Re: How to change @INC

This might work, I have not tried it, but it might. unshift (@INC, "/opt/perl/lib/5.6.1/PA-RISC1.1-thread-multi"); use Fcntl; __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board

Re: confused - if function

It works, but it prints nothing. You are basically dealing with 3 variable here. the first 2 $date1 goes out of scope outside if {} else {}. Simply move your declaration out of the if statement. That is: my $date1 = ""; if ( your condition){ $date1=localtime; } else { . . }; pr

Perl/TK

Hello, I am taking a look at some Ptk codes, and I think I need a to do some reading. So my question is: 1./ What is a good source or reference materials/books on Perl/Tk? 2./ Can anyone recommend a class that will help lower my learning curve (specifically on Perl/Tk). As far as Perl goe

Re: A long time helper needs help

Hello Jenda, I am getting weak on regex. Could you please break this down for me/(.*?-?\d+(?:\.\d+)?)/g That is: my @last_line = ($report[-1] =~ /(.*?-?\d+(?:\.\d+)?)/g); # split the last line into fields (including spaces!) Also, why did you use $report[-1] instead of $report[$

Re: A long time helper needs help

Wow! Thanks a lot. I am going to try to decipher your code and hope you will not mind me asking questions later. >>It's a bit hard to give good suggestions if I do not understand the data. Are all the data yearly like the stuff in page6.prn? The data are bunch of report files, the format

Re: A long time helper needs help

Hello Jenda, Thanks for your response. Now I can concentrate on how to hack the code. What what is your take on how to represent the table entries (cells)? What is the most efficient way to associate each cell with its parent header? That given is: -

A long time helper needs help

Hello, I am currently struggling with this project. I cannot even decide on the best way to implement it, let alone start writing the code. I have a set of tables that look similar to what I have pasted below: (See attached file: page6.prn)(See attached file: page7.prn) I am trying to

creating and/or converting pdf files to screen reader HTML format

Hello, Question 1: How do I convert tables in pdf format to 508 compliant HTML files. Using existing tools in xpdf, I am able to convert pdf files to text, and hence with minimal Perl scripting able to create HTML tables. My boss, however, want these files to be 508 complaint. Are there any

Re: get external process's output *and* return value

Use my $status = $?>>8 >From your code, I could not tell how yoy were running MAKE (you were only processing items in the make file). So Assuming you were running "make -f my_makefile". Then this should do it. #!/opt/local/bin/perl $foo=`make -f my_makefile`; #you could replace line with

Re: Using Getopt::Std

Put quotes around your arguments. Use single quotes if you are not doing variable substitution, and double quotes if otherwise. That is: my_program.pl -s 'will[1]' "$will" __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For a

Re: coping txt files over a peer to peer.

Hello David, Thanks for your the sockets code. I have a few questions though. 1. I realized you used TCP instead of UDP for the protocol. Are there any advantages of one over the other besides the fact the known drawback of standard UDP protocol (i..e, no guarantee to sequencing and unreli

Re: coping txt files over a peer to peer.

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Re: coping txt files over a peer to peer.

Hello David, How would you convert your code to allow a bidirectional communication between the clients and the server without the use of files or named pipes? That is: Client send a request to server, waits for server to respond, Server processes client's request, and send response back to

Re: coping txt files over a peer to peer.

Hello Dzhuo, Your server code will not be able to handle multiple clients. You need to undefine $file after closing the client connection. That is: close(FILE) if($file); close($client); $file = undef;#<-- you omitted this line } __END__ __ Wi

Re: coping txt files over a peer to peer.

