Perl Forum

Hi, I am a new comer to CGI.pm and find it extremely useful. I have created multi-form pages and with little struggle have succesfully been able to save states from one form to another (from one page to another). Two groups of people will be using the mutli-form pages to fill out the fields. GROUP A fills out pages 1, 2, 3. GROUP B fills...

Hi, We are in the process of converting thousands of MS word documents into some sort of database files like sql or comma separated files. Is there something out there with Perl that allows me to convert all these word documents? Any help is appreciated. /Zak

I want to search for a letter and replace it but when I add the > to the file name it acts up. When I take it out it works but obviously doesn't alter the file only prints it altered. Can anyone tell me why?? use strict; my $content; ## Prompt user for file ############# print "Enter the name of the file you would like to change...\n";

Hello All, I'm having difficulty in using the glob function with stat. Here is a simple piece of code – ----------------------------------------------------------- #! /usr/bin/perl -w use File::Glob; use File::stat;

The tutorials I've found using Google were too old and incomplete. Could you tell me when I could fine a good one, with many examples? Thanks in advance. Stiv

I want to make a script that get information about my clients credit cards. I make it but when I hit Back or I type a digit, it reveal all the credit cards numbers enter before. I want to make a field like is the Password field, but noter to cover my numbers

I am getting the following error when I run my script install_driver(Oracle) failed: Can't load 'F:/Perl/site/lib/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.dll' for module DBD::Oracle: load_file:Access is denied at F:/Perl/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 206. Compilation failed in require at (eval 2) line 3. Perhaps a required shared library or dll isn't installed where...

I am trying to execute a query on a db2 database using the dbi module. I'm wondering if someone can take a look at my code and tell me what I'm doing wrong. I'm assuming it's a problem with my query, but my query works fine in access, so I don't know. I guess I don't really understand how queries work differently in db2. I typically connect to...

Does anyone have a good website on how to learn perl. If you do i would very much appreciate it.

Hi, I am making a simple program that connects to Oracle and then display the results. When I exec the program via command like, there does not seem to be a problem. When I do it through a browser I do not get any print commands past the connection here is what I have: use strict; use DBI;

I would like to store html templates in a database. By using perl I would like to retrive the template ask the user to fill the template and store the whole file is template + the user data in a database. How can I do this? Should I use Perl Mason to do this. Or Can I store the template in database using text field and then retrive the...

I have installed the PDL module and use it to calculate eigenvalue of a matrix. The PDL do gives me some eigenvalue and eigenvector. But the problem is that these values are different from the eigenvalue and eigenvector calculated in Matlab. A simple example is: use PDL::LiteF; my $mat = pdl ,

I am trying to install CGI::Application using CPAN, but the process doesn't finish. It seems to get stuck at test t/05 (if it exists): Running make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl -Iblib/arch -Iblib/lib -I/System/Library/Perl/darwin -I/System/Library/Perl -e 'use Test::Harness qw(&runtests $verbose); $verbose=0; runtests @ARGV;' t/*.t...

Given a string with some of the words in curly braces, how do I extract the words within curly braces alone using regular expression? Also I wouldnt know how many such words within braces exist in my string...In such a case how do i extract all the words. $str = "My {name} is {anand} and i seek {your} help in this {problem}"; Anand,

I'm having a lotta problems installing Crypt::RSA on Linux Linux gogol 2.4.17smt-mono using perl5.005_03. Main problem at present is that all the tests fail with Crypt::Primes When I run a trace it looks like a segmentation fault (The same fault I am getting if I force install and run a keygen using Crypt::RSA). Any ideas/help would be...

Hope that some perl guru will help me: I've implemented an inverted index using PERL + DB_File (using hash, and b-tree). Therefore, i have my indexer and my searcher (a little search engine, indead). Given a word in the lexicon i stored in B-tree the corrispondent inverted list, using gap coding. For istance i have:

I have the following problem. I have a form created on the fly via a perl script that maintains a MySQL table. Any field that has spaces does not display properly. Only the text up to the first space displays in the HTML text box. If I use code that embeds the HTML space octet, it displays properly. I know it must be something really...

I Have an August 1st deadline to convert an XML file to an LDIF/LDAP File. Some one told me that i should use perl. Can anyone help Please?! I have never programed in perl before.

I'm trying to use the CIsam object in CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/author/ILYAVERL/CIsam-1.0/CIsam.pm But am having some trouble. I tried to mail the maintainer, but it bounced back. So now I'm asking this publically . . . I'm using a UnixWare machine, and have ByteDesigns library. I have the "libd96.a" file in /usr/lib and my includes...

Help! I'm recursing through 10,000 directories where some have as few as 5 files and others have 100's. I'm then performing a few things based on the modify date of the file. Needless to say, this script is going to run a long time regardless of what I do. But if I remove the stat, the script runs 500% faster (duh). That being said, I've...

Ok, it's sed not perl, but it's primarily a regexp question that I've encountered (and failed to understand) before. . . # # When trying to convert a variable number # of spaces separating fields, to fields # separated by single commas, if your "input" # file looks like the following lines. . . # #alpha bravo charlie delta echo ...

Hi, I'm trying to build a simple Perl program to get a list of newsgroups. Here's what I have... #!/opt/local/bin/perl use Net::NNTP; $nntp = Net::NNTP->new("nntp.perl.org",Debug,10); $LIST=$nnpt->list; $nntp->quit; Can't call method "list" on an undefined value at ./getnntp.pl line 13.

My name is Noah. What i'm trying to figure out is how I can compile this module: Win32::Scheduler. Most modules can simply be inserted, be compiled (if you will) with a Makefile, or if there is not one made, h2xs. Now. H2xs is probably what i'm going to need *not quite sure. Check out how the file directory looks: ...

Hi, When reading from email message using Net::POP3 (or other means), I need my perl program to open URLs incuded into the message. In other words, I need the program to click links in the message. So far I have not found the solution for that either in Net::POP3 or anywhere else. Does anyone have an idea how to do that? Thanks, Lev

Hello, I open a SSL socket IO::Socket::SSL module, sending data, received data, and then closed with the shutdown(2) function. Everything is ok untill the loop number 254, that makes the script crash when opening the new socket. The command 'netstat -a' gives the sockets "BOUND". I am using solaris 2.6, perl 5.6.0, tcp connection. thanks,...