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| Perl script - combine arrays/create new array based on header | 11/20/2009 | Jason Silver |
Q: I attempted a few lines of Perl to format some data and have become stuck. I am am slowly learning ...
A: Glad the code worked out of the box-- I didn't test it at all. The 'sort by value' is done by using ...
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| Perl script - combine arrays/create new array based on header | 11/19/2009 | Jason Silver |
Q: I attempted a few lines of Perl to format some data and have become stuck. I am am slowly learning ...
A: Though not tested, I would do it this way since you said the file isn't very large: #!/usr/bin/perl ...
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| find and replace | 11/17/2009 | Justin Wheeler |
Q: I have one html file. I am reading the file line by line, and I want to find every occurrence of the ...
A: When you do that, perl things you're ending the regular expression at </ and then you're giving it ...
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| Help on FAST CGI settings | 10/25/2009 | Michael Kroher |
Q: Can you help me to adopt the correct optimum settings for fast cgi? Our site runs on IIS6, PHP & ...
A: I'm not familiar with a Windows environment, but I will say that 15 to 20 visitors a minute is not ...
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| Testing HTML forms with cgi on Windows | 10/24/2009 | Justin Wheeler |
Q: I need to test out a HTML form which has a cgi script to it on my Windows PC. I tested the cgi out ...
A: You'll need to run an actual webserver to run the CGI. If it's a Perl scripts, you'll need to ...
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| CGI script | 10/15/2009 | Justin Wheeler |
Q: I'm trying to read in name-value pairs from a POST where the value pairs are "CD=2&CD=3&CD=4 I need ...
A: Your best bet is to use the CGI script, which will parse it for you. Then, you'd do something like. ...
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| Searching for EOLN in comment area | 10/3/2009 | Michael Kroher |
Q: I have a HTML form just like this form that you have in here. I collect the info and dump it into a ...
A: getting a CGI error can be any number of things wrong. The error message that you are getting is ...
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| Searching for EOLN in comment area | 10/2/2009 | Michael Kroher |
Q: I have a HTML form just like this form that you have in here. I collect the info and dump it into a ...
A: Your EOLN character you want to switch is \n. You can switch it with something else like: ...
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| Perl XML:Simple | 9/30/2009 | Justin Wheeler |
Q: I'm trying to user xml:simple to break down an xml doc that I'm receiving from another website. I've ...
A: Yes, you'll likely need a foreach or something like that to traverse the data. Your best bet is to ...
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| issue | 9/25/2009 | Michael Kroher |
Q: how to call from one perl program to another perl program with examples ANSWER: You can easily call ...
A: I'm having trouble understanding your question...do you mean subroutines? Like a function? ...
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| issue | 9/24/2009 | Michael Kroher |
Q: how to call from one perl program to another perl program with examples
A: You can easily call (any) program within a perl script using ` (backticks), or qx(). I prefer to ...
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| Run same perl script on Win and Unix'es | 9/7/2009 | Jason Silver |
Q: I'm writting a perl script for both Win and *nix environments. At this moment I have to code 2 ...
A: the way I do this is to set variables at the top of the script which accomodate the differences. ...
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| XML::Simple | 8/29/2009 | Justin Wheeler |
Q: I have an xml doc that is pulled from another site a copy is saved to a temp file on my server then ...
A: Opening and writing to lib/temp/$id.xml isn't very safe. I'd suggest something more like this: use ...
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| How Do I pass a javascript variable to a Perl script? | 8/12/2009 | Jason Silver |
Q: I've tried a million things. Below is the latest. Any time I use value=dayofmonth in the input I get ...
A: This is a Javascript question, not a Perl question. But it looks to me that you've got a typo or ...
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| cgi html problem | 7/10/2009 | Marty Landman |
Q: #!C:activeperl/perl/bin/perl print <<EndOfHTML; content-type:text/html <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC ...
A: I'm not sure what the problem might be. But try this instead: #!C:activeperl/perl/bin/perl use ...
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| cgi html problem | 7/10/2009 | Marty Landman |
Q: #!C:activeperl/perl/bin/perl print <<EndOfHTML; content-type:text/html <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC ...
A: Try having 2 carriage returns after your first line ie. content-type:text/html <!DOCTYPE html ...
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| php flush won't work in IE7 | 7/10/2009 | Jason Silver |
Q: My problem : I want the navigator to start displaying outputs even though the whole page is not ...
A: This question is misdirected as this is a Perl forum. However, I do have experience in PHP, and can ...
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| perl assignment question | 6/7/2009 | Justin Wheeler |
Q: I don't understand what is being assigned to the $paper variable in the line below. I've checked 3 ...
A: You're assigning an empty hash reference. It's the exact same as. my %hash = (); my $paper = ...
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| Can't open a file with an extensionless script. | 5/29/2009 | Justin Wheeler |
Q: I am using the code at the bottom in myscript.pl to open a counter file, get the number then ...
A: Whether or not there's an extension on the file should not change the way it operates. The only ...
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| PERL + HTML | 5/8/2009 | Justin Wheeler |
Q: so I want to know if somehow I can use both of them at the same time? Actually I want to know if I ...
