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Today's topics:
Re: ActiveState Install to Win NT Fails (Dave Crumbacher)
Re: ActiveState Install to Win NT Fails <bart.lateur@skynet.be>
ANNOUNCE: Text::Balanced 1.88 (Damian Conway)
Find files?? (Donavon)
Re: get text from mysql db into form (Wiliam Stephens)
Has anyone out there had any luck compiling Perl on AIX (Brian Duffy)
maximum input buffer length exceeded <mrp@hafatel.com>
pipe output <sh@planetquake.com>
Re: pipe output <mgjv@tradingpost.com.au>
Re: pipe output <Tassilo.Parseval@post.rwth-aachen.de>
Re: ranged arrays <tsee@gmx.net>
Re: Sorting of arrays by an element of each <nobody@nowhere.com>
Re: Sorting of arrays by an element of each <godzilla@stomp.stomp.tokyo>
Re: Sorting of arrays by an element of each <godzilla@stomp.stomp.tokyo>
Re: Table Sort <goldbb2@earthlink.net>
URL To Text (url2txt) (Anand Ramamurthy)
Use of another perl script in CGI <th_gi@hotmail.com>
Re: Use of another perl script in CGI <Tassilo.Parseval@post.rwth-aachen.de>
Re: Use of another perl script in CGI <sh@planetquake.com>
Re: Use of another perl script in CGI <Tassilo.Parseval@post.rwth-aachen.de>
Re: using modules in subdirectories with a dash <goldbb2@earthlink.net>
Re: Where can I find a binary Perl 5.005_53 for Win? <camerond@mail.uca.edu>
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Date: 15 Nov 2001 13:53:12 -0800
From: crum66@yahoo.com (Dave Crumbacher)
Subject: Re: ActiveState Install to Win NT Fails
Message-Id: <d326fa1a.0111151353.4397c68c@posting.google.com>
I'm having the same problem. Did you find an answer?
DaveMoore <djmoore@uh.edu> wrote in message news:<pks0ttc8fllgd4bc49lct42t0f027mv2jl@4ax.com>...
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 13:27:05 -0500, "Mr. Sunblade" <djberge@qwest.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >"DaveMoore" <djmoore@uh.edu> wrote in message
> >news:1kq0ttoi8uq08gsg1f0c1ngvea55rdbkh0@4ax.com...
> >> I haven't been able to get ActiveState Perl (or Python either,
> >> for that matter) to install on Windows NT for several builds
> >> now. MSIEXEC quits with "ActivePerl Build 629 ended prematurely
> >> because of an error. Your system has not been modified." The
> >> error is not identified.
> >
> >Ack. Send this one to ActiveState. They've always gotten back to me with
> >problems, though sometimes it took a few days.
> >
> >In the meantime, what about using their package install, which doesn't use
> >MSI, instead?
> >
> Dang, I knew I'd forgotten to say something. I tried that, and it,
> too, fails silently. It's a perl script, so I suppose I could
> comb through and pepper it with diagnostic prints, but since this
> is the failsafe backup, it would be nice if it JUST WORKED. Also,
> I'd like to have the uninstall capability.
>
> If nothing turns up here, I'll pester ActiveState, and forward the
> reply to the group.
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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:41:37 GMT
From: Bart Lateur <bart.lateur@skynet.be>
Subject: Re: ActiveState Install to Win NT Fails
Message-Id: <54h8vtkvg0ch8jtbovpckehsg7mf9cvldt@4ax.com>
Dave Crumbacher quoted:
>> >> I haven't been able to get ActiveState Perl (or Python either,
>> >> for that matter) to install on Windows NT for several builds
>> >> now.
Be sure to install it in a path with no spaces in the name. "c:\my
programs\perl" just won't do.
--
Bart.
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Date: 15 Nov 2001 19:15:28 GMT
From: damian@cs.monash.edu.au (Damian Conway)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Text::Balanced 1.88
Message-Id: <9t148g$jrd$1@towncrier.cc.monash.edu.au>
Keywords: perl, module, release
==============================================================================
Release of version 1.88 of Text::Balanced
==============================================================================
NAME
Text::Balanced - Extract delimited text sequences from strings.
