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Any question relating to Perl including its internals, data structures, speed, memory usage, syntax, version changes, extra CPAN modules, code standards, code cleanup, or just silly problems.

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I have been writing Perl code professionally for almost 10 years. I have modules on CPAN, have Perl code that's included in the latest versions of Redhat, Debian, etc. I have done professional Perl work for many household names including Ticketmaster, Interflora, and allbookstores.com.

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Only work experience and a love of all things Perl.

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Recent Answers from Justin Wheeler

2009-11-17 find and replace:

Hi Petar, When you do that, perl things you're ending the regular expression at </ and then you're giving it flags of b> and starting a new command of /ig. Which is of course, invalid syntax. The

2009-10-24 Testing HTML forms with cgi on Windows:

Hi Filzah, You'll need to run an actual webserver to run the CGI. If it's a Perl scripts, you'll need to download a perl interpreter for windows. Apache is open source and free, so you could install

2009-10-15 CGI script:

Hi Mark, Your best bet is to use the CGI script, which will parse it for you. Then, you'd do something like. my $q = new CGI; my @cds = $q->param( 'CD' ); print $q->header(); print "First

2009-09-30 Perl XML:Simple:

Hi Matthew, Yes, you'll likely need a foreach or something like that to traverse the data. Your best bet is to XMLin() the file with XML::Simple, and then use Data::Dumper to Dumper() the data structure

2009-08-29 XML::Simple:

Hi Matthew, Opening and writing to lib/temp/$id.xml isn't very safe. I'd suggest something more like this: use strict; use warnings; use LWP::UserAgent; use XML::Simple; print "Content-Type:

 

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