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so i have the following code:
foreach my $node (@tables){
   my @rows = $node->look_down(_tag => 'tr');
   foreach my $row (@rows){  #grabbing data from each row at this point

how would i find out what attributes and methods are in a name space?
for example i have an object in my code and im not sure what type it is,
what attributes are associated with it, what methods etc etc how can i
find out. in python there was dir() and type() which was a big ...

I'm trying to do the following:
Print out the table from an array using HTML teplates.
I'm not sure of the sintax of how to get this table to display, I dont like
posting code here, but I'm kinda stuck and I dont know if I am going in the

Are there any pointers somewhere?
Robert

I just upgraded from Debian 3 (Perl 5.8.4 and MySQL 4.1) to Debian 4
(Perl 5.8.8 and MySQL 5.0 and DBD::mysql 3.0008) and have the following
problem:
In the following lines I create a table with a char field of length 4

I am trying a one-liner substitution for a content in
a file.
original file content
---------

Is there a way to dump the HTML code for a web page?  I need to write
a script which will collect and summarize content from intranet web
pages.  By dump, I mean to read it the same way you would read a file
and parse its contents.  Thanks.

I'm doing a script, it run a ping in many computers
and  create a log file.
I need search in log file the word "Destination Host
Unreachable". So, I have to take below line. After

    Has anyone had any luck with NTLM auth with LWP ?
It appears to repeat the following:
--snip--
LWP::UserAgent::new: ()

Dear Folks,
I need to print diagnostic message strings like:
warn "$parent/$child does not exist: verification failed\n";
in conditional blocks that are nested and indented. This means that, on

I'm trying to understand subroutines.
#!/usr/bin/perl
&marine()
sub marine {

Every time I try to use perl 5.8.8 I keep geting the error message
"Barewood found where operator expected at - line 1, near "/perl/bin"
<Missing operator before bin?>"  What am I doing wrong here and how can
I fix it. I'm using activestate perl. The command I'm trying is

I got a problem while installing the module with *CPAN.pm* shell. At the
begining, it was asked to for some confiuguration settings. It could able to
find almost all settings except make. At first, I ignored that and moved to
install the modules but it is saying like the make test ...

i am trying to figure out how to use the subroutine in a library now.
so I did this.
I name one script sub.pl and the library sub-lib-pl:
the script.pl contains:

I'm a perl newbie and would like to ask this question here.
Let's say I have the following code. Trying to check the disk space,
it's to truncate the percent sign % from the df -k output, compare the
percentage field to see if it's bigger than 90%, and grasp only those