RE: one liner need help

2009-03-12 Thread Toby Stuart
Great. Thankyou chenxy. -Original Message- From: chenxy [mailto:tin...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 13 March 2009 2:01 PM To: Toby Stuart Cc: beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: one liner need help 2009/3/13 Toby Stuart < toby.stu...@figtreesys.com.au> Hello All It's been almo

one liner need help

2009-03-12 Thread Toby Stuart
Hello All It's been almost 13 years since I last posted on this board and my Perl skills are extremely rusty. Could someone help me to convert this to a one liner:- use strict; use warnings; while (<>) { /^##\s*(.*)$/ && print $1; print " && " unless eof; } Input file looks like this:-

RE: Major Applications of Perl

2006-07-30 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Sastry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 31 July 2006 4:21 PM > To: beginners@perl.org > Subject: Major Applications of Perl > > > Hi > We know that Perl is used for various puposes including text > manipulation,file maintenance and automation of sys

RE: Help: Is there any way to get the name of the Window Server that the Perl script is currently running on?

2006-05-25 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Japerlh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 26 May 2006 11:21 AM > To: beginners > Subject: Help: Is there any way to get the name of the Window Server > that the Perl script is currently running on? > > > Help: Is there any way to get the name of the

RE: Create Directories

2006-05-22 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: SkyBlueshoes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 23 May 2006 12:38 PM > To: beginners@perl.org > Subject: Create Directories > > > Another stupid question, search.cpan.org doesn't like me, lol: > > Which module is best for creating a directory and al

RE: Regex Help

2006-04-18 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 19 April 2006 10:52 AM > To: beginners@perl.org > Subject: Regex Help > > > i am trying to match a '!' followed by any char but a '!' or no chars > (string is only a '!') > > this is what I have and it is not w

RE: A very basic question

2006-02-09 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Avinash Sridhar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 10 February 2006 5:41 AM > To: beginners@perl.org > Subject: A very basic question > > > Hello All, > >I just joined this forum today and I dont know whether > this particular > question has been

RE: help required regarding Win32::OLE

2006-02-09 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: a b [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 9 February 2006 11:47 PM > To: libwin32@perl.org; beginners@perl.org > Subject: help required regarding Win32::OLE > > > Hello all perl gurus, > > i'm sticking out with the issue of changing configuration of

RE: Writing PNG data to a file

2005-08-14 Thread Toby Stuart
should probably have said 'look at the binmode function' rather than 'use binmode' so as not to confuse with use'ing a module :( -Original Message- From: Toby Stuart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 15 August 2005 1:48 PM To: 'Daniel Kasak' C

RE: Writing PNG data to a file

2005-08-14 Thread Toby Stuart
use binmode my $png_data = get($http_request_string); open ( OUTPUT_HANDLE, "> $path/top_n.png" ); binmode OUTPUT_HANDLE; print OUTPUT_HANDLE $png_data; close OUTPUT_HANDLE; -Original Message- From: Daniel Kasak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 15 August 2005 1:42 PM To: begin

Removing *some* XML Character encodings with regular expression

2005-06-07 Thread Toby Stuart
he number is <= 29 and then replace but would prefer a single regex if possible. Thanks Toby Stuart -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>

RE: operator equivalents

2005-01-30 Thread Toby Stuart
look at the 'susbtr' function. it will do what you require > -Original Message- > From: Hawkes, Mick I [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 31 January 2005 3:32 PM > To: beginners@perl.org > Subject: operator equivalents > > > All, > > Could someone please tell me the Perl equival

RE: Could you please help with a PERL/TK question.

