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Today's topics:
"Fuzzy" matching <guy@firstcreative.com>
Re: (Q) meaning of &which("java") (Tad McClellan)
2 gig limit with File::Find stephenar@my-deja.com
Re: 2 gig limit with File::Find <dan@tuatha.sidhe.org>
Re: [REGEXP] Matching list of comma-separated ID's <no@mail.com>
Re: A Computer Programmers Profile <care227@attglobal.net>
Re: Active Perl <crassh@my-deja.com>
Re: Active Perl <dressen@casema.net>
Re: Active Perl <dan@tuatha.sidhe.org>
Re: ANSI Perl: No Way !!! <elaine@chaos.wustl.edu>
Re: ANSI Perl: No Way !!! <godzilla@stomp.stomp.tokyo>
Re: Average Salary? (Peter Lowe)
Re: Average Salary? <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Re: Bot for this group to auto-answer queries? (Rafael Garcia-Suarez)
Re: Bot for this group to auto-answer queries? <godzilla@stomp.stomp.tokyo>
Re: Bot for this group to auto-answer queries? <care227@attglobal.net>
Re: Bot for this group to auto-answer queries? <care227@attglobal.net>
Re: Bot for this group to auto-answer queries? <care227@attglobal.net>
Re: Bot for this group to auto-answer queries? (Bart Lateur)
Re: case sensitive pattern recognition.... <sariq@texas.net>
Re: case sensitive pattern recognition.... <sariq@texas.net>
CGI textarea conversion code <nomail@hursley.ibm.com>
Re: default shell for 'backtick' commands (Tad McClellan)
Re: Dumb question.. How to prompt the user and get the (Ian Collier)
Re: Dumb question.. How to prompt the user and get the (Bart Lateur)
Re: Encrypting / decrypting. <godzilla@stomp.stomp.tokyo>
Re: Encrypting / decrypting. <mattking@techie.com>
Re: evaluating expressions (Tad McClellan)
Re: file download over cgi script sowiso@my-deja.com
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:43:41 +0100
From: "Guy Fraser" <guy@firstcreative.com>
Subject: "Fuzzy" matching
Message-Id: <8iaq30$4bm$1@plutonium.compulink.co.uk>
Hi.
I've got a small database table containing a few thousand records along the
lines of: word, description
I've created a field in the database table which contains a "metaphone" (see
Text::Metaphone) of the word and want to allow the end user to do a search
on the database which will match their supplied word to a word in the
database (using the metaphone version - already working) but also allow a
"fuzzy" search which would pick up matches if their word (converted to a
metaphone) matched a certain percentage of the word (as a metaphone) in the
database.
eg: if the metaphone for a record in the database is "FLSML" then a
supplied word from the user (when converted to a metaphone) such as "SFLSML"
should still match (they could have entered a slightly different word or
phrase).
I've spent the last 2 days reading though all the perlfaq's and a herd of
other resources and appart from String::Approx (for which the current
version requires a small C program to be compiled) I couldn't find out how
to do this :o( I can't use the String::Approx because I don't know what OS
the finished script will need to run on (hence can't guarantee that we can
compile the C asset).
Does anyone know of an example on the web where I could get more info on
doing Fuzzy matches (or even the name of a module that helps with this) as
the only related references I've found so far all deal with Soundex,
Metaphone and Approx modules.
Thanks in advance,
Guy.
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 09:41:55 -0400
From: tadmc@metronet.com (Tad McClellan)
Subject: Re: (Q) meaning of &which("java")
Message-Id: <slrn8khn93.62d.tadmc@magna.metronet.com>
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On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 02:13:14 -0400, Nico Zigouras <zigouras@mail.med.upenn.edu> wrote:
>On the contrary, I think
>using the ampersand is fine style - makes it
>readable as to where the function calls are.
So do the parens.
I don't need to be told _twice_ that it is a function call.
(If he had used "&which 'java'", then I wouldn't have
done anything with regards to the ampersand.
)
You can get different behavior with and without the ampersand
in some cases. I don't want to have to remember the cases. If
I don't use ampersand, I don't have to worry about passing @_.
