Thread John W. Krahn
Rajesh Dorairajan wrote: Hello All, Hello, I am using Perl to launch installer written in Shell script on Solaris. I am supplying the arguments for all the prompts made by the installer from Perl, such as path, port number etc., The installer displays a copyright page that has multiple

RE: Modifying text in a shell script from Perl

2004-03-08 Thread David le Blanc
-Original Message- From: WC -Sx- Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 9 March 2004 6:58 AM To: Rajesh Dorairajan Cc: Perl-Beginners (E-mail) Subject: Re: Modifying text in a shell script from Perl Rajesh Dorairajan wrote: cat copyright | more Useless use of cat

Re: comparing a string to elements of an array

2004-03-08 Thread Stuart White
This is where the work gets done, yes. In English it reads, for every word in the array, add one to the corresponding hash value under that key. That will give you a hash with keys for all the words. Their values will be the number of times that word appeared in the array. That's

Re: comparing a string to elements of an array

2004-03-08 Thread Stuart White
If you want the teams and players to be unique you should probably use a hash of hashes (HoH): Eventually, I think I'll use that, but not yet. Baby steps. :) thanks. my %stats; while ( STATS ) { my ( $t, $p ) = /\[($team)\] ($player)/ or next; $stats{ $t }{ $p } = ();

Re: Browser-specific perl error (taint mode)

2004-03-08 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Erik Rieselbach wrote: ³Insecure dependency in piped open while running with -T switch² at the line where I open a pipe to sendmail. This is what your server logs say or what is displayed in the browser window? You sure it isn't originating from sendmail? The -t option: sendmail -t

Re: how big is my data structure

2004-03-08 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
John W. Krahn wrote: length() evaluates its argument in scalar context and an array in scalar context returns the number of elements in the array so you are getting the length of the number of elements. John I love you ma :) (With apologises to Animal House.) @array = 1 .. 99; do {

Re: comparing a string to elements of an array

2004-03-08 Thread Stuart White
This worked perfectly! Thanks. --- James Edward Gray II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 8, 2004, at 4:19 PM, Stuart White wrote: Conceptually, what you say the result is, is what I want, thanks. When I read it though, without the comment, I'd guess that the program would pair those

Re: PPM Module for DB:Oracle

2004-03-08 Thread Lobue, Mark
At 09:56 AM 3/8/2004, Randy W. Sims wrote: On 03/08/04 12:36, KENNETH JANUSZ wrote: I have implemented Perl 5.8 from ActiveState. Now I need the PPM Module for DB:Oracle. I couldn't find it on ActiveState's web site. Where can I find this module? This from Jeff Ulwin, who maintains a site

Enable Perl Debugging at Run-Time

2004-03-08 Thread David le Blanc
Hey all. I need to trace / debug a CGI script which basically involves lots of 'print DEBUG_FH'. I noticed the existence of the Devel::Trace module which allows you to trace your perl script to STDERR eg, perl -d:Trace myprog.pl However, since my program is a CGI, I've come across a

backreferences

2004-03-08 Thread Stuart White
Here's a line: (10:18) [PHX] Stoudemire Turnover: Lost Ball (1 TO) Steal: Jackson (1 ST) I want to match PHX Stoudemire Steal: Jackson these are my patterns: my $steal = 'Steal:\s'; my $team = '\w{3}'; my $player = '\w+'; this is my regex: if ($_ =~ /\[($team)\] ($player).($steal)/) I tried

Re: Perl Newbie

2004-03-08 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
James Edward Gray II wrote: On Feb 28, 2004, at 1:24 PM, R. Joseph Newton wrote: Rob Dixon wrote: David Le Blanc wrote: Actually, I'd better apologise for calling RPC::p* secure, simple, or well documented, before anyone comes at me with a knife :-( You won't feel a thing. Trust me: I'm an

OT: Re: subroutine definitions

2004-03-08 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Andrew Gaffney wrote: [snip] Really, I'm the only user of my code. I don't expect to get replaced anytime soon as my boss also doubles as my father ;) Besides, I certaintly don't want to make things easier for my replacement (if there ever is one). Sorry for the old post, but this last

