Re: open filehandle in lowercase produce warning, why?

On Nov 15, EternalLifeThereAfter said: >Whilst playing with filehandles, I noted that if the >unquoted-open-filehandles is in lower case it produces the following >warnings => "Unquoted string "justaname" may clash with future reserved >word at misc.pl line 3." >(Q1) I just wonder what's the re

open filehandle in lowercase produce warning, why?

Whilst playing with filehandles, I noted that if the unquoted-open-filehandles is in lower case it produces the following warnings => "Unquoted string "justaname" may clash with future reserved word at misc.pl line 3." (Q1) I just wonder what's the reasons for having warnings on lower-case

size limitations

Is there a size limitation as to how big a scalar containing an integer can be? I've noticed some strange behavior and wonder if this could be the cause. What I've got is a perl program that parses a tcpdump file. Every minute it starts a new entry in the hash of the total traffic observed duri

Re: i would like to learn to make a perl scripted auction

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, frank crowley wrote: > i need help in making a perl cgi scripted auction. How much are you willing to pay? :-) -- Brett http://www.chapelperilous.net/ No good

Re: Doh! Formmail

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Miles Sapp wrote: > Doh! I'm sorry to waste your time with my previous question. I meant > to say 'FormMail.pl', not 'Sendmail'. Well, this is a beginner's list > after all. OK, the question I meant to ask is, does anyone know of > a good alternative to FormMail? Tha

Re: PERL one-liner not working within a shell script

At 04:58 PM 11/14/01 -0500, Thomas Lewis wrote: >Hello all. I have a weird problem. When I run this PERL one-liner by >hand it prints everything within the appropriate range... > >perl -ne 'print if /NTHOST\) Total/ .. /ANR0403I/' >/tmp/TIVOLI.OUT-activity-report > >This prints up the summary

Re: Off-Topic (200%) - Where are you from?

I'm from Atlanta, Georgia. -- p a t r i c k d u n i g a ng r a p h i c a r t i s tw e b d e v e l o p e r email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] aol IM : theclutchbuster -- "Etienne Marcotte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > By reading the messa

that did the trick

to whom it may concern: yesterday, i asked about which perl mod to use to handle uploads from in forms. a couple of you guys and gals suggested CGI library. that did the trick, piece of cake. wow, perl is really, really, really cool. i'm going to study this thing. Thanx so much for your timel

i would like to learn to make a perl scripted auction

i need help in making a perl cgi scripted auction. = frank crowley __ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROT

thank you, that did the trick

to whom it may concern: yesterday, i asked about which perl mod to use to handle uploads from in forms. a couple of you guys and gals suggested CGI library. that did the trick, piece of cake. wow, perl is really, really, really cool. i'm going to study this thing. Thanx so much for your timel

Doh! Formmail

Doh! I'm sorry to waste your time with my previous question. I meant to say 'FormMail.pl', not 'Sendmail'. Well, this is a beginner's list after all. OK, the question I meant to ask is, does anyone know of a good alternative to FormMail? Thanks so much for your help, Miles -- To unsubs

Re: [Fwd: RE: Sendmail alternatives]

I like postfix (postfix.org). It is pretty secure, easy to install and maintain. It's only drawback (IMO) is that it can use a lot of inodes. Other than that I am happier with it than I was when I used to have to configure sendmail :) Cheers, Kevin On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:22:11PM -0800, Mile

RE: [Fwd: RE: Sendmail alternatives]

I've become fond of postfix. It's reputed to be highly secure and is reasonably fast. And it's much, much easier to configure (to my mind anyway). See postfix.org -John Seattle,WA

RE: [Fwd: RE: Sendmail alternatives]

--ah. --i haven't been on this list for very long. coming from a unix background, there *are* things that are quirky, thus, you should at least keep up within a few versions of sendmail. --i should read the bad things that were said about sendmail. i mean, you can pretty much customize it (t

[Fwd: RE: Sendmail alternatives]

I'm not referring to anything specific. I don't know that much about it, I've just seen people say bad things about Sendmail on this mailing list in the past and wondered if there is something better that is in common use. Original Message Subject: RE: Sendmail alternatives Dat

PERL one-liner not working within a shell script

Hello all. I have a weird problem. When I run this PERL one-liner by hand it prints everything within the appropriate range... perl -ne 'print if /NTHOST\) Total/ .. /ANR0403I/' /tmp/TIVOLI.OUT-activity-report This prints up the summary of a Tivoli backup for a Windows client pruned from the

RE: Sendmail alternatives

--howdy --just a question: what version of sendmail are you referring to? there are a slew of items that has security measures (some of it is due in part of your system security), but sendmail is getting pretty good at telling people what they are and how to fix it. as a rule of thumb, never g

Sendmail alternatives

I've heard Sendmail isn't a very good mail program because of security holes, etc. Can anyone recommend a good alternative script for sending mail from an HTML form? Thanks! Miles -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: reading a module's code

Etienne Marcotte [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Well *> *>My computer here doesn't have perl on it (work computer), my laptop *>doesn't have internet. So I'm stuck. I'll try to install it from my home *>desktop then and look at the pm and save the .pm on a floppy. I never *>used CPAN yet... nor ppm

RE: Array References - Concatenation

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 2:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Array References - Concatenation > > > Friends, > > I have two, two-dimensional array references, and I need to > join the rows of >

RE: Off-Topic (200%) - Where are you from?

