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Sat Jul 17 01:07:33 1999
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 22:05:08 -0700 (PDT)
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Perl-Users Digest Fri, 16 Jul 1999 Volume: 9 Number: 173
Today's topics:
Re: ActiveState's PerlScript <jtolley@bellatlantic.net>
Re: bogus "used only once" message? (Ronald J Kimball)
Re: cgi compiler (Larry Rosler)
Re: DBI - alternate row colors (brian d foy)
Re: Future of Perl <aperrin@mcmahon.qal.berkeley.edu>
Re: Future of Perl (Ronald J Kimball)
Re: Garbage Collection Performance <uri@sysarch.com>
how do i know the PERL version o my Web Server ? <alrope@zaz.com.br>
How to block a file <nochax@bigfoot.com>
Re: Linux - Apache - Perl (JT)
Re: Linux - Apache - Perl (JT)
Re: Linux - Apache - Perl (Ronald J Kimball)
Re: Linux - Apache - Perl <uri@sysarch.com>
Re: loop problems ?? (Ronald J Kimball)
Newbie. Quick question about installing packages (Brian Pettit)
NPH mode ? <alrope@zaz.com.br>
Perlshop Question halleys_vomit@my-deja.com
Re: Q: panic pp_iter with foreach spertus@mills.edu
Re: searching man pages, perldoc's, FAQ's, README's, HO (Tad McClellan)
Re: searching man pages, perldoc's, FAQ's, README's, HO (Tom Phelps)
Re: UPS Rate Calculator? Have you programmed for it? (brian d foy)
Re: URL Verification (brian d foy)
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 02:28:15 GMT
From: "James Tolley" <jtolley@bellatlantic.net>
Subject: Re: ActiveState's PerlScript
Message-Id: <3TRj3.134$w36.18558@typhoon1.gnilink.net>
I agree that the amount/value of available documentation is seriously
deficient. There's enough to get you half way there, but then you've got to
get the rest of the way on your own...
O'Reilly, are you listening?
John M. Dlugosz <john@dlugosz.com> wrote in message
news:EC86E2A5FF614A3A.ECF99CE076EA6184.7A15896E850CD86F@lp.airnews.net...
> Is there a newsgroup for this, or any other information to be had?
>
> I've been using it, and have discovered a lack of documentation, and some
> weird problems.
>
> For example, why does the File::Find module not work,
> and why does any use of $main::document crash Perl?
>
> --John
>
>
>
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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 23:07:06 -0400
From: rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu (Ronald J Kimball)
Subject: Re: bogus "used only once" message?
Message-Id: <1dv235z.ms3n3e1an1ceoN@p175.tc1.state.ma.tiac.com>
Mark H. Wood <mwood@mhw.ULib.IUPUI.Edu> wrote:
> I've got a lookup table in a (pardon the expression) DOS batch file
> used by another application, and I now want to load that table into a
> hash. I thought I'd do this cheaply by writing a tiny script to turn
> that foreign format into Perl code to assign all the values thus:
>
> %jacks=(
> "key1","value1",
> "keyN","valueN",
> );
>
> and then, in my main script:
>
> do 'blah.pl' || die;
>
> The hash gets loaded just fine, but there's only one other occurrence
> of the name "jacks":
>
> dosomething($jacks{$somekey});
>
> and the compiler doesn't like it:
>
> Name "main::jacks" used only once: possible typo at myscript.pl line 42.
>
> Since the assignment worked, and I do get the values out when I
> subscript the thing, I think I used main::jacks twice: once to load
> it, once to retrieve from it. What gives?
The do 'blah.pl' occurs at runtime, but the 'used only once' warning is
output as soon as compilation is completed. At that point, the compiler
has only seen one occurence of %jacks, because the other is hidden in
blah.pl.
'used only once' is a warning, not an error, so your script runs, and as
it turns out, %jacks is used in blah.pl as well, and everything turns
out just fine.
--
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/ http://www.tiac.net/users/chipmunk/
"It's funny 'cause it's true ... and vice versa."
