Perl

Can I hack this perl thing ?
I am a beginner to perl. I have a setup a page on an apache server which has its addr like http:// <name of server> :8088/cgi-bin/names.pl?id1=xx&id2=yy This page contains a list of names of a few friends. This page is made when a friend of mine registers in my guestbook. Now the question is that this above addr... 26 Feb 2007 16:35

FAQ 4.57 How do I look up a hash element by value?
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 Feb 2007 21:32

Transitioning Web Site
Dear Perl Gurus, I have a slight situation involving transitioning a web site from one host to another. The site has a number of Perlscript based applications. It's a government website and 4 out of 5 applications have been successfully transferred, which indicates that perlscript is being understood on the ne... 26 Feb 2007 19:13

FAQ 5.20 Why can't I just open(FH, ">file.lock")?
This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq5.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 Feb 2007 15:15

Reading in data until I have a full structure
I've got a text file which is full of questions in a format similar to the following: QUESTION_ID "QUESTION_META_DATA FULL_QUESTION" /"SHORT_QUESTION" (ANSWER_1, ANSWER_2, ... ANSWER_N) At the moment I can parse each individual question into its component parts without any problems... 25 Feb 2007 16:50

Question about News::NNTPClient
The script below lists ALL news groups for a particular news server using the News::NNTPClient module. The list returned looks similar to this with the group name, first article#, last article#, and 'y' or 'n' if posting is allowed: alt.test 0003911619 0003889349 y alt.test-ns 0000006714 0000003335 y alt.test... 25 Feb 2007 14:43

trapping a manual close signal
Hi i have a simple file transfer script that moves files between different directories continuously on a loop. It runs as a dos console on the server. Trouble is I want to somehow trap the manual shut down of it when one of my support guys hits the X or goes to close. I want to trap this and log it. That way... 25 Feb 2007 14:43

FAQ 4.38 Why don't my <<HERE documents work?
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 Feb 2007 09:29

perl "alternating foreach" feature idea
dear perl people, in the spirit of both perl's brevity and it's "do what i mean" array contexts, it would be an appropriate feature for foreach loops to support an array of variables as the iterator as well as just a scalar. this would cause perl to alternate across the array: for example: foreach ($key, $... 26 Feb 2007 11:48

FAQ 4.45 How do I find the first array element for which a condition is true?
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 Feb 2007 03:31