Re: new window

2002-07-09 Thread charlie strauss
There are two ways to open a new window and fill it with cgi generated output. case 1: you have a web page. someonce clicks a link that is hyperlinked to the cgi. If you ALWAYS will want whatever the cgi returns to go to anew window then in the original page add TARGET = "my_new_page" in

Re: Enumerate Printers

2002-07-09 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Mon, 08 Jul 2002 17:23:15 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith) wrote: > Is there a way to enumerate printers on a NT/W2K print server via > PERL?? It's Perl, not PERL. See perldoc Win32::Netresource especially the second example, which almost does what you want. -- felix -- To unsubs

Request

2002-07-09 Thread Jenda Krynicky
Do use meaningfull subjects !!! Do use meaningfull subjects !!! Do use meaningfull subjects !!! Do use meaningfull subjects !!! Do use meaningfull subjects !!! Do use meaningfull subjects !!! Do use meaningfull subjects !!! Today I deleted 2/3 of the mails that came over night without read

Re: HOW TO capture an EXACT perl command line?

2002-07-09 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 07:50 PM 7/8/02 -0700, charlie strauss wrote: > >as you know, when a perl command runs the arguments on the command > >line are split on whitespace and placed in @ARGV > > > >What I want instead is to know the exact input command line, before > >it is spl

Re: Request

2002-07-09 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Tue, 09 Jul 2002 12:18:16 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jenda Krynicky) wrote: > Do use meaningfull subjects !!! You are absolutely right of course, but please follow your own advice. ('Request' doesn't look that meaningful to me ;-) -- felix -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For ad

RE: Request

2002-07-09 Thread MECKLIN, JOE (ASI)
I somehow doubt this rant will automatically manifest itself into the consciousness of all future senders of subject-deficient emails (and "Request" really doesn't seem any more germane than "Probably impossible"). That also begs the question of what becomes acceptable, and to whom; and how to pr

how to print out a variable if theres a . in it?

2002-07-09 Thread Theuerkorn Johannes
Hello List, I have a (probably) simple problem: I´am parsing trough a directory an want to print out every filename that exists. (later I want to open those files) Problem is, i have filenames like snr_log.csv,repact.csv,,foo.csv,bar.csv all with a period in between... What I get is an error

mod_perl and inheritance

2002-07-09 Thread PURMONEN, Joni
Hello all, I just moved my perfectly functioning script from normal CGI area to mod_perl area and the whole thing stopped working. This is the first time when I am using multiple classes and inheritance in mod_perl and it seems like the inheritance is the culprit. I tried to search the web for

Re:how to print out a variable if theres a . in it?

2002-07-09 Thread jbajin
>>this is verzeichnis.pl # #/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $qis_root = "/home/user1/DiREx/test"; my $SNR_LOG; chdir($qis_root)|| die "can´t change to $qis_root!"; while (defined($SNR_LOG = <*>)){ #print "$dateien\n"; parse_logs($SNR_LOG); } sub parse_lo

RE: how to print out a variable if theres a . in it?

2002-07-09 Thread TomST
change the line print "Yeeehaaa: $_ \n"; to print "Yeeehaaa: $SNR_LOG \n"; and it will work fine. -Original Message- From: Theuerkorn Johannes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 8:10 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: how to print out a variable if theres a . in it?

RE: how to print out a variable if theres a . in it?

2002-07-09 Thread Nikola Janceski
print "Yeeehaaa: $_[0] \n"; would be more correct than $SNR_LOG, else what's the point of the subroutine? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 9:32 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: how to pri

Regex exception

2002-07-09 Thread Ned Cunningham
HI all. A simple question. I need to use a system command to delete all files in a directory except one. Foobar.ldb Barfoo.ldb Raboof.ldb Keep.ldb I want to delete all except the keep.ldb and there could be various other files. I am trying to use this command Any help??? System("erase /f e:

AW: how to print out a variable if theres a . in it?

