Webmaster Forum / Perl / Getting Started / September 2006

Is there some way to keep a string in RAM, not allowing it to go to
swap? Just like gnupg does with passphrases, and for similar reasons.
(Linux only, no portability required!)

I need to substitute a conversion using chr, but have
failed on multiple attempts.  Basically if the first
element contains a # then convert it. Will anyone
advise?

i'm trying to display colourful font on the terminal of cmd.exe under
Windows. but as i checked the documentation of TERM::ANSICOLOR, it seems to
not work with cmd.exe under Windows OS...
do you have any idea to make this happen? Thanks in advance. :)

sub getfile {
my $filename = shift;
open F, "< $filename" or die "open failed: $!";
my $contents = '';

What is the best module to use when writing web site interaction scripts ?
The script would have to login sending username and password and after
that follow a few links and do some more "http posts".
Any suggestions ?

I am writing a script to monitor a file and if a line is matched write
it to a file, then grab the IP address from that line and write it to
another file.  As I'm ok on working with the files, I need a little help
as to how to get the IP address out of the line of text into a ...

I've just searched the web and tried the archives but I'm not in luck
I'm reading a parameter file:
PARAM=value
PARAM1=value2

Sorting DBM Hash
Greetings:
I've run into what appears to be a conflict in sorting
a DBM Hash.  The DBM is opened and closed through tie and untie to store

I sincerely hope this email is not regarded as spam, if so please excuse me.
I've decided to create a Perl forum board over at
http://perl.nixpub.combecause I'm tired of the advertisement infested
Perl forums that are out

I have this script that am trying to use to connect to DB2.
At the moment I cannot get the script to connect to DB2.
In the UNIX prompt, if I run . /home/db2inst1/sqllib/db2profile first and then
run the Perl script, then I can connect to DB2.

I am not sure if i'm inside the correct mailing list, but it should be
simple for you guys. Recently i started a simple perl program to catch
all syslog from my netscreen firewall, and put them into a database, so
later can do some analysing on it (sort of AWStats). the database ...

I'm using DBI's selectall_hashref with 5 key columns.  I want to display
each row where key col 1 is 'yes' or NULL (undef or '' ?)
                       foreach my $medCategory (keys
%{$href->{'yes'}->{qw('' 'yes')}->{qw('' 'yes')}}) {

I am doing an example from Perl Objects, References & modules. I suspect
many of  you already use this book as a reference.
My hash is showing the address instead of  the name and I'm not sure
why. Here is my output.

I am looking for: ab1    in line1
and looking for: ab2     in line 2
actually ab1 and ab2 immediately follow the last "/" (there are
numerous "/" on the line (w/o quotes))

I have a issue when i use script (test.cgi)
#!/bin/bash
echo "Content-type: text/plain";
echo