Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / November 2003

Hey guys, I need to do some parsing on a file that includes Japanese
Shift JIS and Chinese GB1312 and was wondering if someone could help
me with some errors im getting.  Basically, I want to open the file,
split the line by tabs, and then place the substrings in different

When I try to install Time::HiRes-1.52 using Perl 5.8.0 under Linux I get
this warning with (perl Makefile.pl):
NOTE: if you get an error like this (the line number may vary):
Makefile:91: *** missing separator

I'm using 'XML::Parser' to parse a XML file with Spanish
characters. I would like to store data into a mySQL DataBase.
XML::Parser uses UTF-8 charset and mySQL doesn't support it,
so I'm experiencing some problems, because if I browse my

How to find out if your sql operation was successful or failed when
using Perl Module DBI? I can't figure it out from "perldoc DBI". From
"perldoc DBI":
$rc     General Return Code (boolean: true=ok, false=error)

Beofore you flame me for not using MySQL, realize that I wrote against
MySQL, but IT is forcing me to use Access.  This sucks!  Can someone
please help me with instructions on the access side?
As I understand it, my code is fine because I wrote against DBI, but I

Just stated using this great module. I can't seem to get values to
display on a pie chart.
Here's a piece of the relavent code:
 my $mygraph = GD::Graph::pie->new(350, 350);

Hello list-members,
I just subscribe to this mailing-list. A Perl monk (adrianh) suggested
me to ask my question to this list. So do I.
The problem is following one:

I've been using perl for a while, but am relatively new to the OO aspects
of it.  I can't quite figure out how to override virtual member variables
in the parent class by assigning to them in the child class, and then use
their values in the parent class.  That was a bit of a ...

I use IPC::ShareLite-segments but havnt figured out an elegant way to
destroy the created segments. The recommended way (manpage) always fails
with "invalid argument", which reminds to a false shmctl-call.
So I do a syscall on ipcs to get the id of the segment and call shmctl on

I am a non-root user. I installed DBI 1.38 in  dir
'/var/www/cgi-bin/perl/' (where i have write permission).
and there is an older version (1.21) in system dir.
I used the script....

Just run into this little problem with the MySQL DBD driver.
If I want to quote a table name, according to DBI's docos, to quote a
table name/database name/column name I should use the quote_identifier
function (rather than quote, which is for values). Unfortunately when I

Hi - I am a Perl newbie I'm afraid!
I wonder if any of you kind people could help me please!  I wish to
create a very simple Christmas gift management website for my family.
Put simply, I want to create an HTML page that contains a wish list -

Hi, I need to prepare an AppConfig file for which I can't seem to find
the proper syntax. Let's assume the objects to be described are
printers, and I must encode some attributes for each of them. I would
be happy with this config file:

[Apolgies as have already posted this in perl.misc but thought perhaps
should have posted here...]
The following code will put the addresses from the multiple versions
of the  nominal_3.htm files in a series of sub directories of

I somehow missed it in the last dozen times I've searched for a similar
module, but it looks like Sherzod Ruzmetov's Parse::Syntax is designed to
do just what I've done. Luckily, it's listed as umimplemented, so my
efforts aren't as wasted as they could have been. I've been ...