Re: Help Required

2003-11-13 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Amit Sharma wrote: Hi, I have written one cgi script which gets the input from user and modify one xml file and I got this string as output http://prv-arweb3.Test.com/Remedy/servlet/Servlet?URL=http://asharma.Test.co m/Query1.xml&TURL=http://asharma.Test.com/Remedy1.xsl Here I am getting mo

Help Required

2003-11-13 Thread Amit Sharma
Hi, I have written one cgi script which gets the input from user and modify one xml file and I got this string as output http://prv-arweb3.Test.com/Remedy/servlet/Servlet?URL=http://asharma.Test.co m/Query1.xml&TURL=http://asharma.Test.com/Remedy1.xsl Here I am getting modified Query1.xml

Re: external sub routine

2003-11-13 Thread Murugavel Chidambaram
Hi, You can write the sub function in another file and include it on the main perl script. mail.pl --- #!/usr/bin/perl sub_file.pl; --- --- _END_; sub_file.pl --- #!/usr/bin/perl sub fn { } 1; Regards C.M

Re: external sub routine

2003-11-13 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Nov 15, David Inglis said: >I have a some code that will be used in a number of my scripts, I know >that if I have a sub in a script I can call that piece of code as many >times as required from the same script but how do I make this sub >vailable to other scripts I have written. I imagine th

external sub routine

2003-11-13 Thread David Inglis
I have a some code that will be used in a number of my scripts, I know that if I have a sub in a script I can call that piece of code as many times as required from the same script but how do I make this sub vailable to other scripts I have written. I imagine that I create a seperate script with

Re: Replace with regular expression

2003-11-13 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Nov 13, Ricardo Pichler said: >I need replace in my string the characters in >upperCase for the same but preceding the simbol +. > >$myName="RicardoPichler"; >s/.../.../g; # to do this return "+Ricardo+Pichler"; > >$myName=~s/[A-Z]/\+[A-Z]/g; You can't use a regex on the right-hand side of a s

Re: regexp matching- real simple!

2003-11-13 Thread Tore Aursand
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:15:40 -0500, Nandita Mullapudi wrote: > I want my script to carry out a loop only if the number stored in > $diff is positive, > so i say > if ($diff =~m/^[-\d+]/) {blah blah} > but it won't work. why? That's pretty irrelevant in your case; You're using a cannon to get rid

Re: Replace with regular expression

2003-11-13 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Ricardo Pichler wrote: Hi... I need replace in my string the characters in upperCase for the same but preceding the simbol +. Ex.: $myName="RicardoPichler"; s/.../.../g; # to do this return "+Ricardo+Pichler"; but like this: $myName=~s/[A-Z]/\+[A-Z]/g; but this don´t work. You are attempting to use

Replace with regular expression

2003-11-13 Thread Ricardo Pichler
Hi... I need replace in my string the characters in upperCase for the same but preceding the simbol +. Ex.: $myName="RicardoPichler"; s/.../.../g; # to do this return "+Ricardo+Pichler"; but like this: $myName=~s/[A-Z]/\+[A-Z]/g; but this don´t work. Can anyone help-me? Thanks in advance! Regar

Re: regexp matching- real simple!

2003-11-13 Thread Brian Gerard
And the clouds parted, and Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan said... > > Well, your regex is matching either a digit, a -, or a + as the first > character in $diff. If you wanted to match a POSITIVE number, you'd be > better with /^+?\d/, but WHY are you using a regex for a MATH problem? > > if ($diff > 0)

Re: regexp matching- real simple!

2003-11-13 Thread Brian Gerard
And the clouds parted, and Nandita Mullapudi said... > > This has to be really easy- but I cant get it to work: > I want my script to carry out a loop only if the number stored in > $diff is positive, > so i say > if ($diff =~m/^[-\d+]/) {blah blah} > but it won't work. why? > TIA > -Nandita Hi N

Re: peeking at the top or bottom of an array

2003-11-13 Thread Amit Phatak
> Is there a way to "peek" at the top or bottom of an array? for the first element you could "peek" like: $first = $array[0]; for the last element you could "peek" like: $last = $array[$#array]; $# indexes the last element of the array. just make sure you use the same array's name in the index

Re: regexp matching- real simple!

