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Can anyone provide details on if a workaround exists for the growing  
lists of defects for Mac::Carbon not being installable?
Mac::Carbon
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I have to calculate a hash of username and password in perl.
The calculation should be done this way:
1. Concatenate the username and the password to produce a plaintext string;
2. Convert the plaintext string to uppercase characters;

I've been using perl for years under Unix and yesterday I picked up a  
MacBook.
It doesn't come with DBI, so I tried to instal it from CPAN...
And installing from CPAN I always started with Bundle::CPAN to get a  

I have a script which uses Net::FTP to upload a backup file each night.  
It sends me an email each night if it succeeds and a different email if
any of the methods fail.  This all works, but sometimes the ftp
connection times out and my script hangs without sending anything.  

Can someone help me correct this code.
if i print, it only print the first line.
Goksie
#!/usr/bin/perl

I want to determine the character encoding of some strings I have.
Something similar to the "file" tool, which gives me this information:
cp1252.text:     Non-ISO extended-ASCII text
iso-8859-1.text: ISO-8859 text, with no line terminators

Just like to show how NOT to use postfix.  I have had a frustrating day
tackling this type of unreadable code.

Hello members,
I wrote a perl script for url redirect,shown as below,
$|=1;
my $uri = '';

The File::Basename from 5.8.0 doesnot work in Perl 5.8.2 or Perl 5.8.7. Is
there any particular reason.
I have a script that uses the Basename module was running file with 5.8.0,
but it doesnt work fine when i run the script in Perl 5.8.2 or Perl 5.8.7. I

I have a script which creates a text file for each of several users.
However, the contents of the file are rarely enough to warrant it.  I'd
much rather place the information inside the email instead of attaching
it as a file.  I haven't been able to find anything to explain how to ...

I try to install module dialog, but the errors
messages come to screen. I don't now what's happening.
see the logs :
/usr/bin/perl /usr/share/perl/5.8/ExtUtils/xsubpp

I have a PHP(..Ouch!! ..) snip using Curl to send data, in XML format, to a
payment gateway, and would like to convert this into Perl coding, but can't seem
to find any information or module(s) that implement Curl in the same manner.
Below is the PHP snip.

Hello all!  I am hoping that someone here can point me in the right
direction.  Before I get right into the issue(s) I am experiencing, allow me
to digress into the background of this story.
I recently decided, after much deliberation, to install Ubuntu Feisty on my

I am trying to verify a credit card number format with the following:
(below) but I am getting errors like:
Global symbol "%r" requires explicit package name at ./modmember.cgi line
681.

I'm doing a script to search through a lot of files and doing some replacements.
It is a lot of different replacements that has to be done so I list them in a .txt
instruction file in two columns representing the strings to be matched and replaced
and the new text.