Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / January 2005

I've got perl5.8.6 installed.  When I do perl -v, I see that perl 5.8.6
is running.  Yet when I do "man perl", at the end of the file I'm seeing
this:
perl v5.8.1                       2003-07-09

While browsing my archived email, I came across my questions about Perl
5.8.4 and realized that this is the version that was installed.
I took a look at the site at http://camelbones.sourceforge.net and
looked at the Roadmap, which has a list of changes planned for 0.3.0

Sorry for cross-posting this, but i think it applies to both groups.
I'm trying to write a mod_perl script (for PerlRun) that will present an
online interface to my Mac OS X Address Book. Using the standard method
of connecting to the glue (new Mac::Glue 'Address Book') doesn't ...

I have been pampered by using PPMs on Windows systems. I bought myself
an iBook and got rid of my Windows box.
I can install modules and search for modules, but how do I upgrade a
module that I already have installed?

For those who haven't seen, TextWrangler 2.0 -- which is basically a
slightly stripped-down version of BBEdit, without HTML tools and some other
things -- is now available, and free.
Free, as in beer.

I thought I'd play around with Mac::Glue, so I fired up the CPAN shell
to install it. The installation went, in part, like this:
   [...]
   Manifying blib/man3/Mac::AETE::Format::Glue.3pm

All of sudden, I'm having this strange problem.  I do this in terminal:
sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'WWW::Restaurant::Menu'
And . . . nothing happens.  When I go into cpan, I get this message:
There seems to be running another CPAN process (pid 606).  Contacting...

Hi guys, sorry for the question not directly related to macosx but this
is the OS I work with and I know that you guys are really helpful.
I'm really new to perl. Actually I'm trying write my very first script.
Let me try to explain what I need. I have a large text file that is

I am trying to parse an Excel spreadsheet, but a simple script from the pod
use strict;
use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel;
my $oBook = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Workbook->Parse('test.xls');

I'm working on my knowledge of Perl by working through Spidering Hacks
(O'Reilly).  Right now I'm stumped as to why this hack isn't working
(code can be found at http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/981#code.
There are several issues with this code, but the first one that comes up

Greeting -
I attempted to access CPAN using Terminal (OS 10.2.6) by entering :
perl -MCPAN -e shell
During the long q/a for the installation - I apparently answered one of

Hey Folks,
I'm new to the list.  I just subscribed last week.  I've finally decided
to release my iTunes shell that I have been playing around with for
a while.  You can find out about it here:

My spouse has, at her workplace, a Mac OS X machine with web sharing
turned on. This machine is, therefore, reachable on the internal
company LAN as either http://catnip.local or http://catnip.company.com
When she works from home, she accesses the company network via VPN.

I did not use my UNIX head tool in a while. When I tried to call it recently, I found that a Perl script resides in /usr/bin which was obviously put there when installing the LWP module.
/usr/bin/tail is still there, but my original is gone/overwritten. Why did LWP do that? man ...

Speaking of commandline utilities for traditionally
GUI things... I've been wanting to create a
commandline interface to airport for a while.
Something that gives access to the same functionality