2004-07-11 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Marco Perl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 12 July 2004 4:19 PM > To: ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Could you please help with a PERL/TK question. > > > > Hi, I developed a perl/TK script in Win-2000 > environment. > when I run it the DOS-screen

RE: Perl2exe

2004-05-20 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 2:57 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Perl2exe > > > In article > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manish U) writes: > >Hi, > > > >Can any one give me the url where

RE: CGI.pm / Upload File / delete temporary file (CGITemp****)

2004-05-16 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Babale Fongo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 10:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: CGI.pm / Upload File / delete temporary file (CGITemp) > > > > > > You don't have to bother about deleting it. GCI.pm takes care of that. >

CGI.pm / Upload File / delete temporary file (CGITemp****)

2004-05-13 Thread Toby Stuart
Hi All, Been ages since I last posted to this list... Anyhoo, I have a script which handles the uploading of a file. It uses the CGI module to get the form params etc and open/read/close statements to receive the file. This is fine and all works well. The problem is a temporary file (of the s

RE: lexis nexis search module or script?

2004-03-16 Thread Toby Stuart
WWW::Mechanize will do most if not all of what you need. > -Original Message- > From: Stuart White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 8:06 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: lexis nexis search module or script? > > > I need to search a web database that has se

RE: Extracting data from html structure.

2004-02-18 Thread Toby Stuart
small modification below > -Original Message- > From: Toby Stuart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 2:37 PM > To: 'Christian Wattengård'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Extracting data from html structure. > > > >

RE: Extracting data from html structure.

2004-02-18 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Christian Wattengård [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 4:41 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Extracting data from html structure. > > > I have the following html structure: > ---

RE: strings

2004-02-12 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Mark Goland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 1:28 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: strings > > > Hi All, > > I have a tring which contains 60 to 80 keywords, I need to > know what position a keyword is in. I need an efficint

RE: Using Perl to change information contained within a shortcut

2004-02-05 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 10:13 AM > To: Toby Stuart > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Using Perl to change information containe

RE: Using Perl to change information contained within a shortcut

2004-02-05 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 9:38 AM > To: Beginner Perl > Subject: Using Perl to change information contained within a shortcut > > [stuff snipped] > > Is there any P

RE: Program to reformat Perl code?

2004-02-03 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: John McKown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 1:28 PM > To: Perl Beginners Mailing List > Subject: Program to reformat Perl code? > > > I have some fairly ugly Perl code which I generated sort of > ad-hoc from a > "file descrip

RE: How to calculate elapsed time ?

2004-01-29 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 11:51 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: How to calculate elapsed time ? > > > Hi all: > > I'm trying to determine how long an system operation takes. > Anyone know > of a

RE: IIS Log File Conversion

2003-09-04 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: David Wall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 12:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: IIS Log File Conversion > > > > > --On Thursday, September 04, 2003 9:48 AM +0100 Nigel Peck - > MIS Web Design > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: IIS Log File Conversion

2003-09-04 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Nigel Peck - MIS Web Design [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 10:26 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: IIS Log File Conversion > > > Does anyone have a code snippet or a module for converting > the IIS log file format to NCSA

RE: Reverse Order?

2003-09-02 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Mark Weisman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 4:53 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Reverse Order? > > > I read a text file into HTML for viewing through a webpage, fairly > straight forward. > > Open (INFILE, " filename.tx

RE: Perl & Serial Ports

2003-03-18 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Christian Calónico [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I need to know if there is any way to handle > Windows DLL or Activex from Perl (I'm using ActivePerl). Check out the Win32::OLE and Win32::API modules. > Is there any way to control serial ports? http://se

RE: PErl subroutine

2003-03-06 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Johnstone, Colin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 4:11 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: PErl subroutine > > > Gidday All, > > please help with my subroutine > > sub cleanText{ > my $cleanedText = @_; > my $cleanedText = s

RE: Module to access MS Word files.

2003-02-23 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: David Gerler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 7:22 AM > To: Beginners > Subject: Module to access MS Word files. > > > I have search cpan for modules to access MS Word files so that I can > parse data from the files. I haven't had

RE: How to get 1st line, last line and no of lines in a file

2003-02-18 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Madhu Reddy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 1:25 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: How to get 1st line, last line and no of lines in a file > > > Hi, >How to get first line, last line and no of lines in > a file. >

RE: Using alternatives and anchors

2003-02-17 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: brady jacksan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 3:50 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Using alternatives and anchors > > > > I am writing a script that will read from a file named > myfiles not stdin and print the lines co

