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Perl-Users Digest Wed, 30 Apr 2003 Volume: 10 Number: 4916
Today's topics:
Re: Lingua::EN::NameParse name parsing problem (Anno Siegel)
Re: Newbie Problem: Cannot see result of .pl <dnegorsk@tampabay.rr.com>
Re: Newbie Problem: Cannot see result of .pl <jurgenex@hotmail.com>
Re: Newbie Problem: Cannot see result of .pl <cingram@pjocsNOSPAMORHAM.demon.co.uk>
Re: Perl - DBI - How to store connection info in a sepa <usenet@NOSPAM.matthewb.org>
Perl Microsoft Server incompatibility? <mdudley@execonn.com>
Re: Race problem in 5.6.1 - Not Von Neumann anymore? <bart.lateur@pandora.be>
Re: Race problem in 5.6.1 - Not Von Neumann anymore? (Tad McClellan)
Re: Race problem in 5.6.1 - Not Von Neumann anymore? (Tramm Hudson)
Re: Subtracting strings [long post] <krahnj@acm.org>
Re: what is $@ ? (Randal L. Schwartz)
Digest Administrivia (Last modified: 6 Apr 01) (Perl-Users-Digest Admin)
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Date: 30 Apr 2003 09:09:13 GMT
From: anno4000@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Anno Siegel)
Subject: Re: Lingua::EN::NameParse name parsing problem
Message-Id: <b8o3rp$egk$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
Bing Du Test <bing-du@tamu.edu> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
> This is perl, v5.6.1 built for sun4-solaris.
>
> ============
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
>
> use locale;
> use Lingua::EN::NameParse qw(clean case_surname);
[example (from the doc) snipped]
> Running the script returns the following results:
>
> =======
> ERROR: Internal error in generated parser code!
> (Hint: Can't localize lexical variable $tracelevel at
> (eval
> 91) line 25. )
> Assembling with: <foo bar >
> Name = <Lingua::EN::NameParse=HASH(0x61214)>, input_string = <foo bar >
> Can't call method "full_name" on an undefined value at
> /usr/local/perl/5.6.1/lib
> /site_perl/5.6.1/Lingua/EN/NameParse.pm line 1006, <TESTS> line 1.
> =======
>
> What is the problem and how should I get it fixed?
I don't see this with perl 5.8.0 and Lingua::EN::NameParse v 1.18.
The test case works for me as advertised.
Anno
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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:35:35 GMT
From: "CHM" <dnegorsk@tampabay.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Newbie Problem: Cannot see result of .pl
Message-Id: <rqPra.44883$My6.685809@twister.tampabay.rr.com>
How do I set IIS to recognize perl? Your answer makes sense but I don't know
how to set IIS to recognize perl?
"John Gros" <johngros@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
news:rXJra.7476$lD4.79291@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> This is your IIS settings not perl, you have to configure the IIS server
to
> execute cgi in your cgi-bin, and have your perl script in the cgi-bin. You
> may have to reconfigure your HTML page to point to the new location of
your
> perl script.
> "CHM" <dnegorsk@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:huHra.41024$sn6.586477@twister.tampabay.rr.com...
> > I am new to Perl and use of IIS 5.1 (XP pRO). I am having loads of
> problems,
> > mainly seeing the .pl. I
> >
> > am studying but this is a crucial roadblock to me. I have to know how to
> see
> > the .pl? The following is
> >
> > an html page and the .pl to go with it. I am currently using IIS 5.1 as
my
> > server. As close as I can
> >
> > get is tobe on my HTML page, click the "Add Record", and see a box "file
> > downloading", with a progress
> >
> > bar that is full. It disappears quickly and I am left with the HTML
> screen.
> > What the hell do I need to
> >
> > do?
