Some question?!

[Tanja]

Please help me:
I have some problem, is perl is good choices for solve it?

1.) Is it possible to run IE and fill web form, with perl program?
2.) How to check subject line in E-mail message in mailbox (on Internet)
with perl script
(started in Windows based PC)
3.) Where to find free version of Cron for Windows?
4.) Can you compare speed of program written in perl, and program written in
C or Pascal?
In seconds of execution identical program written in different
language.

Thanks

 

[Gregory Toomey]

Please help me:
I have some problem, is perl is good choices for solve it?

1.) Is it possible to run IE and fill web form, with perl program?
2.) How to check subject line in E-mail message in mailbox (on Internet)
with perl script
(started in Windows based PC)
3.) Where to find free version of Cron for Windows?
4.) Can you compare speed of program written in perl, and program written
in C or Pascal?
In seconds of execution identical program written in different
language.

Thanks

Yes.

gtoomey

 

[Matt Garrish]

Don't know.

Start -- Settings -- Control Panel -- Scheduled Tasks

Matt

 

[Peter Wyzl]

:
: : >
: >> 3.) Where to find free version of Cron for Windows?
: >
: > Don't know.
: >
:
: Start -- Settings -- Control Panel -- Scheduled Tasks

Or on WinNT and 2k,
Start - Run - 'Cmd' - 'AT'

P

 

[Tad McClellan]

Subject: Some question?!

Please put the subject of your article in the Subject of your article.

Please help me:

Please check the Perl FAQ *before* posting to the Perl newsgroup.

1.) Is it possible to run IE and fill web form, with perl program?

No.

You do not need IE at all. You only need something that knows
about HTTP requests and responses, Perl has a module available
that knows about those things.

perldoc -q form

How do I automate an HTML form submission?

2.) How to check subject line in E-mail message in mailbox (on Internet)
with perl script

perldoc -q mail

How do I parse a mail header?

How do I read mail?

3.) Where to find free version of Cron for Windows?

That is not a Perl question, you are in the wrong newsgroup.

4.) Can you compare speed of program written in perl, and program written in
C or Pascal?

You do not know enough about programming to be asking that question.

If you expect that performance will truly be an issue (it seldom is),
then you should hire someone with enough knowledge to evaluate that
for your particular situation.

The Perl program will be faster to write, slower (probably, but not
by enough to matter in most cases) to run.

The C program will be slower to write, faster to run.

Which do you pay more for, labor or CPU cycles?

Cycles are cheap, programming hours are expensive, *optimize for labor*.

 

[Joe Smith]

Please help me:

That was not a very informative Subject: line.

1.) Is it possible to run IE and fill web form, with perl program?

Simple answer: No, you run a perl program *instead of* IE.

Other answer: There are some Win32 modules that allow perl to control
other processes (such as iexplore.exe).

3.) Where to find free version of Cron for Windows?

For the cases where the built-in Task Scheduler is not enough,
I use the cron that comes from http://www.cygwin.com/
It is a full-fledged POSIX environment and has its own perl.

-Joe

 

[Michele Dondi]

Subject: Some question?!

You'd better choose a relevant Subject line.

3.) Where to find free version of Cron for Windows?

OT, but I think there should be some available. However are you sure
you want to use cron instead of Windows' native scheduler?

4.) Can you compare speed of program written in perl, and program written in
C or Pascal?
In seconds of execution identical program written in different
language.

By definition you can't have 'identical programs' written in different
languages (well, with a few witty exceptions, I guess - and depending
on the actual languages). You can have (hopefully!) _equivalent_
programs.


Michele

 

[Michele Dondi]

It is possible to write a stand-alone Perl program that will submit a
form request to a web server without using IE.

I agree that indeed this is the kind of answer the OP's question
deserves, but FWIW I _think_ that there should be some Win32* trickery
available to perform the task she described, literally.


Michele

 

[Matt Garrish]

I agree that indeed this is the kind of answer the OP's question
deserves, but FWIW I _think_ that there should be some Win32* trickery
available to perform the task she described, literally.

If the IE part of the equation is not important, there's always
Win32::Internet (but you're always better off using the LWP modules, IMO).
Using Perl (or any other language) to fill out a form in a running instance
of internet explorer is just a needless waste of time.

Matt

 

[Brian McCauley]

No.

Er yes, Win32::IE::Mechanize.

You do not need IE at all.

Indeed you do _not_ need IE but that doesn't mean that you can't do it
that way.

 

[Damian James]

:
: : >
: >> 3.) Where to find free version of Cron for Windows?
: >
: > Don't know.
: >
:
: Start -- Settings -- Control Panel -- Scheduled Tasks

Or on WinNT and 2k,
Start - Run - 'Cmd' - 'AT'

In NT4 and least, that is not available unless you install the NT4
resource kit. Not free.

Cheers,
Damian