Re: Need a way to begin learn Perl

2002-06-10 Thread Greg Jetter
On Monday 10 June 2002 02:40 pm, Ahmad wrote: > Hi. > > I would like to begin learning Perl, but I don't know where I begin > learning it does anybody has any sugest??? > > Ahmad > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get a copy of perl nd start by reading through the pod file , plain old documentation. t

Re: Uploading files timeout

2002-06-10 Thread Todd Wade
"Octavian Rasnita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 00ff01c210e4$af46dd00$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:00ff01c210e4$af46dd00$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hi all, > > I've made a form for uploading files and I want to let the visitors to > upload large files. > I've heard that it can appear timeouts when

Uploading files timeout

2002-06-10 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hi all, I've made a form for uploading files and I want to let the visitors to upload large files. I've heard that it can appear timeouts when uploading large files to a www server with a form. Is it true? If yes, what can I do to avoid the timeout? Thank you. Teddy, [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Mastering Regular Expressions?

2002-06-10 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hi thank you. I have talked with Lenny Muellner from O'Reilly because I am blind and they offer the books for free for the blind, but even though he gave me the books I've asked for free, he told me that he has not the book "Mastering Regular Expressions" available. Teddy, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

single quotes kill my scripts

2002-06-10 Thread Rob Roudebush
I have the following code - when someone enters a whatever ' whatever into one of my forms my script dies because of the single quote. Aggg... of course the first time I come across it is when my boss is testing out the script. $sth = $dbh->do( "insert into maintenance (owner, email, ma

Re: Need a way to begin learn Perl

2002-06-10 Thread drieux
On Monday, June 10, 2002, at 04:28 , Marty Landman wrote: > You could take a peek at my tutorial site http://thecgibin.com. interesting place, will have to rummage around more, but on http://thecgibin.com/index/faqs.shtml?Perl's_Quote_Words_Feature you make the assertion my @peppers =

Re: Need a way to begin learn Perl

2002-06-10 Thread Marty Landman
>On Monday, June 10, 2002, at 03:40 , Ahmad wrote: > >>I would like to begin learning Perl, but I don't know where I begin learning >>it does anybody has any sugest??? You could take a peek at my tutorial site http://thecgibin.com. Also if you have a *nix box at home install Perl on there..

Re: Need a way to begin learn Perl

2002-06-10 Thread drieux
On Monday, June 10, 2002, at 03:40 , Ahmad wrote: > Hi. > > I would like to begin learning Perl, but I don't know where I begin > learning > it does anybody has any sugest??? > > Ahmad > [EMAIL PROTECTED] never lead with a leading question OBLIGATORY first case learn to 'u

Need a way to begin learn Perl

2002-06-10 Thread Ahmad
Hi. I would like to begin learning Perl, but I don't know where I begin learning it does anybody has any sugest??? Ahmad [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] RE: POD vs. # Comments

2002-06-10 Thread John Brooking
--- Felix Geerinckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on Mon, 10 Jun 2002 17:37:46 GMT, John Brooking > wrote: > > > [...] > > If it's something about the internals that only > > the developer needs to know, such as more > explanation > > of a particularly gnarly algorithm, then it > needn't > > and p

Re: file read and then write problem

2002-06-10 Thread Kristofer Hoch
Aman, I think that we are going to need same sample code. I can't get this to happen. Thanks Kristofer Original Message Follows From: "aman cgiperl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: file read and then write problem Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:09:54 -0500 Hi all I p

Re: crash course recommendations

2002-06-10 Thread Kristofer Hoch
Start at www.webmonkey.com Original Message Follows From: "Sol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: crash course recommendations Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 18:42:59 +0800 Hi there, I've inherited an intranet server run interactive pages with perl

RE: Using strict and a configuration file?

2002-06-10 Thread Maureen E Fischer
I had this same question answered on the perl beginners list. Object oriented programming was recommended. Someday I want to learn about that But for now what I did was give the configuration file and the scripts that use it the same package name and then I defined these variables as global Vari

RE: testing CGI without webserver on NT?

2002-06-10 Thread Mike Rapuano
HI -- You need to execute the perl script. Change the permissions in IIS to execute BUT make sure that you don't have write set as well;) Mike -Original Message- From: Alaric J. Hammell Sent: Mon 6/10/2002 4:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

testing CGI without webserver on NT?

