Re: Radio based network prototyping simulator

2002-03-12 Thread Jon Molin
Gary Stainburn wrote: Hi all, I've got a project where I need to develop an single-board-computer based network device using packet modems connected to Amateur Radio equipment and I'm trying to develop a simulator in Perl under Linux and I've got a few questions. Basically I'm going

Re: Radio based network prototyping simulator

2002-03-12 Thread Jon Molin
Gary Stainburn wrote: Hi Jon, On Tuesday 12 March 2002 11:54 am, Jon Molin wrote: Gary Stainburn wrote: Hi all, I've got a project where I need to develop an single-board-computer based network device using packet modems connected to Amateur Radio equipment and I'm trying

Re: Delete words in a string

2002-03-11 Thread Jon Molin
FORIZS Zsolt wrote: How do i delete some words in a string, like with SED in Unix. please give me some ideas. use a regexp as in sed my $string = this string sucks; $string =~ s/sucks/blows/; look at 'perldoc perlre' /jon cu zsolt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Writing to beginning of file

2002-03-10 Thread Jon Molin
Troy May wrote: Hello, How do you write to the beginning of a file? I see only 3 options to open a file: to read, to overwrite, and to append to the end of the file. If you think about the file as an array with one char on each index: my @string = split (/|/, this is a test); now

Re: over-writing a file

2002-03-08 Thread Jon Molin
Anette Seiler wrote: Hi Ken, I encountered exactly the same problem today: How to read a file AND change something in it? I was not able to do both of them at the same time. I am sure there is a more correct way to do it, but my solution (in the spirit of TIMTOWTDI) was to write to a

Re: autorun

2002-03-07 Thread Jon Molin
Mohammed A. Hassan wrote: Well , I want to do this this on UNIX Jan Gruber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hi ! On Wednesday 06 March 2002 09:21 am, you wrote: How can I scheduler a cgi script? Depends on the platform you are

Re: Perl DBI for Sybase [OT]

2002-03-07 Thread Jon Molin
Jenda Krynicky wrote: [snip] You could use fetchall_arrayref(), but I would not recomend doing that unless you are really sure the resultset is small enough. That would slurp all the data to memory of YOUR process with quite some overhead. Are there any benchmarks on this? Becouse i

Re: read data from post or get ...

2002-03-06 Thread Jon Molin
The data is in the %ENV hash, the key is QUERY_STRING but it only works with GET and can give you some problem with GET as well. What I'd recomend is some reading about the CGI module, either the 'perldoc CGI', online info or the chapter about cgi in learning perl. /Jon farshad fekri nejat

Re: moving data from text file to db

2002-03-06 Thread Jon Molin
tom poe wrote: Hi: I have a script that connects to my PostgreSQL7.0.3 OK. Now, I also have text files that contain: column_name: data I want to open the database, open the file, read each line that has a column_name followed by a colon and space, then the data, and move it to the

Re: Vexing regex question--storing multiple hits for later use

2002-03-06 Thread Jon Molin
Daniel J. Tomso wrote: Greetings. I'm matching a pattern against a long string, and I want to examine each occurrence of the match. I know that $ stores the match, but is there a way to store EVERY match in the string, and then look at them? Example: $str = This is a very long

Re: STDOUT

2002-03-06 Thread Jon Molin
walter valenti wrote: Hi, i've got a binary executable file, that give a result on STDOUT (shell). I'm reditected STDOUT on a file as: use Getopt::Long; open(STDOUT,/usr/local/netsaint/var/tmp) || die$!\n; GetOptions(p=i = \$port); $|=1; system(/usr/local/netsaint/libexec/check_http

Re: Good God. I'm going to pull my hair out.

2002-03-06 Thread Jon Molin
Derrick Wippler wrote: Can anyone tell me why print $rec-[4] prints but print $recs[0]-[4] does not print a thing ? I've confimed the data, the first row in the fourth column is an F $rec-[4] prints it, but $recs[0]-[4] does not !!! ARG @#@!#!!!@@!!@!! PS: I'm using DBI, my DBI

Re: Problems with regex only matching first match on a line.

