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Hi, Although this is possibly caused by sybase it is in perl were I wish to solve the problem so I choose this forum over the sybase one. Ok here goes... I have been having some problems using DBI to connect to a sybase database.... sometimes its all fine, other times it doesn't work and this...

Hi, I have this case statement for which the options change depending on the number of subdirectories in a directory. However, lets say there happen to be 15 subdirectories. This causes the case statement to echo "Invalid choice" if the user enters any values except or 1 and 5...

Hi, Say I have a directory of files each with a header which looks like this: # # $RCSfile: MF.form,v $ # $Author: david $ # $Revision: 1.46.2.6.2.3.2.4 $ # I want to extract from each file into a variable the long revision number between "$Revision: " amd " $" at the end...

Hi, Say I have a string in my shell script and I want to do a find and replace on it what I am supposed to use and how? I have tried using sed (but then realised this was just for files?) and am now a bit stumped. All I want to do is to find all instances of "^m" within a string and...

Hi, Say I have an array @a_array which contain objects which are in turn arrays with 6 elements. I am trying to delete objects from that array whose first element equals an element of another array. So far I have got this far (assume that @a_array and @ignore_variables has been declared and...

Hi, I'm kinda new to shell scripts. I have a file which lists a series of filenames. I need to write a script which gets the list of these filenames from the file, and then tars them up maintaining the directory structure. Cheers Rob

Hi, I have a string variable which I have done some pattern matching on and I want to assign the matched text to a new variable. I have this: $new_variable = $the_string =~ m/^\s*\w+/; However, when the pattern is found this assigns 1 (true) to the new_variable rather than the string itself...

Hi, I have to extract some information using perl from some files and I assume will deal with pattern matching which I am not very experienced with so am in need of a bit of help. Below is a sample of the format of these files, although of course these files are not totally uniform and can have...

Hi, I need to write a script which extracts all the currently set envrionment variables into an array of the format { Variable_Name , Variable_Value } Any help would be much appreciated. Rob Miles

Hi, I am trying to set the titlebar icon of a JOptionPane to my program's icon but have only succeeded in setting the internal icon (the one often set to a stop sign or exclaimation mark etc). Is there any way of setting the titlebar icon of a JOptionPane? Cheers Milage

Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to make a JPopupMenu scroll? If so how would this be done (Swing), would I have to put it into a ScrollPane or what and how would this be done? Any help would be much appreciated! Milage

Hi, Is it possible to have a JComboBox which holds two values for each entry it lists such as a title and an underlying numeric value for that title? (As with select boxes in HTML) Likewise, is it possible to do the same for a JList component? Cheers Rob

Hi, I have looked around to see if anyone has asked this before but they don't so to have! How do you find the number of rows in a resultset? Cheers Robert Miles

Hi, I have being running my code through the javadoc tool and have got an error saying: javadoc: warning - in class Member.PaymentBean, missing @serial tag for default serializable field: firstname. for each of my declared variables in the class? What do I have to put in the document...

Hi, I have a hierarchical set of types from which I am implementing tables. Person | User ----- Employer | Employee ----- Contact Person I am trying to create a autonumber column as the identifiying column. But I...

I can't believe that I am going to ask this but how do you return more than one variable from a method in Java? Is it the same as in C++ by passing a references to all the variables? Is so what is the syntax, could you give me a sample method declaration. Thanks in advance. Robert Miles

Hi, Two questions really: 1) Should I be using RMI 2) If so how much of the program should use RMI I am about to start building a database driven application. However, I am unsure whether to make it 2-tier not using RMI or 3-tier using RMI. The various different clients all need to...

Hi, I was wondering if anyone has a form that does this or knows where I can "borrow" one. I need to allow users to enter html tags into the text box that they are currently editing. Currently html tags can be added manually but the users of this website are unlikely to know html so...

Hi, Is there a way of churning out all the contents of a record set. I don't know what fields are going to be in it I just want to list everything in a table without having to explicitly put the name of each field as the field names and numbers are likely to change.

Hi, I know similar questions have been asked regarding this subject but they all seem to relate to Oracle and SQL server databases, not Access How do I get a list of all the Table Names, Fields, Types and Descriptions? Cheers