Problem with inserting/retrieving extended characters in Oracle

hey there, i'm having a number of problems with inserting and retrieving extended characters in Oracle (such as é) from a form. The problem's present both with sending the characters, and with retrieving them for display in HTML. Has anyone else used HTML forms to send french characters to Oracle

RE: Having problems with login

First of all I would strongly recommend using DBI for this. It will allow you to use flat files now then upgrade to a database later with almost no code changes. That being said, there are a few ways you can do this, the simplest being this: # untested my $valid_user = grep "$FORM{username}|$FO

Re: Having problems with login

Ben -- ...and then Ben Huyghebaert said... % % Thanks but I don't think that will work because as someone pointed out my foreach loop leaves me with only the last elements of @access. Well, it did that as you wrote it; you looped through the whole file and *then* started any comparing. I wa

Re: Having problems with login

on Wed, 12 Jun 2002 12:51:29 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Huyghebaert) wrote: >Here is the code I'm using right now. I open up the file with >the usernames and passwords and throw it all into @access and >then do this If you put your username/password pairs in a hash instead of an

Re: Having problems with login

Thanks but I don't think that will work because as someone pointed out my foreach loop leaves me with only the last elements of @access. I need it to give me all the elements in two @s I'll see if I can figure it out maybe someone know the best way? On Wed, 12 June 2002, David vd Geer Inhuur

Re: form display problem

Thank you for the tips. I appreciate it. Sorry about the misunderstanding. --Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Having problems with login

I think this will work : foreach $i(@access) { chomp $i; ($un,$pw) = split(/\|/, $i); $username = $FORM{'username'}; $password = $FORM{'password'}; if (($username ne $un) || ($password ne $pw)) { print

Re: Having problems with login

> foreach $i (@access) { > chomp($i); > ($un,$pw) = > split(/\|/,$i); > } at the end of this loop, $un and $pw contain the last element of @access. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.co

Having problems with login

I'm starting to make a perl/cgi/html based multi-player game called 3MF (Massive Multiplayer Medieval Frolic). So far I've made an account creation screen that writes the data to two flat file db's one of them holds the usernames & passwords, while the other holds all the user information.

Re: Help With Perl

Ok, what is it that you want? It's hard to read when the code is split up over the page. Maybe it already answered your questions ?? #!/usr/local/bin/perl # $username = param('username'); open(USER, "< user.dat"); while () { chomp; ($name, $site, $site_id, $des, $email, $pass) = split(/\

Help With Perl

---CODE--- open(USER, "user.dat"); @user = ; close(USER); -END CODE- Ok thats my textfile and this is how I usually read through the lines ---CODE--- foreach $line (@user) { chomp($line); ($name, $site, $site_id, $des, $email, $pass) = split(/\|/,$line); } -EN

Re: form display problem

Ahammell wrote at Wed, 12 Jun 2002 05:32:19 +0200: > Janek Schleicher wrote: >> It's a real crime to copy source code. I missed to say :-). Sorry. >> Here you see why. >> >> Cheerio, >> Janek >> >> > Janek, > Im sorry but I dont quite understand your statem