Re: source code !

2001-09-07 Thread Me
> $array[112]='a'; > but there isnot any array with this name.why? 1. perhaps the programmer made a mistake. execute perl with -w to find out more. 2. the array name is @array. are you sure there isn't an @array? 3. you merely have to mention a variable or element of an array or hash, and it wi

Re: die and exit

2001-09-07 Thread Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan
On Sep 8, nafiseh saberi said: >what is the difference between die and exit?? die() takes an error message and prints it to STDERR, and exit()s with a failure (non-zero value). exit() takes a numeric value and sets that as the success (zero) or failure (non-zero) value of your program. -- Je

Re: Perl one-liner problem

2001-09-07 Thread Me
> Any idea why this aint working? > > perl -wpi.org -e s@/cgi-bin/forum_idx.pl@/fakecgi/fakeforum_idx.pl@ no quotes around the string to be evaluated (the s@...@...@ bit). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

die and exit

2001-09-07 Thread nafiseh saberi
hi . what is the difference between die and exit?? thanks. - Best regards. Nafiseh Saberi Iran - Shiraz The smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. --

source code !

2001-09-07 Thread nafiseh saberi
hi all. I saw in source code: $array[112]='a'; but there isnot any array with this name.why? and for initialize the array,what is the meaninig of '\' in %array(id=>\$var) what is the meaning of this in one source code.? ### What's the prefix we tag on each file (eg,ACCOUNTING.Sep.25.gz)

Perl one-liner problem

2001-09-07 Thread David Gilden
Any idea why this aint working? perl -wpi.org -e s@/cgi-bin/forum_idx.pl@/fakecgi/fakeforum_idx.pl@ Thanks Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wierd: SUN problem or Perl problem ?

2001-09-07 Thread koff
Hotmail wrote: > > Koff, > > Is stdlib.h installed? It should be in /usr/include. > Andrian, Thanks for your reply. I couldn't find stdlib.h in /usr/include . But I already installed libstdc++-2.8.1.1-sol26-sparc-local , is it the same one ? > Important question: what Solaris installation

Re: Wierd: SUN problem or Perl problem ?

2001-09-07 Thread koff
> > Where did you get that package? If those files are missing it's a bad > distribution most likely. Are the files there but with the wrong > permissions? > It's from sunfreeware so I don't think it's a bad distro. I may reinstall my Sun and see what happen. Rgds, --koff > *>Any idea t

Re: simple question

2001-09-07 Thread Ryan Kane
Both worked great, thanks! I used the latter to make the resulting code easier to read. I knew it was something simple like that! -Ryan "Robert Citek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Hello Ryan, > > Replace this line: > $body=~[what goes

Re: simple question

2001-09-07 Thread Robert Citek
Hello Ryan, Replace this line: $body=~[what goes here?] with this: $body=~ s/\n/\n/g; or this: $body=~ s/\n//g; Do either of these do what you intend? Regards, - Robert - At 04:44 PM 9/7/2001 -0700, Ryan Kane wrote: [...] >from the script: >-- >#!/usr/lo

simple question

2001-09-07 Thread Ryan Kane
I have a form that submits a textarea to a perl script, which sets that to $body. Unfortunately, if the text has two paragraphs (ie blank line between them) it will show up with the pesky ^m. I'm trying to display the entry in a formatted html page, so I would need to make it so the $body variab

printing to the printer

2001-09-07 Thread max gg
how do i print directly from my program to the printer. i've looked in my books but cant seem to find it. thanks max __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com -- To unsubs

RE: URL redirect and row-count

2001-09-07 Thread Imtiaz ahmad
Thanks, this is what I wanted. -Original Message- From: Jeffl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 6:09 PM To: Imtiaz ahmad Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: URL redirect and row-count Howdy, redirect assuming use CGI; print q->redirect( "http://www.somewhere

Re: Problems with "perl -MCPAN -e shell"

2001-09-07 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Joey Smith [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Actually, your question led me in the right direction... *> *>I just used CPAN to install Term::ReadLine:Gnu, and everything seems to *>work just fine now! I guess Term::ReadLine doesn't use GNU readline by *>default, or something... That's odd as Term::Rea

Re: URL redirect and row-count

2001-09-07 Thread Jeffl
Howdy, redirect assuming use CGI; print q->redirect( "http://www.somewhere.org"; ); or not, print "Location: http://www.the_other_place.org\n\n";; counting the number of rows select COUNT(some_column) FROM some_table WHERE some_clause; or SELECT COUNT DISTINCT(some_column) FROM some_table

Re: Unable to open a File -- ANY HELP PLS.