2002-03-05 Thread Jon Molin
Tor Hildrum wrote: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use warnings; print What file do you want to open?\n; chomp(my $openfile = STDIN); print What file do you want to write to?\n; chomp(my $outfile = STDIN); print What do you want to replace in the first file?\n; chomp(my $pattern =

Re: some questions about for, foreach

2002-03-04 Thread Jon Molin
John W. Krahn wrote: Jon Molin wrote: Jan Gruber wrote: Hi, Jon list ! On Friday 01 March 2002 11:29 am, you wrote: Hi list! I've always thought there's a difference between for and foreach, that for uses copies and foreach not. But there's no diff

Re: Running a command Remotely on another Host

2002-03-04 Thread Jon Molin
norishaam wrote: Hi, I've been trying to figure out the above, maybe someone has some experience...Below is the scenario:- 1. I have an executable, update.exe, that can run locally to update the service pack. 2. I am trying to write a perl script to have this update.exe to run

Re: Can I do this with perl?

2002-03-04 Thread Jon Molin
Dave Adams wrote: Hi there, I have a problem which I would like to use perl to resolve, however I'm not sure if it is possible to do. I need to scan a file and check some conditions, first if field 9 is duplicated on 1 or more rows, then I need to check field 10 to see which is the

some questions about for, foreach

2002-03-01 Thread Jon Molin
Hi list! I've always thought there's a difference between for and foreach, that for uses copies and foreach not. But there's no diff is there? my @a = (1, 2, 3 , 4 , 5); $_ += 2 for (@a); print @a\n; 3 4 5 6 7 my @a = (1, 2, 3 , 4 , 5); $_ += 2 foreach (@a); print @a\n; 3 4 5 6 7 why isn't

Re: some questions about for, foreach

2002-03-01 Thread Jon Molin
Jan Gruber wrote: Hi, Jon list ! On Friday 01 March 2002 11:29 am, you wrote: Hi list! I've always thought there's a difference between for and foreach, that for uses copies and foreach not. But there's no diff is there? AFAIK there's not really a difference between these two.

Crypt::RSA / Math::Pari problem

2002-02-28 Thread Jon Molin
4Hi list, I've been trying to install Crypt::RSA for a couple of hours now and I've run out of ideas. perl Makefile.PL and make runs smoothly but make test shows this: PARI: *** precision loss in truncation at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Crypt/Primes.pm line 580. on that line of

Re: Crypt::RSA / Math::Pari problem [SOLVED]

2002-02-28 Thread Jon Molin
Jon Molin wrote: Hi list, I've been trying to install Crypt::RSA for a couple of hours now and I've run out of ideas. perl Makefile.PL and make runs smoothly but make test shows this: PARI: *** precision loss in truncation at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Crypt/Primes.pm line 580

Re: html insert

2002-02-27 Thread Jon Molin
svensson wrote: Is there any way I can have a script producing a bit of html code on a remote computer and then be able to make a call to that in a HTML document which then will similair to img src=http://something.com/xx.cgi?sdfsdfsdf; If it can be done let me know how yes it is.

Re: html insert

2002-02-27 Thread Jon Molin
the html and merge it. otherwise i'd go for a frame the cgi list is here: http://lists.cpan.org/showlist.cgi?name=beginners-cgi /jon Jon Molin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... svensson wrote: Is there any way I can have a script p

Re: Matching

2002-02-27 Thread Jon Molin
Iain Wallace wrote: Hi, I was wondering if any one can help me. Is there any command in perl that will let me match a line only if the next line fufills a certain condition, without doing a double loop over the file? My data is like this Variable1 number number number Variable1

Re: Fw: off topic : frames html question

2002-02-26 Thread Jon Molin
Rahul Garg wrote: Well, I also dont know whether its possible or not ? Any suggestions. I hope you won't keep replying to your own question every second hour, saying that you don't know the answer /jon - Original Message -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: convert array to integer

2002-02-22 Thread Jon Molin
kitti wrote: how to convert array to integer $array[0]=5 $array[1]=6 $array[2]=7 $array[3]=8 one way to do it is: my @array = (5, 6, 7, 8); my $some_val; $some_val .= $_ for (@array); another is: my @array = (5, 6, 7, 8); my $some_val = @array; $some_val =~ s/[^\d]//g; a third is

Re: file size

2002-02-22 Thread Jon Molin
anthony wrote: Hi, I have an upload script, and i want to check the file size before it uploads. Any suggestion is appreciated Anthony here's some old code that does that, might be something built-in in CGI.pm as well: my $tempFile = CGI::tmpFileName($img_filename); my

Re: Perl subroutines using array hash????

2002-02-21 Thread Jon Molin
is this homework? Your other posts looks very homeworkish... /jon Bruce Ambraal wrote: Hi How do you do it Give me two different methods in subroutines, that will: match together all of its parameters into on large list. Many thanks to the following people: Brett, Micheal F,

Re: printing \n automagically?

