Learning to 'fork()' the right way

2009-03-26 Thread Ron Smith
uot;); exit; } else { waitpid($pid, 0); } } I was wondering if this script is written correctly and if there's a way to have the monitoring script release the shell and get the prompt back, or is it running in the child process shell and that's why it's getting

Re: I'm trying to install 'Net::SSH::Perl' on a Windows Box.

2009-03-16 Thread Ron Smith
--- On Mon, 3/16/09, Chas. Owens wrote: > From: Chas. Owens > Subject: Re: I'm trying to install 'Net::SSH::Perl' on a Windows Box. > To: geeksatla...@yahoo.com > Cc: "Perl" > Date: Monday, March 16, 2009, 6:51 AM > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 03:51, Ron

Re: I'm trying to install 'Net::SSH::Perl' on a Windows Box.

2009-03-16 Thread Ron Smith
--- On Sun, 3/15/09, Chas. Owens wrote: > From: Chas. Owens > Subject: Re: I'm trying to install 'Net::SSH::Perl' on a Windows Box. > To: geeksatla...@yahoo.com > Cc: "Perl" > Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009, 5:46 AM > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 04:56,

I'm trying to install 'Net::SSH::Perl' on a Windows Box.

2009-03-15 Thread Ron Smith
" at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/PPM.pm line 16 87." The package did not install so I googled this response but didn't come up with any clear-cut direction. ...any suggestions? I also ran accross the following while searching CPAN: Net::SSH::W32Perl MSWin32 compatibility

Re: I'm sure this is a common question, but I can't find the solution.

2009-03-14 Thread Ron Smith
> From: Beau E. Cox > Subject: Re: I'm sure this is a common question, but I can't find the > solution. > To: geeksatla...@yahoo.com > Date: Saturday, March 14, 2009, 10:51 PM > Ron, > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Ron Smith > wrote: > > >

Re: I'm sure this is a common question, but I can't find the solution.

2009-03-14 Thread Ron Smith
> Ron Smith wrote: > > Hello all, > > Hello, > > > How do you print elements of an array, each on its own > line, in a Windows' console? > > > > I'm doing the following: > > > > E:\My Documents>perl -e "use > ExtUtils::I

I'm sure this is a common question, but I can't find the solution.

2009-03-14 Thread Ron Smith
returns: Archive::TarArchive::ZipArray::CompareAutoLoaderCPANCPAN::ChecksumsCPAN::DistnameInfo ...etc. I need: Archive::Tar Archive::Zip Array::CompareAutoLoaderCPAN CPAN::Checksums CPAN::DistnameInfo ...etc. I tried "\n", '\n' and a 'foreach' loop, but nothing I

I'd like to monitor a running script.

2009-03-08 Thread Ron Smith
if ($process) { sleep 30} else { exec (./) or print STDERR "couldn't exec : $!"; } } Ron Smith geeksatla...@yahoo.com (213)300-9448 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Line ending with Gary"^M on UNIX

2006-12-07 Thread Ron Smith
y hold down the keys indicated, at those spots in the substitution. Hope this helps. Ron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com

Re: how to print "\n" in the output file

2006-11-04 Thread Ron Smith
t; response code and > > response > > time,etc. In the output file that I am getting I > want the following line: > > > > print "\n" ; > > > > Any Suggestions?? > > Would the following help? perl -e 'print "\\n\n"' Escap

Re: Undefined subroutine &Main::BadData called at line 42

2006-10-01 Thread Ron Smith
--- Aaron Priven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 30, 2006, at 7:30 PM, Ron Smith wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I get the error: "Undefined subroutine > &Main::BadData > > called at line 42" when executing the following > '.cgi

Undefined subroutine &Main::BadData called at line 42

2006-09-30 Thread Ron Smith
$thirdSide = $1; if ($firstSide == $secondSide && $firstSide == $thirdSide) { print p("That's an equilateral triangle!\n"); } elsif ($firstSide == $secondSide || $firstSide == $thirdSide || $secondSide == $thirdSide) {

Re: Hi

2006-05-15 Thread Ron Smith
od > Programming Language Try Learning Perl, Fourth Edition (Paperback) by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, brian d foy. Here's one of many links: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596101058/sr=8-2/qid=1147704150/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-0184362-2216600?%5Fencoding=UTF8 Ron Smith > > Thanks &

RE: Local Server/Perl/HTML question...

