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Perl-Users Digest Fri, 12 Dec 2003 Volume: 10 Number: 5930
Today's topics:
Re: @ISA specific to instance rather than class? <tassilo.parseval@rwth-aachen.de>
Re: Calling Another Script (Hobbit HK)
Re: Catching Errors <thesnake_123@-NO-S_P_A_M-hotmail.com>
How to map URL to %xx? <test@test.com>
Re: How to map URL to %xx? <tony_curtis32@_SPAMTRAP_yahoo.com>
Re: How to map URL to %xx? <test@test.com>
Re: How to map URL to %xx? <uri@stemsystems.com>
Re: How to map URL to %xx? <matthew.garrish@sympatico.ca>
Re: LWP install MacOS X <spamfilter@dot-app.org>
Re: LWP install MacOS X <henryn@zzzspacebbs.com>
Re: LWP install MacOS X <spamfilter@dot-app.org>
MAKE MONEY!!! MAKE THOUSANDS!!! <qhudan122@rogers.com>
Re: Need programmers? At Colance they compete for your <matthew.garrish@sympatico.ca>
Re: Newsgroup Searching Program <gerardlanois@netscape.net>
Re: PAR / Post install problem / bad signature ... <kalinaubears@iinet.net.au>
Re: perlcc <kalinaubears@iinet.net.au>
Re: Server-side script executed on page load or event, <spamfilter@dot-app.org>
Re: Sorting dates...Argument "" isn't numeric (Tad McClellan)
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Date: 12 Dec 2003 07:30:48 GMT
From: "Tassilo v. Parseval" <tassilo.parseval@rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: @ISA specific to instance rather than class?
Message-Id: <brbqr8$mb0$1@nets3.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
Also sprach Matthew Braid:
> I'm streamlining one of my own packages by splitting off optional
> functionality into sub-packages and only use base'ing them when
> required, eg:
>
> sub use_something {
> my $self = shift;
> eval {use base qw/My::Package::Something/};
> die $@ if $@;
> return 1;
> }
>
> This works well, but it means that once one instance of the class uses
> the 'something', then all of them have it loaded on creation.
>
> I'm not worried about this, but I was wondering if there is a way to
> make an instance of an object use an extra base package without the
> whole class doing so.
Not really, no. But what you can do is creating a new class on the fly
with the desired characteristics and rebless your object into this
class:
sub make_subclass_of {
my ($self, @classes) = @_;
my @chars = ('a' .. 'z');
my $newclass;
$newclass .= $chars[rand @chars] for 1 .. 8;
no strict 'refs';
@{ "__${newclass}::ISA" } = (ref($self), @{ ref($self)."::ISA" }, @classes);
bless $self => "__$newclass";
}
And now you can do
$object->make_subclass_of( qw(Class1 Class2) );
$object is now blessed into a new class which inherits from the previous
class of $object, its superclasses and the two classes Class1 and
Class2. In order to avoid clashes, the new class name is a random string
such as '__lmcpnuvj'. This should ensure that no two objects get
reblessed into the same class although this could of course still happen
by coincidence.
Even though Perl allows such things, I wouldn't recommend them.
Tassilo
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Date: 11 Dec 2003 22:18:50 -0800
From: hobbit_hk@hotmail.com (Hobbit HK)
Subject: Re: Calling Another Script
Message-Id: <22ee5d47.0312112218.441e2fd5@posting.google.com>
"Matt" <nospam.hciss@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<vthvf9f2ugci8e@corp.supernews.com>...
> I need to have perl script call another script on a Linux box and parse its
> output. When I call this other script it returns between 1 and 100 lines of
> data depending on time of day. So I need to get this data that script
> returns into my script. At the moment all I really need is a count of how
> many lines of data actually. So how would I do that?
>
> Matt
I think that you can do:
@lines=`your_script`;
But don't count on me, wait for other replies from the guys here... :)
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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 03:42:38 GMT
From: "-Brad-" <thesnake_123@-NO-S_P_A_M-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Catching Errors
Message-Id: <OOaCb.49062$aT.43462@news-server.bigpond.net.au>
Ahh ok thanks for the reply!
Maybe I should make sure I have the latest version of the CGI module
installed.
Cheers
"Gunnar Hjalmarsson" <noreply@gunnar.cc> wrote in message
news:brb4i9$1funq$1@ID-184292.news.uni-berlin.de...
