Trying to set up cpanplus on debian testing. I find this:

http://debian.pkgs.cpan.org/

So I install cpanp using it... or try to until I'm stopped by a bug
that the changelog for cpanplus on cpan describes as:

"Key 'file' is of invalid type
Turns out it's a bug in Module::Build, reported as
#19741, which creates a 'Build' file when running
'perl Makefile.PL' on a M::B generated Makefile.PL"

Ok... so instead I download cpanplus source from cpan, which is a later
version than the debian package anyway. Unfortunately it complains of a
dozen missing dependencies when running Makefile.PL. It suggests using
the bootstrapped version to install them easily and gives an example
command. I attempt and it fails after a long wait with a 500 server
error (timed out), which I don't understand because an unreachable
server isn't a 500??

Joachim Durchholz wrote:

I can see how pointers, or other kinds of aliasing
(by my more restricted definition) break abstraction barries;
it is hard to abstract something that can change out from
under you uncontrollably.

"Sisyphus" nomail.afraid.org> wrote in
news:44b98e7d$0$25589$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au:

..

OK, I figured it out (in fact I've seen this before elsewhere, but
I'd forgotten): one locks a sentinel file (*not* the log file) that
one expects won't be renamed or deleted. Once we have the lock,
we can test whether the handle to the log remains valid, and make
adjustments if not.

kj

This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq1.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 http://faq.perl.org .

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1.15: Where can I get a list of Larry Wall witticisms?

(contributed by brian d foy)

Google "larry wall quotes"! You might even try the "I feel lucky"
button. :)

Wikiquote has the witticisms from Larry along with their source,
including his usenet postings and source code comments.

If you want a plain text file, try
http://www.cpan.org/misc/lwall-quotes.txt.gz .

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"Teffy" spammotel.com> wrote in message
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"Teffy" spammotel.com> wrote in message
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by

817.

I am looking to parse data into a complex structure of hashes and
arrays. I have been reading the data structures cookbook on the CPAN
website
(http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.7/pod/perldsc.pod#MORE_ELABORATE_RECORDS).
At the bottom they say that it is sometimes easier to have the file as
the data structure that would be used to create the structure in perl.

I was wondering how to do this? I have been playing around trying to
learn how to use complex structures, but I can't figure out how to get
perl to parse code into a hash? I did initially think of placing the
data structure in a file and setting the hash equal to it, but that
doesn't work. am I thinking too simplistic?

This is my data structure that I am playing around with in a separate
file:

"Teffy" spammotel.com> wrote in message

You already have both of those modules in your ActiveState perl build 817.
If "UTIL" is not working, it must be for some other reason.

Cheers,
Rob

forwax gmail.com> wrote:

Please also see the Posting Guidelines link that was in his .sig

The place to search is http://search.cpan.org, maybe you can find
a module that does most of the heavy lifting for you, such as
HTML::TableExtract, since your data looks to be in an HTML table.

I would have posted an example using that module if I didn't have to
reverse-engineer what your data looks like (hint).

You can probably get something working by copying some of the code
given in the module's docs, and adding a bit to it.

perldoc HTML::TableExtract

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