2006-04-05 Thread Ron Smith
> > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <http://learn.perl.org/> > <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > > > Can you send us code? Ron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>

Re: Forcing order

2006-03-10 Thread Ron Smith
--- Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Ron Smith wrote: > > > How can I assure printing the correct order? > > You can't guarantee the order of keys in a hash per > se. For efficiency > and optimization, hashes are stored in a rand

Forcing order

2006-03-09 Thread Ron Smith
t( p( "Trip: $i Gallons used: $_ Miles driven: $values{ $_ } The miles per gallon for this trip were: $average" ) ); } print( p( "Total trips so far: $i Total gallons so far: $totGals Total miles so far: $totMilesDriven Total average so far: $totAverage" ) ); print( end_html() );

Re: Error in the "if" block

2006-02-20 Thread Ron Smith
> > Sorry, my mistake, that should really be: > > my ( $smallestNum, $largestNum ) = ( sort { $a <=> > $b } @numbers )[ 0, -1 ]; > > Although as I said, the for loop is more efficient. > It just amazes me as to how *flexable* Perl is. Ron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Error in the "if" block

2006-02-20 Thread Ron Smith
> > Sorry, my mistake, that should really be: > > my ( $smallestNum, $largestNum ) = ( sort { $a <=> > $b } @numbers )[ 0, -1 ]; > > Although as I said, the for loop is more efficient. > I just amazes me as to how *flexable* Perl is. Ron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Error in the "if" block

2006-02-19 Thread Ron Smith
--- "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Smith wrote: > Hans Meier (John Doe) wrote: > >> > >>The if-else could be shortened to (untested, so > >>please check): > >> > >>die "Bla" unless > >&

Re: Error in the "if" block

2006-02-19 Thread Ron Smith
ing: my @sorted = sort { $a <=> $b } @numbers; Thanks, again. [pg. 790 "Camel Book"] This was overlooked in my haste. > > > my $sum = 0; > > foreach ( @numbers ) { > > $sum += $_; > > } > > > > my $average = ( $sum / $total ); > > You

Re: Error in the "if" block

2006-02-19 Thread Ron Smith
; unless > ($userIn)=$userIn=~/^\s*((?:\d+\s*?)+)\s*$/; > Right; a lot shorter. Why, the parentheses around $userIn? > > my @numbers = split( / /, $userIn ); > > This only splits on a single space character. > > my @numbers = split /\s+/, $userIn; > > splits (e

Error in the "if" block

2006-02-19 Thread Ron Smith
bers is: $sum The average of all the numbers is: $average HTML Ron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Redirecting STDOUT to an array

2006-02-12 Thread Ron Smith
Tom Phoenix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Inexplicably, Ron Smith seems to have written: > Yes, you are right. I probably should post the rest of the story at this > point: > and I'd like to generate a row of asterisks, based on the number stored in > $firstBar. I though

Re: Redirecting STDOUT to an array

2006-02-12 Thread Ron Smith
Tom Phoenix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/12/06, Ron Smith wrote: > How would I redirect the output of the print line to an array instaed of > STDOUT? > > my $firstBar = 5; > print "*" while $firstBar, $firstBar--; You would write some Perl code that puts s

Re: Redirecting STDOUT to an array

2006-02-12 Thread Ron Smith
Sky Blueshoes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ron Smith wrote: >Hi all, > > How would I redirect the output of the print line to an array instaed of > STDOUT? > > my $firstBar = 5; > print "*" while $firstBar, $firstBar--; > > I've looked in

Re: How do I redirect STDIN [Please, ignore this thread]

2006-02-12 Thread Ron Smith
Please, ignore this thread!! I've posted the correct thread under the subject: Redirecting STDOUT to an array. Ron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, How would I redirect the output of the print line to an array instaed of STDOUT? my $firstBar = 5; print "*" while

Redirecting STDOUT to an array

2006-02-12 Thread Ron Smith
ehandle instead. ...any suggestions?? Ron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How do I redirect STDIN

2006-02-12 Thread Ron Smith
ehandle instead. ...any suggestions?? Ron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Stuck on last step

2006-02-11 Thread Ron Smith
print< This page takes two strings from the user and prints them in alphabetical order. If they are equal, they will print on separate lines. Enter your first string: Enter your second string: @list Click here to go back   HTML } Ron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: On Focus

2006-02-06 Thread Ron Smith
John, Thanks for the explanation. It's clarified things for me. I'll be searching CPAN for a solution, as you suggested. Thanks, again Ron John Doe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/5/06, Ron Smith wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've been

Re: On Focus

2006-02-05 Thread Ron Smith
Yes, I'm trying to have the "blinking cursor" start in a specific text field, on a web page, when the page loads in the browser. Thanks, Ron Omega -1911 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/5/06, Ron Smith wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've been lookin

