Webmaster Forum / Perl / Getting Started / February 2005

Just a quickie. I think the answer is that th while loop is going through
the file twice?
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Codes that does what I expect, i.e. prints out the 42 lines of my passwd

How could I go about having perl to get the size of a folder?
thanks

I'm a begginer in Perl and other programming languages. I want to verify
that a directory exists, but I don't know the way tho do it.
Regards.

Morning all.  I have a strange problem with an if-else statement.  Both
parts of the statement are being executed and I have no idea why, the
offending code is this:
if($password =~ /\S\S\d\d\S\S/){

Is anyone having trouble getting to this domain?
I can never get a connection.

Dear list,
i have a problem installing DBD::mysql module.
My built is FC3 on a P4 machine.
i installed mysql database via Mysql-serever-5.1.10-0.i386.rpm also via

Is in the perl operator like C/C++ 'case' ?

I am trying to wrap my head around testing. What exactly do you test? I
do mostly scripts for admin stuff and not modules. My scripts do things
like run a program and then email the generated log file to me. Would
you test that? What fits the criteria for "it needs a test"?

Here is some code I am working on:
#!/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $number_of_args = @ARGV;

I want to save names from <STDIN> to an array.
Afterwards I want to delete a single name in the array received again from
<STDIN>.
This is what I have:

I'm getting the following error in my code.  If I define $i as my $i
then everything works fine.  What's wrong?
# while1.pl
use strict ;

How can I modify the early part of code below
such that I don't have to manually key in the files this way:
perl mycode.pl data1P.fa data1R.fa data2P.fa data2R.fa ....etc
I.e. just by typing this will do:

I'm trying to automate g++ through a Perl script.
Here is what I have written so far:
#!/bin/perl -w
use strict;

I wanted to append some line in between a text file. So what I tried is with the seek command I tried moving the pointer and then do appeding, but for some reason it was not getting appended.
I know there are ways to  make this task possible. I am afraid abot the memory ...

not quite sure if what I m trying to do is possible, but here is the basic
idea:
Currently I have a simple program takes a username from a html textbox and
checks against a list of values in a notepad document.  If the name is found