Webmaster Forum / Perl / Getting Started / January 2006

 Can any one please explain me what are these panic error message. When will they be generated.
 1. Is it generated due to system level error
 2. Or is it generated due to user level coding.
 regards

I have bar separated file:
name1|345
name2|201
...

Last time I checked, perl's threads wasn't very popular to use.  Now that's
a discussion on it's own I guess, and not the intensions of this email to
get into.  I'm planning to develop a rather large perl application.  Due to
complexity, I plan to run multiple processes, each ...

I know that Perl has a function to determine the square root of a number.  
For example, to determine the square root of 121 code "sqrt(121)". Is there  a
built-in Perl function that enables one to determine the nth root of  a number
where n is a number greater than 2. For example ...

I am still a newbie in Perl and it is only with the help of this list that I was
able to construct the following pattern match.
  ($v_size_str =~ /\d+\s*['"]\s*x\s*\d+\s*['"]/i)
The problem that I have just realized that this string will match the first line

I need to create a thumbnail image of a webpage to be displayed in the browser.
is there a perl module available that has this capability or can this be done
with ImageMagick or GD? Been looking for about a day on this subject but not
much luck.

I tried to create a csv file like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Text::CSV_XS;

All,
My problem seems to be within the Net::FTP module.  I have intentionally
modified my password so that my error routines can be tested, but once the
login

hi,lists,
I want to do this work: count something in continuous given time piece,such as 10 minutes.Fox example,there are the lines coming to the socket server as following:
1_feifish1_01_1000ybyg:11530514:get
1_swm_mail_01_100k8qte:13901448:get

I hope this question is appropriate to this list:
I am running ActiveState Perl 5.8 on Windows XP with Spreadsheet::ParseExcel
and Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Big. I have 2 programs I've written using these
modules. One program reads from a SQL DB and just writes the data to a

I am very new in RegEx and I want to be able to write an expresion that does
the following:
Return all the characters from a string starting from the 5-th character.
Given:

       I have downloaded the tar.gz module from CPAN to ssh a remote unix
machine. After the same i run the >>perl makefile.pl and below was the
output of the command
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Is there a way to glob if the directory path has spaces?
The following does not work
$sourcePath = "C:/Documents and Settings/xyz/abc  ;
files = glob $sourcePath ;

I'm working on unix system with perl. I'm getting some data from database
using DBI module.
I want to display its output on a web browser like netscape or firefox.
Please help me in this.

I have a snippet of code as below.
Even when I return 0 or '', why does @blocks evaluate to true?
If rows returned are 0, then if(@blocks) should evaluate to false, correct?
Thanks,