Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / July 2004

I'm still trying to figure out modules. I need to get 10,000 random numbers
between 1 and 5936277172. I've been using the rand function but it seems
that the significant digits aren't large enough to account for these large
numbers so if I ask for say 1000 random numbers in this ...

I've made some major updates to what was once my cobbled-together cgi script.
http://ericwilhelm.homeip.net/svn/CGI-perldoc/trunk/data/scripts/perldoc
This allows you to access the documentation for all installed modules and
scripts via your browser (provided that you have a ...

I recently installed Perl 5.8.4 on Mac OS X 10.3.  It successfully
installed under /usr/local/bin, and I have had no problem running Perl
scripts or manually installing modules from CPAN.
However, so far I have not succeeded in installing a single module via

I would like to upload a module I've written to CPAN. I've got a PAUSE
account, but I need to work out a module name.
It's an interface to the Wily text editor's message interface, since
I suspect not many people have heard of wily if you care about it

I've written a perl module which needs some information from the user
to pass 'make test', I'm just wondering if there's a relatively
standard way of prompting the user for info that would cooperate
neatly with the Test::Foo series of modules.

perldoc Carp says:
 carp    - warn of errors (from perspective of caller)
 cluck   - warn of errors with stack backtrace
           (not exported by default)

I am creating a CD to install my favorite Perl module on to a machine
that is not networked. Unfortunately, my favorite modules depends on
many other CPAN modules that are not on this PC. I am wondering if
there is a way to bundle up all the modules that a module depends on

Does Perl have a module for WCTP?
In other words, does Perl have methods to POST XML text to a HTTP server?
Thanks
afri

I keep getting this one when trying to install mason.  Does anyone know what
it means and how to resolve?
t/12-taint............Insecure directory in $ENV{PATH} while running with -T
switch at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/Cwd.pm line 92.

I'm trying to generate an HTML mail with text alternatives using the
mail:sender module.
As everybody can see below the message was created and received but
neither the HTML part nor the textpart were inserted by mail:sender.

I have written a script which logs onto the server and issues a command - So
far so good. If the command returns a lot of data and the server response is
to issue  a [more] response the module hangs and times out waiting I presume
for the prompt.

I've made a new module, I'm thinking to call it Time::Seconds::GroupedBy. It
is designed to convert an amount of seconds in other time units. I'm calling
time units SECONDS, MINUTES, HOURS, DAYS, MONTHS, and YEARS . The user
defines which will be the time unit to group the amount of ...

I am working on a module that can query isbnreference.org for information
about a particular book.
isbnreference.org is an open-source ISBN lookup service.
As far as I know, there is no Perl module which uses isbnreference.org,

I'm using Perl 5.6.1 on Debian Linux 3.0
I noticed the module File::Basename doesn't behave like the shell
commands basename/dirname in a special case that's not described in the
module's documentation.

I am using Perl and OLE.pm to read and modify an Excel spreadsheet.
I can read the hyperlinked value of a cell using the following code:
    my $cellObject = $worksheet->Range("A2");
    my $hyperlink = $cellObject->Hyperlinks(1)->Address;