2002-02-15 Thread Jon Molin
Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Thanks! That works great! But!!!: [root@iodine root]# man perlvars No manual entry for perlvars [root@iodine root]# perldoc perlvars No documentation found for perlvars. [root@iodine root]# it's perldoc perlvar

Re: Generating for loop paterns HELP!

2002-02-14 Thread Jon Molin
This smells homework! /jon Bruce Ambraal wrote: Hi I have done (b) for coding see below, could someone assist with (a) (b) (d) #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w my $num_rows; my $i; my $r; $num_rows = STDIN; for ($r = 1; $r = $num_rows; $r++) { for ($i=1; $i= $r; $i++)

Re: regex question

2002-02-14 Thread Jon Molin
rory oconnor wrote: I am using LWP to hit a page and save the source to a file. But before it saves it I want it to strip out the client id from the urls. They are always in the same format: client= # 8 digits and then ampersand so what I want to strip out is stuff like:

Re: regex question

2002-02-14 Thread Jon Molin
sorry about that answer, too early in the morning to answer questions...i even thought it was the newest. I wish I could go back to sleep /jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: stuck again downloading file

2002-02-14 Thread Jon Molin
Try removing all cookies you have in your browser and set it to ask for allowing cookies, then you'll really see if there are any cookies /Jon Tanton Gibbs wrote: Ok, I'm having a problem downloading a .zip file from a webpage. If I type in the filename in the browser URL textbox I get

Re: Generating for loop paterns HELP!

2002-02-14 Thread Jon Molin
This smells homework! /jon Bruce Ambraal wrote: Hi I have done (b) for coding see below, could someone assist with (a) (b) (d) #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w my $num_rows; my $i; my $r; $num_rows = STDIN; for ($r = 1; $r = $num_rows; $r++) { for ($i=1; $i= $r; $i++)

Re: finding max value

2002-02-13 Thread Jon Molin
Frank wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 01:17:50PM +0100, Andrea wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Jeff 'Japhy' Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a set of functions that give numeric results, and I need to compare them and choose the maximal value. Is there any simple way of

Re: sort file

2002-02-13 Thread Jon Molin
Susan Aurand wrote: What is the fastest or best way to sort a file alphabetically, the rewrite it to a file. you'll print this very fast anyway :) sort file temp_file;mv temp_file file /Jon Thanks Susan Haywood County Schools -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: Form reports

2002-02-12 Thread Jon Molin
Naika - EV1 wrote: Bare with me but I'm a beginner and new to this list. I need advice on poll results. What should I be researching? I have forms submitting off websites and I can direct them to email the results but how do I write them to a file to be redisplayed on a webpage?

Re: In-line editing..

2002-02-07 Thread Jon Molin
Steven M. Klass wrote: Hi all, Here is the general problem. I have a file that I need to edit but can't. im not sure i follow you here, making a backup copy is not an option? perl -pi.bak -e 's/foo/bar/g' weird_uneditable_file;some_app weird_uneditable_file;mv

Re: Never had this happen before!

2002-02-07 Thread Jon Molin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was happily programming, getting close to the end of my project just trying to figure out table placement in html within my largest function on the page. All of a sudden my function won't function! I didn't change any of the perl code! And it was fine except

Re: File Attributes

2002-02-07 Thread Jon Molin
There's some good documentation about this at: perldoc -f chmod /Jon Roman Hanousek wrote: I can't remember how, But how do i change the attribute of a file from read only to writable and then back gain. Thanks Roman

Re: use lib question

2002-02-05 Thread Jon Molin
use BEGIN: perl -e 'BEGIN {if (`pwd` =~ /some_path/){use lib (/usr);}else{use lib (/home);}}' i usually unshift @INC but i've heard that's not a good way to do it, not sure why though. /Jon Kingsbury, Michael wrote: I want to have two different variable for use lib depending on a cmd line

Re: Matching text

2002-02-01 Thread Jon Molin
Kevin wrote: Hi I have a really simple problem that I could solve easily with a strstr() call in c but cannot get my head around in perl. I have have the following input. Active Accounted actions on tty57, User fred Priv 1 Task ID 35176, Network Accounting record, 02:04:00 Elapsed

Re: perl database access

2002-02-01 Thread Jon Molin
I'm not sure i follow you but if you use localhost or leave the host blank it'll try localhost... /Jon Jefferson Ryan Lee wrote: Hi, Are there any way to access a database (SQL Server) not using the ODBC? It is possible for a perl script to query a database not on a local

Re: [ma-linux] Just when you thought you are done, the - is there - appears

2002-02-01 Thread Jon Molin
I guess geoff is in the ma-linux list, not in here since the only things i can find in this thread is 3 posts by you. Kinda hard to offer better(tm) sollutions when you don't know what's been suggested before...Perhaps you should try NOT cross-posting? /Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to

Re: UFO (Unidentified Formatting Observation) on the web....

