Newbie having problems replacing text

Hi all, I'm trying to read in a bunch of files and insert the contents of the tag into the tag, writing the output to a temp file. Am getting this error: Use of uninitialized value at title.pl line 28, chunk 14. Which is this line: $_ =~ s#$pattern2#$title#g; I'm not sure why I'm getting t

RE: newbie stuck in a HOA

Bee, Thanks much for your explanation of where I was going wrong in the foreach loops. cancel.txt contains 2 fields 028076|C What I ended up doing was: First looping through %course_info Then looping through the array of canceled courses If there was a match, I changed the value in the hash and

Date module

Hi all, I'm in search of a module that will give me the day of a week for a particular date. So for example, July 21 would return Wed I checked CPAN but nothing jumped out at me. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Pam -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [

newbie stuck in a loop de loop

Hi all, thanks in advance for any help... what I want to do is: 1) read in a file containing daily total hits to certain urls within a subdirectory so total.030922 would contain: month date subdir and total count for this date example: Sep 22 airport 4 Sep 22 alumni 5 2) read in the files in th

building hash table

Hi all, am struggling with this, and it must be the something simple but for the life of me I don't see it. Am trying to build a hash table with: instructor name and their biography I've tried just about everything, but I can't get the values to show... where am I going wrong? thanks, Pam sn

Re: problems extracting a range of lines, reworked

and is the author of two books on computer-assisted publishing. A short story wri ter, he edits and publishes an online literary magazine, IndiaStar Review of Books (www.indiastar. com). XXX >>> "R. Joseph Newton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/13/03 18:25 PM >>> Pam De

Re: problems extracting a range of lines, reworked

last if($replace =~ $end) } } print("SUB: @lines\n"); return; } #end replace_it close CAT; close BIOS; close OUT; >>> "R. Joseph Newton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/13/03 10:45 AM >>> Pam Derks wrote: > Hi all, Hi

Re: RE: problems extracting a range of lines

ta, then read file1 and when you hit an instructor, then use that as the key to access your data and write out the info. Wags ;) Pam Derks wrote: > Hi all, > > > In FILE1 I want to replace all the lines containing: > Instructor: [A-Z].+ > > with the complete biography for eac

problems extracting a range of lines

Hi all, In FILE1 I want to replace all the lines containing: Instructor: [A-Z].+ with the complete biography for each instructor in FILE2 or replace this text in FILE1 Instructor: GENE ABBOTT with this text from FILE2 GENE ABBOTT, M.A., has worked in vocational and adult education si

Re: RE: browser reload

thanks! what type of security does the CGI module include that cgi-lib doesn't have? >>> "Dan Muey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/11/03 06:30 AM >>> Because you call log_data() everyt time the script is run regardless of input So it will write do log_data when you first bring up the form because $in{'Su

browser reload

Hi all, I have a cgi with a here doc, which takes the input fields (name, address, city, zip, etc.) and writes to a file. it work fine, BUT when you press "Reload" on the browser it keeps writing blank data to the output file. Does anyone know how I can prevent this? thanks for any help, Pam

RE: newbie stuck in a hash

} = 1; } foreach my $page ( sort( keys(%all_keys) ) ) { my $diff = $hash1{$page} - $hash2{$page}; my $diff = abs($diff); # remove "-" sign print "$page $diff\n"; } It can be done a lot more compact than this, but I thought this would be a bit more understandable. Rob

newbie stuck in a hash

Hi all, I have 2 files that contain a filename and # of hits I've split the contents of these 2 files into %hash1 and %hash2 I want to find out the difference in the # of hits can someone shed some light on the approach I should take. thanks in advance, Pam I've gotten this far: sample data

improvements to code

Hi all, I want to grap the: last first middle(if any) email from a text file sometimes there is a middle intital, sometimes there isn't sample data: Smith, Mary [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jones, Tommy Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] can someone suggest improvements to the code below? #!/usr/bin/perl -w my ($fir

problems with @ARGV

I'm having difficulties with @ARGV... I have a several files: access_log.021204 access_log.021205 access_log.021206 that I want to read in using @ARGV and then pass these file names to 2 subroutines At the command line I've tried: myprogram.pl access* myprogram.pl get_file(@ARGV) get_match(@AR

Re: problems with scalar(@array)

quot;) or die ("There is no file: $!\n"); foreach () { chomp; my ($date, $url) = split / /; $file{$url}++; } close IN; } #end get_data HTH, Rob - Original Message - From: "Pam Derks

Re: problems with scalar(@array)

f you're intending to split on the '/' path separator then I suggest ($date, $url) = split(/ /, $line); @url = split /\//, $url; which will give $date = '021211', $url = 'archive/summer.html', @url = ('archive', 'summer.html'). Is this what y

problems with scalar(@array)

Howdy, why isn't $i incrementing? here's sample of data file containing date and filename: 021211 archive/summer.html 021211 archive/summer.html 021211 archive/tipsheet.html 021211 arts.html 021211 arts.html 021211 arttherapy.html 021211 arttherapy.html 021211 arttherapy.html 021211 award.html 02

Re: problems with File::Find

thanks, Pam >>> Michael Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/03/02 17:54 PM >>> On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 04:33:37PM -0700, Pam Derks wrote: [snip] > #!/usr/bin/perl > #process all files in directory www/htdocs > > use File::Find; > @ARGV = qw(/dept/unxmkt/www/htdocs

problems with File::Find

Hi, Newbie here...I'm trying to find the string "Take our survey" in all the files that match this pattern, traversing multiple directories. When I run it I get no filenames. I'm positive the string exists. Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong. Thanks for any help, Pam Here's what I've got..

@INC

Am trying to find out what modules have been installed on my system. I know they're stored in the @INC array, but how do I find out which ones they are? thanks for any help, Pam -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

newbie question

I've been trying to understand program 6.21 in the Perl Cookbook, which changes URLs to html links here's a snippet: #!/usr/bin/perl $urls = '{http|telnet|gopher|file|wais|ftp'); $ltrs = '\w'; $gunk = '/#~:.?+=&%!\-'; $punc = '.:?@\-'; $any = "${ltrs}${gunk}${punc}"; I understand what

problems with CGI script

Hi, I'm a newbie struggling to total up a web users survey for work. The HTML form is a separte document, which calls up the cgi script. I've been reading the CGI module and figured out how to get the key/value paris. Now, I want to tally the answers, i.e. 10 users choose question 2

CGI problem, no luck so far

Thanks all for your suggestions regarding earlier post (below): Am testing out a new web server running SunOS5.8 " and I can't get any of my cgi scripts to run. I get this error message: "Premature end of script headers" the cgi scripts worked perfectly on the old server which was running D

CGI problem

Hi, Am testing out a new web server running SunOS5.8 " and I can't get any of my cgi scripts to run. I get this error message: "Premature end of script headers" the cgi scripts worked perfectly on the old server which was running Digital UNIX. any ideas? many thanks, Pam