Webmaster Forum / Perl / Getting Started / December 2003

I have a problem with the following block of code. It works fine when
there isn't a *.log file in the same directory as the script  but when
there is, it always returns that log as the newest file and ignores the
list of files it retrieves from the remote server.

For example: I would like for the user to enter the
name of a software package to use and then call a  
shell script to use that package name to upgrade
software.

I need help understanding why I'm getting this complaint,
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at test.pl line 2.
It says its unitialized, but isn't the my $status initializing the scalar?  
I'm so confused.

When I try the following, perl reads the * as a literal character, instead of my intent as a global value. Anyone see what I am missing?
perl -pi -e "s/<provider-url>file:*<\/provider-url>/REPLACED/g" testfile.txt
In the file testfile.txt, the line will be something like this: ...

I am going through a file and when I enter a certain routine, I am
entering a while loop with the <IN> construct.  Is there a way to back
the counter up or back up one line before I go into the while loop?
a

I found the subroutine below from a script that takes a string of text
and builds a regular expression out of it and incorporates that into a
rule for SpamAssassin.  It's worked quite well for my needs, but the
script has led to a few questions about the code and regex's.

Hi,
Im new (here|to perl) and would like to start of with that:
My script should replace attachmends in mails: however, i cant find any atts.
Script first:

I just stumbled upon this in some perl I'm working on:
for $arrayref (@datedbi) {
   #do stuff
}

I've been struggling for a few days with installing Time::Object (1.00).
There's an error message associated with the xs file.   My box is a standard
RH Linux 9 (single processor) with the built-in Perl 5.8.  (and various
modules installed via CPAN). Googling turned up 1-2 people ...

Okay, I'm at a loss and need help.  A friend of mine is working with a
Perl script.  It has a system call to df in it, he would like to
replace with something a little more portable.
The script is used in a 32 server environment that I know has at least

I'm using Apache 1.3.27, Perl 5.6.1 with DBI->DBD::Interbase on Linux
2.4 machine.
I have a CGI script which display a JPEG from an Interbase Blob.  Now,
what I would like to do is modify the JPEG to make it into a useful

Hi all, i'm trying to figure out how I can check for duplicates entries in
an array and remove the duplicate.
Example:
23,23,39,40,44,44

I have the following regular expressions that I'm performing on a block
of text and was wondering if anyone saw a way to consolidate the 9
regex's into a few?
$ko =~ s/\r/\\page/g; # change returns to \page

 I am looking for Art Gallery Perl script available,
can anyone recomend me one ?, thanks.
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