Re: $from_address

2003-03-28 Thread Kevin Meltzer
$from _address will not interpolate in single quotes. No quotes needed around $from_address, $to_address or $subject. Cheers, Kevin On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 12:12:44PM -0700, Robbie Staufer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > Hi, > > I have a perl script that takes in form data and

Re: [OT] YAPC::NA 2003 Registration

2003-03-06 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Sorry :) http://yapc.org/America/ Cheers, Kevin On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 05:49:52PM -0800, R. Joseph Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > Kevin Meltzer wrote: > > > Hello folks, > > > > ... > > It will be June 16-18, 2003 in Boca Raton, FL. P

[OT] YAPC::NA 2003 Registration

2003-03-05 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hello folks, I just wanted to alert people to the fact that registration has begun for YAPC::NA::2003. The Yet Another Perl Conferences (YAPCs) are grassroots symposia on the Perl programming language under the auspices of the Yet Another Society (YAS), a non-profit corporation for the advanceme

[ADMIN] Re: [Fwd: ezmlm response] Remove request

2003-02-28 Thread Kevin Meltzer
The correct address to send remove requests is [EMAIL PROTECTED] when you have exhausted all other means. TIP: Make sure you are trying to subsibscribe the correct address. Cheers, Kevin On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:27:05AM -0500, Justin Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: >

Re: What is \000?

2002-12-12 Thread Kevin Meltzer
\000 is a null character. Cheers, Kevin On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:38:49PM -0600, Dr. Poo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > What/when/where/how might one come across the ?character? '\000' -> that's > backslash followed by three zero's. > > I ask because i've just come acress a

Re: Non valid emails

2002-11-07 Thread Kevin Meltzer
These requests should go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, Kevin On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 07:53:10AM -0800, Timothy Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > > I'd second that motion. There are a few addresses that I would have > submitted in the past if I had known where to send the

Re: e-mail

2002-10-02 Thread Kevin Meltzer
I usually suggest MIME::Parser for breaking up emails in to nice seperate parts. See if that fits your needs. As for fetching the mail, look at one of the POP modules, or Mail::IMAPClient or Mail::Cclient if you use IMAP. Cheers, Kevin On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 07:34:39AM -0500, Jerry Preston ([EM

Re: OT - Interesting Perl output; What is it?

2002-09-04 Thread Kevin Meltzer
I think this is called "n - reversal of digits of n' where a(n) is a multiple of 9. A good place to find out about number sequences is: http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/ Which is where I found this sequence. Cheers, Kevin On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 09:30:59AM -0700, nyec ([EMAIL PROTE

Re: Password entry field.

2002-08-27 Thread Kevin Meltzer
As well as the pointer Craig gave, you can also look at the Term::ReadPassword module. Cheers, Kevin On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 02:55:41PM -0400, Ravindranath, Sujit ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > Hi all, > I am using PERL to write a terminal(UNIX) program wherein it prompts the

Re: MIME::Lite 'Datestamp' problem -- truncating timezone? (UT instead of UTC)

2002-08-26 Thread Kevin Meltzer
UT (Universal Time) is a valid TZ. It is the same as UTC and GMT. So, treat it as if it is GMT when parsing. Smart mail clients don't always use the abbreviation, and use the offset (the -0500 bit). So, sending as UT is perfectly valid, although not always the best way to do it. You can set the

Re: newbie question

2002-08-20 Thread Kevin Meltzer
quot;Don't do crap with it, unless it's for it's special purpose." > > > > -Original Message- > > From: John W. Krahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 5:22 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: newb

Re: newbie question

2002-08-20 Thread Kevin Meltzer
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 05:17:05PM -0700, John W. Krahn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > Kevin Meltzer wrote: > > > > On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 04:35:53PM -0700, John W. Krahn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said >something similar to: > > > Kevin Meltzer wro

Re: newbie question

2002-08-19 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Does that behavior not seem like a bug to you? My reference is discussions on #perl about it. I'll dig up the logs if you wish (when I can get to that). Cheers, Kevin On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 04:35:53PM -0700, John W. Krahn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > Kevin Meltz