File question

2004-03-08 Thread Luinrandir Hernsen
I want to write an online game... I need a to make a logon page and a new person page. I think I can do this with little help... however on the map... Do I keep one big file with all the info.. of several little files.. which is better? Thanks Lou -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Re: subroutine definitions

2004-03-08 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: Andrew Gaffney wrote: [snip] Really, I'm the only user of my code. I don't expect to get replaced anytime soon as my boss also doubles as my father ;) Besides, I certaintly don't want to make things easier for my replacement (if there ever is one). Sorry for the old

Re: File question

2004-03-08 Thread Robin Sheat
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:53:26PM -0500, Luinrandir Hernsen wrote: Do I keep one big file with all the info.. of several little files.. which is better? I assume you are referring to perl CGI or something are you? If so, I'd suggest looking into using a database and designing an appropriate

Re: Forking

2004-03-08 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Bob Showalter wrote: Price, Jason wrote: Hmm...I guess that's the majority of the script. :) I can follow what it does, but I'm not entirely sure why it does it. Also, is there any way I can self-contain the output from each child process? You can use a separate pipe for each child, but now

RE: OT: Re: subroutine definitions

2004-03-08 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : I'm currently going through and cleaning up all my code : and moving all common code to my module. Get used to doing it. In about a year you'll wonder why you did it that way and how you did anything with such terrible programming. :) Charles

Re: OT: Re: subroutine definitions

2004-03-08 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Charles K. Clarkson wrote: Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : I'm currently going through and cleaning up all my code : and moving all common code to my module. Get used to doing it. In about a year you'll wonder why you did it that way and how you did anything with such terrible

Re: HERE DOCUMENTS and teachable moments

2004-03-08 Thread R. Joseph Newton
WC -Sx- Jones wrote: Serguei Krivov wrote: Bill, Would it not be better to post (copy) this message and the following postings to perl.tips oriented for beginners (like me) http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.tips Later it is going to be much easier to search perl.tips with 8

Re: comparing a string to elements of an array

2004-03-08 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Stuart White wrote: In the end, I want @SAN to have all the unique names within the file. Any ideas? You just described a Hash. Use %hash and then either uppercase or lowercase the the incoming key. YOu could then add a count to the Hash so you know you are looking at all

Re: how big is my data structure

2004-03-08 Thread R. Joseph Newton
WC -Sx- Jones wrote: Michael C. Davis wrote: Hi, is there a good way to tell how much memory a given data structure is consuming? I realize that there are issues in using this number to determine runtime memory requirements (like the fact that, in some circumstances, a running Perl

About HASH crypt

2004-03-08 Thread NetSnake
Hi,all I use samba and LDAP to build a PDC, but samba build NT Password via hash4, and have a program mkntpwd to generate crypted password, does perl has any module or function to do this? -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how big is my data structure

2004-03-08 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Michael C. Davis wrote: Hi, is there a good way to tell how much memory a given data structure is consuming? I realize that there are issues in using this number to determine runtime memory requirements (like the fact that, in some circumstances, a running Perl process does not give back

Re: HERE DOCUMENTS and teachable moments

2004-03-08 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
R. Joseph Newton wrote: Better just to respond to the situations as they arise. Sometimes this will mean pointing a person back to a recent thread that they *really should have* read themselves before posting. Sometimes a thread may also lead to other questions about the approach a person is

Re: Browser-specific perl error (taint mode)

2004-03-08 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Erik Rieselbach wrote: Hi, Can anyone explain to me why I would get a perl error in one web browser but not in any others? This depends on on alot of factors, few of which you are sharing.Generally, perl errors should not come through to the browser. IIS does pass error messages through by

Re: HERE DOCUMENTS and teachable moments

2004-03-08 Thread Robin Sheat
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 01:54:29AM -0500, WC -Sx- Jones wrote: I agree - so I am totally talked out of the 'how to' thread. Oh :( I kinda liked them. It meant that if I knew I wanted to do something, and I knew that there was a how-to out there, I also knew they would have a meaningful subject