2002-02-01 Thread Jon Molin
it's pod, do 'perldoc module' and 'perldoc perldoc' /jon Ron Goral wrote: I have a very beginner's question. I've just been looking at the code for a library file and noticed some, to me, very peculiar things. First, there is text that is not commented, it is just typed in place. Why

Re: SSL and HTTPS

2002-01-29 Thread Jon Molin
You have the best(tm) webserver out there: www.apache.org, you can add mod_ssl to it and there you go. An alternative could be http://www.apache-ssl.org/ (not the same as apache with mod_ssl) /Jon Gary Hawkins wrote: CommerceSQL uses Perl and needs https, secure server. I already asked

Re: listing files

2002-01-29 Thread Jon Molin
Michael Pratt wrote: This is what I want to do and I dont know where to start: List files in a directory taking that list with just the filename and no other information. using that information and populating a listbox. Check out 'perldoc -f opendir perl'. Perhaps the File:: modules suits

Re: Processing a text file

2002-01-25 Thread Jon Molin
Morgan Norell wrote: Can anyone give me some hints how to do this I'am totaly lost. read about files and regexps. There's a good book called 'learning perl' you should check out. If you're not interested in buying books, check the online info and perldoc. If you're not interested in

Re: Code Format Question

2002-01-25 Thread Jon Molin
Darryl Schnell wrote: This may not be the place to ask this question so forgive me. I know a few people who are obsessed with the way their perl code is formatted and I was wondering what does actual good readable perl code and bad formatted perl code look like? I usually have my code

Re: please Help ! Database connection

2002-01-25 Thread Jon Molin
or do: print Content-type: text/html\n\n; /Jon John Edwards wrote: This looks like your script isn't returning the correct HTML headers. It's not a database connection fault. I would strongly suggest using the CGI.pm module. This provides an easy interface to all things CGI. All this to

Re: What's wrong with this?

2002-01-24 Thread Jon Molin
Jorge Goncalvez wrote: Hi, I have this: #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use Win32::Registry; my $Register =Software; #my $Register2=.DEFAULT\\Software; my $hkey; my @array= qw($HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE $HKEY_CURRENT_USER ) ; foreach (@array) i don't know this windows module but i guess this

Re: csv flat file

2002-01-24 Thread Jon Molin
bc wrote: hello i have a flat file (csv) [it has about 114 rows] i want to put the word insert in front of each row, how it the for each writtin? in other words, in perl, how do i do a for each row insert the word insert , then it comes out of the for each loop thingy...? perl

Re: perk-tk.rpm

2002-01-22 Thread Jon Molin
did you try at cpan? http://search.cpan.org/ /Jon richard noel fell wrote: I have been unable to find a source for the tk module. My google searches have been fruitless. Does anyone have a pointer to a tk.rpm for redhat linux 7.1? Thanks, Dick Fell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: how to set the env var?

2002-01-18 Thread Jon Molin
Read 'perldoc DBI' As a convenience, if the $data_source parameter is undefined or empty the DBI will substitute the value of the environment variable DBI_DSN. If just the driver_name part is empty (i.e., data_source prefix is 'dbi::') the

Re: using the system function

2002-01-18 Thread Jon Molin
if you aren't interesed in weather it works or not, why not try system(/usr/local/bin/scp file $system:/home ); /jon lospalomares wrote: I am trying to scp a file to various systems, but the script hangs if the scp command to one of the systems fails. Is there a way in perl to specify

regexp hangs in perl 5.005_03 but not 5.6

2002-01-17 Thread Jon Molin
Hi list, I've got a pretty hairy regexp that hangs and i can't really understand why. It works just fine one my freebsd workstation running 5.6.1, but in linux with 5.005_03 it just dies. here is the code: $rule = A. TRAVEL ON BB CODESHARE ABTS BB1000 - BB7999 AND BB9000-BB NOT PERMITTED B.

