Questions tagged [perl]
Perl is a powerful, high level programming language. Questions about Perl should be limited to the Perl development environment, running Perl, or using Perl to automate tasks on your computer.
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How to get stock quotes in KMyMoney, GNUCash, or other programs using old/broken perl Finance::Quote
TLDR: I am unable to get online stock quotes from within GnuCash and KMyMoney. It seems that something is wrong with the perl Finance::Quote module. What is the easiest way to fix this?
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Bash [[ test =~ regex ]] vs perl command result
Is the bash operator =~ equivalent to a perl invocation?
filename="test-33.csv"
regex="([^.]+)(-\d{1,5})(\.csv)"
With bash test:
if [[ "$filename" =~ $regex ]]; then ...
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Install Perl on Windows for LaTeX Packages Without Dependency Issues
I'm currently facing challenges with installing Perl on my Windows system, which I need for handling specific LaTeX related packages. My journey so far has led me through a series of issues, and I'm ...
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database connection error with perl app (rt 5 - request tracker) connecting to Postgres database
On a CentOS 9 system I installed postgres via dnf
# dnf info postgresql
Last metadata expiration check: 3:26:33 ago on Tue 21 Nov 2023 12:13:48 PM PST.
Installed Packages
Name : postgresql
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AWK replace some special new line to one line
i have some log like this:
2023-11-15T08:59:28.000000+00:00 database-1 # Time: 231115 8:59:28
# User@Host: rdsadmin[rdsadmin] @ localhost []
# Thread_id: 3 Schema: QC_hit: No
# Query_time: 0....
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Perform lookup on two files
I have a csv file that get's SFTP'd to a RHEL box I have setup. It then gets transformed a little before another process SFTP's in and grabs it sending it off to be imported to a DB of a 3rd party.
I ...
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Combine two regex formulas into one (using notepad++)
Si cum îi semănau ! Fraţi buni, puindu-si, ca si el, tot sufletul
în ceea ce făceau, muncind din greu, luptind din greu, jert-
findu-se, fără nici un gînd de răsplată.
Simțind în tot ceasul,
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REGEX Find the string between 2 strings
In the example below, I want to use regex as to find the html tag <sony> between other 2 lines.
<table width="697" border="0">
<tr>
<td&...
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Clear previous command output (not full screen)
Example
This is on the terminal screen:
user@host ~ % ls
dir1
dir2
dir3
user@host ~ % whoami
user
user@host ~ % date
Wed May 24 16:25:26 -03 2023
user@host ~ % [CURSOR IS HERE]
I'm trying to ...
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How to install Perl modules in custom location?
I'm currently trying to install a Perl module, but the web hosting has specifically locked the custom Perl user install directory (they have a "install service" charging 7$ per module).
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regexp in perl fails
Why is this failing?
WGroleau@MBP Chords % perl -p -i -e '(Trinidad|Donoso|Clifton|Frincke|Little|Church|Antonio) XYZ :\1\t:g;' *txt
Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 1, near ") ...
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Perl LWP: how can I print the fetched result?
What are the elements of the class response from this code:
Or, how can I print the entire object response ?
#!/usr/bin/env perl
# Example code from Chapter 1 of /Perl and LWP/ by Sean M. Burke
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Perl LWP: running a script returns an error
I have installed Bundle::LWP and after several minuets I'm getting this
$ perl -MLWP -le "print(LWP->VERSION)"
6.68
which sounds OK. However, running this script
#!/usr/bin/perl
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Add line number at the end of each line in a text file
I have a text file which contains thousands of lines with same links. I want append the line number at the end of each line. For example;
https://example.com/
https://example.com/
these links would ...
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Linux - Find string and then end of section
I have an XMLTV file. I need to get all of the programme sections for a specific channel. An example snippet:
<programme start="2023031305000 -0400" end="2023031305300 -0400&...