I dont know, Beans and Pilgrims are pretty exciting too. Overall Bo-Town is great! >>> "murphy, daniel (BMC Eng)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/14/01 12:38PM >>> OK, what's one more? Boston, MA, USA That souds pretty boring after hearing from the Netherlands, Austrailia, Romania, etc. ;-) -- To un

RE: Array References - Concatenation

I guess you could do for (0..$#{ $array1 }) { push( @{ $array1->[$_] }, @{ $array2->[$_] } ); } I'm not sure if that is any clearer or not. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11/14/2001 1:21 PM Subject: Array References - Concatenation Friends, I

RE: Off-Topic (200%) - Where are you from?

OK, what's one more? Boston, MA, USA That souds pretty boring after hearing from the Netherlands, Austrailia, Romania, etc. ;-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

other mailing lists?

Hello, This forum is a really good way to learn a new language. Can anyone suggest a mailing list like this for C, C++, Java programming? Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Array References - Concatenation

Friends, I have two, two-dimensional array references, and I need to join the rows of each array. $array1 = [ [11,12], [21,22], [31,32] ]; and $array2 = [ [18,19],

Re: problem comparing strings

chomp $character; You need to get rid of the newline character at the end of every string from On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, samuel wrote: > Hi there! > i'm seeking for help on something which should b easy, but has > turned into my personal hell. > i'm trying to compare character (but i guess it appl

Re: HELP - I am trying to connect to a MySql database

Hi, This stuff is pretty new to me , but you could try this : use DBI; my $database = "mydatabase" ; my $servername = "localhost" ; my $username = "username" ; my $password = "password" ; $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:database=$database;host=$servername , $username , $password) ; It's all the

Re: problem comparing strings

How about chomp($character=); ? At 11:13 AM 11/14/2001, samuel wrote: >print"\nCharacter?:"; >$character= ; Sliante, Richard S. Crawford http://www.mossroot.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: Buffalo2K ICQ: 11646404 Y!: rscrawford "It is only with the heart that we see rightly;

problem comparing strings

Hi there! i'm seeking for help on something which should b easy, but has turned into my personal hell. i'm trying to compare character (but i guess it applies the same to strings) for my database entry markers, but i simpled the problem out to this: #Here starts my nightmare print"\nCharacter

RE: comand line arguments, but with web

Your question is related how to do CGI programming in perl. There are two ways in which, we can pass values to a Perl web page. POST & GET, passing the values in the address bar like www.mysite.com/show?name=peter is get and passing thru a web form page normally uses post. Both of these variables

Re: Off-Topic (200%) - Where are you from? - Results

Etienne Marcotte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, after 5 days running, > 101 different persons replyed within 5 days. > Pretty good:-) I think that was interesting, but rather than continue this thread, I'd like to recommend that people include their location in postings to this list. I certai

comand line arguments, but with web

Hello, I am not sure how to pass arguments when working on web? Is there some online tutorial about this? Surfing on web, and peeking my address bar, I noticed that it lokes somenthing script.pl?t=text&o=orange. How to work with those arguments in the script? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: Math::BigInt

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Moin, sorry for respondint so late, I don't read that list. >Gibbs Tanton writes: >> You might want to try Math::BigFloat instead. > >I originally wrote: >> I'm trying to perform the following calculation: >> $value = ($float + $integer) * 10; >> $string

RE:regex with /

On Nov 14, Jorge Goncalvez said: >if($buf=~ qw(/bootp/linux/alize/tel/dhs3linux/fr/cpiofile/){ > $_Globals{PROGRESS_VALUE}=100; > } qw() is not the right operator to use, and you're missing a closing ). if ($buf =~ m(/bootp/linux/alize/...)) { # your code here

Re: Off-Topic (200%) - Where are you from?

