Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / July 2006

I'm interested in producing some drawings/diagrams/pictures based on
3D data/objects generated from Perl.  Something that would allow me
to write code that generates boxes, cylinders, spheres, etc with
various colours and material styles and generate an image (or

This may be slightly off topic, but I have just bought an iBook off
eBay, and it comes with a fresh install of 10.3, however it doesn't have
the Developers Tools installed.
I will be using this for Perl development, so i need to be able to

I'm processing a string with embedded newlines. For testing I was
storing the text in __DATA__ and slurping it into a string. This works
fine. However when I read in a file, I'm having trouble with the line
endings. Matching begining/end of logical lines is not working as I

Why?
$a = "1  2 3";
    1  2 3
split / /, $a;

The following modules installed fine on my old iBook, but on my new
intel MacBook just fail.
   Test::Pod::Coverage
   Test::LongString

Anyone have a recipe for building DBD::ODBC?
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I have a problem where a number read from a file is being treated as a
string by perl (I think!). I am using the module RSPerl which is an
interface between Perl and the statistical language R. When i read a
column of numbers from a file and pass it to the perl/R function i get

I came across something odd editing a script with BBEdit. The BBEdit #!
menu has a 'Run' command and a 'Run in Terminal' command. The script
below works fine when I use the Run command, but returns HTTP response
code 500 when I use Run in Terminal. I tried running it directly from