Webmaster Forum / Perl / General Perl Topics / September 2006

using perl 5.8.8
Objective: remove last 10 lines of *all* files in a directory with no
branches.
Like...xfiles directory has the files xfile1...xfile10. No

This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq4.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 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

Hi i m just starign with PERL..given two problems to solve ..pls help
me in solving them
1. Develop a shell and a perl script to run on a Linux machine. The
script should

   I  am a bit new to Perl.  (My experience is with Modula2
and Linux bash script.)
   I need to write a win32 Perl program that will 1) pop up
a windows with a message to the user, 2) only appear in the

Here is a good one I wonder if anyone can answer.
I am getting information from a data base, the response is put into a
comma seperated file.  I then use Text::CSV_XS to put that comma
seperated info  into a spreadsheet by using Spreadsheet::WriteExcel.

I have tried to use FTP from Perl (not using System() but directly from perl script), and
found out that all the sample programs found on the Internet don't work. Further investigation showed
that there is following error
"Cannot connect to host: Net::FTP: Bad protocol 'tcp' at ...

This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq2.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 using Suse Linux 9.3. Perl 5.8.6 is the version of perl installed.
However, I have some perl code that a vender gave me that they insist only
works with perl 5.8.8. So i went to install a separate instance of perl. I
changed the prefix to be /work/servers/webenv and ran make. ...

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

Im trying to get ImageMagick working on my VPS. Below code used to work
on a previous VPS, but now all I get written is $file1, never $file2.
Problem is, I dont even know how to debug it... Any clues?
$url="someimage.jpg";

I wanted to post / upload a file to one of our https server
what i am trying to do here is trying to loging to the
https server using the user credentials . then trying to
post a file to another url which in general accepts post

I am learning perl scripting and was reading an online tutorial where i
encountered this code(at the end of message). The first part of the
code (reading from file) has been pasted as-is and the second(reading
from standard input stream) was written by me. When I execute the

Gurus,
The attempt to build a 64 bit perl ( 5.8.7 and 5.8.8 ) on solaris 9 (
and also sol 8 ) is getting failed during the compilation process.
The miniperl got generated successfully, however it core dumps while

I was hoping someone could help or point me in the right direction.
I would like to install an intelligent Form mailer on my up and coming
website.
The purpose of the Form mailer will be to either submit to a database