SUMMARY (see Balanced.pod for full details)
Text::Balanced::extract_delimited
`extract_delimited' extracts the initial substring of a string
which is delimited by a user-specified set of single-character
delimiters, whilst ignoring any backslash-escaped delimiter
characters.
Text::Balanced::extract_bracketed
`extract_bracketed' extracts a balanced-bracket-delimited substring
(using any one (or more) of the user-specified delimiter brackets:
'(..)', '{..}', '[..]', or '<..>').
Text::Balanced::extract_quotelike
`extract_quotelike' attempts to recognize and extract any one of the
various Perl quote and quotelike operators (see "perlop(3)"). Embedded
backslashed delimiters, nested bracket delimiters (for the
quotelike operators), and trailing modifiers are all correctly handled.
Text::Balanced::extract_codeblock
`extract_codeblock' attempts to recognize and extract a
balanced bracket-delimited substring which may also contain
unbalanced brackets inside Perl quotes or quotelike
operations. That is, `extract_codeblock' is like a combination
of `extract_bracketed' and `extract_quotelike'.
Text::Balanced::extract_tagged
`extract_tagged' attempts to recognize and extract a
substring between two arbitrary "tag" patterns (a start tag
and an end tag).
INSTALLATION
It's all pure Perl, so just put the .pm file in its appropriate
local Perl subdirectory.
AUTHOR
Damian Conway (damian@cs.monash.edu.au)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1997-2001, Damian Conway. All Rights Reserved.
This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed
and/or modified under the same terms as Perl itself.
==============================================================================
CHANGES IN VERSION 1.88
- Fixed extvar.t tests
==============================================================================
AVAILABILITY
Text::Balanced has been uploaded to the CPAN
and is also available from:
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/CPAN/Text-Balanced.tar.gz
==============================================================================
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Date: 15 Nov 2001 14:49:04 -0800
From: djlerman@yahoo.com (Donavon)
Subject: Find files??
Message-Id: <97ba267a.0111151449.736bf37e@posting.google.com>
How can I do the following on a win32 system? I found a reference to
a module called 'FILE::FIND' but a could not find it anywhere...
Thanks, ~Donavon
djlerman@yahoo.com
#!/perl/bin
@files = ("file1.txt",
"file2.doc",
...,
...,)
foreach $i (@files) {
# find $i on drive R:\
# if ("found") {
# print "file location is: ". ?????????;
# } else {
# print "file $i not found\n";
# }
}
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Date: 15 Nov 2001 14:01:17 -0800
From: wil@fbagroup.co.uk (Wiliam Stephens)
Subject: Re: get text from mysql db into form
Message-Id: <39e3e00a.0111151401.14cf2810@posting.google.com>
<harm.bouwman@mediasys.nl> wrote in message news:<9t0i44$ev2$1@news1.xs4all.nl>...
> print" <input type=\"text\" name=\"head\" default=\"@field[1]\"
Before learning Perl, try learning HTML. The above line should be
written as:
print "<input type=\"text\" name=\"head\" value=\"@field[1]\>";
Or you can try this, to avoid yourself escaping characters:
print qq|<input type="text" name="head" value="@field[1]">|;
Anow now for the perl bit, you need a scalar value from your array, so
you need to replace
> @field[1]
With the following:
$field[1]
Which should give you the SEOND elemtn from array @field. Remember
that your arrays are indexed starting from 0 - not 1.
Rgds
Wil Stephens
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Date: 15 Nov 2001 12:07:55 -0800
From: bduffy@nycap.rr.com (Brian Duffy)
Subject: Has anyone out there had any luck compiling Perl on AIX 4.3.3 with gcc?
Message-Id: <8382da14.0111151207.6d820556@posting.google.com>
I find myself needing to compile some Perl modules for several IBM
RS/6000 boxes. Unfortunately, all of the binary distributions of Perl
that I have found have been compiled with the IBM VisualAge compiler,
which I don't have.
I've been unable to compile Perl 5.6 or 5.6.1 using gcc on AIX before,
and have yet to find a Howto or other documentation about doing so
that says anything besides "it's hard to do".
