I wrote
#!usr/bin/perl
use Socket;
use constant ADDR = 'www.google.com';
my $name=shift || ADDR;
$packed=gethostbyname($name);
$dotted-inet_ntoa($packed);
print DOtted Address is $packed;
but it is showing an error
Bad argument length for Socket length in inet_ntoa ???
Help
2009/10/22 Anant Gupta anantgupta...@gmail.com:
I wrote
#!usr/bin/perl
use Socket;
use constant ADDR = 'www.google.com';
my $name=shift || ADDR;
$packed=gethostbyname($name);
$dotted-inet_ntoa($packed);
print DOtted Address is $packed;
but it is showing an error
Bad argument length for
Nopes,
It is the same
The '-' minus sign was my mistake.
I am using this on Red Hat Linux, but I am not the root user.
Will not being the root user make any difference?
Thanks
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Philip Potter philip.g.pot...@gmail.comwrote:
2009/10/22 Anant Gupta
2009/10/22 Anant Gupta anantgupta...@gmail.com:
Nopes,
It is the same
The '-' minus sign was my mistake.
I am using this on Red Hat Linux, but I am not the root user.
Will not being the root user make any difference?
No, it won't make any difference.
This is probably quite frustrating for
Thank you.
I just used use strict and use warnings and it worked.
Even now I cant figure out what difference can this make :)
Thank you for tour time
Anant
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Philip Potter philip.g.pot...@gmail.comwrote:
2009/10/22 Anant Gupta anantgupta...@gmail.com:
Nopes,
2009/10/22 Anant Gupta anantgupta...@gmail.com:
Thank you.
I just used use strict and use warnings and it worked.
Even now I cant figure out what difference can this make :)
Thank you for tour time
If it helps, I have no idea either :)
Philip
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Hi Anant!
Here's some review of your code:
On Thursday 22 Oct 2009 12:23:55 Anant Gupta wrote:
I wrote
#!usr/bin/perl
use Socket;
1. You should add use strict; and use warnings; at the top of every file.
Writing programs without them is dangerous. Probably the only instance where
they
Anant Gupta wrote:
I wrote
#!usr/bin/perl
use Socket;
use constant ADDR = 'www.google.com';
my $name=shift || ADDR;
$packed=gethostbyname($name);
$dotted-inet_ntoa($packed);
print DOtted Address is $packed;
but it is showing an error
Bad argument length for Socket length in inet_ntoa ???
