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What would the best approach to account for ALL strings matched?
(In other words I want to display as complete a list as possible to
determine all strings that would be matched...)

I have a script written below (by John Krahn and WC-Sx-Jones from this mailing list) which changes the file format from:
#cat PSCS-ORIG
abinabdu adanie2  agibson  agoh1    aiabouse
akko     alau     alee1    alee2    amitb    

To tell the truth I am not really interested in becoming a Perl programmer.
I only have one question: I have a Perl script and I would like to run it on Windows xp. Could anyone tell me which Perl I should install and, as simply as possible, what I should do exactly to run the ...

Hi List.
Is there a way to determine the number of lines in a file without actually
iterating through the file and incrementing a file?
I found the following on perlmonks.org, it works great but this is command

Is there a CPAN module to pull netstat summary information from a system?
Rather than run 'netstat -s', I was hoping to find some way within perl.
What I basically want to do is generate a couple of reports from the summary output.  ICMP and TCP information.  If someone can point ...

I would like to change output format of a file from:
abinabdu adanie2  agibson  agoh1    aiabouse
akko     alau     alee1    alee2    amitb    
amohdali amshams  anmohand

I have a problem with e-mail address's and an array. I have some code that
will be a documentation spider to go through all our technical
documentation, extract e-mail address's and attempt to sort and exclude
certain e-mails/patterns. All documentation is in plain text, so no ...

What for you EyeDrop your Email?
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--> > Geez, and I still can't tell whether I'm a "Perl person".  I use

Hi, im using DBI to connect to a SQL database in order to serve dynamic
content.  Some people have reported to me that some fields are blank on
my dynamic pages.  It is as if the variable that is supposed to hold the
data is being returned with no information it it.  I have only ...

Is there a command to drop an element from an array, or what is the best
way to do this.
Any help appreciated.

let say that the file contains these items (every item is seperated
with a tab)
one  title   state   name   code1   number
two  title2   state2   name2   code2   number2

Acme::Eyedrops
(with apologies to Andrew J. Savige)
However, I find it strange that
perl -MCPAN -e shell

Greetings all,
Instead of joining my scalars with ',' I'd like each to appear on a newline. Replacing ',' with '\n' doesn't work. Suggestions? Thanks!
my $cfor_edu = join (',',$bs_alma,$bs,$ms_alma,$ms);
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    I'm slowly creating my Perl Masterpiece (tm)
I'll let ya all giggle over it when I'm done :-)
At any rate - It's done what I believe you call "top-down".
I declare the subs, then have the code for the main program,

Hi list,
I just ran across some unexpected results in passing arguments to
user-defined subroutines.  Could someone who has been around Perl a while
longer check this and make sure I'm seeing this right?