RE: How to Add spaces at the end of a line

2003-02-11 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Madhu Reddy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 11:21 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: How to Add spaces at the end of a line > > > Hi, >I want to do some data validation... > I hvae to read each (row)line in a file and h

RE: getopt::std problem ignoring options

2003-01-30 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Jayesh Patel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 8:15 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: getopt::std problem ignoring options > > > Hi all, > > Just wondering how some of you are handling this issue > that I have. > I am

RE: Parsing Fixed Length data

2003-01-29 Thread Toby Stuart
> > > my $i=0; > > > while () > > > { > > > @fields = unpack("A10A10A7", $_); > > > > my @fields = unpack 'A10A10A7', $_; > > > > > > > $records{$i} = { > > > > Why not just use an array? > > different strokes for different strokes :) Now that

RE: Parsing Fixed Length data

2003-01-29 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: John W. Krahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 2:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Parsing Fixed Length data > > > Toby Stuart wrote: > > > > use strict; > > use warnings;

RE: Parsing Fixed Length data

2003-01-29 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Kevin Old [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 12:18 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Parsing Fixed Length data > > > Hello all, > > I have run into a situation that I've never faced before. I've always > parsed delimited (com

RE: creating hash from name/value found in file.

2003-01-29 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Jamie Risk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 9:32 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: creating hash from name/value found in file. > > > Okay, it's 5:25pm and I started programming PERL shortly > after downloading > the 5.8.0 t

RE: MS Word question

2003-01-27 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Southworth, Harry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 10:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: MS Word question > > > I'm running Perl on Cygwin on top of Windows 2000. > > I have a lot of ascii text files that someone has thoughf

RE: How to use ATL COM components in perl

2003-01-23 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Nilesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 11:55 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: How to use ATL COM components in perl > > > > "Pankaj Kapare" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > 005901c2bf02$59dada70$a300a8c0@anurag">

RE: finding protocal script is called with

2003-01-22 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 2:14 PM > To: Toby Stuart > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: finding protocal script is called with > > > Below works like a charm, thanks for the i

RE: FW: Removing HTML Tags

2003-01-22 Thread Toby Stuart
> > > > -Original Message- > > > > From: Johnstone, Colin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 12:29 PM > > > > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > > > Subject: Removing HTML Tags > > > > > > > > > > > > Gidday all, > > > > > > > > When using our CMS (Interwoven

RE: finding protocal script is called with

2003-01-22 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 1:19 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: finding protocal script is called with > > > Hello, here's one for you all. > > What is the fastest way to find out what protocal a script is being

FW: Removing HTML Tags

2003-01-22 Thread Toby Stuart
small modification below. > -Original Message- > From: Toby Stuart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 12:56 PM > To: 'Johnstone, Colin' > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Removing HTML Tags > > > >

RE: Removing HTML Tags

2003-01-22 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Johnstone, Colin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 12:29 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Removing HTML Tags > > > Gidday all, > > When using our CMS (Interwoven Teamsite) I want to remove > from any textarea any html ta

RE: Bareword Constant from Package giving problems with use stric t....

2003-01-21 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Michael Kingsbury [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 12:28 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Bareword Constant from Package giving problems with use > strict > > > How do I use a (known) Bareword constant from a package wh

RE: How to use ATL COM components in perl

2003-01-19 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Toby Stuart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 3:26 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: How to use ATL COM components in perl > > > > > > -Original Message- >

RE: How to use ATL COM components in perl

2003-01-19 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Pankaj Kapare [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 2:00 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: How to use ATL COM components in perl > > > Hi, >Can anybody tell me how to use perl components in perl. > Pankaj. > See the following

RE: Counting words in a line?

2003-01-19 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Steven Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 11:24 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Counting words in a line? > > > Hi, > > this is my first post, so go ahead, call me a newbie. > > How do I count the number of words in a

RE: determining location of character in array....