2003-11-13 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Nov 13, Nandita Mullapudi said: >This has to be really easy- but I cant get it to work: >I want my script to carry out a loop only if the number stored in >$diff is positive, >so i say >if ($diff =~m/^[-\d+]/) {blah blah} >but it won't work. why? Well, your regex is matching either a digit, a

Re: Package Help

2003-11-13 Thread Tore Aursand
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 07:47:36 +1100, Colin Johnstone wrote: > my $formName = 'form'.$self->? my $formName = 'form' . $self->{'FRM_CNT'}; > my ($proto, $sysData) = @_; > my $class = ref($proto) || $proto; No need for all this. Just write: my $class = shift; my $sysData = shift; -

Re: peeking at the top or bottom of an array

2003-11-13 Thread drieux
On Thursday, Nov 13, 2003, at 15:25 US/Pacific, Dan Anderson wrote: Is there a way to "peek" at the top or bottom of an array? Sort of like pop or shift but without needing to insert the value back into the array? I suppose I could do something like: my $check_me = pop @array; push @array, $ch

RE: Counting (easy!)

2003-11-13 Thread LoBue, Mark
> -Original Message- > From: Tore Aursand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 3:50 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Counting (easy!) > > > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:19:32 -0500, Jimstone77 wrote: > > I have a list of email addresses in a text file one to a

Re: Counting (easy!)

2003-11-13 Thread Tore Aursand
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:19:32 -0500, Jimstone77 wrote: > I have a list of email addresses in a text file one to a line. How would I > seach for a particular email address? > > $email = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; > > while { >if ($email eq $_) { > $OK = 1; >} > } Doesn't this work? I wou

RE: regexp matching- real simple!-GOT IT!

2003-11-13 Thread Nandita Mullapudi
Thanks, -Nandita -Original Message- From: Nandita Mullapudi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 5:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: regexp matching- real simple! This has to be really easy- but I cant get it to work: I want my script to carry out a loop only if t

Re: peeking at the top or bottom of an array

2003-11-13 Thread Kevin Old
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 18:25, Dan Anderson wrote: > Is there a way to "peek" at the top or bottom of an array? Sort of like > pop or shift but without needing to insert the value back into the > array? > > I suppose I could do something like: > > my $check_me = pop @array; > push @array, $check_m

Re: peeking at the top or bottom of an array

2003-11-13 Thread Dan Anderson
In case anyone is wondering why I want to do this, I am running through an array (popping out all elements) in order. Some things from the array act differently depending on what is left or right of them (if I'm shifting or popping respectively). I want to double check before I pop or shift. -Da

RE: peeking at the top or bottom of an array

2003-11-13 Thread Tim Johnson
How about: my $check_first = $array[0]; my $check_last = $array[-1]; -Original Message- From: Dan Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 3:25 PM To: 'Beginners Perl' Subject: peeking at the top or bottom of an array Is there a way to "peek" at the top or

Re: getting remote image size with Image::Size & LWP

2003-11-13 Thread Matthew Galaher
I got this working. I found what I was looking for at cpan's site. http://search.cpan.org/dist/Image-Size/ works: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; # to read the files via http that each url points to. my $img = ""; my $the_url = 'http://homepage.mac.com/galaher/images/maul.jpg'; # Since printin

Re: regexp matching- real simple!

2003-11-13 Thread Kevin Old
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 18:15, Nandita Mullapudi wrote: > This has to be really easy- but I cant get it to work: > I want my script to carry out a loop only if the number stored in > $diff is positive, > so i say > if ($diff =~m/^[-\d+]/) {blah blah} > but it won't work. why? > TIA > -Nandita Try t

peeking at the top or bottom of an array

2003-11-13 Thread Dan Anderson
Is there a way to "peek" at the top or bottom of an array? Sort of like pop or shift but without needing to insert the value back into the array? I suppose I could do something like: my $check_me = pop @array; push @array, $check_me; But that seems kind of inelegant and verbose. Thanks, Dan

