Re: Perl HTTP Get

2012-05-30 Thread Chris Nehren
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 21:45:16 -0500 , Matt wrote: Thanks. Yes, using Simple. Looking at this. Can I do something as simple as this? $rststr = ; alarm(60); # set timer for 60 seconds $rststr = get(http://; . $dst . /request.htm ); # try to get my data alarm(0); # turn off timer More

Re: spreadsheet::xlsx and the horror of it all

2012-05-30 Thread Yu-Shan Wang
Hi Can I ask a quick question? My perl version is 5.8.3 I couldn't find Spreadsheet::XLSX from ppm3 I search online. It seems that my version is too old to support this module. Is it correct? If so, is there other ways to parse *xlsm* file using perl v5.8.3 Thank you very much -Tiffany On

Re: Perl HTTP Get

2012-05-30 Thread Matt
Thanks.  Yes, using Simple.  Looking at this. Can I do something as simple as this? $rststr = ; alarm(60); # set timer for 60 seconds $rststr = get(http://; . $dst . /request.htm ); # try to get my data alarm(0); # turn off timer More or less, yes--have you tried it? Also, do consider

Re: spreadsheet::xlsx and the horror of it all

2012-05-30 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Tiffany, see below for my response. On Wed, 30 May 2012 13:53:24 -0700 Yu-Shan Wang ysw2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Can I ask a quick question? My perl version is 5.8.3 I couldn't find Spreadsheet::XLSX from ppm3 I search online. It seems that my version is too old to support this

Re: spreadsheet::xlsx and the horror of it all

2012-05-30 Thread jbiskofski
Hey I can see that people are helping you and you are on your way to having your problem solved. Spreadsheet::XSLX is an awesome module, but sometimes its easier to convert the file to CSV using excel and then its just text and its a lot easier to manipulate. - Jose from Mexico On Wed, May 30,

Re: spreadsheet::xlsx and the horror of it all

2012-05-30 Thread Yu-Shan Wang
Thanks Shlomi, I will try to persuade again others to update to new version. Your security and End-of-lifed points are quite good. (I wanted to use newer version but they said others might not have the newest one. In order to be compatible with everyone, they don't recommand me to update to new

Re: spreadsheet::xlsx and the horror of it all

2012-05-30 Thread Jim Gibson
On May 30, 2012, at 1:53 PM, Yu-Shan Wang wrote: Hi Can I ask a quick question? My perl version is 5.8.3 I couldn't find Spreadsheet::XLSX from ppm3 I search online. It seems that my version is too old to support this module. Is it correct? The current source code for Spreadsheet::XSLX

Re: Perl HTTP Get

2012-05-30 Thread Chris Nehren
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 16:22:29 -0500 , Matt wrote: I did this. Snippet from larger code: eval { $rststr = ; local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die get timeout }; alarm(30); $rststr = get(http://; . $dst . /request.htm ); # try to get my data alarm(0);

Re: spreadsheet::xlsx and the horror of it all

2012-05-30 Thread Chris Nehren
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 17:42:09 -0700 , Jim Gibson wrote: On May 30, 2012, at 1:53 PM, Yu-Shan Wang wrote: Hi Can I ask a quick question? My perl version is 5.8.3 I couldn't find Spreadsheet::XLSX from ppm3 I search online. It seems that my version is too old to support this

Re: Perl HTTP Get

2012-05-30 Thread John W. Krahn
Chris Nehren wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 16:22:29 -0500 , Matt wrote: I did this. Snippet from larger code: eval { $rststr = ; local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die get timeout }; alarm(30); $rststr = get(http://; . $dst . /request.htm ); # try to get my data