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 I want to run a substitution for all instances of "_" with "." after
'@' in a string but "_" before "@" should not be touched.
eg
$str = "abc_def@lmn_p_q";

Hi pals,
I'd like to code my own encode function, I have @list of allowed
characters, my input is number, and I'd like to 'convert' number to
characters. Here is script I coded, but I'm sure it could be really

I have the following code :
eval{
        require "file" or die "unable to find file";
       };

 I want my script started as "root" to run as  user "postfix".
How do I change the uid & gid of the process
Thanks
Ram

I'm a little new at PDF manipulation in Perl and I'm
not completely convinced that what I want to do is
even possible. Basically what i want to do is take a
multi-page PDF file and insert a footer onto the

1.  I read on many Perl/CGI tutorial/articles that it is best to place
and use CGI files in /cgi-bin/ directory than anywhere else, due to
avoid many problems.  Buy in our website, we have several subdomain
and those are all use the same /cgi-bin/ directory, so now there are a

    I have a directory which has output reports in them.  The big problem is that they are just a bunch of letters and numbers like 2781424330fdac47c916.xls.  So the user would like a more recognizable file name.
    This is to run on Solaris w/ Perl 5.8.3.  I have tried the following ...

I'm writing a paper comparing the use of Perl, Python and Java. My Perl
is pretty bad (as is my Python), so I thought I would check to see if
there is a more efficient way of doing it.
Here is the Perl program

  I am writing a perl application that connect to a database and then
does a fork()
The child completes the process and does a exit(), but the problem is it
closes the database connection which the parent would like to use.

I have been working on familiarizing myself with the File::Find module.  We have a process that appends a .txt once it has processed the file in a Unix environment.  So, I wanted to return a list of files that have been processed by the previous process.  I have been using the ...

I'm brand new to Perl, and have just a little programming background.  I was tasked with parsing a set of .html files in order to extract the data contained within some terribly formatted tables.  Here is a sample of what I have.....
<tr>
<th align="left" width="10%"><font ...

First off thanks to Charles and Offer for there help. Err, the spelling should have been the same :-)
Silly error,  done in haste. Anyway I fixed it all up but it still doesn't work! :-(.
I sliced it up to a test page and played with it but I still can't get the darn thing working. ...

 I am having a problem of using a module recently installed and just
can't quite figure out a solution.  I installed  'Cache::FastMmap'
using -MCPAN, and made @INC contains the directory where I have
installed the module (eg.

I using the program below to send file to printer.... It's printing a blank
page and giving the error below.  Anyone have any ideas?
C:\brian\Perl>perl send_to_printer3.pl
Use of uninitialized value in sprintf at C:/Perl/site/lib/Net/Printer.pm

Lo all,
Very quickly....
#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI;