Webmaster Forum / Perl / General Perl Topics / July 2008

I wrote up a summary and some notes and posted at
<http://www.dlugosz.com/Perl6/web/code.html>.
Can we come to a definitive statement of the Callable/Code/Block/Routine
types, relative to the hints that are in the synopses thus far?

Today, I separated out a file of functions into a separate package:
   package MyPackage ;
Instead of 'use', I 'require and call the functions using
  MyPackage::aFunction() ;

I am reading the perl code of Blosxom,
I can not quite catch the meaning of this expressiong:
%month2num = (nil=>'00', Jan=>'01', Feb=>'02', Mar=>'03', Apr=>'04',
May=>'05', Jun=>'06', Jul=>'07', Aug=>'08', Sep=>'09', Oct=>'10', Nov=>'11',

I want to extract data from a text file I recieve from the internet to
an array or hash. So far I did not found a solution via google and co
- maybe of my bad english and wrong search term.
The file is put into a varaible :

I have this script that sort and erase duplicate. When I run the
script I receive this message and I am not able to fix it.
Use of uninitialized value in hash element at ./pgm1.pl line 21,
<DATA> line 10.

I would like to use the postfix-command
test   unix   -   n   n   -   1   pipe
      flags=R user=test argv=/usr/bin/test.pl -d -n ${user}
to send an e-mail to an file. Now i have to parse the mail with perl.

I'm using this IDE since months, and have to say this is a good IDE,
light, simple, easy to use, but not bug-free ;-)
I found a subtle bug in perl5db.pl module (that is shipped with the
IDE for Windows available from SurceForge);

According to perlpaq8, I should be able to "require sys/ioctl.ph" but
when I run my script I get:
Can't locate features.ph in @INC (did you run h2ph?)...
I sure hope I don't have to run h2ph because I'd rather simply know if

According to the documentation this program should print nothing since
m// uses the last successful pattern match from m//, split, etc. However
on my linux box it prints 1:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

I can't change the EUID of a perl process which performs a perl script.
I used the manual perlsec and wrote the script:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use English;

I want to check whether a cdrom node under /dev actually exists.

Imagine that I have the following statement in a Perl program.
my $word = '??';
If I save the Perl program as 'UTF8' the characters remain.
If I save it in ASCII, the line appears as my $word = '????‘?';

I need to go through few hundred text files and append newline for
files that don't end with newline. So I have the following code to
read the file:
local $/ = undef;

Is there a defacto standard for NNTP perl modules?  Some time ago I used
News::NNTPClient, and I've just installed News::NNTP.  Is there a
preferred NNTP module I should be using?
-Thanks

I was wondering if there is a work around to add a quantifier if I
need to replace a certain pattern with X multiples of certain
character or string like:
$str=~s/<pattern>/R{15}/g;  -------> how to replace the pattern with