How to install Perl At Win 2000

2002-04-08 Thread Rosa malliber
Halo all, i want install perl at windows 2000, so what can i do ? some body help me, step by step installation perl at windows 2000 Please. Tx's Best Regard's Rosa _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.c

RE:How to remove 3 lines from a file

2002-04-08 Thread Jorge Goncalvez
Hi, I have a file like this: . # PXE Class vendor-class "PXEClient" { default-lease-time 1800; max-lease-time 1800; option dhcp-class-identifier "PXEServer"; filename "/bootp/linux/3.0/alize/startup.txt"; option vendor-encapsulated-options

Re: How to install Perl At Win 2000

2002-04-08 Thread Sudarsan Raghavan
Rosa malliber wrote: > Halo all, > > i want install perl at windows 2000, so what can i do ? > some body help me, step by step installation perl at windows 2000 http://www.activestate.com/Products/Download/Get.plex?id=ActivePerl&a=e > > Please. > > Tx's > > Best Regard's > Rosa > > __

Re: perllocal.pod

2002-04-08 Thread peter grotz
hi Rob, I´ve got the same problem. All perl-moduls installed from rpm (here yast from my SuSE-distrib does the rpm-install) are not in the perllocal.pod. Now I´m using for installations of my cpan loaded tar-moduls webmin (made by Jamie Cameron look at www.webmin.com) and this works great! Pete

Re: Scope of variables. Lost in subs

2002-04-08 Thread Tor Hildrum
On 8/4/02 9:15, "Tor Hildrum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here are some of the error messages I get: > Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) at script.cgi line 55. > Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) at script.cgi line 55. > Can't open : No such file or directory Full so

Send binary file along socket conection

2002-04-08 Thread paul beckett (JIC)
I would like to send an excel file (binary file) down a socket connection. I'm at a loss as to how to do this. I've looked in a number of books (O'reilly, Programming perl , Advanced Perl etc.) but haven't seen any non-text examples. Can anyone tell me how I can do this? Regards, Paul -- To u

Re: Yesterday's date

2002-04-08 Thread Dave Cross
On Mon, 08 Apr 2002 02:04:10 +0100, Troy May wrote: > What's the easiest way to get yesterday's date from localtime? I need > it in this format: (for today) "070402". > > Here is the code used for today's date: > > ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,undef,undef,undef) = localtime(); > $mon++;

read and write to same file

2002-04-08 Thread Arvind Baldeo
Hi All, Can some one please look at my code ad see what I am doing wrong. For some reason it is not working. The idea is to search the file using the commandline argument. It is supposed to read the file and if a match is found, it outputs to another file. If a match is not found is appends th

Re: read and write to same file

2002-04-08 Thread Sudarsan Raghavan
Arvind Baldeo wrote: > Hi All, > > Can some one please look at my code ad see what I am doing wrong. > > For some reason it is not working. The idea is to search the file using the > commandline argument. It is supposed to read the file and if a match is > found, it outputs to another file. If a

Re: Scope of variables. Lost in subs

2002-04-08 Thread zentara
On Mon, 08 Apr 2002 11:00:54 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tor Hildrum) wrote: >On 8/4/02 9:15, "Tor Hildrum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Here are some of the error messages I get: >> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) at script.cgi line 55. >> Use of uninitialized value in concatena

Re: read and write to same file

2002-04-08 Thread John W. Krahn
Arvind Baldeo wrote: > > Hi All, Hello, > Can some one please look at my code ad see what I am doing wrong. > > For some reason it is not working. The idea is to search the file using the > commandline argument. It is supposed to read the file and if a match is > found, it outputs to another

RE: Variable question

2002-04-08 Thread David Gray
> I believe it is as simple as: > > $count = () = $string =~ /,/g; I can't seem to get my brain around what's happening here... would someone be kind enough to explain? -dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sybase stored procedure

2002-04-08 Thread Rune Hegrenes
Hi I'm trying to execute a stored procedure in my database from Perl. I seen get only the first resultset from the procedure, not the rest (the procedure returns 4 resultsets). How do I do this? I'm using the DBI::Sybase package. Is there any documentation on this package? Rune

Re: Sybase stored procedure

2002-04-08 Thread Chas Owens
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 09:39, Rune Hegrenes wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to execute a stored procedure in my database from Perl. > I seen get only the first resultset from the procedure, not the rest (the procedure >returns 4 resultsets). > How do I do this? > > I'm using the DBI::Sybase package.

