Re: A multi line pattern match question

2016-07-14 Thread Omega -1911
On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Rob McAninch wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Darryl Philip Baker < > darryl.ba...@northwestern.edu> wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Darryl Philip Baker < >> darryl.ba...@northwestern.edu> wrote: >> >> While not truly a beginner it feels

Re: A multi line pattern match question

2016-07-14 Thread Omega -1911
On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Darryl Philip Baker < darryl.ba...@northwestern.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Darryl Philip Baker < > darryl.ba...@northwestern.edu> wrote: > > While not truly a beginner it feels that way after not doing anything > substantial in Perl in many yea

Re: Image::Magick: Unicode annotations

2016-07-10 Thread Omega -1911
On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Simon Reinhardt wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to place Unicode annotations on a JPEG file: > > #!/usr/bin/env perl > use 5.010; > use warnings; > use strict; > > use Image::Magick; > use utf8; > > my $image = Image::Magick->new(); > > $image->Read('file.jpg'); > >

Re: Getting error- connect to Bugzilla(Certificate Authorities to trust)

2015-09-09 Thread Omega -1911
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=892166 Goggle is your friend. On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 1:54 AM, Jitendra B wrote: > Dear Sir/Madam, > > while I try to connect and query some data from bugzilla, I am getting > following error. > > Error: > > RPC::XML::Client::send_request: HTTP server error: Ca

DateCalc Problem

2015-08-13 Thread Omega -1911
Hi - Can anyone help me understand why the following does not produce the correct future date? my $exp_date = DateCalc('today', "+$membership_period days"); It works if I use: my $exp_date = DateCalc('today', "+7 days"); Any help is appreciated !! Eyes have been looking at the screen for a whil

Re: WWW::Mechanize::Firefox not waiting for page loaded

2015-02-10 Thread Omega -1911
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 5:10 AM, Gary Stainburn < gary.stainb...@ringways.co.uk> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm porting a WWW::Mechanize based program to WWW::Mechanize::Firefox > because > the web site I access is now much more Javascript based and maintenance is > getting to be a nightmare. > > Howe

Re: Can't find EOCD signature Archive::Zip

2014-12-07 Thread Omega -1911
Perhaps you could use: Archive::Extract #!/usr/bin/perl -w $| = 1; BEGIN {open (STDERR, ">>error.txt"); } print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; use Archive::Extract; use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser/; use File::Find; use Cwd; my $dir = cwd(); my $time = time; my $cnt = 0; my $who =''; my $ok = ''

Re: map vs foreach

2014-09-30 Thread Omega -1911
Is asking a preference-based question appropriate for a beginners list appropriate? Question for you: Have you updated your software to have a more modern look and feel or does it still resemble 1995? I ask because, in your own words, you said "or is it simply a styling difference?". Feedback for

Re: OO perl programming

2014-02-05 Thread Omega -1911
"TIMTOWTDO" = There is more than one way to do than otherwise (told) On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Omega -1911 <1911...@gmail.com> wrote: > I really think the quoting that you own a resource for beginners is > outdated. Why should you have to reveal you own a sit

Re: OO perl programming

2014-02-05 Thread Omega -1911
I really think the quoting that you own a resource for beginners is outdated. Why should you have to reveal you own a site that helps people? I wish all the Perl guru's would put down their differences and get this list back to JUST HELPING PEOPLE... If "TIMTOWTDO" is a TRUE concept, WHY are there

Re: Search and replace trouble with a variable

2014-02-01 Thread Omega -1911
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 4:57 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Omega, > > On Sat, 1 Feb 2014 03:40:01 -0500 > Omega -1911 <1911...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello List: I am trying to go through a folder of php scripts to add a > > database prefix to lines that have a sel

