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thread by: jjliu | last post Jul 19 '05 by: Eric J. Roode
Could someone tell me how to parse the inside of html tags by perl, such as <meta> </meta> <head> </head> <title> </title> ......... Thanks
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thread by: G Kannan | last post Jul 19 '05 by: Eric J. Roode
Hey all! I have written a perl script to retrieve information from a HTML Form and insert the data into an Oracle database table. I am gettting the the following error message: "Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) at register.pl line 38, <STDIN> line 10." The PERL code is as follows:
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thread by: Seldon Wells | last post Jul 19 '05 by: Seldon Wells
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thread by: Bert | last post Jul 19 '05 by: Bert
How do I convert an ascii to hex? I want the hex stored in a variable, not just printed out. For example, my testchars = 'CICS003' How do I store that value in hexchars? I know this is basic, but it eludes me... Thanks from a newbie.
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thread by: Yannick Turgeon | last post Jul 19 '05 by: Yannick Turgeon
Hello all, I just started to use perl and I'm having a Regexp question: Say we've got a file with this in it: ---- Beginning of file after this line -------- My list A: cat B: dog C: horse
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thread by: Bert | last post Jul 19 '05 by: Bert
Thank you all for your help. A newbie is smarter for your efforts. Thank you.
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thread by: James Hull | last post Jul 19 '05 by: Slaven Rezic
Hi All: I am new in the Perl world. So far I have installed cygwin and Perl 5.8.0 along with Perl DBI and DBD::Oracle modules. NowI am trying to install Perl Tk on my PC (Windows 2K). I have tried both Tk804.025 and Tk804.025_beta2. However, both versions failed with following errors. It appeared that the command "perl Makefile.PL" ran...
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thread by: Psybar Phreak | last post Jul 19 '05 by: dw
hi all, im developing a site in perl with mason on a postgreSQL backend. i currently have a page that lists all items in a table, but would like to do the " << PREVIOUS 1 2 3 4 NEXT>> " sort of thing - say LIMIT of 10 records to a page.
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thread by: blah blah blah | last post Jul 19 '05 by: blah blah blah
Does anyone know of a tool, freeware prefered, that will build a win32 exe from a perl script? I know one exists for the mac. Thanks much.
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thread by: jjliu | last post Jul 19 '05 by: nobull
Could someone point me out that why the following perl program only print 'title'. I expect the contents in h1, keywords and description to print out as well. thanks. JJL #!/usr/bin/Perl use LWP::Simple;
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thread by: Dmitry | last post Jul 19 '05 by: Dmitry
Hello everyone, I have a really simple question here: I have a plain space delimited file that I want to read with WHILE loop 1 line at the time and process each input record as an array of elements. Then, on the next iteration of the loop, clean up the array and populate it with contents of the next input record. Each input record...
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thread by: robb | last post Jul 19 '05 by: Bill
Hi I have a modem on my computer, and would like to log callerid from it, I'm a complete novice at programming perl, but with reading the docs I've managed to get to a stage using win32::serial module that I have set the modem to recieve caller id, but I dont know how to just sit and wait listening to the serial port, so I can process the...
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thread by: jjliu | last post Jul 19 '05 by: Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Could someone tell me how to remove all html tags (and anything inside tags) by perl. Some people suggested me to use HTML::TagFilter but i could not find window version. Thanks very much for your help. JJL
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thread by: Fredrik Ramsberg | last post Jul 19 '05 by: Fredrik Ramsberg
When searching for a specific sequence of charcters, like ($text =~ /monkeybreath/), how efficient is Perl compared to other algorithms specifically developed for this purpose? Does Perl recognise that it can use its index() functionality to search? And how efficient are index() and rindex() compared to the best text search algorithms? ...
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thread by: B McInnes | last post Jul 19 '05 by: B McInnes
Hello, I am trying to store approximately 50- 100 million variable length strings into an array and of course this is not working due to memory constraints. I have converted the strings to unique integers and then stored the integers in a vec which lets me store about 60 million before I run out of memory. My question is: has anyone else run...
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thread by: Mario Fischer | last post Jul 19 '05 by: Mario Fischer
Hi! I wrote a small SQL-parser for SELECT-statements for the purpose of easier switching between databases. The parser also works with multiple-table-queries. Until here everything is fine, but when I try to read out the information from flatfiles I get in trouble. An example: I'm reading all columns of 2 tables and I want to search for...
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thread by: Boris R. | last post Jul 19 '05 by: Boris R.
Hi, I am trying to embed perl into the Pliant language. Does perl dynaload module do some kind of strange things ? Please read the thread at http://pliant.cx/pliant/browse/forum/pliant.question/03ES1XB/ and if you have a suggestion, post it there. Thanks, Boris
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thread by: Richard | last post Jul 19 '05 by: Richard
I am writing a script which accesses a DBM file using SDBM. The program works but throws out a warning of: - Argument "O_RDWR" isn't numeric in null operation I've included Fcntl but that doesn't solve the problem. Does anyone why this is happening? Thanks
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thread by: MadHatter | last post Jul 19 '05 by: Roy Johnson
Hello, is there any command line switch or anything else which would allow me to use the standard input as the source for a script? so that I could type perl hit return and type out the script and allow it to execute? I know about using file redirection "<", but I don't want to put the source on a file and redirect it's contents to the...
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thread by: arctan | last post Jul 19 '05 by: arctan
Hello Group I was wondering in anyone knew of or could generate a script that takes an input file which consists of one long line of charachters, and would output the file inverted (backwards) i.e. input file looks like: opkiltyo output file looks like: oytlikpo
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thread by: Psybar Phreak | last post Jul 19 '05 by: Psybar Phreak
hi all ive tried installing this manually after downloading the tarball from cpan, as well as using the cpan prompt (im using cygwin btw) when i go to "make test" on ANY version of Apache::Session - the installation hangs at "t/99dbfile....." i even left it running overnight thinking it may just take a whle - but no luck come morning
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thread by: Kevin B | last post Jul 19 '05 by: Roy Johnson
I have the following short script that I'm using to clean up the source of a web page in order to index and search the page: #!/usr/bin/perl #striphtml.pl undef $/; open FD, "< testfile1.txt" or die $!; while (<FD>) {
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thread by: Karuna | last post Jul 19 '05 by: Andy Shitov
Hi If I want to validate certain IP Address range say in an IP Address range of : "15.70.186.15-100", here where 15.70.186 is the network id and 15-100 is the host id. I want to discover all IP Addresses that fall in between 15.86.70.15 - 15.70.186.100 . what regexp do i need to use ? regds kbs
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thread by: R. Westermeyer | last post Jul 19 '05 by: R. Westermeyer
Hi, I hope this isn't poor etiquette, but I have a public service addiction website, habitsmart.com, and back in 95, a fellow from Bell Atlantic helped me put together a self-scoring alcohol checklist using CGI. The form is filled out, then the CGI script scores it. The form has been linked by thousands, and though I don't draw a cent from...
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thread by: Me | last post Jul 19 '05 by: Me
I'm looking for some insight to the following code. I don't understand why when I uncomment the #$command="/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/port-reset.exp $portnumber"; and comment the ls command it does not execute successfully. When the code is as below everything works fine, but switching the commented lines cause it to fail. I send the results of...

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