Re[2]: getting the calling function name.

2001-08-07 Thread Maxim Berlin
Hello Rajeev, Saturday, July 07, 2001, Rajeev Rumale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: RR> But the what i need is the grep the name of the sub which is calling the RR> loging sub. do you read perldoc -f caller? [...] RR> sub debugLogger { RR> my $message = "@_"; RR> $sub_name = ""; # Get t

href arguments

2001-08-07 Thread Francesco Scaglioni
Hi, THis is probably a simple question. Am new to perl and CGI so please have mercy. I have a script which displays a list of files with links to them. The links when hovered over in a browser show as: display_file.pl?filename=blahblah How can I extract the blahblah bit (which is the name of

Re: AW: href arguments

2001-08-07 Thread Francesco Scaglioni
## "Alessandro Lenzen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 13:21:22 +0200 ## ::> Hello Francesco, alenzen::> alenzen::> first of all you should read the CGI.pm manpage if you want to write good alenzen::> CGIs. alenzen::> You don't need to use the CGI.pm module, but it is considered g

RE: href arguments

2001-08-07 Thread Sidharth Malhotra
Once again. This is a problem that can be easily solved reading the CGI module documentation at: http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/lib/CGI.html use the CGI module: use CGI; my $q = new CGI; my $filename = $q->url_param('filename'); # or my $filename = $q->param('filename'); -Original Mess

FW: href arguments

2001-08-07 Thread Sidharth Malhotra
-Original Message- From: Sidharth Malhotra Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 8:49 AM To: 'Joel Hughes' Subject: RE: href arguments I apologise to all who felt I came down in a somewhat condescending tone. My feeling is simply that many people seem email the list as their first solution.

making graphics..

2001-08-07 Thread Rob
Hi, I want to be able to create graphic logos witha perl script - any ideas on how to do this? What I mean is I will provide a list of titles and a list of font styles then the script will create a gif for each title using a random font style.. Can it be done? Is it difficult? I've never tried

Re: making graphics..

2001-08-07 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Rob wrote: > I want to be able to create graphic logos witha perl script - any ideas on > how to do this? > > What I mean is I will provide a list of titles and a list of font styles > then the script will create a gif for each title using a random font style.. > > Can it be d

M$ Word to HTML

2001-08-07 Thread Adam Carson
Does anyone know of a perl module/program to convert M$ Word documents into HTML? I have looked at the perldocs, and searched CPAN, but haven't found one. Adam Carson MIS Department Berkeley County, S

Re: M$ Word to HTML

2001-08-07 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Adam Carson wrote: > Does anyone know of a perl module/program to convert M$ Word documents into HTML? I >have looked at the perldocs, and searched CPAN, but haven't found one. Word itself can generate HTML documents from Word documents. Maybe you can set up some OLE autom

Re: M$ Word to HTML

2001-08-07 Thread Adam Carson
I have tried that, and Word generates HTML documents (XML actually) that have consistently had incorrect formatting. Adam Carson MIS Department Berkeley County, SC >>> "Brett W. McCoy" <[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: M$ Word to HTML

2001-08-07 Thread Bradley M. Handy
If you have Dreamweaver you can use the 'Clean up Word HTML' option in the Modify menu on the toolbar. Brad Handy --www.jack-of-all-trades.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Adam Carson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 11:22 AM > To: [EMAIL PROT

RE: M$ Word to HTML

2001-08-07 Thread Adam Carson
Thanks. I'll try that. Adam Carson MIS Department Berkeley County, SC >>> "Bradley M. Handy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/07/01 11:26AM >>> If you have Dreamweaver you can use the 'Clean up Word HTML' optio

RE: popup-menue in a html-page

2001-08-07 Thread Moon, John
Hope this helps ... you can run this from the command line then enter "Ctrl+d" to see what is generates... I'm sure there are other ways of doing this ... You make wish to check the permissions on /etc/password at your shop .. use CGI; $q->new CGI; while (($name,undef,$uid)= getpwent) {

Re: getting the calling function name.

