Forum: PERL Miscellaneous

Are there any modules available that can read and/or write address books for Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express? I couldn't find what I need on...

I think the question I want to ask here is: "Is there any portable way of getting a listing of valid locales on the current system?" I've been...

Hello, I am writing an application which passes a session id around on the querystring. This works fine until I submit a form, at which point...

It seems that our resident troll is causing some laughter :) http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Just+a+cartooney+for+fun+purlgurl&hl=en&lr...

A friend of mine wrote a Perl script that works fine on his machine but dies on mine. I know very little about Perl, so I need help in determining...

I have an application that reads a list of pathnames, and the list can contain "include" lines each of which specifies the path of a file to go off...

On 17 Sep 2003 jimbo@jimbo.com wrote: @oldpresidents = grep { "true" .. $_ eq "Bush" } @presidents; See 'perlop' for the .. operator...

Outline Before posting to comp.lang.perl.misc Must - Check the Perl Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - Check the other standard Perl docs (*.pod)...

I want a program can read a log file and capture the character seg=9543 The file log line like this ...

Hi all, I have to replace some chuncks out of a text file. My actual way to do this is to put the file contents into a scalar variable : open...

I have an XML file that looks like this: <root> <economist publications="true" > <name> <first>John</first> <last>Doe</last> </name>...

Hi, I post something about that issue earlier : I want to modify a text-file that looks like this : (assume that * are random characters) ...

Hi there, I need to sort elements of of list/array by character. For instance I got "hdisk1 hdisk10 hdisk11 hdisk2 hdisk3 ... " and need to have...

so i've been working on an online reference manager for our research group. it's dandy, i'm using the Text::BibTeX module at cpan to do imports and...

I know its wrong to quote "$vars" - but is there an easy way around it when using open() and your filename is in a $var ? Thanks Chris

Hi, I am trying to write a pattern which will give me all matches in java files for strings that contain the word "the " but do not start with...

Hello all, I know its not strictly PERL, but hey, WebGUI *was* developed in PERL :) I'm trying to find any reviews for the open-source , content...

I have a system report that some of you may be familiar with. It is the output from the print_manifest command on an HP-UX system with ignite...

Hello together, how can I find the current path my Perlscript is started ? Jochen

Say we have a file named "ABC" , yet A B and C can be upper or lower case each ( 8 combinations ). how can one neatly open this file without...