Re: time and date

2002-08-19 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hi Anadi, You want to take a look at the MIME-tools, specifically MIME::Parser and MIME::Head (look for MIME::Tools on http://search.cpan.org). If that seems too heavy duty for your needs, take a look at the Mail::* modules on the CPAN. Also look there for ways to access the mail, if you haven'

Re: newbie question

2002-08-19 Thread Kevin Meltzer
This is actually a bug. It just seems that nobody seems to care :) It would break too many JAPHs which use this. So, don't depend on it, in case it is ever fixed. On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 01:17:15PM -0700, John W. Krahn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > Bob Showalter wrote: > Als

[ADMIN - REDIRECT] Re: CGI script problem

2002-08-19 Thread Kevin Meltzer
This message is being redirected to the beginners-cgi list. Please answer on that list, and to the original poster. Thanks. Cheers, Kevin On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 04:11:14PM +0100, Matt Wetherill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > Hi list, > > I'm just trying to get started with c

Re: How fatalsToBrowser works ?

2002-08-16 Thread Kevin Meltzer
If you feel the need to argue with them, pick up your toys and go. Cheers, Kevin > > Rgds, > Connie > > > > - Original Message - > From: "Kevin Meltzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Se

Re: How fatalsToBrowser works ?

2002-08-16 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Please people, do NOT cross post to the beginners lists. If your question is not CGI related, post to the beginners list, if your question is CGI related, post to the beginners-cgi list. Never, ever, ever, ever should you need to ask a question on both lists. If you don't know which list to post

Re: undef of nested data structures

2002-08-15 Thread Kevin Meltzer
As a side note, you can play around with Devel::Peek to see how many things are referencing a variable. # perl -MDevel::Peek -e '$foo="foo";$bar=\$foo;$zog=\$foo;Dump($foo);$bar="bar";Dump($foo);print $foo;'; SV = PV(0x80f2424) at 0x810b3cc REFCNT = 3 FLAGS = (POK,pPOK) PV = 0x80f10a0 "f

Re: Extracting attachments from emails

2002-07-18 Thread Kevin Meltzer
It's still legal in 23 states! Honest! Cheers, Kevin On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 12:33:28PM -0700, John W. Krahn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > Kevin Meltzer wrote: > > > > At this point, attachments should have been parsed out and created in > > $IN

Re: Extracting attachments from emails

2002-07-18 Thread Kevin Meltzer
e a regular recursive call to the standard > MIME::Parser methods, but I was just curious if it handled this on its own? > > > > > > Kevin Meltzer wrote: > > I use MIME::Parser, and have always loved it. It will extract > > attachments to files, and you can do w

Re: Extracting attachments from emails

2002-07-18 Thread Kevin Meltzer
I use MIME::Parser, and have always loved it. It will extract attachments to files, and you can do what you want with them. For example: use MIME::Parser; my $message = ; $parser->output_dir('/some/directory'); my $entity = $parser->parse_data(\$message); At this point, attachments should hav

Re: get external ip from D-Link router

2002-06-10 Thread Kevin Meltzer
At home I do this with LWP on my Lynksys. Look at LWP::UserAgent and LWP::Simple for the fetching, and HTML::Parser for the HTML parsing (or just use a regular expression if you can). Cheers, Kevin On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:35:59AM -0700, bob ackerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar

Re: [ADMIN - THREAD CLOSED] Re: The Ethics of WebBotting a Job Hunt

2002-06-07 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Greetings, On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 02:10:05PM -0700, Bryan R Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > First of all, let me apologize if it sounded like "blasting". I'm very > grateful that we have these lists, and someone who's volunteered to monitor > them. Anyone who's been on

Re: The Ethics of WebBotting a Job Hunt

2002-06-07 Thread Kevin Meltzer
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 12:36:44PM -0700, drieux ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > I am now confused - a ruling on cgi-beginner is > also mandated for beginners??? If you read the list FAQs you would not be confused (section 2.4). If you can keep in your mind these are BEGINNER