-Brad- wrote:
> Insted of display Server error Id like to display something
> meaningful that will assist me in debuging the problem without
> having to look at the server error log.
> If i use Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser)
Suppose you mean
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
> It helps a little, but is there a way I can display similar to what
> would be seen in the error_log,
> eg Missing right curly bracket at line 20.
That is a fatal error, which should be captured by fatalsToBrowser().
Personally I have experienced significant differences in how different
versions of CGI::Carp behaves.
If it's more convenient to you, you may want to keep a 'private' error
log by using the carpout() function. See the CGI::Carp documentation
about how it works.
--
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl
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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 03:14:35 GMT
From: "Liberal" <test@test.com>
Subject: How to map URL to %xx?
Message-Id: <voaCb.181749$Ec1.6855553@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>
I need to map things like http:// to the %xx code. Change none
digital/letter to % then the ASCII value in 16.
It should be a 1 line code.
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Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 21:22:39 -0600
From: Tony Curtis <tony_curtis32@_SPAMTRAP_yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: How to map URL to %xx?
Message-Id: <87oeueu3cw.fsf@limey.hpcc.uh.edu>
>> On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 03:14:35 GMT,
>> "Liberal" <test@test.com> said:
> I need to map things like http:// to the %xx code. Change
> none digital/letter to % then the ASCII value in 16.
Sounds like you want URI::Escape
> It should be a 1 line code.
Homework, eh?
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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 04:00:31 GMT
From: "Liberal" <test@test.com>
Subject: Re: How to map URL to %xx?
Message-Id: <z3bCb.181886$Ec1.6859958@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>
$url =~ s/([^\w.-])/sprintf "%%%02X", ord $1/eg;
don't understand it and don't care. it works.
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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 04:05:13 GMT
From: Uri Guttman <uri@stemsystems.com>
Subject: Re: How to map URL to %xx?
Message-Id: <x7he063cli.fsf@mail.sysarch.com>
>>>>> "L" == Liberal <test@test.com> writes:
> $url =~ s/([^\w.-])/sprintf "%%%02X", ord $1/eg;
> don't understand it and don't care. it works.
and you will never understand perl thinking like that. good luck with
future homework and all those spammers and crackers who will ream your
homegrown cgi scripts.
$DIETY save us from twits like you who think they should be allowed to
code.
uri
--
Uri Guttman ------ uri@stemsystems.com -------- http://www.stemsystems.com
--Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding-
Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org
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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 00:09:41 -0500
From: "Matt Garrish" <matthew.garrish@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: How to map URL to %xx?
Message-Id: <44cCb.11354$aF2.1246537@news20.bellglobal.com>
"Liberal" <test@test.com> wrote in message
news:z3bCb.181886$Ec1.6859958@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> $url =~ s/([^\w.-])/sprintf "%%%02X", ord $1/eg;
>
> don't understand it and don't care. it works.
>
You've joined a long tradition of sloppy programmers with that response. And
the standard reply is if you don't know what it's doing, how do you know it
works?
Matt
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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 03:28:45 GMT
From: Sherm Pendley <spamfilter@dot-app.org>
Subject: Re: LWP install MacOS X
Message-Id: <NBaCb.13056$NN.2198861@news1.news.adelphia.net>
Henry wrote:
> OK, it's time to go CPAN. Download LWP. No problem. But it won't install
> unless URI, HTML::Parser, MIME::Base64, Net::FTP (libnet), Digest::MD5 and
> maybe some other stuff are already installed.
If you use the CPAN shell (perldoc CPAN), it will manage those
dependencies for you. It'll still need to download and install a bunch
of stuff, which can be time-consuming if you're using a modem. But at
least you won't have to figure out what you need and install it all by hand.
A tip about using CPAN on Jaguar: DON'T take its suggestion and install
Bundle::CPAN. There's a bug in the version of CPAN.pm that's shipped
with Jaguar, that will result in it attempting to upgrade your whole
Perl installation if you do that.
Instead, upgrade just the CPAN module by itself first - "install CPAN"
at the CPAN shell. Once you have the latest CPAN module, it's safe to
use it to install all the other goodies with "install Bundle::CPAN".
