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The following code goes round the foreach twice as often as I think it
should.  (I realise the code is probably not particularly stylish, but I'd

I have a problem on WinXP. In perl I want to read the tail of a file.
The  file is written with another windows
program. If I am using a sleep(5) before of the read command I get the
new tail content. It seems the program

Dear all,
I want to pass a hash to a function which prints out hash's content. My
code does not work. Can anyone tell me what is wrong with it? Thanks a lot
#!/usr/bin/perl

Is there an alternative to do this in Perl (without resorting to system
"wget ..." or system "curl ...")?
--
sh

File  is not getting created in perl CGI mode...
It is surprising that the file is not created in the CGI....
I tried this from the command line it is getting created there...
I am not able to debug also this issue. Please help in proceeding this....

All,
Could someone please tell me the Perl equivalents of the following string functions
Mid$
Left$

In regards to an earlier question about removing a
file with Perl, couldn't you just use a system call or
exec?
system "rm filename";

I am new on the list and I am sorry if my question is irrelevant with the list.
In a program I have to remove a file. I did "perdoc perlfunc" and I found
Functions for filehandles, files, or directories
  "-X", "chdir", "chmod", "chown", "chroot", "fcntl", "glob", "ioctl", "link",

I'm trying to write a CGI using perl for uploading multiple files,
here's my part of codes.
==
   my @fax_files = map(symlink($query->tmpFileName($_), "/tmp/fax_$_")

2 problems, maybe related.
1) My recursive program is generating a "called to early to check
  prototype" error.  Ive Googled for answers but cannot find a solution
2) When this executes, it traverses 8 directories in F:\\Inetpub\\Develop

Say I have a string called returned from the text file..
Hi $name- welcome to the world of $Logs. Country is $country. Time is $time
I am getting this from the text file and then in the program
I am printing this out. with its correponding values..

Greetings all,
How do I go about removing my email address from this
list?  
Thanks,

We have an application which produces a plain ASCII text file which then needs to be printed on a laser printer.
Because it gets printed to pre-printed stationery things have to be correctly aligned.
The method that we have been given is to use MSWord to set the margins and font ...

Out of curiosity is there any method for trapping Windows HTTP traffic
transparently, without establishing a proxy configuration, using Perl.
I am searching CPAN but can't find anything. I'm specifically looking
for a way to monitor and potentially modify what happens between a

I'm running a test to see whether certain criteria in a SELECT statement
return record or not. If I get a "no rows selected" from SQL then I want to
perform a specific action . But I don't how perform the test for "no rows
selected " ?