2001-09-07 Thread Michael Fowler
On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 01:18:43AM +0530, Suresh Babu.A [Support] wrote: > I do have 1 GB space. Further when i copy the text file from the network > to my local hard disk, it is working. Ah, I see. I did a bit more looking and it turns out the "Not enough space" might be referring to memory.

URL redirect and row-count

2001-09-07 Thread Imtiaz ahmad
Hi- Can somebody help me with a function that redirects a user's browser to a different site. I like to be able to do it using some PERL function. Also, is there a function in PERL that tells you how many rows are returned by a select statement. e.g. If I have following select then what do I nee

Re: Problems with "perl -MCPAN -e shell"

2001-09-07 Thread Joey Smith
Actually, your question led me in the right direction... I just used CPAN to install Term::ReadLine:Gnu, and everything seems to work just fine now! I guess Term::ReadLine doesn't use GNU readline by default, or something... Thanks, all, for the help! On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Brett W. McCoy wrote th

Re: MLDBM [hash of hashes]

2001-09-07 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Anton Arhipov wrote: > I need to use a hash of hashes with a DMB file... > Where can I get the MLDBM module and how to install it? It's available on CPAN (search.cpan.org). -- Brett http://www.chapelperilous.net/

RE: split on _ and on -

2001-09-07 Thread pconnolly
Both split(/\_/, $var) & split ('_', $var) should work. Can we see the rest of the script, to see what else could be wrong? |-Original Message- |From: eric wang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 3:39 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: split on _ and on - | |

MLDBM [hash of hashes]

2001-09-07 Thread Anton Arhipov
Hello, I need to use a hash of hashes with a DMB file... Where can I get the MLDBM module and how to install it? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with "perl -MCPAN -e shell"

2001-09-07 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Joey Smith wrote: > Good question...how do I determine that? > > Perhaps the GNU readline on my system is out of sync with CPAN's > upstream version... Try aptgetting the deb for GNU readline and see if it needs updating. -- Brett ht

RE: split on _ and on -

2001-09-07 Thread Wagner-David
I did the following: $var = 'abcd_abc-hjdfd_adfadfa-adfadfadf_fadfafd-adfad'; my @MyData = split(/[-_]/, $_); foreach (@MyData) { printf "%-s\n", $var; } Tried /-/ then /_/ and both split as expected. The one above split on - and _ as expected. The output: abcd abc hjdfd a

Re: split on _ and on -

2001-09-07 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, eric wang wrote: > how do i split on underscore?( _ ) and on hyphen? ( - )? > > i tried split(/\_/, $var) but didn't work > and I also tried split ('_', $var) but didn't work also. You should be able to split directly on _ and - : $ perl -e '$str =q(a_string); foreach (split

Re: Problems with "perl -MCPAN -e shell"

2001-09-07 Thread Joey Smith
Good question...how do I determine that? Perhaps the GNU readline on my system is out of sync with CPAN's upstream version... On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Brett W. McCoy wrote the following to Joey Smith : > On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Joey Smith wrote: > > > I don't think so...this is on Debian GNU/Linux 2.2

Re: LWP Module installation on SGI/IRIX

2001-09-07 Thread Peter Scott
At 01:31 PM 9/7/01 -0400, Stephen P. Potter wrote: >Once it is installed, it will be "recognized". To test, just try something >like: > >perl -M[name] -e 'print $[name]::VERSION' > >for example: > >$ perl -MCPAN -e 'print $CPAN::VERSION' >1.52 >$ >or, even more simply > >perl -M[name] -e '' Or e

split on _ and on -

2001-09-07 Thread eric wang
Hi people, just need a quick reference. how do i split on underscore?( _ ) and on hyphen? ( - )? i tried split(/\_/, $var) but didn't work and I also tried split ('_', $var) but didn't work also. HELP... Thanks Eric -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mai

Re: Problems with "perl -MCPAN -e shell"

2001-09-07 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Joey Smith wrote: > I don't think so...this is on Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (also known as > Potato). :) Does Term::Readline depend on the GNU readline library? -- Brett http://www.chapelperilous.net/ -

Re: Problems with "perl -MCPAN -e shell"

2001-09-07 Thread Joey Smith
I don't think so...this is on Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (also known as Potato). :) On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote the following to Joey Smith : > Joey Smith [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: > *>Thanks for the input. > *> > *>"Strangely" means what I said in the latter sentence...no command >

NT domain "scrubbing" tools?

