RE: Beta Testing a Robot

2003-12-04 Thread Shaw, Matthew
My $0.02 on this: While it may be a worthwhile personal pursuit to write a script that provides relevant results from google based on the text of someone's email/news posting/etc, I don't think this is the forum for it. These are very busy lists to start with and this essentially will result in do

RE: Formatting integer input: use the "sprintf()" in perlfunc - Perl builtin functions

2003-08-26 Thread Shaw, Matthew
> whenever you need to do any special formatting like this, > especially numbers, use the "sprintf()" in perlfunc - Perl > builtin functions for your case, try this: > > print sprintf("%05.02f\n", 4.5 ); > 04.50 Why not just use 'printf()' for this? Makes it somewhat less confusing while doin

CGI Module Reference

2003-07-07 Thread Shaw, Matthew
Hi all, Could someone direct me to a reference that contains all of the available methods in the CGI module? I'm both new to using mod CGI and HTML in general so I'm just looking for a good rosetta stone between the two. I got hung up recently trying to implement $query->Tr and didn't real