Newbie question...

2001-12-28 Thread Richard.C.1
I'm just starting to learn PERL and loving it. I am looking at some scripts to see how they're written, and I had a question about script "flow". The script I'm looking at has a lot of subroutines in it. Am I correct in assuming that when a PERL CGI script runs, execution starts at the beginnin

Anyone have a cross-reference program?

2002-01-03 Thread Richard.C.1
I'm new to PERL and I've been given a program to analyze - and it's BIG. I need to change and add some variables. What might help me greatly is if I could obtain a crossreference program that would tell me where all the variables are defined and used. I could use a search in wordpad or etc. but a

This Simple program won't work - why?

2002-01-12 Thread Richard.C.1
I am a total beginner to perl. I wrote the program below to open a program file, read it line by line, and write each line to an output file after first putting two string lines out there. It compiles without errors but the output is a filename with zero length. What did I do wrong? Thank you!

PERL Debugger trace question...

2002-01-17 Thread Richard.C.1
I'm new to using the debugger and have printed and read the debugger description and commands. It mentions that you can create a command/parameter file that contains commands but doesn't say how or where it must be located. I would like to have some way of doing an autotrace on a PL program as it

Question on PERL coding style...

2002-01-29 Thread Richard.C.1
This might be a really strange question, but I need to ask - Does PERL execute from beginning through the program in a linear fashion, "jumping around" subroutines unless they're called? I have a program that's structured as shown below (assume vars and statements are different) and need to know

Looking for Mod 10 check digit routine

2002-02-08 Thread Richard.C.1
Can anyone refer me to where I might be able to find the code to do a mod 10 check digit calculation so that I can use it as a guide in creating a subroutine to do that? I have the info and theory but need an example to see how it's actually done. Thanks! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTE

Encrypting PERL source code...

2003-12-01 Thread Richard.C.1
Can anyone suggest where I might be able to find (hopefully a freeware or shareware script..) a program that runs either on a windows system or a PERL script that would "encrypt" a perl script by doing such things as removing whitespace, etc. so that it is much more difficult to read but yet will

In what order does a program run..??

2004-02-04 Thread Richard.C.1
I'm new to PERL and am trying to learn by reading some PERL programs. My question is this - does PERL execute sequentially and "skip around" embedded subroutines or Does it execute them inline? For example, if the program has the following set of code lines Line1 Line2 Line3 Sub1 Subcode1 Subc

Returning from a PERL/CGI program...

2002-12-13 Thread Richard.C.1
I'm new with PERL - I have a very simple PERL program that will accept data from an HTML program and send it out as an email. In the HTML program, the data items are filled in and then the PERL/CGI program is called by a POST. The PERL/CGI program runs, the screen goes blank and the email is sent.

PERL\CGI question...

2002-12-31 Thread Richard.C.1
The ISP that I use seems to be always restoring files with the result that although my PERL files are there, the permissions get clobbered when they do the restore. Is there any way I can write a PERL\CGI program that I can run on the server that will allow me to reset the permissions on a file? I

How do I retrieve permissions?

2003-01-03 Thread Richard.C.1
I am writing a program that uses the CHMOD function to set permissions on a file. I'd like to then be able to "read" or "retrieve" the permission value for that file and compare it against what I wanted to set it to to know if it actually did get changed. I searched the fuctions that are built int

RE: How do I retrieve permissions?

2003-01-03 Thread Richard.C.1
Thank you! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 11:28 AM To: Copits Richard; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: How do I retrieve permissions? On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 11:12:43 -0500,

Statement execution...

2003-03-27 Thread Richard.C.1
I think I'm right, but I want to verify it. I'm learning PERL on my own and "decomposing" some programs to see how they "flow". My question is - given the following program "structure", what will print out? Print "one" Subroutine aa print "two" End Print "three" Print "four" Subroutine bb pr

How to use command-line switches...

2003-06-26 Thread Richard.C.1
I have a case where I need to use a command-line switch such as -X or /x Could anyone help me with information as to how I read this into a perl script and test it - along the lines of "if "/x" then..." ?? I've searched but can't seem to find any concrete example that a newbie like me can use as

RE: How to use command-line switches...

2003-06-26 Thread Richard.C.1
Thank you! This is exactly what I need. The 17 pages in the PERLDOC lib info on Getopt::Long were a bit daunting/intimidating and for me like driving a nail with a shotgun This sample code gives me a really good example that shows the concept! Thank you for sharing it! -Original Message-