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what I want to do is have a server on one machine and a client on the
other. I want the client to connect to the server through a tcp network
(over the internet). I have tried this and I constantly get the no
socket error. The program works on the local machine just fine. Also I

Can anyone recommend a good perl compiler for creating .exe files
running under Dos?
Bill H www.ts1000.us

Hi, noob here...
I'm trying to read a row containing usernames and see if those
usernames are in an already created hash...
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Need help folks.
I have a csv file that has some fields containing "," as part of the
field and not a delimiter.  These fields are double quoted.
What I need to do is read each line, if the value in field 22 = X dont

I found examples of coderefs to subroutines in Perl Objects, References
and Modules, chapter 6.  It goes something like this:
# Assignment
$subroutine_ref = \&subroutine;

I could not get the example script from Crypt::SSLeay run successfully.
Here is the script
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#!/usr/bin/perl

I'm trying to use a perl script to download some html files on a
website, but it's very strange that the response for the fetch-file is
always "404 not found", even though I have no problem to open the same
url in IE. And the same script can work for the urls of other websites.

I have to connect to this module, and I usually send it a file handle,
or stdout.  But I want to write it to a string.  Is there a string
buffer or something I can use?
open (FILEO, ">test.txt");

On 9/19/06, Trey Harris <trey@lopsa.org> wrote:

hereafter is the command I use to connect my database;
my $dbhCampeggio = DBI->connect(
   "DBI:PgPP:dbname=$DATABASE_NAME;host=$DATABASE_SERVER;port=5432",
   "postgres",

Can someone explain this to me?
(full text at http://aplawrence.com/Unix/perl_readonly.html ,
abbreviated version here)
Test code:

Hey All
I got a simple program that reads an file listing using the dos dir command
and then performs another exec on each file name in the list. Problem is
perl doesnt seem to run the second dos command. ?

I have a module that exists as a central data store, returning simple
scalars or references to larger structures. All of its data is stored
in a big hash, and I use AUTOLOAD to return the requested value.
The problem is that, with mod_perl, if the script that uses the module

I ran into a problem that I have been working on, the warning  use of
unitialized value at print
I have tried everything I know.  I have initialized my variables but I
don't get the contents of the value.  I have looked at perldoc but

I am new to both perl and xml.  I need to parse through an
xml file and extract data from certain elements.  I know I should
probably use the XML::SAX cpan module but haven't been able
to find any usable examples.  I've posted this to c.l.xml, but thought