Has anyone out there successfuly compiled Perl on AIX 4.3.3 with gcc??
I'd appreciate pointers to documentation or some other writeup.
Brian Duffy
bduffy@nycap.rr.com
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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 08:05:10 +1000
From: "Mike Pierotti" <mrp@hafatel.com>
Subject: maximum input buffer length exceeded
Message-Id: <9t1e8f02tlq@enews3.newsguy.com>
maximum input buffer length exceeded: 1048576 bytes at
/home/httpd/cgi-bin/main.
pl line 1551
Issuing rollback() for database handle being DESTROY'd without explicit
disconne
ct().
I am running a command that fetches a rather large array from Net::telnet
and it is returning the above error. Any ideas on how I could fix this
would be greatly appriciated.
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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:19:36 GMT
From: "Sean Hamilton" <sh@planetquake.com>
Subject: pipe output
Message-Id: <YbXI7.7040$c4.1259286@news0.telusplanet.net>
Greetings,
Suppose I'm calling a large operation from within my perl script.
print (`find / | grep blah`);
etc.
Is there any way to have the output of find redirected directly to stdout?
I'm doing this with CGI, and enabling $| doesn't do it (presumably because
print is only called after find completes.)
Do I have to fork, read, etc etc..?
TiA,
sh
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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:29:40 GMT
From: Martien Verbruggen <mgjv@tradingpost.com.au>
Subject: Re: pipe output
Message-Id: <slrn9v8gfg.dv2.mgjv@verbruggen.comdyn.com.au>
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:19:36 GMT,
Sean Hamilton <sh@planetquake.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Suppose I'm calling a large operation from within my perl script.
>
> print (`find / | grep blah`);
> Is there any way to have the output of find redirected directly to stdout?
system('find / | grep blah');
Children inherit the parent's standard output. Whether there is still
going to be some buffering is another matter.
> I'm doing this with CGI, and enabling $| doesn't do it (presumably because
> print is only called after find completes.)
Yes. backticks will not return until the command has finished.
> Do I have to fork, read, etc etc..?
Nope.
Martien
--
|
Martien Verbruggen | The gene pool could use a little
Trading Post Australia Pty Ltd | chlorine.
|
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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 23:30:47 +0100
From: "Tassilo v. Parseval" <Tassilo.Parseval@post.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: pipe output
Message-Id: <9t1fmn$bbg$03$1@news.t-online.com>
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:19:36 GMT, Sean Hamilton wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Suppose I'm calling a large operation from within my perl script.
>
> print (`find / | grep blah`);
>
> etc.
>
> Is there any way to have the output of find redirected directly to stdout?
> I'm doing this with CGI, and enabling $| doesn't do it (presumably because
> print is only called after find completes.)
>
> Do I have to fork, read, etc etc..?
Not explicitely. Use open() to build a unidirectional pipe from your
command:
open COMMAND, "find / | grep blah |";
while (<COMMAND>) { # read line-wise from the pipe
print;
}
Tassilo
--
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 20:58:35 +0100
From: "Steffen Müller" <tsee@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: ranged arrays
Message-Id: <9t16p9$g9f$00$1@news.t-online.com>
"Steffen Müller" <tsee@gmx.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:9t0slq$afi$03$1@news.t-online.com...
[...]
| Maybe I'll just settle for the ugly, ugly syntax without lvalues?
BTW, I got multi dimensional bounded arrays up and running without lvalues
using a horrible syntax:
use Array::MultiDim;
my $obj = Array::MultiDim->new($dimensions,
$lower[0] => $upper[0],
$lower[1] => $upper[1],
[...]
$lower[$dimensions-1] =>
$upper[$dimensions-1]
);
$obj->get($pos_d[0], $pos_d[1], ..., $pos_d[$dimensions-1], $value);
# or
$obj->put($pos_d[0], $pos_d[1], ..., $pos_d[$dimensions-1], $value);
my $retrieve = $obj->get($pos_d[0], $pos_d[1], ..., $pos_d[$dimensions-1]);
my $no_dimensions = $obj->range();
my @all_ranges = $obj->range(); # ranges as list of array
refs
my @sel_ranges = $obj->range( @dimensions ); # ranges as list of array
refs
You can also set whether you want to address 1 .. $no_dimensions as
attribute to range or 0 .. $no_dimensions - 1. I know this $[ like behaviour
isn't Perlish, but it really does make sense for dimensions. (Have you ever
stored a value into a list that has the dimension zero?)
