Substitution formats

2002-01-19 Thread Troy May
Hello, I only knew of one way to do them: s/// But japhy once answered me with this format: s{}{} Another guy said you can use exclamation points? I'm assuming: s!!! I've tried some other formats with brackets, parenthesis, etc. Nothing else works. What other formats will work? Thanks!

Re: STDOUT from system call

2002-01-19 Thread John W. Krahn
Craig Inman wrote: > > Trying to get this script to 'claimsubmit' ONLY if the system call > returns STDOUT, but I'm having a little trouble getting my script to > verify that and act accordingly. Do you mean you want to capture the output from claimsubmit? Use back-quotes (``) or qx//. > open

how do I load a new page?

2002-01-19 Thread Chris Zampese
Hi everyone, I am running a script on an Intranet. It is called when the submit button of a form is clicked. It takes all the items in the form, puts them into a different form, and emails that form away. This all works, but I get a server error page after I hit the submit button. Any id

Re: more help!!!trying to match password

2002-01-19 Thread Shawn
>I'm using the email address are a beginning password therefore >code below > >$password=~s/@/\_/g; ##removes"@" >$password=~s/\./\_/g; ##removes"." > >##? >$password=~s/[^a-z^A-Z^0-9]/\-/g;##check for a-z, A-Z, 1-0 ??? >## > >is th

using force with cpan?

2002-01-19 Thread tom poe
Hi: I am running cpanv1.59, and with root. I notice that there are multiple failures at make install Won't install without force When I run perl -MCPAN -e shell, do I want to start using some command that forces all installs? Or, is there a better way to approach using cpan for installin

Re: help!!!trying to match password

2002-01-19 Thread Leon
- Original Message - From: "Luinrandir Hernson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 7:20 PM Subject: Re: help!!!trying to match password so don't use the m/ and use a \b on both sides of "bob" in this case... I will research this further to under

just bragging

2002-01-19 Thread Luinrandir Hernson
guess what I found!!! and it works (mad scientist laugh) $password=~tr/A-Z/a-z/;##changes everything to lowercase $password=~tr/a-z0-9/_/c; instead of ##$password=~s/@/\_/g; ##removes"@" ##$password=~s/\./\_/g; ##removes"."

STDOUT from system call

2002-01-19 Thread Craig Inman
Trying to get this script to 'claimsubmit' ONLY if the system call returns STDOUT, but I'm having a little trouble getting my script to verify that and act accordingly. opendir DIRH, "$unknown" or die "Can't open: $!\n"; foreach my $files (sort readdir DIRH) { my @claims = (grep(!/^\.{1,2}$

Re: help!!!trying to match password

2002-01-19 Thread Luinrandir Hernson
so don't use the m/ and use a \b on both sides of "bob" in this case... I will research this further to understand. is there a name for this situation??? \b thanks..lou - Original Message - From: Leon To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 2:31 PM Subject: Re: h

Re: more help!!!trying to match password OPPPSSSS

2002-01-19 Thread Luinrandir Hernson
- Original Message - From: Luinrandir Hernson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 10:06 PM Subject: more help!!!trying to match password Thanks Jeff . I had tried $password eq /bob/ but your way works just fine. Now for secur

more help!!!trying to match password

2002-01-19 Thread Luinrandir Hernson
Thanks Jeff . I had tried $password eq /bob/ but your way works just fine. Now for security reasons I want to check the variable to only alphanumeric charecters a-z A-Z 0-9 and the underscore _ I'm using the email address are a beginning password therefore code below $password=~s/@/\_/g;

Re: help!!!trying to match password

2002-01-19 Thread Leon
Like what Jeff says, use eq would be a better option. You may wish to know that "$password =~m/bob/" matches any of these :- anybob bobby anybobbie ... i.e so long as it sees a bob, it match. If you wish to match only bob and not bobby or abobby, then you may have to use border like this ~/\bbob

Re: help!!!trying to match password

2002-01-19 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jan 19, Luinrandir Hernson said: >Just how do I match the input exactly >bob >to just >bob Use 'eq'. if ($password eq 'bob') { ... } -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/

help!!!trying to match password

2002-01-19 Thread Luinrandir Hernson
I have managed to get this far. I've stripped down read(STDIN,$buffer,$ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'}); to the actual input, in this case bob and it works but so does bob123 , bobbies and bobs_a_bum etc... Just how do I match the input exactly bob to just bob ??? thanks in advance code below

