Webmaster Forum / Perl / Getting Started / July 2006

I have not received any list topics lately, is the list broken??  Or am I ?
Trying to stay cool in New England,
Sam

My perl script is called by a bash script, used in a compile / build env.
But the bash script is not seeing my script's exit and is timming out and
continuing ...
How can I pass a standard exit code 0 = success 1 = fail to the operating

We know that Perl is used for various puposes including text
manipulation,file maintenance and automation of system administration. It is
also popular for CGI programming on the web owing to its inherent ability to
process text. "It is highly adaptable and intended to be easy to use ...

dear members,
using a subroutine's resulting argument in an if-clause i compare this
string with another term. but although each of the term has the value of
the other i don't achieve the result i'm looking for.

push @powers, 2**$_ for 0..7;
sub bases {
 for (@_) {
     sprintf ("%08b", $_).

I'm not sure if this is a Perl problem or an Eclipse problem, but I'm hoping
someone here will know the solution.  I'm trying to debug Perl under the
Eclipse IDE.  I recently reconfigured my network, which resulted in changing
my local IP from 192.168.1.12 to 192.168.2.12.  When ...

I'm currently massivly confused by multidimensional arrays and passing  
arrays to subs.
Why is it that @_[1] isn't properly copied to @a?
I'm not sure what exactly I'm doing wrong here, probably something simple,  

when my Math::Pari fails  that is
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test

Can somebody explain to me what is the syntax error in the following
code:
   20  sub func()
   21  {

Hello All;
I was hoping to write this script in a more concise manner, also
eliminate the error I get with it, along with correcting it indexing at only
one occurence. Thanks for your help!

perldoc -q quote talks about \Q before a regex to escape special characters.
how do you use \Q when you want to anchor the regex with a dollar sign ?
my $string = my $regex = "foo";
print "match\n" if($string =~ /^\Q${regex}$/);

I am using activestate on a windows box ...the files I am parsing are
Unix files...I tried this so far...
open ( IN, "<$_[0]" )||die "Can't open DAT source file: $tempFile
$!\n";

One simple question -
I need to accept a file from the user and to store it as temp1.
then I need to give this file as an input of another program :
I wrote a script like this, but it is not working : Help ?

All:
I have a program that reads STDIN for user commands while the program is
running.
I'm adding the capability to queue up user commands from the shell

I have the following code which should
1. Give user a choice of actions
2. Based on these go to the specified script
I have the following issues