I suppose this is a stupid question, but I can manage text file reading: I have a file like this: File=myzip.zip Size=189289 Desc=This is a very important zip...
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jos eph
ojom20@...
Jun 1, 2000 10:39 am
Hey Albert-o, I know you don't want to hear this but...why are you using 2000? Ever heard of Linux? FreeBSD? Heck, perl even works fine on my iMac....
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"Alberto.·.Vallini"
vallini@...
Jun 1, 2000 12:13 pm
Dear friends I appreciate your observation but now I have a big problem: i WANT to learn PERL and it is 3 months that I'm stuck as I cannot find a way to run ...
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Kai Hintze
kai_hintze@...
Jun 1, 2000 3:19 pm
In perl, you read by assigning output from a file pointer to a variable. To read one line at a time assign to a scalar. To read the entire file at once, assign...
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Ingenue
nikita@...
Jun 1, 2000 5:13 pm
What does money have to do with anything? Unix systems are free if they're under the BSD or GPL/GNU license, like the ones mentioned below. Perl was made for...
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Andy Dougherty
doughera@...
Jun 1, 2000 5:26 pm
... I think you need to get back to Activestate about this. Others on the list have apparently installed ActivePerl without trouble. -- Andy Dougherty...
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"Alberto.·.Vallini"
vallini@...
Jun 2, 2000 12:43 am
Seems that looking for help is always the wrong approach. When first I bought a computer 4 years ago I knew nothing about it , nothing about the net, nothing...
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Greg Webster
greg@...
Jun 2, 2000 2:27 am
To all involved... This list is intended as a beginners Perl area, not a place to squabble about operating system superiority, Microsoft, etc. Now personally,...
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Jason Sperry
jsperry1@...
Jun 2, 2000 3:16 am
While I find the Oreilly books to be a great reference. I personally feel that they can be a little congested at times, Especially when trying to learn from...
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"Alberto.·.Vallini"
vallini@...
Jun 2, 2000 3:44 am
Thank you Greg! Seems that you got the point. Programming is not a matter of operative system (unless we claim seriously that since we dislike Microsoft, then ...
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Christopher M. Garman
cmgst51+@...
Jun 2, 2000 3:53 am
If you're looking for server side stuff you might also want to consider ASP(Active Server Pages). Supposedly this is built into Windoze2000 and is based on...
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"Alberto.·.Vallini"
vallini@...
Jun 2, 2000 4:12 am
Thank you, I still considered ASP and I decided, despite my ignorance, that the right choice was to choose PERL. I hope I did it right. Now, if I only could...
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Carlos Sánchez
listacorreo@...
Jun 2, 2000 8:03 am
... Thanks, I found other way to do it after sending this message, including the file in an array: open FILE, "myfile.txt" ; @lines = <FILE> close FILE...
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Oliver Manickum
oliver@...
Jun 2, 2000 8:47 am
Hey Guys, I am trying to get a asp page to redirect to a url that requires a user to log on. How can I automate the logging in ? ie. <%@Language=PerlScript%> ...
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Greg Webster
greg@...
Jun 2, 2000 1:20 pm
... Standard Perl is: print "Location: username:password@http://www.xxxxxxx.com\n\n"; Dunno if that helps in this case at all. Greg -- ...
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Andy Dougherty
doughera@...
Jun 2, 2000 1:43 pm
If you have a perl.exe around, you can probably at least do some things. However, since the installer aborted, things that rely on other parts of the...
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Tom Barron
tbarron@...
Jun 2, 2000 3:37 pm
Hi, Alberto. ... Perhaps one thing you're missing is that perl reads the whole file and "compiles" it before executing any of the commands in it. I think if ...
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Oliver Manickum
oliver@...
Jun 2, 2000 7:11 pm
Hey Greg, Thanx for the help, however I get a redirect error when I try using print "Location: username:password\@http://www.xxxxxxx.com\n\n"; however when I...
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Oliver Manickum
oliver@...
Jun 2, 2000 7:36 pm
Hey Greg, I managed to solve the problem using another way, *Brainstormed!!!* hehehe <%@Language=PerlScript%> <% $new_url = "\<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\"...
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adamskye@...
Jun 3, 2000 12:15 am
I have a pipe separated database file created with one perl script, and I can open it in another perl script: I can search fields, but I can't modify or delete...
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Greg Webster
greg@...
Jun 3, 2000 12:32 am
Looks good...all I would have suggested next was to go to single quotes to avoid the problems with the @ symbol etc. Greg ... -- ...
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Gordon Stewart
gordonistewart_nz@...
Jun 3, 2000 2:01 pm
Hello, I'm new to this group. Ive been trying to figure out about how to 'http' request a page in order to scan it etc.. Ive heard of the 'GET' function, but...
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Tom Barron
tbarron@...
Jun 3, 2000 2:18 pm
... Hi, Gordon. Here's how I do it: #!/usr/bin/perl use HTML::Parser; use WebFS::FileCopy; my @it = get_urls("http://www.somewhere.com/index.html"); my $prs =...
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Gregory D. Fox
greg@...
Jun 3, 2000 3:02 pm
Hi All, I need help. I would like to have the @items array in a particular order. Right now the array looks like this: @items =CJ1 CJ2 FU1 FU2 0 3 21 1 I would...
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Gordon Stewart
gordonistewart_nz@...
Jun 3, 2000 3:05 pm
Thanks for the quick reply. Ive tried the use HTML::Parser; but its not supported. I'm using http://netfirms.com but their http://netfirms.com/support/cgi.html...
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Gordon Stewart
gordonistewart_nz@...
Jun 3, 2000 3:24 pm
... its http://www.netfirms.com :-) ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at...
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Gordon Stewart
gordonistewart_nz@...
Jun 3, 2000 3:43 pm
... http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Perl/Libraries_and_Modules/ ... the file ive found - in prev messages - isnt what I want. but I did find...
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Ankur Agarwal
swatlinc@...
Jun 4, 2000 12:49 pm
Hi Alberto, I can very well understand your problem. I am myself a beginner in perl. Thanks to this list, I got my first program running on the very first day...
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"Alberto.·.Vallini"
vallini@...
Jun 4, 2000 1:08 pm
Thank you, the problem is that I cannot install activePerl, they told me at activestate they are aware of this bug when installing on win2000 and will be fixed...
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Steven Hill
stevhill@...
Jun 4, 2000 1:31 pm
I want to open a file from a website for manipulation. My code is: open (FILENAME, "http://<filename>") or die("Cannot open file: $!"); # work on the file ...