2002-07-09 Thread Theuerkorn Johannes
Yea, thats it! So the params i givbe to a subroutine are stored in an array? That´s probably why $_ doesn´t work, right? I need the subroutine for later additions. As I told i wan´t to do "foolish things" to the file later,... :-) It´s just a test like it is... -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-

Re: changing %ENV in parent

2002-07-09 Thread David T-G
Peter, et al -- ...and then Peter Scott said... % % At 09:33 AM 7/6/02 -0500, David T-G wrote: % >I want to add to $ENV{'PATH'} in the parent process from my script. % >Generally I know this isn't allowed, but I wonder if there's a way to do % >it. % % No. It's a Unix FAQ and Perl can't do it

RE: Regex exception

2002-07-09 Thread Nikola Janceski
why not use foreach() glob() and unlink() instead so it's all done in perl? foreach $file (glob("e:/dir/*.ldb")){ next if $file =~ /exception pattern here/; unlink($file) or die "Cannot unlink $file: $!\n"; } > -Original Message- > From: Ned Cunningham [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

RE: mod_perl and inheritance

2002-07-09 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: PURMONEN, Joni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 9:21 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: mod_perl and inheritance > > > Hello all, > > I just moved my perfectly functioning script from normal CGI area to > mod_perl area and the w

RE: mod_perl and inheritance

2002-07-09 Thread PURMONEN, Joni
> Need to see the script and the error messages. Is Apache::Registry the handler? Yes it is. The error messages just complain about not being able to locate a given method, which should be inherited (and is inherited if I move the script to CGI area). the script runs to couple thousand lines,

Re: Sorting files by date (contained in file)

2002-07-09 Thread John W. Krahn
Shannon Murdoch wrote: > > Hi all, Hello, > I have a list of 40 or so files that need to be sorted into an array by > article date (found in first line of each file in the form DD-MM-). > I can't figure out how to go about it successfully... Can anyone help me out > please?? > > Thanks in

RE: mod_perl and inheritance

2002-07-09 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: PURMONEN, Joni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 9:55 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: mod_perl and inheritance > > > > Need to see the script and the error messages. Is > Apache::Registry the > handler? > > Yes it is. >

RE: Regex exception

2002-07-09 Thread Nikola Janceski
because you aren't in the dir... you would need chdir($dir) or die "can't chdir to $dir: $!\n"; before all that to work. and that should be unlink or die "$_: $!"; > -Original Message- > From: Jaime Hourihane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 9:58 AM > To: [EMAIL

Re: Regex exception

2002-07-09 Thread Jaime Hourihane
or what about unless... opendir(DIR, $dir) || die .. while() { unless ~= $pattern { unlink or remove here } } -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Regex exception

2002-07-09 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jul 9, Jaime Hourihane said: >opendir(DIR, $dir) || die .. >while() { You can't use <> on dirhandles. >unless ~= $pattern { > unlink or remove here >} And at least try to post well-formed pseudocode. >} -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/

RE: Regex exception

2002-07-09 Thread Jason Frisvold
I do it this way (working in production code): opendir(DIR, "$dir"); while (defined ($filename = readdir DIR)) { next if $filename =~ $pattern; unlink($filename); } } close(DIR); --- Jason H. Frisvold Senior ATM Engineer Engineering Dept. Penteledata CCNA Certifi

Docs on how to use the Win32:ChangeNotify module

2002-07-09 Thread Rupert Heesom
Hi all: I'm trying to put together a little perl script. I'm new to perl, but was shown the Win32:ChangeNotify module as something I could use to watch a directory for new files to act upon. The documentation I have so far on Win32:ChangeNotify is http://search.cpan.org/doc/GSAR/libwin32-0.18/C

Variables and databases

2002-07-09 Thread jffusion
Hi I have my script to generate a random username and password and print it in the browser window Now I need to define the username and password generated so that they are written to the htaccess, htpasswd, and members.db file here is the script # Here we define the variables $htpasswd = 'c:\a

