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FAQ 8.42 How do I make a system() exit on control-C?

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] .

Perl regular expression engine

Hi all, I was wondering if someone could point me some ref on what algorithms are used by perl to find matches between regular expressions and text? Is it a dfa? Thanks!

Giving up on Work e-mail - Status Report on Weeks 15 to 20

Back on to my usual regular blogging, and here I am with the first blog post in a while where I am catching up on the various weekly status reports from my new reality of giving up on corporate e-mail at the same time that I am sharing a link to one of the major highlights from this entire year, specially since five months ago I got things started with this experiment of giving up on e-mail itself.

FAQ 9.17 How do I check a valid mail address?

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] .

What are ORA$AT_OS_OPT_SY_665 like 11g jobs?

Hi. I'm having a problem with oracle 11g: Once in a while system runs jobs named something like in a title. Those are very resource intensive and in my case last for 4-5 minutes. During this time my application using this db keeps getting errors on trying to connect to a database or create a transaction.

Perl Audit Reports

I am new to perl . I need to write a perl script to generate an audit report of a root directory and all subsequent sub-directories and files under it, the report should be able to 1. list any directories/files changes in size and content, addition, deletion of any of them. 2. It could be run for different location passing parameters.

FAQ 9.12 How do I put a password on my web pages?

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] .

My c code has stopped working: PL_errgv NULL?

Hi all, I have some code like the following: char *code = "some perl code"; eval_pv(code, 0); if (SvTRUE(ERRSV)) { // Get the error... msg = SvPV_nolen(ERRSV); This code works wit 5.8, but now that I have upgraded to 5.10 (ActivePerl) it crashes. The problem seems to be that PL_errgv is NULL. How can I fix my code to not crash?

Perl CGI utilities?

I have been doing Perl for years, but only as local programming. That is to say, I never had any reason to build web pages or other 'Net' stuff. Lately I have been playing with CGI on our local network as a way to deliver applications without worrying about the OS on the other end. A vendor can show up in our mostly Linux shop with a Mac, connect to the

Protect record from deletion via trigger

Hi all, I have a question regarding delete triggers. is there a way to protect one specific record of a table from deletion? The way to do it with a view and instead triggers is not possible. Also i can't raise an APPLICATION_ERROR, since the whole thing should not be visible from application side. Is there a way to do this?

Master Your Digital Media with VLC - Lifehacker

Master Your Digital Media with VLC Lifehacker, CA - 8 hours ago Create a new text file and save it as VLC Converter .bat.

Time::HiRes hell...

I'd posted a note on HiRes earlier but things seem to be getting more complicated. Here are the facts as I understand them: - versions of HiRes older than 1.91 call setitimer with the entire time interval as usecs even if > 1sec. This is clearly in violation of the calling interface to setitimer, but with glibc versions <2.4 it still