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hi friends
recently i started learning perl.i need to print some statements after
perticular  line.in my file there is one line called "puts
conCheckFAIL#-----------"occuring number of times.i need to print some

Is there any way to get the name of a variable by knowing its memory
address?
Thanks,
Zach

I have a UNIX directory  $DIR which contains a lot of files and
subdirecotires. Now, I would
like to list all files and subdirectories in $DIR only. That means,
$File::Find should not

Given the below code, is there something that will warn/prevent me from
declaring $variable when i really meant @variable ?
I usually use perl -wTc scriptname to check for silliness, but i've
realized code in the below fashion won't be reported.  This got me very

For the first time when installing this bundle I got an error. It did complete
a dozen other modules but failed on the test of this one as you can see below.
It seems I could either try to reinstall (which I did a few times and it
always fail at the same test) or remove it. Which ...

What is the command to tell cpan to accept the default/suggested values?

I appreciate the response to the last question. I have scripts that I have opened files and they work. However, I am failing on opens now because the file is read only. What is the way to open a file read only.
Andrew

If this is the wrong place to post please point out the correct list.
Here is the problem, I have RHEL AS 4 update 5 with perl v5.8.5. I would
like to install a newer version in /usr/local/perl5.8.8. I do the following:
sh Configure -de -Dprefix=/usr/local/perl5.8.8

Hi Forum!!!
 I want to plot a graph on a web page. I am using the GD::Graph
module and can successfully plot the graph. The graph is displayed on
the web page with the following code.

       I am new to perl. I am using "Active Perl-5.8.8"  
        I want to set environment variable in a perl script
               Ex - #!/usr/bin/perl
                     $ENV{HAI} = "hai";

I am trying to use perl on the command line to process text files in
various ways, one of which is to decode html entities. As far as I can
see, the following line should work
perl -MHTML::Entities -p -e 'decode_entities($_)'  <input.txt

I have a string that contains a full path and file name. What is the easiest way to extract the file name? For example the path is /dir1/dir2/dir3/file.txt.
Andrew

Hi I am trying to capture only the first occurence of a charcter
followed by any word ie: in this sample text
!this is a first level heading
!!this is a 2nd level heading

Hi, i am using the following script to find a file entered by a user.
use Win32::DriveInfo;
use File::Find;
my @drives = Win32::DriveInfo::DrivesInUse(); #Get the drives on a

Hi, i am using the following script to find a file entered by a user.
use Win32::DriveInfo;
use File::Find;
my @drives = Win32::DriveInfo::DrivesInUse(); #Get the drives on a