2001-09-07 Thread John Grimes
Extreme newbie here and just signed up on this list, so my most humble apologies if this has been covered elsewhere. (But then again, I can't find it if it has...) I'm trying to create a series of tools to help automate our domain. Most of the things that I'm focusing on is removing the "deadwo

Re: Unable to open a File -- ANY HELP PLS.

2001-09-07 Thread Stephen P. Potter
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Michael Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whi spered: | On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 11:22:31PM +0530, Suresh Babu.A [Support] wrote: | > Hi All, | > | > [Sat Oct 6 16:56:59 2001] abn.pl: Not enough space at abn.pl line 6 | > | > What is the error all about? | | Wha

Re: Problems with "perl -MCPAN -e shell"

2001-09-07 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Joey Smith [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Thanks for the input. *> *>"Strangely" means what I said in the latter sentence...no command *>completion at all, no history, and control-d does not work. *> *>I have reinstalled Bundle::CPAN several times, and even did a force on *>Term::ReadKey and Term::R

Re: Unable to open a File -- ANY HELP PLS.

2001-09-07 Thread Suresh Babu.A [Support]
Hi Michael, I do have 1 GB space. Further when i copy the text file from the network to my local hard disk, it is working. Thanks SureshA [EMAIL PROTECTED] === The cause of evil is our desire to be superior to o

Doc on SYSTEM() for NT?

2001-09-07 Thread Grabowy, Chris
I'm writing a perl to scan logs for specific error messages and then email them out. I'm writing it in Perl since I can use it on UNIX(variants) and NT. Right now I'm trying to code up the line for NT to call sendmail.exe with the appropriate parameters... system("sendmail.exe -u cgrabowy -p do

end of line problems

2001-09-07 Thread Ron Woodall
Hi All: I'm creating html pages using perl on a Linux box for www display. The pages are stored on the Linux box and viewed across a network. When I view the resulting file in Netscape 4.? (on a Windoz '98 box) it displays fine. But when I view it in IE 6.?b (same box) all of the lines

RE: general multipliers in a substitution regexp..

2001-09-07 Thread Dan
--- Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > >$somestring =~ s!>!)!g; > > Then I would suggest tr/>/!/, which is a "better" way to write such > substitutions, for certain values of "better". Ah I am familiar with the tr/// route - I sho

Re: Problems with "perl -MCPAN -e shell"

2001-09-07 Thread Joey Smith
Thanks for the input. "Strangely" means what I said in the latter sentence...no command completion at all, no history, and control-d does not work. I have reinstalled Bundle::CPAN several times, and even did a force on Term::ReadKey and Term::ReadLine, since they said they were up to date after

RE: HOW TO "HIDE" DOS CONSOLE : from apache webserver (using win98)

2001-09-07 Thread Dean Theophilou
I'm not sure if it's applicable, but you can also try starting the program with "runh.exe". Dean Theophilou Genisar -Original Message- From: Sidharth Malhotra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 7:07 PM To: Danny Reyna; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] S

Re: line number

2001-09-07 Thread Michael Fowler
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 02:58:30PM +0200, Roland Schoenbaechler wrote: > In some cases I want to write the line-number of the script to STDERR (In > analogy to the functions die or next). Does a variable exist indicating the > line number of the currently executed step (or the last step)? If you

Re: String operation

2001-09-07 Thread Michael Fowler
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 05:15:29PM +0900, Thaddeus Robertson wrote: > +OK 12 76912 This looks suspiciously like a pop3 response. There are pure Perl POP3 modules that should work on Mac, have you tried them? Michael -- Administrator www.shoebox.net Programmer, System Admin

Re: Unable to open a File -- ANY HELP PLS.

2001-09-07 Thread Michael Fowler
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 11:22:31PM +0530, Suresh Babu.A [Support] wrote: > Hi All, > > [Sat Oct 6 16:56:59 2001] abn.pl: Not enough space at abn.pl line 6 > > What is the error all about? What is the confusion? There wasn't enough space left on the drive to open the file. Michael -- Admini

RE: foreach and the ordering of array's

2001-09-07 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Stephen P. Potter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 1:37 PM > To: Bob Showalter > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: foreach and the ordering of array's > > > Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Bob Showa

Re: Unable to open a File -- ANY HELP PLS.