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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 18:30:00 -0700
From: lr@hpl.hp.com (Larry Rosler)
Subject: Re: cgi compiler
Message-Id: <MPG.11f97c6c59f1c06b989ce8@nntp.hpl.hp.com>
In article <slrn7ovij8.c9j.abigail@alexandra.delanet.com> on 16 Jul 1999
19:12:55 -0500, Abigail <abigail@delanet.com> says...
> news.ust.hk (babyh@forfree.at) wrote on MMCXLV September MCMXCIII in
> <URL:news:7mo41s$1l8@ustsu10.ust.hk>:
> ;;
> ;; Where can I find a CGI complier(work under windows)?
>
> You want to compile protocols?
No, he wants to find something that *complies* with the CGI protocol
(and works under windows). This is an admirable goal. Many programs do
that, and also work under desks, or whatever.
--
(Just Another Larry) Rosler
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Larry_Rosler/
lr@hpl.hp.com
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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 23:57:36 -0400
From: brian@pm.org (brian d foy)
Subject: Re: DBI - alternate row colors
Message-Id: <brian-ya02408000R1607992357360001@news.panix.com>
In article <x71ze8lcew.fsf@home.sysarch.com>, Uri Guttman <uri@sysarch.com> posted:
> >>>>> "bdf" == brian d foy <brian@pm.org> writes:
>
> bdf> notice a logic error in my original code though. we'll never get to
> bdf> access the last color in the list!
>
> bdf> $index = $index % ($#colors + 1)
>
>
> aw, come on brian, you did it again. try this:
>
> $index %= @colors ;
>
> fairly obvious what it does and means.
it's the same fucking thing. don't you think i already know it's
the same fucking thing?
--
brian d foy
CGI Meta FAQ <URL:http://www.smithrenaud.com/public/CGI_MetaFAQ.html>
Perl Monger Hats! <URL:http://www.pm.org/clothing.shtml>
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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 19:37:17 -0700
From: Andrew J Perrin <aperrin@mcmahon.qal.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: Future of Perl
Message-Id: <378FEC5D.ADB04407@mcmahon.qal.berkeley.edu>
Jeffrey wrote:
> On 15 Jul 1999 23:24:02 -0500, abigail@delanet.com (Abigail) wrote:
> ...Listen bitch, ...A language isn't fucking useful if you can't get
> a job programming in it.
>
> .... So don't act like my question was so fucking stupid, bitch.
Sounds like a big, fat, <PLONK> to me....
(I suppose, given that notation, that one should first use:
open (PLONK, '>/dev/null') or die "What happened to /dev/null? $!\n";
)
--
-------------------------------------------------------------
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aperrin@mcmahon.qal.berkeley.edu
I'M LOOKING FOR ANOTHER EXPERIENCED ACCESS
DEVELOPER - CONTACT ME IF INTERESTED.
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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 23:07:07 -0400
From: rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu (Ronald J Kimball)
Subject: Re: Future of Perl
Message-Id: <1dv23qa.1yxmn1nd3wy67N@p175.tc1.state.ma.tiac.com>
Jeffrey <Jeffrey@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On 15 Jul 1999 23:24:02 -0500, abigail@delanet.com (Abigail) wrote:
>
> >Don't judge programming languages on their usefullness, judge them on
> >their marketable value! That'll increase the quality of code and will
> >bring us closer to world peace.
>
> Listen bitch, I learned a lot about how to program the Amiga computer
> and then it died in the marketplace. I don't want something like that
> to happen ever again. A language isn't fucking useful if you can't get
> a job programming in it.
Aww, poor baby. Would ums like a cookie?
It's rather difficult to predict which technologies will become
obsolete, and in what time frame. I suggest not learning anything from
this point onward.
> As for my original question, it was spurred by a comment in a CGI book
> that Java would take over and Perl would become a legacy language.
> Someone said the same thing in a message when I did a search on Deja
> News. So don't act like my question was so fucking stupid, bitch.
The stupidity of your first post was exceeded only by the arrogance of
the second.
If you do learn Perl, you had better learn it well, because after this
display I doubt anyone here will be enthusiastic about helping you.
