Webmaster Forum / Perl / Getting Started / July 2007

I am a newbie in perl. I have an array block_list :
push ( @block_list ,$word); # this word is read from a file.
$list_name = $block_list[$#block_list]; # i extract the last element
ie $word in this case

I have a string which reads
$str5 = "    DL_FEM_ADJ1 = DL_FEM_LINE_FIRST, /* Keep the adjacent ones
consecutive */";
Here i need to consider the variable and its value, ignoring the comment.

Please help a beginner with a sanity check.  My sanity, that is.  I
want to use the module XML::RSS.  Upon installing it, I get warnings
that I need prerequisites, and upon installing those prerequisites, I
get more warnings that I need more prerequisities.  I'm now up to 8,

I'm not sure I understand why this is happening.  Maybe someone can
explain it to me.  No matter how many times I use the chomp() function
on my array, when I print the array it always prints the newlines.
But I have another array, which will print without the newlines.

I have written this script. I have a good understanding of all but line:
$return = ($end - $start) / $start * 100;
If I start with 1000, and end with say..900 or vise versa. You subtract
first then?

I am attempting to load an image using the standard open function. I
then binmode the file handle. But when I attempt to write the image to
a new file (to try and create a duplicate), the new file becomes
unreadable. I know I could just copy the file itself without opening

Does anyone know if there's a perl script available that can run a
simple forum?  I tried searching on google but any combination of
"perl" and "forum" in the search words are giving me results on perl
forums :-) but not the forums being run by perl.

I am logging to a remote session using telnet. I am calling a command to run
an exe. This exe sometimes runs fast and at times take a couple of minutes
depending on the objects.
The problem that I am facing is:

Hi, and thanks for all your help so far.  My program is running
beautifully now, and I would like to add some data graphs.  I read
about GD::Graph, which tells me I need GD::Text::Align, which I learn
is actually in GD::Text, plus the plain old GD.  Then when I read the

OK. I think I moved further.
So this is my library.
ub sumIt(){
  @functionArray = @_;

Apologies if this is a bit noobie, but I have been left with a short
window to write a tool and I have had no experience with Perl. Very
familiar with Kornshell, and so far my Perl script is going okay.
However, I am struggling to get a test working correctly. Is there a

Help with Regex, Thanks in avance!
1. Validation of Name
Enable ALL keys on keyboard EXCEPT 0, 1, 2........., 9
Change to uppercase of 1st alphabet of every word and lowercase for

I am a beginner in perl and have tough time in writing a script which
i need urgently. I would like to know the perl script to
1)modify passswords in LDAP for multiple users taking input from
another file(which contains usernames and new passwords )

what is the relation between Perl version , Perl byteloader & OS
version??
could u direct me the correct links???
Thanks.

I'm trying to figure out how to print the following array.  How do I
print this type of thing?  Please let me know if I'm posting to the
wrong list.
#!/usr/bin/perl