Re: selecting a file from web bowser

2001-09-05 Thread brian d foy
In article <999749734.484.2.camel@pelle>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Javier Bellido) wrote: > I've make a page that sends information to a perl script. Actually I use > a TEXTAREA to paste the information. Is it possible to select a file > using the browser? Can Perl do it or need PHP? are you looking

Re: Capture an email address from a text file

2001-09-05 Thread brian d foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Smith) wrote: >> >Hello, I need some suggestions regarding stripping email addresses from > >returned email messages. The addresses are embedded in text files (the > >email > >message) without any consistent delimiters > I don't know how

Re: Memory usage of var...

2001-09-05 Thread brian d foy
In article <002301c135cd$9ada2540$025a@drevlin>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian) wrote: > But, I'm not slurping it all at once (going line by line), which allows > for me to check the size as I go. If somebody sends a 40 meg message, > I'd like to catch it early before the server has a heart atta

Re: strict pragma and @ISA

2001-09-05 Thread brian d foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Dixon) wrote: > There are two ways around this: you can do what it says, and give it an explicit > package name. For instance, if you're writing perl/lib/Local/Package.pm you can > refer to it as > > Local::Package::@ISA that is @Local

Re: securing sensitive information in CGI scripts

2001-09-05 Thread brian d foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brett W. McCoy) wrote: > You've killed any security also if you don't remove backup files from your > web space. emacs, for instance, creates files appended with ~, and people > forget to delete them (or create a cron job that does it). Big h

Reg passing arguements

2001-09-05 Thread Sutapalli, eswara
Hi, please let me know how to pass an array from a C program to perl script as an arguement. Eg: I've an array with five elements, I need to call a perl script to print these values. thanx in advance, eswar WARNING: The information in this message is confidential and may be leg

thanks to Jos I.Boumans

2001-09-05 Thread nafiseh saberi
thank much. - Best regards. Nafiseh Saberi Iran - Shiraz The smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. --

Re: Filehandle error using Strict

2001-09-05 Thread John W. Krahn
Deborah Strickland wrote: > > Hi all, I've had this question for quite a while and can't find any > reference to it in any of my many Perl books. I want to use the 'strict' > command but whenever I do it always causes an error on any file handles > I have used. What errors are you getting? > I

Re: How to fetch graphic files from a remote server?

2001-09-05 Thread ss98
Rob, Thank you very much!! "Rob Dixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ¼¶¼g©ó¶l¥ó [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > It's really easy using the LWP packages. For instance: > > use LWP::Simple; > > getstore ('http://www.perl.org/Images/title.gif', 'title.gif'); > > will fetch you a camel.

Re: sleep problem (which may cause insomnia...)

2001-09-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Lesli" == Lesli Larocco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lesli> I'm writing a program that will allow users to construct an email message Lesli> and schedule when the message will be sent (eg for times when the mail Lesli> server is less busy). I solved the scheduling program by subtracting the

sleep problem (which may cause insomnia...)

2001-09-05 Thread Lesli LaRocco
Hello All, I'm writing a program that will allow users to construct an email message and schedule when the message will be sent (eg for times when the mail server is less busy). I solved the scheduling program by subtracting the "send time" from the "current time" giving me X seconds to wait. Then

Re: Filehandle error using Strict

2001-09-05 Thread Ron Smith
What is it that you're trying to do with the file? If you just want to read the contents, using 'filehandles' and 'strict', here's one way to do it: ---snip--- #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; open (FILE, "some_file"); while () { print; } close FILE; --

Re: 'CRAZY t" driving me loco: help!!

2001-09-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Michael" == Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> Well, all I know is that, in my experience, joining things Michael> with an empty regex can introduce extra characters. For Michael> instance: Michael> @array = qw(a apple b banana); Michael> $scalar = join(//,@array)

CHDIR

2001-09-05 Thread THE SPENCERS
Hello Team, Let me just start my saying I am a very big fan of PERL and this mailing list. I have been reading from the list for about 5 months now and WOW! what great help you people are I would like to know is there anyway to physically move to a directory running a Perl script

selecting a file from web bowser

2001-09-05 Thread Javier Bellido
Hi friends! I've make a page that sends information to a perl script. Actually I use a TEXTAREA to paste the information. Is it possible to select a file using the browser? Can Perl do it or need PHP? Thanks for your help _ C

Re: How to parse a string with ..{..}..{..}..

