Webmaster Forum / Perl / Getting Started / August 2008

Is it possible to write a script that will tell me whether a file has
certain properties. I am using a commercial program for backing up
software. Each file has an associated property that indicates whether
it is to be backed up or whether it is backed up or nothing at all. I

I am a C,C++ programmer with no experience with Perl/CGI. I will  be
handling an assignment involving Perl/CGI, and was wondering if
someone can help answer the following questions:
1. Are there any integrated development environments for Perl/CGI

in new to perl .
i know how to pass simple variables to perl subs
but now i like to pass HTTP::Response variable to sub
and im getting errors here is my example :

What command (contruct?) of Perl language I should to use to execute
this problem:
- loop run, and run, and run, until user key pressed <b> (break) and:
 - if user key pressed <c> (continue) then loop resume,

I have written a code to ping remote sites:
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use strict;
use warnings;

I am working on a perl script and inside the script I am building a
string. However the backslash does not appear.
Here is the code:
$DirCommand = "dir".$CurrentDrive.":\ /S"; where $DirCommand = "c"

Howdy all!
As part of a test script, I have to make sure my test machine (i.e.
the machine that is running the script) has libraries zlib and hdf5. I
do that with this code. Is there a better way?

Calling a sub from perl, if this sub return an address on an array,
it is not a problem, perl seems to manage correctly the memory to
keep allocated, and I can access to the data through the reference
at any time.

First off, hello everyone.
The program I'm trying to write requires me to grab a specific set of
multiline output from a command and store it in an array.  I have output
that looks like this:

I need to know if the '===' operator is used in perl?If it is,what is
its use?
moijes12

Hello friends,
I have a few questions about perl,whose answers i am finding difficult
to find.They are as below:
1)What type of language is perl?

I am trying to write script to retrieve info from a file that looks like:
col1   col2    col3
A        5         10
A        5         10

All,
   How would I use something like this: perl -pei
's/mailto:itisme@abc.org/mailto:itisme@abc.org?subject=My Comment
Concerning Page: <filename>/g' `find ./ -name *.html *.htm`

When I log onto a linux host, and use "set" I can see that there a
couple of functions defined (test() for instance) in bash.  How can I
read out these functions and use them in a perl script?
I've search the archives, but nothing came up.

I am writing a raffle draw promo using perl and i have the script as below.
what i intend to achieve is to print all the numbers in the array to gui
screen, clear the screen and display randomly selected one as the winner.
however, I have run my script in the cmd line .. it works ...