Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / December 2003

I have a long string of characters (> 40,000 chars)
that I need to break up into strings of 6 chars each.
Is there a simple way to do this in Perl? unpack()
doesn't seem to be the right solution; there are no

After scouring this group and the ever-helpful
macosxhints site, I cannot figure this one out.
I am running Panther Server 10.3.1.  I edited
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/Config.pm,

After much searching and grumbling, I found Thilo Planz's post on  
building CamelBones 0.2 under Panther  
(http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.macosx/6383). After getting this  
to work, I thought I would type up more complete directions that work  

I've just tried to install Panther and found out my install disc is bad.
Apple said they'd send a new one in a few days, so that's the good news. The
bad news is that I was doing a clean install and it wiped out all my old
stuff. That's really no big deal either, I just reinstalled ...

I'm trying to install the Spreadsheet::WriteExcel module.
I downloaded the .tar.Z file and unpacked it, and started
with the commmand "perl Makefile.PL". Here's what I got:

I downloaded and installed perl 5.8.2 on my OS X machine -- every make
test passed, no complaints during the install. Typing "perl -v" shows
5.8.2 (not the 5.8.1-RC3 that shipped with this version of OS X).
However, I can't get CPAN to work.

After programming every day for about 25 years I retired a year ago and
quit programming for a year.
I recently bought a soldering station that displays temp in Centigrade
so yesterday I saddled up again and ran into the wall with this code

I have the following script
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
open (OUT ,"> /Users/robin/env.cron") || die;
$ENV{'RUN_AT'}= localtime;

Are there others having problems with CPAN in 10.3. ? None of the file
transfer methods seems to work and everything times out on more than 10
different ftp archives. I already followed the instructions from one
BSD mailing list:

A very basic question, but the answer eludes me: How do I open files in
the same directory as my Perl script?
I'm running these scripts from BBEdit and they worked fine under BBEdit
6.5 on OS 9.2. But when I run them under BBEdit 7 on OS 9 or with

Is it possible to get the contents from the clipboard with Perl?  
Looking in a book I see - Win32::Clipboard
but is it possible to get it on the Mac in OS 10.3?
Thanks.

Anyone used this?
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/development_tools/aemonitor.html
Downloading now, will be trying out laterish.

I'm working with some complex data (array of hashes in
this case) and I'm wondering if there's a good way to
do a reverse lookup? So far I have the following:
for my $i (0.. @names-1) {

I cannot get DBD::Mysql to install.
I can connect to test just fine with the passwords I am supplying to
Makefile.pl when I use those on the command line.
When I try to make test I get this:

I have an Xwindows program (consed) that I would like to execute from perl.
Of course OSX is not Xwindows so executing it outside of an xwindows
terminal will not work because I get "Error: Can't open display: "
I need to find a way to somehow tell consed to run in an Xwindows