Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / November 2005

Tonight I had occasion to check www.cpan.org's various pages.
Specifically:  http://www.cpan.org/modules/01modules.index.html
I notice that the timestamp on this page says:
    Fri Nov 18 22:56:49 2005 GMT

I just start to use Class::DBI::Loader (and Class::DBI)
I'm test their using an example from manual:
use Class::DBI::Loader;
01 my $loader = Class::DBI::Loader->new(

Aplogies up front since I'm an utter novice when it comes to sharing
Perl modules on a large scale.  My excuse is that I'm a network guy,
not a developer, so I know not what I'm doing most of the time.  :)
The module I have is an extension of the Net::Telnet::Cisco module that

I am working on a test framework which uses "Net::Telnet" module to
connect to remote machines. This framework started failing after I
upgraded to perl 5.8.5 on Linux "2.6.9-5.EL".
After a little investigation, I found that the problem is with the

NAME
      Code::Dumper - Debugging module to have your cake and eat it too
SYNOPSIS
        use Code::Dumper;

I was under impression that there was a Perl module which allowed
"transparent" (via overloading) access to vectors represented as C
arrays, e.g., to
 $array = pack('L*',@vec);

Pod2::Perldoc is an improved distribution of Perldoc, the program for reading
Pod documentation.
It's available at http://modperl.it/POD2-IT/Pod2-Perldoc-3.14.tar.gz
Pod2::Perldoc is the same of core Pod::Perldoc tool plus the advantage of some

Pod2::Perldoc is an improved distribution of Perldoc, the program for reading
Pod documentation.
It's available at http://modperl.it/POD2-IT/Pod2-Perldoc-3.14.tar.gz
Pod2::Perldoc is the same of core Pod::Perldoc tool plus the advantage of some

I have some files ranging from 6 meg to 15 meg that I need to proces
to input into a database. I'm inheriting some old code usin
XML::Simple and this process is taking forever (an hour or more).
have eliminated the database as the time hog in this equation

People,
I have a simple module written and as far as I can tell, there's nothing
on CPAN that does this. (Algorithm::Permute might, but it segfaults on
my machine).

I am constantly getting the no clickable input error msg with whatever input
I use:
No clickable input with name .... at C:/Perl/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 1345
Is this a known bug?

I've got a problem where I need to compare structures that have
floating point numbers stashed in them.  I want to test the
structures for identity (ala is_deeply from Test::More), but
ignore tiny differences in the floating point numbers.  

 I wasn't sure if this should go in this usenet or in something like
Perl.DBI.etc, so I apologize if this is in the wrong place.
 Pretty simple question. I would like to create a Perl shell script
that actively monitors a table in a database. Let's exemplify this

I have tried umpteen ways of setting the XValues in an Excel
Spreadsheet from Perl 5.8.7 using Win32::OLE, and I cannot get anything
to work.  I'm beginning to wonder if there is a bug either in Perl/OLE
or in Excel.

How do I link to a POD document form within my POD in such a way that
search.cpan.org will make the correct link?  I tried doing this:
   L<My::Foo>
to link to My/Foo.pod in my module, but that doesn't work.  OTOH, that