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FAQ 3.9 Is there a ctags for Perl?

This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq3.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] .

Edit top line of perldoc

Is it possible within POD to edit the top line of the perldoc display (the one with 'User Contributed Perl Documentation' in it)?

DBI:Pg script returning 'can't call method' error

This is my script in its current (troubleshooting) state: ------------------------------ ---------------------------- use DBI; use strict; my $dbname = "test"; my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:Pg:dbname= $dbname;host=localhost;port=54 32","","", {RaiseError => 1, PrintError => 1 }) or die "Can't connect to the db: $DBI::errstr\n";

FAQ 4.33 How do I pad a string with blanks or pad a number with zeroes?

This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq4.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] .

FAQ 3.22 How can I get "#!perl" to work on [MS-DOS,NT,...]?

This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq3.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] .

Is there a way to spawn a program from perl that is independent?

That is... Backtics and System will start up a new program but it is modal - to get back to the original script the spawned program must be closed. Exec kills the original script when the spawned program starts up. I want a script to throw off another script and go on with its business. It would appear that Fork might the the answer, but so far RTFM'ing about

FAQ 4.26 How do I reformat a paragraph?

This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq4.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] .

Node ToolKit. __Was __ Re:C linked lists in Perl

I think C++ is better than Perl. If you don't know C++, I think Perl is better. I have a little starter toolkit here for double linked lists. Don't worry if you only need single lists, it still works. Like all Lists, the only ambiguity is data. For these functions, I've left the data allocation function "new_node()" at the top. Insert your own schema there.

CLPM - a help group?

Whats the charter of this newsgroup? Is it strictly Q&A? All questions. Post code without a question reveals nothing. I wouldn't call this an educational/professional group in that case. Am I posting to the wrong group? Just what is this group for? Not for programmers it seems. Perhaps it should be renamed to