Webmaster Forum / Perl / Getting Started / April 2005

Hi gang
I'm working on my first CGIs, and have been adding stylesheets. I'm
currently working
on my own machine, under localhost.  I have two questions;

Need Help on how  to fork process and use FIFO.
I have 10 processes that I would like to fork form parent.
        Each process reads a different file, processes it and returns a
log.

Please help me find the regexp to replace -o-b- - - -f
thank you!
s/sg//, s/\- {1,}(\w{1,})//,print +(split)[5,6,7], if (m/f01(\d+)/gi )
my $_ has these lines in it:

I am a newbie to perl and I have a question.  In one of my project, the perl
script will create a logfile.  Inside the log file, the username/password is
in clear text.
I am trying to hide the password in the logfile.  Is there a way that I can

I sometime happen to save certain web pages of interest (tutorials,
articles, etc)
locally on my PC. Unfortunately, some of these pages do carry top and
bottom banners

i have a requirement, as in based on one command line option, the rest of
the arguments change for the same script.
eg: script could be called in either of the ways
script1 -option1 -option2 adfas -option3

 I have a html reports page that has now grown too large to manage. I
want to paginate my report. I am already using templates , similar to
Template.pm so I would like keep the presentation stuff outside my perl
code.

The first time I wrote this if else statement I wrote it correctly...  now
I've confused myself... :~)  
If the "if" statement returns false the program writes that line in the file
to $error_log for every $file in the directory....  I just what the line in

I have a group of files that are sent to me every month and I'd like to write a quick Perl script to check to make sure that all of the fields are coming in.  I wrote a Perl script to dump out all the field names (it dumps out all the headers which are the field names) and I've ...

Hi all, this is slightly off topic but I'm sure someone here has come across
this problem.  I cannot connect to mysql on my redhat 9 box.
I ran:   shell> perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::DBD::mysql';
and it did say that there was a problem but all I've manged to find out from

 I want a regex to replace all continuous occurrences of '-' with
something else say 'x' except the first one
These are some examples
"- Ram"     ===>             "- Ram"

I am struggling to modify an existing Perl script
that was originally written for a Unix version of
ClearCase (SCM tool).
The script is supposed provide "keyword expansion"

I see many examples in the camel book where a
subroutine takes one argument and the one argument is
an array ref.
my (foo_ref) = shift;

Hello everyone,
This is the first time I was able to get a complex regex actually working as
I expect, but I wanted someone to comment on it, in case I am overlooking
something very major.

I am using the spreadsheet::parseexcel module to open up a series (31)
spreadsheets and grab the row counts.
Here is an excerpt with the ParseExcel Code.
my $oBook;