2001-09-07 Thread Suresh Babu.A [Support]
Hi All, [Sat Oct 6 16:56:59 2001] abn.pl: Not enough space at abn.pl line 6 What is the error all about? Thanks Suresh -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 02:37:33 +0530 (GMT) From: "Suresh Babu.A [Support]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: brian d foy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> C

RE: Newbie Run time issue

2001-09-07 Thread Anderson, Carlin
Thanks - Someone already pointed out that I had a blank line at the beginning of the file, which would cause the execution to fail. -Original Message- From: Stephen P. Potter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 1:41 PM To: Anderson, Carlin Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'

Re: Newbie Run time issue

2001-09-07 Thread Stephen P. Potter
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and "Anderson, Carlin" whispered: | I am having problems getting a perl program to execute through my web | server, and have started to run some stand-alone tests. | | Here is a short dump of my session - the first section is where I am trying | to call the pro

Re: foreach and the ordering of array's

2001-09-07 Thread Stephen P. Potter
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Bob Showalter whispered: | One way to supply a list to for/foreach is to use the keys() function | to retrieve a list of the keys in a hash. keys() does not return the | key values in any particular order, due to the internal representation | of a hash. I t

Re: LWP Module installation on SGI/IRIX

2001-09-07 Thread Stephen P. Potter
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and "siren jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whi spered: | How does one get the system to recognize the installed PERL module? | Is there a simple way to test that it work? Once it is installed, it will be "recognized". To test, just try something like: perl -M[name]

Re: foreach and the ordering of array's

2001-09-07 Thread Stephen P. Potter
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Jeffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whispere d: | when you run a foreach on a hash you have no idea what order you will get | the keys unless | you sort it, then you can only get it in the order defined by sort. If you | use Tie::IxHash | on a hash you can print out th

Re: foreach and the ordering of array's

2001-09-07 Thread Stephen P. Potter
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Jeffrey Loetel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whispered: | Question: | When you extract a value from an @ are you guarenteed the order that | you are going to get? In both cases, @ and %, you will always get a predictable order. With arrays, it will always be ordere

RE: Win32::Lanman problem

2001-09-07 Thread Bullock, Howard A.
The name of the service I think you want is not 'server' but 'lanmanserver'. -Original Message- From: Veeraraju_Mareddi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 11:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Win32::Lanman problem Dear Team Could you pl

RE: foreach and the ordering of array's

2001-09-07 Thread Jeffl
You are correct it was probably a bad choice of wording to use "retreive", iteration is what is actually occuring. When it comes down to it, I think I just confused myself on the issue, I was thinking to much on how foreach iterates over a hash. I should have just ran a test before hand to check.

LWP Module installation on SGI/IRIX

2001-09-07 Thread siren jones
This is my first post. My knowledge base is UNIX/Intermediate, IRIX system admin/beginner and PERL/beginner. The short question: After one follows the installation procedure for a module, that is, download, gunzip, tar, ... then perl Makefile.PL make make test make install How does one get

Re: &' meanning

2001-09-07 Thread Curtis Poe
--- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 06:33:23AM -0400, agc wrote: > > what does &extra' mean? or for example &extra'itemstotalbe(scalar, > > @colwith) > > in genral what does the &<>' mean? > > ' is the old (pre Perl 5) way of writing ::- it is obsolete It'

RE: general multipliers in a substitution regexp..

2001-09-07 Thread Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan
On Sep 7, Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan said: >On Sep 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >>$somestring =~ s!>!)!g; > >Then I would suggest tr/>/!/, which is a "better" way to write such >substitutions, for certain values of "better". My bad. I really meant tr/>/)/. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAI

RE: general multipliers in a substitution regexp..

2001-09-07 Thread Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan
On Sep 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >$somestring =~ s!>!)!g; Then I would suggest tr/>/!/, which is a "better" way to write such substitutions, for certain values of "better". -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.per

RE: general multipliers in a substitution regexp..

