Webmaster Forum / Perl / Getting Started / July 2005

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Hi,
This is basically my 1st perl script.
It's a podcast download app. I don't now the etiquette for attaching

I'm stuck....  I need an extra pair of eyes.
I have an object that uses MIME::Parser to create a MIME::Entity from a
message string.
I have a test script that loads the message string and passes it to the

Is there a way to determine in perl whether the current script was run from
a login shell or not?
- B

Hi friends,
Can you help me out.
I have a program in which the time zone is GMT and the time is displayed
as "Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:21:17 GMT".

A script like this:
    line1:    $string3 = "bacdeabcdefghijklabcdeabcdefghijkl";
    line2:    $string4 = "xxyyzzbatttvv";
    line3:    print "\$1 = $1 \@{$-[0],$+[0]}, \$& = $&\n" if($string3

Does perl allow you to conditionally include a module?
For example:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

On a Win32 system, how do you get a date stamp of a file?
I used:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

Hey Guys
I am having an odd problem using grep to ensure an array only contains distinct entries.
I have a list similar to the following in a file (short example of a much longer list)
support01-FastEthernet1/0

Hello List,
I have a file with multiple lines. I want to read only the first line.
and a particular word in that line.
For eg:

Hi there,
I am having some trouble with net::FTP module
I get this error message
Timeout at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/Net/FTP.pm line 1001

Hi all,
Can someone pls take a look at the script below and explain what I'm doing
wrong..  The script runs w/out errors but the substitution is not working..
Hopefully the note below will be enough info..  

I have discovered that my Oracle installation has the DBI.pm module in
it.  I really want to use this, but don't know how to have the @INC see
it when I do:
oracle> perl -e "use DBI;"

              Can you please look at the below script. The SQL query
works on it's own in separate script. But not when it is put into the
"for" loop in this script
. Any ideas??

Would someone please clear up / help me understand this.
I have a hash
my %allTariffData = {};
and in my sub

Can someone explain the difference between backticks and system when
evaluated in this if statement:
sub getDate {
print "start date\n";