Webmaster Forum / Perl / Getting Started / July 2008

Thanks for all the help provided so far in my earlier queries. I have a
query regarding regexes.
I am to match only one specific word in a wordlist which has only those
alphabets which it contains and none other than that.

Unix command file gives file type of that file.
# file a.txt.gz
a.txt.gz: gzip compressed data, was "a.txt", from Unix
How can I achieve same in perl?

I try to read the last line of a file directly instead of using
while(<>) or something else to read each line until "undef" bumped to
me.
If you know some build-in functions or another modules for me to use,

I try to update the end of my file index by 1 per day.
ex:
    file_0   -->  file_1
    file_10  --> file_11

I have a file containing UNIX-styled Path in each line. But the path is
simplified enough. Some of them has ".." and "." in the middle, such as
"/a/b/./c/../d".
Now I want to simplify each Path according to Unix tradition.

Conside the following codes:
use POSIX;
print LONG_MAX, "\n";
my $num = 99999999994;

I put togather a piece of code with some help, to capture the output as
below from a file "cxout1" as below. I am sure this can be written in few
lines or even differnt way of getting the same out put with use of hash etc.
Kindly help me to optimize the code. Any help would be much ...

I'm trying to isolate text in a string. My string is typically of the
form:
sometext["moretext",
I would like to isolate moretext.

Can some one help me gain knowledge as how I can
delete few lines from XML.
Example
 <resource-ref id="ResourceRef_LSSimulator_DataSource_3">

I need a starting point to learn to accomplish the following action:
I need to take a plain text ascii file such as:
Foo
a line of variable text

Greets
I wrote this script to parse information from some log files. It Seems
to work , or look like it works.
In the end I get the log creation of .csv log files with no

I have to do a substitution of a pattern in a text file,
this pattern is a key of a hash table previously set.
so I want to replace my pattern by the corresponding value of the key
in the hash table

Hi ,
I just tried to store some mysql-queried data in to a file. but it wont work. Actually i wanted to do not just writing , it should be APPEND at each time when that perl scripts runs.
Can some body help me , if you all can provide me a sample or a example would be a great help ...

Does anyone know how do I remove the beginning and the trailing * from
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How to make a perl program under windows to play sounds?
thanks.