Perl

FAQ 7.28 How do I clear a package?
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 . --------... 31 Mar 2008 18:39

Readline using foreach and while
Ben Morrow wrote: Quoth "szr" <szrRE(a)szromanMO.comVE>: Ben Morrow wrote: Quoth "szr" <szrRE(a)szromanMO.comVE>: Actually the behaviors of "for (@ary)" and "for (@ary, ())" do seem consistant if you really think about it. The resulting list is what it iterates over (from the first eleme... 31 Mar 2008 18:39

Parse x.500 DN and change order displayed
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:09:07 GMT, Uri Guttman <uri(a)stemsystems.com> wrote: "S" == SecureIT <gotsecure(a)gmail.com> writes: S> I am trying to change this S> "cn=Bob Smith+serialNumber=CR013120080827,o=ICM,c=US" S> to this: S> "serialNumber=CR013120080827+cn=Bob Smith,o=ICM,c=US" ... 31 Mar 2008 19:20

BEGIN, INIT etc...
Joost Diepenmaat wrote: END blocks are useful to "guarantee" that code gets run when the program ends, even if for example an exception is thrown. Useful for system resources that may not get freed properly otherwise. Unfortunately they're still not called on exit and on exec. -- Bart. ... 2 Apr 2008 14:30

FAQ 7.24 How can I catch accesses to undefined variables, functions, or methods?
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 . --------... 31 Mar 2008 17:57

Memory issues
Based on the fact that perl contains many memory leaks, A universal way to measure how many memory is malloced is required. Is there standard way to measure how many memory a process has allacated, which run with cygwin perl, active perl, and strawberry perl? This should help to localize which code makes memo... 31 Mar 2008 19:20

FAQ 8.1 How do I find out which operating system I'm runningunder?
8.1: How do I find out which operating system I'm running under? The $^O variable ($OSNAME if you use English) contains an indication of the name of the operating system (not its release number) that your perl binary was built for. Is cygwin an operating system (according to perlport)?... 31 Mar 2008 17:57

empty variables - getting rid of "uninitialized value" warnings?
Thrill5 wrote: "Tomasz Chmielewski" <tch(a)nospam.syneticon.net> wrote in message news:fsie2l$g0f$1(a)online.de... How can I get rid of warnings if I make tests with "if" and some variables are empty? Should I just ignore it? Or use "no warnings" just for that piece of code throwing a warning? ... 31 Mar 2008 20:39

every combination of Y/N in 5 positions
Hi All, This has probably already been written but I did not see it on CPAN. Is there a code snippent that can print every possible combination of Y/N's in a 5 position array or string? For example: Y Y Y Y Y becomes N Y Y Y Y Y N Y Y Y.... Y Y N N Y etc. Here is my first attempt but it only handles a sin... 9 Apr 2008 16:17

Windows paths in glob
Dmitry wrote: Question: is there any way to use the same path string with glob and with the rest of Perl, without having to convert them back and forth? Is a simple conversion acceptable? If you put double quotes aroudn the path *in* the string for glob, then it'll work. ($\, $,) = ("\n", "\t"); ... 31 Mar 2008 17:57