Re: flock() question

2001-10-30 Thread Pete Sergeant
look in to the alarm() function perldoc -f alarm +Pete -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;;($_='Yw_xUabcdtefgdijktljkotiersjkUzxT yvlkbfdtcierstajogvPruntRshackRJelov')=~ y&/RTUv;wxYz$&/ ~'/;$=();$&&&eval&&print <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hi, > > I'

Re: logging out a user

2001-10-30 Thread Pete Sergeant
Find out your Perl PID, find out the user who's running it, and kill their session using `kill`? +Pete "Bob Showalter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 2E4528861499D41199D200A0C9B15BC031B508@FRISTX">news:2E4528861499D41199D200A0C9B15BC031B508@FRISTX... > > -Original Message- > > Fro

Re: beginners join function question

2001-10-30 Thread Pete Sergeant
open(NAMES, "names.txt")||die "$!"; ($result = join '', )=~s/\s+/ /g; +Pete -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;;($_='Yw_xUabcdtefgdijktljkotiersjkUzxT yvlkbfdtcierstajogvPruntRshackRJelov')=~ y&/RTUv;wxYz$&/ ~'/;$=();$&&&eval&&print "Walter Valenti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Calling external executable with parameter under WinNT.

2001-10-30 Thread Pete Sergeant
> `"$batch" "$name"`; > #! doesn't work - and that's the clue of my problems > > and also system doesn't want to work with $batch and $name as it's parameter `` interpolates. You probably want: `"$batch $name"`; or some permutation of. Happy to help +Pete -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;;($_='Yw_xUabcd

Re: good site..

2001-10-30 Thread Pete Sergeant
"Nafiseh Saberi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 005101c1610c$68da3fc0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:005101c1610c$68da3fc0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... hi. in this site exist many module... http://www.sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Misc/perl-5.005_03/ __ It may be worth

Re: sub read_config is killing my daemon

2001-10-30 Thread Pete Sergeant
>If I remark (#) the read_config(); in the while loop the daemon doesn't >break. Does any one here have any suggestions? How does it die? &read_config() does contain a die string ... are you getting something similar to: cannot open '$tunnelfile': no such file or directory Or is it some other m

Re: perl source code instructions

2001-10-29 Thread Pete Sergeant
"Gary M Rocco" said qq! When i used to program in BASIC, I had a reference card that listed all the instructions, variables and operators in alphabetical/numerical order. It also had brief descriptions of usage and syntax rules. Is something similar available for perl? ! May I suggest: Perl 5

Re: module and logicistics advice, please

2001-10-29 Thread Pete Sergeant
> What I don't yet understand is the other direction: How do I make > individual configuration variables, taken from database.cfg, available in > the modules or db.cgi? I guess that would be a job for "require", but am > not sure. You have a number of options. My prefered one is to do this: (opt

Re: Using the require command with perl

2001-10-29 Thread Pete Sergeant
Troy, You didn't specify what you error was ... can I suggest you thoroughly read the docs in perlfunc about require ... http://www.perldoc.com would be a good place to start, or even just typing 'perldoc -f require' at your friendly neighbourhood command line. If options.txt isn't perl code and

Re: Problem comparing Strings with IF AND

2001-10-29 Thread Pete Sergeant
Kurt, > if ($client ne $newclient and $method ne $newmethod){ > print "something\n";#I'll actually be > printing this to my report once I get this worked out > } I think what you want is: if (($client ne $newclient)&&($method ne $newmethod)) { ... } This is c

Re: execuating fast...

2001-10-29 Thread Pete Sergeant
>> Nafiseh wrote: > thx a lot... > but > do u know that ..is it possible that router put their data > in database and not in file...to process it faster.. > Nafiseh, That really depends ... databases can be faster, but then so can text files ... o http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/04/10/engine.

Re: execuating fast...

2001-10-29 Thread Pete Sergeant
Nafiseh, The first rule of optimisation is: "Don't talk about optimisation". The second rule of optimisation is: "Don't talk about optimisation". The third rule of optimisation is: "Don't optimise". More seriously, if you're having to optimise your code to run faster, you probably shouldn't be

Re: Array of Hashes?

