FAQ 8.26 Why doesn't open() return an error when a pipe open fails? #18 0 13 (11/23/2008 8:03:02 PM)
This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq8.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review ...
brian125 (4408)

How to find all the strings in a long that are at most of n different characters of a test string? 28 62 (11/19/2008 11:34:17 PM)
Hi, Suppose I have a long string $a, and a test string $b. I want to fine all the substrings in $a, whose length is the same as $b with at most n mismatches. For example, string 'abcdef' and string 'aacdxf' ...
Peng

FAQ 8.35 How do I close a process's filehandle without waiting for it to complete? #13 0 14 (11/23/2008 2:03:02 PM)
This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq8.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review ...
brian125 (4408)

failed perl upgrade 3 58 (11/23/2008 6:48:54 AM)
I just started learning perl and I currently have perl 5.8.8 installed on mac os x 10.5.5. I tried to install perl 5.8.9 rc1 but the make install command failed because it couldn't find my C compiler. Could thi...
afith13

DBD::Pg installation under Vista 2 57 (11/22/2008 10:50:18 PM)
Hey, i want to access PostgreSQL 8.3 from Perl 5.10.0 under Vista. Therefore I need the DBD::Pg driver. Because it isn't available on ActiveState I downloaded a binary version from PgFoundry and installed it w...
Martin

Dose package name has to be the same as the filename? (for OO) 6 52 (11/21/2008 2:51:31 AM)
Hi, In this webpage, the package name is the same as the filename. http://www.tutorialspoint.com/perl/perl_oo_perl.htm I checked some perl modules, it seems that the filename is always the same as the packag...
Peng

how to support delete of <directoryname> as well as <directoryname>/ 3 22 (11/19/2008 11:20:18 AM)
Hi, We are using a perl script to delete file/folder in apache ( cgi-bin). When we do a delete with and url that ends with / the delete is performed. However when we use only wi...
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use constant XX => ( ... 5 48 (11/19/2008 10:06:09 AM)
Hi Group, There are two syntax for the "use constant" pragma: to declare a scalar or to declare a list. use constant CONST => scalarvalue; use constant LIST => qw( listitem1, listitem2, listitem3); I've ...
Julian

atoi/atof 14 50 (11/14/2008 2:31:25 AM)
Hi all I was messing around with a perl script and realized converting strings to integers/floats is iffy on perl (compared to C). There is all this mention of atoi/atof being system dependent etc and so I fou...
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FAQ 8.27 What's wrong with using backticks in a void context? #17 0 17 (11/23/2008 8:03:01 AM)
This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq8.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review ...
brian125 (4408)