Re: catching an exception before it reaches command line

2002-01-17 Thread Jon Molin
have BEGIN { open (STDOUT, '/some/log/file') } if you want it to file otherwise do, open (STDOUT, STDERR); and with shellstuff, redirects stdout, 2 redirects stderr so system (ls /apa /dev/null 21); redirects both outputs to /dev/null is that what you wanted? /Jon Alex Harris wrote:

Re: Compile .cgi programs

2002-01-11 Thread Jon Molin
I'm not sure I really understand what you're after, i get the feeling you're normaly using windows. If you set the mod to 755 (rwxrxrx) the perlscript will be executable, there's no need t compile it with perlcc. If it's speed you're after, you should use mod_perl instead (perl.apache.org) as

Re: return code

2002-01-11 Thread Jon Molin
here are two ways: my $exit_code = system ($cmd); system ($cmd); print exit code = $?\n; /Jon Ahmed Moustafa wrote: Hi All, I'm calling a Java application using system. How can I know the return code of the called Java application? Your help will be appreciated so much. Ahmed --

Re: Compile .cgi programs

2002-01-10 Thread Jon Molin
Take a look at 'perldoc CGI.pm' Perhaps you should buy a book as well? Or read the online documentation? I can recomend 'learning perl'. /Jon kondreddy Rama koti Reddy wrote: Dear Friends, can u tell me, how can i create an executable file for the .cgi program on linux whihc is having

Re: interesting JAPH, how does this work?

2002-01-10 Thread Jon Molin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try this: #!/opt/local/bin/perl #!/usr/bin/perl my $A=a; for(0..285074){ $A++; print $A:; perhaps you should consider NOT printing that 285074 times? would kinda flood the term :) } print\n\n$A\n; --

Re: Hash of hash of array

2002-01-09 Thread Jon Molin
Ahmed Moustafa wrote: Hi All, My data structure is a hash of a hash of an array. I build it from an input file by the following code. Could you help me write it back to an output file, please? # Code Begins %data = ( ); open (IN, in.txt) || die; while (IN) { chop; ($user_name,

Re: help with Net::POP3

2002-01-09 Thread Jon Molin
You need to call $handle-quit (); /Jon Cabezon Aurélien wrote: Hi list, I'm playing around Net::POP3. I wanna make a script that is able to check for pop3 mail and then save them in a MySQL database (not implemented yet, usefull for mailing archiving) I'm at the start of the script

Re: split, ignoring spaces

2002-01-09 Thread Jon Molin
Hanson, Robert wrote: It sounds like you might have multiple spaces between some elements. Try this... @date = split(/\s+/,$date); but it will also split on \n,\t so / +/ would be better if it's just space you wanna split on /jon This will split on one or more spaces. Rob

Re: reading from directories = no values

2002-01-09 Thread Jon Molin
Karsten Borgwaldt wrote: Hi all, can anybody tell me, why I can't push any read values into an array? my code is: .. .. .. opendir(IN, some_path) || die opendir: $!; rewinddir(IN); while (defined($_ = readdir(IN))) {unless (m/^\.{1,2}$/ or not m/'.foo'$/) # all files, that are

Re: Query

2002-01-07 Thread Jon Molin
Manish Uskaikar wrote: Can anyone tell me if i can use threads in perl; If yes then what all library files i have to include. Also tell me how i include a system library file like math.h or unistd.h in perl. How can one include C libraries in perl program i.e.. *.pl Regards Manish U.

Re: Searching for a book...

2002-01-07 Thread Jon Molin
Stanislav Zahariev wrote: Hello, I'm searching for a perl book to buy... But I'm not sure which is the best, or which are the best. Can you refer me some so I can chose from them? I know the basic things of perl, if the book holds them they must be very detailed. I'm oriented in

Re: Searching for a book...

2002-01-07 Thread Jon Molin
that i sent a link with many books? /Jon Take a look at the FAQ section 2.3, bullet point 1 and chill out. /John ;) -Original Message- From: Jon Molin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 January 2002 16:32 To: Stanislav Zahariev Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Searching

Re: Calling a perl script with a perl script

2002-01-04 Thread Jon Molin
Hubert Ian M. Tabug wrote: Hi, Given that I have a perl script main.pl, and I want main.pl to use/call the script testprog.pl, and store testprog.pl's output into a variable that can be used within main.pl. How do I go about doing it? Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Date and time.

