Re: Subject line suggestion for "newbies"

2001-12-29 Thread Maurice Reeves
Agreed Eric. The more descriptive your subject lines are, the more quickly you are able to get help and the more inclined everyone is to help. Also, as Eric suggested, it will make it easier for newbies to come in later and read the emails and find solutions to a similar problem they are having

Re: set focus on a cgi form upon loading

2001-12-10 Thread Maurice Reeves
http://www.wiley.com/legacy/compbooks/stein/text/javascript.txt This link will take you to the 'OFFICIAL GUIDE TO PROGRAMMING WITH CGI.PM' website which lists code examples, and specifically this one shows how to use Javascript with CGI. hth, Maurice Reeves >From: "Kevi

Re: Stat function

2001-12-10 Thread Maurice Reeves
ate print -A, "\n" if /^c/; } hth, Maurice Reeves buzzcutbuddha www.perlmonks.org >From: COLLINEAU Franck FTRD/DMI/TAM ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Stat function >Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001

Re: $searchstring help

2001-12-07 Thread Maurice Reeves
not quite. \w matches _ also, and he didn't have that in his list. how about $searchstring =~ /^[a-z0-9]+/i; >From: "Etienne Marcotte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Jesus Is Not Dead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: $searchstring help >Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 16:27:30 -0500 >

Re: Help with Perl

2001-12-05 Thread Maurice Reeves
if ($letter =~ m/[A-L]/) uses a regex which will give you what you want. >From: "Nguyen, Andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Help with Perl >Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 14:16:37 -0500 >Hi List, > >I am new to perl and looking for a shortcut way of doing th

Re: data types

2001-12-05 Thread Maurice Reeves
Well, Perl doesn't have these data types explicitly (at least not yet) but what you should look at are the two functions Pack and Unpack. Pack and Unpack take scalar variables and convert them according to the format you specify. The man pages for them are quite in depth. Hope that helps. Take

Re: CGI on a Novelle box

2001-12-04 Thread Maurice Reeves
Linux is free and easy to install on just about ANY platform (including a 486, depending on the version you're running) and will reasonably approximate which ever version of Unix you are running. www.redhat.com www.debian.org www.mandrake.com -or- www.linuxiso.org has ISO disk images for any ve