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  I often create perl one-liners with the "-we" switch.  I also quite
often pop into the perl debugger/interpreter (with "perl -wde 1") to
either test code or to run short pieces of code.
  Now that I'm using Perl 5.10, I will often replace the "-we" switch

I'm trying to write some robust remote delivery code.
I'm using Net::FTP as a ftp client.
Can anyone suggest a way to persuade the FTP server
to slow down/stop to that I get a timeout?

In Rakudo right now, this lives:  "{$foo;$^foo}(1)"
However, the spec test expects it to die during compilation (see the
end of S06-signature/positional-placeholders.t).  It says, "A
non-twigil variable should not precede a corresponding twigil

Hi everyone, the following code works from my linux shell as root or
the 'nobody' accounts:
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#!/usr/bin/perl

I have some code which I need to implement, from a third party, but
seem to be getting stuck with the following error:
"uri_escape_utf8" is not exported by the URI::Escape module
All the modules are installed, and the line which fails is as follows:

This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq7.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 came to this
12:51 <@moritz_> rakudo: my $x = 3; say $x, ' ', ++$x;
12:51 < p6eval> rakudo 7b81c0: OUTPUT«4 4␤»
12:51 <@moritz_> rakudo: my $x = 3; say $x, ' ', $x++;

I did two functions to correct new line at end of text file. One works
the other does not.
A text file generally ends by one new line, but sometimes does not, for
whatever reason. This leaded perl to have both \z and \Z.

Dear Perl Fellows,
I'm trying to Find and Replace a pattern with in-place edit.
I have opened the file using the Tie::File module as advised in
perlfaq5.

I have perl 5.10.0. Whenever I would invoke cpan to install modules,
it would ask me "Is it OK to try to connect to the Internet?".
I want to disable that question and always assume that the answer is
"yes".

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

I'm in the mood to question my sanity, so I'm seeking feedback for some
test mangling:
In t/spec/S03-operators/assign.t there are some tests that cause me a
headache. I'm trying to re-write them to not use the now-gone want()

Hi, this subject has probably been hashed over.
Maybe someone can steer me in the right direction.
If I could actually get un-alterred data from the first
4 bytes of data from a file I could check this myself

I'm iworking on a patch for Perl 5 that implements the Perl 6 closure
traits (ENTER/LEAVE/...) as special blocks. There are several details
that aren't clear to me from either S04 or the spec tests; I apologize
if these have been discussed before, as I haven't been following p6l.