Slices in the way you suggested should be implemented next.
Steffen
--
$_=q;0cb212c210b0bb010c0113bb0c410c0b516c0bb3d212c2b0b0b016b6cb2b2c21010c0
b41110b3bba0e0c0d2c4b2b6bc013d2c0d0b01012b0b0;;s/\n//g;s/(\d)/$1<2?$1:'0'x
$1/ge;s/([a-f])/'1'x(ord($1)-97)/ge;$o=$_;push@o,substr($o,$_*8,8) for(0..
24);for(@o){print"\0"x(26-$i).chr(oct('0b'.($_)))."\r";$i++};print"\n"#stm
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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 06:43:54 +1000
From: "Gregory Toomey" <nobody@nowhere.com>
Subject: Re: Sorting of arrays by an element of each
Message-Id: <rLVI7.295533$8x1.81578@newsfeeds.bigpond.com>
"Godzilla!" <godzilla@stomp.stomp.tokyo> wrote in message
news:3BF4072D.F0EFCBB8@stomp.stomp.tokyo...
> Uri Guttman wrote:
>
> > Michael Cook wrote:
>
> (snipped Uri's inadequate and impotent... uhh... helpful hints!)
>
>
> > and in general ignore anything you read from moronzilla.
>
> Oh po' boy. Have my recent articles of stunning brilliance
> bruised your ever so fragile masculine ego?
>
I think all the professional programmers in this group agree you are a
moron.
gtoomey
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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:59:54 -0800
From: "Godzilla!" <godzilla@stomp.stomp.tokyo>
Subject: Re: Sorting of arrays by an element of each
Message-Id: <3BF43ADA.39E5E2E1@stomp.stomp.tokyo>
Gregory Toomey wrote:
> Godzilla! wrote:
> > Uri Guttman wrote:
> > > Michael Cook wrote:
> > (snipped Uri's inadequate and impotent... uhh... helpful hints!)
> > > and in general ignore anything you read from moronzilla.
> > Oh po' boy. Have my recent articles of stunning brilliance
> > bruised your ever so fragile masculine ego?
> I think all the professional programmers in this group
> agree you are a moron.
My goodness! Will you look at all the sissified geeks
crawling out of the woodwork!
Boy howdy have people been telling you lies!
There are no professional programmers populating
this newsgroup!
psssst... lean over here close.. closer...
I will tell you a little secret. Listening?
I AM THE BEST PERL PROGRAMMER AROUND HERE!
Heh.. heh.. HEH!
Godzilla! Queen Of Perl Heritics.
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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 14:22:20 -0800
From: "Godzilla!" <godzilla@stomp.stomp.tokyo>
Subject: Re: Sorting of arrays by an element of each
Message-Id: <3BF4401C.F6063DE8@stomp.stomp.tokyo>
Michael Cook wrote:
> Godzilla! wrote:
(snipped)
> > You have failed to provide clear and concise parameters.
> > Additionally, you have a glaring error in your arrays.
> Sorry, the last time I posted, I was chided for wasting folks'
> time with too much info
Don't expect to be treated in a civilized manner
withing this newsgroup. Nothing but Taliban style
Perl Police around here. This is why I don a burqa
before posting here. However, I still wear my size
twenty-four bozo shoes. They never notice.
My excuse is being both an English teacher and a
Science teacher. Imagine that! Same teacher for
both English and Science. Ain't that about enuf
to make your purple spiked hair wilt?
I am the premier Mistress Of Anal Retentiveness.
Bet I can make you gnash your teeth in twenty-five
words or less.
> > Incorporating errors into your lacking examples is
> > very sloppy and indicative of laziness.
> In the Camel book, Laziness is given as one of the
> great virtues of a programmer; however, I am quite
> industrious
Do you produce noxious fumes?
Laziness, as a Perl virtue, is certainly an important
contributing factor to all this poor quality programming
I read here on a regular basis.