Search and replace trouble with a variable

2014-02-01 Thread Omega -1911
Hello List: I am trying to go through a folder of php scripts to add a database prefix to lines that have a select statement. Since the database prefix will differ, I am simply trying to add: ".$database_prefix." to those lines. For example, instead of the line looking like: $sql = "SELECT * FROM

Re: Parsing Data

2013-07-23 Thread Omega -1911
with a solution that permanently allows me to do my own backups in the future! Thanks again. On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Michael Brader wrote: > > On 07/23/2013 11:08 AM, Omega -1911 wrote: > >> Rob - Thanks for the tip. I am not familiar with the module (XML::XPath) >> b

Parsing Data

2013-07-22 Thread Omega -1911
Hello all - I am working on a small address book conversion where I need to convert a text file in where I dumped the addresses and post them to my database/website using the Mechanize module. My problem is I am trying to parse the data using the following code that is not working. Can anyone shed

Re: Raspberry Pi for Beginners (and developers ;)

2012-06-02 Thread Omega -1911
Sales pitch? :)

Re: Unique Array Help?

2012-05-18 Thread Omega -1911
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 5:07 AM, Rob Dixon wrote: > On 18/05/2012 02:09, Omega -1911 wrote: >> >> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:58 PM, jbiskofski  wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Omega -1911<1911...@gmail.com>  wrote: >>>> >>

Re: Unique Array Help?

2012-05-17 Thread Omega -1911
3 > > cheers. > > - Jose from Mexico > > > > > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Omega -1911 <1911...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello all - >> >> While trying to create a script that generates a graph, I am at a loss >> for a workable

Unique Array Help?

2012-05-17 Thread Omega -1911
Hello all - While trying to create a script that generates a graph, I am at a loss for a workable solution. What I need to be able to do in the code below is add the results from the select statement before pushing the data into an array. For example, the database contains the following data: EMP

Re: a perl blog (perlbuzz)

2008-10-02 Thread Omega -1911
> There are situations in which PHP, SQL, JavaScript, Lisp, Prolog, C, or > Forth > are the best choice. Yep! It is like saying Perl is the *cure all*

Re: Using MIME::Lite to send via SMTP

2008-08-15 Thread Omega -1911
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Mike Blezien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hello, > > we've been trying to setup MIME::Lite to send email via SMTP but keep > getting > the following error: > - > SMTP auth() command failed: Incorrect authentication data > --

Re: website

2008-05-15 Thread Omega -1911
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Dr.Ruud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It contains a lot of bad advice too. You have been helpful in the past so please be so kind to point out the *bad Advice*... Just saying it's bad really helps no one on a "beginners" list. The way I see it, people will read that

Re: Hashes

2008-02-05 Thread Omega -1911
On Feb 4, 2008 10:05 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > i am not able to declare hases > > first i tried this > > * > use strict > my %familyname; > $familyname{"mark"}="antony"; > > and i get an error "Global symbol

Re: Meta: please don't mail here if you have huge useless pointless disclaimers (was Re: SOH char)

2007-11-18 Thread Omega -1911
I got a kick out of Randal's comment "I helped build this internet." QUESTION FOR RANDAL: What about the many other (million+ developers) on this island, Gilligan? And I used to love your articles in various mags... Thank God for the many others that are *really* here to help on this list. You ca

Re: Meta: please don't mail here if you have huge useless pointless disclaimers (was Re: SOH char)

2007-11-14 Thread Omega -1911
> -- Oh hell, why doesn't *the great one* create a regex to remove contiguous lines that contain *certain* words on his end? Oh my fault, this list is his kingdom... Perl's excellent for text manipulation. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Regex Help

2007-11-11 Thread Omega -1911
> which isn't an equivalent to yours - it simply makes sure that the > record contains 'Powerball:' and at least one digit - but I'm sure it is > adequate. My own solution didn't even do this much checking, since I > read the OP as saying that all irrelevant data records had been removed. I appre