Simple HTTP::Daemon

2003-11-13 Thread Christopher Stanton
RedHat 9 Perl v5.8.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi I am trying to make a basic modification to a simple HTTP daemon which uses the HTTP::Daemon class. I want to pass additional headers to the client prior to sending the body of the html message. I am setting the content-type header in the r

Re: ActiveState 5.8.0 vs 5.8.1

2003-11-13 Thread drieux
On Thursday, Nov 13, 2003, at 14:10 US/Pacific, Bob X wrote: This may not have a difinitive answer. But will the modules I use for 5.8.0 work/be available with 5.8.1? Basically I am using HTML-Template and CGI-Application and those are the ones I would be worried about. yes. the 'hard cut over

regexp matching- real simple!

2003-11-13 Thread Nandita Mullapudi
This has to be really easy- but I cant get it to work: I want my script to carry out a loop only if the number stored in $diff is positive, so i say if ($diff =~m/^[-\d+]/) {blah blah} but it won't work. why? TIA -Nandita -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mai

Re: Source Code Control and Naming ThingiePoo was Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-13 Thread drieux
On Thursday, Nov 13, 2003, at 12:29 US/Pacific, Chuk Goodin wrote: [..] While that would indeed be the Best Practice, as a beginner just learning, one of the things I like about perl are the differences from other (usually compiled) languages that I'm used to. [..] Chuk, et al, a part of the rea

ActiveState 5.8.0 vs 5.8.1

2003-11-13 Thread Bob X
This may not have a difinitive answer. But will the modules I use for 5.8.0 work/be available with 5.8.1? Basically I am using HTML-Template and CGI-Application and those are the ones I would be worried about. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: Counting (easy!)

2003-11-13 Thread Steve Grazzini
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 09:16:59PM -, Rob Dixon wrote: > Steve Grazzini wrote: >> This is a documented optimization w/r/t foreach() loops, but the same >> thing applies to the foreach() modifier. > > What the code is optimised to is a touch OT, but I've never seen this > documented Steve. Can

Re: Mechanize

2003-11-13 Thread Kevin Old
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 16:41, Paul Kraus wrote: > Is it possible to connect to a 128bit encrypted web site with > www::mechinize? > > My boss wants me to write a script that will get a daily report for some > of our financial web sites and merchant accounts. > > This is kind of high priority so th

Re: Mechanize

2003-11-13 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> Is it possible to connect to a 128bit encrypted web site with > www::mechinize? > > My boss wants me to write a script that will get a daily report for some > of our financial web sites and merchant accounts. > > This is kind of high priority so the sooner you can help the better. > > This i

Re: Package Help

2003-11-13 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Nov 14, Colin Johnstone said: >I have to keep track of the number of forms on my page so I can create >unique names for them, to do that I have initiated a variable FRM_CNT. > >The modification I have to make is to add a sub that produces the HTML for >a drop down box, one of the first tasks of

Mechanize

2003-11-13 Thread Paul Kraus
Is it possible to connect to a 128bit encrypted web site with www::mechinize? My boss wants me to write a script that will get a daily report for some of our financial web sites and merchant accounts. This is kind of high priority so the sooner you can help the better. This is the address I am t

RE: trying again....

2003-11-13 Thread Jason Frisvold
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 16:34, Dan Muey wrote: > I either: > look it up on http://search.cpan.org > or > perldoc Module::Name (via the command line) Doh! I guess you learn something new each day ... I wasn't aware perldoc would automatically check @INC for the module ... *sigh*

search for email address in file, was Re: Counting (easy!)

2003-11-13 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
Please choose a subject that is reflective of your post and start a new thread when appropriate... > > I have a list of email addresses in a text file one to a line. How would I > seach for a particular email address? > > $email = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; > The @ in the above does need to be esca

RE: trying again....

2003-11-13 Thread Dan Muey
> How do you get help on a perl module..? > > I either: look it up on http://search.cpan.org or perldoc Module::Name (via the command line) After you look at those if you're stuck ask maybe this list or a list specific to that module if there is one. For instance I li

Re: Counting (easy!)

