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I want to compare the elements of an array with the keys in a hash. If
matches are found, I want to store the values associated with the matched
keys in an array for future processing :
my @storage_array = ();

    I am trying to use the module HTTP::Request. I tried to use the code given in
perldoc HTTP::Request
Here is my code
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Hello all.  Please let me know if this is a good place for my questions.
I am trying to read a log file and get a list of how many times an IP address get blocked each hour by category PO.  An example line in the log with a block is:
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[2005-09-28 10:05:03 -7:00] 127.0.0 ...

this is a working code snippet:
opendir (DIR, $dir) || die "Open failed: $!\n";
$\ = "\n";
while ($_ = readdir(DIR)) { print; };

As I am attempting to compile this module I am getting many errors on an
HPUX 11.11 64 bit machine.
Any help please ?
(See attached file: log)

Hi all
I have a problem need to work with date
I have a input like these :   20050829 and I need to change it to
something like this : Aug 29 2005

I want to get the current environment variable (current directory), and I
type like this:
$currentpath = %ENV;
and I get something like 37/64

What do you think, if the most important is the speed, which method is
recommended to get the results of a DBI query?
fetchrow_arrayref
or

Afternoon all, I have a strange error:
[Tue Sep 27 14:43:41 2005] [error] PerlRun: `failed at stage 1: Input/output
error
at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CGI/Carp.pm line 301.

When I do this:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

Hi Perlers,
I have one nice question for you, I was run into common problem:
need to repeat certain number of times something, until is succesful.
For example - download webpage, FTP upload, connect to some host and

Any idea how to install Spreadsheet::ParseExcel?
I've downed loaded the required modules, but
it still does not seem to work.
Are there clear instructions anywhere?

I'd like to evaluate user input only where it makes sense, e.g.
"2*(3+2)" ==> 10
"2*dog"  ==> "2*dog"
"mysquarefunction(2)" ==> 4

hi all...
i have a question..
I am realizing an application multithreaded, and my problem is that I'd
like to make lock on single values of a hashtable.. how can i make

I have a perl code that generates a sequence of values which i want to plot
on y-axis against 1,2,3... on x-axis. I've read that GD::Graph could be used
for it. But I've never done modular programming. Also, I don't know how to
install modules from CPAN.