Re: Need more efficiency

2002-06-27 Thread Peter Scott
At 12:28 PM 6/27/02 -0400, Nikola Janceski wrote: >## this is a structure that contains the exceptions >our %except = ( > "test1" => [ "stuff to add" ], > "test2" => [ "more stuff to add" ] > # etc. for about 4 or 5 more > ); > >## [snip to later in the code to some

Re: Perl Win32 Application.

2002-06-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 04:54:54PM -0400, Shishir K. Singh wrote: > > I would always go for Perl TK. But beware!! If you want to use some of > > the derived widgets...they suck !! eg ..BrowseEntry and DirTree. I had > > to modify them to bring back some sanity. Bur the best part is it > > works on

RE: Perl Win32 Application.

2002-06-27 Thread Shishir K. Singh
> I would always go for Perl TK. But beware!! If you want to use some of > the derived widgets...they suck !! eg ..BrowseEntry and DirTree. I had > to modify them to bring back some sanity. Bur the best part is it > works on UNIX as well as on Windows. >Did your patches make it into the main re

RE: File selection dialog

2002-06-27 Thread krishnag
I am writing a perl/CGI script that creates a form to get some infomation from the user, one such item is a directory name. I used 'fielfield' which creates a ba browse button but it can only access the directory in the users machine but I want the list of files in the server. The user will not

Re: Perl Win32 Application.

2002-06-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 11:02:37AM -0400, Shishir K. Singh wrote: > I would always go for Perl TK. But beware!! If you want to use some of > the derived widgets...they suck !! eg ..BrowseEntry and DirTree. I had > to modify them to bring back some sanity. Bur the best part is it > works on UNIX a

Re: Regex Help Please!?

2002-06-27 Thread John W. Krahn
Jess Balint wrote: > > Hello all. I am trying to 'code' an address into a certain format. The > format is as follows: > > first 4 digits of street # > first 4 street name > first 2 of address line 2 > first 3 of zip code > > The data is a pipe delimited file with the following format: > > cons

RE: File selection dialog

2002-06-27 Thread Nikola Janceski
first off.. I wouldn't be using 'ls' that has gotten me into trouble especially when people have ls aliased to 'ls -ltr' use opendir(), readdir() and closedir(). second I am sure that there is a widget or code somewhere that someone wrote that does what you want. Just look for it, (I don't know w

Fwd: File selection dialog

2002-06-27 Thread krishnag
- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 14:06:07 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: File selection dialog To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The filefield allows for me to select a file or directory from the users machine but I wanted t

Re: need help! pulling out a range of lines from files

2002-06-27 Thread John W. Krahn
>From Laura wrote: > > Hello, Hello, > I am really a beginner not only to perl but to programming! but here my > question. > > I have 300 files that I need to go thru. Each file has an embedded sql > query. I want to automatically pull out just the lines that represent the > query text. I

Re: calling shell script from perl

2002-06-27 Thread drieux
On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 11:25 , lz wrote: > Hi guys, > > I need to call shell executable from a perl command, > and here is what I do: > > open CRONJOB, "/home/queue/test.sh|" or die "Unable to generally I put a space between the 'script' and the pipe eg: open(CRONJOB, "/home/que

Re: need help! pulling out a range of lines from files

2002-06-27 Thread Chas Owens
On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 14:46, From Laura wrote: > > Hello, > I am really a beginner not only to perl but to programming! but here my > question. > > I have 300 files that I need to go thru. Each file has an embedded sql > query. I want to automatically pull out just the lines that represent

Re: libxml-perl-0.07 test failed

2002-06-27 Thread drieux
On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 11:25 , Gbio Qi wrote: [..] > t/streamFAILED test 11 > Failed 1/11 tests, 90.91% okay > t/subs..ok > t/xp_saxok > Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed > --

RE: Perl Win32 Application.

2002-06-27 Thread Timothy Johnson
One advantage of Perl/Tk over Win32::GUI is that you can buy the books on it. Win32::GUI is a very good idea, but I had trouble finding enough documentation. -Original Message- From: Shishir K. Singh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 8:27 AM To: Nikola Janceski; s

File selection dialog

2002-06-27 Thread krishnag
The filefield allows for me to select a file or directory from the users machine but I wanted to see a list of files and directories in the server. I thought I could use the 'ls' command to get a list of files and put it in a scrolling_list or pop_menu but I do not know how to keep it going,i.e.