On Focus

2006-02-05 Thread Ron Smith
Hi all, I've been looking for this all over, but can't seem to find a link. Is there a Perl or PerlScript equivalent to the JavaScript or vbscript on-focus function? If there is, could someone please, point me in the right direction. Thanks, Ron Ron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Error on: my $sth->execute;

2005-07-18 Thread Ron Smith
e a personal bias against the format of > insert you have used, >and it makes it utterly impossible to help debug > your code because >now a critical piece of data ( the output of a > DESCRIBE products) >is invisible to us. > >I always prefer the "INSERT INT

Error on: my $sth->execute;

2005-07-18 Thread Ron Smith
Hi all, I'm getting an error when trying to do an INSERT statement to a MySQL database. There's something I'm not understanding here. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I also tried a "do" method, but got the same error. I know the "param" function is loading the values from the form,

Files uploading with 0kb size

2005-07-12 Thread Ron Smith
Hi all, I'm back on the list with another upload problem that's a little baffling to me. I'm using the following script to do multiple uploads. But, after the files are uploaded, they have a file size of 0 KB. And, in the case of text files, the contents of the files are missing. ...anyone fam

Re: error with -T taint checking

2005-07-12 Thread Ron Smith
--- Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Ron Smith wrote: > > > Insecure dependency in open while running with -T > switch at > > C:/www/cgi-bin/upload_save.cgi line 42. > > What do you see on line 42? > > It seems to be in St

error with -T taint checking

2005-07-11 Thread Ron Smith
Hi all, I'm back again with another question. And, thanks for your previous help. This time I'm working my wat through the book "Writing CGI applications with Perl". There's a tutorial that I've done that involves uploading a file and inserting the file name and description in MySQL. Some of y

Re: Form / CGI error

2005-07-07 Thread Ron Smith
--- Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Ron Smith wrote: > > > I'm getting an error when I submit the following > html form to a CGI > > script. > > Let's focus on the script, not the HTML. > > Once you've verif

Form / CGI error

2005-07-06 Thread Ron Smith
Hi all, I'm getting an error when I submit the following html form to a CGI script. I'm too inexperienced to spot the error. So, I'm looking for help from the list. I've already made the changes as suggested from the error log, but I get the same error again. Does anyone have any suggestions for m

Internal Server Error

2005-07-05 Thread Ron Smith
Hi all, I'm running: 'http://localhost/html/inputForm.html' which takes a first name and last name, and submits them to 'http://localhost/cgi-bin/query_string.cgi I get a the following error: -snip-1--- Internal Server Error The server en

Re-starting Apache

2005-07-05 Thread Ron Smith
Hi everyone, My OS stats are: Apache/2.0.52 (Win32) PHP/4.3.10 mod_perl/1.99_18 Perl/v5.8.6 Server at localhost Port 80 This is running on "Win XP Pro". When I try to create a user-defined ENV variable in 'httpd.conf', I'm unable to do a re-start of Apache. The server just won't come back u

Re: error in building perl module--hopefully not OT

2005-06-14 Thread Ron Smith
Jim Garvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ron Smith wrote: >Hmmm..., > >I'm attempting to build and install a perl module on a Win XP box using the >free version of "Borland C++ Builder 6". I seem to have run into a snag. Here >are the particulars: >

error in building perl module--hopefully not OT

2005-06-13 Thread Ron Smith
in the DOS shell: MAKE Version 5.2 Copyright (c) 1987, 2000 Borland Can't find string terminator "@" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1. Does anyone out there have any experience with this error message? TIA Ron Smith

Re: select case or switch statement

2005-06-11 Thread Ron Smith
I used 'perldoc -f switch' and nothing came up. I've done what you suggested and I'm on my way. Thank you very much. R "Ing. Branislav Gerzo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ron Smith [RS], on Saturday, June 11, 2005 at 14:11 (-0700 (PDT)) has on mind: RS>

select case or switch statement

2005-06-11 Thread Ron Smith
Does Perl have the equivalent of a case statement or a switch statement. I'm trying to avoid a bunch of "if-then" statements. I'm seeing posts regarding "use switch", but I want to make sure it's not a deprecated practice. I'm using Perl -v 5.8.0. my $day; if ($day = "mon") { $num = 0; }

Can I safely ignore this error?