Re: Variables and databases

2002-07-09 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jul 9, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >print 'Username: ', random_string(), "\n"; >print 'Password: ', random_string(), "\n"; > [snip] > ># everything ok, let's write to database and send welcome email >open (DATABASE, ">>$database"); >flock (DATABASE, 2); >print DATABASE "$username|$password\n"; >fl

Re: Variables and databases

2002-07-09 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Now I need to define the username and password generated so that they > are written to the htaccess, htpasswd, and members.db file > > here is the script > > # everything ok, let's write to database and send welcome email > open (DATABASE, ">>$databas

Re: Docs on how to use the Win32:ChangeNotify module

2002-07-09 Thread Jenda Krynicky
> I'm trying to put together a little perl script. I'm new to perl, but > was shown the Win32:ChangeNotify module as something I could use to > watch a directory for new files to act upon. > > The documentation I have so far on Win32:ChangeNotify is > http://search.cpan.org/doc/GSAR/libwin32-0.1

Daemonize a process in Windows

2002-07-09 Thread Scott, Joshua
I've used the daemonize subroutine described in the PERL manpages on Unix to completely disassociate a child process from a parent. Will this process work under a Windows environment? If not, what is the best way to do this? Thank you, Joshua Scott Security Systems Analyst, CISSP 626-568-7024

Re: changing %ENV in parent

2002-07-09 Thread Peter Scott
At 08:37 AM 7/9/02 -0500, David T-G wrote: >Peter, et al -- > >...and then Peter Scott said... >% >% At 09:33 AM 7/6/02 -0500, David T-G wrote: >% >I want to add to $ENV{'PATH'} in the parent process from my script. >% >Generally I know this isn't allowed, but I wonder if there's a way to do >% >i

Re: Variables and databases

2002-07-09 Thread Janek Schleicher
jffusion wrote at Tue, 09 Jul 2002 17:33:35 +0200: > Hi > > I have my script to generate a random username and password and print it in the >browser window > > print 'Username: ', random_string(), "\n"; > print 'Password: ', random_string(), "\n"; > > sub random_string { > > my($string) =

Re: Variables and databases

2002-07-09 Thread Janek Schleicher
Janek Schleicher wrote at Tue, 09 Jul 2002 18:48:00 +0200: > rand($#chars) gives a random > number in the range of 0 .. $#chars-1 Sorry not completely correct, rand($#chars) gives a random number < $#chars, what is in chars[ rand($#chars) ] implicitly rounded down. However, the last element of

Re: Docs on how to use the Win32:ChangeNotify module

2002-07-09 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Tue, 09 Jul 2002 16:01:12 GMT, Jenda Krynicky wrote: > So, your process gets notified if something happens in the directory, > it has to find out what was it by itself. I wonder how one could avoid race conditions when using ChangeNotify. -- felix -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTEC

I need advise Redhat7.1/MYSQL/PERL updates DB on Lotus Notes on NT box

2002-07-09 Thread FLAHERTY, JIM-CONT
I need advise Redhat7.1/MYSQL/PERL updates DB on Lotus Notes on NT box, is this project hopeless ? Any Ideas where to start?

Re: Docs on how to use the Win32:ChangeNotify module

2002-07-09 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Felix Geerinckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Tue, 09 Jul 2002 16:01:12 GMT, Jenda Krynicky wrote: > > > So, your process gets notified if something happens in the > > directory, it has to find out what was it by itself. > > I wonder how one could avoid race conditions when u

Re: Docs on how to use the Win32:ChangeNotify module

2002-07-09 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Tue, 09 Jul 2002 20:26:12 GMT, Jenda Krynicky wrote: > You mean that you get notified of a change, start processing it and > before you have the chance to start waiting again another change > occures but you do not notice it at all? Well I don't really know. I did some additional research i

Re: Docs on how to use the Win32:ChangeNotify module

2002-07-09 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Felix Geerinckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Tue, 09 Jul 2002 20:26:12 GMT, Jenda Krynicky wrote: > > > You mean that you get notified of a change, start processing it and > > before you have the chance to start waiting again another change > > occures but you do not notice it at all? Well I do

Win32::AdminMisc Help!