2001-08-07 Thread Ryan Davis
You could pass two arguments to the debugLogger, one the message, and the other the sub name. So it would be: sub x{ stuff $sub_name = ""; # Get the subroutine name.This is what i need to grep. debugLogger($sub_name, $message); } Then the debugLogger just has to print. I know that

RE: M$ Word to HTML

2001-08-07 Thread Mark Saunders
Yeah, the dreamweaver 'Clean up Word HTML' is amazing. It does miss some tags, like class, so you have to take an extra step or two to remove them. -Original Message- From: Bradley M. Handy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 11:26 AM To: Adam Carson; [EMAIL PROTE

Redirecting STDOUT

2001-08-07 Thread Mark Ross
Hi all, I have a Perl script that takes the contents of a form, feeds them to GnuPG for encryption and then emails me the encrypted document. GPG wants to either display the results in STDOUT or write a text file, both of which aren’t good. I was hoping redirect STDOUT to a variable for a short

Re: getting the calling function name.

2001-08-07 Thread Curtis Poe
--- Rajeev Rumale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Dwalu, > > But the what i need is the grep the name of the sub which is calling the > loging sub. > As you have suggested "caller" only gives only the name of current sub > routine that is &debugLogger it self. > And I had to do call the "cal

RE: Redirecting STDOUT

2001-08-07 Thread Bradley M. Handy
Have you taken a look at the GnuPG or Crypt::GPG modules on CPAN? These would probably work really good for what you're doing, and you wouldn't have to worry about redirecting STDOUT. Brad Handy --www.jack-of-all-trades.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Mark Ross [mailto

Re: getting the calling function name.

2001-08-07 Thread Dwalu Z. Khasu
Good morning, 'caller' also takes an optional argument that specifies how far up the calling stack (list of embedded functions) to traverse. Try experimenting with caller($i) where $i > 0 in your 'debugLogger' subroutine and you'll see what I mean. 'caller' in a list context prints out addition

RE: Redirecting STDOUT

2001-08-07 Thread Mark Ross
>Have you taken a look at the GnuPG or Crypt::GPG modules on CPAN? Yep, I've looked (and longed), but my Web hosting service refers to them as "hooky." I think he's hostile because they aren't version 1 or higher (not that it really makes much difference). I also don't have the ability to directl

double quotes within a cgi-argument

2001-08-07 Thread shawn
I've been scrounging the internet for this answer, but can't find one EDIT This code works, if, and only if there are _no_ double_quotes( " ) received from the database. Yes you guessed it, there are some things that have ("'s i.e. 17" monitor, 24" cable). As you know, double quotes en

RE: Redirecting STDOUT

2001-08-07 Thread Curtis Poe
--- Mark Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Have you taken a look at the GnuPG or Crypt::GPG > modules on CPAN? > > Yep, I've looked (and longed), but my Web hosting > service refers to them as "hooky." I think he's > hostile because they aren't version 1 or higher (not > that it really makes muc

Re: double quotes within a cgi-argument

2001-08-07 Thread Curtis Poe
--- shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been scrounging the internet for this answer, but can't find one > > > > > href="edit.pl?submit=edit&id=$$row{'id'}&title=$$row{'title'}&description=$$ > row{'description'}&model=$$row{'model'}&serial=$$row{'serial'}&value=$$row{' > valuation'}&

How to profile CGI scripts?

2001-08-07 Thread Jason Purdy
Disclaimer: I've read the docs, talked to several folks, and played around with the scripts, but I must be missing something. I'd like to get the "tmon.out" file output from the -d:DProf flag when my CGI scripts execute remotely on the web server that I'm developing on, but whenever I add the '-d

Re: M$ Word to HTML

2001-08-07 Thread Morten Liebach
On 7, Aug, 2001 at 12:11:29PM -0400, Mark Saunders wrote: > Yeah, the dreamweaver 'Clean up Word HTML' is amazing. > It does miss some tags, like class, so you have to take an extra step or > two to remove them. HTML-TIDY claims to be able to clean up dirty Word html, get it from http://www.w3

Re: How to profile CGI scripts?

