Webmaster Forum / Perl / Getting Started / December 2004

Hi, this is just a test.  I've been having a lot of problems posting to this list, as I keep getting the following message (even though I'm sending a text message):
<perlmail-beginners@onion.perl.org>:
ezmlm-reject: fatal: Sorry, I don't accept messages of MIME Content-Type ...

I'm writing perl cgi and I like to buffer my output in an array of strings.
I just decided it would be very useful to be able to have nested arrays.
Below is a little function that does what a want. However,
(1)     Is there a more compact way of performing this nested ...

This is another test in an attempt to post to the list.  No response necessary.
--Sandy Santra

Hello list,
I am working with UNIX Sockets and have some questions that I cant seem to find answers to on the web.
1: Are UNIX sockets bi-directional?
2: If so, what is the proper way to 'setup' the connection? (will post what I have below)

Does anyone know if there are perl modules for applying patches?
I have seen on many lists that are provided some patches for some perl
modules, and probably they can be applied automaticly under Unix using
"patch" for .dif files, but I cannot do this under Windows.

Hello Perl people,
Recently, upgrading to perl v5.8.5 I've noticed that h2xs lays out module
directory structure in a quite different way than before.
Prior to this I could create a module e.g. Data::Loader

anyone can suggest me XML module for reading/parsing/modifying an XML file?
Thanks,
kapot
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Hello List,
To explain the problem I am having, I wrote a simple snipet that doesn't do
anything meaningful other than illustrating the behaviour I want to avoid:
my %hoh = (

       Whil e reading the Python Cookbook as a means of learning Python, I
came across the script by Nicola Larosa.  Not knowing anything about PERL, I
was wondering if there were a translation in PERL so I could have my Netware
servers send heartbeats to the heartbeat server?

I recently installed Net::Pcap from the cpan shell and the test failed as
well. I did a force install and the install completed and it appears to be
working fine. Not sure if will be any repercussions in the future though.
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I'm trying to follow the example Larry Wall's "Programming Perl" book and it
is not working with ActiveState 5.8+.
Here is sample.pm:
package sample;

I am getting this  error not sure why
  Use of uninitialized value in string eq at line :6
1: $rows=$dbh->prepare("select browsername from  course where clientname ='DEMO");
2: $rows->execute();

Maybe this is a little OT but since I am a beginner @ perl, I thought that I
would post it!
So, I am trying to move data from one sql table to another table called
logs_archive. It seems that I am running into some problems with memory as I

Hi
 How do I check  whether user's home directory exist or not, & if
exists then whether it is owned by his uid
The perl script will have this information :