Re: CGI Help for a Newbie...

2004-05-27 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the Point (the question): If I install ActiveState Perl onto a non-internet connected computer, can I create an HTML file (client side) that has a form that submits to a CGI file (client side - same computer) and uses that data to create some MS word documents

Re: Hash of arrays

2003-04-03 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Daniel Gross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I running into problems again: This time I'd like to fill a hash with arrays, however, the following push command generates a syntax error. Any idea why My %dirHash = (); foreach my $item(@dirArray) { $prefix = substr($item, 0,4); push

Re: REQUIRE command

2003-03-20 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to use the require command from a perl script on one server, to access a library located on a different server?? For example: require http://www.dokos-gr.net/RWAPSoft/cgi-bin/my_lib.pl; Yes and no. Or maybe no and yes. Or maybe just no. As was noted

Re: How do one determine the amount of memory used by an process withinperl

2003-03-19 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Mundell, R. \(Ronald\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am busy writing a script that will determine the status of an application. I also need to determine the amount of memory used by such an application. If anyone knows how to do this within perl please help. This solution needs to be platform

Re: Delete

2003-03-19 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Krishna, Hari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have written a perl program that downloads the files (basically ftp in a batch program) from the unix systems to windows. These files contain the ping information to various unix systems that we use. The program then calculates the uptime and downtime

Re: MS Win 2K Version

2003-02-24 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
LViale - TiscaliNet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does someone know how to get from registry the exact version of MS Win 2k (Professional, Server, Advanced Server, ...). The WMI Win32_OperatingSystem object has attribute Caption which says Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional on my desktop

Re: Having trouble installing Bundle::LWP or is it Libwww-Perl?

2003-02-04 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Glenn Linderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And my missing feature PPM rant is that it would be nice to be able to issue PPM commands to prepare a CD containing a collection of modules and their dependencies to take to an offline machine (there are places where there just isn't local access to

Re: use lib $ENV{'PTI_CGI_HOME'};

2003-01-24 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
theatrale [EMAIL PROTECTED] in all my perl programs, there is a line to include my own libray : use lib $ENV{'PTI_CGI_HOME'}; I wonder how to declare PTI_CGI_HOME and where (in apache ?). This is not an Apache mailing list. Further, you did not provide the version of Apache you are using.

Re: Quick way to search for path/filename combos of a particular length?

2003-01-24 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Jeff DuVall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there an easy way to search a directory tree for path/filename combinations of a particular length? I'm troubleshooting a issue with some software, and want to rule out that the possibility of having path/filename combinations of 260 characters. _THIS_

Re: How to find the process information ???

2003-01-20 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
sadanand limaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have written a perl script to find the program is running or not. On Unix, I can use to test mytest binary is running $isprocactive = `ps -ef | grep mytest | grep -v grep | grep -c mytest`; If the process mytest is running then $isprocactive is

Re: Regular expressions in PERL vs VB.NET

2003-01-20 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Cameron Dorey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mangesh wrote: I am trying to use one regular expression to extract search result from Google. In PERL script this works fine but in VB.NET this does not work. any suggestions?? [VB snipped] No suggestions but the obvious one: use perl

Re: $_ = undef; # Creates 'modicication of read-only' error

2003-01-10 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Lee Goddard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a funny thing: I'm getting the runtime error Modification of a read-only value attempted when $_ is set to any value (including undef). This is the only $_ in the scope, and it doesn't matter where in the block I put it. First thing in a

Re: Environment variables

2002-12-20 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Mundell, R. \(Ronald\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do one set an Environment variable out of a perl script, let say PATH? $ENV{PATH} = But this only works for processes spawned by the Perl script that does the setting. Search the archives of the os-specific mailing lists for OS-specific

RE: Search Replace

2002-12-18 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Lee Clemmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: s/$search/$newstr/i You might want to modify this to s/$search/$newstr/igo The o promises Perl you will never change the $search string. Perl will then put it through the regular expression compiler the first time it's encountered, and you _should_

Re: Perl equivalent to VB's IsObject

2002-12-06 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
I assume IsObject is a method that returns TRUE if the given object is of the given class, and FALSE otherwise. If this is the case, the 'canonical' way to do it is to use UNIVERSAL::isa. See the 'perlobj' documentation for details. Here's some (working, this time!) sample code: use strict; use

RE: Question on sub/method call and context

2002-12-04 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Burak Gürsoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: umm... did you read my message? wantarray is 'exactly' what you want Second the motion. In fact, Last night I spent a little time writing a rebuttal, but then I tried it, and you're exactly right. I figured this would be the last word, but should have

