Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / October 2007

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I was getting tired of chasing down parenthesis in nested map, split,
join, map,map,map type of operations and thinking about how ruby and
python express these in more of a chained/pipe syntax due to their
builtin list objects (and how they seem to get it just slightly wrong

I would like to publish a validator of Spanish fiscal identifiers  
(NIF, NIE, CIF) but don't see any existing namespace where it fits.
Do you have name suggestions?
-- fxn

Here's something I've been mulling for probably about eight years  
without doing anything about it.
Particularly in web applications - but in other areas too - people  
regularly make a complete mess of escaping / unescaping strings. At  

I was reading over Jifty last last night and about how it depends on
fifty or so CPAN modules.  And also noted the suggestion for
installation:
   perl -MCPAN -e 'install Jifty'

I asked this on the wonderful Perlmonks site and am repeating here incase
the one with the answer is here and not there....
We need to write a script that will connect to a softswitch (Ericsson),
run commands retrieving output to files and sometimes using some of that

I'm the author of the Text::Iconv module.  Quite often I'm getting
requests from Windows users about building Text::Iconv on Windows,
probably because a binary version is not available from ActiveState.
I'd like to help, but since I don't have access to a Windows system, I

I am trying to develop a script to run on a web server.  It uses the
modules
 GD   to do stuff with images
 CGI  to get the parameters from the URI

Did anyone mention import.pm in these threads?
 http://search.cpan.org/~mikeking/import-1_01/import.pod
--Eric

Here's something I've been mulling for probably about eight years  
without doing anything about it.
Particularly in web applications - but in other areas too - people  
regularly make a complete mess of escaping / unescaping strings. At  

I've been working on a module that provides encapsulation, inheritance
and strong typing.  I know there are several OO frameworks already in
CPAN, but I have not seen any that implements the OO principles that
strictly.   The module I'm proposing will provided private, protected

Following a suggestion by a coworker, I wrote the following module:
NAME
    relative - Load modules with relative names
DESCRIPTION

I have a problem compiling the Curses::Widgets module. I'm on Slackware
12.0 if that matters. The Curses module compiled OK and passed the testing
phase.
The 'perl Makefile.PL' step seems OK. The 'make test' seems OK too, but when

Greetings.  http://search.cpan.org/modlist/User_Interfaces/Term shows
modules like Term::TUI and Term::Shelly, but not my favourite module
Term::Clui ... What's the missing link ? What should I do to have
Term::Clui mentioned in modlist/User_Interfaces/Term ?