Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / March 2007

I've been pondering the use of lock_keys() in object constructors, to
make the objects a bit more strict; giving the same sort of advantages
on hash keys for an object as "use strict" does for variables.
I can so far think up two reasons why one might not want to do this:

I had a script that was able to parse the decoded_content for the
forms in a html page.  However, a recent update to the page broke the
script (    @forms = HTML::Form->parse($response->decoded_content,
$response->base);) was unable to find the forms in the web page.

I probably should have known this, but didn't.  In Tie::File, where you
tie an array to a long file, and you want to read backwards from the end
of it ( to look for the most recent lines, for example, in a log file),
it is much faster to address the lines with $index as a ...

Olivier Poitrey which is the maintener of Net::Server::Mail does not
respond to any of my request to any of the address I've found:
* olivier@pas-tres.net (address in use in French Perl developer list)
* rs-pause@rhapsodyk.net (registered in PAUSE)

Where can I get following modules for active perl 588820?
win32::ole
win32::ole::variant
win32::netadmin

I am looking for automating a windows operation which normally a user
does.That is a double click an icon,It may ask for a user name.Enter
the user name  which is stored already in another file( ther shud be
no user interference in that too).Then a another click to complete the

I've got a question about naming a module I'm about to finish up
and put up on CPAN.  At present, it's essentially it's a set of
routines that run SQL scripts that initialize a database schema
for a particular project.   It also includes features to drop a

   I cannot reach CPAN list master listmast@lists.perl.org, due to the
down of x3.develooper.com.  Is this normal?  Or has the list master's
contact address changed?  How to inform them that their mail server is
down?

List,
I've recently taken over File::Path, to bring some modern goodness to
this venerable module (and therefore allow such goodness to be
backported to older perls). As it stands in the core, it consists of the

Long time CPAN user, first time submitter. So, first things first.
I've got some tools to submit that rely on some lower level modules,
and I'll need to submit the meta-tools first. Things like an OO
interfaces to Getopt::Long, Date::Format and Date::Parse; a module to

How to write this code     if ( FIRST LINE IN BODY TRUE FOR EXAMPLE
HELLO)
         {
          print $_, "\n"; } please help me to wrile this code

I'm new to working with the perl installation process. I'm trying to
install XML::Checker for perl on cygwin. I ran the command: cpan -i
XML::Checker.
For each dependency there seems be a problem when writing the

I'm working on making an object oriented module in Perl for the first
time and have run into an error that I'm having trouble with:
"Can't call method "workbook" without a package or object
reference..."

We are about to distribute an application written in Perl using 100+
CPAN modules
to our clients. The company I am working with has a very strong policy of making
sure we are working within the licensing terms of the various 3rd

I have created a CGI program which dynamically creates an HTML FORM.
This form upon submit, goes out and does some work that can take up to
10 minutes to complete.  Once done, the called CGI provides the user
with logged results.