Another tip: When CPAN is configuring itself, it will ask you a series
of questions. Some of them need y/n answers, but others need directory
paths. A very common mistake is to fall into a rythm of answering "y" to
every question, and then accidentally entering "y" when a question that
needs a directory path comes up.
> "... MakeMaker could not find "/System/Library/Perl/darwin/CORE/perl.h"
>
> Googling on this filename ... Some helpful person has posted the answer: I
> need the MacOS X Developer Tools
Yes, you do. Many Perl modules are wrappers around binary libraries, and
among other things, you'll need GCC - the C compiler included with the
dev tools - to compile those wrappers.
>, I'm likely to end up fighting a case-sensitivity issue
It's not much of a fight. More like a mild argument. ;-)
When the LWP module asks if you want to install /usr/bin/HEAD, just say
no. If you answer yes, it will overwrite /usr/bin/head, because HFS is
not case sensitive.
If you want to play it extra-safe, make a copy of /usr/bin/head. That
way, if you wind up replacing it with LWP's HEAD, you can easily restore
it from your backup copy.
sherm--
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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 04:59:17 GMT
From: Henry <henryn@zzzspacebbs.com>
Subject: Re: LWP install MacOS X
Message-Id: <BBFE8B22.1930E%henryn@zzzspacebbs.com>
Sherm:
Thanks for your response on this thread:
in article NBaCb.13056$NN.2198861@news1.news.adelphia.net, Sherm Pendley at
spamfilter@dot-app.org wrote on 12/11/03 7:28 PM:
> Henry wrote:
>
>> OK, it's time to go CPAN. Download LWP. No problem. But it won't install
>> unless URI, HTML::Parser, MIME::Base64, Net::FTP (libnet), Digest::MD5 and
>> maybe some other stuff are already installed.
>
> If you use the CPAN shell (perldoc CPAN), it will manage those
> dependencies for you. It'll still need to download and install a bunch
> of stuff, which can be time-consuming if you're using a modem. But at
> least you won't have to figure out what you need and install it all by hand.
Yeah, I tried that, too. A truly daunting amount of output, some of it a
bit scary. I guess one answers the questions (per your comments below) and
cover one's eyes during the progress messages. When it fails, you go back
and try to discover why.
Of course, again as per below, without the right ingredients, this recipe
fails, too.
>
> A tip about using CPAN on Jaguar: DON'T take its suggestion and install
> Bundle::CPAN. There's a bug in the version of CPAN.pm that's shipped
> with Jaguar, that will result in it attempting to upgrade your whole
> Perl installation if you do that.
OK. I hope I didn't do that. $%*$%!@@$!$, the console has scrolled so far
that's all fallen off the end.
>
> Instead, upgrade just the CPAN module by itself first - "install CPAN"
> at the CPAN shell. Once you have the latest CPAN module, it's safe to
> use it to install all the other goodies with "install Bundle::CPAN".
Hmmm, I don't think I did that, so maybe I correctly focused on the
(hopeless) task at hand.
>
> Another tip: When CPAN is configuring itself, it will ask you a series
> of questions. Some of them need y/n answers, but others need directory
> paths. A very common mistake is to fall into a rythm of answering "y" to
> every question, and then accidentally entering "y" when a question that
> needs a directory path comes up.
OK, got it. Thanks.
>
>> "... MakeMaker could not find "/System/Library/Perl/darwin/CORE/perl.h"
>>
>> Googling on this filename ... Some helpful person has posted the answer: I
>> need the MacOS X Developer Tools
>
> Yes, you do. Many Perl modules are wrappers around binary libraries, and
> among other things, you'll need GCC - the C compiler included with the
> dev tools - to compile those wrappers.
Right. I speak GCC, at least in other environments, so there's no
fundamental issue here. But I'm really surprised that I need to load the
better part of 1 GB of stuff to make a couple of standard(!) modules. Is
there no way to distribute these as binaries?
I'm not allergic to development tools, not at all, but I try to not get
unnecessarily entangled, unless I'm doing relevant ... development. I'm
not! No, I'm trying to use some standard modules in some completely
unrelated development It seems strange.
Strange or not, I went ahead and installed the development tools already
earlier today -- takes a while. When I return to this tomorrow, this should
all work perfectly, yes? (Right!)
>
>> , I'm likely to end up fighting a case-sensitivity issue
>
> It's not much of a fight. More like a mild argument. ;-)
>
> When the LWP module asks if you want to install /usr/bin/HEAD, just say
> no. If you answer yes, it will overwrite /usr/bin/head, because HFS is
> not case sensitive.
