Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / August 2004

Is there an alternative to the DBI quote function?
I don't have any database access at runtime, so I'm unable to create a
new DBI object.
However, I'm creating INSERT statements that should (eventually) be

I had posted this in comp.lang.perl.misc, but realized it probably
should be posted here!
I have a LDAP query like:
       my $basedn = "ou=people,o=myhost.com";

There is a plan to switch from Unix to Windows 2000.  Trying
to get familiarized with Win32 I installed ActivePerl and
some other Win32 extensions on my home PC.   After running
some scripts, I found that Win32::File is not included in

I have a *very* newbie question re Mail::Audit.  If somebody would even be
kind enough to point me in the right direction, I would be obliged.
I'm setting up a filter in my .forward file, which has the single line
reading:

I'm running RH 8, apache 1.3.23, mod_perl 1.29.  They wanted me to
install a CMS (Plone) that uses Zope, which requires that I put
mod_proxy into the apache setup.  So I redid the apache ./configure
(forgetting about mod_perl for the moment).

I've got several modules under the CAD::* namespace, which I chose
because there was an existing module CAD::ProEngineer.
Why are they all filed under "commercial software interfaces"?
 http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-category/24_Commercial_Software_Interfaces/CAD/

First, thanks in advance to anyone who might be able to offer some
assistance.
Here is my situation:
Objective - to open an Excel workbook (aka spreadsheet), delete the

According to File::Copy(3), the syscopy function preserves file attributes.
However:
$ ls -l foo
-rw-------    1 pacman   root            6 Aug 25 01:38 foo

Are there any Perl modules for creating PDFs that are purely
Perl and don't depend on any 3rd party libs?
Thanks.

Heyas,
I'm currently working on a module to parse raw caller id information as
reported by my (relatively generic) USR data modem when running in
AT#CID=2 mode (raw caller id mode). The modem spits out things like

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post for syntax questions,
but please help or at least let me know where I should post for
this...
There's an example psftp script in the Net::SFTP module directory

All,
   BSDi 4.2, perl 5.005_03.
    Searching on the web for 'PERL5LIB' 'make test' yielded somewhat
unrelevant result.

I'm trying to compile the above Perl module from cpan.
The newest version in cpan appears to be rather old, so I'm suspecting
that there are some things that have to change to get it to work.  
After I do the perl Makefile.PL, I see errors such as this:

Can anybody please help me in understanding Devel::Cover module in
Perl? Your help is greatly appreciated. I am trying to use the module
Devel::Cover and I can't understand the coverage report.
This is my environment

Is this a good place to ask for help for Email::Filter? If not, where?
I tried http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=383056 but noone really knows as
of yet. Here's my query:
I'm unable to get the simplest example to work with Email::Filter.