2001-09-05 Thread Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan
On Sep 5, Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan said: >On Sep 5, Curtis Poe said: > >>my $instr1 = "111{first first}222 333{second}444"; >>$_ = $instr1; >>my @outstr = m/{([^}]+)}/g; >> >>Also, I stripped out your dot star and replaced it with a negated character class. >See >>http://www.pe

Re: How to parse a string with ..{..}..{..}..

2001-09-05 Thread Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan
On Sep 5, Curtis Poe said: >my $instr1 = "111{first first}222 333{second}444"; >$_ = $instr1; >my @outstr = m/{([^}]+)}/g; > >Also, I stripped out your dot star and replaced it with a negated character class. >See >http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=24640 for why this is done

Checking spelling with Perl

2001-09-05 Thread Dan Grossman
Hi, I have a file of several million words, 80% of which are misspelled (i.e. non-words) and 20% of which are spelled correctly. I would like to write a short script to read in this file and output only the correctly spelled words. Since I'm on Unix, I could just use something like `spell` to

Re: 'CRAZY t" driving me loco: help!!

2001-09-05 Thread Michael Kelly
On 9/5/01 3:14 PM, Paul Jasa wrote: > Fellow Perl enthusiasts, > I have a major issue that I don't even know where to begin to explore for a > solution. I call it the "Crazy t" because it has to do with a "t" that > appears out of nowhere, intermittenlty, on my scripts when I run them. I > ha

Re: How to parse a string with ..{..}..{..}..

2001-09-05 Thread Curtis Poe
--- Families Laws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a input string of ..{}..{..}..., > I need to get the output in an array that contains > only: {} {..} character strings. > > I tried: > > $instr1 = "111{first first}222 333{second}444"; > $_ = $instr1; > @outstr = m/{.+}/g; >

How to parse a string with ..{..}..{..}..

2001-09-05 Thread Families Laws
I have a input string of ..{}..{..}..., I need to get the output in an array that contains only: {} {..} character strings. I tried: $instr1 = "111{first first}222 333{second}444"; $_ = $instr1; @outstr = m/{.+}/g; @outstr has a value of {first first}222 333{second}; I would li

Karma - "aborted due to compilation errors"

2001-09-05 Thread L. Parkes
I am trying out a PERL monitoring tool called Karma for several HP-UX machines with Oracle databases. I installed Perl 5.6.1 and the DBI and DBD modules on an HP-UX 11.0 system (After finding a great README.hpux on the DBD module). perl Makefile.pl, make, make test, and make install (as root)

first encounter with Perl :-(

2001-09-05 Thread Linux User
Hi :-) This is my first encounter with a perl script, and I am at a loss here.. One software package I downloaded is supposed to start with a perl script, but it doesn't. I created the necessary config file for the program made it executable, and copied it into /usr/bin yet when I invoke the

Complex record structure question

2001-09-05 Thread Christi McGinley
I'm extremely new to Perl and, surprise, have a problem. I've read the Camel Ch. 9 (Generation of a hash of complex records) many times but I just don't seem to get the hash loaded correctly when I try it myself. Any guidance - examples - are appreciated! Here's the problem: I am trying to pro

'CRAZY t" driving me loco: help!!

2001-09-05 Thread Paul Jasa
Fellow Perl enthusiasts, I have a major issue that I don't even know where to begin to explore for a solution. I call it the "Crazy t" because it has to do with a "t" that appears out of nowhere, intermittenlty, on my scripts when I run them. I have a script that logs into devices on the ne

Re: Passing Wild Cards to System Commands

2001-09-05 Thread Ken Hammer
Thank you James, that did the trick! "Kipp, James" wrote: > > try using the glob() function.. > it does this nicely > > > -Original Message- > > From: Ken Hammer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 4:54 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Passing W

Re: Passing Wild Cards to System Commands

2001-09-05 Thread Michael Fowler
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:53:35PM -0400, Ken Hammer wrote: > $file = `ls file.*.$variable.txt` > > file.*.123456.txt: No such file or directory. What did you expect to get? That error is a result of the literal string "file.*.123456.txt" being passed to ls. If you're using a shell, as you are

