Webmaster Forum / Perl / Getting Started / May 2006

Hi list,
Hope this is not too simple or a stupid question:
I have a slight problem with a loop. It is a simple numbers guessing game. It
works fine, but when I run this script, it gives me "Too low" immediately after

How can I get Russian/other language character support for my script? Is
there a certain module?
SkyBlueshoes

Dear Perl users,
below is three column, vertical bar separated file. First column refers
to ID number, second designates name and the last one refers to
corresponding value. There are 8 possible names: A, B, C, D, E, F, G and

 if ($_ =~ m/match string/i) {
   if ($_ =~ m/does not match string/i) {
   } else {
     print $_;

I have a perl script that runs nightly. It create a data feed. The script will
die if the is a + sign in the fields its parsing.
Here is the snippet:
while (($PKEY, $MGMTCMNT, $manager_id, $MGMTNM, $UPDATE1, $UPDATE2) =

I have some rather big chunk of data, returned from ldap server. The
format is simple:
"Displa name" <email@addre.ss>
Simply displying data "as is" is simple, but how do I sorted  by

I recently read chapter 11 about OOP from the online
book "learning perl".  Here are some example codes
from chapeter 11:  
sub new{

how can i substitute, or remove anything that's not an alphanumerical
character in a string?
i.e:
$string = "AbCdEF1246Hfn \n";

I want to monitor a daemon's logs that updates randomly through the day
and night.  Is there a way to open the log file and read the new records
as they come in the same way as tail -f does?
Thanks

there is more than one way to do it
is there an easier way to do this map:
my $index = 0;
while( my @a = $SQL->fetchrow_array) {

Hi all, I need to export data from one database table to another.  I also
need to cleanse the data before inserting it to the other DB.  There is only
one unique column "login" and that is an string such as "login1".  The rest
are contact details, personal name / address and ...

Dear Perl users,
I have 2 columns, tab separated file which looks like
A 4
B 3

We have three web servers (say a,b,c) that take a similar file (xyz.txt) and
gives the results.
Now, we want to make a meta-server with three check-boxes and only one input
form.

I am just starting out teaching myself Perl from books and web resources so I apologise if my questions seems a little straight forward but I was hoping to ask here to get clarification and so I hope my simple questions do not annoy you all and that I have the right forum for ...

I have simple script that generates a random list of 5 images from a specific
folder, but sometimes it lists the same image twice within the random array list
created. Is there a better way to generate a list so it will not display the
same element twice within the array??