Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / January 2004

I need to take a string like this:
UA-UI1,3,4,6
and expand it into an array of components like this:
UA1 UA3 UA4 UA6 UB1 UB3 UB4 UB6 ... UI1 UI3 UI4 UI6

I guess this is an almost ridiculously newbie question, but I am not
too *nix aware yet:
is the file /usr/bin/perl just a link to /usr/bin/perl5.8.1 and could
therefore easily replaced by /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.2 (as an example)?

Off-topic, I know, and I apologize for that in advance.
Today I received two emails, both with forged headers. One appeared to
come from Pudge (Chris Nandor), and the other from Mattias Neeracher.
Both included virus attachments.

Can someone help me about a regular ?
In which way i can substitute <a href="$url">string</a> with
<idlink>$val1.
Thanks

Can someone please tell me if there's any reason not to write files
in /private/tmp rather than in /tmp/501/TemporaryItems ?
drwxrwxrwt   29 root  wheel   986 18 Jan 21:49 tmp
drwxr-xr-x   13 jd    wheel   442 18 Jan 21:30 TemporaryItems

I'm working with Perl for the first time under OS X and having some
difficulties. Some I've found answered in the archives, but ...
First, I don't seem to have mastered dumpValue. My call to it looks like this:
 @departments=  keys %all;

I just saw this on the AppleScript mailing list.
John is probably not a member of this list but I'll bet someone here can help off list.
Isn't there a module available?
To: applescript-users@lists.apple.com

I just installed Sybase  ASE 12.5.1 on OS X v10.3.2
and am trying to Install the DBD-Sybase-1.02 module.
When I tried to install said module, I got back the following:
"Please set SYBASE in CONFIG, or set the $SYBASE environment variable

Hello People,
I need some help with a perl on OS-X problem. I need to pop up a 'Save
As' dialog. Basically the same as the one AppleScript gives you when
you:

Following Dan's instructions here:
  http://www.dan.co.jp/cases/macosx/psync.html
I'm still having trouble getting MacOSX::File to compile. Here's what  
happens:

I'm sorry for all the confusion. Let me try one last time.
I have a perl file with a single chunk of data produced by typing
option-8 after __DATA__. So the end of the file looks like this:
    __DATA__

Now and then I copy data from the web and paste it into a perl script
after "__END__" or "__DATA__". I plan to take the data apart with perl.
The file is generally a BBEdit text file with unix line feeds.
Sometimes there are bullets in the data. According to HexEdit these

I've recently discovered the joys of return undef; for
error catching, but I'm having problems when the
subroutine returns a hash (unless there's an error).
Something like the following:

Hey all,
I've got a strange problem with a new installation of OS 10.2.  Here's
what I did.
1) Did a clean install of OS 10.2, reformatting the disk in the

I'm trying to install a bunch of modules from CPAN (Net::Blogger for
example) and am having CPAN fail on me because it's failing to find the
modules in ftp.perl.org... What appears to be happening is that it's
looking for the .zip files, whereas manual examination of ftp.perl.org ...