I have implemented something similar using named pipes instead of sockets. For send/receive type dialog, you may be better of trying EXPECT. It is very easy to learn, and so cool to use. __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROT

Re: PERL debuggers

No, I love perldebug, I was just wondering if I there were any other "neat tools" unknown to me. __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

PERL debuggers

Are there any free PERL debuggers? I once came across pvdb (a vi-aware front-end for the PERL debugger developed by Tom Christainsen), but I never got it to work. __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional co

Re: case and functions

You can do something like this: my $flip = "something"; SWITCH: { ( $flip =~ /^0$/ || $flip =~ /^1$/ || $flip =~ /^2$/ ) && do { $local_pref = "FL"; last SWITCH; }; ( $flip =~ /^3$/ || $flip =~ /^4$/ || $flip =~ /^5$/ ) && do { $local_pref = "FU"; las

RE: ActiveState ActivePerl 5.8 - system call

Could you please try this: print "Content-type: text/html\n\n$exit_value, $signal_num, $dumped_core\n"; __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: ActiveState ActivePerl 5.8 - system call

You see, with cgi scripting if you attempt to write to the browser without first printing "Content-type: text/html\n\n" You will get an error, and I thing this is what you are seeing. If your "validate.exe" displays any information, you need to somehow capture this, and then figure out in you

Re: What is the source of my input, file or STDIN?

>So, 1. from within perl.script, how can one tell if the input stream is >coming from STDIN or a file that was opened by <>? Use select >2. If input stream is not coming from STDIN, but a file, how can one >tell which file is the current file (assuming multiple files were >specified on the co

Re: Microsoft Services for UNIX/LINUX

Hello, Putty has this: Plink (a command-line interface to the PuTTY back ends) http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html Thanks to all again. I just got came across a documentation for Putty, and it provides an alternative to my original solution. And it is free!!!

Re: Microsoft Services for UNIX/LINUX

Thanks for all your suggestions and comments. I finally settled with PC-ssh. This has a option for sending commands to a server ssh -l {USENAME} -i {public authentication key} {SOME UNIX SERVER} {some UNIX command}. So all I did was to create a batch file on the PC, associate this file with

Microsoft Services for UNIX/LINUX

Hello, The start of another year means new projects and hence more questions. Are there any tools with the capabilities of (SFU 3.0) that allow users to transparently run ?[ULi]nix-based applications (say, shell scripts) from a Windows environment? My current working environment consists of

Web-based calendar script

Hello, I am looking for a Web-based calendar manager, preferably one that uses postgres or mysql, Perl DBI, or plain text. Can anyone recommend one? I mean one that is easy to use and manage. __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAI

xml users group

Hello, Is anyone aware of a group similar to this for XML? __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: pdf2txt

Yes, and thanks to all. xpdf did it. I comes standard with Redhat 8.0, so I did not have do download antthing. Thanks a lot. __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

pdf2txt

I am trying to convert a pdf (and for that matter a postscript) type file to plain text. Response to my earlier mail suggested using File:Slurp, specifically; #!/usr/bin/perl use File::Slurp; use CGI qw/:standard/; $pdf_guts = read_file("/path/to/my.pdf"); - In

convert pdf files to text using Perl

Hello, How do I convert pdf file (Acrobat readable format) to text, or simple read these file types using Perl? Do I treat these file types as binary or what? Any pointers will be appreciated. Thank you, __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board -- To unsubscribe, e-m

Re: Useradd and Passwd

Try echo "secret_number" | passwd or echo "secret_number" | passwd - Where secret_number is the password __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Parse instruction file, with my current program

Hello, This is kind of sloppy, but it is what I have been able to come up with. How can I make this more "cleaner"? The data lines and output are at the end of this mail. Thank you all. Program file: (See attached file: build_inst.pl) Data file: (See attached file: mainadddeck.prn) Outpu

Parse instruction file, with my current program

Hello, This is kind of sloppy, but it is what I have been able to come up with. How can I make this more "cleaner"? The data lines and output are at the end of this mail. Thank you all. Program file: (See attached file: build_inst.pl) Data file: (See attached file: mainadddeck.prn) Output

Parse instruction file

Hello, This is kind of sloppy, but it is what I have been able to come up with. How can I make this more "cleaner"? The data lines and output are at the end of this mail. Thank you all. #!/opt/local/bin/perl #..End include subroutines &check_arguments($#A

Parse instruction file

Hello, I am trying to write a WEB page equation finder for files with the following contents, and I think I am getting stuck (the program runs very slowly, and at times I am not able to get all the variables. So I will very much appreciate any help. Basically, I am trying to generate a Hash of H

Re: Editors

vi, emacs, xedit. Just make sure it is not a word processing package (i.e., Word, WordPerfect, etc). __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

script to download a file. Script to

Hello, I was wondering is anyone will be willing to share a Perl script to download a file with me. I tried the example on CGI::Simple, but I do not know how to make reference to my proxy server "xyx" in the script. What I ended up doing is to set the "http_server" variable outside at the shell.