On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 10:04:40AM -, Crowder, Rod wrote: > So where are you ? I mentioned it further up in the thread. Anchorage, Alaska. :) Michael -- Administrator www.shoebox.net Programmer, System Administrator www.gallanttech.com -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail

RE: regexp

So given your new data, I am unsure what data would be placed in the hash. From your example, what is expected? Wags ;) -Original Message- From: birgit kellner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 02:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Wagner-David Subject: RE:

Re: reading a module's code

Well My computer here doesn't have perl on it (work computer), my laptop doesn't have internet. So I'm stuck. I'll try to install it from my home desktop then and look at the pm and save the .pm on a floppy. I never used CPAN yet... nor ppm thingy. I am running win2k, I hope it won't be a pain in

RE: reading a module's code

> -Original Message- > From: Etienne Marcotte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 11:34 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: reading a module's code > > > Is there somewhere on internet we can read a module's code, without > installing on the computer. > > M

RE: REGEX or Parse a text file

> -Original Message- > From: Dermot Paikkos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 6:22 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: REGEX or Parse a text file > > > Hi Perlgurus, > I am having trouble getting the data I want out of a text > file: The file has > this s

Re[2]: Off-Topic (200%) - Where are you from?

I'm from da UP, eh... Michigans' Upper Peninsula - The sun vacations here... sometimes. ;) Tuesday, November 13, 2001, 12:58:27 PM, you wrote: >From Alicante - SPAIN ( Mediterranean Coast ) The sun lives here... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [E

RE: Search Problems

> -Original Message- > From: Gomez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 4:55 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Search Problems > > > I am having a few problems with a search on a DAT file using > perl with some > embedded HTML. I want to search for a keyw

RE: Perl & rename File

> -Original Message- > From: Jorge Goncalvez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 3:10 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE:Perl & rename File > > > Hi,I have a perl tk application that create a file > c:/cygwin_syslog.txt. > I have this file c:/cygwin_sy

RE:regex with /

I have this: if($buf=~ qw(/bootp/linux/alize/tel/dhs3linux/fr/cpiofile/){ $_Globals{PROGRESS_VALUE}=100; } but it didn't work? why? Thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

reading a module's code

Is there somewhere on internet we can read a module's code, without installing on the computer. My laptop isn't on internet and I'd like to read some code from Image::size Etienne -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Off-Topic (200%) - Where are you from? - Results

Ok, after 5 days running, 101 different persons replyed within 5 days. Pretty good:-) Etienne -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Learning Packages:

> -Original Message- > From: AMORE,JUAN (HP-Roseville,ex1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 11:21 PM > To: Beginners@Perl. Org (E-mail) > Subject: Learning Packages: > > > Learning Packages: > Do's anyone know how to create a package in a filename called > St

RE: Dereference question:

> -Original Message- > From: AMORE,JUAN (HP-Roseville,ex1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 11:07 PM > To: Beginners@Perl. Org (E-mail) > Subject: Dereference question: > > > Hello > Do's anyone know how to create an array slice containing 2 > elements and

Re: image size(little urgent)

Hi, > How can I get the size of a image by perl? If you are looking for size (as in filesize) then the quickest way is to "stat" the file. For details: perldoc -f stat I think more likely you are after the image dimensions, and you should use the "Image::Size" module from CPAN. Download (or

Re: What was your first PERL script (was Off-Topic (200%) - Where are you from?)

Mine was: print "Hello World\n"; :-) ... and a script to update a postgres DB with billing values... Greetz, Wim Dave Storrs wrote: >Mine was to write a document-management system for Paine Webber. > >Of course, I had the advantage of working with two or three other Perl >programm

Re: Updating a hash using a refernece?

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, AMORE,JUAN (HP-Roseville,ex1) wrote: > How do I update the value pointed to by key "PAGER" from more to pg. > when using a reference only to the hash element for key "PAGER". > > > %Unix= ("SHELL" => "/bin/csh", >"PAGER" => "more", >"DB" => "mysql"); > > print "Val

Getopt::Std question

Hello, I've been trying to update a former coworkers perl code. But, I am new to perl. I am having trouble understanding the Getopt::Std module. I would like to add a fourth option to the code below, but I not sure how to add it and get it to work. Also I would like to know where I can find good

RE: What was your first PERL script (was Off-Topic (200%) - Whereare you from?)

Mine was to write a document-management system for Paine Webber. Of course, I had the advantage of working with two or three other Perl programmers, all of whom were substantially skilled. Still, that was how I first got exposed to the language. (AFAIK, PW is still using that system; they hire

RE: Trying to use the => notation to print the values from this hash

> -Original Message- > From: AMORE,JUAN (HP-Roseville,ex1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 10:58 PM > To: Beginners@Perl. Org (E-mail) > Subject: Trying to use the => notation to print the values from this > hash > > > Hello Perl Gurus, > I'm trying to print

Re: Using Perl with Apache

i had the same problem, go to your httpd.conf and you'll see AllowOverride all Options Includes FollowSymlinks ExecCGI Allow from all or similar but the execcgi is the option that allows you to exec cgi scpits on the directory you are. i hope this helps you. cheers "." wrote: > I'm currentl