Re: Lottery Regex

2007-11-10 Thread Omega -1911
Thanks Rob, Is this homework? Not hardly! I was sitting here the other day and the thought came to mind as our state lottery has not had a winner in over a year. (The public started thinking that there is a conspiracy because it was exactly a year ago that our state went to computer generated lott

Re: Regex Help

2007-11-10 Thread Omega -1911
Thank you both Dr.Ruud & Jonathan Lang. I will give both examples a try later today and let you know how it all turns out. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Regex Help

2007-11-10 Thread Omega -1911
Thank you both Dr.Ruud & Jonathan Lang. I will give both examples a try later today and let you know how it all turns out. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Regex Help

2007-11-10 Thread Omega -1911
Hello, Can anyone assist with a regex to pull lottery numbers from a page? The following is one example I have tried: All data from the web page is pushed into an array. ( Header and footer info is removed before being pushed into the array.) The entire goal here is an exercise I was playing with

Lottery Regex

2007-11-10 Thread Omega -1911
Hello, Can anyone assist with a regex to pull lottery numbers from a page? The following is one example I have tried: All data from the web page is pushed into an array. ( Header and footer info is removed before being pushed into the array.) The entire goal here is an exercise I was playing with

Re: Perl Encryption Game Help Please

2007-11-09 Thread Omega -1911
Why not hire a PR firm instead of filling up everyone's inbox with off-topic discussion? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Trying to figureout regex please help

2007-10-24 Thread Omega -1911
1. ^([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+)@ Can contain a group of letters (case insensitive) or numbers (0-9), a period, underscore, hyphen and the @ sign is required. 2. ([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+)\. Can contain a group of letters (case insensitive) or numbers (0-9), a period, hyphen, underscore and end with a period. 3.

Re: File::Find

2007-08-31 Thread Omega -1911
On 8/31/07, Somu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > use strict; > use warnings; > use File::Find; > sub rm(); > my $count=0; > my @dir = ("F://Hindi/RHTDM"); > find(&rm,@dir); > > sub rm(){$count++ > my ($fname)= $_; > if($fname=~ /mp3/){print "$count $fname"} > } PLEASE!!! Before coming to this list an

Re: File::Find

2007-08-31 Thread Omega -1911
On 8/31/07, Somu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It gave the error > > Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at test.pl line 13. > Can't use string ("") as a subroutine ref while "strict refs" in use > at C:/Perl/lib/File/Find.pm line 822.

Re: File::Find

2007-08-28 Thread Omega -1911
On 8/28/07, Randal L. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Somu" == Somu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Somu> Good sense of humour! Actually i wanted to search for F:/Hindi/RHTDM > Somu> and i entered only /Hindi/RHTDM/ > > Why did you do that? I think you have to enter the full path on

Re: Removing lines

2007-04-15 Thread Omega -1911
On 4/15/07, Mário Gamito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have this site that auto generates an index.html file every 15 minutes (it's a blog aggregator). I need that every time the file is generated, all the contents between the lines http://domain.com/2006/08/bourne-shell.html";>Bourne Shell

Re: Get summery of a jpeg file

2007-01-16 Thread Omega -1911
Before you asked us, you CERTAINLY did a search of CPAN for JPEG and Info, right? How did Image::MetaData::JPEG fail to meet your needs? It's huge, it's complicated, and the documentation is hard to read, but Image Magick (which comes with perl bindings) can do anything with an image that can

Re: Line ending with Gary"^M on UNIX

2006-12-07 Thread Omega -1911
On 12/7/06, Moon, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can someone please give me the octal values or a method of removing ^M from the end of an input line, if present? Try this: $input =~ s/\cM//g;

Re: Complex regex help

2006-12-01 Thread Omega -1911
Hi Rob & Dani, Thanks for your help!!! I will try the suggestion you made Rob and as soon as I finish typing this, I'll try Dani's code. I had someone by the name of Chen Ken contact me off-list and provided me with the following regex that appeared to work. Please let me know what you think: my

Complex regex help

2006-11-30 Thread Omega -1911
Hello all, I am trying to parse calendar events for a rss feed into variables. Can someone help with building the following regex or point me in the direction of some good examples? Thanks in advance. Here is what I have tried: (I don't know much about complex regex's as you see) $mystring =~ /

Re: How to create a string from value of another variable.