2001-09-07 Thread pconnolly
why not just do $somestring =~ s!>!)!g; that will replace every ">" with a ")". This way you do not even have to worry about $stringlength. > -Original Message- > From: Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 11:15 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: general

RE: foreach and the ordering of array's

2001-09-07 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Jeffl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 11:47 AM > To: Bob Showalter > Cc: 'beginners @ perl . org' > Subject: RE: foreach and the ordering of array's > > > when you run a foreach on a hash you have no idea what order > you will g

Re: general multipliers in a substitution regexp..

2001-09-07 Thread Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan
On Sep 7, Dan said: >If I have a string with say a number of '>>' in it which may be >variable in length and I wish to write a regexp to match and replace it >with the equivalent number of ')'s [ie would become ] There's a very clever solution to this in "Effective Perl Programming"

general multipliers in a substitution regexp..

2001-09-07 Thread Dan
Hi perlers, If I have a string with say a number of '>>' in it which may be variable in length and I wish to write a regexp to match and replace it with the equivalent number of ')'s [ie would become ] I can use $somestring =~ s/\>{$stringlength}/[help!]/g; as a matching operator -

RE: CPI PERL SITE

2001-09-07 Thread John Edwards
http://www.bookpool.com/.x/mbbddhs9lr/ss/1?qs=cgi.pm -Original Message- From: Suresh Babu.A [Support] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 September 2001 17:05 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CPI PERL SITE Hi All, Can any one suggest me a link to online CGI-Perl Book. Thanks SureshA [E

CPI PERL SITE

2001-09-07 Thread Suresh Babu.A [Support]
Hi All, Can any one suggest me a link to online CGI-Perl Book. Thanks SureshA [EMAIL PROTECTED] === The cause of evil is our desire to be superior to others and our selfishness. ===

RE: order of operations

2001-09-07 Thread pconnolly
It checks for the existence of a value and then increments if there is one. > -Original Message- > From: Cohan, Drew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 10:46 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: order of operations > > > Hi, > > I don't understand somethin

Re: order of operations

2001-09-07 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hi Drew, On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 11:45:34AM -0400, Cohan, Drew ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed forth: > Hi, > > I don't understand something about Perl's order of operations with this > code: > > ...if ($name_count{$member}++)... Using ++ (or --) after the variable will cause the current value to

RE: foreach and the ordering of array's

2001-09-07 Thread Jeffl
when you run a foreach on a hash you have no idea what order you will get the keys unless you sort it, then you can only get it in the order defined by sort. If you use Tie::IxHash on a hash you can print out the has in the order it was constructed. Basically, I couldn't remeber what the Camel sa

order of operations

2001-09-07 Thread Cohan, Drew
Hi, I don't understand something about Perl's order of operations with this code: ...if ($name_count{$member}++)... Does Perl retrieve the value for $name_count{$member}, increase it by one, and then evaluate the if() statement? If that's true, then I don't understand how the else would ever f

Win32::Lanman problem

2001-09-07 Thread Veeraraju_Mareddi
Dear Team Could you please tell me why this script is reporting error 1060 (this means the specified service is installed) even though this service is there and running fine on the server. Please look into it. use Win32::Lanman; if(!Win32::Lanman::QueryServiceStatus("hotnt006", "", 'server'

Re: Wierd: SUN problem or Perl problem ?

2001-09-07 Thread hotmail
Koff, Is stdlib.h installed? It should be in /usr/include. Important question: what Solaris installation did you do? There are five options ranging from "core" to "entire distribution with OEM support". You'd need "developer", "entire distribution" or "entire distribution with OEM support". Did

RE: Newbee question

2001-09-07 Thread John Edwards
What do you mean you can't include a drop down box? Are you generating the web page in Perl? What code are you using? Or is the page in HTML and your having problems accepting the form data from the page?? John -Original Message- From: Rebekha M-L [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 Sept

RE: Newbee question

2001-09-07 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Rebekha M-L [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 8:55 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Newbee question > > > Just started learning and writing in perl and am unable to include an > options dropdown box into a mail form. > I am tr

Re: Regex s///

2001-09-07 Thread Newton, Philip
Veeraraju_Mareddi wrote: > I have a large data file which has ; as delimiter and i want > this to be replaced newline character ,but unfortunately my > script is not working > > my code is given below > > open(NOTE ,">>c:\\data.txt"); #data f

Re: line number

2001-09-07 Thread Kevin Meltzer
Hi Ronald, On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 02:58:30PM +0200, Roland Schoenbaechler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed forth: > analogy to the functions die or next). Does a variable exist indicating the > line number of the currently executed step (or the last step)? > Yes, you can use the __LINE__ token: .

