uploading files

2002-03-10 Thread Mariusz
Hi, I wrote this simple script to upload files, but when I substitute param('uploadfile') with the actual path in double quotes it doesn't work that way. However, it works perfectly fine if I use the form to submit the path of the file through an html form (the way it is below). Can anyone hel

Re: Stripping everything after words found

2002-03-10 Thread Tanton Gibbs
You want to extract the LEAST possible...use $string =~ s/^(.*?)Call Distance/$1/; Tanton - Original Message - From: "Daniel Falkenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "bob ackerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 12:26 AM Subject: RE: Stripping everyt

RE: Stripping everything after words found

2002-03-10 Thread Daniel Falkenberg
Bob, This is what I had in the first place (($test) = $string =~ /(.*)Call Distance/;). All I want to do is extract EVERYTHING before the first instance of Call Distance:. From there using the same regular expression I need to remove EVERYTHING after Call Distance:. Including Call Distance:. S

Re: Stripping everything after words found

2002-03-10 Thread bob ackerman
oh - you didn't want to include 'Call Distance'? then: ($test) = $string =~ /(.*)Call Distance/; would only capture text up to 'Call Distance'. Needn't worry about rest of string. On Sunday, March 10, 2002, at 08:54 PM, bob ackerman wrote: > how about: > ($test) = $string =~ /(.*Call Distance

Re: Stripping everything after words found

2002-03-10 Thread bob ackerman
how about: ($test) = $string =~ /(.*Call Distance)/; On Sunday, March 10, 2002, at 08:27 PM, Daniel Falkenberg wrote: > $string = "Crud I want Call Distance more crud skdafj 343sad55434 "; > > How would I go about getting rid of everything after the Call distance > and including the Call Distan

Stripping everything after words found

2002-03-10 Thread Daniel Falkenberg
Hey All, If I have a string that looks like the following... $string = "Crud I want Call Distance more crud skdafj 343sad55434 "; How would I go about getting rid of everything after the Call distance and including the Call Distance? Would it be somthing like the following...? ($test) = $stri

what if or next if...?

2002-03-10 Thread Daniel Falkenberg
G'day all, Just wondering if some one can help me with the folloing problem...? Basically I have a variable that will change at regular intervals. The varible may look like this... $var = "Crud Crud Call Distance: UNfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdn alternative". "(fasdfsda) SuperZone region: Gawler Call

Re: Connecting to a Database

2002-03-10 Thread Thomas Whitney
You can disregard the previous message -- I finally got to work, (by sheer tiral and error). If any is interested, let me know and I will send the code that woks. "Thomas Whitney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hi, > I am trying to open a d

RE: Finding words between words...

2002-03-10 Thread Daniel Falkenberg
Hello all, I have some text here that I have placed in a string. I want to be able to extract words between text of my choice. For example in the string... $string = "Hello world In: crud all Your."; ($mytext) = $string =~ /In:(.*)Your/; The above works fine but how can I tell my regex to st

Connecting to a Database

2002-03-10 Thread Thomas Whitney
Hi, I am trying to open a database connection and having a problem--it will NOT open. Here is the code that I am using. # security is the name of the database. #user_data is the name of the access table $path = $Server->MapPath("security.mdb"); $data = "driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)}

Re: suidperl problem

2002-03-10 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Patrik Schaub [FMS] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>hi johannes, *> *>could be a sollution - thanks *> *>but i really wonder why a perl script which is *>setuid root and setguid root wont't do a simple Check the filesystem and make sure your SA hasn't gone and done the wise thing of mounting the vol

Re: Writing to beginning of file

2002-03-10 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Troy May [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Hello, *> *>How do you write to the beginning of a file? I see only 3 options to open a *>file: to read, to overwrite, and to append to the end of the file. *> *>I tried seeking to the beginning before the write, but it doesn't work. *>Seek must only work fo

Re: split// question

2002-03-10 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> The reason your code breaks is because you are > misunderstanding split(); it does NOT return what > the regex matched. > > split /=/, "a=b" > > does not return ("a", "=", "b"). It returns ("a", "b"). Unless of course you write split as: split /(=)/, "a=b"; But you rarely, if ever, need

Re: split// question

2002-03-10 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Mar 10, Karsten Borgwaldt said: >key=value >key2=value2 > > >This is the sourcecode: I can assure you it isn't; your code assigns to $1, $2, and $3 -- you can't do that. >open(file, "< foo.bar"); If you had warnings on, you'd be told that filehandles should be written in uppercase for s

split// question

2002-03-10 Thread Karsten Borgwaldt
Hi all, i have a problem to split data of a file. The data has the following structure : key=value key2=value2 When reading this file, there's no problem, but if I want to split the lines... This is the sourcecode: open(file, "< foo.bar"); @myArray = ; close(file); foreach (@myArray) {($

Re: Win32::API module

2002-03-10 Thread Thomas Whitney
If you wish to use nmake.exe, you need to download it. It is available at. ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/nmake15.exe. You can get tar and gzip from http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/. I recently had the same problem and (thanks ot those whe pointed me in the right direction) downloading n

AW: suidperl problem

2002-03-10 Thread Patrik Schaub [FMS]
hi johannes, could be a sollution - thanks but i really wonder why a perl script which is setuid root and setguid root wont't do a simple `/etc/init.d/hylafax restart` for example. (it`s not a tainting problem) patrik -Ursprungliche Nachricht- Von: Johannes Franken [mailto:[EMAIL PR

Re: suidperl problem

2002-03-10 Thread Johannes Franken
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 12:37:23AM +0100, Patrik Schaub [FMS] wrote: > the script needs to have root rights in order to do this, > but it will be used by another user. suidperl seems to be > the only way to achive this. What about sudo ? -- Johannes Franken Professional unix/network developme

Re: Writing to beginning of file

2002-03-10 Thread John W. Krahn
Troy May wrote: > > Hello, Hello, > How do you write to the beginning of a file? I see only 3 options to open a > file: to read, to overwrite, and to append to the end of the file. > > I tried seeking to the beginning before the write, but it doesn't work. > Seek must only work for a read. >

Re: Writing to beginning of file

2002-03-10 Thread Jon Molin
Troy May wrote: > > Hello, > > How do you write to the beginning of a file? I see only 3 options to open a > file: to read, to overwrite, and to append to the end of the file. > If you think about the file as an array with one char on each index: my @string = split (/|/, "this is a test"); n