You need to remove the 'mysql' parameter from connect. Should look something like this:
use DBI;

$dsn="DBI:mysql:database=mysql";
$dbh=DBI->connect($dsn, 'root', 'root', {RaiseError => 1});

FTP uses two ports (typically 20 and 21). One of those ports is meant to handle all of your commands. The other one, is meant to return data to you. If you receive an EOF on the command channel,...

ah, you are missing a slash of some kind it seems... you are escaping the first backslash with the second. You probably need to add something like this:
$map_drive =...

Wait What?

You're running a script on *nix, and want that script to map a drive on a windows machine?????

probably similar to this: http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread181408.html

to run the perl script from VB.NET, you need to shell to the system. I guess this works:
dim wsh
set wsh = createobject("WScript.Shell")
wsh.run "c:\perl\perl.exe somefile.pl", 0, 0 as for...

If your e-mail client handles HTML, you can simply enclose it in <b> </b> tags. You are really heavily reliant on the e-mail client for this.

I would make the .pl file, look for a temp file. Something like clpdata.dat or something, and have perl write the entry to the temp file. Then, I would have it scan the process list for other...

qw (quote word) is used to generate a list of words. In the case above, where you use it as parameters to use module (which still wouldn't have worked, since you had a semicolon between use socket...

Capitalize socket in your third line. use Socket, not use socket. Also, remove the qw line following it.

The problem is, the method you use to read from the file handle, slurps the file, and then iterates over each line by replacing $line with $_. If you really want to prove this, you can throw the...

Got +r perms on gettysburg.txt?

If it were windows itself, don't you think cmd.exe (which is a windows program) would support it? I would imagine so. According to MSDN (I was holding off on it, but will post it when I get home)...

You can mark this thread as solved :)

Oh For The Sake Of Pete:
#!/usr/bin/perl

$filepath = "./file.dat";

# Get Data From File Into Arrays
open (FH, "$filepath");
while (<FH>) {
($stamp, $part1, $part2) = split(/\s+/);...

How about attaching a portion of the file?

when you say "the remaining contents should be the same" do you mean, in file1 (ALL:FILE1) it should have just ALL:FILE1, AND the rest of the file (with the exception of ALL:FILE2, and ALL:FILE3,...

I trust O'Reilly significantly more than wikipedia. I also read on MSDN (will post when I get home) that it's the API calls and programs that do the translation, not NTFS Native.

Oddly enough, the above posted (with the suggestions to try cd / and cd /windows and cd "/documents and settings") was tested in windows XP SP1. I went to start... run, and typed in cmd. Once the...

I'm pretty sure windows does not support paths with / as the separator. Try this: cd / or cd /windowsand then try this cd \windows. What I'm guessing happens here, is Perl (and other languages that...

#!/usr/bin/perl

$filename = "/root/file";
$var = `cat $filename | wc -l`;

print "$var";

EDIT: you shouldn't be stomping around a system as root.

#!/usr/bin/perl
system("cat '/something/something/something/darkside.txt'");

...

Try not to back to back post... it's bad etiquette (though sometimes necessary). The better alternative is to edit your post within the grace-period provided by the site.

....

I do believe the code I gave you above would work just fine for what you are doing... instead of manually using push to push each item, you would do a for loop and push all of the items that are...

There is probably a cleaner and easier way to do this, but if you include this sub in your perl file somewhere:
sub Compare_Items
{
($ref_cmplist, $ref_udata) = @_;

foreach $udata...

it's difficult to tell without the Perl script..... I personally would just use the PHP str_replace function (http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/func_string_str_replace.asp) and have it check for \'s in...

I'm not a big fan of just giving out code.... especially when I know it's for homework, but let me give you some detail.... once you do as KevinADC suggested, and get the DBI module installed, you...

just check for the newline characters and replace them...something like:
$linefromfile =~ s/\n//gi; Just remember though, that you will have to manually add your own newline character ("\n")...

aha, maybe you should put the entire thing inside of the while loop ;)

have you tried outputting the value of $thinkingof during each guess? This will help you to at least ensure that the randomness works.

Is this homework, or what is it that you want to accomplish?

This Page (http://www.dreamincode.net/code/snippet60.htm) might help.

use CGI;

chomp($name = param("name")); # // $name should have "foo" in it.

you're right, my bad too. I should have linked Here Instead (http://www.letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=Parse%3A%3ARecDescent)

Right Here! (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Parse-RecDescent/lib/Parse/RecDescent.pm)

Basically, you need a specially module. http://search.cpan.org/~ingy/Inline-0.44/C/C.pod. This will let you put C++ code INLINE, that is, into the Perl file. This still doesn't let you call the C...

Well, the first step in any perl app when using the dbi interface is to make sure perl knows to use it:
use DBI;
Then, you want to make perl connect to the database using the DBI interface, so,...

Not to distract from your original question (ie: how to run commands from perl) but, if accessing a database is what you want to do, why not simply do so directly from Perl, using say.... The DBI...