--
_ / ' _ / - aka -
( /)//)//)(//)/( Ronald J Kimball rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu
/ http://www.tiac.net/users/chipmunk/
"It's funny 'cause it's true ... and vice versa."
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Date: 16 Jul 1999 23:17:33 -0400
From: Uri Guttman <uri@sysarch.com>
Subject: Re: Garbage Collection Performance
Message-Id: <x7d7xsj776.fsf@home.sysarch.com>
>>>>> "A" == Abigail <abigail@delanet.com> writes:
A> Initially, the program uses 5, 6 Mb. After 2 weeks or so, its memory usage
A> is up to 150 - 200 Mb, all but a few Mb swapped out. I've no idea where
A> the memory is leaking. It might be an error in my code (but I checked,
A> double checked, and triple checked), something in perl, a bug in sybperl
A> or in the Sybase libraries (I'm using libsybdb).
i had a similar experience last year as i was allocating a 1MB buffer in
DBI/DBD for sybase. it never seemed to be freed. i contacted peppler
(sybperl author) and studied the code. IIRC, this buffer is not handled
well and may be a memory leak. email the sybperl list or him for more on
that. i am not positive about the leak but it is worth exploring.
uri
--
Uri Guttman ----------------- SYStems ARCHitecture and Software Engineering
uri@sysarch.com --------------------------- Perl, Internet, UNIX Consulting
Have Perl, Will Travel ----------------------------- http://www.sysarch.com
The Best Search Engine on the Net ------------- http://www.northernlight.com
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 00:31:15 -0300
From: "Alexandre" <alrope@zaz.com.br>
Subject: how do i know the PERL version o my Web Server ?
Message-Id: <7mou2k$rv2$1@srv4-poa.nutecnet.com.br>
I need to know the perl version on my server.
Tanks,
alrope@zaz.com.br
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 03:59:22 +0200
From: NoCHaX <nochax@bigfoot.com>
Subject: How to block a file
Message-Id: <378FE37A.D1C6C508@bigfoot.com>
I need to block a file in Perl. How to do this?
Thanks,
NoCHaX
If you can, answer to nochaxDELETETHIS@bigfoot.com
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 01:08:36 GMT
From: jett1not@homedot.com (JT)
Subject: Re: Linux - Apache - Perl
Message-Id: <378fafbd.20255314@24.2.0.71>
On 16 Jul 1999 19:08:09 GMT, fl_aggie@thepentagon.com (I R A Aggie)
wrote:
>On Fri, 16 Jul 1999 15:41:35 GMT, JT <jett1not@homedot.com>, in
><37964dda.86727328@24.2.0.71> wrote:
>
>+ Well, what you wish for is a perfect usenet which doesn't exist.
>
>And your point is? Not knowing Usenet conventions isn't a crime,
>particularly since ISP's tend to throw their newbies to the wolves.
>They ain't going to learn nothing if they aren't told.
>
>+ Policing and reprimanding off-topic posters is to treat them as
>+ children. Being deliberately non-helpful is not my style.
>
>Pointing them to the appropriate newsgroup isn't helpful? Excuse me?
>
>+ If it works
>+ for you that's fine, but why waste the time even scolding these
>+ posters, why not just boycott them entirely until they go away?
>
>That helps *how*, exactly? If they remain willfully ignorant, then
>I can *plonk* 'em.
>
>+ It sounds like a bit of a power trip on your part judging from your
>+ selection of words such as "reward" and "inappropriate hubris".
>
>Not really. I know what I know about perl 'cause I went out and bought
>books, and sat down and read/skimmed them, and tried the examples, and
>played with things and then applied them to my projects. If I can do that,
>most everyone can. I'm not above average, so I figure if I can do it,
>so can anyone else.
>
>+ Waving experience over
>+ your head by telling people to "Read the FAQ" with no further
>+ explanation, is just plain bullshit.
>
>What's wrong with it? HAVE YOU READ THE FAQ? Do you know what it
>contains? See, I've been in this sort of arguement before...I
>would guess that at most, you have some passing familiarity with
>the FAQ. The FAQs have been looked at by hundreds, nay thousands,
>potentially millions of people. The answers there are about as
>bullet-proof as you're going to find.
