Webmaster Forum / Perl / Getting Started / July 2004

I have as the output of an unzip command called from a script the following:
unzip test.zip
Archive:  test.zip
inflating: arch1.txt

Quick question:
What's the best way to find out if a module is standard in the Perl
Core and if it is, when it was added?
Thanks.

I need to get a list of all the files that end with '.html' in a directory and
all of its subdirectories. I then want to search through each file and remove
the ones from the list that contain '<%perl>' or '<%init>'. How can I do this?
Thanks for any help.

Is there a way to print to both the STDOUT and a physical file. other than
./script.pl >>outfile.txt  ?  Here is what I have now, which works great,
but I would like to see the links (about 2,000) scroll.
---- this works great, but the links don't scroll

I am having trouble splitting words from titles from a list of research
papers. I thought I could split the title into words like so:
 #!/usr/local/bin/perl
 use locale;

I just started using perl and want to rewrite a simple bash script i've been
using in the past to perl.
I want to cat file|grep "foo bar"|wc -l and tried it the following way which
worked for foobar as one word and not as two words.

I am very new to Perl.  I need two perl scripts, one would run on a
client, the
other would run on a server.
The perl script on the client machine runs an application.  The

           I am in process of generating some statistics for different
unix boxes. I would like to generate excel workbook with a single
worksheet for each box. I had written a test script to create the excel
sheet. I was able to create the excel sheet but I encountered some

I have a file I am trying to read and write to, it's obviously opening
it ie.. No errors but not writing to it.
Since no errors are being produced I can't figure out why?
In short I am reading the file to see if I previously sent an email

I'm trying to add my own module "DEGS::ldegs" to a Perl program.
However, this module will part of a distribution called "RGSE",
which could be installed on a different path on different peoples PCs.
However, it will always be in the directory "$ENV{RGSE}/lib".

I want to add some paths to the @INC array to resolve certain package
names at runtime.
One of the methods is: "push(@INC,$path) or unshift($path,@INC)" and then
say "require package_name;".

This may be a dumb question, but why will this loop not end when nothing is
entered in STDIN?
    print "Enter Things:\n";
    while (<STDIN>) {

I have a problem with a Regular expression.
I have to delete from a text all HTML tags but not the DIV one (keeping all the parameters in the
tag).
I've done this:

I have a list of files I want to case-insensitive sort by extension, files
with no extension appearing first.  It should handle both Windows and Unix
directory separators.  I think I have working code, but I am interested in the
various syntax for this one - there MUST be a better ...

Can someone please tell me how do we keep track of a
variable. ie Whenever a particular variable is
accessed (printed, incremented .... etc.), a counter
should increase, so that we can know how many times it