Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / January 2005

   I have a word document which has some 10+ pages. I need to search this
document for a particular key words.
   I need information like section name, page number of all occurrences of
these key words using perl. It would be nice if any one could give me a

I want to buy a complete shopping cart program.
It will probably be written in perl.
The server I use is Unix.
I have a couple thousand items to list, almost all of which are used.

For a couple of weeks I trying to install some perl modules in a new
sparc/solaris 9 server between them are DBD::mysql . The fault is well
know because I found a lot of messages in the different forums  mysql
website and goolge comp.perl.lang and another less know forums belong

We have an app that is [happily] using Inline C -- but at the moment
it is linking against a .a library [from a commercial package we
bought].  The folks that make the package imply that they may not keep
building the .a and only provide a .SO version of their library.

Using XML::Simple, what's the best way to check for
the existence of a particular XML tag?
For example, lets say I have 2 files, "success.xml" and
"failure.xml" which differ only in their innermost tags

I have a perl cgi script it can generate a xml file then I'd like to
display this xml file on the web. Code looks like below.
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use XML::Writer;

first of all, I must be a fool, thinking I can write monitoring software
using RRDs, Mysql and GD while being a very very newbie in perl..
My problem is, I derive data out of RRD, with theses datapoints I try to
graph using GD.

To anyone interested,
I've been trying to find an effective way for dealing with
Net::SSH::W32Perl command timeouts. The 'timeout' issue can be defined
thus: "How can I make sure my perl script does not hang after sending a

I'm a newbie in this forum (and Perl), and would be grateful with any help
and comments you can provide with this problem that's been driving me
mad!!....
I'm trying to use the Net::Telnet module to connect to a Perl server and

I have a question. how to generate two files, one in UTF-8, the other
in ASCII with the same column length. So that when you input the data
encoded in utf-8, into a table the clolumn length does not change.
Any help is appreciated..

I have written a code using a Config::IniFiles object tied to a hash and it
was working well on my dev machine with revision 2.27 of the module.
When deploying my code on a machine with revision 2.38 - the multiline value
are not returned correctly according to the way I ...

I've written some code before which uses the CSV.pm module (has this
never appeared on CPAN?)  But had to step-through the number of
quotes and read-in some extra lines to get a full record (where
linefeeds are embedded in fields.)

It's a total b*tch to install Net::SFTP module.
I've tried to install it via CPAN and it fails.
Has anyone done it successfully? If so, could plz tell me
how? I'd appreciate it alot....thanx...

I developped a complex web application based on personnal perl
modules. The fact is I wrote more than 50 modules. Naturally, I use
the "use fonction" in order to load these modules.
It seems my personnal modules are loaded quite slowly (when I

in the text below, please observe that GD != gd.
the following CPAN-modules are installed:
GD 2.16 (also tried 2.05).
gd 2.0.33