>
>Further, the FAQ comes in every decent distribution of Perl. Its on
>your disk. You don't have to post to the newsgroup, wait for a response,
>and then wonder if it is correct...
>
>+ and allow someone else to help answer their question.
>
>Ah, but are you going to get the right answer? see, if I point you to
>the FAQ, I don't have to worry about being factually correct, as long
>as I get the right FAQ.
>
>+ The people who are
>+ in-the-know don't need to humiliate and insult the people who are
>+ trying to learn.
>
>They'll look much smarter when they know to check the FAQ before
>posting. Or are you saying that it is valueless to do so?
>
>+ Is it okay if I ask a question that
>+ makes you think but not if I ask a common "frequently asked question"?
>
>Yes. It shows inappropriate laziness or ignorance. We can cure the later,
>but the former requires more time.
>
>+ Now *that* is a double standard.
>
>Not hardly. This isn't comp.lang.perl.helpdesk...if it where, you'd have
>a point. But it ain't.
>
>Next, you'll accuse me of being patronizing...
>
>James
You've obviously missed my point. Taking everything I said out of
context is not proving you're point. If you don't like the stupid
questions ignore them. That was my point.
And yes, I've read the FAQ; Big Fucking Deal. In fact I actually have
written some Perl which actually works, and *gasp* some folks even
paid me to do it .
You make a lot of assumptions about my knowlkedge based on very little
info. It doesn't surprise me though, considering that you'd prefer to
be a snotty prick and tell people "Read The Fucking Manual" rather
than at least explain the error in their asking a valid question here.
That's helpful isn't it?
Nobody should get treated like shit just for asking a simple question.
What makes you so perfect? I bet you asked quite a few stupid
questions while learning. I didn't see any damned rules when I logged
on today so stop pretending there are any. By all means *plonk* me!
-JT
Remove the "not" and delete the "dot" to reply
jett1not@homedot.com
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 01:19:00 GMT
From: jett1not@homedot.com (JT)
Subject: Re: Linux - Apache - Perl
Message-Id: <3790d6bd.30241370@24.2.0.71>
On 16 Jul 1999 14:48:21 -0500, abigail@delanet.com (Abigail) wrote:
>JT (jett1not@homedot.com) wrote on MMCXLV September MCMXCIII in
><URL:news:37964dda.86727328@24.2.0.71>:
>,,
>,, Well, what you wish for is a perfect usenet which doesn't exist.
>,, Policing and reprimanding off-topic posters is to treat them as
>,, children. Being deliberately non-helpful is not my style. If it works
>,, for you that's fine, but why waste the time even scolding these
>,, posters, why not just boycott them entirely until they go away?
>
>
>X: "Why are you swatting the walls with a newspaper?"
>JT: "There are mosquitos in the bedroom."
>X: "Why don't you just boycott them entirely until they go away?"
>
>
>
>Abigail
JT: Why are you busting my balls?
Abigail: Because you don't have a cool perl sig, and I've never asked
a dumb question ever!
JT: Bullshit! now get out of my bedroom!
Abigail: You lousy Usenet abusing... Hey What the hell are you doing?
JT: <madly horsewhipping with the camel book> Read the FAQ Dammit!!
-JT
Remove the "not" and delete the "dot" to reply
jett1not@homedot.com
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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 23:07:08 -0400
From: rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu (Ronald J Kimball)
Subject: Re: Linux - Apache - Perl
Message-Id: <1dv24gb.szlgt18sqthkN@p175.tc1.state.ma.tiac.com>
JT <jett1not@homedot.com> wrote:
> I didn't see any damned rules when I logged
> on today so stop pretending there are any.
The rules for usenet posting can be found in news.announce.newusers.
Apparently you never bothered to read them, which is why you have the
wrong-headed attitude that off-topic questions are okay.
--
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/ http://www.tiac.net/users/chipmunk/
"It's funny 'cause it's true ... and vice versa."
