Re: sending mail (learning perl program)

2001-07-29 Thread Peter Scott
At 08:30 PM 7/29/01 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Gia Elise Barboza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > open(mail, "|mail barbozag\@msu.edu"); > > print mail "bad news: guessed \n"; > > close (mail); > >This works, but if you are not certain of the contents of the email message >(e.g. writing a

Re: Mail

2001-07-29 Thread Peter Scott
At 10:04 PM 7/29/01 -0500, Mike Rodgers wrote: >Here's what I tried: > > open(MAIL, "|pmiker\@localhost"); You probably do not have a program called pmiker@localhost in your path. If you do, I doubt that its action is to send email. > print MAIL "bad news: $somename guessed $someguess

Re: DELETING A COOKIE

2001-07-29 Thread Peter Scott
At 11:23 AM 7/30/01 +0930, Daniel Falkenberg wrote: >List, > >I was wondering if it is possbile to delete a users cookie when they close >their browser. I thought this happened automatically but I just tried it >and nothing happened? By default, cookies have session lifetime, i.e., they do disap

Re: sending mail (learning perl program)

2001-07-29 Thread smoot
> Gia Elise Barboza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > open(mail, "|mail barbozag\@msu.edu"); > print mail "bad news: guessed \n"; > close (mail); This works, but if you are not certain of the contents of the email message (e.g. writing a CGI interface to let a user compose and send an email message)

Re: Using Perl with Apache

2001-07-29 Thread .
Oops... I thought that was the code to leave the permissions wide open. (Actually I'd set it in Gnome in the permissions dialog box, where you're supposed to click the boxes.) I guess I just had the logic backwards. Thanks... - Original Message - From: "Mel Matsuoka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mail

2001-07-29 Thread Mike Rodgers
Here's what I tried: open(MAIL, "|pmiker\@localhost"); print MAIL "bad news: $somename guessed $someguess\n"; close(MAIL); I had the pipe in the code but left it out of my email. The above also does not work. Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional c

read query string with multiple values for same name?

2001-07-29 Thread Birgit Kellner
Hi all, ok, it's late and my brain is melting, so please forgive me if the following question should turn out to be a no-brainer. I have a form that passes on a query-string with multiple values for the same name: "some.cgi?thisorder=2&key=4&thisorder=5&key=10" I am using CGI.pm and would

Re: Recursive find for a file within a directory

2001-07-29 Thread Dinakar
Hello: You can try File::Find. It will serve your purpose. Dinakar Narendran Kumaraguru Nathan wrote: > Hai Raghavan, > I think you aren't aware of the unix command 'find'. > Just try > > find . -file > Next I've made your program to work, just try this out. I hope > the changes I've

Re: PHP List

2001-07-29 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig Westerman) writes: > Is there a PHP beginners list similar to this one? If so please send > subscription details. see http://news.php.net/ and http://www.php.net/support.php - ask -- ask bjoern hansen, http://ask.netcetera.dk/ !try; do(); -- To unsubscribe, e-m

Re: Recursive find for a file within a directory

2001-07-29 Thread Narendran Kumaraguru Nathan
Hai Raghavan, I think you aren't aware of the unix command 'find'. Just try > find . -file Next I've made your program to work, just try this out. I hope the changes I've made is clear for yor. #! /usr/local/bin/perl -w use strict; my @dirList; my $fileName; my $srcDir; my $findRet; $fileN

Re: CGI to rewrite a URL

2001-07-29 Thread Damien Salvador
Hi, On Fri, Jul 27, 2001, Bob Showalter wrote: > > From: Rich Fernandez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > I've been asked to write a CGI script that takes a URL of the form: [...] > > In other words, we want to hide the true URL of the report from the > browser. [...] > 3. to send the browser some

Re: sending mail (learning perl program)

2001-07-29 Thread Gia Elise Barboza
The code below does not include the pipe char. Without it the code does not work. Hope this helps, Regards Gia. open(mail, "|mail barbozag\@msu.edu"); print mail "bad news: guessed \n"; close (mail); Mike Rodgers wrote: > On page 23 of Learning Perl, there are commands to mail a message out.

PHP List

2001-07-29 Thread Craig Westerman
Is there a PHP beginners list similar to this one? If so please send subscription details. Thanks Craig ><> [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using Perl with Apache

2001-07-29 Thread Mel Matsuoka
At 03:14 PM 07/29/2001 -1000, . wrote: >I'm currently running a RedHat 7.1 box, with Perl 5.005 (I think), and >Apache webserver 1.3.12. > >My problem is that, after having followed the directions for configuring >Apache to handle cgi scripts (from both www.apache.org and the httpd.conf >documenta

Using Perl with Apache

2001-07-29 Thread .
I'm currently running a RedHat 7.1 box, with Perl 5.005 (I think), and Apache webserver 1.3.12. My problem is that, after having followed the directions for configuring Apache to handle cgi scripts (from both www.apache.org and the httpd.conf documentation), I get a 403:forbidden error when I try

ideas...?

2001-07-29 Thread bc
[any ideas...] the browser's error below: couldn't find diagnostic data in /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/pods/perldiag.pod /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i686-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i686-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/sit

Re: sending mail (learning perl program)

2001-07-29 Thread Marcelo Ramos
El Sun, 29 Jul 2001 10:31:11 -0500 Mike Rodgers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: >On page 23 of Learning Perl, there are commands to mail a message out. >I have tried to manually send myself a message with mail and it works. >The program does not work. I'm not sure why. Here is the code: > >open

Re: CGI/Perl Cookies

2001-07-29 Thread Marcelo Ramos
El Sun, 29 Jul 2001 11:57:22 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: >Hello there, > >Two questions, if anyone can help that would be great. > >I have this script that sets cookies.. 6 of them to be exact.. What script? Regards. -- __

Re: A Munging Project

2001-07-29 Thread Troy Denkinger
Ron, It doesn't appear you've gotten a response to this on the list yet. I'd like to respond, but I'm not sure what you're trying to do. I'll ask some questions that may make it more clear to me and others. On Saturday 28 July 2001 13:25, Ron Smith wrote: > I've been handed a project where I

Re: hash array of arrays?

