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Perl-Users Digest, Issue: 4618 Volume: 8
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Mon Jan 11 12:07:13 1999
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 99 09:00:21 -0800
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Perl-Users Digest Mon, 11 Jan 1999 Volume: 8 Number: 4618
Today's topics:
Re: $32.00 to order RedHat! (Steve Linberg)
Re: AN EASY WAY TO FTP IN PERL? (Charles Wilt)
Re: AN EASY WAY TO FTP IN PERL? (Clay Irving)
ashamed? [was Re: Perl Criticism] dturley@pobox.com
Re: file date/time-stamp ? (Tad McClellan)
Re: file date/time-stamp ? (Clay Irving)
Re: How can I compare two arrays? (Bart Lateur)
Re: How can I compare two arrays? (Larry Rosler)
Re: how can I redirect the standard input to a file? (Tad McClellan)
Re: how can I redirect the standard input to a file? (Clay Irving)
Re: how to greb whole words only? <dgris@moiraine.dimensional.com>
Re: Matching binary strings <Tim.Shaw@alcatel.be>
Re: mog_perl for win95 apache (Randy Kobes)
Need Perl Programmer in Altanta <mcourter@mindspring.com>
Re: new DBD::Sybase package problem <mpeppler@mbay.net>
Re: Optimizing `eval' in a loop (Bart Lateur)
Re: password dave@mag-sol.com
Re: PERL information... <ion@aroma.com>
Perl TK text question <tturton@cowboys.anet-dfw.com>
Re: Perl within Perl backslashxt@yahoo.com
Re: Printing the return value from a subroutine? dave@mag-sol.com
Seeking crypt/des entirely in Perl (no C) b_rosser@yahoo.com
Re: Sending SMS messages with perl script ?? (Clay Irving)
Re: Shame: Deleting List Elements <ez062634@mailbox.ucdavis.edu>
Submitting a script result to a web server Ryan.Haman@mci.com
Re: Submitting a script result to a web server <ludlow@us.ibm.com>
Re: Verify an email address (John Moreno)
WTD: PT/freelance Perl/CGI programmer <ilowe@interlog.com>
Year 2000 and Perl <Sebastian.Stiegler@verwaltung.uni-muenchen.de>
Re: Year 2000 and Perl (Matthew Bafford)
Year 2038 problem (John Robson)
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:08:12 GMT
From: slinberg@crocker.com (Steve Linberg)
Subject: Re: $32.00 to order RedHat!
Message-Id: <slinberg-1101991108130001@cc11620-a.lwmrn1.pa.home.com>
In article <369A07D6.B00869A5@email.com>, Eirik Johansen
<webpages@email.com> wrote:
> Are there any places, say in the UK, that also sell the 5.2 version of
> RedHat or is there another way to order it without having to pay so much
> for the delivery?
CheapBytes sells it for $1.99. Or just download it yourself for free.
Of course, this has nothing to do with Perl.
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Date: 11 Jan 1999 15:56:34 GMT
From: charles.0272@worldnet.no.spam.att.net (Charles Wilt)
Subject: Re: AN EASY WAY TO FTP IN PERL?
Message-Id: <MPG.1103ed0861e5c5a09896bb@netnews.worldnet.att.net>
In article <369a170e.0@norbert.cerbernet.co.uk>, c-denman@dircon.co.uk
says...
> Has anyone got some code that will let me ftp a file?
>
> I have a form, which will upload a file. Then I want to ftp this file to
> another server.
>
> Is this easy?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
> IA
>
>
>
Get yourself a copy of the module NET::FTP I belive you can find it in
the libnet library. (I'm new at perl, forgive me if my name aren't quite
right.)
SYNOPSIS
use Net::FTP;
$ftp = Net::FTP->new("some.host.name");
$ftp->login("anonymous","me@here.there");
$ftp->cwd("/pub");
$ftp->get("that.file");
$ftp->quit;
--
Charles Wilt
Miami Luken, Inc.
e-mail: charles.0272@worldnet.no.spam.att.net
--->remove the no.spam.
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Date: 11 Jan 1999 15:58:33 GMT
From: clay@panix.com (Clay Irving)
Subject: Re: AN EASY WAY TO FTP IN PERL?
