http://snipplr.com/language/perl/tags/easy Recent snippets posted on Snipplr.com en-us Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:33:26 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/3718/how-to-start-cpan-on-windowsactiveperl/ ActivePerl has a great package manager utility -- just type "ppm" at the prompt. The problem is that ActivePerl's PPM points to ActivePerl's package repository, which doesn't contain every module listed on CPAN. The solution is to invoke the cpan utility under windows! Here's how.

]]> Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:23:37 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/3718/how-to-start-cpan-on-windowsactiveperl/ http://snipplr.com/view/3136/starter-perl-module/ Put this in the file MyPackage.pm, and call it with Use::MyPackage

]]> Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:04:21 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/3136/starter-perl-module/ http://snipplr.com/view/3126/grab-linked-files-from-a-list-of-web-pages/ Expects as argument the name of a file containing a newline-delimited list of URLs. When invoked, launches an interactive shell that asks what type of file should be downloaded. Then downloads all the files that are linked from each of the listed Web pages.

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