2001-07-29 Thread Jos I. Boumans
just dereference it: foo( @{ $R{"first"} } ); it's as easy as that =) hth Jos Boumans > > Hi all, > > here's my question :): > > I define a hash array: > our %R=("first" => [ "one", "two" ], "second" => ["third", "fourth"]); > > Now I can get back back array references from this using:

hash array of arrays?

2001-07-29 Thread Pozsar Balazs
Hi all, here's my question :): I define a hash array: our %R=("first" => [ "one", "two" ], "second" => ["third", "fourth"]); Now I can get back back array references from this using: $R{"first"} I also can get back the elements of this array: $R{"first"}->[0]and so on.. but i would need

Re: Array::compare question

2001-07-29 Thread Rachel Coleman
> Does someone know if the array::compare module can handle array of > arrays? I haven't seen anyone answer this yet. Based on the documentation (http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/data/Array-Compare/Compare.html), Array::Compare takes 2 arrays and tells you if they are the same, or different, w

Re: Compiling into C source code.

2001-07-29 Thread Rachel Coleman
> sorry, i figured this one out myself, > > thanks anyway! :) What was the answer? Best wishes, Rachel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Expect

2001-07-29 Thread Rachel Coleman
> Does anyone know where to find good information on the expect module? > the camel book did not say much about it. Try http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/data/Expect.pm/Expect.html Found by my usual route for finding out more about a module, which is: 1. Go to www.cpan.org 2. Follow the link 'P

Re: $1

2001-07-29 Thread Rachel Coleman
> Making a mistake once can be exused, > making it twice is stupidity and > making the same mistake a third time only proves you have no brain ;-) > > Sorry, I figured out where the problem is... What was the problem and how did you fix it? Other people reading the list (or searching the archive

Re: newbie DBI

2001-07-29 Thread Rachel Coleman
> >I'm trying to decide on using DBI or an ODBC connection for moving data > >into or out of MS ACCESS 97 (or 2000) and back into the ACCESS table > >[yep, or change inside table]. > > > >Given I need to perform all the usual extract and append, etc. tasks, do > >any of you have suggestions or poi

Re: sending mail

2001-07-29 Thread Rachel Coleman
> Hi friends, I wanna send mails with the results of some perl scripts. I've > installed Debian GNU/Linux with Apache, Perl & sendmail. Do I need some > extra module? I think you *can* just print stuff directly to sendmail. However, I found Net::SMTP to be useful, if a little fiddly. Mail::Mail

Re: regexp issues TR

2001-07-29 Thread Rachel Coleman
> Let me rephrase what I want to do since I was so unclear the first > time: I want to output an error message every time the input > includes characters that are not the following: A-Za-z0-9_@.- or a > space(s). > At this point, I've tried: > > if ($params{$i} !~ /[^\w\@.-\s]/g) { > print "Erro

RE: regexp issues TR

2001-07-29 Thread Teresa Raymond
Well, I've tried many variations of regexes but the tests either always fail or always succeed, nothing in between. So I've resorted to testing for some of the unwanted characters and printing the error msg if those characters are found: foreach my $i (keys %params) { if ($params{$i}=~m/

CGI/Perl Cookies

2001-07-29 Thread Msftblows
Hello there, Two questions, if anyone can help that would be great. I have this script that sets cookies.. 6 of them to be exact.. But, it has a few problems: A. It isn't creating all of them.. I can change pre-existing cookies but some of the new ones won't be created... Is there a maximum nu

sending mail (learning perl program)

2001-07-29 Thread Mike Rodgers
On page 23 of Learning Perl, there are commands to mail a message out. I have tried to manually send myself a message with mail and it works. The program does not work. I'm not sure why. Here is the code: open(MAIL, "mail EMAIL_ADDRESS_HERE"); print MAIL "bad news: $somename guessed $somegues

CGI/Perl Cookies

2001-07-29 Thread Msftblows
Hello there, Two questions, if anyone can help that would be graet. I have this script that sets cookies.. 6 of them to be exact.. But, it has a few problems: A. It isn't creating all of them.. I can change pre-existing cookies but some of the new ones won't be created... Is there a maximum nu

Re: File locking question.

2001-07-29 Thread Michael Fowler
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 04:15:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > #!/usr/local/bin/perl > > #use strict; > use warnings; > > my $file = 'data'; > my $TIMEOUT = 10; > sub LOCK_SH { 1 }; > sub LOCK_EX { 2 }; > sub LOCK_UN { 8 }; Do not manually define these constants. It will work, but it's b

Re: code doesn't work

2001-07-29 Thread Michael Fowler
I don't have the original email, so I'm having to reply to the original question here (see the end of the email), as well as the response. On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 01:56:10PM -0400, Akshay Arora wrote: > @temp=; #implies that TEMP is a read file handle > print TEMP @temp; #implies that TEMP is a

renameing a file name...

2001-07-29 Thread Avi Uziel
Hi all, I have just started to "play" with perl so pls consider me to be *very* newbie. I try to find the way to do the following: I have a list of file names, and I want to rename each file which starts with underscore and ends with 'htm' or 'html' as follow: original name: "_xxx.htm" should be r