Reply to: Any Perl gurus around?

[Diestl]

Does it have to be perl?, Ruby is much nicer and more pleasing to use.

[bogeyman]

1 liner.

HTH

Let's see it then

[_V_]

It is cheap, Threaded only charges £1000/hr, so one liner should only cost about £100.

[Cliphead]

1 liner.

HTH

Quote?

Should be cheap as a one liner unless yer a comedian?

[threaded]

Mine's is non-existent but...

Need to create a script which;

1. Takes web form information and saves form.txt to a temp directory on the Linux server. The temp dir has to be unique - /temp/5367657653123/form.txt

2. Run a command like - runme a.out text.out out.bin

3. The created out.bin needs then to be made available for download by the user from a webpage or emailed to him.

Sounds simple but I haven't got a clue where to start with this. Any help appreciated.

1 liner.

HTH

[Stan]

Cliphead! You said you had 10 years experience on Perl projects when I hired you!

I think mod perl might be a bit of a leap given his current level of knowledge so yes CGI sucks but it will get the job done albeit inefficiently.


Its probably a $20 dollar job on rentacoder....

[Cliphead]

Well, no.

Time spent solving computer problems should be paying time for me.

If you're such a l33t linux hax0r then I'd thought you'd have groked PERL already and probably rolled some CPAN stuff. But what do I know?

Like all those who claim superiority by simply USING Linux, you turn out to be a completely clueless feck.

I didn't claim superiority at all as a Linux user, merely pointing out that there are alternative operating systems than can be run on a PC.

Yes, I get to install Perl modules and get it all working but I'm not a coder and never claimed to be. I also mentioned in a previous post, 'gimme a price.' I'd be happy to pay someone for doing this for me.

It seems strange that the mention of Linux get you all steamed up and firing off personal insults. Why is that? Why the vitriol? Banter on a forum I enjoy, making it personal is no fun. Where I come from if you want to insult someone you do it to their face and take your chances, not much chance of that then...

[bogeyman]

Sounds like you need to start with a CGI script.

use CGI;

To be honest the learning curve on Perl is quite steep -- to write decent Perl, that is.

Get hello_world.cgi perl script working on apache first (e.g. apache config, correct HTTP headers etc.)

Then learn to get the CGI variables from your form input.

Then do a bit of file I/O -- check all the file conditions. Perl doesn't have exceptions a la Java, so you have to check each statement:

# this may be wrong, haven't written perl in a while...
open F ">/tmp/myfile.out" or die "Could not open file ... " . $!;

Then work out how to speak to your local mail server. May be easier to allow the file to be downloaded.

Suggest you get a book on Perl.

HTH

Oh yup, use CGI. All your problems will then be solved!

Fecking priceless

[bogeyman]

"You're obviously another geek spaz who has nothing better to do that wank around with his umpteen decrepit 'boxen' while the rest of us have beer and women to think about."

All's square then

Well, no.

Time spent solving computer problems should be paying time for me.

If you're such a l33t linux hax0r then I'd thought you'd have groked PERL already and probably rolled some CPAN stuff. But what do I know?

Like all those who claim superiority by simply USING Linux, you turn out to be a completely clueless feck.

[DimPrawn]

"You're obviously another geek spaz who has nothing better to do that wank around with his umpteen decrepit 'boxen' while the rest of us have beer and women to think about."

All's square then

Nice retort.

[Cliphead]

Sounds like you need to start with a CGI script.

use CGI;

To be honest the learning curve on Perl is quite steep -- to write decent Perl, that is.

Get hello_world.cgi perl script working on apache first (e.g. apache config, correct HTTP headers etc.)

Then learn to get the CGI variables from your form input.

Then do a bit of file I/O -- check all the file conditions. Perl doesn't have exceptions a la Java, so you have to check each statement:

# this may be wrong, haven't written perl in a while...
open F ">/tmp/myfile.out" or die "Could not open file ... " . $!;

Then work out how to speak to your local mail server. May be easier to allow the file to be downloaded.

Suggest you get a book on Perl.

HTH

Thanks, it gets me started. Checking Amazon now for Perl books.

[Cliphead]

No worries.

Dunno why I'm helping you anyway...

"You're obviously another geek spaz who has nothing better to do that wank around with his umpteen decrepit 'boxen' while the rest of us have beer and women to think about."

All's square then

[bogeyman]

Thanks, I can easily create a form I think, I'll plug away with the rest.

No worries.

Dunno why I'm helping you anyway...

A bogeyman of little brain methinks...

[swamp]

Sounds like you need to start with a CGI script.

use CGI;

To be honest the learning curve on Perl is quite steep -- to write decent Perl, that is.

Get hello_world.cgi perl script working on apache first (e.g. apache config, correct HTTP headers etc.)

Then learn to get the CGI variables from your form input.

Then do a bit of file I/O -- check all the file conditions. Perl doesn't have exceptions a la Java, so you have to check each statement:

# this may be wrong, haven't written perl in a while...
open F ">/tmp/myfile.out" or die "Could not open file ... " . $!;

Then work out how to speak to your local mail server. May be easier to allow the file to be downloaded.

Suggest you get a book on Perl.

HTH

[Cliphead]

Ok.

So capture the vars in the form post handler, get a temp file name, write the file in the format above.

Because the web server can't initiate cryptest.exe, you'd need to have a daemon to check the temp dir for the form capture files and then:

1) kick off cryptest.exe with the right args

2) delete (or move) the capture file.

Thanks, I can easily create a form I think, I'll plug away with the rest.