Re: Execute perl program without seeing the code?

The last time I attempted this, I got soo fraastrated. If you can get perlexe to work, that is the way to go. __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: UNIX Admin and Shell Perl resources

http://www.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/ma-linux __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

checksum implementation in perl

Hello, How do I compute the checksum of a binary file (and for that matter any file) in Perl? What I am trying to automate the download of a set of files. Now what I will love to do is to check if a file has been modified since my last download. I thought a checksum check will be the best way,

automatic non-ftp download

Is anyone aware of a Perl module, script, etc. which can perform an automatic download (similar to lynx)? So say, I want to download and process the contents of the excel file at the following site: http://www.census.gov/indicator/www/m3/adv/table1a.xls With Perls' ParseExcel module, I am able t

perlcc

Hello, Has anyone experimented with perlcc? If so, any pointers to how it works will be appreciated. __ William -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Functional dependency

I got this problem from a friend and was wondering if anyone could help out. The following is a set of functional dependency for a relation R (A,B,C,D,E,F) with A->D, BE->CDF, C->E, D->B where A->D implies A determines D or D is functionally dependent on A. Questions: 1. Compute the closur

Functional dependency

I got this problem from a friend and was wondering if anyone could help out. The following is a set of functional dependency for a relation R (A,B,C,D,E,F) with A->D, BE->CDF, C->E, D->B where A->D implies A determines D or D is functionally dependent on A. Questions: 1. Show with explanation

starting a java bytecode off a server via html code

Hello, Is there a way one could startup a server-side Java applet without logging into the server?. So say I have a Java bytecode sitting at: "http://www.rsma.frb.gov/fof/cgi-bin/JAVA/DigitalClock.class"; How do I start this via an html file? Here is my html code which does not work -

Re: simulating c structures in perl

use Class::Struct; struct STRUCT1 => { a => '$',#a is a scalar b => '$', c => '$', }; $s = STRUCT1->new(); $s->a(1); $s->b(2); $s->c(3); # printf "\na = %d, b = %d c = %d\n\n", $s->a, $s->b, $s->c; __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board --

site blocking software

Hello, Is there a site freeware site blocking software for IE or netscape. I need this for home use. My ISP is hawk.com and I pay 9.00 per month. __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EM

Re: changing $0 on solaris?

I do not think your assertion is correct. You see $0 is the name of the parent program, and $1 ..$9 the name of the arguments to $0. You can modify the arguments ($1 .. $9) but not $0. The only way you can modify $0 is to start a new program. If you could include a copy of your program, t

Re: DNS lookup

Thank you Oliver. This is what I want. It is faster than my nslookup script. Thank you. __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: DNS lookup

Can anyone tell me how to perform a dns lookup using perl? I am using nslookup, what is a better way to do this? Here is a snippet of my code : #!/opt/local/bin/perl %dns = &NSLOOKUP($ARGV[0]); print "\n ip = $dns{Address} host = $dns{Name}\n\n"; #-

DNS lookup

I need to find a way to do a DNS lookup of a list of ips (at least 250 entries), get their corresponding hostnames and produce a report. It sounds very simple, an I implemented it with "nslookup ip" (loop for 250 times). I tried "host -al" (which produces a long list of host, so that with PERL on

Re: Can I use html templates with perl ???

