That looks like pretty clean code to me. Only two suggestions. 1. Have you thought about declaring all variables at the top of your code? It's a habit I got...
Not a bad idea as far as I know Will. Given that I'm much more of a presentation layer developer I'd like to pass on some SEO (Search Engine Optimation)...
Hello, Another newbie question: Given the following lines of code: -- #!/usr/bin/perl print("Enter \"A - F\", One Line at a Time or \"-99\" to Quit: \n"); ...
Hello I have a perl script and a package. To access functions in the package I have to put the use <packagename> pragma into the perl script. What I want to do...
Greets Folks, I came up with an idea for a script. I havent tried it yet, but I wanted to ask to see what you folks think of it. I was wondering if it would...
Hi All, I am getting the following error while trying to connect Perl to UDB on AIX. I had it working for a few months and now I am getting this error. ...
Hello in one of our scripts i have found the following statement : my $var =~ y/'\n'//d; As far I understand the statement deletes the trailing newline. As my ...
Hello Will, I am also a beginner. I think your question is a good one, and your sentiments are felt by many people starting to learn something new. I have...
Greets All, I found a script with a bunch of stuff in it that I want to learn, but I dont know where to begin studying it. Most of it occurs in the beginning...
I'm having some trouble upgrading from 5.6 to 5.8 on OS X. I can't get the "make" command to go. I get a message saying "make command not found". Am I doing...
Hail, How do I open open 2 new browser windows when submitting a Form in a CGI script as follows: ======== if ( $action eq "Submit my AD!" ) {verify_form(); ...
Hello all, I have a perl script that processes a binary file with variable lenght records in it. I'm trying to split it into several binary files, one per...
To extend on that idea, I will tell you what I did to standardize the layout of pages on my company's intranet. I made a script that has the following...
Friends, I need a PPT to text converter. I started writting something using OLE. I have pasted the code that I have so far. I open a PPT, save it as rtf and...
Hi there, I am just starting out with VB and I am no too sure how to do this but I am doing a program with MDI forms. The program is soppsed to output the...
Hello everyone, I don't know too much about perl programming so please excuse me if this is a dumb question. I'm writing a program that reads two files. Each...
I've read several times that $` $& and $' are inefficient and that they should be avoided. I've also read (if I remember correctly) that they are no longer...
Does anyone know if this is Perl code? To what language does FetchRow() belong? if( $server1->Sql( "select * from table22 where name = '$name' ")) while...
Hi Gang, I'm still not very deep into regular expressions, but I need to see if a variable is a name of an IP address. The problem that I'm having is that the...
Is it possible to execute a PHP script within a Perl shopping cart? It is printing the code but will not execute it? Any help please???? Thanks, Natalie. ...
Hello all, I am busy this week converting wwwboard 2.0, an old Matt script, for a client's site update. There is piece of code I do not grasp. I am not unix...
Hi everyone, I am trying to split some data from one file and have its output go to a different named file. This is what I have so far: #!C:/Perl/bin/perl -w ...
never mind stupid me i was using the wrong path to sh ... From: Damien Carbery To: perl-beginner@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 8:50 AM ...
Depends if it's executable or not. If it's executable, then it's just like any other program. If it's not executable, then you'll need to run a shell, and pass...