2002-07-09 Thread Mike Garner
I've got a script that uses Win32::AdminMisc from www.roth.net and when I originally installed the module on Win2K/ActiveState with ppm it worked fine. I need to reinstall the module and www.roth.net appears to be down. When I use ppm to perform the install the install fails with this error:

Avoiding Duplicate Entries

2002-07-09 Thread Scott, Joshua
I'm very new to Perl programming so please bear with me. I'm working on a program that will open up a certain logfile, read the contents, upload certain content to a database and update the status to the same database. The goal is to run this program once a week. Currently the program just uplo

getting a child process's pid

2002-07-09 Thread Daryl J. Hoyt
Hi, I have a problem I can not seem to figure out. I need run an executable from a Perl script and I want it to return the PID for the executable. I looked at the docs for fork(), but if I did something like: if($PID = fork) { system("foo.exe"); } I think it would return the PID for the

RE: seek function call

2002-07-09 Thread William Black
Hi all, I have a quick question about seek(). If I have a file with 100 lines of data and I want to seek to the last line of the file and read it. How is this done? Below is what I'm trying to do. A little help please. File x.pl: a b c d e open(LOG,"x

re: seek function

2002-07-09 Thread William Black
Hi all, Quick question. I have a file that has roughly 100 lines. I want to use the seek function to seek to the end of the file and read the last line into a var and pring it out. Can someone help? Thanks, William Black _

RE: seek function call

2002-07-09 Thread Toby Stuart
change: seek(LOG,0,2); to: seek(LOG,-1,2); hth toby -Original Message- From: William Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 10:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: seek function call Hi all, I have a quick question about seek(). If I ha

Re: seek function

2002-07-09 Thread Andy Lester
> I have a file that has roughly 100 lines. I want to use the seek function > to seek to the end of the file and read the last line into a var and pring > it out. Can someone help? That's not what the seek function does. The seek function finds a specific byte position in a file, and you're

FW: seek function call

2002-07-09 Thread Toby Stuart
Sorry my bad, this doesn't work with lines as Andy Lester pointed out. When i tested it i had a file with one char on each line. My apologies :( Toby -Original Message- From: Toby Stuart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 11:04 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: '[EMAI

Re: Avoiding Duplicate Entries

2002-07-09 Thread John W. Krahn
Joshua Scott wrote: > > I'm very new to Perl programming so please bear with me. I'm working on a > program that will open up a certain logfile, read the contents, upload > certain content to a database and update the status to the same database. > > The goal is to run this program once a week.

Re: getting a child process's pid

2002-07-09 Thread John W. Krahn
"Daryl J. Hoyt" wrote: > > Hi, Hello, > I have a problem I can not seem to figure out. I need run an executable > from a Perl script and I want it to return the PID for the executable. I > looked at the docs for fork(), but if I did something like: > if($PID = fork) > { > system("foo.

Re: seek function call

2002-07-09 Thread John W. Krahn
William Black wrote: > > Hi all, Hello, > I have a quick question about seek(). If I have a file with 100 lines of > data and I want to seek to the last line of the file and read it. How is > this done? Below is what I'm trying to do. A little help please. use File::ReadBackwards; my $bw =

Re: seek function call

2002-07-09 Thread Andy Lester
> http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=File-ReadBackwards Oh, well, if you're going to go looking for CPAN modules, take a look at Mark-Jason Dominus' stellar Tie::File. xoxo, Andy -- 'Andy Lester[EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer/author petdance.com Daddy parsley.org/quinn Jk

Problem adding to @INC

2002-07-09 Thread perl
Hi, I'm very new to perl, although I've used many other languages for CGI/DB programming. I think this must be a simple problem, but I've tried all my reference books without any luck. I've been using some modules I wrote (not using h2x yet) on my test server/work computer without any problem.