2003-11-13 Thread Jimstone77
I have a list of email addresses in a text file one to a line. How would I seach for a particular email address? $email = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; while { if ($email eq $_) { $OK = 1; } } It seems the @ symbol somehow doesn't work in this search. What would be a better (or right) way t

RE: trying again....

2003-11-13 Thread Jason Frisvold
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 15:50, Suman, Kaushik wrote: > How do you get help on a perl module..? I find that going to search.cpan.org and searching for the module in question is enough... You can also use perldoc if you know where the .pm file was installed.. > -Original Message- > From: Jas

Re: Counting (easy!)

2003-11-13 Thread Rob Dixon
Steve Grazzini wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 12:09:24PM -0800, John W. Krahn wrote: > > Rob Dixon wrote: > > > For the subscribers who don't already know, > > > what are the differences between my > > > > > > print for 1..5 > > > > for iterates over the list 1..5 and sets $_ with each value

Re: Counting (easy!)

2003-11-13 Thread John W. Krahn
Steve Grazzini wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 12:09:24PM -0800, John W. Krahn wrote: > > Rob Dixon wrote: > > > For the subscribers who don't already know, > > > what are the differences between my > > > > > > print for 1..5 > > > > for iterates over the list 1..5 and sets $_ with each value

Re: Counting (easy!)

2003-11-13 Thread Rob Dixon
John W. Krahn wrote: > > > > > For the subscribers who don't already know, > > what are the differences between my > > > > print for 1..5 > > for iterates over the list 1..5 and sets $_ with each value and then > print is called for each item and print out the value in $_. > > > and Tore's > > >

Re: trying again....

2003-11-13 Thread Rob Dixon
Hi Sarah. Sarah wrote: > > I apologize for my earlier question. I don't mean that > I want someone to write a program for me. No, and you didn't say so either. It's just that we get a little twitchy here about that sort of request. You've nothing to apologise for. > I was just perhaps looking f

Re: Calling A C++ program

2003-11-13 Thread Dan Anderson
That sounds like a shell scripting problem. All you'd need to do is create a string like: mktrace file1 file2 & mktrace file3 file4 & etc... At least that would work under *nix. & backgrounds the process.. So you could create a long string of files and calls to mktrace (assuming mktrace suppor

CPAN Installs failing due to embedded " " in winXP directory path?

2003-11-13 Thread Barry
Would someone please help me to use CPAN to update / install modules. I'm using ActiveState Perl 5.6, on winXP. I'm fairly sure its happening because I stupidly set up all my programs below a 'My Programs' directory with an embedded space. The messages I get are typically like these : =

RE: trying again....

2003-11-13 Thread Suman, Kaushik
How do you get help on a perl module..? -Original Message- From: Jason Frisvold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 11:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: trying again Check out Mail::Mailer ... I use that for 99% of my scripts that n

Package Help

2003-11-13 Thread Colin Johnstone
Gidday All, Im modifying this package. What it does is produce the html for our presentation templates of our content management system. I have to keep track of the number of forms on my page so I can create unique names for them, to do that I have initiated a variable FRM_CNT. One of my more

Re: Source Code Control and Naming ThingiePoo was Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-13 Thread Chuk Goodin
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 11:33:14AM -0800, drieux wrote: > So let us step back and look at the 'root cause problem' > > so I want to just 'fix it on the fly' > > and yes, foo.pl as an editable text file will allow you > simply open it with a text editor and WHACK a fix in. Unlike > RealCode[

Calling A C++ program

2003-11-13 Thread Quang Nguyen
Hello All, I need to write a program to call a C++ program (mktrace). The program ask for an input file and then it ask for output file. I have 1000 files that want to input and I do not want to do one at a time. QKN -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: Counting (easy!)

