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Hi, How to copy a file from solaris to windows? Thanks, susi

I have several web pages that are perl files with .pl extensions. Inside these I have HTML code for the web page display. I am trying to have a certain page refresh every five minutes. I was told to use <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="300"> and place it inside the HEAD tags. Well this doesn't work because when I click on the link to go to...

Hi folks, I'm having problems running a perl script that uses LWP. I'm trying to run webcal_cmd.pl which is part of WebCalendar by http://www.ma.utexas.edu/webcalendar/ When I run the script I get the reply "connection refused". Why? Who refused it?

I have a hex value FFFFFFCE that actually represents -50. When I simply use hex function to convert the above value to an integer, I get 4294967246. That means that integer overflow took place. How do I handle such cases, so that conversion will be correct?

Hi, How can i make a script to copy a bunch of files in a specific directory, that were created in a specifc date range? Thanks in advance, Teixeira

Hi to all, I want execute a perl program inside another perl program with passing some values to called program by calling program. Is any Idea please. Thanks in advance.

hi... i am beginner in perl cgi programming..i am atempting to read from a file.... my cgi script is #!c:\perl\bin\perl -wT #print "content-type: text/html \n\n"; use CGI qw(:standard); use strict; print header;

How to write to a ".txt" file present on remote machine. I dont want to use two way socket connection. Is there any other way to write to a file on remote machine? Best Regards, Shrek.

Hi all, I have a query like this:- ((A AND B) NOT (C AND D) AND (N OR M) NOT (E AND F)) I want to store ((A AND B) AND (N OR M)) in one array. (C AND D) NOT (E AND F) in other array.

hi guys,i have this problem.first let me show you the so far code #!/user/bin/perl while ($a = <STDIN>) { if ($a =~ tr/A-Z/a-z/) { print "$a\n"; }

Hey all. I am pretty new to this. But I was hopeing i can get some help from here. Have searched the but haven't found the right thing for me. I would need a program that will read a file, with a lot of lines, then get some lines starting from <!------ TÄNA KANAL 2-S ----------> then these lines will be printed out and when comes this line:...

OS using: Linux(core 1), Solaris (5.6 to 5.8), Unix Perl version: v5.8.5 I need to find the path or alias that the user used to execute the program with (aka $0), just like the built-in shell commands which or where, but using Perl. Now if I just want the path I have found many ways to do that using things like: use Cwd qw(realpath);...

My problem is, previously, i had installed perl-5.8.7 in my Linux. But when i do upgrade i.e when i install perl-5.8.8 in my machine, it doesn't get installed completely. So , i am getting error while doing programs. It takes the path as /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8 but i want to run my scripts in the path as /usr/lib/perl/5.8.7. Any reply...

I have a simple program that attempts to convert lines to a csv file. The way I see it it shoule output like this: Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar*, 11500 Shawnee Mission Pkwy.,Shawnee, KS, 66203, 913-962-1133 as one line. But it is not and I don't see why. I am putting each line into an array and then at the end doing a join. Why am I...

Hi guys, I have a small problem with my Perl-CGI script, and I would appreciate if anyone can help me out with this. I'm trying to get this done in two stages. 1st to get a bunch of info from the web and display it (which is working fine), but the 2nd part is, I want to add some of these info into my MySQL table after viewing them (I don't know...

Hi all, I need a help in perl script.The basic idea is,it must have command line arguments for the user flexibility.the files are in the format as shown below. MainFolder Directory Sub_directory files Sub_directory files Directory

hi all, i've been trying, almost for the whole day, to submit the value of a variable in my perl script (eg, $sequence) to a subroutine in the same script when i click on a submit button. how can i do that? is there any other way execute a second perl script with a click of a button on the first one, submitting the same values of variables in...

I need a help with my code... What I want to do is: if there exists a directory_no, and found in the directories array , want to copy the contents of that array to a new array from where the directory_no is found to till the end of that array. In the end copy the new_directory array to the directories array; Ex:directories array: 1 2 3 4 5 ...

hello everybody, i need some help in binary file handling in perl. can anybody give me some information about binary file. actully i am reading data from some text file and extracting some usefull information from there and want store in my own binary file with .vbf extension ( not like .dat file.) i am putting code here for reading text file and...

bonjour tout le monde je veux installer perl soous cygwin. pour y procéder voici nles étapes ke g fait: 1) g téléchargé activeperl et je l'ai installé => résultat: c/perl le perl toune correctement 2) g installé le cygwin 3) g essayé la comande suivante $ brw_tools unpack bash: ./brw_tools: /usr/local/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such...

I am using a Aix 5.3 system and have written a perl script which uses Config::Properties to read/write into configuration files . The perl version is 5.6.0. When i run : perl filename.pl i get the following error : /^(?:\x{FEFF}|{FFFE})/: Can't use \x{} without 'use utf8' declaration at Config/Properties.pm line 215. Compilation failed in...

Good afternoon all, Question about list assignment in perl... Given a piece of code that looks kinda like this for parsing some '|' delimited input text lines : ($var1, $var2, $var3) = split(/\|/, $listline); Here's the hard part: There are differing programs that read from the same conf file that take data stream and split it, but at...

hi, i would like to store my hash table in an external file and call it in my perl script. how should i store my external hash table and what is the syntax to read it? thanks alot.

HI, I need every day to upload several files to a website (go to site, click "browse", wait for the upload and its done). I'd like to automate this with a perl script, but I can't figure how. MY idea is to be monitoring a folder and upload every files that is copy to there. Can someone give me some lights to start a scratch of the script, the...

Hi all, I am new to Perl but see that it offers some fantastic opportunities and am trying to use it more in problem solving but could do with a little help on a problem thats driving me nuts.... I am trying to remove certain sub headers from email, i want it to tick through the text until it reaches "content-disposition:" then delete the...