Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / June 2004

My VCL-ridden, MFC-eaten and .NET-bitten soul wants a better solution ;)
Is there any way to get some big pacakge of all the widely used Perl
modules? Not everything at all I guess but well, a lot of modules (with
prerequisites in too). Is there some place where I can get such a ...

Some time ago a developer installed the perl XML package onto our Unix
system.  When it was installed, it created the normal XML directory
(with modules) in the /usr/share/lib/perl5/XML
I have learned that I can take these *.pm files, move them into a

I have a quite fascinating problem with the result of the telnet->cmd(ls
-ali) command. (Net::Telnet)
The command itself runs allways perfectly, but the result is sometimes
not complete. It happens realy only somtimes and i have no clue why. I

I am doing calculations where I need ~50 decimal places of
precision..I have been writing code and Perl and noticed that even if
I convert my floating point numbers to integers, the maximum # decimal
places is 15 !!  And Adding in Math::BigInt or BigFloat slows

We're looking at releasing our new module HTML::DragDrop.  Like the newly
released HTML::Tooltip::Javascript, this module uses a Javascript library
written by Walter Zorn http://www.walterzorn.com/dragdrop/dragdrop_e.htm.
The library provides an elegant way to implement dragable ...

I'm trying to use Archive::Tar (version 0.072 from Activestate/CPAN),
on Windows XP, to unzip and untar a file.  I want to write the result
of the operation, a plain text file, back to the file system.
But just instantiating a new Archive::Tar->new(...) writes out pages

For the past several months we have been using LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE to bulk load tables within
Perl modules.
Recently, someone thought it would be a good idea to upgrade the Solaris machines - I'm thinking it
wasn't that good an idea :-(

Comments will be appreciated on the CPAN-worthiness of my module
DBIx::AutoConnect.  It connects to a database upon being loaded and
creates a scalar in the caller's namespace.
use DBIx::AutoConnect 'DBD:Pg:dbname=foo'; # $dbh now available

Couldn't find pdflib_pl.pm on CPAN
any pointers?

Hi folks,  the perldoc on this is somewhat cryptic and wondering if
anyone experienced using big float can help me understand how to big
floatify my program...I added the following code around my variables
but to be honest havent a clue as to how to use big float b/c my

Good morning
I would like to create a web site in several languages:
I need to put internationalized messages for each language in a
resource file (one file by language).

After reading the Net::Telnet documentation, examples, searching the
'Net, etc., I still do not completely understand the problem of
connecting to a "Microsoft Telnet Server".
I'm sure someone has already touched on this before.. If so, sorry about

I currently load my page with an html template. The old sidebar was an
html file and everything worked fine. I recently wrote a php script
for a new sidebar. I included this line in my template:
.

I don't know if this is appropiate newsgroup for this question, please
tell me if this is not.
I use CGI.pm's cookie to store the session information in user's
browser. I received some complaints from user that they are logging into

Hello list...
  At my company, we are looking for a module that would help out with
converting multiple layer nested hashes into HTML format. We want to
try and stay away from templates as much as possible so