2003-11-13 Thread Steve Grazzini
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 12:09:24PM -0800, John W. Krahn wrote: > Rob Dixon wrote: > > For the subscribers who don't already know, > > what are the differences between my > > > > print for 1..5 > > for iterates over the list 1..5 and sets $_ with each value and then > print is called for each it

getting remote image size with Image::Size & LWP

2003-11-13 Thread Matthew Galaher
 Thank you for your patience and help bringing me up to speed on how to be a better user of this list. My previous post was my first. I am trying to write a script that will use Image::Size module in conjunction with the LWP module to retrieve the height and width attribute of a gif or jpg on a re

Re: Counting (easy!)

2003-11-13 Thread John W. Krahn
Rob Dixon wrote: > > Tore Aursand wrote: > > > > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:05:45 -0600, Dan Muey wrote: > > >> In Perl that is usually written as: > > >> > > >> for $count ( 1 .. 5 ) { > > >> print "$count\n"; > > >> } > > > > > Or even easier: > > > for(1..5) { print; } > > > > Or _even_ easier;

Re: Please help!

2003-11-13 Thread Gabino Travassos
> I'm an absolute beginner to Perl. I need to write a script that will take tables from a SQL server database, somehow get them into HTML format, and automatically generate an email to a list of users containing the info I just converted into HTML. All I can seem to find online is generating autom

Dealing with Email and Perl was Re: trying again....

2003-11-13 Thread drieux
On Thursday, Nov 13, 2003, at 11:23 US/Pacific, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I apologize for my earlier question. I don't mean that I want someone to write a program for me. I was just perhaps looking for some generic info on Perl's capability to generate email? If that exists? you will want to b

Re: Threading In List Replies [Re: QUESTION]

2003-11-13 Thread Daniel Staal
--On Thursday, November 13, 2003 12:35 AM -0800 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now that you explained all that, should I reply or reply all? ie - this message does a reply all as: To: "R. Joseph Newton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Beginners--Perl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Dixon <

RE: trying again....

2003-11-13 Thread Jason Frisvold
Check out Mail::Mailer ... I use that for 99% of my scripts that need email support.. --- Jason H. Frisvold Backbone Engineering Supervisor Engineering Dept. Penteledata RedHat Engineer - RHCE # 807302349405893 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "I love deadline

RE: trying again....

2003-11-13 Thread Johnson, Shaunn
--howdy: --not sure i follow, but i have a few questions for --you: * you want to connect to the database and do, what, exactly? show the data in html? * you have a list of people in the database, perhaps, that you want to email? what platform? not that it really matters ... windows, linu

Source Code Control and Naming ThingiePoo was Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-13 Thread drieux
On Thursday, Nov 13, 2003, at 10:34 US/Pacific, Chuk Goodin wrote: [..] Basically, if I've got a directory sitting there with three or four different types of files in it, I'd like to know which ones are perl (and I can just open them up in vi and fix them) and which ones aren't (and I'll have to

Re: trying again....

2003-11-13 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Nov 13, 2003, at 1:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I apologize for my earlier question. I don't mean that I want someone to write a program for me. I was just perhaps looking for some generic info on Perl's capability to generate email? If that exists? Perl can definitely do anything you s

Re: Please help!

2003-11-13 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Nov 13, 2003, at 1:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi- I'm an absolute beginner to Perl. I need to write a script that will take tables from a SQL server database, somehow get them into HTML format, and automatically generate an email to a list of users containing the info I just converted

trying again....

2003-11-13 Thread Sarah7281
I apologize for my earlier question. I don't mean that I want someone to write a program for me. I was just perhaps looking for some generic info on Perl's capability to generate email? If that exists? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTE

Please help!

2003-11-13 Thread Sarah7281
Hi- I'm an absolute beginner to Perl. I need to write a script that will take tables from a SQL server database, somehow get them into HTML format, and automatically generate an email to a list of users containing the info I just converted into HTML. All I can seem to find online is generating

Re: not on topic but relevant to list

2003-11-13 Thread Daniel Staal
--On Wednesday, November 12, 2003 6:25 PM -0500 Casey West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It was Wednesday, November 12, 2003 when [EMAIL PROTECTED] took the soap box, saying: : hum could we not get a nice topic prefix added to the list? : it would make it a lot easy to make mail filters that could k

Re: Counting (easy!)

