Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / December 2003

I am a biologist and i would like to draw a phylogenetic tree (similar to a
directory tree) as a png graphics file, where any node/vertex can be
specified as the root, and the edge lengths can be of various lengths.
Can anyone help me/point me in the direction of such a module?

I need to create a Perl script that will delete any Performance logs
that are 30 days or older.  My thinking was that I would the the
Date::Calc module and use the delta days to find the difference in the
current date with the last log.  I was going to run a for loop to go

Hi. I have develop a perl script pings some servers and return me resulta.
Later, I ping that servers with linux ping command. The times aren't equal:
My script                       Linux's ping
1 ms                            0,02ms

I'm trying to use MIME::Parser and I get an error, and I can't figure out
how to fix it. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. Below
I included part of my code to help out.
Thanks

I am wanting to install the GD library on windows XP and then install GD
(the perl interface to the Gd library) and having problems finding the
correct GD library files to download. Can anyone help!??
Thanks

Does anyone know how to retreive a page generated as form request?
I need to post some data like in the row:
  my $req=HTTP::Request->new(POST=>$url);
but there are also some parameters that I must put into POST, but I don't

I have experience with PHP, but I am totally newbie on Perl.
I need to use Berkeley DB to store/retrieve some records. The samples
I found work very fine for single scalars, but I do need do store and
retrieve arrays. What is the straightforward way to do this? Do I need

Hello world,
I've written a perl module to handle parsing and creation of filenames
containing music metadata. For instance, with the default
configuration, given a filename like:

I have a perl code which uses mail::sender module. This works fine
from my work station. But when I try to run it from the server
(Windows 2000 server) It does not seem to run. Help needed.
Thanks

I have a cgi script that polls a SQL database and prints out reports.
some of the reports have more columns then others.
I assume (yes I know about assuming) that the Distributive nature of
CGI.pm's Tr(0 & td() functions are what I need to write a short

I'm looking for a good module to create HTML navigation bars. Some of the
requirements are:
1. Support for nested navigation bars (with <li>'s and <ul>'s).
2. Support for CSS classes, title="" attributes, etc.

I have a simple TCP/IP Socket client that worked fine without a memory
leak
in 5.6.0.  But under 5.8.0 it leaks memory horribly.
The program, simplified and with a while(1) to make it chew memory to

I need a variant of
  mp3info tool (as in MP3Info 0.8.2 Copyright (C) 2000 Cedric Tefft)
or of
  mp3id3 tool (of http://www.egroups.com/list/mp3tools)

Greets to all Again;
ok, i'm moving along in my quest to get this script working.
I'm getting a strange error from my script and I only half know what
it means.

Can anyone suggest modules to use/start with, or WEB sites I should look at
for advise/suggestions?
I am trying to
a) take a list of URLs as input (a file 1 URL per line, or an Excel column