2003-01-16 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Liss, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 10:21 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: determining location of character in array > > > Hello, > > Is there an easy way to get the location of a specific instance of a > charac

RE: Splitting a variable

2003-01-16 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Scott, Joshua [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 10:12 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Splitting a variable > > > I've got a CSV file which I need to process. The format is > as follows. > > "Smith, John J",1/1/2002,1/15/200

RE: Escaping Ampersands in XML

2003-01-15 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Ben Siders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 7:38 AM > To: Perl > Subject: Escaping Ampersands in XML > > > I've got a real easy one here (in theory). I have some XML > files that > were generated by a program, but generated im

RE: determining variable types

2003-01-14 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: OROSZI Balázs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:07 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: determining variable types > > > Hello! > > Is it possible to get the type of a variable at run time > (hash, array, scalar)? > Suppose

RE: String Stripping?

2003-01-12 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 1:25 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: String Stripping? > > > Hello all, > >I need to strip some HTML tags from a stringHowever, > the complete tags are not consis

RE: Reg ex help!

2002-12-19 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Johnstone, Colin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 11:55 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Reg ex help! > > > Gidday All, > > Im reading course names in from a text file and want to > remove the course number from the end

FW: localtime question - zero padding - mnth discrepancy

2002-12-15 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Toby Stuart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 4:17 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: localtime question - zero padding - mnth discrepancy > > > > > > -Original Message

RE: localtime question - zero padding - mnth discrepancy

2002-12-15 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Harry Putnam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 3:15 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: localtime question - zero padding - mnth discrepancy > > > > I really have two questions here: > > 1) How can I get padded numbers in the s

RE: Passing an array to a subroutine

2002-11-26 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Johnstone, Colin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 2:31 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Passing an array to a subroutine > > > Hi all, > > I think somebody asked this the other day. > > How does one pass an array to

RE: Calculating currentdate without the time module

2002-11-25 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Johnstone, Colin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 3:20 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Calculating currentdate without the time module > > > Gidday all, > > The time module has not been installed on our server and our > s

RE: query string into hash?

2002-11-13 Thread Toby Stuart
> I need to get all the words in a query (q=___) out of a (URL, I think) > encoded string. > > Example line and my current plan: > > $queryString = > 'pp=20&q=Finance/Banking/Insurance&qField=All&qMatch=any&qSort > =smart&view=1' > > my %querys = $queryString =~ /(\S+)=(\S+)&?/g ; > > #Here I

RE: accessing ACCESS database

2002-11-13 Thread Toby Stuart
> Hi, > > I am trying to write a script that copies an information from > ACCESS but > it gives me the following error: > > Can't call method "Sql" on an undefined value at > franowner.pl.txt line 4. > > Here's the script: > > > use Win32::ODBC; > $DSN="db1"; > $db = new Win32::ODBC("db1");

RE: Securing/Encrypting Source

2002-11-07 Thread Toby Stuart
how about the poor mans way ... Acme::Bleach > -Original Message- > From: Timothy Johnson [mailto:tjohnson@;sandisk.com] > Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 11:05 AM > To: 'dan'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Securing/Encrypting Source > > > > If you just want to make it harder, you ca

RE: javascript anybody?

2002-11-05 Thread Toby Stuart
this is not a perl question. better posted to a HTML/javascript list. nonetheless the following works ... A B function updateSubCategory(sCategory) { var aSubCategories = new Array('A1','A2','B1','B2'); var oForm = document.forms[0];

RE: Current Directory Name

2002-10-30 Thread Toby Stuart
use strict; use Cwd; $dir = cwd; print $dir; > -Original Message- > From: Johnstone, Colin [mailto:Colin.Johnstone@;det.nsw.edu.au] > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 11:20 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Current Directory Name > > > Gidday All, > > How do I find out the name

RE: GET

2002-10-28 Thread Toby Stuart
i'm confused. i don't have XP and cannot see how this can work. is GET a shell function or am i missing something simple here? that said, if you are trying to get stuff off the web best to use the LWP modules, say LWP::Simple eg. use strict; use warnings; use LWP::Simple; getprint("http://www

RE: Crypt::CBC w/Crypt-DES

2002-10-22 Thread Toby Stuart
thanks that did it. i always forget to binmode things :( cheers toby > -Original Message- > From: John W. Krahn [mailto:krahnj@;acm.org] > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 4:26 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Crypt::CBC w/Crypt-DES > > > Toby Stuart