2003-11-13 Thread Rob Dixon
Tore Aursand wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:05:45 -0600, Dan Muey wrote: > >> In Perl that is usually written as: > >> > >> for $count ( 1 .. 5 ) { > >> print "$count\n"; > >> } > > > Or even easier: > > for(1..5) { print; } > > Or _even_ easier; > > print 1..5; For the subscribers who d

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-13 Thread Chuk Goodin
> >What kind of naming structure would you suggest for people who just > >want > >to use extensions for organizational purposes? > > when you say for 'organizational purposes' do you > mean in terms of tracking the 'source code' in a > source code control system? Or do you mean tracking > named a

Re: copying a multidimensional array

2003-11-13 Thread Steve Grazzini
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 10:06:19AM -0800, Ravi Malghan wrote: > Hi: whatz the best way to copy an multidimensional > array onto another. I have never used something like > clone, just want to know whatz the easiest route. Storable::dclone() is probably the easiest: use Storable qw(dclone);

Re: Perl memory utilization question...

2003-11-13 Thread drieux
On Thursday, Nov 13, 2003, at 08:40 US/Pacific, NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI) wrote: I am an SA for several HP-UX systems. Recently a user had a problem running a Perl job and he indicated that it would die at about 1GB. Now, I believe that the HP-UX 11i kernel parameter 'maxdsiz' is the limit he is

Re: Perl Equavlent

2003-11-13 Thread Rob Dixon
Mike Blezien wrote: > > Ran accross a function called "ceil" and from the information I got on this: > > "ceil() [Stands for ceiling], it just rounds a float value up.. so ceil(4.7) == > ceil(4.1342) == 5" > > would this be the same as using "int" function in perl or is there function in > perl cal

copying a multidimensional array

2003-11-13 Thread Ravi Malghan
Hi: whatz the best way to copy an multidimensional array onto another. I have never used something like clone, just want to know whatz the easiest route. Thanks Ravi __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/wha

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-13 Thread drieux
On Thursday, Nov 13, 2003, at 09:32 US/Pacific, Chuk Goodin wrote: [..] What kind of naming structure would you suggest for people who just want to use extensions for organizational purposes? [..] when you say for 'organizational purposes' do you mean in terms of tracking the 'source code' in a

RE: DBI MYSQL

2003-11-13 Thread Dan Muey
> By replacing the comma with a colon I was able connect to the > database; it now looks like I have a permission problem where Cool, I'm glad that worked! > the user on computer B has no permission to reload the data > on computer A. > > I was also able to login at the command prompt with t

Re: Perl Equavlent

2003-11-13 Thread George Schlossnagle
On Nov 13, 2003, at 11:38 AM, Mike Blezien wrote: Hi, so I guess my question is, if I want to accomplish the same results as this "ceil" how would that be accomplished in Perl ?? use POSIX qw/ceil/; $float = '1.9'; print ceil($float); -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additiona

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-13 Thread Chuk Goodin
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:55:24PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > Rob> Perl programs conventionally go in *.pl files. > > No. Only on broken architectures that demand it (read: "windows"). > On Unix, Perl programs have no extension, any more than "cat" has an > extension. Why should the user

Re: Perl Equavlent

2003-11-13 Thread Mike Blezien
Yes, this did the trick exactly :) thanks for your help -- MikeBlezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing Providing Internet Solutions that work! http://www.thunder-rain.com Quality Web Hosting http://www.justlightening.net MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: Perl Equavlent

2003-11-13 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Nov 13, 2003, at 10:38 AM, Mike Blezien wrote: Hi, so I guess my question is, if I want to accomplish the same results as this "ceil" how would that be accomplished in Perl ?? Does this one-liner get you started? perl -e 'use POSIX qw(ceil); print ceil(2.3), "\n";' James -- To unsubscribe,

Re: Perl Equavlent

2003-11-13 Thread Mike Blezien
Hi, so I guess my question is, if I want to accomplish the same results as this "ceil" how would that be accomplished in Perl ?? thx's -- MikeBlezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing Providing Internet Solutions that work! http://www.thunder-rain.com Quali

Perl memory utilization question...

