Re: random string

2002-11-27 Thread Mystik Gotan
d (Webmaster Insane Hosts) www.insane-hosts.net MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Payal Rathod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: random string Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 11:04:28 -0600 > Someone please answer this in one word. Which language do

Re: random string

2002-11-27 Thread wiggins
> Someone please answer this in one word. Which language do I start with, > Choices are C, Python, Perl? > "Can't." That is one word :-), aka there is no way to answer your question in one word. Besides you are posting on a perl list, so of course the answer is: Perl. Honestly it totally depen

Re: random string

2002-11-27 Thread Payal Rathod
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:18:06AM +0100, Paul Johnson wrote: > > privately in a article I intend to put on web. > I will be interested to read it. I will mail the URL to the list when it is ready ;-) > I think that if you had been able to explain your situation a little > more, telling us why you

Re: random string

2002-11-26 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 07:46:57PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > By now you will probably have worked out that this community is very > > happy to help people of any ability to improve their Perl skills, but is > > rather reluctant just to hand out ready-made solutions. This is as it >

RE: random string

2002-11-25 Thread Halkyard, Jim
ssage- From: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 November 2002 17:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: random string > You are missing a semi-colon at the end of line 2, and remove the comma > between the filehandle and $string in line 6. Thanks it works now

Re: random string

2002-11-25 Thread '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> You are missing a semi-colon at the end of line 2, and remove the comma > between the filehandle and $string in line 6. Thanks it works now. > The Perl Cookbook is one of series of books on Perl published by O'Reilly. > www.oreilly.com, generally well respected and very popular. If you start Is i

RE: random string

2002-11-25 Thread Halkyard, Jim
f you start with Learning Perl you can't go far wrong IMHO. Jim -Original Message- From: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 November 2002 16:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: random string Hi, Thanks for the mail. > Just copy-paste the followin

Re: random string

2002-11-25 Thread '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Hi, Thanks for the mail. > Just copy-paste the following in a file and save it with the extension .pl I am giving the script I put in my file. I have removed all comments and adjusted the lines. The script now reads, #!/usr/local/bin/perl open PASWDFILE , ">pswdfile" my @chars = ( 'a' .. 'z', 'A'

RE: random string

2002-11-25 Thread Aman Thind
Miss P > Some people say that I have to pay for writing the script. Me > ???what are such ppl doing here anyway??? we're all here to help each other out aren't we ? these ppl are requested to put their hoardings elsewhere... pay and that too for a beginner exerc

Re: random string

2002-11-23 Thread rpayal
Hi, Thanks for the mail. > perldoc -f rand > also, > perldoc perlop Thanks, I will. > If that doesn't work, try asking your professor for help. hehehehehee, I don't have any professor. I am not a student and I never was a computer student. I am just a artist in fashion designing who does Linux as a

Re: random string

2002-11-23 Thread rpayal
Hi, > By now you will probably have worked out that this community is very > happy to help people of any ability to improve their Perl skills, but is > rather reluctant just to hand out ready-made solutions. This is as it *please read the mail in full before commenting on *anything*. * Yep, but th

Re: random string

2002-11-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 08:02:00AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > why would you want to use Perl in the first place? no other alternatives? > Maybe, But I am not a coder at all. > > your problem is straight forward and if you are not familiar with Perl, you > > might want to go with ano

Re: random string

2002-11-22 Thread Tanton Gibbs
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 9:32 PM Subject: Re: random string > Hi, > > why would you want to use Perl in the first place? no other alternatives? > Maybe, But I am not a coder at all. > > your problem is straight forward and if you are not familiar with

Re: random string

2002-11-22 Thread rpayal
Hi, > why would you want to use Perl in the first place? no other alternatives? Maybe, But I am not a coder at all. > your problem is straight forward and if you are not familiar with Perl, you > might want to go with another language. i don't think it will be that hard > right? c/c++? java? shel

Re: random string

2002-11-22 Thread david
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > Thanks for the mails all. > But I haven't got a sentence or even a word. > Please, I am looking for a *script* which will print a random string. > Please someone take trouble of putting the info. in a file so that I can > cut-paste it. > As, I said I know *nothing*

Re: random string

2002-11-22 Thread rpayal
Hi, Thanks for the mails all. But I haven't got a sentence or even a word. Please, I am looking for a *script* which will print a random string. Please someone take trouble of putting the info. in a file so that I can cut-paste it. As, I said I know *nothing* of perl, nothing at all so all those my

Re: random string

2002-11-22 Thread John W. Krahn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, Hello, > I am not at all familar to perl. I want to write a small perl script > which will print a random string of atleast 8 characters. This string I > intend to use as password for my application. > I don't know perl at all. perl is in /usr/local/bin/perl > Th