RE: How to install Perl At Win 2000

2002-04-08 Thread Timothy Johnson
Go to http://www.activestate.com and download ActivePerl. Installing it really doesn't take much. 1. Run the MSI file. 2. Keep all of the default installation options, unless you want to change the directory it installs to, in which case click on the "browse" button when you see it. 3. Clic

RE: Scope of variables. Lost in subs

2002-04-08 Thread Timothy Johnson
Another thing to remember is that declaring a variable with my() at the top of your script does NOT make the variable global. It loses scope in subroutines. The easiest way to get around this is to pass variables to your subs by reference. Consider the example below, which passes a reference

Re: Sybase stored procedure

2002-04-08 Thread Adam Turoff
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 03:39:34PM +0200, Rune Hegrenes wrote: > I'm trying to execute a stored procedure in my database from Perl. > > I seen get only the first resultset from the procedure, not the > rest (the procedure returns 4 resultsets). > > How do I do this? > > I'm using the DBI::Sybase

RE: How to remove 3 lines from a file

2002-04-08 Thread David Gray
> Hi, I have a file like this: > > . > # PXE Class > vendor-class "PXEClient" { > default-lease-time 1800; > max-lease-time 1800; > option dhcp-class-identifier "PXEServer"; > > filename "/bootp/linux/3.0/alize/startup.txt"; > option vendor-encapsulate

Re: Scope of variables. Lost in subs

2002-04-08 Thread drieux
On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 07:28 , Timothy Johnson wrote: [..] > If you just pass the value, > then any operations performed on your variable in the subroutine will be > destroyed when the sub exits. This way you will be performing all > operations on the original variable, allowing you to cha

Importing package symbols

2002-04-08 Thread p
Hi, I've got a file with a bunch of subroutines, wrapped up in a package. I can load up the package from my main program (using lib), and access the subs in a foo::bar() kind of way. But I'd like to access them just as bar(), i.e. import the symbols or whatever. Problem is that the usual Expor

Directory

2002-04-08 Thread Mayank Ahuja
Hi Group Which module should i use to do tasks like: Determining the number of elements in a directory. Making a new directory. Deleting a directory. Thanks in advance -- Regards Mayank "The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra"

Re: Importing package symbols

2002-04-08 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... Jonathan edited: > package TestUtil; Nope... not if you are using: > use wcppe::TestUtil('test_msg'); in the script. They have to match. The prefered way to write that use is: use wcppe::TestUtil qw(test_msg); since you can add extras in easily. Jonathan Paton

Re: Directory

2002-04-08 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> Which module should I use to do tasks like: You don't have to... > Determining the number of elements in a directory. perldoc -f opendir perldoc -f readdir perldoc -f closedir perldoc -f rewinddir > Making a new directory. perldoc -f mkdir > Deleting a directory. perldoc -f rmdir but you

RE: Scope of variables. Lost in subs

2002-04-08 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: "Timothy Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Another thing to remember is that declaring a variable with my() at > the top of your script does NOT make the variable global. Right. > It loses > scope in subroutines. Wrong. If you declare a variable with my() its scope will be from the decl

RE: Scope of variables. Lost in subs

2002-04-08 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> > It loses > > scope in subroutines. > > Wrong. > > If you declare a variable with my() its scope will be from the > declaration to the end of the enclosing block. Which for variables > declared outside any {} block or eval"" means ... to the end of the > file. > Wrong. You forgot abo

Re: Variable question

2002-04-08 Thread bob ackerman
On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 06:24 AM, David Gray wrote: >> I believe it is as simple as: >> >> $count = () = $string =~ /,/g; > > I can't seem to get my brain around what's happening here... would > someone be kind enough to explain? > > -dave $string =~ /,/g; that finds all occurrences of

