Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / June 2008

I have 822 Web pages to download (so 822 URLs). How do I use lwp-
download to capture more than one page? Also, I want to save to a
specific location as well as determine the file format. Can all this
be done lwp? If not, how can it be done in Perl, if at all.

Algorithm::SVM and Algorithm::SVM::DataSet currently provide an
interface to libSVM (http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/).
The makers of libSVM have written a guide on how best to use libSVM if
you're not an expert on SVMs (Chih-Wei Hsu, Chih-Chung Chang, and Chih-

I see that I have a errors when installing some Tk modules. All the errors
have to do with not being able to display the GUI during the "make test"
portion of the install.
http://ppm.activestate.com/beta/author/DUNNIGANJ.html

Can someone help me decode Chinese metadata in mp3 files?
Here are a couple of mp3 files, one with Chinese and one Ebglish
metadata:
http://www.biophile.org/songs/Chinese/Chinese3/Ye%20Lai%20Xiang.mp3

I assume there's a module that works like this?
    package MyFoo;
    use Data::Auto::Objectify::Thing qw( my_data_field );
    sub new {

Are there any perl modules that will allow you to convert MS-Word docs
to plain text?

I noticed that my module SVG::Calendar has failed the kwalitee test
has_no_patch_in_debian but does not tell me where to actually find that
patch can any one tell me where to look?
Also if the test knows that there is a patch (or patches) in Debian should

Armstrong: Hexten, London.
Lester: Petdance, Chicago.

I have been working on converting a script that I have been using for my
self for a while which I use as a templating engine in vim and for creating
whole new files (and soon creating whole directory trees from templates). It
uses template toolkit for the actual templates.

   This is imacat from Taiwan.  I wonder who should I report this
problem to.  The CPAN index seems to have a problem indexing
Sys-Syslog-0.26.tar.gz.  The Sys::Syslog in Sys-Syslog-0.26.tar.gz
should be of version 0.26, but not 0.25.

Hi all, I need to find out the length (in seconds) of a AVI video
file.
I search all the CPAN directory without success.
Does anyone know a way to get this information from an AVI file with a

I hope this is the right place to post.
I'm trying to install the DBD-Oracle module on a new solaris 10
system.  I've installed the latest version of Perl downloaded from
sunfreeware.com and I've successfully installed DBI-1.604, which

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org> wrote:
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Two days ago or so I posted a blog entry about the new CPANTS metrics.
http://szabgab.com/blog/2008/06/1212827982.html
I am glad that already there are some comments about them
even if both chromatic and Andy Lester are well, slightly against them

I want to attach files along with my perl.exe . is there any module
which can support.
I want to use it as self extractor. Not necessarily i have to compress
those files.