Crypt::CBC w/Crypt-DES

2002-10-22 Thread Toby Stuart
Hi All, I'm trying to encrypt/decrypt a text file using Crypt::CBC with DES. The encryption works fine but the decryption seems to yield only the first few bytes of the original text. I'm sure i'm missing something simple. Any help appreciated. Example follows: use strict;

RE: good text editor

2002-10-22 Thread Toby Stuart
http://www.vim.org > -Original Message- > From: Mariusz [mailto:mkubis22@;hotmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 9:58 AM > To: perl > Subject: good text editor > > > Can someone recommend a good text editor for perl cgi > scripting? I've been using notepad, but was wondering

FW: Single Quote marks in a string

2002-10-18 Thread Toby Stuart
see correction below > -Original Message- > From: Toby Stuart > Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 11:31 AM > To: 'Andrew Hubbard' > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Single Quote marks in a string > > > been a long time since i done an

RE: Single Quote marks in a string

2002-10-18 Thread Toby Stuart
been a long time since i done any SQL but i *think* you have to quote single-quotes inside a string eg. $article = "8852001100010"; $barcode = "8852001100010"; $description = "BRAND'''S Essence of Chicken 42 cc."; $strSQL = "INSERT INTO Product_Lookup_Table (PL_Barcode,PL_Article,PL_Desc

RE: copywrite symbol

2002-10-18 Thread Toby Stuart
not sure you can in ascii a couple of brackets will do the trick (c) in HTML you can use © > -Original Message- > From: Johnstone, Colin [mailto:Colin.Johnstone@;det.nsw.edu.au] > Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 12:32 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: copywrite symbol >

RE: How to check between text & binary files

2002-10-14 Thread Toby Stuart
my $file = "a_binary_file.exe"; # my $file = "a_text_file.txt"; if (-B $file) # -B is opposite of -T (text) { print "$file is binary\n"; } else { print "$file is NOT binary\n"; } > -Original Message- > From: George P. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, Octobe

RE: deleting spaces

2002-10-14 Thread Toby Stuart
$str = " a_ string "; $str =~ s/\s+//g; print $str; btw. chomp() removes the character defined by $/ (newline unless you change it) from the end of a string. chop() removes the last character from a string. > -Original Message- > From: learn perl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent:

RE: excluding @@

2002-10-10 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Sudarshan Raghavan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 3:58 PM > To: Perl beginners > Subject: RE: excluding @@ > > > On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, david wrote: > > > Sudarshan Raghavan wrote: > > > > > > > > You will have to escape the @

FW: summing totals by date

2002-10-10 Thread Toby Stuart
If i understand what u want, the following works (i'll leave the printing to another file up to you) use strict; use warnings; my %totals; my $date; my $count; while () { chomp($_); ($date,$count) = split(/,/,$_); $totals{$date} += $count; } while (($date,$count) = ea

RE: excluding @@

2002-10-10 Thread Toby Stuart
given that you are passing a file path you could use File::Basename eg. use strict; use File::Basename; my $file = 'M:\jav_test\Technical_Docs\.@@\main\int_1_2b\techdoc_1_2b\2\Common_Controls \main\int_1_2b\techdoc_1_2b\1\Code_Examples\main\int_1_2b\techdoc_1_2b\2\Ext ernalID\main\int_1_2b\te

RE: spaces in a variable

2002-10-08 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Javeed SAR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 5:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: spaces in a variable > > > Hi, > > How to remove spaces in a variable? > For eg if i have variable $te > > $te = $attr_tag . $date; > cho

RE: how to check variable in list

2002-09-25 Thread Toby Stuart
$a = 1; @b = (1,2,3,4); $i = grep(/$a/,@b); print "in array" if $i > 0; > -Original Message- > From: Alex Cheung Tin Ka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 5:00 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: how to check variable in list > > > Dear All, > I woul

RE: Please...Help me. How to arrange my widget with pack

2002-09-17 Thread Toby Stuart
have a look at the Tk::Table module. i have provided a trivial example below. #--- 8< ---# use strict; use warnings; use Tk; use Tk::Table; my $mw; my $table; my $txtEntry1; my $txtEntry2; $mw = new MainWindow(); $mw->title("Table Layout

