Re: Re[2]: ActivePerl - how does one configure for HTML

2001-07-21 Thread Sergio Gonzalez
I found the PWS on my win98se, there was a link for the setup program on the start menu, programs-accesories-internet tools. Or you can look at the add/remove control panel, Win Setup-Internet Tools-Details to see if its included in the installation. Anyway i put a script in the cgi-bin, and trie

RE: Still can't get this !@#$%^&* to work

2001-07-21 Thread Steve Howard
Sounds as if you need to use the DATE::CALC module. All the date addition, subtraction, formatting, generation etc. functions I have ever had need for are in there, and it has very good documentation in its perldoc. It's probably not part of your standard installation, though. I'd try it and see i

pls help

2001-07-21 Thread Tom Malone
Hi all This amy seem a little silly, but I've checked perl.com, perl.org, and activestate.com and cannot find instructions for installing Perl on windows (i have ME). Can someone point me to an installation guide for Perl on win32? Thanks! Tom -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re[2]: ActivePerl - how does one configure for HTML

2001-07-21 Thread Tim Musson
Monday, July 16, 2001, 4:23:26 PM, my MUA believes you used (X-Mailer not set) to write: BWM> On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Stout, Joel R wrote: >> WinNT comes with "Personal Web Server" (PWS) which is how I'm learning Perl >> CGI. You can put your scripts in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\cgi-bin. You can then >>

Re: How to send a notification mail from Windows/NT?

2001-07-21 Thread Tim Musson
Hey David, Thursday, July 19, 2001, 9:27:19 PM, my MUA believes you used Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) to write: ND> Hi, ND> When I use the following script to send mail: ND> #!perl -w use Strict; # here? use Diagnostics; # here? ND> ### script name "smtp_mailer2.pl" ND> use Net::SMTP;

Re: Still can't get this !@#$%^&* to work

2001-07-21 Thread Tim Musson
Hey Tom, Wednesday, July 18, 2001, 10:25:02 AM, my MUA believes you used (X-Mailer not set) to write: TY> Hey all, Okay, I'm still trying to get this log file script to TY> work. The end result should just be, if it's the 18th, the log TY> file should be 09FIMSOM090Aevent-20010717.log. How

Re: Windows Directory Parsing and Deleting

2001-07-21 Thread Tim Musson
Hey Patricia, Thursday, July 19, 2001, 10:49:11 AM, my MUA believes you used Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) to write: DPA> Okay I really am a newbie. This whole perl thing has confused DPA> me. (Any suggestions on clarification to my confusion of the DPA> language would be appreciated as

Re: Highlihting a string

2001-07-21 Thread Ron Smith
If it's not "CGI.pm you're looking for, try "Term::ANSIColor" module. Ron >From: viswanathan sundararajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Highlihting a string >Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 23:14:03 -0700 (PDT) > >Hi, > I want to highlight a string in my output.For >example consi

Re: split

2001-07-21 Thread Paul
--- Maxim Berlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Greg, > > Sunday, July 22, 2001, Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > G> I need to split an array up. I need to split on colons and spaces. > I appear > G> to be successful splitting on a colon, but am having difficulty > doing both. > G> Any

Re: help with email submit

2001-07-21 Thread Maxim Berlin
Hello ken, Saturday, July 21, 2001, ken clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: kc> Help. I am very new. I am using this script to create a guestbook entry; kc> however I want it to ALSO email the results to me. I am willing to figure kc> this out myself if someone can point me in the right direction

Re: split

2001-07-21 Thread Maxim Berlin
Hello Greg, Sunday, July 22, 2001, Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: G> I need to split an array up. I need to split on colons and spaces. I appear G> to be successful splitting on a colon, but am having difficulty doing both. G> Any advice would be appreciated. G> # existing... G> @_ = ($hour,

split

2001-07-21 Thread Greg
Hey all... I need to split an array up. I need to split on colons and spaces. I appear to be successful splitting on a colon, but am having difficulty doing both. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks... Greg. # existing... @_ = ($hour, $minute, $second, $frame, $crap1, $crap2, $crap3, $cr

help with email submit

2001-07-21 Thread ken clark
Help. I am very new. I am using this script to create a guestbook entry; however I want it to ALSO email the results to me. I am willing to figure this out myself if someone can point me in the right direction. There are several late night comments included. Ignore those of course... Ken

Re: question about sort

2001-07-21 Thread Paul
--- EriK W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks! Paul, you are really good tutor, It is much clear for me now, Thank you. That's a high compliment. > But I think I still can't easily distinguish the list and scalar > context. That's a common problem. To oversimplify, a scalar context is a situa

Array Question

2001-07-21 Thread Jerry Coleman
I wrote a perl program to read in a directory containing SQL, and update column names, based on a file read in containing the conversion mappings. I am a little confused about what's going on in the loop where I read the convertpairs array. The splitting of $arrayelement based on '=' seems to

Re: HTTP::Request get or post??

2001-07-21 Thread Greg Meckes
--- Will Muir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here is a quick one, when using HTTP::Request to get data from a website how do I if >I should > use get or post to receive that content of the site. I am pretty new to this so >please be > gentle. > > Thanks in advance > > will > If your just t

Re: Searching a MYSQL database

2001-07-21 Thread Ackim Chisha
Hi Everybody, Is there a shortcut way to subtract dates say for instance I would like to be subtracting the current date from the date that the service for a particular user expires, say (expiry date -- current date). Or do I have to write a specific script for this. Forgive my newbie ignorance.

problem writing to a file

2001-07-21 Thread Ron Woodall
Hi All: I've run into a bit of a bump in one of the perl programs that I'm writing and I need the expertise of real perl gurus. I'm using perl 5.0 on Windows 98 Second Edition. I'm writing $calar variables to an array using: push (@outmenuarray,$outline); I'm then writing @outm

Re: different version error

2001-07-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 08:59:34PM -0400, Anshu Anshu wrote: > syntax error in file /var/gateway.pl at line 3, next 2 tokens "use lib" > Execution of /var/commerce/gateway.pl aborted due to compilation errors. > > > bash-2.03$ head -4 gateway.pl > #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w > > use lib '/u01/orap

RE:Sending a mail using telnet 25 smtp(OT)

2001-07-21 Thread Ms takara us
Hi Everyone, This is an off topic question. But i am curious to know the solution and so please no flames!!! Few days back (6th july to be precise) Anton and George S Pereira were discussing that anyone can send mails using the telnet 25 smtp. Can someone elaborate on this. I mean what

Re: Getopt::Long

2001-07-21 Thread iain truskett
* Bicknell, Frank ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [21 Jul 2001 08:12]: [...] > Using Getopt::Long, it's possible to watch for negated options: > -nostuff ... and it's possible to alias options "stuff|such" allows > -stuff to be the same as -such. [...] > $ stuff -nosuch > Using Perl Version 5.00404 > Unkno

Re: HTTP::Request get or post??y

2001-07-21 Thread C.J. Collier
POST sends a request and sets some CGI params. GET can be used to do the same thing, but you need to append a ?foo=bar&baz=wally to the url, if you want to send data to a CGI. If it's not a CGI, though I suggest using GET ;) I think you need a bit of HTTP and CGI background. I suggest reading

Getopt::Long

2001-07-21 Thread Bicknell, Frank
I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but here goes (I'm a beginner at posting questions to the list?) Using Getopt::Long, it's possible to watch for negated options: -nostuff ... and it's possible to alias options "stuff|such" allows -stuff to be the same as -such. So this little sample prog