Webmaster Forum / Perl / Getting Started / November 2004

Can someone please recommend a book for me.  I do some web administration w/
perl scripts.  I would like to create a web page w/ drop down menus... and
depending on the selection criteria, run that script.  I searched on Google
a little, but not really sure what I'm looking for.   ...

I have to parse some thousand of html files, so I'd like to use some
html parser, and not my own regexpes. Htmls I am parsing are quite
complex, so I need your help. First of all, is HTML::Tree good and
fast module?

Hi list.
I tapeworm a disordered file which I repair it and produces this exit to me in my shell:
UNIDAD                                                                  |        TOTAL

Hi All,
I have a urls.txt file that contains a different url on each line (100
urls).  And I have a item_numbers.txt file (100 items).  I want to create a
new outfile.txt, named w/ the corresponding item_number, each time the

I've been able to read and output the external file containing the file listing.
I've been told to do a "foreach" Would this go after the "while" or in place of?
open READFILE, "< file.in" or die qq(Cannot open file "file.in": $!);
while ($line = <READFILE>) {

I love the Perl IDE/debugger I found on source forge. Unfortunately, it only
works for me on NT4/Perl 5.6. When I try to run it on Win2003 server, the
following line fails (in the file perl5db.pl that comes with the debugger):
   my $result = Win32::GetFullPathName($filename);

I'm pretty new to Perl but with the help of this list I've been able to come
up with a few helpful scripts.  This time I'm trying to read through a
tab-delimited text file with the first row containing headers.  I want to
print out any field/column name where the entire field is ...

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From: FlashMX
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 07:42:55 -0500
Hi Charles,

G'day...

Really? /Always/ or only when passing arguments to the method?

Does anyone know if there is a perl module that could communicate as a
client with MSN Or Yahoo or Skype or AOL messengers?
Thanks.
Teddy

Hello list,
I saw this recently on here but can't find the thread and since I'm not
sure what the technique is called (tie variable to function?) I'm not
sure where to look on perldoc :)

Can someone help me with  my programm that does not work.
i do not get the mistake.
The output is always the same, if i use &daten_einlesen("nucleotide") or
&daten_einlesen("proteine") there is no difference!

I had used following line in my code to retrieve message where $msg_id shows id of message retrieved by LIST command.
code:
my $message=$pop3->RETR $msg_id;      # Line No. 30
it is showing me following error

Is there any script or module to do that job?

G'day...
One of my classes has a method called format_cost which takes a number
(integer representing a monetory amount in cents) and pretties it up for
display as a dollar amount. I.e. format_cost(120000) returns