extra iteration of the for loop over a non-existant element with the
index $array[$#array+1]. So don't do that. :-)
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$pass = unix_md5_crypt($input_pass,$salt);
Also, your double-quotes in the useradd command look redundant. Try
removing them, if it still doesn't work. They may been being processed
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.. and you wouldn't see initialization warnings in that scope.
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> Unbuffer STDOUT:
> $| = 1;
> See 'perldoc perlvar' for information about the $| variable.
This doesn't help with storing the output from ls to a file rather than
STDOUT, which should be done with something like:
ope
ry.
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is your information?
< http://archive.develooper.com/macosx%40perl.org/msg02650.html >
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"Blessings to the chap who invented ice cream, ginger-pop and t
ssion occasionally. Here's the
problem, though:
Changes to $_ inside an FD are _not_ reflected back to a file.
You can read 'perldoc -q "How do I change one line in a file"' for
the suggested ways of doing modifications like this.
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ur code with:
'$b = 1; $b++;' or '$b = 1; $b = $b + 1', you'll get more expected
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"Blessings to the chap who invented ice cream, ginger-pop and the rest!
a can be plotted to many different type of graph -
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"Blessings to the chap who invented ice cream, ginger-pop and the rest!
I'd rather invent things like that any
e that; that's what your '1' is - a success code.
Your problems can be easily solved, though. sprintf() returns the
string that printf() would have printed. You can just replace the
printf() call with one to sprintf(), and all should work fine. :)
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pt that runs 'rm -rf /' and
getting you to type 'perl -MCPAN -e 'install Helpful::Script'' - it's
trivial to get a CPAN account, and new uploads aren't vetted.
In theory, though, it's likely that such a module would be noticed very
quickly indeed, and re
nd save it, doesn't work for me for some
David> reason.
Japhy has a page explaining crypt(), which should clear everything up
for you. It's on-line at: http://www.crusoe.net/~jeffp/docs/crypt
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used like this:
print 1..3;
=cut
print 4..6;
=cut
print 7..9;
(prints '123789')
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chris@lexis:~$ perl -le'@a=($^O eq 'darwin')?qw(100453 81289 9159):qw
(23152 19246 2040);while(<>){chomp;push @b,$_ if grep {$.==$_}@a}push
@b,$^X;print ucfirst join(" ",@b[2,0,3,1]).","'
s if you can't figure it out. Bear in mind that many problems may be
related to your webserver's CGI setup, and not to Perl itself at all.
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variables names that we use
when describing how programs work, to show that we're talking about
something that could be any variable. You can read about them at:
http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/metasyntactic-variable.html
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task. :-)
The post I'm thinking of is at:
http://archive.develooper.com/beginners%40perl.org/msg16089.html
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n my system yesterday. Cheers for all
Harry> the replies.
I've submitted a documentation patch on this and it's been applied to
the 5.8 tree. There'll be mention of perltoc as a good place to start
on the `perldoc perldoc` page in that release.
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e POD.
If this is the case, the perldoc page containing the table of contents
for perldoc is found with: perldoc perltoc
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normal rand stuff
Postman> from perl?
Postman> Any ideas how I could code this, or is there a better way
Postman> of actually getting random stuff.
Someone beat you to it. :) The Crypt::Random CPAN module is an
interface to /dev/random (and /dev/urandom).
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>>>>> "jn" == josenyimi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
jn> The task is simply to upercase the first char of a given string
jn> and lowercase the rest.
$string = ucfirst lc $string;
Nice try, though. :-)
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and is stable and working as it should in what it does.
Just some ideas,
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ortcut to having to bother issuing an open() call and have the
unbearable hassle of setting up a file handle.
We should have a Lazy Perl Programming FAQ, as a list of things that you
can^Wshouldn't do to speed up a perl script. ;-)
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arguments.
The errors are with your code, rather than the population of @ARGV, in
my opinion. There are certain situations where both could be the case,
though, as someone else described for Windows.
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rrays are zero-indexed
$argument2 = $ARGV[1];
# make sure that $argument{1,2} don't contain special chars
$argument1 =~ s/[^A-Za-z0-9:\.]//;
$argument2 =~ s/[^A-Za-z0-9:\.]//;
do_something_with($argument1, $argument2);
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may or may not choose to follow this usage. For example,
parallelism means "awk and perl" and "Python and Perl"
look OK, while "awk and Perl" and "Python and perl" do
not. But
>>>>> "Me" == Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Me> I was wondering whether it would be worthwhile creating a CPAN
Me> module - something like WWW::Google::SOAP - to allow simple
Me> searches with the SOAP API, returning a nice hash. Look
ave more luck
posting to 'google.public.web-apis' through http://groups.google.com.