Message-Id: <77d739$7j6$1@news.panix.com>
In <369a170e.0@norbert.cerbernet.co.uk> "Chris Denman" <c-denman@dircon.co.uk> writes:
>Has anyone got some code that will let me ftp a file?
Check the example code in the Net::FTP module -- Its part of the libnet
bundle:
http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/Net
--
Clay Irving
clay@panix.com
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 15:35:18 GMT
From: dturley@pobox.com
Subject: ashamed? [was Re: Perl Criticism]
Message-Id: <77d5nm$nbq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
Am I the only one who noticed that topmind's defenses to his views pretty much
have denegrated into name calling? I also wonder why he hides behind some
AOL-like moniker. He has strong opinions, but they don't appear to be ones he
wants to sign his name to.
Looking at the bright side, I found many of the responses to be very
educational.
____________________________________
David Turley
dturley@pobox.com
http://www.binary.net/dturley/
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 09:58:54 -0600
From: tadmc@metronet.com (Tad McClellan)
Subject: Re: file date/time-stamp ?
Message-Id: <u37d77.cu7.ln@magna.metronet.com>
J.W.Draijer (j.w.draijer@amc.uva.nl) wrote:
: How can i get a date- and timestamp from a file? I already have a
: filehandle.
perldoc -f stat
--
Tad McClellan SGML Consulting
tadmc@metronet.com Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas
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Date: 11 Jan 1999 16:11:17 GMT
From: clay@panix.com (Clay Irving)
Subject: Re: file date/time-stamp ?
Message-Id: <77d7r5$7nh$1@news.panix.com>
In <369A0AE5.51D14EE8@amc.uva.nl> "J.W.Draijer" <j.w.draijer@amc.uva.nl> writes:
>How can i get a date- and timestamp from a file? I already have a
>filehandle.
It depends on what you mean by "a date- and timestamp" -- In the excellent
documentation provided with the Perl distribution `perldoc perlfunc' has
the documentation for `stat':
stat Returns a 13-element list giving the status info for
a file, either the file opened via FILEHANDLE, or
named by EXPR. If EXPR is omitted, it stats $_.
Returns a null list if the stat fails. Typically
used as follows:
($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid,$rdev,$size,
$atime,$mtime,$ctime,$blksize,$blocks)
= stat($filename);
Not all fields are supported on all filesystem
types. Here are the meaning of the fields:
0 dev device number of filesystem
1 ino inode number
2 mode file mode (type and permissions)
3 nlink number of (hard) links to the file
4 uid numeric user ID of file's owner
5 gid numeric group ID of file's owner
6 rdev the device identifier (special files only)
7 size total size of file, in bytes
8 atime last access time since the epoch
9 mtime last modify time since the epoch
10 ctime inode change time (NOT creation time!) since the epoch
11 blksize preferred block size for file system I/O
12 blocks actual number of blocks allocated
(The epoch was at 00:00 January 1, 1970 GMT.)
--
Clay Irving
clay@panix.com
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 14:59:09 GMT
From: bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur)
Subject: Re: How can I compare two arrays?
Message-Id: <369c1170.27357098@news.skynet.be>
Larry Rosler wrote:
>For a linear algorithm (O(n)), one should use the techniques discussed
>in perlfaq4, "How can I tell whether a list or array contains a certain
>element?"
Linear? Are you saying that a hash has an O(constant) (whatever the
notation)?
Bart.
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 07:55:29 -0800
From: lr@hpl.hp.com (Larry Rosler)
Subject: Re: How can I compare two arrays?
Message-Id: <MPG.1103bebafa20451b989986@nntp.hpl.hp.com>
[Posted to comp.lang.perl.misc and copy mailed.]
In article <369c1170.27357098@news.skynet.be> on Mon, 11 Jan 1999
14:59:09 GMT, Bart Lateur <bart.lateur@skynet.be> says...
> Larry Rosler wrote:
> >For a linear algorithm (O(n)), one should use the techniques discussed
> >in perlfaq4, "How can I tell whether a list or array contains a certain
> >element?"
>
> Linear? Are you saying that a hash has an O(constant) (whatever the
> notation)?