Newbie Run time issue

2001-09-07 Thread Anderson, Carlin
I am having problems getting a perl program to execute through my web server, and have started to run some stand-alone tests. Here is a short dump of my session - the first section is where I am trying to call the program directly, and the second is where I am executing it through the perl progra

Newbee question

2001-09-07 Thread Rebekha M-L
Just started learning and writing in perl and am unable to include an options dropdown box into a mail form. I am trying to allow the sender to choose who the mail is for. Is this possible or am I trying to do something far to difficult for a humble beginner Jo: from somewhere north of London vil

Re: Looping

2001-09-07 Thread Marcus Willemsen
Never mind my question re looping, figured it out for myself -haven't thought hard enough.. Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wierd: SUN problem or Perl problem ?

2001-09-07 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
koff [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Hi, *> *>I just reinstall my SUN 2.6 and reinstall back Perl using *>perl-5.6.1-sol26-sparc-local.gz binary. It's work find and without *>hasle. *> *>But I encounter a problem to install DBI and Data-Show-Table module (And *>of course DBD) . For instance during "m

Re: Problems with "perl -MCPAN -e shell"

2001-09-07 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Joey Smith [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Recently, many of my systems have begun acting very strangely when I try *>to use CPAN's "shell" mode. I have no command completion, no history, *>and when I try to exit with "Control-D", it just shows ^D... Can you define 'strangely' a little more descript

RE: Last line

2001-09-07 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Jorge Goncalvez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 6:10 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re:Last line > > > Hi, how to parse the last line of a file. > > I have this code: > $pb->destroy unless($last_line=~/^dhcpd|LOG_INFO|ftp

RE: foreach and the ordering of array's

2001-09-07 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Jeffrey Loetel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 1:57 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: foreach and the ordering of array's > > > Question: > When you extract a value from an @ are you guarenteed the order that > you are going

Re: line number

2001-09-07 Thread Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan
On Sep 7, Roland Schoenbaechler said: >In some cases I want to write the line-number of the script to STDERR (In >analogy to the functions die or next). Does a variable exist indicating the >line number of the currently executed step (or the last step)? The caller() function also gives you this

Re: line number

2001-09-07 Thread register
print "I stopped at line number ",__LINE__,"\n"; On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 02:58:30PM +0200, Roland Schoenbaechler shaped the electrons to read: > In some cases I want to write the line-number of the script to STDERR (In > analogy to the functions die or next). Does a variable exist indicating the

Re: line number

2001-09-07 Thread Robert Bunn
At 02:58 PM 9/7/01 +0200, you wrote: >In some cases I want to write the line-number of the script to STDERR (In >analogy to the functions die or next). Does a variable exist indicating the >line number of the currently executed step (or the last step)? The current line is __LINE__. It's in the fi

line number

2001-09-07 Thread Roland Schoenbaechler
In some cases I want to write the line-number of the script to STDERR (In analogy to the functions die or next). Does a variable exist indicating the line number of the currently executed step (or the last step)? Thanks for your help Roland *** PLEASE NOTE *

Re: &' meanning

2001-09-07 Thread Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan
On Sep 7, Paul Johnson said: >> what does &extra' mean? or for example &extra'itemstotalbe(scalar, >> @colwith) > >' is the old (pre Perl 5) way of writing ::- it is obsolete Borrowed from Ada (regretably, I believe). -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com

RE: &' meanning

2001-09-07 Thread Rob Dixon
Now /that/ I didn't know. (About the ' I mean.) Thanks Paul. > -Original Message- > From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 07 September 2001 11:44 > To: agc > Cc: perl > Subject: Re: &' meanning > > > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 06:33:23AM -0400, agc wrote: > > what does &ex

RE: Urgent !!! installing Storable.pm

2001-09-07 Thread Rob Dixon
Rajeev Looks like you're missing a dependency of the Storable module. Try: > set HTTP_proxy=http://proxy.server:port > ppm install Storable We'll get there in the end! Cheers, Rob > -Original Message- > From: Rajeev Rumale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 17 September 2001 10:20 >

Re: &' meanning

2001-09-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 06:33:23AM -0400, agc wrote: > what does &extra' mean? or for example &extra'itemstotalbe(scalar, > @colwith) > in genral what does the &<>' mean? ' is the old (pre Perl 5) way of writing ::- it is obsolete & is the old (pre Perl 5) way of calling a sub - it is obsole