> >
> > (Sample of HTML)
> >
> > <html>
> > <head>
> > <title>Practice Form 1</title>
> > </head>
> > <body>
> >
> > <font face="arial" size="2" color="#dd8040">
> > <h2>Add a Phone Number</h2>
> >
> > <form name="phoneform" method="post" action =
> "C:/Inetpub/Scripts/test2.pl">
> >
> > <table width="500">
> > <tr> <th width="200"></th><th width="300"></th></tr>
> > <tr><td>Forname</td><td><input type="text" name="forname"></td></tr>
> >
> > <tr><td>Surname</td><td><input type="text" name="surname"></td></tr>
> > <tr><td>Department</td><td><input type="text"
name="department"></td></tr>
> > <tr><td>Phone No:</td><td><input type="text" name="phone no:"</td></tr>
> > <tr><td>Comments</td><td><textarea name="comments" cols="50"
> > rows="4"></textarea></td></tr>
> > <tr><td><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Add Record"></td>
> > <td><input type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset"</td></tr>
> >
> > </table>
> > </form>
> > </font>
> > </body>
> > </html>
> >
> > (Sample of Perl)
> >
> > #! c:/Perl/bin
> >
> > print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
> >
> > read(STDIN,$tempbuffer,$ENV{'CONTENT-LENGTH'});
> >
> > @pairs=split(/&/,$tempbuffer);
> >
> > foreach $item(@pairs)
> >
> > {
> >
> > ($key,$content)=split(/=/,$item,2);
> >
> > $content=~tr/+/ /;
> >
> > $content=~s/%(..)/pack("c",hex($1)) /g;
> >
> > $fields{$key}=$content;
> >
> > print "<font face=verdana size=2 color=darkred>$key</font>";
> >
> > print "Contains <font face=verdana size=2
> > color=darkblue>$content</font><br>";
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > }
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:26:11 GMT
From: "Jürgen Exner" <jurgenex@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Newbie Problem: Cannot see result of .pl
Message-Id: <T9Qra.5501$ef.4289@nwrddc03.gnilink.net>
CHM wrote:
> How do I set IIS to recognize perl? Your answer makes sense but I
> don't know how to set IIS to recognize perl?
You may want to ask in a Newsgroup that actually deals with IIS.
jue
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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:53:56 +0100
From: "Clyde Ingram" <cingram@pjocsNOSPAMORHAM.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Newbie Problem: Cannot see result of .pl
Message-Id: <b8okgh$e06$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk>
Why do the respondent and the OP (in his reply) both:
1) top post (like this)?, and
2) quote the entire posting that they reply to?
"CHM" <dnegorsk@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
news:rqPra.44883$My6.685809@twister.tampabay.rr.com...
> How do I set IIS to recognize perl? Your answer makes sense but I don't
know
> how to set IIS to recognize perl?
> "John Gros" <johngros@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
> news:rXJra.7476$lD4.79291@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> > This is your IIS settings not perl, you have to configure the IIS server
> to
> > execute cgi in your cgi-bin, and have your perl script in the cgi-bin.
You
> > may have to reconfigure your HTML page to point to the new location of
> your
> > perl script.
> > "CHM" <dnegorsk@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
> > news:huHra.41024$sn6.586477@twister.tampabay.rr.com...
> > > I am new to Perl and use of IIS 5.1 (XP pRO). I am having loads of
> > problems,
> > > mainly seeing the .pl. I
> > >
> > > am studying but this is a crucial roadblock to me. I have to know how
to
> > see
> > > the .pl? The following is
> > >
> > > an html page and the .pl to go with it. I am currently using IIS 5.1
as
> my
> > > server. As close as I can
> > >
> > > get is tobe on my HTML page, click the "Add Record", and see a box
"file
> > > downloading", with a progress
> > >
> > > bar that is full. It disappears quickly and I am left with the HTML
> > screen.
> > > What the hell do I need to
> > >
> > > do?
> > >
> > > (Sample of HTML)
> > >
> > > <html>
> > > <head>
> > > <title>Practice Form 1</title>
> > > </head>
> > > <body>
> > >
> > > <font face="arial" size="2" color="#dd8040">
> > > <h2>Add a Phone Number</h2>
> > >
> > > <form name="phoneform" method="post" action =
> > "C:/Inetpub/Scripts/test2.pl">
> > >
> > > <table width="500">
> > > <tr> <th width="200"></th><th width="300"></th></tr>
> > > <tr><td>Forname</td><td><input type="text" name="forname"></td></tr>
> > >
> > > <tr><td>Surname</td><td><input type="text" name="surname"></td></tr>
> > > <tr><td>Department</td><td><input type="text"
> name="department"></td></tr>
> > > <tr><td>Phone No:</td><td><input type="text" name="phone
no:"</td></tr>
> > > <tr><td>Comments</td><td><textarea name="comments" cols="50"
> > > rows="4"></textarea></td></tr>
> > > <tr><td><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Add Record"></td>
> > > <td><input type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset"</td></tr>
> > >
> > > </table>
> > > </form>
> > > </font>
> > > </body>
> > > </html>
> > >
> > > (Sample of Perl)
> > >
> > > #! c:/Perl/bin
> > >
> > > print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
> > >
> > > read(STDIN,$tempbuffer,$ENV{'CONTENT-LENGTH'});
> > >
> > > @pairs=split(/&/,$tempbuffer);
> > >
> > > foreach $item(@pairs)
> > >
> > > {
> > >
> > > ($key,$content)=split(/=/,$item,2);
> > >
> > > $content=~tr/+/ /;
> > >
> > > $content=~s/%(..)/pack("c",hex($1)) /g;
> > >
> > > $fields{$key}=$content;
> > >
> > > print "<font face=verdana size=2 color=darkred>$key</font>";
> > >
> > > print "Contains <font face=verdana size=2
> > > color=darkblue>$content</font><br>";
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
"CHM" <dnegorsk@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
news:rqPra.44883$My6.685809@twister.tampabay.rr.com...
