Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / September 2006

What is the default timeout for an IO::Socket?
I've tried printing out $socket->timeout(); to check, but unless I
explicitly specify a timeout in the Socket constructor,
$socket->timeout() doesn't return anything.   There's nothing in the

hi, does someone have sample examples of working with HTML::BarGraph
with mysql database. would greatly appreciate someone who has some good
examples.
cheers..

Does anybody have an idea how I could get in touch with David Shultz
(DSHULTZ)?  Over the last 12 months, I've tried several times to e-mail
him regarding the Net-FreeDB module, each time getting either no reply
or (recently) a bounce from a verizon.net forward address.

Win2k3/IIS6 all patched and up to date.  I've got Perlex3 configured to run.
The sample files run fine, but perl files with CGI extensions don't.  I've
created the script map for cgi extensions, but even if I change one of the
sample files from benchmarks.htm to benchmarks.cgi it ...

there is an openoffice perl module by Jean-Marie Gourne, but I have
never managed to figure out how to get this module to properly extract
spreadsheet data into simple csv files.  (I know it needs a
decompression of repeated elements, but I could not pass it the right

First off, I know very little about perl so I may be missing something
obvious. I'm trying to install a perl program but when I run it I get
the error message above, even after I downloaded and installed a module
that seemed most relevant

Some folks are happy with my Class::Trait module, but not entirely happy with the the fact that "private" trait methods currently must be declared as lexical methods:
 my $meth = sub { ... };
 sub foo { shift->$meth }
Praveen Ray has sent me a patch which lets authors do this:

One day when I was tired from being (almost) unable to work with Unicode
file names on Win32, I wrote a module with wrappers around Win32 API
function that uses Win32::API to actually import them from .dlls. I did not
use Win32API::File because it doesn't provide convient way to ...

Hello, all.
How can I save work results of AppConfig module? I haven't  found  any
method doing that.
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What might cause a scenario where CPAN thinks you have a module but
require thinks you don't?
Thanks!
root@strombrg-desktop:~/src/jpilot/0.99.9# perl

I have an array where @array[0] contains all the usernames and
@array[1] contains the corresponding passwds. I am trying to use the
expect module to send the passwd when prompted for passwd. I have the
following so far, but i'm not sure if i am approaching this the right

i need to know wheter or not a dhcp server is in the net of a certain
interface.
the following script works if there IS a dhcp but if there is NO dhcp
the script hangs ( as i found out in the [ loop $pcap, 1, sub { ]

Today, after a long session of hacking on XML-Grammar-ProductsSyndication
(more about that later), I experimented a bit with integrating Test::Run into
a Module::Build build system. It turns out to be very easy, with just having
to add ACTION_runtest and ACTION_distruntest with ...

Function AutoFilter([Field], [Criteria1], [Operator As
XlAutoFilterOperator = xlAnd], [Criteria2], [VisibleDropDown])
Is there a way to filter out only columns that have values? (NonBlanks)
from Filter?

I am using ActiveState Perl under Windows. The default maximum number of
sockets that I can open is limited to 64 by default. I found the parameter
PERL_FD_SETSIZE in c:\perl\lib\core\sys\socket.h. I changed that number but
it did not take effect. Is there something else I need ...