2001-08-07 Thread Curtis Poe
--- Jason Purdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Disclaimer: I've read the docs, talked to several folks, and played around > with the scripts, but I must be missing something. > > I'd like to get the "tmon.out" file output from the -d:DProf flag when my > CGI scripts execute remotely on the web serv

Re: How to profile CGI scripts?

2001-08-07 Thread Jason Purdy
> I just tested a command line script by putting -d:Dprof in the shebang line and didn't have any > problem. Of course, I'm using ActiveState here and that might make a difference. Perhaps you > could tell us what's in your error log? Yea ... that's another problem - I don't have access to

AW: href arguments

2001-08-07 Thread Alessandro Lenzen
Hello Francesco, first of all you should read the CGI.pm manpage if you want to write good CGIs. You don't need to use the CGI.pm module, but it is considered good programming practice and it saves a lot of time since you don't have to bother with a lot of things. The following code should help

AW: AW: href arguments

2001-08-07 Thread Alessandro Lenzen
Oh, I see. I'm a bit confused. Maybe it's my fault... Do you have a string like "display_file.pl?filename=blahblah" or are you calling the CGI with http://www.domain.it/display_file.pl?filename=blahblah ? The code I wrote is for the latter... In the first case, you could use regexes: #!/usr/bin/p

RE: href arguments

2001-08-07 Thread Joel Hughes
Sidrath, is there any need to adopt that surly attitude when responding? joel -Original Message- From: Sidharth Malhotra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 August 2001 13:23 To: 'Francesco Scaglioni' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: href arguments Once again. This is a problem th

RE: getting the calling function name.

2001-08-07 Thread Peter Cornelius
Maybe I'm missing something, but doesn't this work? use strict; use warnings; sub routine1 { print "Calling routine2...\n"; routine2(); print "Done\n"; } sub routine2 { print "\tCalled by ", (caller(1))[3], "\n"; } routine1(); output: Calling routine2... Called by main

Newbie -- got a question

2001-08-07 Thread Lee Hoffner
I'm new to scripting in PERL (I've only done Javascript and Lingo before). I'm building a script to write an HTML page on the fly, using image files that are in a directory that is given to the script as a variable. How do I pass my variable to my script from the HREF link that my user clicks? (E

Re: Newbie -- got a question

2001-08-07 Thread Curtis Poe
--- Lee Hoffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm new to scripting in PERL (I've only done Javascript and Lingo before). > > I'm building a script to write an HTML page on the fly, using image files > that are in a directory that is given to the script as a variable. How do I > pass my variable to

Re: Newbie -- got a question

2001-08-07 Thread Lee Hoffner
I think you might want to see my script, to see where I am trying to go. As this is my first day on this list, I'd like to know if it's okay for me to post an entire script before I do. It's 69 lines, with a lot of comments stating what I am trying to do. Would you all mind if I post it, or would

Re: Newbie -- got a question

2001-08-07 Thread Curtis Poe
--- Lee Hoffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you might want to see my script, to see where I am trying to go. As > this is my first day on this list, I'd like to know if it's okay for me to > post an entire script before I do. It's 69 lines, with a lot of comments > stating what I am tryin

Re: Newbie -- got a question

2001-08-07 Thread Lee Hoffner
Thanks, Curtis! Below is the script. (I hope it's clear!) #!/usr/local/bin/perl #This script will be called using the "POST" method, #contained in a HREF that the #site visitor clicked on. #The call will contain an argument, which will #be

Re: M$ Word to HTML

2001-08-07 Thread Richard Hulse
Adam, I needed a clean output from Word for very large docs that only have paragraph styles. So I wrote a little VB macro that tags anything in Word with its style. It only handles para styles not other formatting. So after running the macro: a heading1 styled paragraph would be end up as the

Re: Newbie -- got a question

2001-08-07 Thread Lisa Nyman
Hi, On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Lee Hoffner wrote: > use strict; > use CGI qw/:standard/; > my $dir = param('dir'); > > #Verify that the requested directory exists. > #I imagine I want to say something like: > if (-d $dir) { > > print < Content-Type: text/html\n\n > > > > END > @filearray =