2004-12-13 Thread Ron Smith
Using the following input on a Window$ OS: filename.0001.ext filename.0002.ext filename.0003.ext filename.0004.ext filename.0005.ext And, the following script: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; print "\nThis program will change the file name(s) for you.\n\n"; print "What's the current base name

Using 'rename' on the command line

2004-11-11 Thread Ron Smith
I'm trying to rename some files from the command line but nothing gets changed. I think I'm leaving out something; maybe '$_'. Or, I have incorrect syntax. I don't get any error message either. I took a look at 'man rename', but it doesn't show an example of a loop. I'm using the following on th

Re: Extracting Directories and Sub Directories and Counting

2004-11-03 Thread Ron Smith
--- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Smith wrote: > > If I wanted to add more fields to my output, which > construct would I > > use to create more fields; something like the > following? > > > > basenamecountextensionsize >

Re: Extracting Directories and Sub Directories and Counting

2004-11-02 Thread Ron Smith
en things out? Pardon the confusion. Ron Gunnar Hjalmarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ron Smith wrote: > If I wanted to add more fields to my output, which construct would I > use to create more fields; something like the following? > > basename count extension size > > .

Re: Extracting Directories and Sub Directories and Counting

2004-11-01 Thread Ron Smith
Hey Gunnar, and list, ---snip print "\n"; my %HoA; for ( `dir /b/s` ) { push @{ $HoA{$1} }, $2 if /(.+)\\(\w+)\.\d+\.\w+$/; } for my $dir ( sort keys %HoA ) { print join ( "\n", $dir ), "\n\n"; my @basenames = @{ $HoA{$d

Re: Extracting Directories and Sub Directories and Counting

2004-10-29 Thread Ron Smith
7;perldoc perlreftut', but can't see the last step. --- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ replying to the list since that's where the > discussion belongs ] > > Ron Smith wrote (to me privately): > > Thank you *very* much for furthering my &#

Re: Extracting Directories and Sub Directories

2004-10-25 Thread Ron Smith
jalmarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Smith wrote: > > > > > I would like the output to be the following: > > > > C:\Perl\scripts\shots\sp2\shot_1 <--current > directory > > C:\Perl\scripts\shots\sp2\shot_1\sub_directory >

Extracting Directories and Sub Directories

2004-10-25 Thread Ron Smith
The following is the script: ---snip #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use File::Basename; my @lines = dirname `dir /b/s`; print "@lines\n"; ---snip The following is the input: C:\Perl\scripts\shots\sp2\shot_1\dir.t

Broken Subroutine

2004-10-20 Thread Ron Smith
Here's the problem: My input looks like the following: C:\Perl\scripts\shots\sp2\shot_1\dir.txt C:\Perl\scripts\shots\sp2\shot_1\drames.txt C:\Perl\scripts\shots\sp2\shot_1\filename.0001.cin C:\Perl\scripts\shots\sp2\shot_1\filename.0002.cin C:\Perl\scripts\shots\sp2\shot_1\filename.0003.

Extra newline characters.

2004-10-08 Thread Ron Smith
Thanks all. The problem was at the begining of the 'TELNET' session, I have to type in: UNSET CRLF. - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish.

Re: Extra newline characters.

2004-10-08 Thread Ron Smith
ttypu) Does that help? Ron Errin Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 11:11:26 -0700 (PDT), Ron Smith wrote: > I'm working the exercises out of the "Learning Perl" book, but I'm doing so through > a shell account from a Window$ box into a UNIX env

Extra newline characters.

2004-10-08 Thread Ron Smith
I'm working the exercises out of the "Learning Perl" book, but I'm doing so through a shell account from a Window$ box into a UNIX environment. I'm experiencing an oddity wherein I'm getting, what I think are, extra newlines or carriage returns in my code as I type it in the shell through a teln

A possibly stupid 'Perl' question?

2004-06-25 Thread Ron Smith
stalled at all. Is there a way to use Perl on-line from such a machine? Is Perl small enough to be installed on a floppy disk that can be moved from machine to machine? Is it possible to use 'Perl' without having to install it on a particular machine? TIA Ron Smith

Re: Installing the Tk module

2002-08-16 Thread Ron Smith
You can find a compatible and free C compiler at 'http://www.borland.com/'. As far as Perl itself is concerned, you can download ActivePerl from 'http://www.activestate.com'. This Windows version of perl includes the 'Tk' module. If you use the MSI version, you will also need the Windows 2.0 i

Multiple directory handles...?

2002-08-10 Thread Ron Smith
5 if (@ARGV) { 6 foreach $ARGV (@ARGV) { 7 opendir (DIR, "$ARGV") or die "$!"; 8 } 9 } So far, it looks like the last command-line argument is stepping on any other arguments that come before it. Is there a way to assign multiple command-line args t

Multiple directory handles?