2006-11-29 Thread Omega -1911
On 11/29/06, Ravi Malghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi: I have a variable called $agent_id and want to create a string with the value of $agent_id followed by "-str". The following does not seem to work. The following example I want to create a variable called $35-str. $agent_id = 25; $agent_i

Re: Need help in installing perl modules

2006-11-15 Thread Omega -1911
If it will not install using those methods and time is of the essence,just manually download the .pm files and place them in the apropriate folder (inside your perl folder i.g. C:\Perl\lib) On 11/16/06, Anushya Ganapathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I am in the very critical situation while

Re: Spam from this list

2006-10-25 Thread Omega -1911
On 10/25/06, Ron Goral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Explains why my gmail account has over 700 spam messages (from the last 30 days...) Gmail has done a good job in spotting them, but something should be done about the archive. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: Worse than just a beginner

2006-10-24 Thread Omega -1911
On 10/24/06, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm wondering if someone can do me an enormous favour and write a cgi for me please, I just can't get my head around the books I have, Sounds like a homework assignment... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail

Re: More Info About $| = 1;

2006-10-18 Thread Omega -1911
Hi, I'm a C programmer teaching myself Perl. I'm working on Windows XP using ActivePerl and Eclipse (EPIC). I've got a question about $| = 1; Hello to you as well. To answer your question from above, the $| = 1; is simply a method to prevent Perl from buffering and to go ahead and output da

Re: HTML Form question

2006-10-18 Thread Omega -1911
On 10/18/06, Robert Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have this as an option field: Business Objects Support Is the "value" what gets passed back? In this case "5"? The associated *name* and *value* are passed on to the Perl script if you are pointing your form to a Perl script. For example

Re: Database migration

2006-10-17 Thread Omega -1911
On 10/17/06, Robert Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What is the best "Perl" way to migrate? Honestly, in Perl, the saying is "There is more than one way to do it" but without your showing what you have tried, then the "best" way to try is by writing code. I believe that is why no one has offe

Re: subroutine in LWP - in order to get 700 forum threads

2006-08-26 Thread Omega -1911
tr/Robin Norwood redundant replies//g; On 8/26/06, Robin Norwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: jobst müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hello dear Perl-addicted, > > to admit - i am a Perl-novice and ihave not so much experience in perl. But i am willing to learn. i want to learn perl. As for

Creating Directories on Windows

2006-08-08 Thread Omega -1911
Hello, I recently decided to host a site on one of my machines (Win XP, Active State 5.8.8) for testing a couple of scripts since my host objects to installing a few modules. Anyway, can someone explain why the following code will create directories and the the code below it will not (keep gettin

Re: Randla L. Schwartz is Wrong (WAS:write out filenames of files existing on a filesystem into afile)

2006-07-12 Thread Omega -1911
On 7/13/06, Mr. Shawn H. Corey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I thought about this; then I thought about this; and then I thought about this. Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >>"Shawn" == "Mr Shawn H Corey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Shawn> Not everyone who reads this mailing list posts to it.

File last modified time

2006-07-07 Thread Omega -1911
Hey gang! I am trying to update a script so that it is not so resource (CPU) intensive. Background: 1. The script has to open a rather large number of files (100,000). 2. Instead of opening all of them, I am trying to only open those files where the file was actually MODIFIED not just accessed

Re: Netiquette (WAS: reading a line at a time inefficient?)

