Webmaster Forum / Perl / Getting Started / July 2008

Hi Guys...
This query may be irreverent to this forums....if it is please pardon
me......
In my form there is one option to chose the entire year...

I watched Dr. Damian Conway's speech on OSCON 2008 movie clip.
And I saw unfamiliar syntax.
I know quoted words...
my @list = qw<word1 word2 word3 ... >;

we have string of date 2005-11-01
and want to display as
November 1, 2005
THanks

Does anyone know if there is a perl module that can be used for recording in
.wav format?
(One that can be used under both Linux and Windows, or at least under
Windows.)

I am trying to make an exe file from a perl script file. I am using
ActiveState Perl 5.8.6 (Build 811) on Windows.
This is the lcommand that i am running and the error msg:
pp -o sp.exe spdisplaye.pl

I am having trouble with CPAN to update my perl packages. Here is the
error:
[root@gemini ~]# cpan
cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.7602)

I've got this error, anything I can do ?
     "Can't locate auto/DBI/data_source.al in @INC "
Code :
  use DBI;

to all,
i have installed Spreadshee::ParseExcel to parse some large excel data
files.
Here is the problem I'm facing. I need to parse data from columns M to P and

I am trying to fetch various docs from server using wget. Below is the code
Files are downloading but of 0 size :(
Am i missing any thing
adave@adave:~/adave> cat fetch.pl

I am trying my hand at creating an package and am a bit unsure about
some of the inner working of what I've done.
I have a new method
sub new {

Hi netters,
I was wondering if there's a way to specify "not including this phrase" in perl regexp.
Like such two strings:
axbcabcd

I'm currently dealing with a sample program I try to understand. Here it is:
---
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict; use warnings; use diagnostics;

Hi: I have a script which connects to a database when it starts up
$dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname=$dbname;host=$host;port=$port;","$username", "$password", {AutoCommit => 1});
followed by a while loop which runs a query for this connection at 60 second intervals. If the ...

Is there a way to insert an arithmetic calculation into a substitute
operation, keeping all "non-integers" AS THEY WERE ?
Example:
$string="blah  10      20";

How to convert data available from excel sheet to hash table?
Thanks,
Siva