Hash access is indeed O(1) -- constant independent of the size of the
hash. (If the hash is quite full, there may be some linear effects due
to chaining of entries -- the details depend on how the hash is
implemented, which for perl I don't know.)
The time needed to create the hash is O(n), obviously. But that is
*added* to the time needed to search the hash for each element, which is
also O(n). And -- tah, dah! --
O(n) + O(n) = O(n)
except for a multiplicative constant that doesn't change the
algorithmic complexity.
--
(Just Another Larry) Rosler
Hewlett-Packard Company
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Larry_Rosler/
lr@hpl.hp.com
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 10:03:46 -0600
From: tadmc@metronet.com (Tad McClellan)
Subject: Re: how can I redirect the standard input to a file?
Message-Id: <2d7d77.cu7.ln@magna.metronet.com>
Dan Wedeking (wedeking@msw0.attnet.or.jp) wrote:
: Why will this not be directed to append to the file "log.txt"???
Why not ask perl (the OS, actually) to _tell_ you why? ;-)
open(FILE, ">>log.txt") || die "could not open 'log.txt' $!";
^^
^^
You should *always* check the return value from open() calls.
Really.
Every one of them.
: open(FILE, ">>log.txt");
: while(<STDIN>) {
: print FILE;
: }
Looks OK to me...
--
Tad McClellan SGML Consulting
tadmc@metronet.com Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas
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Date: 11 Jan 1999 16:13:21 GMT
From: clay@panix.com (Clay Irving)
Subject: Re: how can I redirect the standard input to a file?
Message-Id: <77d7v1$7oe$1@news.panix.com>
In <77d2p6$cqo$1@news.misawa.attmil.ne.jp> "Dan Wedeking" <wedeking@msw0.attnet.or.jp> writes:
>I tried the below but it doesn't work? Why? If I take out the open command
>and the
>file handle "FILE" then it prints what I type to the screen a second time
>when I hit the
>enter key. Why will this not be directed to append to the file "log.txt"???
>open(FILE, ">>log.txt");
>while(<STDIN>) {
>print FILE;
>}
Did the open succeed? You *really* should test it:
open FILE, ">>log.txt" or die "Can't open log.txt: $!\n";
--
Clay Irving
clay@panix.com
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Date: 11 Jan 1999 08:11:04 -0700
From: Daniel Grisinger <dgris@moiraine.dimensional.com>
Subject: Re: how to greb whole words only?
Message-Id: <m3yan926bb.fsf@moiraine.dimensional.com>
"Vasco Patricio" <vpatricio@abrantina.pt> writes:
> Try:
> @results = grep(/" God "/,@database);
> (put a space character before and after the word God)
I don't think so. That will return any element of @database
that contains the literal string `" God "'. I'd suggest
a thorough rereading of perlfunc and perlre before you
give any more incorrect advice.
dgris
--
Daniel Grisinger dgris@moiraine.dimensional.com
perl -Mre=eval -e'$_=shift;;@[=split//;;$,=qq;\n;;;print
m;(.{$-}(?{$-++}));,q;;while$-<=@[;;' 'Just Another Perl Hacker'
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:05:08 +0100
From: Tim Shaw <Tim.Shaw@alcatel.be>
Subject: Re: Matching binary strings
Message-Id: <369A2134.AC80696F@alcatel.be>
Bart Lateur wrote:
> >I'm trying to find a way of avoiding the "double quotish" behaviour of the
> >match operation, if possible.
>
> Yes, its possible. See "\Q" in perlre.
>
> if ($value =~ m/\Q$mask\E/) ...
>
Perfect. There's always a solution somehow with perl!
Thanks,
Tim
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Date: 11 Jan 1999 15:22:15 GMT
From: randy@theory.uwinnipeg.ca (Randy Kobes)
Subject: Re: mog_perl for win95 apache
Message-Id: <slrn79k6b9.pa4.randy@theory.uwinnipeg.ca>
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:39:39 +0100,
Stefan Mueller <Stefan.Mueller@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
>Is there any procompiled binary for mod_perl
>for apache 1.3.3 on a Win95 box.
Hi,
Look at
http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/JBAKER/
for some binary distributions. Note that these were compiled
under NT, and so there may be some differences under
Windows 95/98. Also, there may be some perl compatability issues,
depending on which perl you use. Alternatively, if you
have VC++, it's relatively straightforward to build your own.
