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  1. WingedKnight

    How to Get Perl to Automatically Look in Specific Directories for Scripts?

    I have ActiveState Perl installed on a Windows machine. Now, suppose I have scripts, including one called "SomeScript.pl", in this directory: "C:\Example\Foo\Bar\" How do I configure Perl to automatically look in that directory for scripts when it is passed a script path? For example, from...
  2. WingedKnight

    Strange Taint Introduction with LWP

    I have a large, complicated, multifile (too long to post the full thing here) Perl application which uses LWP. Recently, to deal with a new input source website which automatically HTTP-compressed its responses, I had to modify the script to change a line from using ($objResponse is an...
  3. WingedKnight

    Why Isn't the CSS for a LI in a UL Overriding the CSS for the UL?

    I'm trying to apply formatting to a list header which should not apply to the list items. I have this CSS: ul { text-decoration: underline; } ul li { text-decoration: none; } and this HTML: <ul>Should be underlined <li>Should not be underlined</li> </ul> How do I fix the CSS so that the...
  4. WingedKnight

    U in Uname Command

    Just something I've been puzzled by for a long time: What does the "u" in the "uname" command stand for? The "obvious" answer is "user", but that makes no sense given that the command returns information about the operating system rather than the user.
  5. WingedKnight

    Adding Leading Zeroes With a Single Substitution Without /e Option

    Suppose you have an integer $n and you want to add enough leading zeroes to that integer to make it a certain width in characters (for the examples below, let's say a width of 5.) I'm well aware that this can be done with such ways as $n = sprintf("%05d", $n); $n = substr(0 x 5 . "$n", -5)...

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