RE: "connect" method

2001-09-05 Thread Kipp, James
ok if you are unable to do it this way because of your firewall or other internet access issues, download the entire dbi package and read the readme on how to install it manually. > -Original Message- > From: Imtiaz ahmad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 5

RE: Passing Wild Cards to System Commands

2001-09-05 Thread Kipp, James
try using the glob() function.. it does this nicely > -Original Message- > From: Ken Hammer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 4:54 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Passing Wild Cards to System Commands > > > Hi All, > > I'm trying to pass wildcards

RE: "connect" method

2001-09-05 Thread Imtiaz ahmad
I just copied over the file from different machine with same version of Perl to all the directories it searched for the package. I'll do as you said: perl -MCPAN -e "install 'module_name'" If it does not work then I going to Spam again. :) thanks James. -Original Message- From: Kipp, J

RE: "connect" method

2001-09-05 Thread Kipp, James
Did you install the DBI package manually? or did you use CPAN ? If possible use CPAN to install it: perl -MCPAN -e "install 'module_name'" > -Original Message- > From: Imtiaz ahmad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 4:46 PM > To: Perl_beginner (E-mail) > Sub

Passing Wild Cards to System Commands

2001-09-05 Thread Ken Hammer
Hi All, I'm trying to pass wildcards (*) to the system using the back quote method. For instance I want to list out a directory that contains a particular part of a string: $file = `ls file.*.$variable.txt` where the "*" can be any number of different charactors. Of course, I pass it the valu

"connect" method

2001-09-05 Thread Imtiaz ahmad
Hi- Can somebody help me with the following error: *Can't locate object method "connect" via package "DBI" at /apps/apache_1.3.19/cgi-bin/3rd_party/check_login.pl line 22* Initially I was getting the following error and to fix it I copied over DBI.pm to all the listed directories: Can't locate

PerlApp & Machine Code

2001-09-05 Thread Dean Theophilou
Hello: I've been experimenting with ActiveState's PerlAPP (a utility available in the PDK) over the last few day. It's a pretty cool utility, which seems to imbed the Perl interpreter in the proces of making an .exe file. However, this has got me to thinking if there is any way to compi

MakeMaker question

2001-09-05 Thread register
i am writing a module that is a helper module and is part of a larger project ... i am using h2xs and MakeMaker to make the module 'cos i need to distribute this out to other people who are using the 'larger project' ... i am running into problems in that the larger project has a place to store ht

RE: remote share disk usage for nt/win2k

2001-09-05 Thread Crowder, Rod
Here's something on those lines That I used with IIS The user must be a member of "Domain Admins" group It does a simple check of space left against a limit and highlights disks under the limit HTH Rod > -Original Message- > From: John W. Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 30 Au

Re: Use of uninitialized value in print after regexp

2001-09-05 Thread Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan
On Sep 5, Dan said: >cDNA AK027199 >cttaatgagt gagcagtaag tctgtgtaag aggctgaatg catgtc 50 >agataagcca gtacactcct tgcttagcaa cagaacatca gggtgatgtg 100 >[lots more like this] >tttatttgga aggttacctg ctgttggatt taataaattt gtttacttga 2100 >aa >Genomic chr16 : >(my $cdna) = $mr

Use of uninitialized value in print after regexp

2001-09-05 Thread Dan
Hi all, Sorry to come with what will undoubtedly be a trivial problem. Maybe I can't see the wood for the trees here, but I'm stumped. I have a script (attached) which goes away to a website, follows a couple of links and grabs a page. All very simple and works just fine, until I try to parse

thanks from Brett ,Jos I

2001-09-05 Thread nafiseh saberi
thanks much. - Best regards. Nafiseh Saberi Iran - Shiraz The smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. --

Re: source code

2001-09-05 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, nafiseh saberi wrote: > what are the meaninig in source code of perl: > 1-$|=1 (in second line in perl ???) This turns on autoflushing of the currently selected filehandle, so you don't have to explicitly flush an output buffer, it's done automatically every time you use an