How to make the PC Speaker ring a beep sound?

2002-07-09 Thread Connie Chan
Hi all, I am trying to write a script for sound alarm function. I've tried use print "\a", but that goes too strange... the sound output goes out by my sound card. So would you tell if that's the normal result of print "\a" ? Actually, I hope the sound output is by my PC speaker. and I would

Re: How to make the PC Speaker ring a beep sound?

2002-07-09 Thread victor
print chr(7); Tor. Connie Chan wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am trying to write a script for sound alarm function. > > I've tried use print "\a", but that goes too strange... > the sound output goes out by my sound card. So > would you tell if that's the normal result of print "\a" ? > > Actuall

Re: How to make the PC Speaker ring a beep sound?

2002-07-09 Thread Connie Chan
Thanks alot Victor, but... doesn't chr(7) is actually "\a" ? =) Rgds, Connie - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Connie Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 11:54 AM Subject: Re: How to make the PC Speaker ring a beep sound?

Re: executables

2002-07-09 Thread PayalR
Hi, Thanks for the mail. On Sunday 07 July 2002 11:04 pm, Jenda Krynicky wrote: > There is PerlApp and Perl2Exe. > > PerlApp is part of the ActiveState Perl Development Kit - > http://www.activestate.com/Products/Perl_Dev_Kit/ What is PerlApp > Perl2Exe is sold by IndigoStar - http://www.in

Date and Time

2002-07-09 Thread jffusion
Hi I'm trying to get my script to recognize the date and time. I thought I had it but I keep getting errors all over. Please take a look and tell me whats wrong Thanks # Here we define the variables use strict; my $htpasswd = 'c:\apache\htdocs\members\.htpasswd'; my $database = 'c:\apache\me

Date and Time

2002-07-09 Thread jffusion
Hi I'm trying to get my script to recognize the date and time. I thought I had it but I keep getting errors all over. Please take a look and tell me whats wrong Thanks # Here we define the variables use strict; my $htpasswd = 'c:\apache\htdocs\members\.htpasswd'; my $database = 'c:\apache\m

Read and write staroffice spreadsheet.

2002-07-09 Thread dannyqchen
Hi, I am working on Sun Unix system. I want to use Perl to do the following tasks: 1) Automatically detect the new spreadsheet files (from staroffice, could be in .csv format) in a specified directory. 2) Locate a specified column in the spreadsheet. 3) Extract the column, clean it, and save th

help dereferencing arrayref so I can put the value into a hash

2002-07-09 Thread Zachary Buckholz
I understand how to use a foreach on a reference to an array as follows: my $avg_resp_time = get_avg_resp_time($durations, $url_id); foreach my $avg_resp(@$avg_resp_time) { print "AVG = $avg_resp\n"; } But how do I directly access one array value from the reference to the array? print "

Re: Date and Time

2002-07-09 Thread victor
are you trying to get the localtime in readable format? if so try this print scalar(localtime); Tor. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi > > I'm trying to get my script to recognize the date and time. > I thought I had it but I keep getting errors all over. > > Please take a look and tell me

RE: help dereferencing arrayref so I can put the value into a hash

2002-07-09 Thread Toby Stuart
Funny. This simple test works for me: use strict; use warnings; my $t = &fun; print @$t[0]; # prints a sub fun { my @arr = qw(a b c d e); return \@arr; } hth Toby -Original Message- From: Zachary Buckholz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 4

Re: Date and Time

2002-07-09 Thread Connie Chan
Do you want$date = "@months[$mon]/$mday/$year"; or $date = "$months[$mon]/$mday/$year"; Rgds, Connie - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 10:57 AM Subject: Date and Time > > Hi > > I'm trying to get my script t