A: Yes, you can do this. You'd have to write a perl script that would interpret the incoming form post ...
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| perl in PHP | 5/8/2009 | Jason Silver |
Q: so I want to know if somehow I can use both of them at the same time? Actually I want to know if I ...
A: Yes, it is possible to write a script that can take form input, and then do things on the server. ...
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| Perl Programming Question | 5/8/2009 | Justin Wheeler |
Q: ...I'm new to Perl and trying to pick up on things along the way. I'm trying to create a Perl ...
A: In the else clause on your subroutine, you have this: return $prev_dt; $prev_dt = $a; So the ...
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| non-working DBM script | 5/7/2009 | Justin Wheeler |
Q: I am trying to get this script to work. The main html page is a simple 3-field entry form to enter a ...
A: You can run your scripts on the command line and use them like you would in a browser to see if your ...
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| data extraction | 4/15/2009 | Justin Wheeler |
Q: Justin: I am not sure who to ask, so I'll try you. In my medical practice, I must verify ...
A: Yes, just about any language should be able to perform that functionality for you -- Perl, PHP, ASP, ...
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| making forms work with fasthost | 3/27/2009 | Marty Landman |
Q: any idea how to make forms and scripts work on fasthosts in UK they say you need a -f paramater in ...
A: Lee, Maybe I'm misinterpreting this, but if you look here http://littlelink.webtrouble.com/?qwSz ...
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| My First Perl Program | 3/23/2009 | Justin Wheeler |
Q: My Perl program that is getting a diagnostic (Global symbol "$filename" requires explicit package ...
A: Neil, The issue is the 'use strict'. It enables variable declaration to use them. In the first ...
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| BNB form | 3/18/2009 | Jason Silver |
Q: I've been running a CGI form script made by bignosebird.com for several years without problems ...
A: Things usually stop working because something changes somewhere-- I recommend giving your host a ...
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| Perl TCP Socket how to handle large records | 3/7/2009 | Justin Wheeler |
Q: Howdy I have looked all over the place and can't seem to find how to do this in Perl. There ...
A: How are you currently doing this in Perl? Reason I ask is because most of that kind of stuff is ...
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| Declare variable dynamically | 3/3/2009 | Justin Wheeler |
Q: I have a following array: use strict; my @arr=qw(computer laptop telephone); The contents of @arr ...
A: Doing that is generally considered a bad practice, as it requires you to disable strict references ...
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| Perl and asp | 2/28/2009 | Marty Landman |
Q: I need to call an asp link from a perl script, by passing parameters, and would like to simply use a ...
A: Achille, This should work, unless for some reason this feature was disabled by the server. As I'm ...
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| Configure.cgi did not produce a v alid header in unix box | 2/25/2009 | Marty Landman |
Q: When i am running my application on Iplanet Web server 6.0, I got error "GET ...
A: Mohan, You can see what these status codes mean looking at the W3's website at ...
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| Eval, maybe? | 2/20/2009 | Marty Landman |
Q: I submit a form and get 2 data: $from="from" and $to="to" From another routine, I have a value ...
A: Ok that seems clear; yes you can use eval for this kind of thing, however please consider as an ...
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| Eval, maybe? | 2/20/2009 | Marty Landman |
Q: I submit a form and get 2 data: $from="from" and $to="to" From another routine, I have a value ...
A: Anatoli, Not sure about your question; are you asking how to do variable assignments? How to pass ...
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| Password Protection | 2/11/2009 | Marty Landman |
Q: I'm hosting a site on a linux server. I need to be able to direct visitors to 5 different ...
A: I think you'll have to use a program - then once the program has validated the password you can ...
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| Password Protection | 2/10/2009 | Marty Landman |
Q: I'm hosting a site on a linux server. I need to be able to direct visitors to 5 different ...
A: John, Sounds like you have thought this through - asking the right question. My answer is that ...
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| Text encoding from oracle | 2/10/2009 | Marty Landman |
Q: I have a CLOB in an oracle database that contains various scientific symbols such as the micro (Alt ...
A: Joe, There looks like a possible solution - with code - posted on the PerlMonks website ...
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| Text encoding and perl | 2/10/2009 | Justin Wheeler |
Q: I have a CLOB in an oracle database that contains various scientific symbols such as the micro (Alt ...
A: The way this question gets answered is different based on which version of perl it is you're using. ...
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| forms and CGI | 2/10/2009 | Jason Silver |
Q: I am new to programming and am using dreamweaver. I can create a form, but I get lost on the cgi ...
A: I suggest you download a form processing script -- either in PHP or Perl. For example, I give one ...
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| cgi script issue | 2/3/2009 | Jason Silver |
Q: I have created a form using a script that I got from Bignosebird.com, it is bnbform v4.0. I made ...
A: Actually, I believe your tech support was mistaken. It WAS administratively denied, but not because ...
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| Sub routine | 1/22/2009 | Jason Silver |
Q: I have some numbers in @game=(10,2,13) for example and want to display for each number, a picture ...
A: Try this instead: @game = (10,2,13); sub show { $what2show = $_[0]; $show="<img ...
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