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DateTime::Locale has a very comprehensive list of date and time formats for various locales and countries. I would like to use it in emails to customers, depending on which country the customer is ...
Kyungkyushu asked 4/11, 2013 at 11:15

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I would like to take control of the output generated in seconds using perl. I would like to show the time (in seconds) in the form of days, hours, minutes and seconds to make it human readable form...
Britanybritches asked 14/9, 2015 at 11:50

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I have a library that needs to fork() to fire-and-forget some code. However when the child process spawned by fork() is destroyed, the DBD::Pg's END is called and inadvertently kills the parents co...
Kazantzakis asked 13/9 at 2:0

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I'm having troubles debugging a Perl program where variable names (or hash key) are UTF-8 strings. The program compiles ok (and runs) but whenever I want to debug it, the debugger is quite unhappy ...
Forestation asked 11/9 at 9:29

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I'm trying to parse/extract data from an XML file and retrieve necessary data. For example: <about> This is an XML file that I want to extract data from </about> <message>Hello...
Meemeece asked 20/6, 2014 at 20:8

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#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my @array = qw[a b c]; foreach my($a,$b,$c) (@array) { print "$a , $b , $c\n"; } I receive following error: Missing $ on loop variable What is wr...
Acquit asked 7/6, 2010 at 9:10

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I have a file that has newlines and then some line extension that I need to unwrap. Example: X123 + a b c + d e f g Y4567 + a1 b2 + c1 d2 + e1 f2 Expected: X123 a b c d e f g Y4567 a1 b2 c1 d2 e1 ...
Jeffers asked 26/8 at 22:30

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I was wondering if someone would be able to help me create commands that would allow me to add three different types of sequenced numbering to folder & filenames. I am looking for these command...
Curst asked 21/7, 2023 at 20:23

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The following one-line script is to rename files from e.g. Foo_Bar_Baz.txt to Baz_Bar_Foo.txt: (rename is the rename(1) utility from File::Rename.) rename -n 's/(\w+)_(\w+)_(\w+)/join "_"...
Mortimer asked 16/8 at 9:27

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I have a large set of numbers, basically 1001 .. 150000 for a database using MySQL There are a ton of gaps in the IDs on the database, so not all IDs exist. It can go from 100000 - 10500, then the ...
Header asked 6/8 at 19:6

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The book "An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography" by J. Hoffstein et al. talks about a three-line implementation of the RSA algorithm in Perl, which people used to protest US govern...
Pak asked 4/10, 2020 at 1:25

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opendir(DIR,"$pwd") or die "Cannot open $pwd\n"; my @files = readdir(DIR); closedir(DIR); foreach my $file (@files) { next if ($file !~ /\.txt$/i); my $mtime = (stat($file))[9]; print $mtime;...
Cockaigne asked 7/3, 2012 at 11:14

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I have a very large file, over 100GB (many billions of lines), and I would like to conduct a two-level sort as quick as possible on a Unix system with limited memory. This will be one step in a lar...
Scepter asked 12/8, 2013 at 17:17

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I successfully parsed an xls file using Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::SaveParser and modified it with Spreadsheet::WriteExcel. However working with xlsx file is a whole different thing. I am trying to ...
Lyophilic asked 19/9, 2013 at 15:39

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If I have a match operator, how do I save the parts of the strings captured in the parentheses in variables instead of using $1, $2, and so on? ... = m/stuff (.*) stuff/; What goes on the left? ...
Gruver asked 2/11, 2009 at 13:7

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I am setting up this example Perl snippet to validate for months in a date: Some scenarios I want to accept are: MM M #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $pattern; my $month = "(0[1-9]...
Lagan asked 26/1, 2010 at 7:5

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I have very simple code that parses a file name: #!/usr/bin/env perl use 5.040; use warnings FATAL => 'all'; use autodie ':default'; my $string = '/home/con/bio.data/blastdb/phytophthora.infes...
Miterwort asked 2/7 at 1:7

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In RegEx, I want to find the tag and everything between two XML tags, like the following: <primaryAddress> <addressLine>280 Flinders Mall</addressLine> <geoCodeGranularity&g...
Stenophagous asked 5/11, 2012 at 22:44

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I was able to find a page from Safari Books Online that provides a template, but having never written POD comments, I'm not sure how good it is or if it is missing anything that might be considered...
Isomerism asked 5/10, 2009 at 14:12

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During a recent job interview process, I submitted some sample Perl code which used the so-called "secret" !! operator. Later, when discussing the code, one of the interviewers asked me why I chose...
Eserine asked 8/10, 2015 at 11:9

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Today, I stumbled over something in Perl I was not aware of: it "localizes" the variable that the elements of the list iterated over is assigned to. This, of course, is documented in the Perl docu...
Ahrendt asked 15/2, 2017 at 7:51

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The goal is to see the encapsulated data, like I've been doing for the last 26 years. use 5.040; use strictures; use experimental 'class'; class Foo { field @member = qw(e r t); } my $foo = Foo-...
Pirogue asked 28/5 at 9:24

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I'm tasked with replicating a production environment to create many test/sit environments. One of the things I need to do is build up Perl, with all the modules which have been installed (includin...
Atalaya asked 4/11, 2008 at 2:3

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ActiveState Perl - 5.26 on Windows 10 - 64 bit. When I am trying to launch cpan from CMD - I see the following error: C:\Users\orenm>cpan Unable to get Terminal Size. The Win32 GetConsoleScr...
Monroe asked 23/1, 2019 at 10:9

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Global symbol requires explicit package name? Why has this occurred and what are various cases that can cause this error?
Thirst asked 29/6, 2010 at 14:1

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