2002-08-10 Thread Ron Smith
5 if (@ARGV) { 6 foreach $ARGV (@ARGV) { 7 opendir (DIR, "$ARGV") or die "$!"; 8 } 9 } So far, it looks like the last command-line argument is stepping on any other arguments that come before it. Is there a way to assign multiple command-line args

Re: DELETE BLANK LINE

2001-10-04 Thread Ron Smith
How about: next unless /\S/; Ron >From: Eric Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Pedro A Reche Gallardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: DELETE BLANK LINE >Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 11:05:59 -0700 (PDT) > >Yeah, I think you can use chomp(); >so use foreach $i

Re: Subroutine example

2001-09-10 Thread Ron Smith
Thanks, everybody!! I've declared the $n variable outside the subroutine, as suggested, and everything works fine :-). Ron >From: "Ron Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Subroutine example >Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 14:23:28 -0700 >

Subroutine example

2001-09-10 Thread Ron Smith
Is it just me, or does anyone out there notice that the example subroutine on pg. 57 of "Learning Perl" (Third Edition) doesn't work, as presented? When written like: snip-- #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; sub marine { my $n += 1; # Global variable $n prin

Re: Filehandle error using Strict

2001-09-05 Thread Ron Smith
What is it that you're trying to do with the file? If you just want to read the contents, using 'filehandles' and 'strict', here's one way to do it: ---snip--- #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; open (FILE, "some_file"); while () { print; } close FILE; --

Re: Capture an email address from a text file

2001-09-04 Thread Ron Smith
I don't know how detailed you wanna get with this, but the following will return the line in the text file with the address. -snip-- #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; while (<>) { open (FILE, "some_file_name"); print if /@/; } close FILE; -sn

Re: split a file

2001-08-22 Thread Ron Smith
t;Couldn't create \"sequence_tree.txt\" $!\n"; while () { print DIALIGN if (/DIALIGN/ .. /FASTA/); print FASTA if (/FASTA/ .. /Sequence tree/); print TREE if (/Sequence tree/ .. eof); } close (DIALIGN); close (FASTA); close (TREE); -snip

Re: how do I know what modules are installed

2001-08-16 Thread Ron Smith
use: 'perl -MMODULE_NAME -e 1' for an individual module, like: perl -MFile::Copy -e 1, or perl -MCGI -e 1. For all the modules installed, you might want to check out the following URL: http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg04057.html Ron >From: "Joe Bellifont" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: If Statement won't work

2001-08-04 Thread Ron Smith
The following works for me: --snip- #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $winner = 1; if ($winner == 1) { print "$winner\n"; } --snip- The above yeilds: 1 If you wanted to print "winner", then remove the '$' from the "print" statement ;-). Oh Yeah! ...

Re: How to retrieve filesystem size ?

2001-08-03 Thread Ron Smith
Is this for PC or UNIX?? The following basic works for UNIX: print (`df -k`); # use backquotes Chapter 14 (Process Management) in "Learning Perl". Ron >From: Vincent Bouttier-Deslandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: How to retrieve filesystem size ?

A Munging Project

2001-07-28 Thread Ron Smith
Hi all, I've been handed a project where I have to read the contents of several files, which looks like the following: file.0001.rgb file.0002.rgb file.0003.rgb file.0004.rgb file.0005.rgb file_2.0001.rgb file_2.0002.rgb file_2.0003.rgb then replace the contents of those files with the same in

array contents to a file

2001-07-26 Thread Ron Smith
Could someone provide a snippet of code that reads the contents of an array to a text file. Thanks, Ron _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fo

Re: Which perl book is the best for a newbie?

2001-07-25 Thread Ron Smith
Go with "Learning Perl by: Randal L. Schwartz & Tom Christiansen". But, as in my case, even that was a little advanced. So, another book I would recommend, if needed, would be "Perl A Beginner's Guide by: R. Allen Wyke & Donald B. Thomas". Also another book that's full of goodies is: "Masterin

Request for code review...Please

2001-07-24 Thread Ron Smith
I seem to be stuck on a relatively simple problem, but being a newbie I can't seem to see the STDERR of my ways. To make a short story shorter, the attached bit of code is meant to allow multple users on a networked UNIX enviroment to select which machine they want to create a directory on, bu

Re: Highlihting a string

2001-07-21 Thread Ron Smith
If it's not "CGI.pm you're looking for, try "Term::ANSIColor" module. Ron >From: viswanathan sundararajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Highlihting a string >Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 23:14:03 -0700 (PDT) > >Hi, > I want to highlight a string in my output.For >example consi

Re: Getting Started

2001-06-23 Thread Ron Smith
You can find a suitable 'perl' binary to install on your system at 'activestate.com'. Also, I've found the following two books a great deal of help: Perl A Beginner's Guide R. Allen Wyke & Donald B. Thomas Published by: Osborne Learning Perl by: Randal L. Schwartz & Tom Christiansen Published