RE: Scope of variables. Lost in subs

2002-04-08 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: "Jonathan E. Paton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > It loses > > > scope in subroutines. > > > > Wrong. > > > > If you declare a variable with my() its scope will be from the > > declaration to the end of the enclosing block. Which for variables > > declared outside any {} block or eval"" mea

RE: Scope of variables. Lost in subs

2002-04-08 Thread Timothy Johnson
Oops. My bad. I wonder how much extra work that one's cost me... -Original Message- From: Jenda Krynicky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 8:49 AM To: Timothy Johnson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Scope of variables. Lost in subs From: "Timothy Johnson" <[E

Re: Directory

2002-04-08 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Apr 8, Jonathan E. Paton said: >> Which module should I use to do tasks like: > >> Deleting a directory. > >perldoc -f rmdir You might want to use the File::Path module (for the rmtree() function) to delete non-empty directories. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www

RE: Scope of variables. Lost in subs

2002-04-08 Thread Timothy Johnson
Yep. I guess I'm still a little groggy. I think this whole "Spring Forward" thing is a bit of a misnomer. -Original Message- From: drieux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 8:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Scope of variables. Lost in subs On Monday, Ap

RE: Microsoft Access/Running program as a service on Win2k

2002-04-08 Thread Timothy Johnson
Oops. I think that was DBD, not DBI. -Original Message- From: Timothy Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 11:51 AM To: 'Dan '; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Microsoft Access/Running program as a service on Win2k To access (no pun intended) the Access dat

RE: Scope of variables. Lost in subs

2002-04-08 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
--- Jenda Krynicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Jonathan E. Paton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > It loses > > > > scope in subroutines. > > > > > > Wrong. > > > > > > If you declare a variable with my() its scope will be from the > > > declaration to the end of the enclosing block. Whic

RE: Scope of variables. Lost in subs

2002-04-08 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: "Jonathan E. Paton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Jonathan... nul point - my Eurovision song contest > attempt would be less than that though. Yes, Jenda is > right, and I'm wrong (again). Oh well, I do remember > reading that. A it feels so god to be right ;-) And well ... I used to sin

DBI results help

2002-04-08 Thread rory oconnor
I'm trying to write some queries to export MySQL information to a file, and I'm a bit of a newbie. I'm querying the database for fieldnames, and then field data. then I want to write the data to a file in a sort of key:value format: [fieldname]:[field data] for example... SKUID:AF332 NAME:Jes

Re: Variable question

2002-04-08 Thread Chas Owens
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 12:00, bob ackerman wrote: > > On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 06:24 AM, David Gray wrote: > > >> I believe it is as simple as: > >> > >> $count = () = $string =~ /,/g; > > > > I can't seem to get my brain around what's happening here... would > > someone be kind enough to ex

Re: Variable question

2002-04-08 Thread bob ackerman
On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 10:40 AM, Chas Owens wrote: > On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 12:00, bob ackerman wrote: >> >> On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 06:24 AM, David Gray wrote: >> I believe it is as simple as: $count = () = $string =~ /,/g; >>> >>> I can't seem to get my brain around

Not reading an array properly

2002-04-08 Thread Michael D. Risser
I have an array that contains some filenames that I wish to check for, however I don't seem to be checking the array, at least not in the manner I expect ;-) Here's the relevant offending code: my @lsLib = ("libListTree.a", "libXpm.a", "libfalk.a",

Re: Not reading an array properly

2002-04-08 Thread bob ackerman
On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 11:21 AM, Michael D. Risser wrote: > I have an array that contains some filenames that I wish to check for, > however > I don't seem to be checking the array, at least not in the manner I expect > ;-) Here's the relevant offending code: > > my @lsLib = ("libListTre

Re: Variable question

2002-04-08 Thread Chas Owens
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 14:37, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > "Chas" == Chas Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> There is no meaning for "list in a scalar context", so your statement > >> makes no sense. > > Chas> my $some_scalar = () = /\s/g; > > Chas> I emphasize again, that is how I _r