I don't much object to the use of ampersand anyway, it was
the "no spaces around operators" that prompted my response.
>Nothing wrong with the
>double quotes either.
It provides a false que.
When I see double quotes, I figure they were used because you
_needed_ one of the two things that they provide above what
single quotes provide (interpolation and/or backslash escapes).
When debugging, I am most often "looking for" variables. When
I see a single quoted string, I don't have to examine its
contents. When I see a double quoted string, I have to
carefully scan it to see if there are any variables in there.
Putting a constant string in double quotes tricks me into
doing more work than I needed to.
I am too Lazy and Impatient to trick myself with double quotes.
>the only problem I would see is not declaring
>$java_loc with my(), unless it has been declared higher up in the program.
>
>> And whoever wrote that has a truly awful programming style,
>> which makes other things suspect as well...
>>
>>
>> $java_loc = which('java');
>>
>
>On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Tad McClellan wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 00:23:04 -0400
>> From: Tad McClellan <tadmc@metronet.com>
>> Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.misc
>> Subject: Re: (Q) meaning of &which("java")
>>
>> On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 00:54:16 -0400, Okehee Goh <ogoh@cise.ufl.edu> wrote:
>> >
>> >Could you explain what it means by following?
>> >
>> >$java_loc=&which("java");
--
Tad McClellan SGML Consulting
tadmc@metronet.com Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 14:06:03 GMT
From: stephenar@my-deja.com
Subject: 2 gig limit with File::Find
Message-Id: <8ianrs$r58$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
Hello,
Thank you in advance for anyone willing to spend time responding to this
request.
I wrote a Perl script utilizing the File::Find module. It uses the
recursive search functionality to sum disk space for all files that
match particular regex pattern matches. Until recently it has been
working great. Files above 2 gig have been thrown into the mix. The
script can't "stat" these files correctly.
Error:"Can't stat /epdata4/afh1_cdmain/afh1.epd: Value too large for
defined data type
Total size in gigabytes for /epdata4/afh1_cdmain/afh1.epd is 0"
The true size of the file is 3509709213.
I suspect (ok hope) someone in the user community has already had to
deal with this. Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.
Stephen
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 14:40:26 GMT
From: Dan Sugalski <dan@tuatha.sidhe.org>
Subject: Re: 2 gig limit with File::Find
Message-Id: <uV525.1168$Zg4.6313@news1.rdc1.ct.home.com>
stephenar@my-deja.com wrote:
> Hello,
> Thank you in advance for anyone willing to spend time responding to this
> request.
> I wrote a Perl script utilizing the File::Find module. It uses the
> recursive search functionality to sum disk space for all files that
> match particular regex pattern matches. Until recently it has been
> working great. Files above 2 gig have been thrown into the mix. The
> script can't "stat" these files correctly.
Yup. You need perl 5.6.0 built with 64-bit file support to do this.
Dan
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:46:05 +0100
From: "Anonymouse" <no@mail.com>
Subject: Re: [REGEXP] Matching list of comma-separated ID's
Message-Id: <8iaqmt$95k$1@reader1.fr.uu.net>
> $string =~ /\d+\.\d\d(, \d+\.\d\d)* ?/
If you wat to do it likewise,
/\d+\.\d{2}(, \d+\.\d{2})* ?/
would be more straight foreward :)
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 09:58:52 -0400
From: Drew Simonis <care227@attglobal.net>
Subject: Re: A Computer Programmers Profile
Message-Id: <3948E11C.42BA9477@attglobal.net>
Ferk Da Jerk wrote:
>
> If your looking for a great worker I can do it and I need much money. At
> least $15 per hour.
Boy I'd love to be 14 again.
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:37:10 GMT
From: chris wallace <crassh@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Active Perl
Message-Id: <8iam64$pmj$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
In article <8i8hhf$nve$1@gxsn.com>,
"James" <fromnews@pagepool.co.uk> wrote:
> When I use the active perl to open a .pl file it exits the MS-DOS
program
> without leaving a split second to read the output of the program. How
can
> this be delt with?