RE: Using Win32::sound module

2002-01-19 Thread Brian
Examples can be found on the CPAN page: http://search.cpan.org/doc/ACALPINI/Win32-Sound-0.45/Sound.pm -Brian > -Original Message- > From: Joe Slaven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 4:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Using Win32::sound module > > Wo

Using Win32::sound module

2002-01-19 Thread Joe Slaven
Would anyone please provide an example of how to use Win32::Sound module to play and stop a sound.wav file? The Synopsis uses Win32::Sound::Play("file.wav"); but I am not sure how to assign this to a variable, and then make it play the sound. My kind regards, Joe email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: $~ ?

2002-01-19 Thread Matthew Lyon
man perlsyn On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, [gb2312] yun yun wrote: > I found in perl samples many strange signs, I'm really > confused by them and the study process is seriousl > blocked, would you like to recommend some good method > to pass this basic step? some quick lookup or some > common-used cmd? T

Re: $var1{$var2}and $var1($var2)

2002-01-19 Thread John W. Krahn
Yun yun wrote: > > What is the meanings of the following two expressions? > 1.$var1{$var2} This is the value from the hash %var1 using the key $var2 > 2.$var1($var2) $ perl -MO=Deparse -e'$var1($var2)' syntax error at -e line 1, near "$var1(" This is a syntax error. John -- use Perl; prog

Re: Boolean Expression - Regular Expression

2002-01-19 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jan 19, Jonathan E. Paton said: >/^(?=kayak)(?=San Juan Islands)/ No, that cannot possibly match. You mean: /^(?=.*kayak)(?=.*San Juan Islands)/ >/^(?=vegetable)(?!brussel sprout)/ Ditto. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brothe

Re: use hashref here?

2002-01-19 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jan 19, Andrew Koper said: >I am working on an org chart app. It is easy to loop through an >employee list and get an array of everyone who reports to a given user >ID (say, a vice president), but my logic breaks when I try and loop >through the list again and get arrays of everyone who repor

Re: Understanding PERL statement

2002-01-19 Thread Tirthankar C. Patnaik
> What does $ stand for in the following statement? > > print"$_\t", "*" x $n, "\n"; > $_ is the default input and pattern-searching space. Snipped from man perlvar: PERLVAR(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERLVAR(1) NAME perlvar - Perl predefined variables DESCRIPT

Re: Boolean Expression - Regular Expression

2002-01-19 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> Can somebody help me translate these boolean expression > to regular expression? I smell homework... so you've been sussed! I'll help you get started, but you'd better do the rest yourself. Documentation at: perldoc perlre > kayak AND "San Juan Islands" /kayak/ and /San Juan Islands/ OR

Re: Understanding PERL statement

2002-01-19 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jan 19, Naveen Parmar said: >What does $ stand for in the following statement? > >print"$_\t", "*" x $n, "\n"; $_ is a variable. It's the default variable, for things like loops and whatnot. perldoc perlvar -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RP

Understanding PERL statement

2002-01-19 Thread Naveen Parmar
What does $ stand for in the following statement? print"$_\t", "*" x $n, "\n"; TIA, - NP _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [

RE: $_ in hash datatype?

2002-01-19 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: yun yun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 10:08 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: $_ in hash datatype? > > > if var is a hash type, i.e. %var, > then what's the meaning of $_, and $var{$_}? > Thanks! The value inside the brace

Boolean Expression - Regular Expression

2002-01-19 Thread RNOORY
Can somebody help me translate these boolean expression to regular expression? kayak AND "San Juan Islands Digital Equipment Corporation" OR DEC Louis Near Monier vegetable AND NOT "brussel sprout gold OR silver AND platinum = gold OR (silver and platinum) (gold OR silver) AND platinum NOT gold

use hashref here?

2002-01-19 Thread Andrew Koper
I am working on an org chart app. It is easy to loop through an employee list and get an array of everyone who reports to a given user ID (say, a vice president), but my logic breaks when I try and loop through the list again and get arrays of everyone who reports to the managers in the initial a

Re: $_ in hash datatype?