--
Best regards,
Randy Kobes
Physics Department Phone: (204) 786-9399
University of Winnipeg Fax: (204) 774-4134
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9 e-mail: randy@theory.uwinnipeg.ca
Canada http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 11:41:03 -0500
From: "Michael Courter" <mcourter@mindspring.com>
Subject: Need Perl Programmer in Altanta
Message-Id: <77d9ar$2o4$1@camel15.mindspring.com>
we need a Perl/CGI programmer for some contract work asap. we're in atlanta
ga. contact michael courter at 770.458.6846 x219.
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 07:36:08 -0800
From: Michael Peppler <mpeppler@mbay.net>
To: wayne clerke <clerke@emirates.net.ae>
Subject: Re: new DBD::Sybase package problem
Message-Id: <369A1A68.45A5C5BA@mbay.net>
wayne clerke wrote:
>
> anyone seen this with 509 and the new DBD::Sybase package?
> It all worked in previous versions and other modules install ok with 509.
>
> PPM> install DBD-Sybase
> Error installing package 'DBD-Sybase': Couldn't open D:\TEMP/DBD-Sybase/ for
> writing
>
This looks like a problem with the ppm.pl program. YOu should contact
ActiveState about this.
Michael
--
Michael Peppler -||- Data Migrations Inc.
mpeppler@mbay.net -||- http://www.mbay.net/~mpeppler
Int. Sybase User Group -||- http://www.isug.com
Sybase on Linux mailing list: ase-linux-list@isug.com
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 15:05:13 GMT
From: bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur)
Subject: Re: Optimizing `eval' in a loop
Message-Id: <369d128f.27644027@news.skynet.be>
Rick Delaney wrote:
>That depends on which form of eval you are using. From perlfunc:
>
> If the code to be executed doesn't vary, you may use the eval-BLOCK
> form to trap run-time errors without incurring the penalty of
> recompiling each time.
You've got that wrong. eval BLOCK is *compiled* at compile time.
Changing the block at runtime, as was the intention here, doesn't work.
It *only* serves to trap otherwise fatal errors (die).
Bart.
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 15:36:53 GMT
From: dave@mag-sol.com
Subject: Re: password
Message-Id: <77d5qm$ndq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
In article <3699BC0E.6844F7AE@swisslife.ch>,
Herger Peter <peter.herger@swisslife.ch> wrote:
> <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
*Please* do something with your news client to stop it posting HTML to
newsgroups.
> <html>
> Hi all
> <br>Does anyone have an idea, how I can store all my passwords in a seperate
> File? I've wrote a perl script to connect to a router and get some files
> with ftp, but I don't wan't to write the passwords in this perlscript.
> I'd like to have all passwords in one file. Is this possible to do so??
> <p>Thanks
> <p>-Peter Herger</html>
Storing passwords in a file is trivial. Perl's file I/O operators make this
very easy. See perldoc perlop for details.
The hard part is, of course, ensuring that you have the security on the file
right so that unauthorised people don't get access to all of your passwords.
Dave...
--
Dave Cross
Magnum Solutions Ltd: <http://www.mag-sol.com/>
London Perl M[ou]ngers: <http://london.pm.org/>
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 02:20:57 -0800
From: "Ion Chalmers Freeman" <ion@aroma.com>
Subject: Re: PERL information...
Message-Id: <3699ccd7.0@news.prostar.com>
Danny,
Searching for "Perl Tutorial" at hotbot.com netted me a bunch of
results, including:
http://web.cs.pub.ro/~petcu/smallTut/index.html
ion
****
Danny Stern wrote in message <77bo0p$onb$1@winter.news.rcn.net>...
Can someone point me to a good PERL tutorial or example library on the web?
Thanks. Please e-mail me it as well, if possible.
dstern@i.am
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 09:15:07 -0600
From: Tom Turton <tturton@cowboys.anet-dfw.com>
Subject: Perl TK text question
Message-Id: <369A157B.76B33FD1@cowboys.anet-dfw.com>
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Trying to experiment with Tk from Advanced Perl Programming, chapter 14
"Text and Entry" section, but I can't seem to get things to work. Found
the errata section online at O'Reilly showing that the text and
positioning fields in the book are swapped. Even fixing this, I am
still not getting expected behavior. Below is my source code and
results. Appreciate any and all help. Thanks.