Re: Puzzle of the Week

2002-12-04 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
The code: while () { $day = ''; print Before: $_; s/(Monday|Tuesday|Wednesday|Thursday|Friday| Saturday|Sunday)'s(\s+Games)?//x and $day = $1; print After: $_; print Day = '$day'\n; } The test: C:\perl trw.tmp Yesterday's Games were boring Before: Yesterday's

Re: Excel to html format

2002-11-26 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip! The $expletive produced by Excel claiming to be HTML is just awful (and Office 2000 is even worse) You got that right. When HTMLizing Put the CD in the CD drive with Word2K, we got Put the CD in the addressCD drive/address. If you do save from Excel, make

Re: Remove the Elements of Array A from Array B

2002-11-15 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
optique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: forgive my poor english, :), I come form beijing, china. It is better than my Chinese! my question is: @B = (1,2,3,4,5,6); @A = (3,6); and I want to remove 3 and 6 from @B, after that the @B will be (1,2,4,5). but, I don't want to use foreach to iterate

Re: SQLServer DBI Woes

2002-10-31 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Carter, I'm with Johan Lindstrom - bind variables are the way to go. If you're unfamiliar with them, they're a little strange at first. The following is your script cold-coded to use bind variables and placeholders. # Create the Insert my $SQL = -- sql end --; INSERT INTO scmrequests (Status,

Norton Antivirus vs. Perl [was RE: Failure in backticks]

2002-10-31 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
No problems with: Norton Antivirus Corporate 7.60.926 ActivePerl 633 Windows 2000 SP2 (5.00.2195) Tom Wyant This communication is for use by the intended recipient and contains information that may be privileged, confidential or copyrighted under applicable law. If you are not the intended

avtc.com test

2002-10-31 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
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Re: avtc.com test

2002-10-31 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
All, My apologies to the list for the previous empty note. Starting about a day ago, everything I post to this list gets the following reply from System Attendant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Trend SMEX Content Filter has detected sensitive content. Place = [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ; Sender = Thomas R

Re: Help using XML::Parser

2002-10-30 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Phil - You might want to look at XML::Simple. I get the impression XML::Parser is the foundation of a _lot_ of XML code (including XML::Simple). XML::Simple will load the XML into a data structure that looks a lot more like what you probably want to massage with Perl. It goes to considerable

Re: Problem with Date::Manip

2002-10-25 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The output looks like this: date1 = 2002101714:59:00 date2 = 2002102510:47:56 date3 = +0:0:1:0:19:48:56 There's defintely 7+ days between these two dates, it shows 0 days, 19 hours, 48 minutes, 56 seconds. Actually, it shows 1 week, 0 days, 19 hours, 48 minutes,

RE: Can't access from Command Line

2002-10-22 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Burak - Unless, of course, the user opened DATA first! :-) Perverse example: C:\perl print Hello, sailor!\n; __END__ Hello, sailor! C:\perl while (DATA) {print Data $_} __END__ The bustard's a genial fowl Data The bustard's a genial fowl with minimal reason to growl. Data with minimal reason

Re: Win32::AdminMisc problems

2002-10-10 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Hari - You've got me. It seems to me if Win32::AdminMisc is installed on your server _and_ your browser has access to it, this shouldn't happen. But I've seen it come by on the mailing list. You might want to root around in the archives and see what comes up. Tom Krishna, Hari [EMAIL

Re: Win32/Unix File differences

2002-10-08 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
John Drabinowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got the O'Reilly Learning Perl on Win32 Systems book and have a question about using the directory/file structure. This book says that I can walk the directory as shown is example 1, [using globbing] but I have been using example 2 [which

Re: Calling WMI Methods with Win32::OLE

2002-09-26 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Scott Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have looked everywhere to find an example of how to call a method in WMI with perl, and have been unsuccessful. Does anyone know if it can be done, and if so, have an example? Yes, it can be done. The following script lists all process IDs, and the

Re: Setting the actual directory with a Perl script.