"Just say no" eh? OK.
>
> If you want to play it extra-safe, make a copy of /usr/bin/head. That
> way, if you wind up replacing it with LWP's HEAD, you can easily restore
> it from your backup copy.
Understood.
I'm also surprised this entire issue isn't better documented. Maybe I
missed something, but I did give it a good try -- several hours of hard
searching-- and came up mostly empty.
It should be clearer, in the general case of how modules are maintained and
ported, and I'm surprised there's not more specific information for MacOS
X. Or have I missed a great treasure-trove of docs?
Thanks,
Henry
>
> sherm--
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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 06:41:50 GMT
From: Sherm Pendley <spamfilter@dot-app.org>
Subject: Re: LWP install MacOS X
Message-Id: <OqdCb.4$xH2.8717@news1.news.adelphia.net>
Henry wrote:
> $%*$%!@@$!$, the console has scrolled so far
> that's all fallen off the end.
That reminds me of another tip - I always go into Terminal.app's
preferences, and set the scrollback buffer to "unlimited." As you said,
the output from the build/install process can be verbose, and if it
fails you'll want to be able to review it from the beginning.
> Right. I speak GCC, at least in other environments, so there's no
> fundamental issue here. But I'm really surprised that I need to load the
> better part of 1 GB of stuff to make a couple of standard(!) modules. Is
> there no way to distribute these as binaries?
Fink has some pre-rolled modules packages, but I think they're all for
modules that have a binary component. IIRC, they don't have an LWP package.
Distributing binaries is also complicated by the fact that Panther ships
with Perl 5.8.1 - which is not binary-compatible with 5.6. Modules that
include compiled C code, which were compiled for 5.6 don't work with
5.8, and vice-versa. Anyone who creates binary packages has to create
them for both versions - and deal with the inevitable support issues
arising from users who install the wrong one.
> I'm also surprised this entire issue isn't better documented. Maybe I
> missed something, but I did give it a good try -- several hours of hard
> searching-- and came up mostly empty.
A lot of the relevant discussion takes place on the macosx@perl.org
mailing list - you can (un)subscribe and/or search the archives at
<http://lists.perl.org>.
> It should be clearer, in the general case of how modules are maintained and
> ported, and I'm surprised there's not more specific information for MacOS
> X. Or have I missed a great treasure-trove of docs?
One obstacle is that there isn't really a general case that applies to
all modules. The issue with HEAD vs. head, for example, only applies to
LWP - I don't know of any other module that attempts to install a file
where the file name is different from that of a system file only in
capitalization. And, the "don't install Bundle::CPAN" bug is not only
unique to CPAN.pm, but to a specific version of that module.
sherm--
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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 05:04:28 GMT
From: "$$Man" <qhudan122@rogers.com>
Subject: MAKE MONEY!!! MAKE THOUSANDS!!!
Message-Id: <w%bCb.70646$r%u1.34006@twister01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com>
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Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 20:45:08 -0500
From: "Matt Garrish" <matthew.garrish@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: Need programmers? At Colance they compete for your business. luw8f
Message-Id: <l49Cb.10491$aF2.1164050@news20.bellglobal.com>
"Gunnar Hjalmarsson" <noreply@gunnar.cc> wrote in message
news:brb552$lu3s$1@ID-184292.news.uni-berlin.de...
> MPBroida wrote:
> > Go to Colance.com, click on "Report Violations" (at the bottom) and
> > send a nice message to the company. Remember it might NOT be a
> > real Colance person posting this crap, so keep your message
> > generally polite. Just inform them that SOMEONE is tarnishing
> > their image by spamming the newsgroups.
>
> Suppose you did just that. How on earth would if make a difference if
> a lot of other people did as well?
>
Agreed. It's much easier to just filter anything with colance in it straight
to cyber-heaven...
Matt
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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 06:33:05 GMT
From: Gerard Lanois <gerardlanois@netscape.net>
Subject: Re: Newsgroup Searching Program
Message-Id: <u8yli1r6k.fsf@netscape.net>
Les Hazelton <seawolf@attglobal.net> writes:
> I need to supply a port number on the target system to enable the
> secure connection.
