Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / December 2004

I'm taking a Perl class and and I'm working on comprehending this script
in one of the lessons.  This script has you count words in a file.  The
line where one is supposed to read in the file being counted is like so:
while (defined($line = <>))

Greetings all,
I'm new to the list, and I have a simple question (which hopefully will be
simple to solve).
For some reason, when I try to use the open() function to create a new file,

Hey all,
I'm new to this list, and I am new to Perl as well.  My primary reason for
learning Perl is in an attempt to automate more tasks in my other programs,
but, it also seems to me to be an interesting language that would increase

I am using the TableExtracter and it bombs in the line marked with ">>"
when it don't match headers for the table.  I would like to check to
see if it matched, but I don't know what to check.  Can someone please
help me.

I'm trying to install this module on my powerbook. I did perl -MCPAN -e
'install Bundle::DBD::mysql' and was able to download this module and
have it go through the process.  At the end, though, I got this:
        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)

I've been getting no results from File::stat or a
system call to stat.  Finally I called stat from the
command line and got "Command not found".  Indeed, it
is neither in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin and I could not

I am running OS X 10.3.6 and perl (v5.8.1-RC3 built for
darwin-thread-multi-2level)
and would like to run the OpenGL examples on opengl.com.
I have SDL 1.2.7 installed finally, and obviously OSX runs OpenGL. How

Well, I'm about to take the plunge and begin to learn MySQL. I have
Apache and Perl all running great (stock installs), but I'm not sure
how to get started with installing MySQL. I guess what I'm asking is,
can some one share some good links/pointers on installing MySQL. As

Hi list.
I'm new here but thought seeing as I'm working on OSX I should
probably post here.
I'm about to start on building my own versions of Perl/Mod_perl/Apache

Hello Perlers,
I have problems updating or installing modules on my Perl I have installed
in /usr/local/bin/ an Perl 5.8.5 I have made an alias in /usr/bin
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root  wheel       19B 17 Nov 14:08 perl ->

Help!
I installed Perl a while back in order to write a few small scripts.  
I'm not real familiar with Perl, and now I'm getting the following
errors:

Hi list,
I have a perl script that authenticates users login info(username/password)
users choose their own username password
The script runs fine but can't write to the .htpasswd file