Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / June 2005

There's a project I'm working on (Paperboy RSS) that's
written in C, the simplest part of which is basically
applying XSLT to files with libxml2/libxslt. There's a
separate but related project written in Perl that's

I'm having a problem with redirecting (Location: script.cgi) after a  
file has been downloaded.
Here is the gist of the script. It creates two files (one html, the  
other text), then a download dialog box comes up so the first newly  

Here's a quick question. This doesn't have anything to do with perl on
my mac, but just a perl question. I have a a small script that simply
increases a number by 1, when it is run, then writes the changes back
to the file. I am using it to check how many people come to the site ...

I'm having problems installing Crypt::IDEA on my mac (10.4). "sudo  
perl Makefile.pl" works fine. However, when I run make or make test,  
I get the following error message:
gcc -c   -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -

I thought I'd understood how to use unicode support in perl, but
evidently not. In the script below, I'm stumped as to:
1) why the regex won't match ''.
2) why the substitution is carried out, but the result isn't in UTF8,

I can do this in AppleScript:
    tell application "iTunes"
        tell playlist "Library"
            get tracks whose played date is greater than date "January 1, 2005"

I just installed Tiger last week.
To my surprise, the Script Menu doesn't run perl scripts anymore. (I  
had tons in Panther for just about everything!!)
I've tested various to no avail.

Sorry for this beginners question. I have many files which I want to rename
as follows:
$src            =>      $dest
file01.jpg      =>      file01_01.jpg

Sorry if this is off topic, but I need to move a shared account to a
dedicated account, but picking a new host provider is a need in a
haystack. So I ask, where is a good place to go for a DEDICATED server
hosting package? What are your good experiences?

I've just started playing with CB and I followed the example docs...
But when I switch to using a NSTextView, rather than an NSTextField
it seems I have to change the method names.
I just want to change the copy in the NSTextView, but setStringValue()

CPAN is being a pain in the a.s, and I don't know what the problem  
is. Here's an error message when I run "install Bundle::XML".
Can't exec "/usr/bin": Permission denied at /System/Library/Perl/
5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level/IO/File.pm line 176, <FIN> line 1.

On the surface, today's announcement of a shift to Intel chips is  
great news for CamelBones developers - Perl code is not, after all,  
compiled for a specific CPU type. Given the presence of the  
appropriate supporting framework, Perl code should run just as well  

I've googled about for this but to no avail:
I'm making a perl frontend to a mySQL server to serve up images. Some
of the images are jpegs with keywords stored as comments in the file,
and I want to be able to access those comments through perl. Is there a

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Today ActiveState is announcing support for Mac OS X.
ActivePerl 5.8.7 for Mac OS X is now available for free download from:
   http://www.ActiveState.com/Products/ActivePerl/
This is a binary distribution of the just released Perl 5.8.7. It