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Hi,
Can someone tell if they know of any perl modules which can
find the difference between 2 timestamps in a log file..

The timestamp format is as follows:
20080317 130146543
20080317 130156581

So the difference here is 38 msec.

Thanks !
R C

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comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to
reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community
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5.34: How do I close a file descriptor by number?

If, for some reason, you have a file descriptor instead of a filehandle
(perhaps you used "POSIX::open"), you can use the "close()" function
from the "POSIX" module:

use POSIX ();

POSIX::close( $fd );

This should rarely be necessary, as the Perl "close()" function is to be
used for things that Perl opened itself, even if it was a dup of a
numeric descriptor as with "MHCONTEXT" above. But if you really have to,
you may be able to do this:

require 'sys/syscall.ph';
$rc = syscall(&SYS_close, $fd + 0); # must force numeric
die "can't sysclose $fd: $!" unless $rc == -1;

does anyone know how I might be able to manually install an activeperl
module, for some reason I cannot install any module via activeperl perl
package manager, how can I manually install an activeperl module after
downloading the tar file?

I've spent an hour searching on CPAN and there are simply too many
web-related modules and no good way (that I can think of) to search
for this in terms that aren't so broad that pretty much all of them
are returned as hits. So here I am asking.

Simple problem. Given a URL http://www.example.com/some/file/here.html,
retrieve and extract the title of the web page -- i.e., the content
of the