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Hi, i would like to convert a date format into unix timestamp. I searched the whole web but did not find anythin yet. Any sollutions?? tnahx a lot
I have a 4 byte string which I would like to convert to a integer. I'm reading the data from a file and the file contains 4 bytes for the ID number. So I've extracted the 4 bytes as text into ...
I want to pre-configure a software package that people download from a webserver. For this I'd like to preset some strings inside a binairy application file. Basically what I need is a Perl...
Experts, I plan to put PERL in my resume. (not changiing jobs right now) Can you put down some questions here which you think u'd ask in an interview with a PERL candidate?? Manav
I'm trying to return an array of "shared" members between two arrays (strings). Now my subroutine seems to work, but I can't read the return array. I suspect I'm passing a pointer to an ...
Anyone able to help me? i've got a function in perl which trims spaces (all of them) in a given string(=argument) which looks like : sub trim {    my($string)=@_;    for ($string) {      ...
While reading STDIN I need to be able to break out of the while loop and stop the STDIN from reading the rest of the file if a condition is met. This has to be done from an if statment imbedde...
I saw something about switch statements, so I tried one.  But it's not working.  Do you know what's wrong? chomp( my $score = <STDIN> ); switch( $score ) {     case [90..100] { print "...
Let say I have "12345" store in $str. How do I tell how many chars are in $str ?
I have a perl script running on a solaris 9 box that if a mail queue hits 5000 a alarm goes off and send out a e-mail and text page. What i want to do is when this number is detected I want...
Hi There, I am attempting to install DBD-Oracle using ppm 4.0 on a Windows XP computer that has ActiveState version 5.10 installed. I could not do this successfully These following are the...
Hi, I am using the Net::Telnet module and calling $telnet->cmd($command) to invoke a process on a remote 2K machine, from a shell script on linux. The process is invoked fine but the 'cmd' co...
Hi, I need some help with writting a perl script. Here is what I need to do: 1. I need to pull down a bunch of files from an ftp server on a schedulable basis (mainly daily). The file name...
I have this type of data repeated over 100 times that I need to extract and write to a .csv file. (Just the numbers not the headers)         CAUCPSCT               KEY (CELL_NUMBER)     ...
Hi, Can someone give me some decent instructions on how to install the PadWalker portion of Epic when using Eclipse? I have found some examples, but there must be a simple set of steps s...
I am new to perl,cgi  I have installed perl 5.6 and when i run a test cgi script i am getting the following.... Can't locate DBI.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:/perl/lib C:/perl/site/lib .) a...
Hi all this is my first question on this board. I have a data log file which needs splitting. the data file consists of the following data: Fri Nov 30 16:52:25 2007 | <hostname> | <ip_addre...
I have the following perl code that copies and renames files with the current date appended to the file name.  I need to modify it to move  and rename the files with the date appended to the f...
I'm writing a fragment of perl which is being included by the main perl program elsewhere. I want to split it into a few files for maintenance purposes, and include each of those from my "t...
In the Perl code below I'm removing carriage return characters, but I need to also remove blank lines. #!/opt/perl/bin/perl open(IN,"InputFile.txt") || die("Can't open file"); open(OUT,...
Dear colleagues, I am running ActivePerl v5.10 on Windows XP Pro. I have been trying to connect to MySQL v5 with no success.  I have been getting the following error: ----------- perl d...
This is close, but it deletes everything =). $BACKUP_DIR = "/var/www/backup"; # Read directory (ignoring . and ..) opendir(DIR,"$BACKUP_DIR") || die "opendir $BACKUP_DIR failed"; @file...
i have a zip file test.zip this zipped file contians plenty of zip  file how to unzip test.zip using perl
I'm trying to get this part of a perl script to work. $excludezone = "com\.ru"; if($domain2=~ m/\\$exclude_zone/ ) {    print "sorry $exclude_zone tld is not allowed"; } I basically...
I would like to send an email from a perl script. This email should have a message body and also attach a file. This is what I am currently trying. $mail_command = "uuencode $filename $fil...