Re: source code

2001-09-05 Thread Jos I. Boumans
These are very basic questions, which any good perlbook will deal with. (I'd advise 'learning perl' by randal schwartz). now for your answers: 1: that's called 'autoflush', print right away rather then buffering 2: undefine a variable (ie, make it empty) 3: they're called hashes, and => makes ''

source code

2001-09-05 Thread nafiseh saberi
hi all. what are the meaninig in source code of perl: 1-$|=1 (in second line in perl ???) 2-what is the main meaning of undef ?? 3-why in define associative array sometimes use %array(a=>d) and sometimes use%array('a'=>d) ??/ thanks. ---

RE: Parse file

2001-09-05 Thread Rob Dixon
Hi Charlie Funny, this has been a popular one :) Lets split up the regex: $data =~ m/DHCPDISCOVER from\s*(.+?)\s*via eth0/; 'DHCPDISCOVER from' looks for the text Jorge said flagged the start of the string '\s*' absorbs (zero or more) whitespace characters, including

RE: Parse file

2001-09-05 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Jorge Goncalvez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 5:49 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re:Parse file > > > Hi, I have a file which looks like : > > dhcpd : LOG_INFO : Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server 2.0 > dhcpd :

RE: Timing a form

2001-09-05 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Georg Fendt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 2:23 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Timing a form > > ... > QUESTION: I would like to put a timer to the form with the > questions, that is > a counter down and if time is ove

RE: Command line vs. Application

2001-09-05 Thread PURMONEN, Joni
I had the same kind of problem that the script was ok on the command line, but when it was running as part of a shell scrip which in turn was invoked by cron, it complained that it couldn't find the modules from @INC. Unfortunately I haven't solved this yet so I can't offer any pointers, but coul

Re: using Strict with filehandles

2001-09-05 Thread Andrea Holstein
Deborah Strickland wrote: > > Hi, > I can't find the answer to this in any of my many Perl books so I'm > asking you. I want to do 'use strict' but when I also use it with a file > handle I get an error. How can I declare a file handle variable such > that 'use strict' won't generate an error? >

Re: better way to write a hash of month names?

2001-09-05 Thread Andrea Holstein
Bill Lovett wrote: > > Can anyone suggest a better/cooler way to populate this hash? I'm > doing ultra simple date checking, so this is all I really need, but > there must be another way to do it... > > my %monthNames; > $monthNames{"Jan"} = 0; > $monthNames{"Feb"} = 1; >

RE: How to fetch graphic files from a remote server?

2001-09-05 Thread Rob Dixon
It's really easy using the LWP packages. For instance: use LWP::Simple; getstore ('http://www.perl.org/Images/title.gif', 'title.gif'); will fetch you a camel. Cheers, Rob > -Original Message- > From: ss98 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 05 September 2001 04:47 > To: [EM

RE: better way to write a hash of month names?

2001-09-05 Thread Bill Odom
Bill Lovett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] asked: > > Can anyone suggest a better/cooler way to populate this hash? I'm > doing ultra simple date checking, so this is all I really need, but > there must be another way to do it... > > my %monthNames; > $monthNames{"Jan"} = 0; > $monthNa

RE: Parse file

2001-09-05 Thread Rob Dixon
Hi Jorge This does what you want, and I think is fairly straightforward. The line 'local $/' temporarily undefines the record separator for the scope of the enclosing block, so that the read on the next line pulls in all of the file. (I assume your files aren't any bigger than you showed us?)

Re:Parse file

2001-09-05 Thread Jorge Goncalvez
Hi, I have a file which looks like : dhcpd : LOG_INFO : Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server 2.0 dhcpd : LOG_INFO : Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium. dhcpd : LOG_INFO : All rights reserved. dhcpd : LOG_INFO : dhcpd : LOG_INFO : Please contribute if you

Re: Timing a form

2001-09-05 Thread Jos I. Boumans
2 seconds of thinking says you MIGHT be able to use the meta refresh option just tell it to redirect to the submit page after x seconds, maybe sending a cookie along that says when they *got* the page, so you know they'r enot cheating. not sure if this is an adequate solution, but it's a fairly s

Timing a form

2001-09-05 Thread Georg Fendt
Dear all: I'm doing my first program with Perl and my knowledge is quite limited but I'm feeding my little Llama...(still cannot understand the quiz example done by Randal in his column...) My program does a multiple question quiz with multiple options valid for each question, to be running u

Re: regex: can't match pattern... dang

2001-09-05 Thread John W. Krahn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I posted a similar question last week; this is a rephrasing. > > I have the following strings: > > [snip data] > > I want three things: > > user, the entire date, the state. > > I'm currently trying to get this with: > > for(@procs){ > /^(.{7})\s+?(.{24})\s+?(\

How to fetch graphic files from a remote server?

