Re: Validate String w/required period

2003-10-03 Thread Rob Dixon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm trying to validate if a string contains \w and required atleas one > period (.) By \w do you mean just whitespace or '\\w'? > This one check but does not require a period. Can someone change > it please? > > sub isValidDomain { return shift =~ /^[\w\.]{3,}$/ } -

Re: easiest `cat` in perl

2003-10-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Bryan" == Bryan Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> use File::Copy; >> copy "header.incl", \*STDOUT; Bryan> I like this, it's very clean. Bryan> Unfortunately I'm having trouble using it in a cgi script... Bryan> ** Bryan> #!/usr/bin/perl -w Bryan>

Re: show job status

2003-10-03 Thread Shaun Fryer
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:44:37AM -, PerlDiscuss - Perl Newsgroups and mailing lists wrote: > Hi, > > I have a CGI script that takes some time to finish searching the DB. In > the meanwhile, how do I show that the job is being processed? > > I tried just simple printing the same, but it wou

initialising a list of variables

2003-10-03 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi folks I've got a query about variable initialisation. I want to initialise a list of variables to an empty string, but I'm having troubles. What's the best wat to do this? If I use the following I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gary]$ cat t #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $fred=$ginger=''; pr

RE: initialising a list of variables

2003-10-03 Thread Bakken, Luke
> but if I use: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] gary]$ cat t > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > > use strict; > > my ($fred,$ginger)=''; > > print "fred=$fred\n"; > print "ginger=$ginger\n"; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] gary]$ ./t > fred= > Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at > ./t line 8. > ginger=

Re: initialising a list of variables

2003-10-03 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 09:55 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: Hi folks Howdy. I've got a query about variable initialisation. I want to initialise a list of variables to an empty string, but I'm having troubles. What's the best wat to do this? How about: my($fred, $ginger) = ('') x 2; James

RE: initialising a list of variables

2003-10-03 Thread Ed Christian
> my $fred=$ginger=''; Should be: my $fred = my $ginger = ''; > my ($fred,$ginger)=''; Should be: my ($fred,$ginger) = ('',''); -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: initialising a list of variables

2003-10-03 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Friday 03 Oct 2003 4:05 pm, James Edward Gray II wrote: > On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 09:55 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: > > Hi folks > > Howdy. > > > I've got a query about variable initialisation. I want to initialise a > > list of > > variables to an empty string, but I'm having troubles. >

Re: easiest `cat` in perl

2003-10-03 Thread Bryan Harris
> Ahh. A buffering issue. > Your content-type: is not appearing before the header.incl. You need > to add "$| = 1;" before the print. > > That's the reason I start nearly all my CGI scripts with: > > #!/usr/bin/perl -Tw > use strict; > $|++; > > so that I don't ever have to

RE: initialising a list of variables

2003-10-03 Thread Hanson, Rob
> It's open to user error quite easily You can also use this... my $x = my $y = ''; ...Or... my ($x, $y); $x = $y = ''; ...Or... init(my ($x,$y)); sub init { $_ = '' for (@_); } This last one uses the fact that $_ is an alias to the array item in @_, and @_ contains aliases to the variabl

Re: easiest `cat` in perl

2003-10-03 Thread Dan Anderson
> And what is the "T" in -Tw? That doesn't appear to show up in the man > page... T means tainted. It's what you want to run on all code in your cgi-bin directory so that a hacker can't r00t your box. Basically it prevents your perl script from doing anything dumb. Out of curiousity, is the fi

Packaging my stuff

2003-10-03 Thread Gupta, Sharad
Hi All, I am sure people must be doing that regularly. How do i package my Application to give to the customer??. Like creating packages for different platforms linux, debian, sun, windows etc. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanx, -Sharad -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTE

RE: How to draw lines with different line width?

2003-10-03 Thread Yi Chu
Danny: My question was that I have multiple lines in a graph, and I want the first line to be thicker that the others. Setting line width set all lines to the same width, that is not what I want to do. Or I must have missed something. Is line width global to the graph or is it settable per

Sort Text File

2003-10-03 Thread Dean Do
Hello, I'm rather new to PERL. How do I go about sorting a simple text file using PERL? This is what I want to accomplish. # sort /etc/passwd > /etc/passwd-new # mv /etc/passwd-new /etc/passwd Thanks in advance for your help. -Dean --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG ant

How to read url with perl

2003-10-03 Thread Mercedissa1
Is there a perl module or else to help read the url below from the url location bar in the browser. This url is generated by the database vendor, so I have no control over it. I know if it was a form it would be easy, but there is no form that I generated. After a search is performed in the data

Re: Sort Text File

2003-10-03 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 01:45 PM, Dean Do wrote: Hello, Howdy. I'm rather new to PERL. How do I go about sorting a simple text file using PERL? This is what I want to accomplish. # sort /etc/passwd > /etc/passwd-new # mv /etc/passwd-new /etc/passwd Any good reason not to use the above?

