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    Bluetooth between laptop and desktop + internet access

    I decided to take my laptop bluetooth adaptor back in the end so this question is no longer valid. Thanks for your reply anyway.
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    Bluetooth between laptop and desktop + internet access

    Hi, I've just bought a pcmcia Bluetooth card for my laptop so I can use it to connect to my mobile phone and I was wondering if the following would also be possible. If I bought a Bluetooth adaptor for my desktop PC aswell (win2000 proessional), could I use bluetooth to allow my laptop to...
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    regular expression substitution

    I was hoping there would be a 1 liner that would help to keep things tidy. Thanks for all your help...
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    regular expression substitution

    Hi, If I have something like $var="abcd"; How can I make a substitution to the contents of $var and display the substituted output without making any changes to the actual contents of $var. So in the above example, I want to keep the contents of $var the same, but in a print...
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    Locating a directory

    If I have a directory, /export/web/sun Which contains lots of other directories of the following format.... explorer.hostid.hostname-2002.09.10.21.10 hostid is an unknown alphanumeric string and the date at the end of the directory name is also unknown... I have an array containing only a...
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    Array references

    Hi, Does anyone know if it's possible to do this in one line, as opposed to creating an array then creating a reference to that array? my @HOSTS=split /,/, aaa,bbb,ccc,ddd my $HOSTLIST=\@HOSTS; Thanks
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    Form Input validation

    I've put the script in between <head> and </head> I'm getting a syntax error pop up window when I try to load the page. I'll check it over again.
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    Form Input validation

    I'm having some problems getting it to work All i've changed on the line below is action=&quot;cgi-bin/getpatch&quot; <form name=&quot;f1&quot; action=&quot;&quot; onsubmit=&quot;return checkId(document.f1.patchid)&quot;> Do I need to change document to anything or should it work as it is...
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    Form Input validation

    Hi, I've got a really simple html form that takes user input into one box (input name=patchid) Can someone give me an example of how I would validate patchid to make sure it is a 6 digit number? I don't know any javascript but i've tried a couple of things with no success so far so any help...
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    How to get directory listing in perl for unix

    Ooops, just saw the other thread a couple of lines down. I'll check that one instead....
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    How to get directory listing in perl for unix

    Hi, does anyone know how to get a directory listing when using perl for unix (without calling out to the ls command) Thanks
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    returning character to beginning of line

    Got it working with the following.... print &quot;\r$var&quot;; Thanks for your help anyway :o)
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    returning character to beginning of line

    That didn't help, sorry. My program goes round in a loop and prints one string after another to the screen. I just need the printed string to appear in the same place the previous one did instead of being on a new line or appearing after the previous string on the same line...
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    returning character to beginning of line

    sorry, should have put some more details There will be no newline before it as I want to print a string, then go to the beginning of the line and print another string (essentially over the top of the first string)
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    returning character to beginning of line

    Hi, is there a way to tell the print function to print at the beginning of the line? At the moment, i've cheated by using print &quot;\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b$var&quot;; but it's not very tidy! Thanks

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