&' meanning

2001-09-07 Thread agc
what does &extra' mean? or for example &extra'itemstotalbe(scalar, @colwith) in genral what does the &<>' mean? The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this mes

Re:Last line

2001-09-07 Thread Jorge Goncalvez
Hi, how to parse the last line of a file. I have this code: $pb->destroy unless($last_line=~/^dhcpd|LOG_INFO|ftpd/); $last_line=?? The file is already open. Thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Looping

2001-09-07 Thread Marcus Willemsen
Hi all, The script below is supposed to get a certain number of email addresses from a database, print them (at a later stage "print" is replaced by a command to send the mails) and sleep for a while before starting the process again until the loop ends. I works, but has two flaws. a)

RE: Regex s///

2001-09-07 Thread Rob Dixon
Erm, I'm not clear what you're trying to do Veeraraju. Firstly you're opening your file for append, so a read on the file won't return any data. Secondly you're not using the result of the substitution. While this may well be a cut-down example I hope you're not expecting the file itself to be m

RE: Regex s///

2001-09-07 Thread John Edwards
You are not saving the changes to the file... Try something like this open NOTE, "c:\\data.txt" or die "Can't open data.txt: $!"; open OUT, ">c:\\out.txt" or die "Can't create out.txt: $!"; while () { s/;/\n/g; print OUT; } close NOTE; close OUT; -Original Message- Fro

Regex s///

2001-09-07 Thread Veeraraju_Mareddi
Dear All I have a large data file which has ; as delimiter and i want this to be replaced newline character ,but unfortunately my script is not working my code is given below open(NOTE ,">>c:\\data.txt"); #data file while () { s/;/"\n"/; }

Re: Urgent !!! installing Storable.pm

2001-09-07 Thread Rajeev Rumale
Thanks Rob, Joel, Gunther and all, I tried the way. But as i am behind a firewall I had to download the package from Active state and then do the installation. but the things are not so help full I am getting another error. The eorr at the bottom of this mail. Any advice or suggestions. thank

Re: Urgent !!! installing Storable.pm

2001-09-07 Thread Ulle Siedentop
- Original Message - From: Rajeev Rumale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 7:09 AM Subject: Urgent !!! installing Storable.pm > Hi, > > I need to install and use the Storable.pm in my machine. I am useing Active > Perl on Win2k machine. use ppm

Problems with "perl -MCPAN -e shell"

2001-09-07 Thread Joey Smith
Recently, many of my systems have begun acting very strangely when I try to use CPAN's "shell" mode. I have no command completion, no history, and when I try to exit with "Control-D", it just shows ^D... As this is happening across many different systems, I'm assuming it is something I have done

Wierd: SUN problem or Perl problem ?

2001-09-07 Thread koff
Hi, I just reinstall my SUN 2.6 and reinstall back Perl using perl-5.6.1-sol26-sparc-local.gz binary. It's work find and without hasle. But I encounter a problem to install DBI and Data-Show-Table module (And of course DBD) . For instance during "make" DBI-1.18 I got this err msg: --8<-

RE: String operation

2001-09-07 Thread Rob Dixon
You may need > > $string =~ /\s+(\S+)\s+/; > if you could have mnore than one whitespace character delimiting the field. Rob > -Original Message- > From: John Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 07 September 2001 09:20 > To: 'Thaddeus Robertson'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: R

Re: Could not start a PERL service

2001-09-07 Thread Jenda Krynicky
> I am getting the following error in starting a perl service which is > created by my script. > > Error: > error 2186 :The service is not responding to the control function > > Event Deatails: > > Event ID:7009, > Source: Service Control Manager > Timeout (12 milliseconds) waiting for serv

RE: Urgent !!! installing Storable.pm

2001-09-07 Thread Rob Dixon
> ppm install Storable Rob > -Original Message- > From: Rajeev Rumale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 17 September 2001 06:10 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Urgent !!! installing Storable.pm > > > Hi, > > I need to install and use the Storable.pm in my machine. I am useing

RE: String operation

2001-09-07 Thread John Edwards
$string = "+OK 12 76912"; $string =~ /\s+(.*)\s+/; $lastonserver = $1; -Original Message- From: Thaddeus Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 September 2001 09:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: String operation Hi Here is a total newbie question: I want to stick the second

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