Webmaster Forum / Perl / Getting Started / January 2004

What I meant about the command prompt was "Are all the command prompts the
same? Also, could running the Activeperl software damage my system at all
since it is using a command prompt?
Thanks,

is there a smart command line ( Unix ) utility to
dump out a particular column to the STDOUT/file from a
file containing multi column data ?
thanks,

I couldn't understand the functionality of map in PERL. Is there anybody to
help me?
Thanks,
Mallik.

I'm interested in learning to program perl, and I just got ActivePerl for Windows. I am running XP and  have a few questions. First off, how do I run the interpreter under Windows, preferably without the XP command prompt? Also, when I opened perl, it looked like the command ...

Dear Perl Gurus,
What is the difference between Use and Require.
Thanks,
Malliks

Is it possible to make a perl script/program a binary file? I have a few
scripts some one wants but I don't want them to have the source.  I
tried perlcc but I want it to remain perl not c, if that's possible or
realistic.

I hope this is not too off-topic, since I hesitate to subscribe to yet another list...
I wrote a very simple CGI script to read data from an HTML form like this:
my $q = new CGI;
my $name = $q->param('name');

Is there a visual perl editor out there, freeware or shareware for any
Linux flavor?
Derek B. Smith
OhioHealth IT

Hi Friends,
I am presently working on an Automation project where I am using Active
state perl as the programming language on windows platform. For the
above mentioned project I am using Perl/Tk for the GUI. I created a Text

From a bash shell on Red Hat AS 3, can I automatically create the
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CPAN/Config.pm file?
I am trying to automate the installation of some PERL modules but I
would like to automate the initial configuration step as well.

Hey there, what is a nice way of doing what this looks like it should
do:
@a=([1,2,3],[5,5,5],[9,8,7]);
@b=([5,5,5],[1,2,3]);

I' trying to get the IfType from my router with a script that uses the
SNMP.pm module.
It works fine, but he refuse to translate the ATM and POS interfaces.
How can I see what MIB SNMP.pm uses.

I have a function that takes a fairly complex set of arguments, and am
wondering if there is a better way of doing this than the way I have
done. A call to the function, as I have it, looks like:
$network->potentiateWeights('network',1,(0,0,0,

Howdy:
I want to move my perl script from Linux to Windows NT.
The Linux script connects to Oracle via the DBI modules I
have installed.  I want to do the same on NT, but I'm not

Does perl have a goto command. For example if you tell scrip to do
something and it returns a 1 then it should go to a block of code that
does something else.
Thanks,