2002-01-04 Thread Jon Molin
Mark-Nathaniel Weisman wrote: Hello all, Sorry about re-hashing old things here, however I've looked through the older messages and can't seem to come up with an answer. How can you pull a server based date and time stamp from within a script? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Print / overwrite line

2002-01-04 Thread Jon Molin
John W. Krahn wrote: Gary Hawkins wrote: How can I clear a line before replacing it? Am doing \r and overwriting, but sometimes the text that was there previously is longer than the new text. Pad the shorter lines with spaces. For example: printf \r%-20s, $something; or

Re: Data through the parallel port

2001-12-20 Thread Jon Molin
Hi Stanislav i searched with google for Device::ParallelPort and came up with this: http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg05952.html i was too lazy to register at https://pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery?ACTION=edit_mod as the post requests though, might be something for you? It'd be nice to hear about

Re: Remove a line

2001-12-19 Thread Jon Molin
Prasanthi Tenneti wrote: hi, how to remove a line from a file? pls help me. press the delete key repetedly? :) but really, i think you'll need to give som more info. what line? first line, last line, random line, line nbr n? would this be it? my $line_to_delete = 7; open (F,

Re: ARGV

2001-12-18 Thread Jon Molin
Michael Pratt wrote: I cant seem to get the ARGV to work right via web I get not found error but it works via command line. whats the trick? It works if I do this get_file.pl test1.txt test2.txt but it wont work via http://www.host.com/cgi-bin/get_files.pl test1.txt test2.txt You

Re: Need regex

2001-12-17 Thread Jon Molin
read perldoc -f substr /Jon Jorge Goncalvez wrote: Hi, I wanted to have the first 5 elements of a scalar, like for exemple: my $number= E14011 my number2=E1401 How can i do this in Perl, thanks? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: Count number of characters

2001-12-17 Thread Jon Molin
perldoc -f length :) /Jon Jorge Goncalvez wrote: How can I count the number of characters of a string ? Thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: command-line way to search contents of files

2001-12-14 Thread Jon Molin
check man perlrun im not sure what you're after, if it's just grep i'd suggest find . -type f -exec grep foo {} \; if you wanna do something about foo find . -type f -exec perl -pi -e 's/foo/bar/g' {} \; /Jon Thomas S. Dixon wrote: Greetings gurus, I've worked with perl somewhat for the

Re: Database access

2001-12-13 Thread Jon Molin
You can if the database is accessible from the webserver. Read about apache (www.apache.org) and perl (www.perl.org), especially the modules CGI.pm and DBI.pm. /Jon Allison Davis wrote: Can anyone tell me if you can have all the members of our origanization access our database on the web

Re: help any with hash

2001-12-13 Thread Jon Molin
Lance Prais wrote: #open a file with the filehandle open WORKFLOW, ..\\..\\workflow.txt or die Cannot open Workflow $!\n; my $data = WORKFLOW for (1..21); while # loop through the workflow.txt chomp; #a) my $line=$_; print STDERR \nline: $line; } The above code is

Re: Capturing STDOUT of system launched process

2001-12-13 Thread Jon Molin
Hi, some alternative approaches would be: my $res = `$cmd`; # note that it's not ' but ` # $res only stdout, this will puke out stderr or my $res = `$cmd 21`; # redirect stderr to stdout # $res is now both stderr and stdout or my $res = `$cmd 2/dev/null`; # throw away stderr # $res is

Re: File date/time stamp

2001-12-13 Thread Jon Molin
stat is what you want, 'man perlfunc'. ($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid,$rdev,$size, $atime,$mtime,$ctime,$blksize,$blocks) = stat($filename); /Jon Michael Pratt wrote: Hello, How do I get a file date time stamp? Thanks Mike

Re: Module download

2001-12-12 Thread Jon Molin
Have you tried CPAN.pm? /Jon Daniel Falkenberg wrote: Hello All, I don't know if this is possible but I want to be able to have a Perl script check my server for modules that I need in my script. If the modules don't exist. Is there a module that does this or similar? Regards,

Re: fun with regex/split

2001-12-12 Thread Jon Molin
i bet there's way of doing this on one line: my $a = 'one two three four five six seven eight nine'; my @ar = ($a =~ /((?:\[^\]*\|[^\s]*))\s?/g); #should be possible to remove s/\//g foreach (@ar); print $_\n foreach (@ar); /Jon Pete Emerson wrote: I'd appreciate it if someone could

eval scope

2001-12-10 Thread Jon Molin
Hi list, I'm trying to use eval () with a constants module and it works very funny, can anyone explain this behavior to me. It seems to me as this is a scope thing. If i remove the 'my' it works fine but i can't see why it shouldn't work with my: i have a module with constants (constants.pm):