Add the "perl/bin" (whatever it is for your installation, but the default is
"C:\perl\bin" for ActiveState installations) directory in your PATH
environment variable.

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In order for the perl command to do anything in my AS installation, I have
to use a dos prompt in the \perl\bin directory.

To that end, I use the following shortcut:

%%windir%%\system32\cmd.exe /K CD /D \perl\bin

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Reagan Revision

"We are being told that a competent, trustworthy president is someone
who brandishes his religion like a neon sign, loads a gun and goes out
hunting for beautiful winged creatures, and tries to imitate a past
president who, by the way, never shot a bird or felt the need to imitate
anybody."

~~ Patti Davis Is Not Flattered by GOP Candidates' Pale Imitations of
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reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community
to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete
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7.24: How can I catch accesses to undefined variables, functions, or methods?

The AUTOLOAD method, discussed in "Autoloading" in perlsub and
"AUTOLOAD: Proxy Methods" in perltoot, lets you capture calls to
undefined functions and methods.

When it comes to undefined variables that would trigger a warning under
"use warnings", you can promote the warning to an error.

use warnings FATAL => qw(uninitialized);

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On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:34:38 -0400 Caduceus fusemail.com> wrote:

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Hello.

I have a perplexing question that seems like it should be very
simple. I have a perl script that in a nutshell, reads a directory
and then looks for a specific file naming convention which is matched...

Caduceus fusemail.com> wrote:

Nothing? You really get nothing? Not even an error message?
Then someone must have created a perl.bat or perl.com or perl.exe that
immediately terminates and replaced perl's perl.exe with that program.

jue

I find this function very useful:

{
my %%counters = ();
sub every
{
my $id = shift @_;
my $when = shift @_;

return (0 == ++$counters{$id} %% $when);
}
}

I call it like this:

print "debug info: ..."
if every("debug spot", 50);

print "extra info: ..."
if every("extra spot", 100);

So the debug info will be printed on every 50th call to every(). It's
small and convenient, but I have to make up a new ID every time.

Is there a way to use the CPAN module *without* its creating a directory
and doing all sorts of fancy initialization and such? I want to set up a
program that I'd intended to "use CPAN" and do some mucking about with
modules and such, but when I try to run it I get barraged with dialogs and
it stashes away config stuff and who knows what... I'd like to run it
"self contained", no readline, no ".cpan" directories... just run?

I just tried and when it can't find a $HOME/.cpan dir with its config info
it launches into config-mode again... not so nice for a background task.
Can I somehow predefine all of the vbls that CPAN is looking for so it'll
just find 'em and be happy and not go poking around in the filesystem?
[also, is there a 'quiet' mode -- even when it finds what it wants I get
"Loading LWP...OK.. Fetching with LWP" and all of that stuff].

Thanks!
/Bernie\

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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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7.27: How can I comment out a large block of perl code?

You can use embedded POD to discard it. Enclose the blocks you want to
comment out in POD markers. The <=begin> directive marks a section for a
specific formatter. Use the "comment" format, which no formatter should
claim to understand (by policy). Mark the end of the block with <=end>.

# program is here

=begin comment

all of this stuff

here will be ignored
by everyone

=end comment

=cut

# program continues

I want to remove all special characters in front of a list of file
names (which may be generated by the "find" or other commands).
How to do that?
This does not work:
$ find . -type f -print | perl -pe 's/([?|*.\'"])/\\$1/g'

$ find . -type f -print | perl -pe "s/([?|*.\'"])/\\$1/g"
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `)'