>
> I have searched this news group, google and CPAN looking for information
> on providing a port number for the connection and no luck. Can you point
> me in the right direction?
$nntp = Net::NNTP->new($hostname, Port => $portnum);
The Port argument is not in the Net::NNTP documentation, but if you
look at the constructor ('new') you'll see Port being passed to
IO:Socket::INET as PeerPort.
-Gerard
http://home.san.rr.com/lanois/perl/
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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:55:59 +1100
From: Sisyphus <kalinaubears@iinet.net.au>
Subject: Re: PAR / Post install problem / bad signature ...
Message-Id: <3fd9593e$0$1724$5a62ac22@freenews.iinet.net.au>
Iain wrote:
> Simon Andrews wrote:
>
>> Iain wrote:
>>
>>> Any PAR users out there?
>>>
>>> I've just built and tested PAR and most things are fine but for one
>>> niggling little issue that isn't addressed by PAR::FAQ.
>>>
>>> My resulting standalone binary runs okay but spews forth warnings
>>> like this one:
>>>
>>> format error: bad signature: 0x6174545f at offset 78727 in file
>>> IO::File=GLOB(0x8455f04)
>>> at /path/to/Module.pm line 7
>>
>>
>>
>> This is a bug which was introduced with the latest update to
>> Archive::Zip (v 1.09). The zip file has a checksum cacluated, but PAR
>> adds some loader code to the front of it causing the checksum to be
>> invalid when the archive is extracted.
>>
>> A fix should hopefully be present in Archive::Zip 1.10 and PAR 0.77,
>> but for now you can lose the warning by downgrading Archive::Zip to an
>> older verison.
>>
>
> Wound it back to Archive::Zip 1.06 and it works fine.
>
> PAR... it's a beautiful, beautiful thing :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Iain.
You can now get a patched version of par (that addresses the A::Z-1.09
issue) from:
http://aut.dyndns.org/dist/PAR-0.76_98.tar.gz
Cheers,
Rob
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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:51:15 +1100
From: Sisyphus <kalinaubears@iinet.net.au>
Subject: Re: perlcc
Message-Id: <3fd95822$0$1724$5a62ac22@freenews.iinet.net.au>
Alan Stewart wrote:
>
>
> If you have Archive::Zip version 1.09 (latest version), there is a
> known bug with PAR version 0.76 that causes that error message. The
> author has a possible fix testing now and should produce PAR 0.77 real
> soon. PAR is worth waiting for...
>
I see a fix for this has just been released. You can get it from:
http://aut.dyndns.org/dist/PAR-0.76_98.tar.gz
Cheers,
Rob
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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 03:08:40 GMT
From: Sherm Pendley <spamfilter@dot-app.org>
Subject: Re: Server-side script executed on page load or event, but not SSI
Message-Id: <YiaCb.13039$NN.2195648@news1.news.adelphia.net>
Henry wrote:
> Wow, as a newcomer to this technology (I'm an embedded systems designer) it
> seems awfully chaotic.
It can be. ;-)
> Can you give me a sentence or two on why this is so?
> Is it a matter of creativity or commercial interests trying to build in
> market share, or what?
The 'net standards process essentially broke down in the mid-1990's,
when commercial interests became involved. Before that, there was
certainly some pride and ego involved, but for the most part people
generally worked hard to maintain a high level of compatibility between
various implementations of a given protocol.
With the "browser wars," both NS and MS began introducing new "features"
without even attempting to negotiate how they would work with others'
products. Basically, both companies wanted exclusive control over the
direction of web technology development, which would place the loser in
a position of constantly having to play "catch-up."
sherm--
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Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 22:57:34 -0600
From: tadmc@augustmail.com (Tad McClellan)
Subject: Re: Sorting dates...Argument "" isn't numeric
Message-Id: <slrnbtiilu.1pa.tadmc@magna.augustmail.com>
Michele Dondi <bik.mido@tiscalinet.it> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:55:23 -0600, tadmc@augustmail.com (Tad
> McClellan) wrote:
>
>> my @sorted = sort datecompare grep length(), @date;
> my @sorted = sort datecompare grep $_, @date; #?
The OP wants to eliminate empty strings from @date so as
to avoid "not numeric" warnings.
That's what my code does.
He does not want to eliminate 0 and '0' as your code would.
--
Tad McClellan SGML consulting
tadmc@augustmail.com Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas
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