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Date: 16 Jul 1999 23:09:58 -0400
From: Uri Guttman <uri@sysarch.com>
Subject: Re: Linux - Apache - Perl
Message-Id: <x7g12oj7jt.fsf@home.sysarch.com>
>>>>> "J" == JT <jett1not@homedot.com> writes:
J> On 16 Jul 1999 14:48:21 -0500, abigail@delanet.com (Abigail) wrote:
>> JT (jett1not@homedot.com) wrote on MMCXLV September MCMXCIII in
>> <URL:news:37964dda.86727328@24.2.0.71>:
>>
>> X: "Why are you swatting the walls with a newspaper?"
>> JT: "There are mosquitos in the bedroom."
>> X: "Why don't you just boycott them entirely until they go away?"
>>
>> Abigail
J> JT: Why are you busting my balls?
J> Abigail: Because you don't have a cool perl sig, and I've never asked
J> a dumb question ever!
J> JT: Bullshit! now get out of my bedroom!
J> Abigail: You lousy Usenet abusing... Hey What the hell are you doing?
J> JT: <madly horsewhipping with the camel book> Read the FAQ Dammit!!
well the difference here is that abigail was witty, and you are just
snotty.
and telling her to read the faq is a little like hauling coals to
newcastle.
uri
--
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uri@sysarch.com --------------------------- Perl, Internet, UNIX Consulting
Have Perl, Will Travel ----------------------------- http://www.sysarch.com
The Best Search Engine on the Net ------------- http://www.northernlight.com
"F**king Windows 98", said the general in South Park before shooting Bill.
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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 23:07:10 -0400
From: rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu (Ronald J Kimball)
Subject: Re: loop problems ??
Message-Id: <1dv24lm.1of357v1s7kb9N@p175.tc1.state.ma.tiac.com>
<stu7@usa.net> wrote:
> $this = "that"; print "$this is the word" // works fine by itself
>
> but inside an if loop, prints that (on one line), and then
> prints everything else on a second line... still printing, but
> why the new line ??
Because $this eq "that\n", of course. You probably forgot to
chomp($this).
--
chipmunk (Ronald J Kimball) <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>
perl -e 'print map chop, sort split shift, reverse shift
' 'j_' 'e._jP;_jr/_je=_jk{_jn*_j &_j :_j @_jr}_ja)_js$_j
~_jh]_jt,_jo+_jJ"_jr>_ju#_jt%_jl?_ja^_jc`_jh-_je|' -rjk-
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 01:08:00 GMT
From: bpettit@NOSPAM.att.net (Brian Pettit)
Subject: Newbie. Quick question about installing packages
Message-Id: <378fc8e8.5986559@netnews.worldnet.att.net>
I was just about to submit a question about how to get perl to connect to
mysql... it wasn't fun, but I got it running.
Now I've got a question about why it wasn't working.
Fist off, I'm running activestate perl and mysql on Win98.. newest versions
I did the following after typing 'perl ppm.pl'
install DBI
install DBD::mysql:http://www.mysql.com/Contrib/ppd/DBD-mysql.ppd
The install DBI worked
The second install didn't and I received this error:
Retrieving package 'DBD::mysql:http://www.mysql.com/Contrib/ppd/DBD-mysql.ppd'..
Error installing package 'DBD::mysql:http://www.mysql.com/Contrib/ppd/DBD-mysql.
ppd': Could not locate a PPD file for package DBD::mysql:http://www.mysql.com/Co
ntrib/ppd/DBD-mysql.ppd
So I tried:
install http://www.mysql.com/Contrib/ppd/DBD-mysql.ppd
and it works.
I'm just wondering what the difference is between the install methods.
What is install DBD::mysql:http://www.mysql.com/Contrib/ppd/DBD-mysql.ppd really
doing? Any ideas why it didn't work?
Also, I was wondering what install DBI does... basically just what file
extension is it looking for and where it finds it... is there a DBI.xxx file
somewhere?
I apologize for these basic questions... just trying to learn.
Meanwhile I'll be reading the manuals :-}
Any replies would be appreciated.
Regards,
Brian Pettit
bpettit@att.net
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the "NOSPAM" from the return address.
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 00:35:21 -0300
From: "Alexandre" <alrope@zaz.com.br>
Subject: NPH mode ?