RE: return type of $ua->request

2002-09-16 Thread Toby Stuart
$ua->request returns a HTTP::Response object. $res is probably better written as $response. the 'if ($res->is_success)' line is testing whether the $request succeeded or threw some HTTP error. hth toby > -Original Message- > From: Rum Pel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, Se

RE: qq/qw

2002-09-16 Thread Toby Stuart
read the "Regexp Quote-Like Operators" section of the perlop manpage > -Original Message- > From: Rum Pel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 2:48 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: qq/qw > > > hello > > perl -e "print qq(@INC)" > prints the library paths

FW: Chopping a string.

2002-07-18 Thread Toby Stuart
> -Original Message- > From: Toby Stuart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 4:46 PM > To: 'Octavian Rasnita' > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Chopping a string. > > > $line = substr($line,0,19,) . "...&

RE: Chopping a string.

2002-07-18 Thread Toby Stuart
$line = substr($line,0,19,) . "..."; > -Original Message- > From: Octavian Rasnita [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 11:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Chopping a string. > > > Hi all, > > I have a string $line that can be a short word or a very long

RE: help dereferencing arrayref so I can put the value into a hash

2002-07-09 Thread Toby Stuart
Funny. This simple test works for me: use strict; use warnings; my $t = &fun; print @$t[0]; # prints a sub fun { my @arr = qw(a b c d e); return \@arr; } hth Toby -Original Message- From: Zachary Buckholz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 4

FW: seek function call

2002-07-09 Thread Toby Stuart
Sorry my bad, this doesn't work with lines as Andy Lester pointed out. When i tested it i had a file with one char on each line. My apologies :( Toby -Original Message- From: Toby Stuart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 11:04 AM To: '[EMAIL PROT

RE: seek function call

2002-07-09 Thread Toby Stuart
change: seek(LOG,0,2); to: seek(LOG,-1,2); hth toby -Original Message- From: William Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 10:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: seek function call Hi all, I have a quick question about seek(). If I ha

RE: sort arrays by size

2002-07-07 Thread Toby Stuart
Hi Patricia, Whilst this does not answer your question in full it should act as a starting point. @array = qw(1 2 3 4); # four elements print $#array+1; # will print 4 HTH Toby "Patricia Hinman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Does anyone kn

RE: performance: pop? shift? or another way?

2002-07-05 Thread Toby Stuart
use strict; use warnings; my @list = qw(0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1); my @out; @out = grep($_ != 0, @list); foreach (@out){ print $_, "\n"; } -Original Message- From: Michael Rauh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 4:40 PM To: Beginners, Perl Subject: p

RE: Lock file

2002-07-05 Thread Toby Stuart
Hi Karen, use strict; use warnings; use Fcntl qw(:flock); open(F,"somefile.txt") || die $!; flock(F,LOCK_EX); # do stuff with F flock(F,LOCK_UN); close(F); If you're on windoze, don't expect it to work with 9x. Regards Toby -Original Message- From: Karen Liew Ying Ping [mailto:[EM

RE: Module for DNS to find MX Records ?

2002-07-03 Thread Toby Stuart
http://search.cpan.org/ Net::DNS::* ??? There might be something there that does what you need. -Original Message- From: Ramprasad A Padmanabhan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 3:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Module for DNS to find MX Records ? Hello Al

RE: Regex help!

2002-07-02 Thread Toby Stuart
#!perl.exe -w use strict; my $filename = 'image.gif'; #my $filename = 'image.jpg'; if ($filename =~ m/^.*\.(jpg|gif)$/) { print "Got one!"; } --- hth toby -Original Message- From: Troy May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 3:58 PM To: Perl Beginners S

RE: shopping cart

2002-07-02 Thread Toby Stuart
Hi Mariusz, Regarding your first point: > 1. Create file called somehow so I could call it back when the person decides to check out (their ip address?) Don't use the IP address to differentiate between users. May users will come via a proxy server which will report the same IP for each user.