Variables and Modules

2002-04-08 Thread Kevin Old
Hello all, Quick question about variables. I am editing a few scripts written by another programmer and he programs every variable surrounded in brackets, like ${var_name}. Is there any advantage to this? The only reason I can think that he is doing this is because of the module that is

RE: Variable question

2002-04-08 Thread David Gray
> $count = () = $string =~ /,/g; > >> > >> $string =~ /,/g; > >> > >> assigns the result in a list context - the anonymous list '()'. by > >> assigning this to a scalar, $count, we get a value that is > the size > >> of the list, which is the number of matches that the regex > made. that

Re: Not reading an array properly

2002-04-08 Thread Michael D. Risser
On Monday 08 April 2002 11:46 am, bob ackerman wrote: > On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 11:21 AM, Michael D. Risser wrote: > > I have an array that contains some filenames that I wish to check for, > > however > > I don't seem to be checking the array, at least not in the manner I > > expect ;-) Her

RE: Variables and Modules

2002-04-08 Thread Nikola Janceski
Perhaps he/she smoked lots of crack and had a hard time seeing the variables and liked to use emacs for syntax highlighting. Or perhaps he/she had too much crack and was confused if the script should really be a Makefile. > -Original Message- > From: Kevin Old [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >

Re: Scope of variables. Lost in subs

2002-04-08 Thread Tor Hildrum
Thanks to everyone who replied. I got enough information to solve the problem, and then some more :) Tor -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Timed Redirection between Subs

2002-04-08 Thread @fro @ndy
Hay I have a Message Board and i have 2 subs: 1 for the actuall message baord and 1 for the posting of the entries to a text file. Here is a basic example of what i have (I have not put the proper html and that in as this message would be too long): if ($in{'action'} eq "") {&default;} elsif($i

Re: Not reading an array properly

2002-04-08 Thread John W. Krahn
"Michael D. Risser" wrote: > > I have an array that contains some filenames that I wish to check for, however > I don't seem to be checking the array, at least not in the manner I expect > ;-) Here's the relevant offending code: > > my @lsLib = ("libListTree.a", >"libXpm.a",

HTML::CalendarMonth

2002-04-08 Thread Kingsbury, Michael
I want to use the HTML::CalendarMonth module, and set some of the days of the week as hyperlinks to another location. Replacing the comments with the tag doesn't work, as it seems to escape the tag. Anyone done this? -mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: Variables and Modules

2002-04-08 Thread John W. Krahn
Kevin Old wrote: > > Hello all, Hello, > Quick question about variables. I am editing a few scripts written by > another programmer and he programs every variable surrounded in brackets, > like ${var_name}. > > Is there any advantage to this? If you are interpolating a variable in a text str

Re: Variable question

2002-04-08 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Chas" == Chas Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chas> With the downside that you have an array that you never use. Using () Chas> to force list context is one of those strange little quirks that you Chas> just get used to. These days I read () as the array equivalent of Chas> scalar().

RE: Variables and Modules

2002-04-08 Thread Kinzer Tom J
probably he was following some kind of house standard or was used to doing it that way with shell script, in which is a little more common. the reason remains the same, you can see when the variable name starts and stops, that's all. > -Original Message- > From: Kevin Old [SMTP:[EMAIL PR

Re: Not reading an array properly

2002-04-08 Thread Michael D. Risser
Thanks! That did the trick, I *KNEW* there had to be a better way to do it, I just didn't know what it was :-) On Monday 08 April 2002 01:43 pm, John W. Krahn wrote: > > sub check() { > > my ($dir,@toCheck) = @_; > > my $last = @toCheck; > > my $i; > > my $valid;

Re: Not reading an array properly

2002-04-08 Thread bob ackerman
On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 12:09 PM, Michael D. Risser wrote: > On Monday 08 April 2002 11:46 am, bob ackerman wrote: >> On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 11:21 AM, Michael D. Risser wrote: >>> I have an array that contains some filenames that I wish to check for, >>> however >>> I don't seem to

Re: Variable question

2002-04-08 Thread bob ackerman
On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 12:15 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> "Chas" == Chas Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Chas> I emphasize again, that is how I _read_ it. I know that there is no > Chas> array() and I know why, but that doesn't change how I read things. > This > Chas> hac