2002-01-19 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> If var is a hash type, i.e. %var, then what is > the meaning of $_, and $var{$_}? __DESCRIPTION__ $_ is the default variable, used when you are too lazy to create one of your own and like clean looking code. __EXAMPLE__ foreach (1..5) { print "$_\n"; } Is the same as: foreach $_ (1..5) {

Re: $~ ?

2002-01-19 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> I found in perl samples many strange signs, I'm really > confused by them and the study process is seriously > blocked, would you like to recommend some good method > to pass this basic step? some quick lookup or some > common-used cmd? Thanks a lot! Yeah, try: www.perldoc.com or: perldoc pe

$~ ?

2002-01-19 Thread yun yun
I found in perl samples many strange signs, I'm really confused by them and the study process is seriousl blocked, would you like to recommend some good method to pass this basic step? some quick lookup or some common-used cmd? Thanks a lot! ___

$_ in hash datatype?

2002-01-19 Thread yun yun
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Re: Net::FTP fails on filenames with spaces

2002-01-19 Thread Christian Schult
Hi Joshua, * Joshua Colson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone help me, I need to retrieve files with spaces in them, and > Net::FTP errors out everytime. > > I've tried embedding quotes, not storing name in variable, quoting/not > quoting variables. I'm at a loss. > > I thought that may

Using Win32::sound module

2002-01-19 Thread Joe Slaven
Would anyone please provide an example of how to use Win32::Sound module to play and stop a sound.wav file? The Synopsis uses Win32::Sound::Play("file.wav"); but I am not sure how to assign this to a variable, and then make it play the sound. My kind regards, Joe email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: $var1{$var2}and $var1($var2)

2002-01-19 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> What is the meanings of the following two expressions? > 1.$var1{$var2} > 2.$var1($var2) Err... they look rather similar, don't they? :P Basically, it works a little like: my %hash = ( "key1" => "value1", "key2" => "value2", "key3" => "value3" ); print $

Can you help?

2002-01-19 Thread Henk van Ess
Can someone have a look at http://www.voelspriet.nl/googledocumentenzoeker.htm I want to use ONE search box - not five, as I do now. Can this be done? Henk van Ess www.voelspriet.nl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Cgi on IIS

2002-01-19 Thread SSloan
Couple of additions to my posting: > 1. A Virtual Directory called cgi-bin within your web site. It doesn't have to be called cgi-bin - though that is the normal name for the script directory. The Virtual Directory has to have the name that you are going to access via, as in: http://your_web_site/

Re: sample customer dbms in perl/mysql

2002-01-19 Thread zentara
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:40:39 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Ampeh) wrote: >I have just been asked to come up with Perl/Mysql demo on Monday. >Considering the short notice, I was wondering if anyone can point me to a >freeware >WEB-base database system implemented in Perl and Mysql. > Try this

$var1{$var2}and $var1($var2)

2002-01-19 Thread yun yun
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RE: Cgi on IIS

2002-01-19 Thread Gary Hawkins
> 1. A Virtual Directory called cgi-bin within your web site. That was great. Just a couple points, the directory can be called cgi-bin but doesn't need to be. I made the same changes to one called 'store' tonight on NT4 and it works. Secondly for security reasons I've heard it generally recom

Re: Thumbnail images on-the-fly

2002-01-19 Thread Scott R. Godin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott R. Godin) wrote: Many thanks to all of you who responded. :-) One of the things I love the most about these lists -- that one can get so many different perspectives on a problem and solution, because it gives one so much more of an id

RE: sample customer dbms in perl/mysql

2002-01-19 Thread Gary Hawkins
http://www.commercesql.com/ is one. If on Winders you'll have some surgery to do, like adding a new spleen to their code, the sendmail module. Since you have that deadline, recommend *nix. /g Federal Reserve needs a free package? Whew! That's some recession. > -Original Message- > F

RE: Cgi on IIS

2002-01-19 Thread ss004b3324
Hi Maureen, > I set up this cgi file and html form on a Unix server. The script > changes a user's password in a text file. > > This works correctly on a Unix Server. However, I need to move these > files to an IIS server. > In testing on the IIS server, I get an HTTP Error 405- Method not > all