Re: Beta Testing a Robot

2003-12-05 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Casey West wrote: > I'm beta-testing a robot that searches Google when new questions are > posed to the beginners' lists. I have no idea if it will be useful. > :-) > > I'm going to watch it closely and hope it is. I'll remove it if I > find that it does a bad job. > > Casey West Hi Casey, I

Re: Perl/DBI newbie: password storage / security question

2003-09-14 Thread R. Joseph Newton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thank you Joseph and Motherofperls for your tips, however I need something more than > security through obscurity, as this database is going to store our customers > personal information (real name and contact information) which is absolutely > unacceptable to be stor

Re: Desperately needs help with nested looping

2003-09-08 Thread R. Joseph Newton
"B. Fongo" wrote: > I'm quit confused with what I have below. > > I have 2 database tables; Games and groups. > > Name Group > # > John ,GroupA > Miler, GroupA > Peter, GroupB > Mathew, GroupB > Mark, GroupB > Luke, GroupA > > I'm trying to select the members based on their g

Re: passing an argument to a subroutine

2003-09-08 Thread R. Joseph Newton
"B. Fongo" wrote: > Hello > > An argument passed to a subroutine returns wrong value. > > Code example: > > @x = (1..5); > $x = @x; > > showValue ($x); # or showValue (\$x); > > sub showValue { > > my $forwarded = @_; > print $forwarded; # print ${$forwarded}; > > } > > In both cases, the s

Re: Problems with URL parameters.

2003-05-30 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Nicholas Davey wrote: > Hi. > > Im not totaly new to programming in general. I am fairly new to PERL One thing wetry to avoid in Perl is SHOUTing We do use upper case for constants, though. [snip] > http://www.blah.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?login=yes (DONT go here, example only) > > #!/usr/bin/perl

Re: How to get the biggest integers from an array?

2002-12-11 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Try making a numberLposition hashas you iterate through the array, add each number as a key and the position in the array as the value. Then use sort($keys(%hash)) to order them. I'm a newbie, also, so I'm not sure if sort has an optional parameter for order, though. You'll have to explore th