Webmaster Forum / Perl / Getting Started / September 2008

can someone please explain to me how to match patterns that contain
newlines?
when file.txt contains
aaa

I am not really new to perl but still find myself struggling with it. I have
a very simple problem in front of me, but am unable to slove it.
Here is the problem:
I have a file with lines like FF3M62TC02   AGGCAT-GGATG-ACAGT

I just start to learn perl on GD graph. My OS is Linux.
I got a example, but how can I display the graph on the screen ? use
Gtk2 or something else?
Hereis is the code:

I have multiple directories with numerous files in each (all readable
by a Perl-based search command, such as file::grep).
What module, if one exists, could I use or tweak if I wanted to create
an HTML form to search those files in the aforementioned directories

Kindly go through the below codes:
use warnings;
use strict;
my $string = "test";

Hi List,
I am doing entity conversion decimal entity (input xml) 2 named
entity(output xml) in perl using HTML::Entities::Numbered. But it's not
returning named entity for some decimal entities. If any body have idea to

I was reading perl magazine and saw
sub readable {
   my $number = shift;
   $matched = $number =~ s{

I use internet explorer 7.0 to browse the website.
I upload a simple script, helloworld.cgi, to my website but when I ran the script by typing the url, www.myurl.com/cgi-bin/helloworld.cgi, instead of executing the script, I was prompted to download the script.
What must I do.

Is there a way to dump the name space; show all var names and values?

I'm just wondering whats the best way to send an SMS thought perl ?
Has any one experience of doing such a task ?
I'm looking at CPAN and finding:
SMS-Send

I am looking to send a mail message to a large group of users and
indicate which groups they are assigned to. Currently I have a tab
deliniated file which has in column 1 the email address, column 2 the
group, and column 3 the user's name. Using sample data I would like:

here is my problem:
i have to check the entries of a column and write them out to a file if they
happen to be DNA sequences ie they are exclusively composed of the letters
A, T, G, C- no spaces or digits.

These first four lines are how every Perl script I write starts.
#!/usr/bin/perl -T
use strict;
use warnings;

Recently I came across a scenario where I need to convert the time from one
timezone to another.
Though that time, I used few websites for the same but I want to know how to
do the same in Perl.

  Just wanted to show you a small piece of code I have written.Are there
any apparent issues here?
package TWiki::Plugins::DumbPlugin;
use strict;