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I am using Perl to convert some XML to JSON. If the XML attribute is a number, I don't want to put quotes around it so that JSON will treat it as a number and not a string. How can I tell if a Perl...
Olivares asked 11/7, 2009 at 4:50

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If I have a hash my %h = ( secret => 1; ); and I know that is only is one key in the hash, but I don't know what it is called. Do I then have to iterate through that hash my $key; foreach ...
Bugbear asked 11/8, 2011 at 14:58

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How to get number of CPU or Cores in Perl. I want this, to decide, creating number of threads dynamically. Below I have created 3 threads. But I want to create threads based on number of cores in t...
Elviselvish asked 21/8, 2013 at 14:36

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I have to display different medical forms according to which state the user is in. There is also a default form that many of the states share. These medical forms are all written in Template Toolki...
Krall asked 27/8, 2010 at 5:47

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Exists in the Perl world any template system with template inheritance? Just checked in the wikipedia Comparison_of_web_template_engines (really incomplete list) - and here isn't listed any. In...
Avril asked 9/1, 2014 at 10:58

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I'm having a problem with a perl script. In my script, I call another program with a system() call, but I got this error: Can't exec "./Classificador/svm_classify": No such file or direct...
Chaparro asked 25/12, 2012 at 17:39

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What would be an example of how I can call a shell command, say 'ls -a' in a Perl script and the way to retrieve the output of the command as well?
Helminthiasis asked 8/7, 2010 at 5:7

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The following route definition works nicely sub load_routes { my($self) = @_; my $root = $self->routes; $root->get('/')->to( controller=>'Snipgen', action=>'indexPage'); $root-...
Retributive asked 23/4 at 16:3

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I am writing Perl classes to remove redundancies from scripts and since Perl has a lot of ways to make classes I keep having trouble making the classes properly. So does anyone have a best practice...
Radiotelegraphy asked 24/6, 2009 at 9:27

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I have a shell script, pretty big one. Now my boss says I must rewrite it in Perl. Is there any way to write a Perl script and use the existing shell code as is in my Perl script. Something similar...
Forewent asked 20/7, 2009 at 8:43

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To my horror I've just found out that chr doesn't work with Unicode, although it does something. The man page is all but clear Returns the character represented by that NUMBER in the character s...
Retire asked 5/9, 2012 at 23:48

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I am trying to extract text from PDF files using Perl. I have been using pdftotext.exe from command line (i.e using Perl system function) for extracting text from PDF files, this method works fine....
Salary asked 16/7, 2009 at 11:39

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Given pairs of string like this. my $s1 = "ACTGGA"; my $s2 = "AGTG-A"; # Note the string can be longer than this. I would like to find position and character in in $s1 where it differs with...
Baldric asked 17/1, 2011 at 2:26

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All Perl modules and 'cpan' stopped working after an upgrade of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to 18.04 LTS. Every time I run my script it leads to the error threads.c: loadable library and Perl binaries are mi...
We asked 21/5, 2018 at 5:25

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I've attempted installing with brew: brew install imagemagick The installation seems to have completed successfully. However, when attempting to: use Image::Magick; I get the following error ...
Perish asked 4/6, 2013 at 19:46

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I'm trying to use a perl one-liner to update some code that spans multiple lines and am seeing some strange behavior. Here's a simple text file that shows the problem I'm seeing: ABCD START STOP ...
Piecrust asked 2/5, 2011 at 21:4

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My boss believes that perl program without explicit exit(0) at the end may return some other value, e. g. that one returned by the last function call in the program, or may be last system call. Per...
Karolyn asked 18/3 at 17:7

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How do I create or test for NaN or infinite values in Perl?
Photochromy asked 26/7, 2009 at 23:5

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According to Perl Critic we should "Export symbols via @EXPORT_OK or %EXPORT_TAGS instead of @EXPORT" Following this advice I am transitioning my module to @EXPORT_OK from @EXPORT, but I ...
Oleo asked 11/3 at 11:44

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Using the Perl code #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use CGI ":all"; use Encode; my $cgi = new CGI; $cgi->charset('utf-8'); print $cgi->header(-type => 'text/html', -charset...
Insociable asked 17/4, 2012 at 19:12

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I’m converting a table to a human-readable form, and I need to treat the content with zero-length Unicode characters “in a distinctive way”. The only way to recognize them seems to be (even with Pe...
Trilateration asked 8/3 at 16:49

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How does Perl's interpreter do if-statements? I wanted to try to implement a simple Lazy-Basic-Block-Versioning for if-statements that use ref as a predicate, and maybe subsequently for sub-routine...
Unclose asked 6/3 at 18:28

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Does perl6/Rakudo have something equivalent to perl5's __DATA__ or __END__ sections?
Asexual asked 24/11, 2010 at 16:34

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I wanted to get system time in nano seconds in Perl. I tried Time::HiRes module and it's supporting only until micro seconds.
Rocker asked 25/9, 2014 at 7:1

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I am using Mojolicious for a web app that requires an encrypted connection, but I don't know how to add SSL support to Mojolicious. My coworker sent me these: files domain.key, domain-bundle.crt,...
Rancidity asked 9/12, 2015 at 1:45

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