2001-09-05 Thread ss98
Hi all, I'm a newbie in this field and this is my first time to ask somebody this way. If I post here wrong, please let me know. Thanks! The problem is what I want to fetch some graphic files from a website and then automatically save somewhere in my machine. I would like to use perl to do this.

better way to write a hash of month names?

2001-09-05 Thread Bill Lovett
Can anyone suggest a better/cooler way to populate this hash? I'm doing ultra simple date checking, so this is all I really need, but there must be another way to do it... my %monthNames; $monthNames{"Jan"} = 0; $monthNames{"Feb"} = 1; $monthNames{"Mar"} = 2; $mon

make error

2001-09-05 Thread Aleksandr Zingorenko
I am trying to install some modules from CPAN. After downloading, unzipping and running "perl makefile.pl", I type "make" and get the following error: make: Error -- Don't know how to make blib\lib\NAMEOFMODULE\.exists where NAMEOFMODULE is a module category name (e.g., Devel). How do I fix th

using Strict with filehandles

2001-09-05 Thread Deborah Strickland
Hi, I can't find the answer to this in any of my many Perl books so I'm asking you. I want to do 'use strict' but when I also use it with a file handle I get an error. How can I declare a file handle variable such that 'use strict' won't generate an error? This fails. use strict; open (FN, $someF

RE: Getting a list of USERS from an NT USER GROUP

2001-09-05 Thread Timothy Johnson
Here are two scripts that I use. GetUsers_Shortlist.pl just retrieves a list of usernames. GetUsers_All gives an example of some of the other information you can get using NetAdmin. The third one is the same as the first, except it gets only computer accounts. -Original Message- From:

Filehandle error using Strict

2001-09-05 Thread Deborah Strickland
Hi all, I've had this question for quite a while and can't find any reference to it in any of my many Perl books. I want to use the 'strict' command but whenever I do it always causes an error on any file handles I have used. I always declare everything but have never seen a filehandle declared be

RE: strict pragma and @ISA

2001-09-05 Thread Rob Dixon
Hi Ruthie I presume you're writing a module rather than a simple script? There are two ways around this: you can do what it says, and give it an explicit package name. For instance, if you're writing perl/lib/Local/Package.pm you can refer to it as Local::Package::@ISA throughout. The othe

Passing username value to an html form.

2001-09-05 Thread stylez
Hi i have a password script, i would like to pass this value to a form. let me explain this so it makes sense... i have an html form with the following fields Account_number Telephone Address before you get to the form i am using a freebie password script (i am new to perl) - i would like th

Re: Multi dimension arrays

2001-09-05 Thread brian d foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gordon Barr) wrote: > Is there a way of handling these in perl? see the perldsc (data structures cookbook) man page. :) http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perldsc.html -- brian d foy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Perl services for hire CGI Meta

Re: Using different versions of a module

2001-09-05 Thread brian d foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roland Praehofer) wrote: > GD object version 1.19 does not match $GD::VERSION 1.33 at > /usr/lib/perl5/5.0050 3/i586-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 188. > How do I tell Perl to use the newer version ? did you modify your search path to pick up the

Re: cron, perl and iTunes

2001-09-05 Thread brian d foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Garaffa) wrote: > Instead of doing this, I'd like to have cron run a perl script which > looks up iTunes' pid and then kills that pid. Here's a rough sketch of > what I have so far: > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > use strict; > $pid_num = `top

Re: why doesn't this work

2001-09-05 Thread brian d foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > dan radom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > You have a logic error. The if test should be: > > if (! ( $status eq 1 || $status eq 2)) { > > Well, I know better than that. Should be "=" not "eq". the nume

Re: Form Results

2001-09-05 Thread brian d foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: > > "Allison" == Allison Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Allison> Can anyone tell me if I can include in my script an option to > Allison> right the results of the form to an an individual txt file > Allison>