I'm fairly new to perl, so there may well be better solutions,
but for me, it depends what my script is for. Some I run from the
MS-DOS command line (with perl -w script.pl), others like a few backup
scripts where I only want to see that there was no error, I just include
'sleep 10' at possible exit points in the script (this means I have to
use, eg,
{ warn "message: $!\n";
sleep 10;
die; }
instead of just die) but it means any error will hang on the screen
before quitting.
HTH, Chris.
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Before you buy.
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:21:30 +0200
From: "Seb" <dressen@casema.net>
Subject: Re: Active Perl
Message-Id: <3948e5fa$0$7498@reader4>
> When I use the active perl to open a .pl file it exits the MS-DOS program
> without leaving a split second to read the output of the program. How can
> this be delt with?
Just write <> at the end of your script, which is short for <STDIN>
This holds the script until you press the ENTER key.
e.g.
print "Press ENTER.\n";
<>
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 14:33:48 GMT
From: Dan Sugalski <dan@tuatha.sidhe.org>
Subject: Re: Active Perl
Message-Id: <gP525.1167$Zg4.6313@news1.rdc1.ct.home.com>
Seb <dressen@casema.net> wrote:
>> When I use the active perl to open a .pl file it exits the MS-DOS program
>> without leaving a split second to read the output of the program. How can
>> this be delt with?
> Just write <> at the end of your script, which is short for <STDIN>
> This holds the script until you press the ENTER key.
This turns out not to be the case. <> is short for <ARGV>, the magic
filehandle that runs through all the files specified on the command line,
or STDIN if none have been specified.
If you want to read from STDIN, use <STDIN>.
Dan
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:26:04 GMT
From: Elaine Ashton <elaine@chaos.wustl.edu>
Subject: Re: ANSI Perl: No Way !!!
Message-Id: <B56E51AF.6351%elaine@chaos.wustl.edu>
in article x7pupk6m39.fsf@home.sysarch.com, Uri Guttman at uri@sysarch.com
quoth:
> yet you keep hanging around. more signs of a deeply disturbed
> person. didn't your parents teach you not to hang around people you
> hate? i don't socialize with klansmen.
And you keep behaving like an 8 year old boy. You'd think by now you'd take
the clue Uri, but I guess MIT can't teach it all.
*sigh*
e.
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 07:04:07 -0700
From: "Godzilla!" <godzilla@stomp.stomp.tokyo>
Subject: Re: ANSI Perl: No Way !!!
Message-Id: <3948E257.6986B5B6@stomp.stomp.tokyo>
Elaine Ashton wrote:
> And you keep behaving like an 8 year old boy.
> You'd think by now you'd take the clue Uri,
> but I guess MIT can't teach it all.
Two men, one from Yale, one from Harvard, are making
use of a men's restroom. This Yale chap finishes, zips
and begins walking out. Boy from Harvard quips,
"Didn't they teach you at Yale to wash your
hands after using a restroom?"
Yale grad turns and responds with a straight face,
"No. At Yale they taught us not to piss on our hands."
Godzilla!
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:16:00 GMT
From: pgl@random.noc.clara.net (Peter Lowe)
Subject: Re: Average Salary?
Message-Id: <slrn8khlnf.20gk.pgl@random.noc.clara.net>
In article <8i98mg$q82$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, paul_maas@my-deja.com wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am trying to find out the average salary of a Web Developer
>(CGI/PERL) and Database Administrator. So one person.
>
>I have seen people asking/offering from $63,000 to $84,000.
>Is that about right?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Paul Maas
There was a slashdot thread on this a while ago. The three top
stories at this url might help:
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=average+salary
- Peter.
--
This is not the signature you are looking for. Move along now.
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 14:36:48 GMT
From: Jonathan Stowe <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Subject: Re: Average Salary?
Message-Id: <4S525.603$82.52476@news.dircon.co.uk>
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 00:40:51 GMT, paul_maas@my-deja.com Wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to find out the average salary of a Web Developer
> (CGI/PERL) and Database Administrator. So one person.
>
> I have seen people asking/offering from $63,000 to $84,000.
> Is that about right?
>
Depends who's asking.
/J\
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:14:56 GMT
From: garcia_suarez@hotmail.com (Rafael Garcia-Suarez)
Subject: Re: Bot for this group to auto-answer queries?
