Webmaster Forum / Perl / Getting Started / October 2009

I am using the IMAP::Client for automating the quota check
for some of the users. My script was fairly straight,  and I ran in to
the below error, while running the script. The error returned by the
$imap->error  function is

Looking at the kernel upgrade pages at
 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml
Its a bit confusing about the symlink creation.  I've wondered about
it a few times.

This is my first post here.
I am trying to emulate Linux 'sort' command through Perl. I got following
code through Internet to sort the text file:
# cat sort.pl

I am using the IMAP::Client for automating the quota check for some of the users. My script was fairly straight,  and I ran in to the below error, while running the script. The error returned by the   $imap->error  function is
QUOTA not supported for GETQUOTAROOT command at imap ...

I just want help to open and read a file. I have to make a script so that it
should open and read a file which is in fasta format. I have done something
with subroutine but getting some errors. May be everyone do not know the
fasta format....

What follows is snippet out of a more complex script and reworked to
simplify but still not seeing what causes the problem.
I'm not sure if I've just stared at it too long or what.  When I run it
I get this error:

Please can you advise ?
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Mysql;
$dbh = Mysql->connect("localhost","mailscanner","root","c0nc3pt") or

Looking over the perldoc File::Find output (perl 5.8.4)
I see at finddepth it says:
 [...] in part
      "finddepth()" works just like "find()" except that is invokes the

Trying to learn how to run Gnuplot via a Perl script I came across the
following helpful example:
#!/usr/bin/perl
# Generate postscript and png plot with GNUplot from Perl

Hi, All!
   The default character to escape is backslash (\). Is there any way
to redefine this and set it to any other character?
   For e.g. if I wanted to use '^' instead of '\'.

Hello,all:
I had a question about the perl hash case insensitive .
And I had  this script :
==========================================

How do I split a word into n subsets?
my $word = "thequickbrown"
If I want three subsets I should be able to create:
the

I'm trying to write a word list generator which can
generate all possible combinations of n characters, within n
set of characters.
So far, this is what I have come up. The only input is the

Is there a good way to do printf's with currency symbols?
I've tried this:
 printf "Total: \$%10.2f\n", $total;
But it puts the dollar sign way out front (ugly).  I want it to look like:

<DIV>Dear friend,<BR>I am willing to give you a big surprise. I found
a website:&nbsp; www.ollsu.com last week. They mainly sell phones ,
laptops, tvs ,digital cameras and motorbikes. I ordered a tv . now I
have got the product after 5 days. Its quality is very good.<BR>By the