Webmaster Forum / Perl / Getting Started / May 2008

Someone wrote a perl script which manipulate a file and sent to number
of remote system.
I ported that exact script to my local machine but I don't see anything
going out.

1. Does Perl program suitable for long running process or daemon?
2. Is this considered as daemon program?
  $ cat myprog.pl
  while($true) {

I tried to install the module plot.pm, by following the undermentioned method http://www.base64.co.uk/installing-perl-modules/ but I failed. What have I missed?
I am using windowsXP. I am using Perl-5-10. I installed perl in c:\perl\.
To install the module plot.pm, using the ...

It is a very basic question. But i want clear idea about how the perl
program execution was happened. I know Perl is a Interpreter language.I
need more information about whats going there internally .
could you explain or direct me right document?

my $HHs=[
    {Rx => 'test', key2 => '1st second key' },
    {Rx => '2nd1', key2 => '2nd second key' },
    {Rx => '3rd1', key2 => '3rd second key' }

I'm trying to achieve the following
a table that when I click on the top link I will chance the ORDER BY
value in the table. eg

Anyone having suggestion parsing SQL statement?
It should able to parse:
BLA BALA BALA...
VALUES(

Hello, sigh...the erros seem like without end. Does it happen to you guys that debugging takes much much longer time than actual coding ?
Here I have problem of building Language::Prolog::Yaswi at http://search.cpan.org/~salva/Language-Prolog-Yaswi-0.14/Yaswi.pm
It's an XS module. ...

my script is in the same directory as my files, but it cannot find the file
ABC.txt in open() below.
foreach my $supplied (@ARGV){
# Output file name set of element currently processed.

I have a static library main.a and I want to call one function of this
library from Perl code.
I have configured Inline params link (LIBS,INC etc) and my perl script
compiles fine.

Hello, I have just upgrade my perl-5.8.8 to perl-5.10 , this new perl is installed at /usr/local/bin/perl
I have install a lot of modules in the old perl directory, so I have problem of using the new perl version because of many uninstalled module, should reinstalled all the ...

Does anyone use curses and the method chgat because I am unable to
figure out how to use it. I have tried many forms of the method calls
and they all compile but none of them do anything.
Thanks

does anyone have a sample script for a 3270 connection  via perl?
i've read all i can find for the x3270, x3270-script, c3270, etc. but
i can't quite wrap my head around how the scripting should work.  i've
done telnet connections with Net::telnet so i am familiar with the

I'm trying to connect to a MSSQL 2000 database using integrated security
and am not having any success. My understanding is that you only need to
call DBSETLSECURE before you call dblogin, as in my example below, but
it doesn't even attempt to be reaching the SQL server. If I ...

given then ARGV[0] is 2008052803, why woulnd't below regex match them??
} elsif ( $ARGV[0] =~ m/\b2008[01][1-31]([01][0-9]|2[0-3])\b/ ) {
     @array = qx#ls -tr $directory/$ARGV[0]*#;
     #2008052803