Re: Source for beginners help required

At 07:03 PM 1/27/02 +, you wrote: G'Day, I'm looking to start in perl, and coming from assembly on pic chips, this is all greek to me. Clive, I was a PL/1 and mainframe assembler programmer and know what you mean. Perl is tough to get started on, although I think they all are w/o

RE: shebang line that works for multiple Perl binary locations

Unless I am mistaken, on windows machines, it doesn't really matter where the #!/usr/local/bin/perl line goes. As long as your have the file associations set and tell the IIS server how to handle files with the extension of .pl, you don't need it at all. R.A. Howard -Original Message-

Fwd: RE: shebang line that works for multiple Perl binary locations

snipI think the line is needed for Apache on NT. Maybe it can be configured in mime-types I've been told that at minimum #!perl is needed for Apache on Win NT unless you change the Apache configuration -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: Source for beginners help required

Greetings; Clive, you must be new to all this! I haven't seen a flame on this list since I started reading it, and that has been a few months. The reference to perldoc is not the same as RTFM. Perldoc is a part of the perl package. The perldoc files are well written and generally have some

Module to maintain state for CGI?

Hi all, I've been working on a couple of CGI programs that have reasonably complex menu interfaces. I'm getting tired of passing state via hidden fields and urls but I don't want to depend on cookies. I'm thinking the solution is a server side solution that creates a session ID that can be

trying to secure text input.

Below is the code i'm using to filter out non alphanumeric charecters... however when i type ?!$BOB yeilds this: -_3f_21_24bob- The ?!$ should be stripped away and come back empty, not _3f_21_24 ANY ideas as to what I'm doing wrong??? I'm asking for an email address. my $eaddress = ;