2002-09-25 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Adam Ingerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:] do you know a possibility to set the actual directory inside a Perl script (chdir my_dir;) to get it changed in the command shell outside the script? easiest way, tell the shell to do it for you. if you're on windows,

Re: Win32::ODBC Question (Oracle)

2002-09-25 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get Information about a spezific table in an Oracle with the command 'describe table_name; ' This command works within SQL-PLus and other Tools but I get the error message: Ora-00900: invalid SQL statement when I use it within a perl-script using a

RE: NET::Telnet

2002-09-17 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: NET::Telnet Thanks. But the what should be used as prompt? -Original Message- From: Thomas R Wyant_III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 7:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NET::Telnet Jitendra Soam

Re: Using Pack and Unpack

2002-09-17 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Paul Flint [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting incorrect results from recipe 8.8 in the Perl Cookbook. I'm building an index of offset positions for lines in a file (3 MB), which I'm supposed to be able to use to access any line in that file. I use Code A to build the index. (taken from

RE: Using Pack and Unpack

2002-09-17 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Warkentin, Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas R Wyant_III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] postulates: snip! / Because of the text mode translation, DOSish perls have limitations in using seek and tell on a file accessed in text mode. True, however I thought the limitation was that you

Re: Debugging?

2002-09-12 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Beckett Richard-qswi266 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there something I can insert into the script to stop the parser from checking the rest of it, before execution? As Adrian Stovall, wrote, __END__ is useful in this duty, and in fact I have so used it. Sometimes, though, the part you want

Re: creating links (*.lnk files)

2002-08-29 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Eckart - Aldo Calpini's Win32::Shortcut will both create and manipulate shortcuts. It comes with ActivePerl, but unfortunately, the documentation apparantly gets lost somewhere between him and ActiveState's distribution. You can get it by downloading the current Win32::Shortcut from

Re: trying to understand how regex works

2002-08-13 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Ron Grabowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my $regex = join '|', 'value_garbage1', 'value_garbage2', 'value_garbage3'; next if /$regex/; You might want to say next if /$regex/o to prevent Perl from compiling every time. If you're Perl 5.6, you could

Re: Problem with =~

2002-07-01 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Dovalle Yankelovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to take some data from txt file and im looking for a string within the text. here part of the text: tionDwsRx: Total allocated bytes (downstream) = 0, bits = 2, I need the value after the first '=' What's wrong with my ($bytes,

Re: Windows PID

2002-06-24 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Ember Normand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that Active State has not implemented getppid. Any hints on how I can get the PID that is in the Windows Task Manager? If you have WMI available, you can get it that way; see Dave Roth's Win32 Perl Scripting for more information. I've been

Re: Determining Default 'My Documents' folder path

2002-05-30 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Adam, Under Windows 2000 (and possibly other Win* operating systems), see $ENV{USERPROFILE}. If you need a complete pathname: C:\perl -MFile::Spec -e print File::Spec-catfile ($ENV{USERPROFILE}, 'My Documents') C:\Documents and Settings\wyant\My Documents Beware of the space if you intend to

Re: Using qw(....) on data from database.

2002-05-16 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
_I_ think you need @nums = split '\s+', $nums; If you do push @nums, qw{$nums}; the list ends up containing ('$nums'), because qw is _not_ double-quotish. Tom Wyant [EMAIL PROTECTED]@listserv.ActiveState.com on 05/16/2002 12:14:51 PM Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL

RE: Newbie book

2002-05-12 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Yes, but _I_ didn't have to write any of it. If we're going to talk about ALL the code necessary to run C:\perl -pe oldscript.pl newscript.pl I feel constrained to point out that I executed not only Perl itself but Windows. A _serious_ attempt to reduce the amount of code needed to do the

Re: How to make sequences

2002-05-02 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Mary J Blige [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know the good algorithm [snipped code would be better ;-)] that can produce all sequences of a string of numbers?? Sounds like you're talking about permutations. I searched CPAN (http://search.cpan.org/) with the word permute and came up

Re: regex'ing for e-mail addresses

2002-04-26 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
I had a wonderful example, but this message is too small to contain it. Rather than asking people to post again, have you tried the mailing list archive? Tom Wyant ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe:

RE: tk html help missing

2002-04-18 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Tillman, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone else less than thrilled regarding this new CHM version of the help? I fail to see the benefit when it doesn't add newly installed modules to the help. With the plain HTML help we used to have in ActivePerl, new modules got added to the

Re: Pattern Matching Help

2002-04-16 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Balam, You say your code is not working, but you don't say what's wrong. You could try Date::Manip. It may be overkill, of course, and you don't get a Perl date out of Parse_Date; you still need to run it through Unix_Date with the %s format qualifier. And I always seem to have to hold my

Win32::ProcInfo beta testers wanted (was potential new module ...)