RE: Regex Help Please!?

2002-06-27 Thread David . Wagner
You will need to escape the | as \| otherwise won't do what you think. I checked to make sure. Wags ;) -Original Message- From: Tom Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 11:18 To: Balint, Jess; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Regex Help Please!? Why no

need help! pulling out a range of lines from files

2002-06-27 Thread From Laura
Hello, I am really a beginner not only to perl but to programming! but here my question. I have 300 files that I need to go thru. Each file has an embedded sql query. I want to automatically pull out just the lines that represent the query text. I cannot make grep do this task. There are

calling shell script from perl

2002-06-27 Thread lz
Hi guys, I need to call shell executable from a perl command, and here is what I do: open CRONJOB, "/home/queue/test.sh|" or die "Unable to open test.sh command: $!"; Unfortunately, neither tesh.sh executed nor I get "Unable to open test.sh" error message. Does anyone know whats the problem is

libxml-perl-0.07 test failed

2002-06-27 Thread Gbio Qi
Hi, I am install perl module libxml-perl-0.07 downloaded from cpan. My work environment is perl 5.6.1, OS: Tru64 v5.1, Alpha. When I perl Makefile.PL make, that is fine, but when I make test, there is error message which make test failed: # make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl5.6.1 -Ib

Re: CPAN Modules continued

2002-06-27 Thread Barry Kingsbury
I, too, am a Win2K user of perl. As I'm using the ActiveEdge distribution, I use their perl package manager (ppm) to install modules. You can invoke the command from a DOS shell using the ppm3 command (if it's in your path). Use the help command to get more information. However, it's pretty si

RE: Regex Help Please!?

2002-06-27 Thread Tom Stewart
Why not drop it in an array and split it and work with it from there? I am not sure what your final goal is but this way you can work with each field independently and check if your address_line_2 is blank. open(FILE,$file) || die "could not open $file"; while() { @data = split(/|/,$_); }

Regex Help Please!?

2002-06-27 Thread Balint, Jess
Hello all. I am trying to 'code' an address into a certain format. The format is as follows: first 4 digits of street # first 4 street name first 2 of address line 2 first 3 of zip code The data is a pipe delimited file with the following format: consumer_id|address_line_1|address_line_2|zip_co

Re: File slelection dialog

2002-06-27 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jun 27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >How do I incorporate a file selection dialog in a form. I use the CGI.pm to >create the form. Are there any functions available for that? perldoc CGI, and look for the heading "CREATING A FILE UPLOAD FIELD". You want to use the 'filefield' method. Your form

File slelection dialog

2002-06-27 Thread krishnag
How do I incorporate a file selection dialog in a form. I use the CGI.pm to create the form. Are there any functions available for that? Ganapathy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: roll your own small smtp server

2002-06-27 Thread drieux
On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 08:47 , Felix Geerinckx wrote: [..] > a) parses the email address > b) look up the MX record for the destination through DNS > c) uses the SMTP protocol to exchange the message with the > destination mail server (using sockets). [..] hence an advanced MUA borderin

regexes unraveled (was Re: Need more efficiency)

2002-06-27 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jun 27, Nikola Janceski said: >our %except = ( > "test1" => [ "stuff to add" ], > "test2" => [ "more stuff to add" ] > # etc. for about 4 or 5 more > ); [snip] >FILE: foreach my $file ( @arrayOfManyManyFiles ){ > > foreach my $test (keys %except) { >

RE: Saving in RTF

2002-06-27 Thread Hanson, Robert
RTF is just plan text with a lot of markup, it isn't a binary file like a Word doc. You should be able to just drop it into a "text" (or is it called "memo" in MySQL?) field. Rob -Original Message- From: João Paulo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 12:41 PM To: [E

Saving in RTF

2002-06-27 Thread João Paulo
This is hard I think I need to save a text in rtf format into a database (mssql)... the problem is what kind of field to use and how to read back the text without loosing the format...(bold,color,etc,,,). Does anyone know how to do that? Any idea? JP. _

Need more efficiency

2002-06-27 Thread Nikola Janceski
I am working on some code that performs several tasks. Some of the items for the tasks have exceptions. I have been working on creating data structures to handle these exceptions. I have been doing pretty well so far with speed (cpu), space (ram) and non-repeating loops. But I am stumped on my cu

