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Can someone explain to me how I can fix this up to achieve my desired
results?
my $time = (split (/:/, (grep (/^info/, @contents))))[0];
A sample snip of data:

I'm trying to write a script to remove duplicate e-mail addresses from a
list.
I'd like some help understanding...
1. Why does it remove all but one of the duplicate lines?

I have 2 files one has the input and the other has data that will
replace specific string in file 1
eg
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after freshelly installing fedora 9(which is preview version) and which
has perl 5.10 fails command line perl module install.
Granted that it means I don't have cpan.pm module, how come it didn't
come w/ it by default or did I do something wrong?

How can i return a copy of the hash? (The hash is build correct, but
return alsways null)
Here a sample of my code:
sub mysub {

Hi List
I have just been given the task of finding out why a perl sockets listener
application we have is no longer working correctly. The application was written
back in 2002 and I am told worked fine until we were forced to install a new

This may be a bit advanced for a beginner's group, but I need to have my
script create a pidfile.  I'm running a monitor app that keeps track of
what is running and notifies me when stuff stops.  It does it by
comparing the pid in the pidfile with ps.  So, I need my script to

I was hoping to write a simple program (if that's possible) to open a browser, go to a site, and scrape a piece of information from that site.
For example, I was hoping to open a Safari of Firefox browser, go to nyt.com and scrape the Dow Jones Industrial Average which is on the ...

I have a log file like this. The part between += are almost similar from
which I need to fetch for IP Address and Connection time only for domain
perl.com. The perl.com domain may scattered in log. The main intension of my
work is that this log keeps a record of the users who visits ...

I would imagine linux's head command can be replaced w/ chop
I asked this because I have a filehandle which was,
open $source, '/tmp/server.txt'   ( and no doing head -1 /tmp/server.txt
is not an option since I need to go through some other stuff

Does anyone have example scripts to work with Windows Mail and in
particular
with usenet groups?  I want to build a spam filter to run on all the
groups

This is my first experience w/ PERL and I've searched everywhere but
haven't found the answer. As an example, how do I simply open a
webpage (www.bloomberg.com) then click on each link within that
webpage that contains "Calpers Chief Buenrostro" and then click on

The following script is to read 4 consecutive lines at a time from a
file, concatenate the first 3 lines
(with a ", "), and print the result to STDOUT.  If the 3 lines aren't
concatenated they print correctly, however

i have a data set of stock orders and i want to count the number of unique stock symbols in the set.  
i have turned the data set into an array and based on the message spec, i can identify the stock symbols.  but i don't know how to make sure i'm only counting unique ones.
i had ...

I am trying to modify my iTunes Playlist and I want to prepend every
playlist name with a specific pseudonym ...
I wrote a perl script using Perl::Tie module. Unfortunately, it doesnt
write the contents of my array to the file after it is done processing