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I am still new in Perl especially in its OOP concept.
I want to write once a script as a part of building a connection to my MySQL DB server. The parts only use a kind of vabiable such as "$dbh". Is it possible?
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main.pl

I need to parse a fairly large XML response file and would like some suggestions
on which XML module would work the best. We've been using the XML::Simple
module, but I don't think that's the right one for the job. Below is the XML
file we need to parse. In particular getting the ...

I am making a program to tally up the nucleic acid bases of E. Coli.
This data will be used in bioinformatics research to generate a
Markov
Matrix.

I have a csv file having 3rd field as phone number series. In that field,
some of the records are phone number ranges like 097611/4
Now I need to seperate this into 4 numbers and store them one after the
other, like:-

Hello, does anyone know what is the most effective way
of uninstalling perl module? Thank you.
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I'm trying to use the CPAN shell to install some modules from our
internal CPAN mirror.
I'm using a URL of the form ftp://MyCpanMirror/u02/CPAN/ , and I have a
valid .netrc configured with a user and password for the mirror box.

This is my first post on the group, so here it goes....
What are the best resources for a young developer beginning to develop
web applications with Perl?
Respectfully,

See the log with i run perl -MCPAN -e shell:
Now we need to know where your favorite CPAN sites are
located. Push
a few sites onto the array (just in case the first on

Hi Guys...
I have checked the following file..
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;

Hi all. I'm new to perl, a new programmer, and I badly need guidance. I'm
trying to parse a config file with key/value pairs seperated by white space
and surrounded by curly brackets. It has multiple fields that look like
this:

I'm trying to make myself familiar with threads.
However, I encountered some unexpected behaviour of locks/cond_wait I wasn't
able to figure out.
Could someone explain to me what's happening ??

I'm presently learning OOP as Perl does it using online resources and and
Programming Perl as my tutors.  I'm not certain I have it right though.  Is this
correct for the package:
package Report;

I am trying to read a colon delimited text file (filter.in) then
search for each field in another file (/etc/passwd) and if it is found
then write that line in the third file (passwd.out). Here is what I
have written so far but it is not given me the correct result. Thanks

OK, on to the next one...
charset = iso-8859-9
Quoted-Printable
MIME::QuotedPrintable seems to only do conversions to ASCII which  

I have been trying to set some hidden form fields with WWW::Mechanize,
but I get error that they are read only.
Is it a cannot-be-done case for all hidden input form fields? Does
anyone has some tips for me?