> How do I set IIS to recognize perl? Your answer makes sense but I don't
know
> how to set IIS to recognize perl?
> "John Gros" <johngros@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
> news:rXJra.7476$lD4.79291@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> > This is your IIS settings not perl, you have to configure the IIS server
> to
> > execute cgi in your cgi-bin, and have your perl script in the cgi-bin.
You
> > may have to reconfigure your HTML page to point to the new location of
> your
> > perl script.
> > "CHM" <dnegorsk@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
> > news:huHra.41024$sn6.586477@twister.tampabay.rr.com...
> > > I am new to Perl and use of IIS 5.1 (XP pRO). I am having loads of
> > problems,
> > > mainly seeing the .pl. I
> > >
> > > am studying but this is a crucial roadblock to me. I have to know how
to
> > see
> > > the .pl? The following is
> > >
> > > an html page and the .pl to go with it. I am currently using IIS 5.1
as
> my
> > > server. As close as I can
> > >
> > > get is tobe on my HTML page, click the "Add Record", and see a box
"file
> > > downloading", with a progress
> > >
> > > bar that is full. It disappears quickly and I am left with the HTML
> > screen.
> > > What the hell do I need to
> > >
> > > do?
> > >
> > > (Sample of HTML)
> > >
> > > <html>
> > > <head>
> > > <title>Practice Form 1</title>
> > > </head>
> > > <body>
> > >
> > > <font face="arial" size="2" color="#dd8040">
> > > <h2>Add a Phone Number</h2>
> > >
> > > <form name="phoneform" method="post" action =
> > "C:/Inetpub/Scripts/test2.pl">
> > >
> > > <table width="500">
> > > <tr> <th width="200"></th><th width="300"></th></tr>
> > > <tr><td>Forname</td><td><input type="text" name="forname"></td></tr>
> > >
> > > <tr><td>Surname</td><td><input type="text" name="surname"></td></tr>
> > > <tr><td>Department</td><td><input type="text"
> name="department"></td></tr>
> > > <tr><td>Phone No:</td><td><input type="text" name="phone
no:"</td></tr>
> > > <tr><td>Comments</td><td><textarea name="comments" cols="50"
> > > rows="4"></textarea></td></tr>
> > > <tr><td><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Add Record"></td>
> > > <td><input type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset"</td></tr>
> > >
> > > </table>
> > > </form>
> > > </font>
> > > </body>
> > > </html>
> > >
> > > (Sample of Perl)
> > >
> > > #! c:/Perl/bin
> > >
> > > print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
> > >
> > > read(STDIN,$tempbuffer,$ENV{'CONTENT-LENGTH'});
> > >
> > > @pairs=split(/&/,$tempbuffer);
> > >
> > > foreach $item(@pairs)
> > >
> > > {
> > >
> > > ($key,$content)=split(/=/,$item,2);
> > >
> > > $content=~tr/+/ /;
> > >
> > > $content=~s/%(..)/pack("c",hex($1)) /g;
> > >
> > > $fields{$key}=$content;
> > >
> > > print "<font face=verdana size=2 color=darkred>$key</font>";
> > >
> > > print "Contains <font face=verdana size=2
> > > color=darkblue>$content</font><br>";
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
"CHM" <dnegorsk@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
news:rqPra.44883$My6.685809@twister.tampabay.rr.com...
> How do I set IIS to recognize perl? Your answer makes sense but I don't
know
> how to set IIS to recognize perl?
> "John Gros" <johngros@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
> news:rXJra.7476$lD4.79291@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> > This is your IIS settings not perl, you have to configure the IIS server
> to
> > execute cgi in your cgi-bin, and have your perl script in the cgi-bin.
You
> > may have to reconfigure your HTML page to point to the new location of
> your
> > perl script.
> > "CHM" <dnegorsk@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
> > news:huHra.41024$sn6.586477@twister.tampabay.rr.com...
