Problem with llama book script

O enlightened ones, here is my question: I am going through the llama book (which, by the way, is the most useful tool I have bought so far for perl reference) in order to learn perl. On page 10 is a simple script which I copied and have attempted to execute for the last 1/2 hour. Please tell m

PLaying with CGI's

Roger G. Romeril replied to an email about test sites for cgi scripts. He mentioned that instead, it would be better to get a stripped down pc and load Linux, perl, and apache and play with that. Well, I decided to do just that. While the suggestion wasn’t specifically aimed at me, I thought th

I did it!!!

I’m sure I could get flamed for this, but I just successfully wrote my first program! Yaaahhh! ## perl #!c:/perl/bin/perl -w print STDOUT "Enter a number: "; chop($number = ); print STDOUT "Enter a multiplier: "; chop($mult = ); $result = $number * $mult; print STDOUT

Server config issue?

7.12.2001 Dear Sirs, I have been using an html form for gathering information to use in order to give customers quotes on our products. I have the fields validated on the client’s browser (javascript) before submission to the server. The form is then parsed by formmail.pl, a script the host prov

FW: Validation question

Thanks a bunch for everyone’s input; I didn’t have to wait long at all to receive an answer from all of you knowledgeable people. A few questions: What smtp server software would you recommend I use to send email to myself (localhost)? I have win98se, apache, activestate_perl. And,

Script won't exec

To the Plethora Of Perl Programmers (P.O.P.P), I seek your guidance. First of all, can you tell me what is wrong with this script other than neglecting to “use strict”. (I’m learning) From the command prompt, it says: Syntax error near $ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD') …Aborted due to compilat

Repost: Script won't exec

Sorry, forgot the code ;) To the Plethora Of Perl Programmers (P.O.P.P), I seek your guidance. First of all, can you tell me what is wrong with this script other than neglecting to “use strict”. (I’m learning) From the command prompt, it says: Syntax error near $ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD

Validation question

Thanks a bunch for everyone’s input; I didn’t have to wait long at all to receive an answer from all of you knowledgeable [] people. A few questions: What smtp server software would you recommend I use to send email? I have win98se, apache, activestate_perl. How do I use

I'm parsing! But...

Hey all! Thanks for everybody’s help so far! Finally got the parsing script to work! Very excited about that. As a new perl programmer, my confidence is rising. Just used a cut & paste script, but had to reconfigure. At least I know what each line of code does (or think I do anyway). Heard that

Thank you very much Brian and Randal

Assigning a string value to a scalar

I am trying to follow some good advice that Randal and Brian gave me earlier. I have a rather basic question, however. I want my script to print: “At (current time) on (date), $who submitted a request for a $quote_type quote.” Thanks to Brian, I have the time aspects all worked out.

Using CGI.pm

Randal, Brian, Stephen, Thanks a bunch for your help with my parsing script. I appreciate it very much. Here’s another problem: Why doesn’t this do what I think it should do? (I just get “Internal server error”) #!c:/perl/bin/perl -w use strict; use CGI qw(param); my ($who,$quote_type,$key)

In the lion's pit and mail::sendmail

Hi! Gotta question. I wrote this script to parse an html form that I have on localhost. I want this script to be able to work on win_nt, win_2k servers (my site host) . Please tear this script apart! What would you do different? What can I do better? I was told by some not to use $a and $b as

Security Question

Dear Sirs, I first of all wanted to apologize about sending so many redundant questions to the list. I wasn’t aware that my wife was downloading my mail also and I didn’t see all of your replies to previous questions. Won’t happen again ;-)) I was reading a reply to a question this morning that

Whats my problem, among other things?

- Original Message - From: Richard and Bonnie Taft To: Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 10:18 AM Subject: Whats my problem, among other things? TO all you perl faithful who are in the know: I am trying to test my perl scripts on a win98 machine running PWS. I have all downloaded and inst