Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / May 2005

I would like a way (easy, if possible :-) to obtain a "bounding
box" for a PDF document.  That is, the smallest rectangle that
does not clip off any recognizable glyphs.  (I will probably
add a small margin for error, just to be "safe").

This is not, strictly speaking, a Perl question, but ...
In order to do a conference presentation on an aspect of Perl next
month, a colleague and I have chosen to use an HTML-based slide show
which we'll present from an iBook or PowerBook.  We both customarily use

I have a textfield in a form and apparently Safari has a 1k limit on
the amount of text a user can input. I've tested the same form with
Opera, Camino, and Firefox on OS X and they all work fine.
Is there a 1k limit in the HTML spec for a textfield? I could not find

Using index(), I can find out if a string contains a specified substring.
Similarly, I can use a regular expression test to find out if a string
matches a particular pattern.  What I'm LOOKING FOR is a way to find out
if a string matches a particular "wild card" character sequence, ...

A whole bunch of tests failed when trying to install the module.  Here's
the first failure:
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e"
"test_harness(0, 'inc', 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t

volks,
yes, I know that Tiger is suppose to deliver
perl-5.8.6 - but I am not in a position to
upgrade to Tiger this weekend - but would like

Does anyone know whether (a) ModPerl is already part of Tiger?
If not, how big a hassle is it to install?  Specifically, is
it something I could reasonably accomplish in an installation
script?

Has anyone tried to install this?  I did, and followed instructions for
defining the paths and it wouldn't work.  Here's what I get:
 Please Enter the Entire Path to the wsdl File,
#  EG, /home/public/GoogleSearch.wsdl

I'm trying to install LWP using CPAN on 10.4 (Tiger) and I am getting
this error:
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good

it is possible it is down but when I go to install DBI I get the
following error:
cpan> install DBI
CPAN: Storable loaded ok

Anyone know why
    http://www.perl.org/community.html
describes the macperl list as "Mac Perl - OS 7-9 and X discussion"

Some late night reading of the latest Perl Journal got led me to try
installing Mac::Carbon, on the road to installing Mac::Glue. Trouble
ensued...
I'm running OS 10.3.8 with Xtools 1.5,  GCC 3.3, and Perl 5.8.0

Tiger ships with Mac::Carbon and Mac::Glue.  Huzzah!
Some notes:
* Mac::Carbon requires gcc 3.3 or below, it doesn't work with gcc 4.
I don't know why, and anyone who wants to fix this or give me clues would

Im sure there is a fairly simple answer to my problems using the LWP notation
but I cant seem to work it out. Im trying to send (1) input i.e. a list of
genes and (2) effectively press the "START" button on a website - http://
fatigo.bioinfo.cnio.es/ - remotely using the LWP ...