> Thanks for the help!!! This was indeed exactly what I was
> looking for - great guess ;-)
My experience is almost all here, to best serve their
Lord and Master, their individual ego, will write code
as complex and as obfuscated as possible falsely thinking
others will think them an amazing Perl programmer.
I prefer to tackle problems in a simple straightforth manner
with code written in Plain English which is easy to read
and easy to understand, regardless of skill level.
Another personal experience is almost all code I share
to help others is quicker and more efficient than any
code posted by various people, these self-proclaimed
professional programmers.
You will note my use of "almost all" carefully. I am
inherently far from perfect but nearly so!
* loves subtle oxymorons *
Despite negative comments by another, your naming of
your arrays, numerical naming, lends well to working
with iteration counters to manipulate your data. You
can quickly and easily do whatever you want, if you
are dealing with lots of arrays.
Don't be fooled by doomsayers and Perl purists here.
Godzilla!
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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 17:45:37 -0500
From: Benjamin Goldberg <goldbb2@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Table Sort
Message-Id: <3BF44591.FFFA2C4D@earthlink.net>
Martin wrote:
>
> Hi to everybody
> I must create html Tables and sort them in different criterics (name,
> land, usw)
Multiple tables, and sort the tables? Or one table, with many rows, and
sort the rows?
> My workaround is to create a temporary Table in database with the
> results of request and than i create from this different tables in
> html and let sql do the sorting.
Assuming you've got a table with many rows, and many fields in each
row... put the data into an array of hashes, or an array of arrays, and
sort them using sort BLOCK LIST.
See:
perldoc -f sort
for details.
What exactly the BLOCK will look like depends on how you choose to
represent each row of your table.
--
Klein bottle for rent - inquire within.
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Date: 15 Nov 2001 12:35:14 -0800
From: anand_ramamurthy@yahoo.com (Anand Ramamurthy)
Subject: URL To Text (url2txt)
Message-Id: <761041e6.0111151235.71391844@posting.google.com>
I am looking for a script for converting an URL to TEXT,
which takes care of tables also.
Many have suggested using lynx. I am not sure if lynx is
available for HP-UX, SunOS, Windows (NT & 2000). Please let
me know if I can get download lynx for above platform. If yes,
from which site.
Does anyne have a PERL script which does url2txt (handling
tables also).
Thank you.
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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:40:48 +0100
From: "Th.G" <th_gi@hotmail.com>
Subject: Use of another perl script in CGI
Message-Id: <3BF43660.1080902@hotmail.com>
Hi
I have two files and tried to make this:
'test.cgi'
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -wT
use CGI qw(:standard);
$param = $ENV{QUERY_STRING};
if ($param==5672) {
print "yes" }
else {
print "no" }
'memo.cgi'
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -wT
use CGI qw(:standard);
use LWP::Simple;
$param = $ENV{QUERY_STRING};
$test = get("test.cgi?".$param);
if ($test=="yes") {
do something }
else
do something else }
'memo.cgi' and some other scripts use 'test.cgi' to
check something.
But this does not work. I get a lot of error Messages.
Please help
Thomas
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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:46:34 +0100
From: "Tassilo v. Parseval" <Tassilo.Parseval@post.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: Use of another perl script in CGI
Message-Id: <9t1d3p$jsb$01$1@news.t-online.com>
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:40:48 +0100, Th.G wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have two files and tried to make this:
> 'test.cgi'
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl -wT
> use CGI qw(:standard);
> $param = $ENV{QUERY_STRING};
What's the use of using CGI if you still role your own sort-of
query-processor? Don't do that.
> if ($param==5672) {
^^
$param holds a string, hence use eq here.
> print "yes" }
> else {
> print "no" }
>
> 'memo.cgi'
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl -wT
> use CGI qw(:standard);
> use LWP::Simple;
> $param = $ENV{QUERY_STRING};
> $test = get("test.cgi?".$param);
> if ($test=="yes") {
^^
Same problem: '==' is for numeric comparison.
> do something }
> else
> do something else }
>
> 'memo.cgi' and some other scripts use 'test.cgi' to
> check something.