> > > I am new to Perl and use of IIS 5.1 (XP pRO). I am having loads of
> > problems,
> > > mainly seeing the .pl. I
> > >
> > > am studying but this is a crucial roadblock to me. I have to know how
to
> > see
> > > the .pl? The following is
> > >
> > > an html page and the .pl to go with it. I am currently using IIS 5.1
as
> my
> > > server. As close as I can
> > >
> > > get is tobe on my HTML page, click the "Add Record", and see a box
"file
> > > downloading", with a progress
> > >
> > > bar that is full. It disappears quickly and I am left with the HTML
> > screen.
> > > What the hell do I need to
> > >
> > > do?
> > >
> > > (Sample of HTML)
> > >
> > > <html>
> > > <head>
> > > <title>Practice Form 1</title>
> > > </head>
> > > <body>
> > >
> > > <font face="arial" size="2" color="#dd8040">
> > > <h2>Add a Phone Number</h2>
> > >
> > > <form name="phoneform" method="post" action =
> > "C:/Inetpub/Scripts/test2.pl">
> > >
> > > <table width="500">
> > > <tr> <th width="200"></th><th width="300"></th></tr>
> > > <tr><td>Forname</td><td><input type="text" name="forname"></td></tr>
> > >
> > > <tr><td>Surname</td><td><input type="text" name="surname"></td></tr>
> > > <tr><td>Department</td><td><input type="text"
> name="department"></td></tr>
> > > <tr><td>Phone No:</td><td><input type="text" name="phone
no:"</td></tr>
> > > <tr><td>Comments</td><td><textarea name="comments" cols="50"
> > > rows="4"></textarea></td></tr>
> > > <tr><td><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Add Record"></td>
> > > <td><input type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset"</td></tr>
> > >
> > > </table>
> > > </form>
> > > </font>
> > > </body>
> > > </html>
> > >
> > > (Sample of Perl)
> > >
> > > #! c:/Perl/bin
> > >
> > > print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
> > >
> > > read(STDIN,$tempbuffer,$ENV{'CONTENT-LENGTH'});
> > >
> > > @pairs=split(/&/,$tempbuffer);
> > >
> > > foreach $item(@pairs)
> > >
> > > {
> > >
> > > ($key,$content)=split(/=/,$item,2);
> > >
> > > $content=~tr/+/ /;
> > >
> > > $content=~s/%(..)/pack("c",hex($1)) /g;
> > >
> > > $fields{$key}=$content;
> > >
> > > print "<font face=verdana size=2 color=darkred>$key</font>";
> > >
> > > print "Contains <font face=verdana size=2
> > > color=darkblue>$content</font><br>";
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
Irritating, innit?
Clyde
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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:36:30 +0100
From: Matthew Browning <usenet@NOSPAM.matthewb.org>
Subject: Re: Perl - DBI - How to store connection info in a separate file
Message-Id: <pan.2003.04.30.14.36.28.123459.1760@NOSPAM.matthewb.org>
On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 05:38:57 +0100, Michael Budash wrote:
> what do you mean by 'fail'? what error message(s) do you see? show us
> the code that 'fails'.
>
> btw, 'require' is probably what you want, but it's certainly not the
> only way...
>
> hth-
>
You will want to Export those variables if you are doing it like that.
perldoc Exporter.
[MB]
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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 10:34:37 -0400
From: Marshall Dudley <mdudley@execonn.com>
Subject: Perl Microsoft Server incompatibility?
Message-Id: <3EAFDEFD.9DE34560@execonn.com>
I have a perl script that I have installed on numerous unix machines
without any problems.
However, I am now trying to install it on a Microsoft machine, and am
unable to get it to work.
The code that is failing is:
while (sysread(FILE,$max,$bufsize)) {
print $max;
}
For a pdf file, this will print the entire pdf file (about 1.3 Meg.) and
displays properly on a UNIX machine, but on the MS machine it only
outputs a little over 2K, then stops, generating an error with the pdf
viewer called by the browser.
Any idea what the problem might be. I have spent the last two days on
this off and on to no avail. I don't understand why it would work under
Unix but not MS.
The entire code can be seen at http://king-cart.com/download.pl
I also found that you cannot do a die function with MS like you can
UNIX. MS will output the error before the content-type header resulting
in an error to the browser.
Thanks,
Marshall
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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:51:20 GMT
From: Bart Lateur <bart.lateur@pandora.be>
Subject: Re: Race problem in 5.6.1 - Not Von Neumann anymore?
Message-Id: <c37vavgttabf8j895npp9acjlin3g6rogt@4ax.com>
John Long wrote:
>If I have a form and post a single field (name) to this cgi,
>it should wait at the -e and if the file does not exist then
>go on and create it. What is happening 30-80% of the time is
>that it says file exists and exits, I look and the file does
>now exist where it did not before.
