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On February 27, in a thread on c.l.l, RG had this to say about Perl:
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Howdy -
Is there a way to do an asynchronous connection of a TCP socket, without
threads or forking?  Something like a two-step method, where I start the
connect, then later check to see if it's done and if it worked?

This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq5.pod, which
comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to
reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community
to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete

Author: lwall
Date: 2010-03-12 17:52:09 +0100 (Fri, 12 Mar 2010)
New Revision: 30053
Modified:

I was fixing a problem that "just appeared" in some otherwise working
code. There were no syntax errors and the program ran fine - it's just
that the result went from being correct to being uttterly and completely
wrong. A bit of lateral thinking and investigation solved the ...

For a project I receive some XML fragments from a data base and have
to include it in a larger XML document created with XML::LibXML. With
version 1.66 of XML::LibXML I was able to to something like
   my $doc  = XML::LibXML::Document->new('1.0', 'utf-8' );

I found this code example on Stack Overflow to prettyprint a hash:
(link: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2431032/how-to-print-a-key-value-using-the-pe
rl-hases/2431139#2431139
)
use strict;

I am planning to start programming perl for my project  . i am just a
beginner to perl
can i get information related to videos/links and books especially for
beginners which can help me writing scripts .

Does anyone here know where I can find information about using Perl to
run tests with Selenium Remote Control? There is no Perl specific
information in their documentation or SDK and they don't appear to have
any Perl developers involved in the project any more. I pasted together

------ CODE ------
use strict;
use warnings;
use WWW::Mechanize;

         I'm using Net::SSH2 module on windows machine, the purpose of this
script is to login to multiple devices and execute "show run" command and
print the output of the command to a text file,  .......the script login to
multiple devices and executes "show run" command", reads ...

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my @array = qw (

I am writing this email to ask two general questions about throwing
exceptions. Parts of them are not restricted to Perl and just
reflect my general lack of knowledge about how to deal with
exceptions in a professional way. So if you think "RTFM" when you

CPAN.pm is configured to automatically follow prerequsites but it
still stops and ask the question
... is just needed temporarily during building or testing. Do you want
to install it permanently (y/n) [yes]

Howdy,
I am working on the application for The Perl Foundation and Parrot
Foundation to participate in Google Summer of Code 2010 [0]. GSoC is a
program where Google funds eligible students to hack on open source

I demand a short round of applause!
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From: David Nicol <davidnicol@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:55 PM

- CPAN Forum Q&A, Installation of;
-- XML-Writer-0.606
-- XML-DOM-1.44
-- XML-Simple-2.18

I wrote a mod_perl to check some of the value that users select. The
script will generate a form according to the selection from the user.
There are three forms that dynamically generated according to the
selection,

I've been looking at how to do this for some time,
but I seem to don't get it.
If I have a $dbh handle, is it possible to know which
hostname is that $dbh connected to?

Trying to compile DBD::Oracle I run into trouble because the Makefile
kept failing to find the libraries. I figured out after a while that the
problem was that somehow in the library path that he was using a 'lib32'
kept being used instead of 'lib'.

it seems the Cygwin Perl can't see a client libraries needed to build
DBD::Mysql. Innovative lad that I am I figured I'd just compile my own
from 5.1.44 (current download). Nice thought.
What happens is the build fails as follows:

I'm using DBD::Oracle.
Is it possible to set the NLS_LANG setting on a dbh so that the
setting overrides what is specified by $ENV{NLS_LANG}?
Thanks,

This is one of the most bizarre and specific bugs I've ever seen. I've  
minimized it as much as I can. Please bear with me. :)
Here is my mod_perl handler:
   package Handler;

I am attempting to select from a table that has a field with a
system defined type.  Unfortunately, I get back an error when I
execute the prepare method.
In reading the DBD::Oracle docs, it seems like it is saying that

I am trying to display images for 'Tick' / 'Square Root' /'Cross',
converted from Ascii char using chr() function,  in my tree widget.
Previously I was using .gif images for those.
But due to performance issue I started using displaying ASCII chars

## When I run the following perl script and try to edit a  cell
content,
## the cell foreground colour becomes 'white' and backgroud colour
becomes 'white gray'.

I am pretty good with Tk, but do not know how to find some beginner
material on how to design custom widgets.... can someone give me some
info and examples on how to do this.
Thank you very much,

I have  -validate=>'focusout' and -validatecommand=>\&validateEntry
options configured for an Entry widget. The validateEntry sub always
returns 0 or 1, but it has 'die' calls in eval blocks. I observed that
quite often the -validate option is turned off to 'none', when in the

How can i save my output (from text) by using perl tk.

I'm new here, so I don't know if I'm posting in the right place.
If I'm wrong do you mind give me a clue where should I post.
My problem is that :
I would like to get data from a Bintec router (R230a) in tabular, more