number of starting tabs 20 37 (8/16/2012 8:07:03 PM)
I want to count the number of staring tabs of a string. Is there any better way than my $var = ' foo '; (my $tabs = $var) =~s/^(\t*).*$/$1/; $tabs = length $tabs; print $tabs; # 2 ...
nospam.gravitalsun (70)

Pause until external program exits with success? 10 48 (8/11/2012 5:18:40 AM)
In running an external process I would like to continue (or terminate) a script depending on the output of the external process. For example, if the process is to scale a very large image with ImageMagic...
tuxedo (101)

Click in a radio button 2 33 (8/7/2012 1:00:55 PM)
Hi, I'm a newbee in Perl, and I'd like know if I can click specific radio button in a web page with Perl. This page haves 30 radio buttons. This page is made in Javascript, and I can't see tags in source c...
contracer11 (156)

Windows: Rakudo-Star Perl6 now available as *.msi 2 33 (8/13/2012 12:24:43 PM)
Hello everybody, I am a Windows user and I always wanted to run Rakudo-Star Perl 6, but I couldn't get the installation / compile from source to run on my Windows 7 box (32 bits). I grew more and more frus...
dilbert1999 (18)

strange warning when open file 8 25 (8/15/2012 8:56:35 AM)
Do you have any idea how to fix the warning Name "main::FH" used only once: possible typo at C:\work\Files\test.pl at the following code ? #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $output_dir ...
nospam.gravitalsun (70)

Regx explanation please 9 42 (7/26/2012 1:17:05 PM)
Yesterday I needed to be able to print large numbers with commas. ie 1,234,567 Google turned up the following: 1 while s/^(-?\d+)(\d{3})/$1,$2/; Two questions arise from this. 1) I have not seen ...
dave7665 (110)

"is-numeric" check? 27 61 (7/29/2012 8:16:17 AM)
Is there a simple way to check if a value is numeric in Perl? FWIW, (($x + 0) eq $x) doesn't fit, as it returns false should $x contain any leading zeros or whitespace. Apparently, there /is/ such a ...
oneingray (279)

dynamic content with PDF::API2 2 39 (8/8/2012 8:27:58 PM)
I've been using PDF::API2 for years without a problem of any kind, but now have a new requirement -- text wrapping. Here's an example: #from a hashref from a database, name could be NULL my $name = $hashref...
cartercc (423)

I killed my own source. 48 230 (7/28/2012 10:51:34 AM)
Net::FTP=GLOB(0x837217c)<<< 226 Transfer complete .. .. logs index.html wsb6121022001 energy green2.m4v Video 151.wmv false.wmv vids images zen rev1.html luther1.html lh_1.html lh_17.html lh_18.html lh_19....
cal819 (188)

Using variable in replacement expression 5 29 (8/8/2012 9:25:27 PM)
I'm trying to do a global replace with a varying replacement string which includes a counter to count the replacements. The idea is this (replacing all "xy" strings): Source: "ab xy cd xy ef xy gh" Re...
rob9778 (6)