It sounds a bit like a double submit, meanign the script runs twice in
quick succession. It can happen in CGI scripts.
--
Bart.
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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 07:11:24 -0500
From: tadmc@augustmail.com (Tad McClellan)
Subject: Re: Race problem in 5.6.1 - Not Von Neumann anymore?
Message-Id: <slrnbavfbc.4lo.tadmc@magna.augustmail.com>
John Long <goog1@pruam.com> wrote:
> I have a bit of a problem here, Threads should be of no
> concern
Right.
But processes _are_ of concern.
> because there should be just one but it acts like
> there is another
Another process, not another thread.
> that runs off to do the rest of the code and
> write the file while one thread is waiting on the os for the
> -e.
There are no threads in your code.
> If I have a form and post a single field (name) to this cgi,
> it should wait at the -e and if the file does not exist then
> go on and create it. What is happening 30-80% of the time is
> that it says file exists and exits, I look and the file does
> now exist where it did not before.
That is a race alright. Use file locking to avoid the race.
> $FORM{'name'} =~ /^([\w]*)$/; # untaint data
> $name = $1;
Do you really want to allow $name to contain the empty string?
You should never use the dollar-digit variables unless you have
first ensured that the pattern match succeeded:
if ( $FORM{name} =~ /^([\w]+)$/ )
{ $name = $1 }
else
{ die "could not untaint '$FORM{name}'" }
> What gives here?
Multitasking.
--
Tad McClellan SGML consulting
tadmc@augustmail.com Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas
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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:24:17 +0000 (UTC)
From: hudson@swcp.com (Tramm Hudson)
Subject: Re: Race problem in 5.6.1 - Not Von Neumann anymore?
Message-Id: <b8omah$cei$1@iruka.swcp.com>
John Long <goog1@pruam.com> wrote (in part):
> open FILE, ">$dir/$name.dat" || die "Unable to save file: $!" ;
Independent of your database issue, this doesn't do what you think
it does. The || has a higher precedence than , so your code is
the same as:
open FILE, (">$dir/$name.dat" || die "Unable to save file: $!") ;
The string ">$dir/$name.dat" will always be true, so the die will never
be executed. You want to say either:
open( FILE, ">$dir/$name.dat" ) || die "Unable to save file: $!";
or
open FILE, ">$dir/$name.dat" or die "Unable to save file: $!";
As it stands, your code might fail to open the file and continue on
with no warning. If you have warnings turned on, you would be warned
when you tried to write to the bogus file handle:
print() on closed filehandle FILE at line ...
Trammell
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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 08:14:44 GMT
From: "John W. Krahn" <krahnj@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Subtracting strings [long post]
Message-Id: <3EAF85F2.33EA1FF2@acm.org>
Quantum Mechanic wrote:
>
> I'm working on a puzzle, and I'm looking for a simple, clean way to
> find the "difference" between 2 strings. The 2nd string must be a
> proper substring of the 1st -- if there are characters in the 2nd
> string not in the 1st, or there is an excess of one or more characters
> in the 2nd string compared to the 1st, a failing result is returned.
>
> For example,
>
> $p = 'baseball';
> $q = 'blab';
> $r = string_diff( $p, $q ); # $r eq "seal" [in any order]
>
> but
>
> $p = 'baseball';
> $q = 'bulb';
> $r = string_diff( $p, $q ); # $r == 0 because 'u' not in $p
>
> I'm not really interested in the character order of either the inputs
> or the outputs.
That looks easy enough. :-)
$ perl -le'
sub diff {
my ( $s, $c ) = @_;
$s =~ s/\Q$_\E// or return 0 for split //, $c;
return $s;
}
print diff( "baseball", "blab" );
print diff( "baseball", "bulb" );
'
seal
0
John
--
use Perl;
program
fulfillment
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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:53:11 GMT
From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To: Ethan Brown <ethan@draupnir.gso.saic.com>
Subject: Re: what is $@ ?
Message-Id: <90ccf8c95f27cc811f3255df63618a81@TeraNews>
>>>>> "Ethan" == Ethan Brown <ethan@draupnir.gso.saic.com> writes:
Ethan> I didn't know that either, but I found the answer at:
Ethan> http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perlvar.html
Why did you go all the way out to the web for an answer when
that same document is also on your disk at "perldoc perlvar"?
And the document on your disk conforms precisely to the version
of Perl you have installed, and is not frozen at version 5.6
of Perl as is the URL you mention.
{sigh}
print "Just another Perl hacker,"
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