2002-04-11 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
All, The problem of how to get info on another process comes up here from time to time. I had my own incentive to solve the problem (I needed a full path name, and couldn't get it from anywhere I had access to) so with a little help from my friends (including, but NOT limited to, Dave Roth,

Re: Question re: Perl and CGI script

2002-04-06 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Andrew Wax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a perl script that runs fine when I run it standalone. It basically reads a file from a network drive and writes output to a network drive. When I call this from a the web page it fails. Are you running the Apache service under a username that

Potential new module to get information on an arbitrary Win32 process

2002-04-06 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
All, Periodically there's traffic on this list about how to get information about another NT process. I have needed some things along this line, including things I can't figure out how to get from Win32::PerfLib (the full pathname of the executable is what I was really interested in). So I have

Re: V5.6 not passing input parameters

2002-04-02 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip! If the script is started using perl test2.pl a b c it passes args correctly but not when called bare at a command prompt, ie test2.pl a b c snip! Build 630 works for me under Win2K SP2. The symptoms say that the .PL file association is incorrect. From a

Re: Win32::OLE in Windows NT only

2002-03-15 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Why do I get Can't call method on an undefined value? --- Because you're trying to call a method on an undefined value. This generally means that you did something like $object = Class-new (); $object-method (); and Class-new failed. The

Re: How do i unsubscribe this list

2002-02-27 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
karthikeyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have allready sent unsubscribe message before. This is one of those times when I think this mailing list needs a FAQ. I actually started one not too long ago, but most of the entries were read the documentation, so I desisted. The following is from that

Re: Repost: problems with elsif and $self

2002-02-22 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip! Problem 1: if/elsif fails. The first if stmt evaluates to false, but then the subsequent elsif stmts are never tested, ... snip! C:\1Tmptype foo.pl if (0) { print FALSE is TRUE!\n; } elsif { print FALSE is FALSE.\n; } C:\1Tmpperl foo.pl

RE: Cobol Data conversion using Perl

2002-02-13 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Ah-Hah! It's all characters. PIC XX means a two-byte field, PIC X(70) means a 70-byte field. All you need is something like ($l_name, $f_name, $id1_num ...) = unpack 'A35A30A10...' where the elipsis (...) means you fill in the rest. Now figuring out what file to read and how to read it is

Re: Ending a Program

2002-02-13 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
All, I had a note from David Deline that supplied the missing piece. The corrected scripts are appended. The changes are: The script that generates the output needs to set $| = 1. This gets you automatic flushing of the output data. This means, by the way, that unless you can coerce the

Re: matching filename with special characters

2002-02-06 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip! It seems that the ++ [in a regular expression] causes problems (which I understand). Is there a way to tell Perl to handle the ++ as a string rather than an operator? Yes. Oh. You want to know how? If you read perlre in the documentation

Re: Q: How to sort Array of Hashes

2002-01-29 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
John Draper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip! I would like to sort @A_of_H based on 'SIZE', i.e., A_of_H[$i]{'SIZE'} from largest to smallest. sort {$b-{SIZE} = $a-{SIZE}} @A_of_H is, strictly speaking, the answer to your question. However, I have no idea what will happen if two files have

RE: Q: How to sort Array of Hashes

2002-01-29 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote snip! Do you think we can impose upon our Original Poster to run some benchmarking on his live data? Honestly, no. We could try, but since we're just mailing addresses to each other, I doubt we have anything to impose _with_. But if he wishes to do it and publish,

RE: Win32::OLE question

2002-01-29 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Tillman, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: use Win32::OLE; my $ServObj = Win32::OLE::GetObject(IIS://MYWEBSERVER/w3svc/1/Root); Interesting. With ActivePerl 630, use Win32::OLE; my $ServObj = Win32::OLE::GetObject(IIS://MYWEBSERVER/w3svc/1/Root) or die Win32::OLE-LastError (); gets me

RE: Q: How to sort Array of Hashes

2002-01-29 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Morse, Richard E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Orcish manouver? Not sure where I got that name for it. It's NOT in ActivePerl's HTML help (and I _did_ find it and install it over top of 630, since I add modules to ActiveState's kit, and I wanted the help for them available). It's a cacheing technique,

Re: problem with eval

2002-01-15 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
thiyag [EMAIL PROTECTED] i have a file with perl statments,I want them to be access few line (depends dynamically) in my programe , can anyone suggest me how to go about with it...! i tried reading the file line by line extracting the  needed line's into an array and then

Re: modifying (splitting) elements of an array

2002-01-09 Thread Thomas R Wyant_III
Abner, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's an efficient way of splitting the elements of an array globally? For instance, let say an array consists of the following two elements: Bob:Jones Mary:Parker Let's say I'd like to cut each element of the array down to the string preceding