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I have ordered my Perl DBI book (is that a leopard?) but I am
impatient and want to know how I could do a select/like statement a
bit like this:
SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE foo like 'baz%'

I have a problem i could really use some help with.
Sorry for the long message but I find it hard to explain without showing.
I have 2 files.
File nr 1 is a reference that looks like this.

I have writen a library for a particular function.I could not written
the hash reference fron the subroutine "process_files".Can any one
please help in this regard?
Also i have pasted the file below

i am creating a perl script which takes the input from the file to
create tables, inserting values into the database. As you all know the
only procedure for taking input from a file (using perl script) into
MySQL database is through (?) place holders.

# --- <the program> ----
my $fname = '/volumes/hd/home/kevin/file_test ';  # note file ends
with a space character
print "Exists: <$fname>\n" if (-e $fname);

HI Gurus,
I am opening a web page using win32::IEAutomation and clicking each link on
the page and reading data.(This page has 177 links).
The above processes occupy more memory, After some time the page is unable

I want a script which is going to check if the numbers specified in the
config file is the same for each of the types of lines in the seeding
files.
The script would read each line to check if the no of columns is correct

What is wrong with this statement?
my $time = sprintf( "0x%08x", `date +%s` );
I got
"Use of uninitialized value in sprintf at /opt/MoteWorks/tos/../make/

Whats the exact purpose of use strict and use warnings Pragmas in the Perl
Programming Language.
I know use warnings turns on all useful warnings.
Thanks and Regards

I have the below lines of code.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

I am trying to format some numbers so single digit numbers are converted to
2 digit numbers and here is the code I am working with right now.  For some
reason, the very last number, $b5, ends up as a 3 digit number instead of a
2 digit number even if I start it with a single ...

I have one variable which stores the value as follows.
"2007-09-07T12:50:26+05:30  aic_8.0_Integration  ccvob01" Now my
requirement is that I want to store aic_8.0_Integration part of the
string in different variable.

I can do this:
my $hashref = \%hash;
But as near as I can tell, there is no way to do the reverse  
operation: making a "my %hash" that is an alias for a hash reference.

I want to do the things below:
a) get all binded IPs on a redhat linux os.there are maybe more than
one IP,like eth0,eth1,eth0:1 etc.
b) for each IP,I need to know if it's a private network address (like

Hey all,
I'm new with Perl and need help with this simple script. I'm still
playing around with the script below to get a feel for Perl. My script
below is incomplete and I'm doing an array within an array which is