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This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq9.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete perlfaq is at [link] .

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Will the following change a single digit to corresponding English word, like 3 to three, 5 to five, etc? $char = $numbers[$char]

I've recently upgraded to 10.2.0.3 (from 10.2.0.1) on Linux x86_64. My compatible parameter is still set to 10.2.0.1. The patch set documentation doesn't refer to setting the compatible parameter to 10.2.0.3 anywhere. What is the general approach to setting this parameter after applying a patch. Do you set it to the exact version (i.e. 10.2.0.3).

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This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq9.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete perlfaq is at [link] .

Could I change the max length limit(30 characters) of an object name? If I could, how? Thank you very much! Jack.Lee

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This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq8.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete perlfaq is at [link] .

Hi all, I am trying to write a simple Perl script that will accept the HTML file as one argument and then send an e-mail with the HTML file. I don't want the HTML file attached to the e-mail but to be part of the body of the e-mail. In other words, I need the HTML file that I am sending to be the actual body of the e-mail.

Hi, I know I can probably do this in an IF statement(s). But, I was wondering if you can have a query with a CASE in it, and later in the query refer to a value eariler in the query. My guess is no, but if I case column 1, and column 2 is based on the value derived from the case of column 1, and so on, is that easily

Hi , I'm newbie in Perl, and I have some Perl scripts that contains some text processing. In the piece of Perl code shown below: What do the following lines mean? What are the "Fcntl" and "GDBM_File" ? Finally, what is the usage of "tie" and "untie" functions, and what type of arguments are passed to them below?!

From time to time, someone would post a who-posted-most, who-responded-most, etc, report on the group. Was pretty nice! Whatever happened to it? Did anyone find it useful, even interesting? Enough so to get it going again? Thanks, David

Hi, Even if I'm using Oracle since some year, I have some (many?) doubts about the use of differents schema instead of different DBs. Generally to manage a test environment, a development enviroment and a production environment, I create 3 different databases on the same oracle instance (MYDB_TEST, MYDB_PROD, MYDB_DEV). But I was thinking

UPDATE table1 SET column1 = (select DECODE(....) from ....where ..)

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