> But this does not work. I get a lot of error Messages.
Care to tell us what these error messages look like or should we guess?
Anyway, passing data between Perl code using the CGI-interface is sort
of, well, unusual. Why not jam the content of test.cgi in a module that
you can then comfortably use() inside memo.cgi. Or, why not just a few
functions inside memo.cgi?
Tassilo
--
You're growing out of some of your problems, but there are others that
you're growing into.
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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:22:14 GMT
From: "Sean Hamilton" <sh@planetquake.com>
Subject: Re: Use of another perl script in CGI
Message-Id: <qeXI7.7042$c4.1260332@news0.telusplanet.net>
> > if ($param==5672) {
> ^^
> $param holds a string, hence use eq here.
I think this is correct... depending on if he is indeed comparing against
the number 5672. Would not that return true if $param was "5672.00",
"05672", etc? It seems that's what he's trying to do, since his 5672 is
unquoted.
sh
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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 23:35:18 +0100
From: "Tassilo v. Parseval" <Tassilo.Parseval@post.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: Use of another perl script in CGI
Message-Id: <9t1fv6$535$05$1@news.t-online.com>
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:22:14 GMT, Sean Hamilton wrote:
>> > if ($param==5672) {
>> ^^
>> $param holds a string, hence use eq here.
>
> I think this is correct... depending on if he is indeed comparing against
> the number 5672. Would not that return true if $param was "5672.00",
> "05672", etc? It seems that's what he's trying to do, since his 5672 is
> unquoted.
Unfortunately we can't say whether his not-quoting of 5672 is on purpose
or due to lacking Perl-skills. ;-)
Later he sends the params back to another script with
"http://url?$params". That means the parameter would really be only one
and not come in a key/value pair. Of course, this may be the case here.
But this all looked quite suspect to me.
Tassilo
--
Don't be overly suspicious where it's not warranted.
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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 17:30:44 -0500
From: Benjamin Goldberg <goldbb2@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: using modules in subdirectories with a dash
Message-Id: <3BF44214.69E99237@earthlink.net>
Mark Jason Dominus wrote:
>
> In article <3BF30570.625A3DE9@earthlink.net>,
> Benjamin Goldberg <goldbb2@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >Mark Jason Dominus wrote:
> >> It doesn't work anyway. Even omitting the spurious : after BEGIN,
> >> I get 'Can't locate UNIVERSAL/require.pm in @INC'.
> >
> >Well, duh. First download them from CPAN, as I said to do in my
> >response to your asking this same question in an earlier thread.
>
> You seem to have me confused with someone else.
Yes, it seems I have. My apologies. Thinking back on it, I had started
to write [an earlier version of] my first message in this thread, then
my browser crashed [I was doing a few too many things at once], and in
that [unposted] version I mentioned CPAN... and when writing the version
which I actually ended up posting, I forgot to say they were available
from CPAN.
--
Klein bottle for rent - inquire within.
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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 16:26:18 -0600
From: Cameron Dorey <camerond@mail.uca.edu>
Subject: Re: Where can I find a binary Perl 5.005_53 for Win?
Message-Id: <3BF4410A.23AF4122@mail.uca.edu>
Edwin Günthner wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I am developping some perl code for OS/2. The latest perl for
> OS/2 that is available as binary is 5.005_53.
>
> But I prefer to work on W2K - but of course, when you are
> developping your code with Perl 5.6.1 and you carry it
> to 5.005_53 you might be surprised from time to time ....
>
> Thus I would like to install the same "old" perl on my windows
> box - and therefore I am wondering where I can find a 5.005_53
> binary for Windows (or a version that comes "as close as possible").
>
> I had a look at the CPAN list of sites (where to find
> windows binaries) - but none of them offered what I am looking
> for.
>
> Any other idea?
Go to ActiveState, they have an archive of the 5.005 binaries at
http://downloads.ActiveState.com/ActivePerl/
The numbering system is not the same as the one you have, but "build
522" is the last one they put out under 5.005.
Cameron
--
Cameron Dorey
Associate Professor of Chemistry
University of Central Arkansas
Phone: 501-450-5938
camerond@mail.uca.edu
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