---Tom Turton
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#!/usr/local/gnu/bin/perl -w
use Carp;
use diagnostics;
use Tk;
$top = MainWindow->new();
$t = $top->Text(width =>80, height => 10)->pack();
$t->insert("2.5", "Sample");
$t->insert('3.10', 'Sample3');
$t->insert('insert +5', 'Sample2');
MainLoop();
If running the above, I get the following error:
Uncaught exception from user code:
bad text index "insert +5" at text.pl line 11.
If I comment out that line, and run with just the "Sample"
and "Sample3" msgs, I get:
SampleSample3
i.e., seems to ignore the Row.Column field.
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 15:16:52 GMT
From: backslashxt@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Perl within Perl
Message-Id: <77d4l2$mac$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
In article <3699EFB5.ABEF1351@marvin.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>,
Sascha Kimmel <kimmel00@marvin.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
> backslashxt@yahoo.com wrote:
> >
> > In article <3697D23C.6ABF927C@snailgem.org>,
> > Eugene Sotirescu <eugene@snailgem.org> wrote:
> > > backslashxt@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> > > > The call I'm using:
> > > > print "<!--\#exec cgi=\"/cgi-bin/topad.cgi\"--> \n"; (Calls
banner)
> > > >
>
> Hi!
>
> As far as I know a server only parses .html (or sometimes only .phtml
> or.shtml) files, so if you let a perl script print that onto the page,
> it does not become interpreted by the SSI parser.
> Why don't you simply include the source code which implements the banner
> in the script which now is writing the ssi line on the page?
>
> Works well at http://www.loversparadise.de !
>
> Regards,
> Sascha Kimmel
>
I'm not quite sure what you mean by why don't i just implement the source code
in the ssi line on the page? I can't include the actual script on the page
because it's a perl script. As for the ssi interpreter not reading it, I think
your right on that. Can you please send via email or post how you implemented
this on your website?
Thanks
Pat
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 15:22:52 GMT
From: dave@mag-sol.com
Subject: Re: Printing the return value from a subroutine?
Message-Id: <77d508$mnh$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
In article <3699AD87.2050BAC5@edicom.se>,
Jens Johanneson <jens.johanneson@edicom.se> wrote:
> Is there a way for me to print this four lines example code in only two
> lines?
>
> $tmp = &myFunc();
> print "This is the first return value of myFunc =$tmp";
> $tmp = &myFunc();
> print "This is the second return value of myFunc =$tmp";
>
> I've tried thing like
> print "This is the first return value of myFunc =&myFunc()";
> print "This is the second return value of myFunc =&myFunc()";
> but it won't work...
print "This is the first return value of myFunc =", myFunc();
etc...
--
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 15:56:08 GMT
From: b_rosser@yahoo.com
Subject: Seeking crypt/des entirely in Perl (no C)
Message-Id: <77d6un$oh3$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
Hi. I'd like to develop a perl script on a machine to which I
have no System Administrator privileges, and which also has
no C compiler, so I don't have the option of installing the
CPAN Crypt modules (from what I've seen I gather they all rely on
some C code?).
Is there any module/code for two-way encryption which is
written entirely in perl? Performance is not too much of an
issue unless it's really horrible!
Thanks,
Brad Rosser
b_rosser@yahoo.com
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Date: 11 Jan 1999 15:55:52 GMT
From: clay@panix.com (Clay Irving)
Subject: Re: Sending SMS messages with perl script ??
Message-Id: <77d6u8$7hu$1@news.panix.com>
In <77cthn$3gu$1@koza.nl.net> "Peter Davidse" <ptrdvds@zeelandnet.nl> writes:
>For a hobby project i need to send SMS messages from a linux based
>webserver. Does any one know how to send SMS messages with perl.
>Short :
>Ping -> no reply -> SMS to my GSM
I believe your only option is to send an Email message to an SMS
gateway like byedesk.com.