- filename = sample.pl -- #!{location of your perl interpreter} use HTML::Template; my $template = HTML::Template->new(filename => 'test.tmpl'); $template->param( HOME => $ENV{HOME}, PATH => $ENV{PATH}, ); print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n"; print

Re: perl system function

Remember your command ticks. $my_output = `do_something`; __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: silly question

A good forum is the linux forum. Go to www.redhat.com, and join a group in your geographical region. A good forum is [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECT

A training program on pdf scripting

This may be of the topic, but I was wondering if anyone on this list is aware of a training center that offers a course on Adobe pdf programming or scripting. I have been on Adobe's page but could not find anything in this line. Basically what I am looking for is manipulating pdf files (create bo

Re: Can I do better than these configs

Thanks a lot Joseph, and thanks to everyone who took time to respond to my mail. __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Can I do better than these configs

Hello, Putting on hold my current projects, I am thinking about building (upgrading) a PC for home use, so far this is the best configuration I have come up with. I can get a better deal anywhere? Here are my configurations and prices. I am gearing towards Option 2. OPTON 1 Motherboard:

Re: Installing Perl

Basically, if you have the windows installer (InstMsiA.exe), all you need is to download ActivePerl, and double-click on the downloaded file (through My Computer icon). For details, go to this site: http://www.activestate.com/Products/Download/Get.plex?id=ActivePerl and click on "next", then :

querying DNS

Using PERL, how do I dump all the DNS entries of a nameserver? REASON: Given a set of host IPS, I want to come up with a table of IP vrs hostname. I am currently in a DNS environment, so /etc/hosts is of no use. Instead of querying DNS for each IP (using nslookup), I want to query the DNS server

Re: connecting to mysql database ?

my $dbh = DBI->connect ( "DBD:mysql :database=perl :host=localhost",$username,$password) ^^^ | should read DBI::mysql The syntax is: $dbh = DBI->connect(DBI:driver_name:database=database_name, username, password) The default h

Re: Comparing to many possibles

I prefer this $x =~ /^[x-z]$/i; Normally, I will use: my $ans = ( $x =~ /^[x-z]$/i )?"yes":"no"; print "\n\nThe answer = $ans\n"; __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sendmail Problems

Instead of sendmail simply use mail or mailx. See script below. Please make sure you change the From: addy... to a valid email address, you do not want your email server to be black listed. You know what I mean? That's bad. #!/opt/local/bin/perl #---

Re: strip first space

$string =~ s/^\s+//; Removes leading whitespaces $string =~ s/^\s+//g; /g (GLOBALLY) is redundant in the case of "leading whitespages" See PERL Cookbook page 30 for the answer to your question. __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board

Re: Don´t know how to install Perl

Basically, if you have the windows installer (InstMsiA.exe), all you need is to download ActivePerl, and double-click on the downloaded file (through My Computer icon). For details, go to this site: http://www.activestate.com/Products/Download/Get.plex?id=ActivePerl and click on "next", then :

Re: Using format()

#!/opt/local/bin/perl $CUR_TIME=`date "+%B-%Y"`; $TITLE="Annual Report on Car Sales"; select ("STDOUT"); $~ = STDOUT; for ($i = 1; $i <10; $i++) { $color = "Red"; if ( $i % 2 ) { $color = "Blue"}; $col1 = "${color}_car_col_1"; $col2 = "${color}_car_col_2"; $col3 = "${color}_ca

Re: KShell / Perl

Remember, a child process inherits the variables exported by the parent, and not the other way around. So this what I do: export foo="la", bar="bar", koobi="momoni" then in your Perl script, you have read in these variables as: #!/opt/local/bin/perl my $aa = $ENV{foo}; my $bb = $ENV{bar}; my

Re: Book suggestion

My library includes this book, the SAMS, the O'Reilly books and others. Personally, I prefer the SAMS book (Teach yourself Perl in 21 days). Other users who have borrowed these two books, always return the "Quigley" book first. Do not get me wrong, the "Quigley" book is good, but the SAMS book

Re: Illegal seek

I have lost track from who this was originally sent, but this is what I think is wrong with your script (the original script). 1. open requires 2 arguments, you had 1. So you may want to re-write your open stmt as: open FTPSCR, "|ftp -n -v $hostname > ftplog\n"; #insert a comma As a precaut

Re: Unix commands in Perl scripts

If I understood your question, you could use "system" or "command ticks". That is: system("cal") //be careful or $a = `cal`; depending on how you want to treat the output. If you want to manipulate the output, use command ticks. __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reser

Re: Running Perl Scripts

Do this: 1. Open up a terminal session 2. Type "which perl" or to get the location of the Perl interpreter 3. On the very first line of your Perl program, insert the location of the Perl interpreter as determined in 2. In my case, this what I got: momoni:/home/william/bin/PERL_CGI(4)

