Forum: PERL Beginners

I'm running out of web space and want to write a script that tell me the size of certain directories so I can see where the hog is. Can anyone...

How Can I call a perl script within my main script If I do $response=`perl $somescript $args`; This will call a new perl process, and may be...

Hello, What is the best way to convert a numeric cobol format S9(09)V9(04) in a more readable way. For example: 000001000000} will be...

Can anyone suggest where I might be able to find (hopefully a freeware or shareware script..) a program that runs either on a windows system or a...

Is there a simple way to print over an existing line? For example: I would like to have a progress report that reads 10%, 20% etc. I don't want...

Hi all, in some aplicantions, we can see the cursor moving in one position, like an "indicator of application is running". In the examples that I...

On Friday, Nov 14, 2003, at 18:39 US/Pacific, Jerry Rocteur wrote: Wiggins is the one who deserves the point, since he was the one with the...

Okay, I have a terminal program I need to get the width and height for. I have a very good reason needing to do it with a base 5.8 Perl install, if...

Hello! I have a questionto those lovers of DBI and Databases: which method is faster to know the number of rows of a query: $sth->rows or ...

I'm trying to write a Perl script that will watch for an IE window to get the focus, grab the COM2 input and output it as if it were from the...

I wrote the following code: MIME::Lite->send('smtp', "mail.myserver.com", Timeout=>60); $msg = MIME::Lite->new( From ...

hey, in my program im just trying to redirect the commands output but i get the error: sh: line 1: 1: command not found code: $return =...

Hi all, I wonder how can I open pipe to STDIN and STDOUT of a process ? Tnx. Mehmet

When they say "uncuddled else" are they meaning: if () { # code } else { # code }

Hi all: This newbie would like to compare two files, let's say File1 and File2. I want to put the difference from File2 only, into a new file,...

given a start and finish address like this $start_address = "10.11.1.14:; $finish_address = "12.13.2.3"; I need to output generarate a a...

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 12:21:57PM -0400, Kevin Old wrote: It's a system limit (not specific to grep) based on the size-in-bytes of the argument...

I am trying to write some code to read the most recent log file in a directory. I wrote some code below. This works but I was wondering if there...