Webmaster Forum / Perl / Getting Started / August 2006

I'm running into a Cach-22 with 'use strict', and filehandles.
I have a program which opens two log files at the beginning:
open(INFLOG,">>$info_log") || die "Could not append to $info_log_file.  Quitting.\n";
open(ERRLOG,">>$error_log") || die "Could not append to $error_log_file.  ...

I have a CGI script to process some data from the
visitors. The input data takes this format(row x
column):
1    2    4    5    6    7

I am trying to use an html script that will select an expect script, run it
and display the output as text back into the html page. I get a very brief
box showing up, it is so fast I am not sure what is in it. The expect script
is very slow to execute so it will require time.  The ...

    I am trying to save data in an xml file.
    What I am seeing is when I enable the file locking commands
    the file is completely wiped out.Just zero bytes.
    But it works correctly when I remove the file locking commands.

Hi ,    One of my scripy (involves GDBM file operations) dumped core.I have the core file, but no idea what can I glean from that. I have tools like dbx and gdb but they need binaries along with the core file. So anyone knows how to decipher the core file of a ...

We need to grab some data from a webpage fetch via the LWP module. This is the
coding and
the $resultdata below, need to regrex out various data, indicated by the [ ]
brackets... see below for further explainations.

All,
Is there a commonly known way or method to limit the
number of arguments that a subroutine can store or
pass?

           I would like to connect to a database stored at linux
machine from my Windows machine. But I am unable to connect to the mysql
server.
Please help me regarding this issue.

I have the follows code
perl -e '
@a=(q{a...x name=taga_1 #...d name=tagb_1 f...r name=tagc_1 xxnn},
q{h...e name=taga_4 t...g name=tagb_4 k name=tagc_4 nn});

I am tring to use part of someones elses code that creates a data file which prints
out like this:
ip|result|deptA|data
ip|result|deptB|data

Given the string 'abcdefghijklmnopq', I wish to add a line break  
every 5 characters:
abcde
fghij

I have a daemon process that works but I am currently running it with
script.pl > error.log 2>&1
and I want to do the same thing without using the redirection,, remove
the human error when starting the program.

Hello,lists,
Please see these two lines' output:
[$ perl -Mstrict -MTime::Local -le 'print timelocal(0,0,0,31,8,2006)'
Day '31' out of range 1..30 at -e line 1

When using the range operator, is the list actually created with all the
elements?
For example, if I create a list like (123..456754), does it take up the
same amount of memory as if I actually entered all those in between

I would like to read a tab delimited text file created in Excel into  
a 2d array.  I don't understand why the following doesn't work.  The  
$i and $j, along with the print statement, are only for debugging  
purposes.