Re: [ADMIN - THREAD CLOSED] Re: The Ethics of WebBotting a Job Hunt

2002-06-07 Thread Kevin Meltzer
I hope no mom looks like me. If you don't think I am friendly, you don't know what you are talking about. I let MANY things slide on these lists which many others wouldn't. But when I close a thread on one list, just to see it posted on a sister-list, it is frustrating. I have told certain people

[ADMIN - THREAD CLOSED] Re: The Ethics of WebBotting a Job Hunt

2002-06-07 Thread Kevin Meltzer
I just said on cgi-beginners that this isn't on topic, now it is being posted here. #1 don't cross-post, #2 stay on topic. This thread is closed. Cheers, Kevin On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:35:21AM -0700, drieux ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > > > volks, > > this is probably m

Re: getting a url with perl, the url_get library?

2002-06-03 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Look at the LWP::* modules (LWP::UserAgent, or LWP::Simple, in particular). It comes with the libnet distro on the CPAN. Cheers, Kevin On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 04:22:17PM -0400, david ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > There used to be a url_get library, is there something else now

Re: MIME::Lite trouble

2002-05-23 Thread Kevin Meltzer
When I get emails from those places, the HTML isn't an attachment.. it is the body of the message. Those emails are not multipart. The body of the message should be HTML, and the Content-Type of the email should be text/html. There should be no 'text part', or any parts... if you want to mimic

[ADMIN - Thread closed] Re: [ Something Funnie to Read ;) ]

2002-05-16 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Funny (and somewhat true) as it may be, this is not the proper forum to post random links which have nothing to do with Perl. Consider this thread closed, and any future similar thread closed before it begins :) Cheers, Kevin On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 03:19:00PM -0700, Czar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) s

Re: Upgrading the Murder Tree Products was Re: Books

2002-05-15 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Beta? Is isn't even alpha. And yes, generally when I speak of the future it is in terms of sometime after the present. Cheers, Kevin On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:07:28AM -0700, drieux ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > > On Tuesday, May 14, 2002, at 03:37 , Kevin Me

Re: Upgrading the Murder Tree Products was Re: Books

2002-05-14 Thread Kevin Meltzer
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 02:44:01PM -0700, drieux ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > Given that the Apocalypse is coming, you may want to wait > until the first of the Perl6 books come out - if you are > 'book oriented', but frugal in these matters. Given that Perl6 will likely be o

Re: Handling Charset

2002-05-02 Thread Kevin Meltzer
I rolled my own module to handle i18n issues with email, and parsing strings such as that. One of the MIME::* or Mail::* modules may do it, but I didn't see any which did it (which is why I did my own). Basically, you need to parse out the bits of the string (not hard).. then take the encoded pa

Re: Email validation syntax

2002-05-01 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Take a look at Email::Valid Cheers, Kevin On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 03:43:07PM -0400, McElwee, Shane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > Below I've a regular expression that checks the syntax of an email address. > The problem I'm having is with the underscore "_" . I've tried some >

Re: Checking and email address

2002-04-16 Thread Kevin Meltzer
If you want to see if a variable contains a @, do what the other suggested. If you want to see if you have (at least) a well formed email address (with optional MX host checking) look at Email::Valid. Cheers, Kevin On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 11:58:11PM -0400, Daniel Falkenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) s

Re: Question about this list

2002-04-15 Thread Kevin Meltzer
http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.beginners/ Cheers, Kevin On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 12:51:32PM -0700, Troy May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > Is there a way that I can have access to this list without receiving 150 > emails a day? In other words, if I un-subscribe, does that mea

Happy List Anniversary

2002-04-15 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hey folk, This list has now been around for just over a year. It was created on April 11, 2001 and announced on use Perl; a few days later. Considering the number of people on here, there have been minimal issues with flaming, OT posts, and general mayhem (let's keep it up!). In all, based on pri

