Webmaster Forum / Perl / Getting Started / December 2007

is this a rigged test? at:
    http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?\
    test=partialsums&lang=perl&id=3
i find a 'partial-sums' benchmark coded in Perl, in which what should be a

What is the difference in Accepting the following form of standard input?
1) $a = <STDIN>;
2) $b = <stdin>;
3) $c = <>;

oops. i just ran the code. no diff' when run $TWO_THIRDS. oh well, in Perl
subroutines are cheap!

During DBI building, MakeMaker uses the fixin() method to write the shebang
line for all the perl scripts that will be installed.
The path on my machine is /usr/perl/5.8.4/bin/perl. I also have
/usr/perl5/bin/perl which is *currently* pointing to the same 5.8.4 perl,

Could someone tell me if this is possible and if it is how I do it. I
have the following two file;
file1.pl
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I wanted to learn a bit more about how to handle errors when I am working with files, so I wrote this simple script to start with it where you can see that first I show the normal perl errors variables, then I try to delete a file and finally I show the errors variables again.
The ...

Hi Gurus,
I have some video files with thumbnail images associated with each file.
What I need to do is get the thumbnail image and store other folder by name
"Images" with same name.

          I am new user of this group. can you tell how can i accept
array elements using loop. for example
for($i=0;$i<5;$i++)
{

I have an application that executes a user-defined script. The application sets certain environment variables that the script uses to determine which phase it is in.
 I want to be able to set other env variables to set other conditions usable by the script.
 Is there a way to do ...

I want to replace some special characters with their corresponding Western
European chars, for example a with a, â with a, s with s, t with t, î with i
and so on.
Could you please recommend a module that can do this?

Hi group,
I'm troubleshooting a perl 5.6 Win32 app that uses Net::FTP. I am trying
to ftp using a file handle instead of a local file name.
POD says something like $ftp->put(LOCAL_FILE [REMOTE_FILE]) where

I want to assign the each column of the following file in a separate
variable.
2864 oracle    0.0
0.2/home/oracle/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/inventory/bin/tnslsnr

I would like to run perl script on linux machine from windows perl script.
Can any body help me out on this regard, is there any module which takes
care of this?
Thanks,

Summary: Is there an easy method to search Google and get the top
result (title & URL)?
I'm trying to write a script that gets URLs based on a name. I figured
using Google would be the simplest method. I need to search a specific

I would like to read something on the preferable or "best", if you want
to use that term, way of building large applications in Perl. I am
looking for structure of the program and things like that.
Robert