[Fwd: How to handle quotes and escape characters in strings?]

2001-10-29 Thread P.Agenbag
Hi, I would like to know how to remove escape characters from strings. I use PHP and it has a function called StipSlashes (), that does exactly that, but I cannot seem to find anything similar in Perl. We have existing CGi scripts that read input from a web form, and then displays/mail the con

RE: mod_perl

2001-10-29 Thread Gunther Birznieks
At 12:47 AM 10/30/2001, Bob Showalter wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: John Griessen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 11:39 AM > > To: David Kirol > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: mod_perl > > > > > > Would one of you give me a little overview

RE: mod_perl

2001-10-29 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: John Griessen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 11:39 AM > To: David Kirol > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: mod_perl > > > Would one of you give me a little overview and point to best > docs to read > for mod_perl and CGI perl

Re: Faking form variables

2001-10-29 Thread Curtis Poe
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Curtis, > > What is the syntax for passing these values through the url? > Greg Greg, Here's a little snippet borrowed from Randal Schwartz (http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=80240): use URI; use HTML::Entities; my $uri = URI->new("http://ba

Re: mod_perl

2001-10-29 Thread John Griessen
Would one of you give me a little overview and point to best docs to read for mod_perl and CGI perl. For starters, I tried to put a script at my local apache web server root directory, and the server just displays the contents as text...sounds like a web server setting is wrong like an alias.

Re: Table OO

2001-10-29 Thread Casey West
On Oct 26, 2001 at 01:48 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] took the soap box and proclaimed: : Hi to All, : I' d like to create a table in which put the data read from a database : using Perl Object-Oriented language. : Now I' ve created this functional table, and I' d like to re-write it in : object-orie

RE: Faking form variables

2001-10-29 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 9:37 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Faking form variables > > > Curtis, > > What is the syntax for passing these values through the url? > Greg

Re: Path of root directory on production server

2001-10-29 Thread RaFaL Pocztarski
_brian_d_foy wrote: > DOCUMENT_ROOT is not necessarily where CGI scripts go. instead > of everyone suggesting that the poster guess by running simple > minded programs, suggest that the poster ask the system > administrator, or read the server configuration file. :) Well... Good point. We were

Re: Printing Hash Keys

2001-10-29 Thread RaFaL Pocztarski
"Brett W. McCoy" wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, RaFaL Pocztarski wrote: > > > You can always use http://www.perldoc.com/ but it's hard to believe that > > any version of perl comes without perldoc, however I don't know MacPerl > > at all. Try to find any info about perldoc in MacPerl docs or we

Re: Auto-initialising a client-side download

2001-10-29 Thread RaFaL Pocztarski
Shannon Murdoch wrote: > > Oh, I only just found there was more beyond the first quoted block of text! > I'll look in to it now. That's because most of people here can't quote at all. There is always more text below any quoted text im my messages. Why would I quote anything if I did't want to co

Re: small question?

2001-10-29 Thread RaFaL Pocztarski
Nate Brunson wrote: > > when perl reads in $ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'} is it a number or a string? Environment variables are always strings (which may contain numbers of course). > were $blah is a string. should i convert $blah to a number, > or $ipaddy to a string.. or am i just messed up.. When you

Re: Using the require command with perl

2001-10-29 Thread RaFaL Pocztarski
Troy May wrote: > > I'm trying to use the require command with perl but when i want to put a > variable within the require statement it always errors out. The code looks > something like this. > > require "/absolute/path/to/files/$FORM{'id'}/options.txt"; > > Is this not possible? thanx for the

Re: Printing Hash Keys

2001-10-29 Thread RaFaL Pocztarski
Shannon Murdoch wrote: > >> foreach (sort keys %params) { print "\t$params{$_}" } > > > > The same way. $_ is the key for the hash element in the while loop. > > I want a list of keys, not their values though. You have it already in your code: sort keys %params is a sorted list of keys in

quotemeta regex

2001-10-29 Thread Carl Franks
Hi all, I'm having trouble with a cgi script, the main problem is the snippet below, is there anything obvious wrong with it? if (quotemeta $url =~ /$bad/i) { $error = '1'; } The rest of the code is posted below. When I run it (telnet) I get the following error messages: Use of uninitialized