Data Conversion

This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq5.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] .

So I was commenting some code I wrote for a friend who's new to perl and I came across the following in my code: $in{hours} =~ s/\./999999999/; if ($in{hours} =~ /\D/) { push @missing,'Hours contains non-numerical data'; $missing = 1; } $in{hours}=~s/999999999/\./; And I realized I've been too lazy with this for too long. So my first

Several months ago, I blogged about our OpenWorld hands-on lab set up project, which I referred as “Extreme Makeover, Data Center Edition”, as we had to set up a complex environment with a large number of complex enterprise class software in very short amount of time. It was both a fun and stressful project, and I learned a couple lessons from the exercise. I planned to blog about the lessons,

This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq5.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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I would like to setup a SMTP server for processing of e-mails (my SMTP server). E-mails will be forwarded from well know Internet e-mail servers to my SMTP server, but the only fragment of body is important for processing (like first 10kB of e-mail, not attachments just text). The rest of the transferred e-mail, should be discarded during

Hello, I have perl interpreter install using sypnatic package manager, now I want to reinstall perl from the source code with different configuration setting. Should I remove the perl first from the sypnatic package ? when I try to to so they are a lot of package that depend on perl, it seems unwise. So I just resinstall from source

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Well the IDUG North America 2008 conference is now over but it finished with an outstanding day last Thursday. For me the day started off with a special interest group meeting on The Changing Role of the DBA . Without a doubt the most discussed subject in the group was the increasing amount of time spent by database administrators as consultants/advisors to lines of business and application teams.

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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] .

Dear Sir/Madame, I have a couple of questions regarding multi-tasking using perl in a unix multi-CPU environment. I have a unix system with 4 CPU's. If i can divide the solution of a problem into 4 independent subproblems, would there be a way then to run 4 perl programs, each assigned one of the 4 problems for

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008 is in my favorite city, New Orleans, from June 15-19. I won't be getting there until either late Saturday or some time Sunday. Once again, I'm driving with my family. Once I'm there, I have plenty of extra-curricular

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Please check out this item: [link] Sounds like oracle has either made a change to allocate SGA in different chunks in 10.2.0.4 or qa has let something slip by. Ideas anyone?

Hello, I need to alter a table by adding a column and adding this column to a cluster already on the table. I don't know how to do it. There is a section in the Oracle online documentation on altering clustered tables but it doesn't really help. [link]

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This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq5.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] .

Many times I have seen posted on here to consult perldoc for information, and there is a wealth of information in there. But if I could offer a suggestion, if the perldocs are online list that url also. Personally I do not surf the internet or read newsgroups on my development computers, I use a different machine in my living room for