Re: Help with MIME::Lite module

2002-04-12 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Take the single quotes off of $nhtmlpage.. the variable isn't being interpolated. Cheers, Kevin On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 08:56:15AM -0400, FLAHERTY, JIM-CONT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > I am wanting to send HTML reports to clients that can read html mail. > In the Data secti

Re: Perl for Mac

2002-03-07 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Assuming you are on OS X, what's wrong with vi? Or emacs? Cheers, Kevin On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 10:02:16PM +, Naveen Parmar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > Any good text editors for Mac? > > I am interested in something that will display at least line #s. -- [Writing CGI

[ADMIN REDIRECT] Re: Regular Expressions

2002-02-20 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hello, I am redirecting this question from beginners-cgi to beginners. Please respond to the original poster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and the beginners list. Please remember that non-CGI related questions should not be send to beginners-cgi. Thanks. Cheers, Kevin On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 01:13:55PM -

Re: Email Validation

2002-02-19 Thread Kevin Meltzer
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:53:57PM -0800, Roger Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > I hadn't found that module when I was searching the net. the > Email::Validdoesn't catch the @this_host.com It also doesn't catch | > in the email, which I would've thought shouldn't be

Re: Email Validation

2002-02-19 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hi Roger, Have you looked at the Email::Valid and Mail::Address modules? Mail::Address will piece apart an email address (address, phrase, etc..) and Email::Valid can do RFC822 some address validation (including MX host checking). Cheers, Kevin On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 11:37:49AM -0800, Roger Mo

Re: Removal from list

2002-02-12 Thread Kevin Meltzer
http://learn.perl.org/ (click on FAQ) It is also mailed to the list every week. Cheers, Kevin On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:26:08AM -0800, James Lucero ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > Where is the FAQ? --- [Writing CGI Applications with Perl - http://perlcgi-book.com] You have

[ADMIN - THREAD CLOSED] C vs. Perl

2002-01-02 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hello folks, I am closing this thread. Although it is a very interesting conversation to have with people, this really isn't the place for it. Feel free to continue it off-list with interested parties, but consider this thread closed and do not respond to the list itself. Thanks for your cooperat

Re: Is there a real person in charge of this list?

2001-12-20 Thread Kevin Meltzer
These requests should be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, please make sure you have tried all the ways to unsubscribe which are shown in the FAQ, as well as the tool on the http://learn.perl.org website. Cheers, Kevin On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 02:04:19PM -, Watkiss, Stewart ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: extract uptime for linux box w/perl

2001-12-20 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Am I just the overly paranoid one? But IMO doing this can be dangerous. Tainting isn't just for CGIs, and adding a -T to this shows it can be dangerous ($ENV{PATH} issue, since you don't really know what uptime you will end up calling). Again, I may be the overly-paranoid (read safe) one :) Cheer

Re: Getting rid of junk.

2001-12-13 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hi Aaron, $login =~ s!^\d{3}!!; See also: perldoc perlre Cheers, Kevin On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:08:07PM -0800, Aaron Shurts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > I am not sure what to use in this case. > I am grabbing a bunch of login information from our database. The login > h

Re: [ADMIN] Cross posting

2001-12-13 Thread Kevin Meltzer
That is in the FAQ, which everyone should have read, and shouldn't need to be said on the list. Actually, I seem to have left it out of the beginners-cgi FAQ and will add it in. For those of you only on the beginners-cgi list, until it is in the FAQ, have useful subjects :) Cheers, Kevin On Thu,

[ADMIN] Cross posting

2001-12-13 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hello, I would like to ask people to be more mindful about cross-posting to both the 'beginners' and the 'beginners-cgi' lists. In other words, don't. The 'beginners' list is meant for Perl questions, not Perl/CGI questions. We added the 'beginners-cgi' list in order to handle the Perl/CGI relate

Re: Help with Perl

2001-12-05 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Dag nabbit.. forgot the anchors :) if ($letter =~ /^[A-L]$/) { -- Hello Andy, if ($letter =~ /[A-L]/) { blah } See Also: perldoc perlre Cheers, Kevin On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 02:16:37PM -0500, Nguyen, Andy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > Hi Li

Re: Help with Perl

2001-12-05 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hello Andy, if ($letter =~ /[A-L]/) { blah } See Also: perldoc perlre Cheers, Kevin On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 02:16:37PM -0500, Nguyen, Andy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > Hi List, > > I am new to perl and looking for a shortcut way of doing this. > > # $letter could

Re: [OT] SUBJECTS! (was: Any takers,...)