Re: help with html

If you are really determined to send "an html document via email", you can simply rename the file(remove the .htm[l] extension), send it, and let the recipients rename it back. Alternatively, I will simply send the file in plain ASCII (text) form. Another way is to compress the file, and send i

HTML Template and HTML Mason

I am in the process of inheriting a bundle of Perl/HTML code implemented in HTML:Mason and HTML::Template For ease of maintenance I am planning to simply do away with one. The question is "which one?". I have not done much in Mason, but from what I have read, it sounds very promising and make

Re: fsck

Always fsck your block devices (/dev/dsk/c#t#d#s#) and not your raw device names (/dev/rdsk/c#t#d#s#). That is: fsck /dev/dsk/c0t1d1s1 fsck /dev/dsk/c0t1d1s2 Also, you must be in maintenance or single user mode (linux single). -- Also, please remember to

Re: fsck

Chas wrote: >>How exactly does this relate to Perl? Well most times the Perl developer is forced to be the Systems Admin, and most people on this list use Linux or some flavor of Unix, so I guess the user figured "why not ask people on this list first?". __ William Ampeh (x393

Re: multiple __DATA__ entries possible?-- A cleaner way

#!{location of Perl} # Main Module -- my @array = &one; my @array1 = &two; print "\n This is DATA:\n@array\n\nThis is array1:\n@array1\n\n"; #- BEGIN SUBS - sub one { my @array=(<<"END_DATA" =~

Re: multiple __DATA__ entries possible? -- use (a here document)

The closest you can get is to specify "a here document". That is: my @array=(<<"END_DATA" =~ m/^\s*(.+)/gm) stuff in data more stuff data END_DATA ; my @array1=(<<"END_DATA1" =~ m/^\s*(.+)/gm) stuff in data

Re: $|

Straight from the Perl Cook book. 7.12. Flushing Output (page 248) when printing to a filehandle, output doesn't appear immediately. This is a problem is CGI scripts running on some programmer-hostile web server, where, if the web server sees warning from Perl before it sees the buffered outp

Re: can't print input argument

You want to print the array ARGV and not the variable ARGV For all command line arguments print @ARVG For the first command line argument, print $ARGV[0] __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e

Re: off topic question : simple shell script

This will do the job File starts from the line "#!/bin/bash --- --- #!/bin/bash #-- #AUTHOR: William Ampeh #PURPOSE: Reads input from $1 (a file) and print output to $2 (another f

Re: TCl/Expect Question

This will do it: #!/usr/local/bin/expect -f #exp_internal 1 #<--- you could uncomment this to turn debug mod on set timeout 2 set prompt "(%|#|\\$) $";# default prompt log_user 1 catch {set prompt $env(EXPECT_PROMPT)} eval spaw

Re: Not your average system() question...

I usually do not use system or command ticks. I always pipe the output to STDOUT if I wish to manipulate the output of any system command. Alternatively, you could redirect output to a TEMP file, then read from that file, but "piping" is more efficient. open MY_STDOUT, "{system command} | "

RE: Perl and CGI

A CGI script could be a shell script, a compiled program written in C/C++/PASCAL (I even have a client whose CGI programs were developed in FORTRAN), PERL, PHP, EXPECT, TCL. Basically any program that can run on your WEB server (without going in details). CGI scripts,need not contain: Content-

Re: Illegal character error for blank line.

In Unix, the person has to do two things 1./ On the very first line of the file, he/she has to insert the location of his/her PERL interpreter (the location of the PERL interpreter can be found with "which PERL"). For example; redhat1:/home/(38)% which perl /opt/local/bin/perl

Re: wildcard for unix????