Re: Sort Text File

2003-10-03 Thread James Edward Gray II
If you keep your replies on the list, you'll get help from all the people much smarter than me. ;) On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 04:09 PM, Dean Do wrote: > # sort /etc/passwd > /etc/passwd-new > # mv /etc/passwd-new /etc/passwd Any good reason not to use the above?  :)   [dean] Thanks for yo

Re: Sort Text File

2003-10-03 Thread John W. Krahn
Dean Do wrote: > > Hello, Hello, > I'm rather new to PERL. How do I go about sorting > a simple text file using PERL? This is what I want > to accomplish. > > # sort /etc/passwd > /etc/passwd-new > # mv /etc/passwd-new /etc/passwd Are you sure you want to modify /etc/passwd? Which field do

RE: Sort Text File

2003-10-03 Thread TN
Hi, Something to be aware about when modifying the password file is that it should be locked to prevent another process from modifying it at the same time. There are different conventions on different systems for doing this and they depend also on the tool for modifying the password file. For ex

RE: Sort Text File

2003-10-03 Thread TN
[ paragraphs correctly renumbered and one link fixed - tn ] Hi, Something to be aware about when modifying the password file is that it should be locked to prevent another process from modifying it at the same time. There are different conventions on different systems for doing this and they de

editing mail spool file

2003-10-03 Thread Richard Fernandez
On occasion someone sends out a mail message with MIME attachment that we want to delete from the recipient's spool file. This happens on a Solaris box, so I'm talking about editing /var/mail/, and there are often dozens of recipients. What we've been doing is using "mutt -f" to open each individ

RE: How to draw lines with different line width?

2003-10-03 Thread Danny Miller
It's settable per line... line_width => [1, 2, 3], 1 is the default weight. HTH, Danny -Original Message- From: Yi Chu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 2:37 PM To: Danny Miller; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: How to draw lines with different line wi

RE: editing mail spool file

2003-10-03 Thread TN
Based on your delete criteria, it would be much easier to filter out unwanted mail messages on an incoming relay mailer in your DMZ. You could do other things there such as filtering out mail with MIME attachments beyond a certain size limit, or just nuking the attachemnts. You should not have to

Re: How to read url with perl

2003-10-03 Thread Bob Showalter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a perl module or else to help read the url below from the > url location bar in the browser. This url is generated by the > database vendor, so I have no control over it. I know if it was a > form it would be easy, but there is no form that I generated. After a >

Re: cgi mail script anyone?

2003-10-03 Thread perl
I can't seem to get this script working. I just want a simple code so I can send mail that can change the reply address. I could get the command line /bin/mail working with a system("/bin/mail..."); but I could not change the From so it doesn't say [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't want to open socket and

RE: cgi mail script anyone?

2003-10-03 Thread TN
/bin/mail and other Unix/Linux user mail agents preserve the From address based on your login UID. There is no way to make them lie about the From address without modifying their sources. It's possible to setup domain masquerading with sendmail or qmail. That way you could fake the @some.com par

cgi mail script anyone?

2003-10-03 Thread perl
I need to send a mail from the cgi. It must be able to have a reply or sender as someone different from the local web owner (apache). My configuration: redhat 9/qmail/vpopmail The example below will be typically what I want: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: "hello support

Re: cgi mail script anyone?

2003-10-03 Thread zsdc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to send a mail from the cgi. It must be able to have a reply or sender as someone different from the local web owner (apache). See http://search.cpan.org/modlist/Mail_and_Usenet_News/Mail -- ZSDC -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

RE: cgi mail script anyone?

2003-10-03 Thread TN
Perhaps you can use sqwebmail. It supports vpopmail authentication but requires Maildir format mailboxes. Maildirs were introduced with qmail and have reliability advantages over the usual Mailbox files. If you need to convert Mailboxes to Maildirs, see the qmail docs. Sqwebmail is available fr

RE: cgi mail script anyone?

2003-10-03 Thread perl
I'm just trying to send mail from a programming script NOT a real client. For example, a monitor script calculating the disk storage and sending a report/alert via the perl program. I really don't want to add more library or module than necessary. So if you guys can detect something wrong with thi

Re: invoking sub/methods shortcut

2003-10-03 Thread Steve Piner
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 00:10:57 -0700 (PDT), <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: both of these works: return (getVUser($dbh,$u,$d))->rows(); and return getVUser($dbh,$u,$d)->rows(); The first version works, but I'd recommend avoiding it as it suggests that the following should work similarly - but it do

Re: invoking sub/methods shortcut

2003-10-03 Thread Hardy Merrill
Steve Piner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 00:10:57 -0700 (PDT), <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >both of these works: > > > >>> return (getVUser($dbh,$u,$d))->rows(); > >and > >return getVUser($dbh,$u,$d)->rows(); > > The first version works, but I'd recommend avoiding it as it

Re: cgi mail script anyone?

2003-10-03 Thread perl
Thanks, you did good with this code for me. I did not want to load more library as most suggested. This works just fine with only one exception. I needed to use the -t option. Here is the revised version which worked for me: #/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $mailprog = '/usr/sbin/sendm