Concatenation

2002-04-08 Thread Ho, Tony
Hi guys I was wondering if you could help me. In my perl code, I am reading a file with the following line: 123000 There are 3 spaces before 123000. I unpack the values into 2 variables, A and B A is assigned the 3 spaces and B is assigned the value 123000. I have another variable C which i

DBD for mySQL

2002-04-08 Thread Bob T
WinXp Crashed my D: drive and I had most everything backup.. So when I reinstalled ActivePerl 5.6.xx I downloaded via PPM (perl package installer) the DBI, DBIx::AnyDBD but could not find DBD:mysql. Where is the package for Windows.. I did find, at CPAN, the mysql.gz.tar version which I use

Re: Concatenation

2002-04-08 Thread bob ackerman
On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 12:01 PM, Ho, Tony wrote: > Hi guys > I was wondering if you could help me. > In my perl code, I am reading a file with the following line: > >123000 > > There are 3 spaces before 123000. > I unpack the values into 2 variables, A and B > A is assigned the 3 spac

Re: Concatenation

2002-04-08 Thread Paresh Kakrecha
Try this print NEW_FILE "$C'$A'$B"; -Paresh. At 08:01 PM 4/8/2002 +0100, Ho, Tony wrote: >Hi guys >I was wondering if you could help me. >In my perl code, I am reading a file with the following line: > >123000 > >There are 3 spaces before 123000. >I unpack the values into 2 variables, A an

extra space

2002-04-08 Thread Bryan R Harris
This list is for beginners, right? =) I read in a file, then strip all lines that start with "#" or "\n". When I print them out, though, the first line is left justified correctly but the rest have a single space in front of them. Any ideas why? $file = "somefile.dat"; open (FILE, $file) ||

RE: extra space

2002-04-08 Thread Timothy Johnson
When you do a print, the default record separator used by Perl is a space. When perl interpolates an array within a string, it places the record separator between each record. If you take out the double-quotes around @comments, you will get the output you are looking for. -Original Message-

Re: Variable question

2002-04-08 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Chas" == Chas Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> There is no meaning for "list in a scalar context", so your statement >> makes no sense. Chas> my $some_scalar = () = /\s/g; Chas> I emphasize again, that is how I _read_ it. I know that there is no Chas> array() and I know why, but tha

Re: extra space

2002-04-08 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Apr 8, Bryan R Harris said: >I read in a file, then strip all lines that start with "#" or "\n". When I >print them out, though, the first line is left justified correctly but the >rest have a single space in front of them. Any ideas why? The reason is because you did: >print "@comments";

Re: extra space

2002-04-08 Thread bob ackerman
On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 05:10 PM, Bryan R Harris wrote: > open (FILE, $file) || die("Couldn't open $file: $!\n"); > @_ = ; > close(FILE); > while ($_[1] =~ /^[#\n]/) { push(@comments, shift(@_)); } > print "@comments"; seems unnecessary to create an array then print each element. just p

Parsing formdata from one CGI script to the next.

2002-04-08 Thread Daniel Falkenberg
Hello All, Is it possible to parse form data from one CGI script to another one. What I want to do is have a user login to a page. From their I the user to select on a link then that link will take them to another CGI script. In this new CGI script I need that to contain some information of th

Re: extra space

2002-04-08 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Apr 8, Bryan R Harris said: >$file = "somefile.dat"; >open (FILE, $file) || die("Couldn't open $file: $!\n"); >@_ = ; >close(FILE); >while ($_[1] =~ /^[#\n]/) { push(@comments, shift(@_)); } >print "@comments"; This is a rather bizarre way to do this task, by the way. It also fails in some

Answer to my own question --> Re: Parsing formdata from one CGIscript to the next.

2002-04-08 Thread Daniel Falkenberg
Hey all, For any one that cares... :) I simply told the hyperlink/submit button to point to the new CGI script and parse on the data I wanted it to like so... /cgi-bin/newcgi.cgi?data=$data Very very easy! Cheers, Dan On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 10:52, Daniel Falkenberg wrote: > Hello All, > > I

Re: Parsing formdata from one CGI script to the next.