Re: roll your own small smtp server

2002-06-27 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Thu, 27 Jun 2002 15:31:04 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drieux) wrote: > > On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 07:49 , Brad Fike wrote: > >> I, personally have an smtp server but I still want to write a >> script that does not need it. > > actually you want a 'daemon' - not a 'script' > since to be a

Re: roll your own small smtp server

2002-06-27 Thread drieux
On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 07:49 , Brad Fike wrote: > I, personally have an smtp server but I still want to write a script that > does not need it. actually you want a 'daemon' - not a 'script' since to be a 'server' - it will need to come up connect to a specified port - in this case not t

Re: Regex question again

2002-06-27 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Thu, 27 Jun 2002 15:15:04 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Vd Geer Inhuur Tbv Iplib) wrote: > Can you please assist. I am stuck on a regex again. > > my $dir = "/user/IPlib/and/many/other/dirs"; > > $dir =~ s!/[^/]*\z!!; > > Will make : $dir = "/user/IPlib/and/many/other"; ## so it takes > o

RE: Perl Win32 Application.

2002-06-27 Thread Shishir K. Singh
"Mastering Perl Tk" I guess is the better one!! -Original Message- From: Nikola Janceski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 11:12 AM To: 'stephane groux'; Joe Echavarria Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Perl Win32 Application. Why do I get the feeling that I was

RE: Regex question again

2002-06-27 Thread Hanson, Robert
> But how do I let it make : > $dir = "/IPlib/and/many/other/dirs"; ## But now on the first dir $dir =~ s!^[^/]*!!; ^ = Beginning of the string. Rob -Original Message- From: David vd Geer Inhuur tbv IPlib [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 11:15 AM To: [EMAIL PRO

Regex question again

2002-06-27 Thread David vd Geer Inhuur tbv IPlib
Hi, Can you please assist. I am stuck on a regex again. my $dir = "/user/IPlib/and/many/other/dirs"; $dir =~ s!/[^/]*\z!!; Will make : $dir = "/user/IPlib/and/many/other"; ## so it takes off the last dir But how do I let it make : $dir = "/IPlib/and/many/other/dirs"; ## But now on the fir

RE: Perl Win32 Application.

2002-06-27 Thread Hanson, Robert
wxPerl looked pretty good, but I never did more than just play around with it. The thing I like it that it will use the builtin Windows widgets, so it looks like an ordinary windows app (Win32::GUI will as well). Here is an article on it, decide for yourself. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/09/1

RE: Perl DBI and Oracle

2002-06-27 Thread Joe Raube
I think that if you posted some code, we could give better assistance with this matter. --- "Jackson, Harry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I retrieve a load of records but because the default linesize means > that it > comes out on multiple lines when printing to a CSV. I suppose I > could

RE: Perl Win32 Application.

2002-06-27 Thread Nikola Janceski
Why do I get the feeling that I was ripped off buying the "Learning Perl/Tk" book? This one looks like it has everything in my book plus more stuff that I had to figure out on my own! > -Original Message- > From: stephane groux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 11

RE: Perl DBI and Oracle

2002-06-27 Thread Jackson, Harry
> -Original Message- > From: Joe Raube [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > "set linesize" > > is a SQL*Plus command to control the size of an output line > > dbi is used for manipulating data from a database, the output is > controlled by you... > > What are you trying to accomplish?

Re: Perl Win32 Application.

2002-06-27 Thread stephane groux
Hi Joe, Search fro Perl Tk There's also a good book on it at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mastperltk/toc.html stephane Joe Echavarria wrote: > Hi there, > > I want to write a perl application for a win32 > operating system. The application must be using > windows,forms, the same interfaces

RE: Perl Win32 Application.

2002-06-27 Thread Shishir K. Singh
>I would use the Tk module. >But I think there is also a Win32::GUI module. (or something like that) I would always go for Perl TK. But beware!! If you want to use some of the derived widgets...they suck !! eg ..BrowseEntry and DirTree. I had to modify them to bring back some sanity. Bur the b

RE: Perl Win32 Application.

2002-06-27 Thread Brad Fike
I would use the Tk module. But I think there is also a Win32::GUI module. (or something like that) > -Original Message- > From: Joe Echavarria [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 9:57 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Perl Win32 Application. > > Hi there,

Perl Win32 Application.