Message-Id: <slrn8khlts.qr.garcia_suarez@rafael.kazibao.net>
Henry wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
>Reflection: If the bot proved totally successful in its mission, and
>managed to give perfect responses to every question that were asked,
>those gurus that were left would have nothing left to do, and the social
>aspect would die. Perhaps this anti-bot attitude is a natural defense
>mechanism for the cultural survival of this forum? For public forums in
>general?
I doubt that a bot can hurt the social aspect of this group.
Unless, of course, it begins to flame newbies ;-)
--
Rafael Garcia-Suarez
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 06:53:49 -0700
From: "Godzilla!" <godzilla@stomp.stomp.tokyo>
Subject: Re: Bot for this group to auto-answer queries?
Message-Id: <3948DFED.D724A24F@stomp.stomp.tokyo>
Henry wrote:
> I default. You win.
The word is "fold." I rarely lose at poker.
Perhaps I should take up chess and
start collecting kings and queens.
Godzilla!
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:06:03 -0400
From: Drew Simonis <care227@attglobal.net>
Subject: Re: Bot for this group to auto-answer queries?
Message-Id: <3948E2CB.E0D6C787@attglobal.net>
Henry wrote:
>
> Greetings!
>
> I just finished building a bot.
Will it be better than the Tom Phoenix bot? (and don't pretend
that you are a real person, Mr. Phoenix, we can see right through
that logic. LISP sure is powerfull)
The only bot I've seen that is better than the recently tuned
TP bot is the ever-relaible Barry Margolin bot. Quite an active
crawler, that one.
(OK, im being silly, but I think the point comes accross...
There are plenty of folks who enjoy answering questions, newbie
or not. I think a bot going around auto-answering would have
to be VERY accurate to not ruffle the feathers of the bandwidth
challenged and spool watchers.)
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:09:53 -0400
From: Drew Simonis <care227@attglobal.net>
Subject: Re: Bot for this group to auto-answer queries?
Message-Id: <3948E3B0.2818CC06@attglobal.net>
Henry wrote:
>
> In article <slrn8kgi9g.570.tadmc@magna.metronet.com>,
> tadmc@metronet.com (Tad McClellan) wrote:
>
> > bot's are not appropriate on Usenet (IMO, of course).
>
> Once apon a time, civilians were not allowed on the Internet. Once apon
> a time, an education and a brain were pre-requisites.
>
> Times change.
>
For the better and for the worse, from your own example.
Lets try to keep the worse out of this place, and work
towards the better.
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:11:15 -0400
From: Drew Simonis <care227@attglobal.net>
Subject: Re: Bot for this group to auto-answer queries?
Message-Id: <3948E403.5E5B21AD@attglobal.net>
"Godzilla!" wrote:
>
> Henry wrote:
>
> > I default. You win.
>
> The word is "fold." I rarely lose at poker.
>
> Perhaps I should take up chess and
> start collecting kings and queens.
>
Would that take time away from your busy harass.. er.. posting
schedule? What a shame that would be!
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 14:36:37 GMT
From: bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur)
Subject: Re: Bot for this group to auto-answer queries?
Message-Id: <3949e9bd.23003358@news.skynet.be>
Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
>I doubt that a bot can hurt the social aspect of this group.
>Unless, of course, it begins to flame newbies ;-)
Ooh, it'd suddenly be a highly respected member of the community! ;-)
--
Bart.
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 09:27:53 -0500
From: Tom Briles <sariq@texas.net>
Subject: Re: case sensitive pattern recognition....
Message-Id: <3948E7E9.2356DB0C@texas.net>
Larry Rosler wrote:
>
> In article <1oT15.2783$A%3.34357@news1.rdc2.pa.home.com> on Wed, 14 Jun
> 2000 22:09:01 GMT, Andy <y-o-y@home.com> says...
> > Just curious,
> >
> > Why did most of the solutions use the 'lc' instead of the 'uc' function?
>
> Some conjectures:
>
> 1. Tradition. So many other things in the Unix/C/Perl line of
> computing are lower-case (commands, library function names, Uri
> Guttman's posts, brian d foy's name, ...).
