Re: The very un-useful 'premature end of script headers' error me ssage

2003-03-28 Thread Cool Hand Luke
1. You *MUST* examine the server's error log. Prematue end of script headers is just a generic message put out by Apache when it couldn't find the response header your script should have put out. Any error messages output by Perl or your script will be found in the error log. Until you can

Re: accessing excel!

2003-03-28 Thread Lenonardo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Fletcher) wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: hi all, does anyone know how to access an excel sheet? $thanks On windows - use Win32:Ole. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

IIS saves '.pl' file - not execute

2003-03-28 Thread Lenonardo
I have a simple Perl CGI script that reads a directory, displays two file lists filtered on extension. The user then selects a file from either list and the script calls another CGI script to process the file. The CGI script is working with POST method. I activate the request using a javascript

Re: The very un-useful 'premature end of script headers' error message

2003-03-28 Thread Cool Hand Luke
Hello All, I think I figured it out, (so far). I 'm pretty sure that it has to do with perl 5.003 disliking the looping with the my $pair syntax. As a work around, I changed this foreach my $pair (split(/[;]/, $submission)) { # Convert plus to space $pair =~ y/+/ /;

Re: safe system()?

2003-03-28 Thread drieux
On Friday, Mar 28, 2003, at 11:01 US/Pacific, Jerry LeVan wrote: Let's say that I want to use a command (e.g., md5) on a file. No problem; just use: system(md5 $file); [..] Yeah, this probably has some holes... # to be safe, quote shell metacharacters $command =~

RE: Replacing/deleting text in a text file, part deux

2003-03-28 Thread Scot Robnett
Anything I can do to make this an easier question? No responses...maybe I didn't ask the question the right way or made it confusing as to what I am trying to do? Would it help to split it up? Thanks for any advice... Scot R. -Original Message- From: Scot Robnett [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: safe system()?

2003-03-28 Thread Bob Showalter
drieux wrote: ... think about the case of $file = '/path/to/file ; ( find / -print | xargs rm -r -f )'; system(md5 $file); DO NOT TRY THAT ONE AT HOME KIDDIES Wouldn't system('md5', $file); Be safer, since the list form of system() bypasses the shell? Consider: $ perl

RE: Replacing/deleting text in a text file, part deux

2003-03-28 Thread Bob Showalter
Scot Robnett wrote: Anything I can do to make this an easier question? No responses...maybe I didn't ask the question the right way or made it confusing as to what I am trying to do? Would it help to split it up? Thanks for any advice... ... foreach $record(sort(@records)) {

RE: Replacing/deleting text in a text file, part deux

2003-03-28 Thread Scot Robnett
Ahhh, the famous 'map' function - haven't tried it, so I guess it's about time to give it a try. I wasn't too familiar with 'exists' either...thanks for the advice. - Scot Robnett -Original Message- From: Bob Showalter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 2:23 PM

Printing all values except. . .

2003-03-28 Thread Kim Forbes
Hello all, I want to first give a group thanks to everyone who helped me with my first script. I used CGI.pm and everything works fine. Now, I want to display on the screen all form parameters except 2. I tried using: my $query = CGI-new(); my @names = $query-param; foreach my $name ( @names )

RE: Printing all values except. . .

2003-03-28 Thread Scot Robnett
This is untested my $query = new CGI; my %names = $query-Vars; foreach my $key(keys(%names)) { print $key\: $names{$key}\n if (($key eq 'name') or ($key eq 'email')); } -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: safe system()?

2003-03-28 Thread wiggins
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:00:09 -0800, drieux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday, Mar 28, 2003, at 11:01 US/Pacific, Jerry LeVan wrote: And BEFORE wiggins whines at me for not pointing at putting stuff that could be in a Module INTO a Module,

RE: The very un-useful 'premature end of script headers' error message

2003-03-28 Thread Bill Burke
I added a chat room at my site http://www.speakerscorner.us . You are welcome there and we can discuss PERL in real time. Don't quit the user group though, you won't want to miss anything -Original Message- From: Randal L. Schwartz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003

RE: The very un-useful 'premature end of script headers' error message

2003-03-28 Thread Bill Burke
Thanks for the edification. You have been one of the most prolific contributors to the group, so I take no umbrage. Truly, you write it as perl, but the books label it PERL (Practical Extraction and Reporting Language). Please remember this is a beginners group which shares your enthusiasm, but