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perl 5.8.2
OS: AIX fully POSIX compliant
my script moves files from one dir to another.
When I want my script to stop, should I pass it along the signal INT

(This should probably be an easy one for someone.}
Why doesn't this work:
kevinz@centernet:/usr/local/src/rrd$ perl -e "@s=(["a","b"],["c","d"]);print $s[0][0];"
syntax error at -e line 1, near "]["

Recently I faced one scenario with references and array slice in perl.
I used following program to retrieve the rows from a table in Oracle using
Perl DBI.
As shown in the program, I did following steps to retrieve the rows :-

I was just testing some reference and while trying out below I am trying
to understand below
@{$yahoo->{yahoo}}...........  I can see that this is pointing to 0,1,3
by running the code.

Hi ...
      I have to make my back button of the browser disable ... can any one
help me in doing that using perl script...
Thanks in advance....

I have a list of element in array that I would like to match the
pattern in logs file. I have hard time take element from array and
matching it. More then weeks now and don't know where to find in man
page. please help me. Here is my code.

I want to implement a status/progress bar in my little piece of find
file code. I've looked at Term::ProgressBar and Smart::Comments and
I've tried many many different examples. But I cannot figure out how
to implement either of the two into my code. Any pointers/tips/ideas

Hiya
I have three sentences.
This is a nice hotel.
The view & food is good.

Years ago I used to work with FORTRAN, RPG GAP 2 and a smidgeon of basic.
Code was written one line at a time, the first section of code was Input
data, the next section was calculations, the last section was output.
(For example, in the sample of code below, the "while" line would ...

I have an array of records.  I need to search this array for a
particular record (or records) based on a record id.
This is simple enough (e.g. using the grep function)
@found = grep {/$rec_id/} @array;

I am continuing work on my script. I know there are many ways to read
files. I am going to be opening files that are text and also that are binary.
Here are my 2 ways that I have done it it in the past. I am wondering
which way is best.

Hi Team,
 I want a code snippet for retrieving the content in xcel sheet in a
variable.
Thanks in advance[?]

Is there a way to have multiple users on a server using the perl at
/usr/local/bin/perl and yet have their own personal perl modules that
the other users can't see?
I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to allow multiple users to

I try to make a script to download a file with htaccess. I have the error
401, it does not work.
Why my script do not use my credentials?
#!/usr/bin/perl