Learning Perl

2003-02-28 Thread debraj bhattacharyya
Hi all I have started learning perl language and to this effort I have bought the book programming perl from O\'Reilly .Can anyone tell me whether this one is okay and how to exactly go forward learning perl.What things to be learnt first etc. Any help is g8ly appreciated. Thanks and regards

Re: How much is too much

2003-02-28 Thread CraigD
On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:43 am, you wrote: I write MacPerl at work to munge local files but use CGIs for my personal website. The various hosting plans I have allow Perl and I have never had a problem with them. I am starting a new, more CGI-intensive project and I'm troubled by the

Re: Learning Perl

2003-02-28 Thread WilliamGunther
In a message dated 2/28/2003 5:28:56 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have started learning perl language and to this effort I have bought the book programming perl from O\'Reilly .Can anyone tell me whether this one is okay and how to exactly go forward learning

RE: Learning Perl

2003-02-28 Thread Robert Wideman
Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web: Visual Quickstart Guide by Castro. So true. I agree on this. I personally got the Perl: A Beginners Guide but I like how the Visual Quickstart Guides are done, except they are done on an old Mac box from the mid-90's. Other than that i love the Visual

Re: Learning Perl

2003-02-28 Thread Roger
both of these options are great. but I'll tell you what I did. I bought a copy of the perl cd bookshelf on www.half.com that's the first one not the second one. Learning Perl 2nd Edition is on the cd along with perl in a nutshell, Programming Perl, 2nd edition, Perl Cookbook, Advanced Perl

Re: Learning Perl

2003-02-28 Thread drieux
On Friday, Feb 28, 2003, at 00:41 US/Pacific, debraj bhattacharyya wrote: [..] What things to be learnt first etc. amongst the problems is where are you coming from? if you are new to programming in general, then having the learning perl will help you over both hurdles at once. There is a

Re: Learning Perl

2003-02-28 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
WilliamGunther == WilliamGunther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WilliamGunther I think Programming Perl is good for learning. There WilliamGunther is a book also called Learning Perl from O'Reilly, but WilliamGunther really I don't feel there is a suitable enough reason WilliamGunther to pay a lot

email adress eq email adress?

2003-02-28 Thread Ian Vännman
Hello List! First post for this newbie. I'm writing a CGI that connects to a CommuniGate Pro server and gets a list of the lists on the server. Then it gets a list of all the subscribers on each list, comparing each adress to one input using a form ($Account). Whenever it finds a match it makes

premature end of script headers

2003-02-28 Thread fudge714
when running my script from the command line, it generates the html fine, however when I upload it to my hosters' server (apache on linux), I get an internal server error. when checking the log, I find: premature end of script headers and no such file or directory I have uploaded in ASCII,

i figured it out

2003-02-28 Thread fudge714
thanks for the help I probably would have gotten, but I figured it out, I was missing the first slash in my shebang line. rachel

Re: Learning Perl

2003-02-28 Thread fliptop
On 28 Feb 2003 at 05:31, Randal L. Schwartz opined: RLS: WilliamGunther == WilliamGunther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RLS: RLS:WilliamGunther I think Programming Perl is good for learning. There RLS:WilliamGunther is a book also called Learning Perl from O'Reilly, but RLS:WilliamGunther really I

Help me about DBM file

2003-02-28 Thread lielie meimei
Hi... me is still newbie.. Would u help me to explain: 1. How the DBM file work?? 2. How to delete all data in a DBM file? 3. What can i do with the *.dir and *.pag file that DBM produce???, because if i open the *.dir and *.pag file, it's text not clear to read. 4. What is the use of *.dir and