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Im writing a perl script now and this is part of the sricpt
chomp = ($pattern = ARGV[0]);
for each(@thisarray)
{

Dear Module Authors,
I'm thinking about writing an ISO 8601 module, and would like to know if
you guys would consider it useful.  I have the following in mind:
- It should parse and format ISO 8601

I'm new to perl and need a little help. I'm using ActiveState Perl under
windows. I've tried creating a module from a C++ source using swig and the
methods outlined in both the perl documentation and the swig documentation.
I have VC++ installed and making the dll files works ...

OS: Windows XP SP2
Perl version : v5.8.7 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
MySQL version : server: 5.0.21-community-nt
MySQL version : client: 5.0.11

Hi, I am not a Perl programmer but I need to know this so that I can
design a Perl script and get a programmer to code it:
Is there any Perl module that grabs a remote website and return a
thumbnail image?

Hi I'm trying call an external dll from inline using the below perl
code.
use warnings;
use Inline C => Config =>

I'm trying to install the Math::TrulyRandom module into ActivePerl
5.8.8.817 (Windows).  ppm tells me, "Error: no suitable installation
target found for package Math-TrulyRandom."  Target sez, like I said,
"ActivePerl 5.8.8.817".

I understand that installing xml parser module requires installing the
expat library first.
Is there anyway i can skip the expat library and yet make use of the
xml parser?

I recently submitted a patch to Devel::Timer to the author:
http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/omaha-pm/2006-May/000989.html
But his email address bounced. I Google'd the heck out of him, but can't seem find him anywhere.
http://search.cpan.org/~jmoore/

Authors,
I have a list of elements, qw[a b c d e] and I wanted to steal some code
from CPAN to divvy it up into two subsets of 2 and 3 members. And
enumerate all the possibilities. For instance:

203252    GB|AI461105    GB|AI900630    GB|AI900894    GB|AI901187
203253    GB|AI736220    GB|AW780891    GB|BE806781    GB|BG157087
203254    GB|AI440899    GB|AW185396    GB|AW185458    GB|AW152990
203255    GB|AI416923    GB|AI437726    GB|AI437966    GB|AI438062

I have a RHEL 3 system with Apache 2 and perl 5.8 with PostgresSQL
8.1.3 newly build.  I am trying to install Apache2::NetLDAP and it
fails due to needing mod_perl2.
But mod_perl2 fails to install due to mod_perl/1.99_09 existing.  I

I'm trying to install the Net::SSH::Perl module to run under ActivePerl
on Win2K. When I try and write the Makefile I get:
Warning: prerequisite Convert::PEM 0.05 not found.
Warning: prerequisite Crypt::DES 0 not found.

Apologies if this is posted to the wrong place. Also posted to the
module list.
I have an almost-publishable module to turn POD into PDF. Pod::Pdf is
rather old, doesn't handle multiple files nicely[1], and is very hard

Does anyone here use the Net::Google module? It seems to run very slowly,
and I keep getting "502 Bad gateway" errors. In the end I just downloaded
the search page using libwww and parsed it myself, which is almost instant.