>
> 2. The comparison operand looks ugly in upper-case ('<SMILE>').
>
> 3. In some locales, the upper-case character set may be impoverished
> relative to the lower-case character set.
>
> I can use some native-speaker help on this one. Possible examples:
>
> Metropolitan French conventionally maps accented lower-case letters
> to unaccented upper-case letters (but I don't know if the uc() function
> does that with French locale), so false matches might result.
>
> German ß has no single-character upper-case equivalent, so either ß
> or 'ss' would match upper-case 'SS'.
>
> Any others?
'l' is on the home row. ;)
- Tom
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 09:37:27 -0500
From: Tom Briles <sariq@texas.net>
Subject: Re: case sensitive pattern recognition....
Message-Id: <3948EA27.AEF5490A@texas.net>
[Jeopardectomy performed. Please post your response *after* the quoted
text. Also, only quote what's necessary.]
Zowwie wrote:
>
> if ($array[$i] =~ m/\<smile\>/i){
>
> See "bind" operator for additional info.
>
> <law_40@my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8i8a9i$21c$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> > I have an if loop....
> >
> > if ($array[$i] eq ("<smile>"){
> > do process.....
> > }
> >
> > the problem is that <smile> could be <SMILE>, <Smile>, etc....
> >
> > is there a way to do a check that is not case sensitive in this format?
> >
>
> if ($array[$i] =~ m/\<smile\>/i){
The 'i' modifier is the right idea; however, the backslashes are
superfluous, and you need to anchor the expression.
And using regexps for exact matches is silly. That's for what 'eq' is.
- Tom
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:03:12 +0100
From: Derek Fountain <nomail@hursley.ibm.com>
Subject: CGI textarea conversion code
Message-Id: <3948F030.48022C16@hursley.ibm.com>
I have a CGI script which receives the data from a textarea
in an HTML form. The lines from that textarea are delimited
with escaped control sequences like %0D%0A. I'm sure I've
seen the code which translates all the possible control
sequences into \n, \r or whatever they would normally be
represented as in Perl. Only I can't find it. :-(
Can someone either post it if it's a simple cut and paste
from an existing script, or tell me where I can can find it?
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 09:52:58 -0400
From: tadmc@metronet.com (Tad McClellan)
Subject: Re: default shell for 'backtick' commands
Message-Id: <slrn8khntq.62d.tadmc@magna.metronet.com>
On 15 Jun 2000 12:25:54 -0000, Anno Siegel <anno4000@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
>Drew Simonis <care227@attglobal.net> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
>>duckjibe@my-deja.com wrote:
>>>
>>> Is it possible to change the shell used for `backtick` commands?
>>> It uses sh and I need to use ksh.
>>
>>Better question is what are you doing with backticks, and could
>>that task be better accomplished. Its usually a better idea to
>>call external programs in other ways.
>
>Why? Backticks have their place.
>
>In any case, all the methods to call an external program (exec, system,
^^^
>backticks, open) share the behavior that (under Unix) they call /bin/sh
>to run the program in certain circumstances and run it directly (i.e.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>using execvp() or similar) in others. I don't see how using a different
>method would help solve the original poster's problem.
Backticks _always_ use the shell.
--
Tad McClellan SGML Consulting
tadmc@metronet.com Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas
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Date: 15 Jun 2000 13:16:22 GMT
From: imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier)
Subject: Re: Dumb question.. How to prompt the user and get the input.
Message-Id: <22098-lame.imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
Matt King entertained comp.lang.perl.misc with the following story.
As far as I can gather, this appears to be about the old comp.lang.c
mainstay regarding the input of a single keystroke.
[the attribution for the following quote appears to have been snipped by
the above-named author]
>> Name me a language which has this feature natively, according to that
>> language's standard, or by it's _de facto_ standard implementation.
>> Mucho bonus points if it's a portable languages, not something platform
>> specific à la Visual Basic (or assembler).
>REXX. Cross platform programming language. OS/2, DOS, Windows XX, and even
>*nix, there are more, but these are the mainline ones. Happy?