--
Clay Irving
clay@panix.com
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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 10:16:21 -0800
From: Michael Nguyen <ez062634@mailbox.ucdavis.edu>
To: Eric Bohlman <ebohlman@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Shame: Deleting List Elements
Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.4.04.9901071013300.27793-100000@dogbert.ucdavis.edu>
I know this might sound stupid but as i recall the last element of a
splice command determines the length of the list that is to be produced.
so a splice (@list,50,1) would start a new list starting from the 50th
element of @list and continues until the 51st.
{ > slice=>sub {@list2=@list; @list2 = @list2[0..49,51..99]},
> splice=>sub {@list2=@list; splice(@list,50,1)}
> });
i'm probably wrong so please correct me.
mike
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 15:22:38 GMT
From: Ryan.Haman@mci.com
Subject: Submitting a script result to a web server
Message-Id: <77d4vr$mng$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
I have a PERL script that is being executed daily by a cron job. In the
script, I want it to submit information to our web-based paging system. Is it
possible to submit a URL to a web server even though I'm not using a browser?
Thanks in advance
Ryan Haman
Ryan.Haman@mci.com
(Apologies if this is a repeat, it looks like Dejanews didn't post my original
message)
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 09:59:28 -0600
From: James Ludlow <ludlow@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Submitting a script result to a web server
Message-Id: <369A1FE0.84B29D4B@us.ibm.com>
Ryan.Haman@mci.com wrote:
> I have a PERL script that is being executed daily by a cron job. In the
FYI: PERL doesn't exist.
See the FAQ:
http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/FAQs/FAQ/PerlFAQ.html#What_s_the_diference_betwen_p
> script, I want it to submit information to our web-based paging system. Is it
> possible to submit a URL to a web server even though I'm not using a browser?
Yes, and it's even pretty simple to do. Check out the LWP modules.
There's pointers to this in the faq:
http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/FAQs/FAQ/PerlFAQ.html#Where_can_I_learn_about_CGI_or_W
--
James Ludlow (ludlow@us.ibm.com)
(Any opinions expressed are my own, not necessarily those of IBM)
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 10:57:42 -0500
From: phenix@interpath.com (John Moreno)
Subject: Re: Verify an email address
Message-Id: <1dlgric.30lbyanz0r4gN@roxboro0-014.dyn.interpath.net>
Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> That's a rather ethnocentric regular expression, wouldn't you say?
No, it's simply wrong. There's nothing ethnocentric about that, anybody
can be wrong (hell, *I* was wrong once).
--
John Moreno
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 10:03:44 -0500
From: Iain Lowe <ilowe@interlog.com>
Subject: WTD: PT/freelance Perl/CGI programmer
Message-Id: <369A12D0.A6CA3DC7@interlog.com>
A small Web design company in Toronto, Canada is in need of occasional
Perl poetry.
Experience with Javascript and database connectivity would be definite
assets.
If you're interested in picking up a little extra dough from time to
time, please send URLs, hourly rates, and an interesting story in reply.
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:40:24 +0100
From: "Sebastian Stiegler" <Sebastian.Stiegler@verwaltung.uni-muenchen.de>
Subject: Year 2000 and Perl
Message-Id: <77d66c$9qm$1@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de>
Does anyone know, if Activestate Perl 5.06 is Year 2000 tested???
Basti
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 11:11:17 -0500
From: dragons@scescape.net (Matthew Bafford)
Subject: Re: Year 2000 and Perl
Message-Id: <MPG.1103ecb214ff1225989786@news.scescape.net>
In article <77d66c$9qm$1@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de>,
Sebastian.Stiegler@verwaltung.uni-muenchen.de pounded in the following:
=> Does anyone know, if Activestate Perl 5.06 is Year 2000 tested???
http://www.perl.com/pace/pub/Does_Perl_Have_a_Y2K_Problem?
HTH!
=> Basti
--Matthew
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Date: 11 Jan 1999 16:33:22 GMT
From: as646@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (John Robson)
Subject: Year 2038 problem
Message-Id: <77d94i$l3r@freenet-news.carleton.ca>
I heard that Perl and perhaps Linux as well have a 'year 2038' problem.
Has something to do with an internal 32-bit reperesentation.
Just out of curiosity, can someone explain to me where this '2038' number
come from? What does it entail?
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