2001-12-01 Thread Kevin Meltzer
This is not an elitist remark, however I will also remind people that it is in the list FAQ (section 2.9) to have a meaningful subject. Everyone should read the FAQ before posting. Cheers, Kevin On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 05:20:34PM +0100, Jenda Krynicky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar

Re: Question

2001-11-28 Thread Kevin Meltzer
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 12:38:48PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > Hello, > > Can anyone tell me why he/she will choice PERL over PHP? Personally, I didn't like using PHP when I *had* to. No sir, I didn't like it. This was a recent thread on the beginne

Re: CGI scripts security

2001-11-28 Thread Kevin Meltzer
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 08:46:36AM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > Never trust CGI params. > Never trust CGI params. > Never trust CGI params. I'll add to that: Never trust user input Never trust database data Never trust command line params Never trus

Re: Simple error... I think....

2001-11-27 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hi Daniel, On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:13:59AM +1030, Daniel Falkenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: [snip] > %users = ( >'crud' => '503', >'test' => '45', >'test4' => '45', >'test2' => '45', >'daniel'=> '45' >

Re: Send e-mail attachment

2001-11-27 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Or, just use MIME::Lite or another module which does these things for you :) Cheers, Kevin On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 09:20:35AM -0600, Tomasi, Chuck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > Here's one I can answer! I agonized over this for weeks, but finally got a > decent solution that

Re: how can i set up a simple portal?

2001-11-19 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hi Noah, Why not use RSS? My book has a chapter on using it, or to save money you can look at that chapter online: http://perlcgi-book.com/sample/chapter16.pdf A good past article from perl.com: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2000/01/rss.html Also, the current article on perl.com: http://www.perl.co

Re: [Fwd: RE: Sendmail alternatives]

2001-11-14 Thread Kevin Meltzer
I like postfix (postfix.org). It is pretty secure, easy to install and maintain. It's only drawback (IMO) is that it can use a lot of inodes. Other than that I am happier with it than I was when I used to have to configure sendmail :) Cheers, Kevin On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:22:11PM -0800, Mile

Re: Off-Topic (200%) - Where are you from?

2001-11-09 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Rat's Mouth, Florida (commonly known as Boca Raton, but I live outside of Fort Lauderdale) Cheers, Kevin > > By reading the messages everyday I can guess most of us are from United > > States right? And since there are not a lot of messages in (my) morning > > time, probably means most are from

Re: open (MYFILE, ">>file_to_append_to.txt") or die "Can't open $!\n"; # which actually never dies.

2001-11-01 Thread Kevin Meltzer
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 09:58:02AM +0800, feliciahk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > From: "Carl Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "shalini Raghavan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > open (MYFILE, ">>file_to_append_to.txt") or die "Can't open

Re: What is Auto-Vivification

2001-10-18 Thread Kevin Meltzer
On top of what Jeff said, here is an article on autoviv: http://tlc.perlarchive.com/articles/perl/ug0002.shtml Cheers, Kevin On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 07:10:45PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > Friends -- Could you briefly explain the term "auto-vivific

Re: Where are the archives?

2001-10-05 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hi Andrew, On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 04:26:40PM +0100, Mason, Andrew ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > I just felt I had to reply to this... > > First of all my apologies. I would have read the FAQ if I'd known where > to find it. So perhaps my first posts out to have been where

Re: Where are the archives?

