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[size=4]Beginning Perl[/size] [b]by Simon Cozens, Peter Wainwright[/b] I have gone through several Perl tutorials in the past, and I have to admit that this is the best one I've seen, especially if you already know how to program. I came from a C++ world, so it was relatively easy to …

Hi All, I'm haveing some problems with my perl code. the script is for a mail filtering program called mimedefang, the code is the main filter. the fist bit of code is used to filter out mail based on the subject line. sub filter_begin () { my($msgSubject, $hfile) = @_; …

[quote]<form method="POST" action="http://www.geocities.com/zerounixinc/cgi/FormMail.pl"> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT SIZE="3">Name <input type="text" name="Name" size="20"> E-mail <input type="text" name="Email" size="20"> Address <textarea rows="3" name="Address" cols="29"></textarea> Subject <select size="1" name="Subject"> <option selected>Computer Repair</option> <option>Computer Setup</option> <option>Networking</option> <option>Building</option> <option>Other</option> </select>& Discription Of Job <textarea name="Description" cols="47" rows="4" wrap="true"></textarea></p> <p align="left"> <input type=hidden name="recipient" value="tyler@tc3net.com"> <span style="background-color: #008000"> …

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I created this into a cgi file [QUOTE] #!/usr/bin/perl # # sload - current server load # print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print <<EOM; <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT=15> <TITLE> $ENV{SERVER_NAME} HTTPD Load </TITLE> <H2> Current load average of <A HREF=/>$ENV{SERVER_NAME}</A><HR></H2> EOM print `uptime`; print "<P>"; [/QUOTE] Now I want that on my website.. …

I want to open and parse the contents of a web page on the WWW. Is there anyway I can do this using PERL?

Everyone knows that usually every Perl program should start with something along the lines of "#!/usr/bin/perl" ... what's often called as "shebang." Anyone know why? I just read this cute post on google... The exclamation point has been nicknamed "bang" for as long as I can remember. (Back in the …

What exactly is Safe Perl and is there a place where you can find ready made Safe Perl compliant scripts?

You ever use Perl? What are you thoughts? How does it compete with newer languages? Can it be used for the enterprise arena?

I'm a long time Perl programmer that has developed some pretty complex E-commerce sites using Perl CGI and mySQL. I have a brand new site development project which will also be a dynamic, mySQL driven site. I've done some reading about Perl versus PHP and it appears the main conclusions …

using the following allocate process function i need a deallocate process function but i dont know how to do it. :unsure: Could anyone help? Here is the code: [code]sub allocateProcess&#40;&#41; &#123; my $found=0; my $sizeNeeded=0; my $spaceNotFound=0; my $ID=0; my $size=0; system&#40;"clear"&#41;; print "Process ID&#58; "; $ID=<STDIN>; chomp&#40;$ID&#41;; for&#40;$i=0;$i<$processes;$i++&#41; &#123; …

A while ago I caught a small error in the book "Beginning Perl" by Simon Cozens, a Wrox book. Since the editor didn't know my name, he wrote down my Yahoo! username which I e-mailed him with. It's kind of funny seeing "inscissorx" on the page... http://www.wrox.com/acon16h1.asp?WROXEMPTOKEN=121107ZHEunvKL25OekNE6At4E&BookID=403&ExpandID=3324

If anyone wants to develop Perl applications, a good IDE is OptiPerl. This is one of the best editors I've seen. You can make CGI scripts and test them off line (you see the output on an HTML page), contains color coding, query editor, script output screen (for console programs), …