2002-06-27 Thread Joe Echavarria
Hi there, I want to write a perl application for a win32 operating system. The application must be using windows,forms, the same interfaces like the ones you get using delphi or visual basic. I mean that the application can not be a web based or look like DOS application. Is like connecting p

RE: roll your own small smtp server

2002-06-27 Thread Brad Fike
I, personally have an smtp server but I still want to write a script that does not need it. Haven't you ever need to write code that was to be used in an environment different then your own? I will check out your link when I get home tonight. Does anyone have some example code that they could co

Re: CPAN Modules continued

2002-06-27 Thread drieux
On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 03:51 , Nigel Peck wrote: [..] > However, I have no program on my system called make. I'm running Perl > 5.6.0 on Win2k. What am I doing wrong or what haven't I got? Amongst the strategies open is to bring in Cygwin cf: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i

Re: roll your own small smtp server

2002-06-27 Thread drieux
On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 07:17 , Brad Fike wrote: [..] > What I would like to do is find a module or a script that > can run like it's own smtp server. (ie there is not one available > on my network) this part does not make a lot of sense - since if we are getting your email - then it woul

Re: executing a PERL script

2002-06-27 Thread drieux
On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 07:01 , Imtiaz ahmad wrote: [..] > Using web based tool (CGI) a user selects a folder and once the > user submits the script1 on the resulting page supposed to have a call to > another script2. Script2 contains code that takes the folder name > submitted > and crea

roll your own small smtp server

2002-06-27 Thread Brad Fike
Hello all, I know about the net::smtp module and use it. What I would like to do is find a module or a script that can run like it's own smtp server. (ie there is not one available on my network) Does anyone know of a module to do that or have some code using a lower level module (io::socket)

RE: executing a PERL script

2002-06-27 Thread Imtiaz ahmad
Thanks for your help. This tool that I like to build is not accessible to people outside our office. Using web based tool (CGI) a user selects a folder and once the user submits the script1 on the resulting page supposed to have a call to another script2. Script2 contains code that takes the fo

Re: Perl DBI and Oracle

2002-06-27 Thread Joe Raube
"set linesize" is a SQL*Plus command to control the size of an output line dbi is used for manipulating data from a database, the output is controlled by you... What are you trying to accomplish? -Joe --- "Jackson, Harry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ho do you > > set linesize 1000; >

RE: Perl DBI and Oracle

2002-06-27 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Jackson, Harry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 9:35 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Perl DBI and Oracle > > > Ho do you > > set linesize 1000; > > using dbi for Oracle. I have tried inserting it before the "select" > stat

Perl DBI and Oracle

2002-06-27 Thread Jackson, Harry
Ho do you set linesize 1000; using dbi for Oracle. I have tried inserting it before the "select" statement and putting it in its own "prepare" statement but neither have worked. Google has got very little on this when I searched for it. I would appreciate a decent link to how to do this sort of

RE: Perl programmer born and bred

2002-06-27 Thread Elias Assmann
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Craig Hammer wrote: > Have you ever tried to wade through The Silmarillion? > > Craig Hammer As a matter of fact, I just bought and started reading it yesterday. I didn't yet get any further than Cristopher Tolkien's introduction :-) I do expect to like it though, as I also

RE: CPAN Modules continued

2002-06-27 Thread Anders Holm
Hi Nigel. What you are looking for is something that would be distributed in a compiler package. There are different routes you could follow here, one being MS, another Open Source packages If all you need is the make program itself, here is one place to get such a program: http://www.gnu.o

CPAN Modules continued

2002-06-27 Thread Nigel Peck
Please excuse the stupid question but I'm trying to get my head round too many things at once and I could do witha quick explanation please. I'm trying to follow the perl makefile.pl make make test make install However, I have no program on my system called make. I'm running Perl 5.6.0 on Win2k

RE: executing a PERL script

2002-06-27 Thread Anders Holm
Hi, ok, so let's build a house of cards, and see how it holds up in the hurricane known to us all as The Net. ;) Are you really sure that this is the way you want to do this? I'm just considering the side effects, like security for instance.. Then there's also data integrity and such.. In any c

executing a PERL script

2002-06-27 Thread Imtiaz ahmad
Hi- Is it possible to pass a variable to a PERL script within a PERL script and then execute the PERL script? For example, lets say we have a web page that allows you to copy files from one machine to other. And, if a user select the file to be copied then the file name and path goes to a PERL sc