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All four syntaxes listed by Mike are valid with or without strict enabled. What is NOT allowed with strict enabled is calling a sub with NEITHER & nor (): use strict; go; exit; sub go { print "wibble!\n"; } In this example Perl will complain bitterly: Bareword "go" not allowed while...

The textarea field actually returns not individual linefeeds, but carriage return/linefeed pairs: San Francisco\r\n San Diego\r\n Denver\r\n You were close - but you need either a loop or better yet a regex to fix EACH line within the city param. Try this instead: elsif($field =~ /city/)...

Try this: push @values, $1 while($ad=~/(\d+)/g); @values now contains all the values in the string. --G

Ah. Yes, that would do it. DBI is not very nice about telling you when something is wrong on the database end - it tends to just quit, kill your script, and leave you to sort it out yourself. Rather unfriendly. Glad you solved it! --G

Like this? Usage: <scriptname> <char to delete> <filename> #!<your perl binary location> $char=$ARGV[0]; # get char to delete from command line $file=$ARGV[1]; # get file to modify from command line undef $/; # get file contents open(IN,"<$file"); $file=<IN>; close IN; # delete char...

Hmm. Have you tried checking it from the command-line? perl -c <scriptname> That might give some hints what's wrong if there is a syntax error in the code. You might also get that error if you attempt to print something back to the browser before printing the "Content-type" string. You seem...

Ah. Helps if you post the actual problem first. :-) You can just extend my first regex to do what you want: $_ =~ s/^.+? .+? //; # removes first 2 words from $_ --G

It occurs to me you probably would like a more general expression to remove the first word from any string: $_ =~ s/^.+? //; # removes first word and space from $_ --G

Several ways to do that, but the easiest is a regular expression: $_ =~ s/Hello //; --G

Oh nice, Tom. I KNEW there had to be a way to do it in one line, but I just couldn't quite get ther. Might of known a regex would solve it. Cheers. :-) --G

Try this. I stuck it in a sub for ease of use. $clean_str = cap_str('RIGHT HERE FOR YOU'); print "Capitalized string: $clean_str\n"; exit; # convert any string to Capitalized Words sub cap_str { my ($str) = @_; my $new; foreach (split(" ",$str)) { $new .= (ucfirst lc $_) . " "; }...

If addslashes does what I think it does (not a PHP guru), yes: q and qq. For example, if I want to assign this line of HTML to a var in Perl: <form name="myform" method="GET" action="/wibble/foo.cgi"> I would obviously not want to say $formline = "<form name....>"; because I would then...

Oh good! Glad that helped. Incidentally, if you want to actually know what the first level dimension is, this will get it: $first_dim = $#{$foo}; After that you could use a similar syntax to find out the second dimension of each first dimension: $second_dim_0 = $#{$foo->[0]}; Cheers! --G

OH. I see. No, i misspoke slightly - the output I get is exactly the same as yours, except mine doesn't generate the last line you are not wanting. Here is what I get, on Solaris 8, with Perl 5.8, using the code as I posted it: $i = 0, $j = 0, $foo->[0][0]->{name} = Dan, $foo->[0][0]->{id} =...

I intended to output the same, only without having to know ahead of time what the array dimensions were. Perhaps I misunderstood your goal. (I'm a little tired today, sorry.) I thought the problem was how to do this without hard-coding the array boundaries. Could you restate the question? --G