2001-10-04 Thread Kevin Meltzer
I don't know why.. you *have read* the FAQ, haven't you? :) Cheers, Kevin (wondering why people don't read FAQs, since they have answers to questions!) On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:31:24AM -0400, jeffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > http://archive.develooper.com/beginners%40perl

Re: New Project, Design Thoughts appreciated

2001-09-26 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hi Derrick, I would consider using Net::SSH::Perl, or XML-RPC (RPC::XML). I've had to do similar things, and have been happy with XML-RPC. You can have it run as a server, however, with some trickery, you can also have it 'embedded' in another server or script. I haven't personally used Net::SSH:

Re: go with the flow

2001-09-24 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hi Claement, If you wish, you can post your code on the web somewhere and I am sure folks would be happy to review it and give some commentary on it. If you can not put it on the web (for whatever reason), please ask people to email you directly to get a copy (i.e. don't send it to the list :)

Re: Perl by Example

2001-09-24 Thread Kevin Meltzer
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 06:14:36PM +0100, John Moylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > >>I'd have to highly recommend "Writing CGI Applications with Perl" > > Could not agree more, the best intermediate Perl book around. I love reading that! > (Is it meant to be intermediate Mr

Re: Inserting into the middle of arrays

2001-09-24 Thread Kevin Meltzer
perldoc -f splice @array = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5); splice(@array, 3, 1, 10); print "@array"; 1, 2, 3, 10, 5 Cheers, Kevin On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 03:08:09PM +0200, Pete Sergeant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > How do I insert $scalar into position $x of @array, where $x is smaller t

Re: cgi-lib.pl

2001-09-19 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hello Harpreet, Why do you *need* to use cgi-lib.pl? That library is not obsolete, and (from what I know) isn't maintained anymore. Take a look at the CGI.pm module instead, which has a mode to use it like cgi-lib.pl. Cheers, Kevin On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:38:34AM +1000, Singh, Harpreet ([EM

[ADMIN] Thread Closed (was Re: how to open a .iso file)

2001-09-19 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Ok folks, this thread is now closed. There will be no more posts on this thread to this list. Not only is it heated, but it is off topic. People must realize a few things. First, sometimes people post OT posts to lists. Why? I'm not always sure. However, the beginners list is "chartered", if you

Re: Jabber

2001-09-17 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hi Russ, Have you looked into the Net::Jabber modules on the CPAN? Cheers, Kevin On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 01:55:07PM -0400, Russell Brooks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed forth: > Hi, > Someone has recently requested that I push some output from some perl > scripts to a jabber client. If anyone

Re: order of operations

2001-09-07 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hi Drew, On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 11:45:34AM -0400, Cohan, Drew ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed forth: > Hi, > > I don't understand something about Perl's order of operations with this > code: > > ...if ($name_count{$member}++)... Using ++ (or --) after the variable will cause the current value to

Re: line number

2001-09-07 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hi Ronald, On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 02:58:30PM +0200, Roland Schoenbaechler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed forth: > analogy to the functions die or next). Does a variable exist indicating the > line number of the currently executed step (or the last step)? > Yes, you can use the __LINE__ token: .

Re: help - what is this?

2001-08-21 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hi Quang, This is not the appropriate list for HTML questions. HTML and Perl, if related, would be distant cousins, twice removed, and adopted. Please search the web for a more appropriate place to find an answer. Thanks. Cheers, Kevin On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 04:05:33PM -0400, Quang Bui ([EMAIL

[ADMIN] Re: GET ME OFF

2001-08-21 Thread Kevin Meltzer
List, I have responded privately to Miriam. Please do not respond to her(?) or to the list on this. In the future if any of you (or anyone reading this in the archives) is having troubles unsubscribing by following the directions on the bottom of the emails, the website (learn.perl.org), and the

Re: untainting passwords

2001-08-19 Thread Kevin Meltzer
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 04:12:00PM -0500, Me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed forth: > > [snipped] > I don't find that very helpful. First, I would consider this flaim-bait, which isn't appropriate for this list. Second, we have no idea what he needs this for, and it is unfair to give this 'serm

Re: PERL IS NOT A HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGE

2001-08-17 Thread Kevin Meltzer
It amazes me when people in acadamia can be so non-academic. If I were you, I would ask what working definition (since it isn't the standard definition) of "high level" they are using, and low level as well. Being that a high level language is one which is passed through an interpreter or compiler

Re: Perl - High Level language?