2006-06-23 Thread Omega -1911
On 6/23/06, Mr. Shawn H. Corey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2006-23-06 at 11:55 +, Jeff Peng wrote: > > > >Let's see, the subject is: reading a line at a time inefficient? > > > >That's where I got the idea. > > > > > No,the subject is "Re: reading a line at a time inefficient? ",he ha

Re: reading a line at a time inefficient?

2006-06-22 Thread Omega -1911
On 6/23/06, Jeff Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thanks for the reply Jeff, but what I need to do is assign variables based >on the first 5 lines and then push the remaining lines of the file into an >array. Any suggestions? > Anyway,reading all the contents of a large file to an array should

Re: reading a line at a time inefficient?

2006-06-22 Thread Omega -1911
On 6/23/06, Jeff Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Reading a file which is large as 900M to the array,should consume memory too quickly. Could you open a file and obtain the file-handle in your subroutine,then return the file-handle to the caller?For example: sub your_sub{ ope

Re: reading a line at a time inefficient?

2006-06-22 Thread Omega -1911
Hello list! I am attempting to lower the memory load on the server that the following lines of code creates. Is there any way to speed up this process and lower memory usage? I read through FILE::SLURP documentation but not sure if that would help as I need to keep the array @remaining_file_lines

Re: [OT] I give up with the reply-to business already

2006-05-03 Thread Omega -1911
On 5/2/06, Dr.Ruud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (Randal L. Schwartz) schreef: > If you want to do duplicate rejection, please note that every message > contains a message-id that is unique per message. I reject > duplicates via procmail. You can do the same. I prefer to filter out the author's

Re: Automatically scheduling the execution of a sub-routine

2006-04-03 Thread Omega -1911
Your best bet is to use a cron job for this. Otherwise, you'd waste server resources. What happens when the process is killed or the server restarted? On 4/3/06, James Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > Anyone know of a way to create a loop (or something similar) that > automatically s

Re: regex one liner

2006-03-21 Thread Omega -1911
With all the debate going on, let me just say that a perl script was THE ONLY method that allowed me to change paths in 13,161 files and scripts when I moved from one provider to another. Try a *one-liner" on multiple files (13,000+) located in different directories... With a Perl script, I can ma

Re: Perl script to read IIS ftp log file

2006-03-13 Thread Omega -1911
It would be lovely if you provided some code to work with. The general theme on the list is "No Code, No Help" On 3/13/06, Sonika Sachdeva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > How to read every new file transfer made from the IIS ftp log file. > This will be continous file reading process to kno

Re: Stuck on last step

2006-02-11 Thread Omega -1911
Proper structure: if ($...) {} # UNLESS NOT TO BE USED HERE elsif {} else {} JMPO... (Just My Perl Opinion) On 2/11/06, Ron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've got a CGI script that takes two strings and sorts them in order, > then prints them. The problem is I don't want nul

Re: On Focus

2006-02-05 Thread Omega -1911
On 2/5/06, Ron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've been looking for this all over, but can't seem to find a link. Is > there a Perl or PerlScript equivalent to the JavaScript or vbscript on-focus > function? If there is, could someone please, point me in the right > direction. >

Re: Use Strict Question

2006-01-12 Thread Omega -1911
In short, you need to declare your variables in your script. my $OrderFile; my $referer; Instead of just "defining" your variable (example below) $referer = "something"; # TAINTED DATA On 1/12/06, Gerald Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Need a little help... trying to this thing right.

Re: cookies

2005-11-16 Thread Omega -1911
On 11/16/05, S, karthik (IE03x) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I know that there are many template systems and modules available to > implement it. I have experienced using sessions. That was easy too. But > cookies behave differently. I need to understand the behavioral issues in > cookies. >

Re: select case or switch statement

2005-06-12 Thread Omega -1911
I am still trying to grasp using case statements...Since I am new to this, I had a question as to the speed of using CASE. I currently have a script that has 91 if/elsif/else statements in total. Will switching to using CASE improve the execution of the script? On 6/11/05, Chris Devers <[EMAIL PRO