Re: Please explain forking

2002-06-21 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Fri, 21 Jun 2002 06:30:49 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Langa Kentane) wrote: > I wish to use the fork() function on one of my scripts. I would > like more clarity on the way it works. > > Take for instance the ff code: > > Sub mysub > { > while () > If ($_ eq "SCANME") > { >

Re: Regex Match, double chars

2002-06-21 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
On Wednesday 19 June 2002 21:46, Akens, Anthony wrote: > Thanks for the explanation - breaking it down like that really > helps! > > If no one's guessed yet, I'm using the regex to parse a passwd > file for blank passwords. [...] Speaking of breaking these (regexes) down, I just started working t

Re: Any Site can recommand to me ?

2002-06-21 Thread Jaime Hourihane
roberts perl tutorial search on google -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: using Net::SMTP

2002-06-21 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
Drieux wrote: > > On Thursday, June 20, 2002, at 02:02 , Nate Brunson wrote: > >> is there a way I can get Net::SMTP to return errors that it might >> encounter into a variable, or something? >> so that on the page that pops up after the mail is sent, it can >> display errors if there were a

Re: Formatting

2002-06-21 Thread John W. Krahn
"Shishir K. Singh" wrote: > > Hi, Hello, > I need to format a string in a fixed width field. The string > may be less than the length of the format, or may be greater. > If less, then it should get padded with spaces (left or right > justified , like using - in sprintf), if greater, then the >

Running script.pl on Win2k Server

2002-06-21 Thread A Taylor
Hi all, Firstly, thanks for all your help so far, really great. I have installed Perl on my Windows 2000 Server and can run perl scripts from the command line (which is really cool ;-) !!). The trouble I am having now is that I want to run Perl scripts as part of a web site and I cant figure ou

browsing through directory

2002-06-21 Thread Jayashankar Nelamane Srinivasarao
Hi All Please tell me how to proceeed. I have been successfull with writing the script for going through the directory and executing a command. But I have tried in vain to modify this code to be able to recursively run the command through the whole sub-directories, whichever is there. The follo

Re: Running script.pl on Win2k Server

2002-06-21 Thread A Taylor
Hi David - thanks AGAIN for your help. Wow - I will have to start paying you tution fee's soon !! ha ha Can I ask: >First, post to the cgi-beginners list for CGI questions How do I get myself on this mailing list ?? >Most likely, you need to do some configuration >of the server OH yes -

Chart::Plot

2002-06-21 Thread Konrad Foerstner
Hi folks, I have some problems with the Chart::Plot modul: I started to use the module (http://www.speakeasy.org/~cgires/modules/plot/plot.html) to make some plots. Without any modification I get nice plots, but when I use setGraphOptions() and getGDobject() the trouble begins: When I add an

Re: browsing through directory

2002-06-21 Thread Nigel Peck
I used this to recursively process a directory tree and upload the files via ftp, you should be able to get what you need from it, sub uploadfiles { my($localpath, $remotepath) = @_; (opendir(DIR, $localpath) && print "Processing the " . $localpath . " directory\n") || (print "Fai

Re: Running script.pl on Win2k Server

2002-06-21 Thread Dave K
Anadi, http://lists.perl.org/ will take you to the right place. beginners-cgi is what you are after. Check out dbi-users also. DBI will open access to many other databases (I use Oracle and 2 free ones MySql and Postgresql) -David "A Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">

Re: Chart::Plot

2002-06-21 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
--- Konrad Foerstner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have some problems with the Chart::Plot modul: > > I started to use the module > (http://www.speakeasy.org/~cgires/modules/plot/plot.html) > to make some plots. Without any modification I get nice plots, > but when I use setGra

Re: browsing through directory

2002-06-21 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Fri, 21 Jun 2002 12:16:15 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jayashankar Nelamane Srinivasarao) wrote: > But I have tried in vain to modify this code to be able to > recursively run the command through the whole sub-directories, > whichever is there. use File::Find; -- felix -- To unsubscribe,

RE: Formatting

2002-06-21 Thread Shishir K. Singh
> > Hi, Hello, > I need to format a string in a fixed width field. The string > may be less than the length of the format, or may be greater. > If less, then it should get padded with spaces (left or right > justified , like using - in sprintf), if greater, then the > string should get truncat

Re: homemade virus scanner, is this a good method?

2002-06-21 Thread zentara
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 17:43:29 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John W. Krahn) wrote: >>Zentara wrote: >>I'm starting work on my own virus scanner. >> I'm especially looking for ways to convert to hex more >> efficiently, >my $hexstring = '58354f2150254041505b345c505a'; >my $hexlen = length( $hexstring )

Perl programmer born and bred

2002-06-21 Thread Nigel Peck
Something occured to me the other day and I'm interested to know what people's opinions are on this list. When I'm reading the camel or other Perl books such as Perl and XML, the majority of the humour is related to The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings and The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. These are

calling sub based on database list

2002-06-21 Thread WyvernGod
Ok, I got sorta a hard question that involves calling randomly changing subrutines. What I'm Trying to do is this. 5 libaries are required into my CGI(PERL) program Each of them has their own set of subrutines. Now when someone accesses my site they also send a page referance eg "main.cgi?pag

Free hosting?