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directories would contain the modules under that
namespace; for example, in Text/:
lexis:chris...perl5/5.7.2/Text % ls
Abbrev.pm Balanced.podSoundex.pm Wrap.pm
Balanced.pm ParseWords.pm Tabs.pm
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; signifies
the end of switches, so it knows whatever follows is a path to a file.
But this really is very off-topic. :-)
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Simple with regexps to transform sub definitions.
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from imposing an order on key-value pairs. Instead, you
have to sort a list of the keys or values:
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n with the shell.
Nikola> I know I can put it in quotes but is there any other way
Nikola> around it?
Not as far as I know. 'script.pl file1\* \*file2\*' will pass them
untouched, if you have access to what's happening at the shell level.
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locale configuration being sane, but it should solve your problem if
this is so.
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$stream) should fix things. I'd also switch to LWP::Simple, but that's
up to you.
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m('program');
... but that assumes that the 'program' is something that can be entirely
executed from the command line and returns a useful return code - I
don't have familiarity with VB, but my short experiences seem to suggest
that this would be rare.
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ilename))[7];
... to retrieve the size of $filename in bytes.
More information at perldoc -f stat,
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egex would break, and the TokeParser code wasn't much longer. It's
effectively impossible to parse HTML accurately with regexps.
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t all data from H1 BGCOLOR="FF">I want all if this data extracted from
Daniel> heading 1 (h1)
while ($stream->get_tag("h1")) { $data = get_trimmed_text("/h1"); }
(Also see perldoc HTML::TokeParser, once it's installed.)
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this might need to be re-encoded:
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digit) and the range (three digits), and note the == to make a
comparison rather than an assignment.
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"In the beginning there was
he links
between them.
I'm also still an HTML::TokeParser geek. TokeParser allows you to grab
the contents of HTML tags, even if there's a complex structure to the
page defining which tags you want to take and which you don't.
Hope either of these spark someone's interest.
oking at Python source somewhere. It
does have a use in perl, but as a special subroutine name; described in
perldoc -f import. 'import Some::Module' is not valid perl code.
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ig } @array; # Remove <(p|P)> for each array element.
Hope this helps. Merry Christmas, list!
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On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 15:46, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
> It certainly puts my C-like code to shame. It's very nice.
And even more so to my code. Very well written, Bob.
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nk of using regexps. And you called _me_ a regexp
master yesterday. Sigh.
I wrote:
> > I'll bow down to anyone who can make a one-liner of it, naturally.
> It reduced a sizeable algorithm down to one simple regex:
> s/\b(\d+)(?:,((??{1+$+})\n))+/$1-$+/g;
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can make a one-liner of it, naturally.
Hope this helps - out of interest, what sort of UNIX command _needs_ a
list like that instead of an explicit one?
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# Author: Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
# Function: Provide a 'compact
#x27;t
a typo at all.
Oops.
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D, which has documentation and sample
usage for each function.
The [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list would be a good place
to follow-up to if you still have questions.
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On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 17:19, Juan Manuel Espinoza wrote:
> How can i open a URL in PERL?
With the 'LWP' modules. In this case, putting the HTML to Google's
front page in $content:
use LWP::Simple;
my $content = get( "http://www.google.com/"; ) or die $!;
Hope
ubstr:
void:chris~ % echo "abcdefgh" | perl -nle 'print substr($_, -3, 3)'
[ -3 makes us start here ^, 3 makes us travel for three characters. ]
> Left can be done with substring (x,0) I am sure
Yes, indeed: echo "abcdefgh" | perl -nle 'print substr($_, 0,
and everyone
running a local server can reject based on this hash. It's probably
overkill for me, but it sounds like you get enough spam to use it -
assuming you have control of the machine your mail comes to. (which I'll
assume, based on your mail address of webmaster@)
Just an idea,
d, and I'm in need of sleep. If anyone more
alert than myself can see anything stupid, please let me know. :-)
If you need a hand with initialising the object, I've got a tutorial to
TokeParser (though also manipulating XML:RSS) up on the web at:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/11/15/
helps,
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these.
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gt; in the last line is not necessary:
print "Value: ", $unix{"SHELL"}\n";
will DWYM.
As a side point, you might be interested to know that the environmental
variables that your hash represents are already available from within
perl, in the %ENV hash. For example, '
com/ being the most obvious example.
[2]: Simon Cozens' NetThink comes to mind - http://www.netthink.co.uk/
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;get_trimmed_text("br");
You'll have some small tidying up to do on both, but it's a /much/ more
readable (and maintainable) way of parsing the HTML.
Hope this helps, (from one Manchester perl bod to another ;-)
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