2001-08-16 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hi Jon, On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 03:52:59PM -0700, Jon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed forth: > Hello, > > I am signing up for a class at the U.W. that requires that I have one to > two years programming experience in a high level language. Here are my > questions: > > Is Perl a high level langua

[ADMIN} Re: FW: F*** YOU

2001-08-14 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Whoa.. there is no reason to put this on the list. If anyone is planning on repsonding to the list on this, don't. If you have complaints/comments on the list, people on the list, threads on the list, etc.. please send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or try to deal with them maturely, off the list, wit

Re: are all emails to beginners@perl.org stored somewhere?

2001-07-23 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Sure are. Visit the FAQ at http://learn.perl.org/beginners-faq and look at question 1.4 Cheers, Kevin On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 08:36:16AM -0700, Giridhar nandikotkur ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed forth: > Hi anyone > > Are all the emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] stored > somewhere that one can access

Re: How do I set @INC?

2001-07-11 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hi Michael, On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 02:54:34PM -0700, Michael Dube ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed forth: > I have a couple of PERL installations on my system. How do I point perl at > the correct set of modules? I tried setting @INC inline in my program, but > that did not work. To do this withi

Re: Is there an alternative to CGI ???

2001-07-11 Thread Kevin Meltzer
I'd like to clarify that CGI is Common Gateway Interface. It is not a language. You can write CGI with PHP, ASP, Perl, Python, shell, C, etc... So, no matter what you use to create dynamic pages, it is still CGI. mod_perl is a good suggestion, since you will have perl available to you in Apache,

Re: help with running -T

2001-06-29 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hi dave, I assume you have Blah.pm in the same directory as tst? -T removed . (the cwd) from @INC, so it isn't finding it. You can a) put Blah.pm somewhere in @INC, or b) use lib qw(.); You may also want to read the perlsec doc, which explains more about tainting. On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 07:21:

Re: Modules question

2001-06-29 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hi Anna, To find out all the modules installed on your system, refer to the following URL: http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg04057.html To find out about a single one, you can do: perl -MMODULE_NAME -e 1 So, to see if CGI.pm is installed: perl -MCGI -e 1 If you see no error messages, it is installe

Re: Incrementing Strings

2001-06-27 Thread Kevin Meltzer
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 12:04:53PM -0400, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed forth: > On Jun 27, Kevin Meltzer said: > > >On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:51:01AM -0400, Chas Owens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed >forth: > >> On 27 Jun 2001 17:45:18 +0200,

Re: Incrementing Strings

2001-06-27 Thread Kevin Meltzer
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:51:01AM -0400, Chas Owens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed forth: > On 27 Jun 2001 17:45:18 +0200, Jos Boumans wrote: > > > How do you mean? > > > > concider: > > if ('a' == 'b') { print "foo" } # this will print 'foo', seeing 'a' and 'b' both >yield '1' in numeric > > con

Re: Incrementing Strings

2001-06-27 Thread Kevin Meltzer
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 06:21:30PM +0200, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed forth: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:07:12AM -0400, Kevin Meltzer wrote: > > > > Is that the reason? I would think --'a' would be z, but that is my own > > internal logic :) > &g

Re: Incrementing Strings

2001-06-27 Thread Kevin Meltzer
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:55:54AM -0400, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed forth: > On Jun 27, Nick Transier said: > > The perlop documentation says that ++ is magical for strings, but that -- > isn't. The reason is because there's not a clear-cut way of defining it. > > What is

Re: chomp ?

2001-06-26 Thread Kevin Meltzer
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 05:07:22PM +0200, Aaron Craig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed forth: > At 11:03 26.06.2001 -0400, Kevin Meltzer wrote: > >I think this is a very contradictory answer.. since if we were to RTFF > >(last F for FAQ) we would know not to answer in this way. It i

Re: chomp ?