2001-09-24 Thread Pete Sergeant
> @hosts = ( list of hashes like below ... ); > %hosts = ( name => "hostname", > ipaddr => "www.xxx.yyy.zzz", > location => "location" >); > > How can produce a sorted list of the hashes based on the hostname and then > access each hash to print the details. > @hosts = sort { %{$a}

Inserting into the middle of arrays

2001-09-24 Thread Pete Sergeant
How do I insert $scalar into position $x of @array, where $x is smaller than $#array? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: perl and ftp

2001-09-21 Thread Pete Sergeant
> My question is: > Do the username and passwd have to be hardcoded in the > script or can I pass these values from a file? Does > ftp have any way of getting credentials (at least for > the password) from an encrypted file? Depends on how the files are encrypted. What I would suggest is writing

Re: getting selected lines from a text file

2001-09-21 Thread Pete Sergeant
"Indiainfo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 007701c14280$12138200$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:007701c14280$12138200$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I have a text file, which contains some mail ids among other text. Is ther some way by which i can extract all the mail-ids into another text? Sure!

Re: Where does Makefile.PL pick up include paths from?

2001-09-20 Thread Pete Sergeant
I don't know the answer to your question, but... You can download the PPM files seperately from activestate: http://www.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/5xx-builds-only/ You can then use PPM to install them, but I think that part's covered in the readmes. "Reg Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote i

Re: Any feature equivalent to Macros of C?

2001-09-20 Thread Pete Sergeant
> It works fine on Windows NT. On Solaris, it gives the foll error message: > > Can't locate Win32/Process.pm in @INC (@INC > contains: /usr/perl5/5.00503/sun4-so > laris /usr/perl5/5.00503 /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris > /usr/perl5/site > _perl/5.005 .) at sim.pl line 3. > BEGIN failed

Re: Pattern matching problem

2001-09-20 Thread Pete Sergeant
Some other notes... You don't have to use printf - you can use print. And you don't need the brackets, or the inverted commas around $path: if ($path =~ m/^\$/) { print "Path is env var\n"; } else { print "Working on phys.dir\n"; } > > if ( "$path" =~ /^$/ ) { > >printf("p

Re: NET::FTP to retrieve files over HTTP?

2001-09-12 Thread Pete Sergeant
"Craig Paterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 021601c13a9a$bae3f240$0925020a@avalon">news:021601c13a9a$bae3f240$0925020a@avalon... > is this possible? or is there another library > i should use? I looked at the HTTP library but > can't see how you would do it and save the file. LWP is yo

Re: Perl/TK GUI IDE? Does one exist?

2001-08-26 Thread Pete Sergeant
Pierre the Fighter Pilot Wrote: --- As some of you know... developing TK can be time consuming. Does anyone know, even in its simplest form, of a perl TK IDE tool? Idealy on the windows platform. Perl Builder doesn't really have a VC++ style IDE where you can create yo

Re: 15 O'Reilly computer books free for download

2001-07-14 Thread Pete Sergeant
No. It's *VERY* illegal. "Brett W. McCoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Mark Winchester wrote: > > > Just found this posted on another site. Many free Perl > > books. > > Is it legal to put those on the web like that? It

Re: CGI-PERL-HTML.......HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2001-07-14 Thread Pete Sergeant
>1. where( & how) to write code in perl script(HTML) for actions >to occur on clicking hyperlinks . In my very humble opinion, your best option here is to pass the script information using the query_string. So, for example: http://localhost/la.pl?sample_data 'sample_data' is then available from

Re: Raw Headers of a Proxy?

2001-07-13 Thread Pete Sergeant
> In my case, all GET requests are full URI's, so that's not a problem. The > problem is that the page you referred to makes no mention of the CONNECT > header, which is supposed to preface the GET request. The CONNECT is > supposed to have the URI of the proxy server to send the GET request throu

Re: CGI.pm and form validation

2001-07-13 Thread Pete Sergeant
That which I say three times it true: Do not trust user input. Do NOT trust user input. DO NOT TRUST USER INPUT. As mentioned, users can turn off javascript. You're assuming of course that skr!pT k1DD13s use browsers. It is trivial to build an HTTP request and telnet into the server at port 80.

Re: Tape Processing - - Possible?

2001-07-13 Thread Pete Sergeant
>Are there modules that will allow me to read from and write to tape on a record or block basis? (a) Where have you looked? Have you tried http://www.cpan.org and http://www.google.com ? (b) You can always write a Perl module to wrap around a driver in C, which I'm sure will exist. {Pete

Re: Can Perl 'see' HTML IfModifiedSince calls?

2001-07-13 Thread Pete Sergeant
> I need to know if my browsers are sending IMS calls to the web server to > fetch html, images, etc. Is Perl able to watch the data returned to the > browser and tell me if IMS calls occurred? Hi there, If the browsers are local and the server are remote, you could setup a proxy server (I'm sur

Re: Help pls %

2001-07-13 Thread Pete Sergeant
> open CSV,"