2003-11-13 Thread NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI)
I am an SA for several HP-UX systems. Recently a user had a problem running a Perl job and he indicated that it would die at about 1GB. Now, I believe that the HP-UX 11i kernel parameter 'maxdsiz' is the limit he is running into here, but I am not entirely sure. The question I really hav

Re: Starting Perl

2003-11-13 Thread drieux
On Thursday, Nov 13, 2003, at 07:49 US/Pacific, McMahon, Chris wrote: [..] I name my Perl scripts on my FreeBSD box "something.pl" because I'm the first (and so far only, but not for long) user of a Unix-y system in an all-Windows shop, and I don't want my colleagues to be confused. Quizzic

RE: DBI MYSQL

2003-11-13 Thread Larry Sandwick
By replacing the comma with a colon I was able connect to the database; it now looks like I have a permission problem where the user on computer B has no permission to reload the data on computer A. I was also able to login at the command prompt with the same error. My error was : ERROR 1045: Ac

Re: Version differences

2003-11-13 Thread Tore Aursand
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:15:18 +0530, Sachin Mathur wrote: > I Wanted to know what are the differences in version 5.005 and version > v.5.8.0 of perl Check out perldelta for each version. -- Tore Aursand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: Perl Equavlent

2003-11-13 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Nov 13, 2003, at 10:17 AM, Mike Blezien wrote: So if I use the int() this will provide the same results as this ceil() function does... ?? No, it's not the same. See the chart earlier in this thread. Sorry for confusing the issue. James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For ad

RE: Counting (easy!)

2003-11-13 Thread Tore Aursand
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:05:45 -0600, Dan Muey wrote: >> In Perl that is usually written as: >> >> for $count ( 1 .. 5 ) { >> print "$count\n"; >> } > Or even easier: > for(1..5) { print; } Or _even_ easier; print 1..5; Hah! :-) -- Tore Aursand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe,

Re: Perl Equavlent

2003-11-13 Thread Mike Blezien
Hi, So if I use the int() this will provide the same results as this ceil() function does... ?? thx's -- MikeBlezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing Providing Internet Solutions that work! http://www.thunder-rain.com Quality Web Hosting http://www.justl

Re: Counting (easy!)

2003-11-13 Thread Rob Dixon
Dan Muey wrote: > > > > > In Perl that is usually written as: > > > > for $count ( 1 .. 5 ) { > > print "$count\n"; > > } > > Or even easier: > for(1..5) { print; } > Or if you nee the newline: > for(1..5) { print "$_\n"; } If we're competing, then there's print for 1..5 ;) Rob -- To

Re: Perl Equavlent

2003-11-13 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Nov 13, 2003, at 10:01 AM, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: No, int() is neither exactly like ceil() or floor(). All int() does is truncate the number to an integer. If you have 2.3, you get 2. If you have 2.9, you get 2. If you have -2.3, you get -2. If you have -2.9, you get -2. If you were

Re: Perl Equavlent

2003-11-13 Thread Rob Dixon
James Edward Gray II wrote: > > On Nov 13, 2003, at 9:50 AM, Bob Showalter wrote: > > > Mike Blezien wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Ran accross a function called "ceil" and from the information I got > >> on this: > >> > >> "ceil() [Stands for ceiling], it just rounds a float value up.. so > >> ceil(4.7

Re: Perl Equavlent

2003-11-13 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Nov 13, James Edward Gray II said: >On Nov 13, 2003, at 9:50 AM, Bob Showalter wrote: > >> Mike Blezien wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Ran accross a function called "ceil" and from the information I got >>> on this: >>> >>> "ceil() [Stands for ceiling], it just rounds a float value up.. so >>> ceil(4.7

Re: Counting (easy!) - select???

2003-11-13 Thread Rob Dixon
Kevin Old wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 09:33, Rob Dixon wrote: > > "Bob Showalter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > > > > > Christiane Nerz wrote: > > > > Kevin Old wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > select undef, undef, undef, 0.25 or print $_ > > > > > for 1 .. 5; > > > > ... > > > > quit

Re: When is Perl 6 coming out?