2002-06-10 Thread Alaric J. Hammell
On Windows2000. I have an html page that calls a perl script in a form but IE does not execute the script but rather asks that it be downloaded. Perl is installed in "E:\foo\Perl" and not the usual "C:\Perl" directory. could this have something to do with it? Thanks, Al -- To unsubscribe, e

Re: [OT] RE: POD vs. # Comments

2002-06-10 Thread David T-G
Felix, et al -- ...and then Felix Geerinckx said... % % on Mon, 10 Jun 2002 18:56:20 GMT, David T-G wrote: % % > Yeah, but the point is that I still don't know what I'm doing. ... % % perldoc perlpod Ah! I was trying "perldoc pod" and every permutation thereof, but never thought of per

Re: [OT] RE: POD vs. # Comments

2002-06-10 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Mon, 10 Jun 2002 18:56:20 GMT, David T-G wrote: > Yeah, but the point is that I still don't know what I'm doing. > > I've seen =head1 and =head2 and I don't know how they map to anything > else... Is there a primer outlining all of the =* directives and how > they go together? So far all I

Re: [OT] RE: POD vs. # Comments

2002-06-10 Thread David T-G
Hi, all -- ...and then Felix Geerinckx said... % ... % =for those_interested_in_the_nifty_algorithm % % Explanation of the nifty algorithm % % =cut Yeah, but the point is that I still don't know what I'm doing. I've seen =head1 and =head2 and I don't know how they map to anything

Re: [OT] RE: POD vs. # Comments

2002-06-10 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Mon, 10 Jun 2002 17:37:46 GMT, John Brooking wrote: > [...] > If it's something about the internals that only > the developer needs to know, such as more explanation > of a particularly gnarly algorithm, then it needn't > and probably shouldn't be POD. Don't confuse your > audience with things

file read and then write problem

2002-06-10 Thread aman cgiperl
Hi all I posted this on the CGI list but no response at all. Please have a look at this problem. I am reading from an html file and writing to another. The while loop terminates before the complete file is read. The worse part is that it works for some files and doesn't for others. Moreover, it

Re: [OT] RE: POD vs. # Comments

2002-06-10 Thread John Brooking
--- drieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > Solving 'what should be in the pod' as opposed to > 'in code comments' > ... POD doc'n in CPAN modules is basically of the "here's how to use this code" variety, so taking that is the model, here's what I'm thinking about that distinction. If it's

Re: how to write pod (was "Re: [OT] RE: POD vs. # Comments (was Am I doing something wrong?)")

2002-06-10 Thread David T-G
drieux, et al -- Hey, is this the sort of thing that should be on the beginners list because it isn't CGI-specific? Do we redirect threads over to the other list as appropriate? ...and then drieux said... % % % On Monday, June 10, 2002, at 05:42 , John Brooking wrote: % % >Well, I confess th

Re: [OT] RE: POD vs. # Comments (was Am I doing something wrong?)

2002-06-10 Thread drieux
On Monday, June 10, 2002, at 05:42 , John Brooking wrote: > Well, I confess that I sometimes use POD directives to > write a long comment (more than about 1/2 dozen > lines). My rationale is that I haven't really learned > POD very well yet, and so far I haven't released any > of this code publi

Re: crash course recommendations

2002-06-10 Thread Kamali Muthukrishnan
Hi , there is one I use as a resource - www.wdvl.com/Authouring/Languages >>> "Sol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/09/02 05:42AM >>> Hi there, I've inherited an intranet server run interactive pages with perl-cgi scripts, one of which I need to edit in a hurry, which is a bit of a problem considering

[OT] RE: POD vs. # Comments (was Am I doing something wrong?)

2002-06-10 Thread John Brooking
Well, I confess that I sometimes use POD directives to write a long comment (more than about 1/2 dozen lines). My rationale is that I haven't really learned POD very well yet, and so far I haven't released any of this code publically. When I do, I intend to revisit the code and make a better disti

Re: At least a number of characters - regular expressions

2002-06-10 Thread Janek Schleicher
Octavian Rasnita wrote at Sun, 09 Jun 2002 08:42:34 +0200: > Hi all, > > I want to check if in a string there are more than 3 capital letters. I've tried >using: > > if ($string=~ /[A-Z]{3,}/) { > > } > } > This match at least 3 capitals only if they are one after another. I want to check

Re: How do I do this

2002-06-10 Thread Tor Hildrum
> sub settings_smi_edit { > $storeline = $q->param('id'); > > open(FILE, "info/smileset.txt"); > @file = ; > close(FILE); > > foreach $i (@file) { > ($number, $image, $name, $text, $used) = split(/\|/, > $i); > if ($number eq $storeline) { > @numb = ($number, $image, $name, $text, $used); > } >