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Perl Resources
Post Reply? | Posted by: eWish | Last post by eWish, 93 days ago
This thread is designed to provide links to Online Perl Resources which will be helpful in learning how to use and code in the Perl... more »
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Guidelines To Ensuring Better Answers and Assistance To Your Thread(s)
Post Reply? | Posted by: numberwhun | Last post by numberwhun, 235 days ago
Please remember the following when posting a question in the Perl Forum. Doing so will get you better assistance. Provide Sample Code - You will... more »
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Usage of Perlcc
1 Reply | Posted by: kriz4321 | Last post by mohanprasadgutta, Today
Hi all, I have a simple .pl program which I need to convert to EXE... It has no modules used but when I try to use perlcc it gives following error..... more »
CGI Script
3 Replies | Posted by: jain236 | Last post by jain236, Today
Hi every body, i am just new to the CGI scripting. i am trying to run a basic CGI script . i am using APACHE as my web server . i have placed my... more »
Redirecting the output of an exe file to a txt file
2 Replies | Posted by: archana1234 | Last post by nithinpes, Today
I am running an application on windows. I don't have the source code :(.. I need to capture the output of this exe file and redirect it into a file... more »
Convert Perl Code in PHP
6 Replies | Posted by: aliusman | Last post by pbmods, Today
Hi Every one, I have a perl script which uses the following code to decode the username saved in a cookie. I want to parse that cookie in php for... more »
copying files of a certain type to different folder
4 Replies | Posted by: supriyamk | Last post by supriyamk, Today
Hi, I am trying to search a directory for subdirectories, recreate the subdirectories elsewhere and copy only certain files from current subdirectory... more »
Usage of shift command
6 Replies | Posted by: sessmurda | Last post by numberwhun, Today
So I'm fairly new at perl and was looking for help with the usage of the shift command, which I think will help me solve a problem I've been having. ... more »
string to character array in PERL
9 Replies | Posted by: bhanumathy | Last post by numberwhun, Today
hi, I am a beginer in PERL. got stuck in trying to figure out how strings are converted to character arrays. for ex: I want to convert... more »
Extracting specific variables from a fixed-width data file
2 Replies | Posted by: lunabelle22a | Last post by KevinADC, Today
Hi, I have 125 unique variables and corresponding values in a data file with 6 fixed-width columns (columns alternate between "variables" and... more »
Newbie question
4 Replies | Posted by: chazzy69 | Last post by KevinADC, Today
Hi all i very interested in learning pearl, i already know a couple of other languages and i looking to expand my knowledge as it were. I currently... more »
CGI file upload script problems
22 Replies | Posted by: owz2008 | Last post by KevinADC, Today
This has probably been covered before but could not find a similar thread. Basically I have created a form which can be viewed at... more »
Opening programs with perl...
3 Replies | Posted by: mjg2004 | Last post by numberwhun, Today
So I am new to using Perl, and I am trying to create a Perl program to open a previous Perl program (one I already created) with Perl. what does the... more »
opening file using wild card
3 Replies | Posted by: Looking2Learn | Last post by Looking2Learn, Today
Hey, I'm trying to open a txt file, but I won't know the first three characters of the filename. For example, I want to open a "user.txt" file, and... more »
Using user entered data
2 Replies | Posted by: gilly1471 | Last post by gilly1471, Yesterday
Yep, new to perl, I started yesterday, but am quickly excelling. I would just like to know how to use user entered data. Let's say I have a... more »
Copying sub directories
3 Replies | Posted by: supriyamk | Last post by nithinpes, Yesterday
Hi, I would like to know how to copy certain types of files from a group of directories into another group of directories. more »
how to replace . with ..\
2 Replies | Posted by: Raju Sathliya | Last post by nithinpes, Yesterday
Hi all, Please look at below eg. ..abc\efg. in this I want to replace only last . (dot) with ..\ (double dot slash) So can anybody help on... more »
reading txt file located in zip archives
1 Reply | Posted by: Looking2Learn | Last post by nithinpes, Yesterday
Hi, I'm currently attempting to read a text file that is located in two subsequent zip archives, (ex: archive1.zip/archive2.zip/textfile.txt). In my... more »
Can i create a subdirectory using mkdir command?
3 Replies | Posted by: supriyamk | Last post by KevinADC, Yesterday
i have made a directory c:/abcd now i want to gather a list of sub directories from 1 directory and create the same list here. i am able to print the... more »
need help on searching through a parsed HTML table(used HTML::TableExtract)
2 Replies | Posted by: poisonedapple | Last post by poisonedapple, Yesterday
Hi , I have posted this in one of my other thread but I am posting it again since it is infact on a different topic I got the table extracted and I... more »
urgent need help in parsing html tables
6 Replies | Posted by: poisonedapple | Last post by poisonedapple, Yesterday
I am trying to parse a simple table with two headings and get the rows but I am having a big problem trying to find out how to pass the link to the... more »
Help for a newbie, please
3 Replies | Posted by: jenifer | Last post by jenifer, 3 days ago
Hi. I'm trying to collapse 2 tables in 1 as follows: table... more »
Auto login URL with Perl
4 Replies | Posted by: tinaungsoe | Last post by tinaungsoe, 3 days ago
We have the Intranet web site which requires users to login to access. We also have the URL with password protection that will be placed under... more »
Retrieve mails from mailserver
Post Reply? | Posted by: sbettadpur | Last post by sbettadpur, 3 days ago
Hi everybody, Iam struggling for retrieve mails from mail server using perl iam facing some problem in blow my code even i have the mails in my... more »
Translate characters into variable
1 Reply | Posted by: fifou92 | Last post by KevinADC, 3 days ago
Hi, I would like to translate (Encrypte) a code from a variable. This code is made of 3 numbers and substitution must respect a rule according... more »
2 questions for perl text manipulation
4 Replies | Posted by: sessmurda | Last post by sessmurda, 3 days ago
I've just started programming in perl and have written a few successful scripts but had a quick question on how to do 2 things. First here is a... more »
MS SQL + Perl = Phantom rows
1 Reply | Posted by: Rebles | Last post by Rebles, 3 days ago
Hi, I just posted this in the MS SQL Section, but maybe my problem is rooted in Perl, so it's more appropriate to post here instead (sorry for the... more »

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