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This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq3.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

I am trying to construct an array (or possibly a hash) which consists of
arrays. It is organized as a series of records with four text fields:
Date, Time, Title, Description
I was able to get this to work with the following ugly but functional code:

This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq8.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

This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq6.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

I have a script as below.
"
#!/c/perl/bin
system("typeperf \"\\Processor\(\*\)\\% C1 Time\" -sc 1 > C1.txt");

I'm using the google contacts API here:
 http://search.cpan.org/~merixzon/WWW-Google-Contacts-0.11/
The script below will retrieve your google contacts "full name", albeit with
some errors.  Can I'm now trying to retrieve other parameters such as the

Give me name of CPAN modules to write down perl script for shudown remote
machines.

I am a newbie to Perl , I have this piece of code :
*CODE:*
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;

I need to write one Perl script which does the following tasks
1: from linux box , connect to windows box
2: run some commands
3: copy the output of those commands to linux box

Following the guidelines I found in numerous examples on the web, I wrote a simple Client-Server app in Perl.  However, it appears that the send buffer does not get flushed until the connection is closed. That's fine for one-way data transfer, but I need the server to be able to ...

I'm very much a beginner.
Could anyone point me in the right direction on how to accomplish the
following, please?
I have a fairly long log file call it file A, it has around 20,000

Can anyone comment how they handle floating point precision situations
like this?
Here is a basic toy program:
#!/usr/bin/perl

Using: ActiveState Perl 5.10 with Windows XP and Vista
Question:  Is it possible to merge a .exe program into a .exe version of a
Perl program and then have the running Perl program send information to that
merged program through a pipe or by some other means?

I recently put a module on CPAN called Labkey::query with this URL:
http://search.cpan.org/~bbimber/Labkey-query-0.02b/lib/Labkey/query.pm
However, if I make a change to the module and upload a new file, that
URL will need to be updated.  For example:

because i'm not using a an irc bot anymore, maintaining
Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable has become low priority for me and the module
definitely does not deserve that fate. Does anybody use it and is
interested in taking it over?

I recently submitted a perl module for the first time.  On the front
CPAN page, in the module's documentation some of the line breaks are
getting ignored:
http://search.cpan.org/~bbimber/Labkey-query-0.02/lib/Labkey/query.pm

Hi, there,
I wrote a module (CPAN style, mostly, I hope .. ) that takes a YouTube
VIDEO_ID and delivers certain info on the video: title, duration,
author, URL to direct download, ..

I'm using local::lib (which basically means I'm using "eval $(perl
-I$HOME/perl5/lib/perl5 -Mlocal::lib)" in my .bashrc). So I have in my
environment:
PERL_MM_OPT=INSTALL_BASE=/home/bill/perl5

  My name is Jerry Kaidor.  I am seeing some cryptic errors in a web
application that I'm writing.  Driving me nuts. My code runs under
CGI::Application, and uses DBI with the mysql driver.  Here is the
error message, which appears in /var/log/httpd/error_log:

recently the MongoDB people have posted MongoDB events on various
Perl Monger mailing lists. I looked around a bit, found this
http://search.cpan.org/dist/MongoDB/
and of course I found http://www.mongodb.org/ but not much beyond that.

All,
The next major release of Postgres is imminent, 9.0, but first a release
candidate has come out today, and anyone who can should download and test it.
Details in the forwarded email below.

       We are getting below mentioned error while running make command
for PERL. The Oracle version installed on the machine is 11gR2 and I
couldn't find the files it is trying to search under ORACLE_HOME. Can you
help us with this issues?

I received a bug report (#60193) regarding the following error with
DBD::Multi:
DBD::Multi initialisation failed: invalid method name 'versions' at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/DBI/DBD/

Well story two of the  'two bit' version of DBD::Oracle 1.25
You can find release candidate 2 here
http://svn.perl.org/modules/dbd-oracle/trunk/DBD-Oracle-1.25-RC2.tar.gz
This one has some minor changes from Martin Evans, though I could not

Can anyone help me start creating a simple table with 5 columns and 10
rows.
i want to be able to input information into the tale also.
Thank you all for your help

I have very little experience with Tk, but many, many years with Perl.
I'm assuming there is an expert or two out there that can help me with what
I thought would be a simple problem.
What I would like is to have the buttons under my listbox look like this:

[Reposting since I don't see it after a day.]
I have very little experience with Tk, but many, many years with Perl.
I'm assuming there is an expert or two out there that can help me with what
I thought would be a simple problem.

When entering data into a cell of TableMatrix, the callback specified
by vcmd is called for every character. How do you use this to validate
enetered data? The Entry widget has the ability to run the callback
only on FocusOut, so that when the user has finished entering data,

I have a small example:
#!cqperl
use strict;
use warnings;

What I want to do is have a form with two prompts and a button. (easy!)
If the user presses enter or tab to the first prompt, and it is empty,
control is passed to the button. If the user enters data in the first
prompt, they must enter data into the second prompt before control is