Message-Id: <7mou2n$rv2$2@srv4-poa.nutecnet.com.br>
Friends,
my script read a large text file, and the answer to Navigator is slow.
how to use the nph mode ?
tanks,
Alexandre R. Perestrelo
alrope@zaz.com.br
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 04:31:44 GMT
From: halleys_vomit@my-deja.com
Subject: Perlshop Question
Message-Id: <7mp0vg$3gq$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
Hi all,
I'm trying to get Perlshop going, and I'm getting absolutely nowhere.
I'm following their instructions, and I've made the necessary changes
to my perlshop.cgi file. But all I ever get is
Invalid Transmission #3 received from: 127.0.0.1
If your connection was interrupted, you must Enter the shop from the
beginning again
Does anyone know what this means? I'm using Apache 1.3.6 on Win 95,
with ActivePerl build 518
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 04:37:58 GMT
From: spertus@mills.edu
Subject: Re: Q: panic pp_iter with foreach
Message-Id: <7mp1b5$3jq$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
FYI, I've come up with a short program that generates the panic, shown
below. I'll fill out a bug report.
Ellen Spertus
#!/usr/bin/perl
$state = 1;
$foo = q(<text>);
foreach $line (split ('\n|\r|\t', $foo)) {
if ($state == 1) {
$state = 2;
goto HIT_END;
} elsif ($state == 2) {
HIT_END:
$state = 1;
}
}
print "\nOkey dokey\n";
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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 18:39:24 -0400
From: tadmc@metronet.com (Tad McClellan)
Subject: Re: searching man pages, perldoc's, FAQ's, README's, HOWTO's, etc.
Message-Id: <sacom7.3ro.ln@magna.metronet.com>
David Christensen (dchristensen@california.com) wrote:
: Is there a way to search man pages, perldoc's, FAQ's, README's,
: HOWTO's, etc.?
I have heard of this nifty programming language that you
could use to whip up a "word (regex actually) search" program.
perl -ne 'print "$ARGV: $_" if /some word here/' *.pod
--
Tad McClellan SGML Consulting
tadmc@metronet.com Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas
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Date: 17 Jul 1999 05:00:27 GMT
From: phelps@ecstasy.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Tom Phelps)
Subject: Re: searching man pages, perldoc's, FAQ's, README's, HOWTO's, etc.
Message-Id: <7mp2lb$kn1$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
In comp.lang.perl.misc, "David Christensen" <dchristensen@california.com> writes:
:Is there a way to search man pages, perldoc's, FAQ's, README's,
:HOWTO's, etc.?
Glimpse is a full-text search program, with very small indexes
(3%-10%, depending on options). TkMan provides a graphical interface
for man pages, Texinfo (aka GNU info) files, FAQs, and whatever other
directories you want indexed. TkMan hyperlinks from a list of hits to
the corresponding document, with matching words highlighted.
It's free software at http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~phelps/tcltk/
Tom
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 00:00:29 -0400
From: brian@pm.org (brian d foy)
Subject: Re: UPS Rate Calculator? Have you programmed for it?
Message-Id: <brian-ya02408000R1707990000290001@news.panix.com>
In article <378F80B3.96240FA0@cs.umb.edu>, Will Hannigan <will@cs.umb.edu> posted:
> Did the code provided by UPS in the "UPS Internet Tolls Release Noted and Product
> Docs" work for you? That Code did nothing on this end.
i didn't read the docs. i just reversed engineered it.
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 00:02:33 -0400
From: brian@pm.org (brian d foy)
Subject: Re: URL Verification
Message-Id: <brian-ya02408000R1707990002330001@news.panix.com>
In article <7mo5is$46p$1@news3.Belgium.EU.net>, "Toinbo & Renbo" <toinbo@hotmail.com> posted:
> I would like to know how to make a script that tests if an URL given by
> a visitor exists.
> For exemple, you write http://www.yourdomain.com/image.gif The script
> checks if the image exists. If it exists, it continues but if it doesn't
> exist, the script write a message saying that the image doesn't exist.
use the LWP module. you might also read Randal's WebTechniques columns.
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