2001-06-26 Thread Kevin Meltzer
I think this is a very contradictory answer.. since if we were to RTFF (last F for FAQ) we would know not to answer in this way. It is not useful. The person asking the question should look at section 2.7 of the FAQ. The person giving this answer should look at 2.6. Both should look at section 4.

[ADMIN] Re: Unsubscribing

2001-06-26 Thread Kevin Meltzer
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 07:58:44AM -0400, Chris Hedemark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed forth: > Wow... certainly a lot of hoops to jump through to get off the list (no, I > am not one of those who wishes to leave). Would be nice if we went to a > system less antiquated and unnecessarily complicat

Re: to delete a file

2001-06-21 Thread Kevin Meltzer
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 03:04:21PM +0100, n6tadam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed forth: > Hi, > [snip] > > Of course, from a perl script, you can either use: > > system("/bin/rm -f /path/to/filename"); > > or > > `rm -f filename` Don't do that. Just use unlink() perldoc -f unlink Cheers, K

Re: [OT] thread CLOSED

2001-06-16 Thread Kevin Meltzer
ers, Kevin On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 06:45:37AM -0700, Paul ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed forth: > > --- Kevin Meltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > . . . > > clue-bats? =o) > Is that actually a thing? If so, I'd like to learn this, no sarcasm > intended. > If no

[ADMIN] Copyright/Pirate thread is CLOSED

2001-06-16 Thread Kevin Meltzer
People, when a topic/thread is close, this means you *do NOT post to the list on it again, ever*. This is not the proper forum for this discussion, and if you cannot show restraint from replying to the list as a whole, as opposed to the few who are taking part in the OT talk, then you may have pos

Re: Beginer...Any free resources for Learning Perl

2001-06-15 Thread Kevin Meltzer
I agree, so consider any discussion about countries, war, copyrighted materials, intellectual property, and cheese loving monkeys to be off topic, not allowed, and _closed_. Please only respond to this thread if, and only if, you are answering the original question. Take everything else off the

Re: Packages/modules Question

2001-06-15 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hi Bill, Please refer to the answers to this same question in the archives: http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg04057.html Cheers, Kevin On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 08:59:57AM -0400, Conrad, Bill (ThomasTech) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed forth: > Hi All > > Is there a way to list all of the packages

Re: Installed Modules

2001-06-13 Thread Kevin Meltzer
There are a few ways. My favorite is to use: perl -MCPAN -e autobundle This will create a file (and display) all modules installed in the @INC paths, as well as their versions. It also tells you the versions currently on the CPAN. perldoc CPAN for more information on the useful CPAN module.

Re: Whats my problem, among other things?

2001-06-12 Thread Kevin Meltzer
I am redirecting this question to the beginners-cgi list. Please respond to the original poster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and the beginners-cgi list, not the beginners list. Thank you. Cheers, Kevin On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:23:47PM -0600, T&R Customer Service ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed forth: >

Re: [META] Rants (was:Re: space)

2001-06-12 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Let me repeat, *this thread is closed*. There will be no more discussion about header munging, unless it is how Perl can do header munging. Ask has given his response on the headers issue, and I have closed this thread. You know how the headers work, so you know what you need to do to reply to a

Re: making a variable name a variable value?

2001-06-12 Thread Kevin Meltzer
This is possible to do, but please read http://perl.plover.com/varvarname.html before doing so (the article also shows how to do, as well as explains why you shouldn't). Cheers, Kevin On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:15:37AM -0700, Chirag Patel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed forth: > Hi there, > > I was

Re: how to create a file

2001-06-12 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Also look at the perlopentut manual page: perldoc perlopentut Cheers, Kevin On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 08:52:26PM -0500, bdale16 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed forth: > I want a perl program when executed to send the data to a file such as text.txt but >i dont need to open the file first. > appare

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