Perl

FAQ 1.15 Where can I get a list of Larry Wall witticisms?
This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq1.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete perlfaq is at http://faq.perl.org . --------... 4 Feb 2010 12:16

activestate perlex: is it real?
Hi, I am attempting to develop code at a site using perlex. Having lots of bother with meaningless messages in c:\Perl\bin\PerlEx-Err-002.log and I figured I would try and print some message to the log myself. But I could find no doc or info on how to write to the log files. Writing to STDERR has no effect. ... 6 Feb 2010 22:54

SSL read timeout
Hi, I have a perl script running to query a SOAP process, but using a basic Net::HTTPS connection. If the server takes more than 60 econds to respond, the script fails with the following error: SSL read timeout: at /opt/CTperl-5.8.4/lib/site_perl/5.8.4/Net/HTTP/Methods.pm line 226 Net::SSL::die_with_error('N... 2 Feb 2010 14:58

FAQ 4.1 Why am I getting long decimals (eg, 19.9499999999999) instead of the numbers I should be getting (eg, 19.95)?
This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq4.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete perlfaq is at http://faq.perl.org . --------... 2 Feb 2010 14:58

Module name access
if we have a package and want to access the package name using a perl var how is it done? I want the error message to say (literally): "Mypack Error: hello, i am an error" I want the error method to prepend "Mypack Error: " to any error return. However, i don't want to manually enter the Mypack string, i want to... 27 Jan 2010 20:34

print array with separator?
@array=("a", "b", "c"); print "@array\n"; The above code will not print a separator (say a newline) between the elements. I could use a foreach loop to do so. But I feel that there might be a more convenient way. Could somebody let me know if there is one? foreach (@array) { print; print "\n"; } ... 2 Feb 2010 14:57

LibXML (XPATH) and escape
I am trying to escape single and double quotation marks in an XPATH expression. Failing to escape the quotes produces an "Invalid predicate" error. Here's an example: my $value="Dave's"; $value =~s/\'/\\\'/g; my $search="//entry/owner/person[value/text()='$value']/../../this/ animal/value/text()"; However... 24 Jan 2010 12:26

FAQ 4.46 How do I handle linked lists?
This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq4.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete perlfaq is at http://faq.perl.org . --------... 25 Jan 2010 13:55

FAQ 9.4 How do I remove HTML from a string?
This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq9.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete perlfaq is at http://faq.perl.org . --------... 23 Jan 2010 18:48

FAQ 7.27 How can I comment out a large block of Perl code?
This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq7.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete perlfaq is at http://faq.perl.org . --------... 23 Jan 2010 12:03