2002-06-21 Thread joao silva
Does anybody know where I can find free hosting wich supports CGI? JP, from Brazil. The next World Champion :) _ Send and rec

Re: Perl programmer born and bred

2002-06-21 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jun 21, Nigel Peck said: >Something occured to me the other day and I'm interested to know what >people's opinions are on this list. When I'm reading the camel or other >Perl books such as Perl and XML, the majority of the humour is related >to The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings and The Hitch Hiker

Re: Perl programmer born and bred

2002-06-21 Thread drieux
On Friday, June 21, 2002, at 08:38 , Nigel Peck wrote: [..] > Or is it d, something I shouldn't be wasting my time thinking about so > move on (boring git). There are two official answers here: a) This is a Matter of Religion, if you do not use the Module Religion

Re: calling sub based on database list

2002-06-21 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jun 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >home|&htmlBody,&Header,&homebody,&footer > >So it should get the list of subrutined to call but I can not figure out >how to call them since they are strings and not hard coded into the >code. Basicly I can get the values and print them out but not call >them.

Re: Perl programmer born and bred

2002-06-21 Thread bob ackerman
On Friday, June 21, 2002, at 09:15 AM, drieux wrote: > > On Friday, June 21, 2002, at 08:38 , Nigel Peck wrote: > [..] >> Or is it d, something I shouldn't be wasting my time thinking about so >> move on (boring git). > > IT IS A SCARY PLACE OUT THERE!!! > > ciao > drieux > or 'out there' is

Re: Perl programmer born and bred

2002-06-21 Thread David Winters
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, bob ackerman wrote: >On Friday, June 21, 2002, at 09:15 AM, drieux wrote: > >> >> On Friday, June 21, 2002, at 08:38 , Nigel Peck wrote: >> [..] >>> Or is it d, something I shouldn't be wasting my time thinking about so >>> move on (boring git). >> > > >> IT IS A SCARY PLACE

Re: Perl programmer born and bred

2002-06-21 Thread David Winters
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: >On Jun 21, Nigel Peck said: > >>Something occured to me the other day and I'm interested to know what >>people's opinions are on this list. When I'm reading the camel or other >>Perl books such as Perl and XML, the majority of the humour is related

Tolkien, Hobbits and Perl was Re: Perl programmer born and bred

2002-06-21 Thread drieux
On Friday, June 21, 2002, at 09:07 , Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: [..] First off my complements for the citations from the holy text. Few general purpose perlers go in and read the header files. > Perhaps this is because programmers are of the sci-fi/fantasy book-reading > ilk, and LotR is perhaps

Re: calling sub based on database list

2002-06-21 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok, I got sorta a hard question that involves > calling randomly changing subroutines. Hmm... instantanously the security alarm bell sounds. > What I'm trying to do is this. 5 libaries are required > into my CGI(PERL) program. Each of them has their own > set of

Re: Perl programmer born and bred

2002-06-21 Thread Simon K. Chan
--- Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perhaps this is because programmers are of the sci-fi/fantasy book-reading > ilk, and LotR is perhaps the pinnacle of fantasy. I've read it three > times, and it's probably my favorite book, although sci-fi books like > "Stranger in a Stran

Re: browsing through directory

2002-06-21 Thread John W. Krahn
Jayashankar Nelamane Srinivasarao wrote: > > Hi All Hello, > Please tell me how to proceeed. I have been successfull with writing > the script for going through the directory and executing a command. > > But I have tried in vain to modify this code to be able to > recursively run the command t

Re: Formatting

2002-06-21 Thread John W. Krahn
"Shishir K. Singh" wrote: > > Thanks to Mark, John, David and Timothy!! I get the results if I use the >combination of > > eg $myVar = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP'; > $newVar = pack('A10',$myVar); > $newVar should have 'ABCDEFGHIJ'; # Works and faster than sprintf > > eg $myVar = 'ABCD'; > $newVar =

Re: homemade virus scanner, is this a good method?

2002-06-21 Thread John W. Krahn
Zentara wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 17:43:29 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John W. Krahn) > wrote: > >>Zentara wrote: > >>I'm starting work on my own virus scanner. > >> I'm especially looking for ways to convert to hex more > >> efficiently, > > >my $hexstring = '58354f2150254041505b345c505a'; >

Re: browsing through directory

2002-06-21 Thread John W. Krahn
"John W. Krahn" wrote: > > You should probably use File::Find > > use warnings; > use strict; > use File::Find; > > my $rootdir = 'C:/Temp/Test'; > my @dirs; > > find( sub { -d and # is it a directory? > !/^\.\.?$/ and # don't want . and .. directories >

Simulate `sh -x'

2002-06-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Sometimes I'd like to run a perl program in a similar way as one can run a shell script with the -x switch. Where all commands and actions are printed to tty as the occur. How does one simulate that with perl? I suspect it may be the -d flag (debug) but I have no experience at all with that. It

Re: Perl programmer born and bred

2002-06-21 Thread Greg Matheson
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Nigel Peck wrote: > Perl books such as Perl and XML, the majority of the humour is related > to The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings and The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the > Galaxy. These are my favorite books. Is it > a) a coincidence > b) that they're so popular with people from all