2002-04-08 Thread Tagore Smith
Daniel Falkenberg wrote: > Hello All, > > Is it possible to parse form data from one CGI script to another one. > What I want to do is have a user login to a page. From their I the user > to select on a link then that link will take them to another CGI > script. In this new CGI script I need t

regular expression to get a file extension

2002-04-08 Thread Ahmed Moustafa
I had the following regular expression to get the extension from a file name: $extension = $filename; $extension =~ s/(^.+\.)([^\.]+)$/$2/; But it didn't work (in case the $filename didn't have an extension); so I had to add the following line: $extension = "" if (!$1); What is wrong wit

Re: DBI results help

2002-04-08 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
rory oconnor [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>I'm trying to write some queries to export MySQL information to a file, *>and I'm a bit of a newbie. I'm querying the database for fieldnames, *>and then field data. then I want to write the data to a file in a sort *>of key:value format: *> *>and I gues

Re: Variable question

2002-04-08 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Chas" == Chas Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chas> I emphasize again, that is how I _read_ it. I know that there is no Chas> array() and I know why, but that doesn't change how I read things. This Chas> hack forces the far left hand bit to return as a list (by making Chas> wantarray r

Password Encryption for MySQL field

2002-04-08 Thread rory oconnor
I'm writing a small perl script that will help web users manage an "account" (i.e. their record in a mysql table). I want to store their password in a field, but I don't want to store it in regular text. I'm not sure if this is a perl or MySQL function, but I think there is some method of "encry

Re: DBD for mySQL

2002-04-08 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Bob T [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *> Will someone point me to the Win module for DBD:mysql.. The CPAN FAQ, http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html, lists a number of resources for ActivePerl modules. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: regular expression to get a file extension

2002-04-08 Thread John W. Krahn
Ahmed Moustafa wrote: > > I had the following regular expression to get the extension from a file > name: > > > $extension = $filename; > $extension =~ s/(^.+\.)([^\.]+)$/$2/; > > > But it didn't work (in case the $filename didn't have an extension); so > I had to add the following line: > >

Re: Password Encryption for MySQL field

2002-04-08 Thread Luke Davison
Rory, I would recommend using MySQL's buit in password() function: INSERT INTO user ( username,password ) VALUES ( 'someuser', password( 'plaintextpasshere' ) ); SELECT ( username, password ) FROM user WHERE username='someuser' AND password=password( 'plaintextpass' ); Regards, Luke Davison --

log-in/out w/o cookies

2002-04-08 Thread Four Hewes
Folks, A basic question about implementing user authentication by means of CGI (and Perl if recommended): I haven't found a script online or in a book that will do what I want (see below). HTTP Basic Authentication doesn't provide for explicit log-out. I'd rather not use cookies so users behi

Re: log-in/out w/o cookies

2002-04-08 Thread fliptop
Four Hewes wrote: > My criteria: > > I. Account structure I want: > unique user accounts > users are members of groups (a la Unix) > use of HTTP's ".passwd" is OK > > II. Platform I'd use: > OS: Win, Unix, or Linux > Server: Apache or IIS > Dev.: MacPerl5 > > III. Security of log-in: > secure

form and frames - HELP !!!

2002-04-08 Thread Aman Raheja
Hi everyone I have a situation here. I have to do it this way, becuase that's how the framework is. When I submit a form, it is processed by abc.cgi. Now this abc.cgi has to be a frame. The main page is xyz.cgi, with a header, a left frame and output of abc.cgi, as the right part of the frame pa

Re: Password Encryption for MySQL field

2002-04-08 Thread Ron
This is my two-bits on your question. I hope this helps. Ex: ENCODE('str', 'password') str is the string of the chosen password and password is the mySQL encryption password for encoding/decoding the password string. ENCODES returns a binary string and may be decoded with DECODE(). You should

Tk::grid

2002-04-08 Thread Mayank Ahuja
Hi Group Can somebody help me in locating Tk::grid module? i couldn't find the same on CPAN search site. Thanks in advance. -- Regards Mayank "The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra" -Anon -- T