Webmaster Forum / Perl / Getting Started / September 2004

Hi Perlers,
I'm trying to implement one of the recipes I found in the Perl
Cookbook.  It is "8.16. Reading Configuration Files" recipe.  Here are
some snippets from that text:

ok ill send again from the correct address...

'reason'.
...

I have a question, how do I open a file in a specific line number, for
example I want to open a text file exactly on line number 5,
Thanks in advanced

I'm trying to extract all four-digit numbers from a string in one fell
swoop, but I can't seem to come up with the proper regexp.  This is my
first time using /g in a match so maybe there's a trick I'm missing.
For example, the string

I was just updating some old script and found a big switch full of
one-liners.  In one of the cases there is no ";".  Why doesn't the
interpreter flag that as a syntax error?

Hi perlers,
anyone knows how to connect to a website and download it through socks
(ver 4,5) ? I tried IO::Socket::Socks and Net::SOCKS, but I can't get
them to work.

Hai!
My requirement is to open file with 666 permissions.[If fine doesn't
exists it should get created ].Iam doing as below,is this ok.
==========================sysopen(LOG,"$main::TRACELOGFILE",O_CREATE,0666) or die "Can't open

Hi there, I am puzzled by the 'build_seq' subroutine in following code.
#!/usr/sbin/perl -w
use strict;
use vars qw($USAGE);

How can i rename any file using PERL?...Where should i start?..Where i can find any tutorial?
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Struggling to understand what is happening here...
Example of text is
Description Supports the management of the process to create and
complete an order Actors SYSTEM Pre-Conditions A Service Instance may

I've been trying to find a perl module that can create microsoft word
documents.... and failed. Does anyone know of one?
Cheers,
Paul

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Is there a module to get a list of processes on a UNIX/Linux machine, or
would I just do a `ps` and save it to an array?

I've been developing a module for our accounting system and am trying
to create a hash with the names equal to the fieldnames of the
database table.
It seems as though 'ListFields' is not functioning, and am wondering

I've been given the job of writing a CGI script to receive the data from a form and append it to a text file. Later, the text file will be analyzed using MS Access. My problem is escaping characters which are often used as delimiters in text-based importing formats, such as ' or ...

Hi Perlers,
I've seen a lot of tutorial or example code dealing with the POSIX
module that does something like this:
 use POSIX ':sys_wait_h';