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Hello everyone, I am interested in using Perl for a fairly simple task. I want to submit data (nucleotide sequences, for those interested in bioinformatics) to an html form, then make various other form selections and submissions, and ultimately save an image file that the website returns...

Hello all, I know that /^$/ is used to match an "empty" line. But most "empty" lines contain a carriage return, right? What follows are two "empty" lines: If I use the following script on an input file containing nothing but two such blank lines, the substitution is successful: open...

Thanks for the help! The problem was the lack of a newline after the "EOF", as you suggested. Why is it necessary?

Hello everyone, I'm learning Perl via Mike Gossland's tutorial at http://www.gossland.com/course/index.html. The tutorial presents "here documents," apparently a holdover from UNIX that offers equivalent functionality to the explicit quoting operator, qq{}. Mike gives a nice example of how...