I am building a Web interface to monitor an embedded system. I have built a Perl script which runs remote commands and gathers output from that system. Now what I need is a Web interface which makes ...

How do I tell what type of value is in a Perl variable? $x might be a scalar, a ref to an array or a ref to a hash (or maybe other things).

When I try a "chdir" with a filehandle as argument, "chdir" returns 0 and a pwd returns still the same directory. Should that be so? I tried this, because in the documentation to chdir I found: "...

I ve read the doc for GetOptions but I can t seem to find what I need... (maybe I am blind) What I want to do is to parse command line like this myperlscript.pl -mode [sth] [inputfile] I can use ...

I m a little confused about what is going on in Perl constructors. I found these two examples perldoc perlbot. package Foo; #In Perl, the constructor is just a subroutine called new. sub new { #I ...

I would like to submit a form to a CGI script localy (w3c-markup-validator), but it is too slow using curl and apache, I want to use this CGI script more than 5,000 times in an another script. and ...

So I m running perl 5.10 on a core 2 duo macbook pro compiled with threading support: usethreads=define, useithreads=define. I ve got a simple script to read 4 gzipped files containing aroud 750000 ...

A Google search yields a number of results - but which ones are the best? The Perl site appears to contain two - perlboot and perltoot. I m reading these now, but what else is out there? Note: I ve ...