Re: REGEX or Parse a text file

Hello Dermot, Wednesday, November 14, 2001, Dermot Paikkos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DP> I am having trouble getting the data I want out of a text file: The file has DP> this sturcture: DP> File Name: m:\a\a084099.jpg DP> Width x Height: 2480 x 2062 DP> Number of Colours: True Colour (24 b

Re: greetings and salutations all

And if you want a good start, there are loads of sample scripts on the web 9free) They have number of files settings, types of files, can create in separate folders, rename, etc etc.. http://www.cgi-resources.com/ or others Etienne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Check out CGI.pm, and one more t

Re: HELP - I am trying to connect to a MySql database

Hello A, Wednesday, November 14, 2001, A Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AT> I am tring to connect to a MySql database and I have been told that I have AT> to include the 'HOSTNAME' (localhost). Can anyone see anything wrong with AT> this code ?? AT> use DBI; AT> my $database= 'myd

RE: HELP - I am trying to connect to a MySql database

I never include localhost as part of my destination, I include a trailing ":" after the database name and I always encapsulate each argument in double quotes, as below: our $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:mysql:asi:","web_isur","web_update") || die "Can't connect to asi: $!"; Even with variables as arg

HELP - I am trying to connect to a MySql database

I am tring to connect to a MySql database and I have been told that I have to include the 'HOSTNAME' (localhost). Can anyone see anything wrong with this code ?? use DBI; my $database= 'mydatabase@localhost'; my $data_source = "DBI:mysql:$database"; my $username= "username"; my $pa

image size(little urgent)

How can I get the size of a image by perl? Thanks for help -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: expanding a pattern

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Kidger) wrote on 13 Nov 2001: > > I have a pattern like >$hosts = "fred[1,3-7,9-22]" > > Is there a simple way to generate an expanded list like: >fred1 fred3 fred4 fred5 ... *If* you can trust your input, here's a quick way: use strict; use warnings; my $st

REGEX or Parse a text file

Hi Perlgurus, I am having trouble getting the data I want out of a text file: The file has this sturcture: File Name: m:\a\a084099.jpg Width x Height: 2480 x 2062 Number of Colours: True Colour (24 bits) Dots per inch: 300 x 300 Image size (inches): 8.27 x 6.87 Raw size: 15341280 Actua

RE: regexp

Many thanks to "Wagner-David" for the code. I've slightly changed it, as below, but have still further questions. use strict; my $counter = 1; my %Headinghash; my %Texthash; while () { chomp; if ( /^(\d+)\.\s+(.*)/ ) { $counter = $1; $Headinghash{$counter} = $2; }elsif

Search Problems

I am having a few problems with a search on a DAT file using perl with some embedded HTML. I want to search for a keyword and display the results in a certain format which I have done OK in perl, but I have to manually put the search keyword into the code, the only problem is that I cannot get p

RE: Off-Topic (200%) - Where are you from?

Ploiesti, Romania, Europe. Adrian Ichim Network administrator, Timken Romania ** This message and any attachments are intended for the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read

RE: Off-Topic (200%) - Where are you from?

> -Original Message- > From: Michael Fowler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 13 November 2001 21:15 > To: Elliott, Don (Police) > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: Off-Topic (200%) - Where are you from? > > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 02:51:01PM -0600, Elliott, Don (Police) wrote:

RE: Trying to use the => notation to print the values from this hash

If this is pasted from your script, then you're defining %Unix (with a capital U) and trying to access %unix (with a lowercase u). That won't help ;-) Cheers Mark C > -Original Message- > From: AMORE,JUAN (HP-Roseville,ex1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 14 November 2001 03:58 > To:

RE: Off-Topic (200%) - Where are you from?

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (but I'm not dutch). Apologies for the late posting, but I enjoyed this thread so much I just wanted to add my bit :-) Andy On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, G. Stephen Gannon wrote: > Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 11:16:10 -0500 > From: G. Stephen Gannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: dan rad

RE : [Fwd: Off-Topic (200%) - Where are you from?]

Paris France. Cold but not cloudy :) -Message d'origine- De : Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : vendredi 9 novembre 2001 20:13 À : 'perl ' Objet : RE: [Fwd: Off-Topic (200%) - Where are you from?] I'm in Clemson, SC. It is nice weather here as well. -Orig

RE:Perl & rename File

Hi,I have a perl tk application that create a file c:/cygwin_syslog.txt. I have this file c:/cygwin_syslog.txt, How I can do to verify if this file exists at the init of my application, if it exists I would rename it in c:/cygwin_syslog.bck0, and recreate one with the same name ie cygwin_syslog.