2003-11-13 Thread Dan Anderson
> Hi all, > i am just curious -- is perl 6 coming with a compiler ? > thanks, > regards, > KM Yup, and from what somebody else posted it looks to be sweet: http://www.parrotcode.org/ -Dan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Perl Equavlent

2003-11-13 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Nov 13, 2003, at 9:50 AM, Bob Showalter wrote: Mike Blezien wrote: Hi, Ran accross a function called "ceil" and from the information I got on this: "ceil() [Stands for ceiling], it just rounds a float value up.. so ceil(4.7) == ceil(4.1342) == 5" would this be the same as using "int" function

Re: Help with Error Message: Can't use an undefined value as a hash reference

2003-11-13 Thread Rob Dixon
R. Joseph Newton wrote: > > > > There are many references , what line number does it say > > > is evil and which line below is that? > > > > Thanks for your help, I have put a -right here - in the code... > > > > } > > $SQL .= "\n"; > > } > > #-righ

RE: Perl Equavlent

2003-11-13 Thread Bob Showalter
Mike Blezien wrote: > Hi, > > Ran accross a function called "ceil" and from the information I got > on this: > > "ceil() [Stands for ceiling], it just rounds a float value up.. so > ceil(4.7) == ceil(4.1342) == 5" > > would this be the same as using "int" function in perl No. int() simply drop

RE: Starting Perl

2003-11-13 Thread McMahon, Chris
I name my Perl scripts on my FreeBSD box "something.pl" because I'm the first (and so far only, but not for long) user of a Unix-y system in an all-Windows shop, and I don't want my colleagues to be confused. Quizzicality cuts both ways... =) -Chris -Original Message-

Perl Equavlent

2003-11-13 Thread Mike Blezien
Hi, Ran accross a function called "ceil" and from the information I got on this: "ceil() [Stands for ceiling], it just rounds a float value up.. so ceil(4.7) == ceil(4.1342) == 5" would this be the same as using "int" function in perl or is there function in perl called "ceil" ?? thx's -- Mike

RE: Can't not locate object method "isadmin" via package "Noc1"

2003-11-13 Thread Dan Muey
> I just added a new method called isadmin to existing and > working module Noc1.pm Did you create Noc1 ??? > > And use this new added method in my index.html like this index.html ??? Hows' that work? > > use Noc1; > my $noc = new noc1; > my public = noc->ispublic(); ^^ ^^^ Do y

RE: invoking external programs

2003-11-13 Thread Thomas Bätzler
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: > I'm actually building a web interface to a news group server (INN). > One of the feature is to allow a few users to create and > delete newsgroups from the web. Hopefully only for your local news hierarchy ;-) > Normally, from the shell, I woul

RE: When is Perl 6 coming out?

2003-11-13 Thread Thomas Bätzler
km <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: > i am just curious -- is perl 6 coming with a compiler ? That depends on your definition of compiler. It certainly has a compiler that creates byte code, just as all of the current Perl versions. I don't know wether it will have a compiler like PerlEx bundled. Wha

Re: When is Perl 6 coming out?

2003-11-13 Thread Dan Anderson
> You object to the idea of hitting the ground running? No...actually I replied to another poster on this matter. Sometimes computer books come out based on an Alpha or Beta version -- which is nice unless there have been significant changes, in which case it can be a confusing waste of money. -

Can't not locate object method "isadmin" via package "Noc1"

2003-11-13 Thread PerlDiscuss - Perl Newsgroups and mailing lists
Hello all, I just added a new method called isadmin to existing and working module Noc1.pm And use this new added method in my index.html like this use Noc1; my $noc = new noc1; my public = noc->ispublic(); my $admin = noc->isadmin(); if ($admin) { blah blah blah} When i tried to access ind

Re: validate email chars

2003-11-13 Thread Tore Aursand
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 23:05:53 -0800, perl wrote: > Can someone help me with validating email address chars? This is a FAQ: perldoc -q "valid mail" -- Tore Aursand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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