It is chmod -R * -R for recursive __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ma-linux] Just when you thought you are done, the - is there - appears

Thanks to all who responded to my mail, especially Geoff. The best solution, I think, will be for me to throw in a login screen, but this has been ruled out. The IP range solution has lots of question marks, including what Geoff pointed out. I am basically stuck and will need any suggestion (o

Re: [ma-linux] Just when you thought you are done, the - is there - appears

Well, my boss wants to find out if there is a BETTER solution. I do not want to say NO right away, so I figured why not as around? He might be right. There may be an alternative solution. Personally, I wish there is not. Because I have had it with this project. __ William Am

Just when you thought you are done, the - is there - appears

Hello, Is there a better way to solve this? PROBLEM: I have set up a web site for a government big contractor, it currently works fine. The only problem is that WEB server has been configured to allows access to this site based on a range of IP address. If a new organization subscribes to th

Re: writing formats

The trick is to make sure that your output file has the same name as your main format routine. So in my case I have: select ("STDOUT"); and format STDOUT = The STDOUT_TOP is automatically selected at the beginning of each page. Maybe this will help (that is if it is not too late) The out

Perl, Black book

I forgot to mention that I have both the "Perl Cookbook" which was given to me personally by Tom Christainsen and the Lama book. __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board - Forwarded by William Ampeh/BOARD/FRS on 01/28/02 02:02 PM -

Perl, Black book

What do everyone think about this book? Perl Second Edition Black Book By Steven Holzner? Price: $59.99 (41.99 @Amazon) I was at Borders last night PS: Of course the list has been a valuable resource, but I am looking for a very good book on my shelf. Also, what is a very good book on Java-s

Re: directory is not change using "chdir"

This is what happened. The Perl process did change dir, but remember when it ends it goes with all its baggage, so the parent process does not have anything to do with the chdir. Try this: #!/opt/local/bin/perl $dirname = "./TEST"; chdir("$dirname"); #this sets current directory to ./TEST

Re: execution directory

>And this test.pl script uses some other >scripts in directory A to do some processes Are these "scripts" subroutines? How are they "called" by script A? If they are subroutines, simply insert the following line just before they are called: unshift (@INC, "{absolute path of directory A}") Of

sample customer dbms in perl/mysql

Hello, I have just been asked to come up with Perl/Mysql demo on Monday. Considering the short notice, I was wondering if anyone can point me to a freeware WEB-base database system implemented in Perl and Mysql. Thank you. __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board -- To

creating labels in MS ACCESS

Hello all, This might not be the right place for this question, but I trust this group. My boss wants me to create a mailing list from his MS ACCESS database. I am not an MS fun, but I cannot tell him this. So my question is how do I create labels from an ACCESS database. Thanks

Re: Parsing log file line entries

In place of this: if(/.+\[(\S+)\]:\s+SITE|DEVICE\s+(\S+.+)\s+LEVEL\s+(\S+)\s+LOGLEVEL\s+(\S+) \s+STATE\s+(\S+.+)\s+.+$/) Use this: if(/.+\[(\S+)\]:\s+SITE|DEVICE\s+(\S+.+)\s+LEVEL\s+(\S+)\s+LOGLEVEL\s+(\S+) \s+STATE\s+(\S+)$/) It should work for STATE __ William Ampeh (x393

Re: Is there a way to get IP/Host name given the MAC address?

1. SUN without DNS: arp -a 2. SUN with DNS: arp -a; nslookup hostname For Example: % arp -a | grep '00:55:' Net to Media Table Device IP Address Mask Flags Phys Addr -- --- - --- hme0 notsoolate.foo.com 255.255.

Re: Getting System Output in Variable

Use command tick. That is: $my_sys_out = `{SOME COMMAND`}; E.g.: $my_date = `date`; __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can perl connect to database?

A common use of PERL in this respect is with MYSQL. You could also user PERL to create and maintain DBI/DBM databases __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: perldoc

More should have worked, you can try this: perldoc -f some_functions |tee text_file.txt __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: interesting JAPH, how does this work?

Try this: #!/opt/local/bin/perl #!/usr/bin/perl my $A="a"; for(0..285074){ $A++; print" $A:"; } print"\n\n$A\n"; -- This reemphasizes a mail I just read from someone on this list about the need to write "clearly readable" codes. ___

Re: Compile .cgi programs

This is the obvious solution, but one may also ask "what is the '.cgi' written in?" That is, is a Perl cgi, a Shell script cgi, a C cgi, etc. If it is a Shell script cgi, a Perl script, then, of course you will need to make it executable, you also will want to include #!{location of shell} If

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