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Will programmers soon become obsolete?
As a self taught programmer close to 50 years old and without a high paid job, I would say that "Our time will come". Todays programmers seem to specialize in just one or two languages. I started out programming for the ZX80 (Don't laugh!) in 1981 and the grounding of 'Assembly' is not...- peterperl
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change file name to upper case
Yes there is a problem - underscore doesn't have an uppercase equivalent! You will have to do some string manipulation first to remove this character, change the rest to uppercase, then put the _ back again. Or just substitute the alphabetical characters, ignoring numerics and punctuation. Just... -
-e (existing file)
exit() has to write an error message somewhere - usually in the server log. But if the program has already closed, how will it do this? This is a problem where ever you use perl on a server - you always get the standard error page! Look in your servers error log to see if the exit has been... -
Does anyone know of a different met
Why do you want to spoof anything? Are you trying to give perl a bad name? If you must "hack", there are plenty of ready made anonymous mailer programs around. Please don't use perl for this purpose!!! -
This is my 3rd post for this problem..... must be a real challenge?
In reply to other suggestions above: ActivePerl on Windows does not need ANY shebang provided that the perl installation has correctly set up the PATH. However, be sure that no other version of perl is present! I previously suggested trying this on other web servers in order to determine if the... -
This is my 3rd post for this problem..... must be a real challenge?
ActivePerl doesn't have a built in server. Have you tried using a Sambar or Xitami server? Or using Indigoperl with its built in Apache server?