The ANSI standard for Rexx does not define what happens when you ask
for a single character of input. In all probability you will get the
same result as from the perl function read(STDIN,$foo,1).
Some, or possibly all, versions of Rexx supplied by IBM come with the
REXXUTIL external function library, which contains a SysGetKey function.
There is an open-source emulation of this for the non-IBM systems called
"regutil", but that's something you have to download yourself. Either
way, that probably classes as an "add-on" and not a native language
feature.
No doubt the Amiga version of Rexx has a way to do this which is both
excellent and entirely at variance with other platforms.
--
---- Ian Collier : imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk : WWW page below
------ http://users.comlab.ox.ac.uk/ian.collier/imc.shtml
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:32:19 GMT
From: bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur)
Subject: Re: Dumb question.. How to prompt the user and get the input.
Message-Id: <3948dac7.19173603@news.skynet.be>
Matt King wrote:
>And I'll except your point about the include statements. But these are
>standard libaries. getch() is an alias to another command. In my ANSI C
>book, there are three refs. getc, getchar and gets. So although one would
>have to include stdio.h, it is a standard call included with the langauge.
>Almost everything in C is a library that has to be included inorder to keep
>the output code small. Why include it if you don't need it?
Excuses.
--
Bart.
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 06:49:34 -0700
From: "Godzilla!" <godzilla@stomp.stomp.tokyo>
Subject: Re: Encrypting / decrypting.
Message-Id: <3948DEEE.F30C01E2@stomp.stomp.tokyo>
Matt King wrote:
> And I gave you the benifit of the doubt....
My goodness. Your spelling has suddenly moved
from poor to perfect, your grammar, from bad
to very good and, suddenly you are very wordy
and writing in completely different style, a
type of style I well recognize, including those
odd personal idioms you use without conscious
choice.
Amazing how use of Socratic Irony can inflict
such a bruise upon an ego, it will remove its
mask and expose itself with a foolish truth.
You should know better than to try to fool
the Goddess of Hackers.
Godzilla!
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:35:49 +0200
From: "Matt King" <mattking@techie.com>
Subject: Re: Encrypting / decrypting.
Message-Id: <8iapl5$g68$1@news2atm.raleigh.ibm.com>
> You should know better than to try to fool
> the Goddess of Hackers.
Who's the fool? The fool, or the fool that follows the fool? I was more then
fair with you, even when (through the ng and emails) I was told to avoid
you. If you can't except the fact that when I sent you the information, that
the SP used a router and that you wrote a script that you think is good, and
I (someone that doesn't know allot about Perl) proved that it's junk, then
fine. But everyone has now gotten a good laugh about it. Even me.
Hack your way out this problem and come out on top.
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 09:48:18 -0400
From: tadmc@metronet.com (Tad McClellan)
Subject: Re: evaluating expressions
Message-Id: <slrn8khnl2.62d.tadmc@magna.metronet.com>
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:25:25 GMT, Rodney Engdahl <red_orc@my-deja.com> wrote:
>In article <slrn8ke0pc.39i.tadmc@magna.metronet.com>,
> tadmc@metronet.com (Tad McClellan) wrote:
>
>
>> She is not an English PhD.
>>
>> Everything you see in the movies is not true, heh heh.
>>
>
>shouldn't that be:
>
>Not everything you see in the movies is true.
I think you're right.
My Formal Methods professor's favorite ambiguity is Sear's
disclaimer:
"Not available in all stores"
Which leaves you wondering where you buy it then :-)
--
Tad McClellan SGML Consulting
tadmc@metronet.com Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:19:20 GMT
From: sowiso@my-deja.com
Subject: Re: file download over cgi script
Message-Id: <8ial48$oq3$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
In article <LcBIOVQXjA4AcnYr7qN4TacSKp54@4ax.com>,
henrik.jonsson@se.adtranz.com wrote:
> Why not use the CGI.pm function redirect instead? Then you don't need
i do not use redirect because the files that sholud be downloaded are
NOT placed in a directory which is aviable from the web because the
script handles if a user get the requestet site or not.
cu Nils
> to read in the file into memory.
>
> $q->redirect('url/to/the/file');
>
> /henrik
>
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Before you buy.
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