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 I'm trying to do a 'medium' greediness regular expression. Here's what I mean. I need to grab all of the DW_TAG_TI_reserved stuff and kill it (italics below)
                   <die id='0x157'>
                       <tag>DW_TAG_TI_assign_register</tag>
                       ...

here is the prelim setup:
my $delimiter = ";;;";
my $teststring = "name;;;encryptedpassword;;;date";
my @userdetails = split($delimiter, $teststring);

I am wondering how the chomp function works. I am looking to see how
I can truncate new line and/or carriage returns from a string. Will
chomp do nothing if there are no carriage return or line feed at the
end. If the end of the string has a space will it leave it alone?

   I've just finished developing a small web site that uses Perl, CGI, DBI
and HTML-Template.  Typically, an HTML page calls a Perl script that does a
database fetch, parses the data and then puts it on another web page using a
template.

 I have a requirement where I need to look at the age
of file, if it's older than 2 days, I should remove
it.
I am trying to use the '-M ' filehandle in my script,

Hi all, I need to loop over an array of hashes and assign a new hashref if a
condition is met:
I have a scalar which contains an array of hashes:
$locations = [

I have two strings that I want to compute the number of mismatches between them. These two strings are of the "same" size. Let's call them 'source' string and 'target' string. Now, the problem is that the 'source' and 'target' string may come in ambiguous form, meaning that in ...

Sombody help me if i give ([a-z]+)(.*)([a-z]+) as input string output i get
is
$1 is 'silly'
$2 is 'silly'

Have a windows environement (IIS, MSSQL, PERL) and want users to
authenticate before being able to enter the web site... What is the best way
to do this?

If I want to use regular expression to extract the charactors after
the last '/' in the url, but below regexpr doesn't work, what I do
wrong?
$url = 'http://website.com/path/file_name.img';

Hi all, I have a problem where I have say, five tables one of which is
called "log" this keeps a log of various updates that are done to the other
four tables.
I have been working on one particular script and I have a function called

Is there a standard citation of perl, for instance a paper in a journal
describing the language, that I might use for a publication?
Thanks,
Kevin

I am newbie of perl joined in this group last month.I could like to
know how could i develop my perl programming  and my opinion is only
reading the materials , and other documents related to perl does not
matters.Is  there any other way that makes me better in perl like

I am trying to run this
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require LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;