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    Pattern matching -- driver's license number validation

    Wow...all that work and my only mistake was that I couldn't count! Thanks a lot for your help guys. At least the problem is solved; I was truly frustrated with it but it's nice when it's something simple that doesn't really need fixing. Thanks again! Dale
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    Pattern matching -- driver's license number validation

    Hello all... I'm trying to validate driver's license numbers for each state. I'm going to use a hash of patterns. Some states, such as Arkansas, my example below, have more than one possible method. I'm getting the pattern to match properly on all three possibilities. However, I need to...
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    .htaccess/.htpasswd; apache chroot

    Well "the chroot problem" is something I just read about the other night. Apparently recent versions of Apache are, by default, chroot'ed and cannot see outside of the DocumentRoot directory. Thus, you can't place an .htpasswd (not .htaccess) file outside of the DocumentRoot...
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    .htaccess/.htpasswd; apache chroot

    I've seen this sort of problem a lot while searching forums for it, but I've yet to find a solution to the problem I'm having that works for me. Here are the facts: I have an .htaccess file in a directory I want to share only with friends. Thus the password protection. I read somewhere about...
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    Perl, FIFOs, keyboard input sent to image viewer

    Thanks to both of you for replying. Mike, I gave that a try, but no luck there either. I've about given up on using viewfax with a pipe. It seems no matter what I do to change the STDIN, it doesn't care, and uses keyboard instead. Usige...I downloaded X11::GUITest as you suggested and it may...
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    Perl, FIFOs, keyboard input sent to image viewer

    I'm stumped. I'm using Linux. I want to have a simple Perl script which will accept keyboard input and send commands to an image viewer running in another window. Here are some details: The viewer is called viewfax. It is run from the command line as such: viewfax /home/me/fax.tif It pops...

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