I installed Strawberry Perl on my windows XP operating system. Later I tried to execute the .XML file but it's throwing error as below. I also tried Active Perl and also getting the same error. I ...

I have set up a local Perl web environment on my Windows machine. The application I'm working on is originally from a Linux server, and so the shebang for source .pl files look like so: #!/usr/bin/...

I'm compiling OpenSSL with Visual Studio 2015. I have installed: Visual Studio 2015 on Windows 10. ActivePerl-5.24.0.2400-MSWin32-x64-300558. nasm-2.11.08-win32. OpenSSL source code by git clone ...

New to using sublime text 2 and I'm wondering how to get it to point to the activeperl.exe (on win7). I'm testing out the compiler to make sure it works with something simple like: $x = 1; $print...

I have perl scripts which were running in Windows 7 just fine as of this morning. I made the mistake of using NotePad as the default for opening/editng my .pl files. Now, when I attempt to run the ...

I've recently installed ActivePerl 18 (v5.18.2) 64bits on Windows 8.1, and ppm keeps producing the same error : DBD::SQLite::db selectrow_array failed: database disk image is malformed. Here's an ...

I am new to Perl and I am using ActivePerl. I am getting the following error: Can't locate XML/LibXML.pm in @INC... I have tried everything but cannot find the steps to install the "correct" m...

I'm totally new to Perl, but I'd like to try it out. I read about two rival distributions available for Windows platform (I guess there's just Perl on other OSes :). Wikipedia says that Stra...

I cannot get in-place editing Perl one-liners running under ActivePerl to work unless I specify them with a backup extension: C:\> perl -i -ape "splice (@F, 2, 0, q(inserted text)); $_ = qq(@F\...

I have installed Active Perl (v5.14.2, 64-bit, for Windows) and my code containing use Switch; started to fail with the error Can't locate Switch.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:/Perl64/site/lib C:/Pe...

I've got a project written in classic asp, and a particular form's submit is handled by a Perl script. I'm going to do an enhancement for this project. I installed the latest version of ActivePerl...

I have the following Perl script. I am trying to run it in Windows 7 using ActivePerl: #!c:\Perl64\bin\perl.exe -w use strict; my $mp3splt_exe = 'c:\Program Files (x86)\mp3splt\mp3splt.exe'; my...

In ActivePerl, "ppm" installs a package from the Internet, "ppm install x.ppd" installs from a ppd file, but most CPAN packages are distributed as .tar.gz How do you supply modules to a machine ru...

Using Perl, without using any extra modules that don't come with ActivePerl, how can I create a string of 8 characters from 0-F. example 0F1672DA? The padding should be controllable and exactly 8 c...

I used to delete my ActivePerl once, and all the installed modules were lost. So now I am very careful with this kind of issue. Due to some reason, I want to use Strawberry Perl now, while keeping ...

I'm writing an app in Perl with several modules. I want to write some global constants that will be visible from everywhere, like this: #Constants.pm $h0 = 0; $scale = 20; And then use them with...

I am learning Perl and wrote this script to practice using STDIN. When I run the script, it only shows the first print statement on the console. No matter what I type in, including new lines, the c...

Hi I am using ActivePerl 5.10.1 on Win XP. I can't find Lex package from the PPM list. Can I install other package to enable Parse::Lex?

I'm using fork() on Perl on Windows (ActivePerl) for a basic socket server, but apparently there are problems (it won't accept connections after a few times), is there any workaround? Here is the ...