Compiling Perl 5.8 in Win 2000

Hello, My appologies if this particular problem has shown up here before. I looked around, but didn't see anything that quite addressed it. I am trying to build perl on my windows system using gcc and dmake. The versions are: Win 2000 5.00.2195 SP3 Perl 5.8.0 gcc 2.95.2 dmake 4.1 I followed th

Converting dates from seconds since epoch into regular form

Hi, I know how to take a given date and turn it into the number of seconds since the epoch, but I can't figure out how to take a date in this form and turn it back into a human-friendly format. I have looked around the date::manip and date::calc modules but don't seem to see anything that specifi

Function for converting a specific date to number of seconds since 01/01/1970?

Hi, I need to know the easiest way to translate a date (not today's date) into the number of seconds since 01/01/1970. I realize there is at least one function that turns the current date/time into this number, but I need to find, for instance, everything with a date/time stamp between 01/01/1998

Extracting data from html

Hi, If anyone can help me with this, I'd be much obliged. I'm probably missing something obvious. I have a variable with a long line of html in it, and I need to take certain elements from it and store them in their own variables. I can figure out how to match the parts that I need with a regul

Inserting Row into Access 2000 Table Using DBI:ODBC

Hello, I'm trying to write a program that will update a simple Access 2000 table. Whenever I try to run the insert statement, though, I get the following error back: " DBD::ODBC::st execute failed: [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Operation must use an updateable query. (SQL-S1000)(DBD:

DBI for Access

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Collapsing Duplicates

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'while' confusion

Hello, I'm new to this list and pretty much an absolute perl beginner. I'm really enjoying the list and would appreciate a little insight into the true meaning of 'while'. For some reason I'm having trouble using it. I was working on something today to help me find bad data in a text file. Among