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I've got an array full of dates in the form ('dd/mm/yy', 'dd/mm/yy', ... etc. (I'm from the UK). I want to use Perl's built in sort function to sort them in order and in reverse order. Any help much appreciated. -Ed ;-) ________________________________ Destiny is not a matter of chance; it...

The code bellow was working fine until I changed something by mistake and suddenly it says only this when I try to run it: Warning: Content-Type header not found in the script output. If this script is not a CGI one, please use the Run -> Run in Command Prompt menu to run it. Execution of...

I have recently discovered the folloeing device: print <<HTML_END; (What you want to print) HTML_END And find it very useful. My questiuon is this: if what you want to print contains lots of @ and $ signs in (as in talking about email addresses and currency rather than variables), is there...

I'm only a beginner at using regular expressions, and would like to know how to use one to see if $variable contains only digits or not. I.e. I want a statement that returns false if $variable contains any character other than a digit. Any help would be very much appreciated. -Ed ;-)...

If I have the name of a variable stored in another variable, can I read the contents of the variable? EG: $nameOfVariable = &quot;foo&quot;; $foo = &quot;contents of variable that I want to read&quot;; # Now, supposing that $foo could be anything, # eg. $sweetcorn, is it possible to...

What would you say is the best way to sort a list in alphabetical order? Any help would be apprieciated, Merry Xmas, -Ed ;-) ________________________________ Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.

What's a quick way to check that a six character string is a valid hex value (i.e. contains only numbers and letters A-F?)? I expect it would invlove regular expressions but haven't got the hang of them yet, so would apprieciate some help. -Ed ;-) ________________________________ Destiny is...

I've started making a website using CSS at the following address: http://www.hyperhive.com/test/ In IE it displays just how I want it, but I also want my website to be compatible with Netscape 6 and 7 and Opera. With these browsers there are two problems: * The absolute positioned <DIV> tags...

PHP has a superglobal array called $_SERVER, which is useful when handling 404 errors on Unix Apache servers. In this array you can access REDIRECT_URL, REDIRECT_STATUS, REDIRECT_ERROR_NOTES, and REDIRECT_REQUEST_METHOD variables. Is there a way of accessing these in Perl? -Ed ;-)...

Is it possible to run a perl script from inside another perl script? -Ed ;-) ________________________________ Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.

I know how to split a scalar every character: $scalar = 'AABBCC'; @list = split('', $scalar); But how can a split it every OTHER character, so @list = ('AA', 'BB', 'CC')? -Ed ;-) ________________________________ Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.

On MSDN it says you can access the svailable screen width using screen.availWidth, but when I try this using MSVC++ I get the compiler error: error C2065: 'screen' : undeclared identifier Do I need to declare screen or something? How do I do this? Any help would be appreciated. -Ed ;-)...

I've just started programming for Windows and want to know how to make a window maximized when it starts. I looked at the styles listed on MDSN and thought I'd add WS_MAXIMIZE to the style property when I use CreateWindow. hwnd = CreateWindow (&quot;Window Class 1&quot...

I don't run my server myself by the way, I just pay a company to do it. Right. I have an SSI file called &quot;index.stm&quot; that gets information from a CGI script called &quot;script.pl&quot; like this: <!--#exec cgi=&quot;/cgi-bin/script.pl?querystring&quot;--> That works fine, and...

I'm not too good at regular expressions yet, so I would much apprieciate it if someone could tell me one that returns true if a password only just uses characters a-z, A-Z and 0-9 and returns false if it uses any other character. -Ed ;-) ________________________________ Destiny is not a matter...

Two questions about pop-ups --------------------------- 1: At the momment I have a form like this: <FORM method=&quot;post&quot; action=&quot;../cgi-bin/processMsg.pl&quot; ... Is it possible to get processMsg.pl to open in a pop-up window? 2: Is it possible to refresh from a pop-up the...

I want to play a sound called chomp.wav that is stored as a resource. I found: PlaySound(&quot;SoundName&quot;, hInst, SND_RESOURCE | SND_ASYNC); on MSDN but when I try and compile this it says hInst is undeclared. What do I have to do to hInst?. Also, I haven't used resources before. All...

I'd really like to run .pl files from my .stm files. I've tried: <!--#exec cgi=&quot;cgi-bin/hello_wold.pl&quot;--> like it suggests on microsoft's website but nothing happens. Edmund (user name a1194092) -Ed ;-) ________________________________ Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a...

I am trying to make a snakes game in the cosole window that uses the following code to take keyboard input: INPUT_RECORD InputRecord; DWORD Events=0; ReadConsoleInput(stdIH, &InputRecord, 1, &Events); if(InputRecord.EventType == KEY_EVENT && InputRecord.Event.KeyEvent.bKeyDown) {...

I know that in time.h there is a time(NULL) function that returns the number of seconds scince something and I know how to use this to make things happen every second, for instance. But what if you want more acurate than a second, for making things happen every 0.4 seconds for instance? -Ed...