I am receiving data for entry into a mysql database. The information
comes to me in gzipped files and I'm using Compress::Zlib to uncompress
the file in perl. I'm running perl 5.8.5.
The information in the file is encoded in latin1. It is mostly ASCII
7-bit with HTML entities and some characte
Anthony Ettinger wrote:
there must be a UTF-8 html entity module on cpan?
Thanks. That got me thinking in the right direction.
HTML::Entities will translate entities to Unicode. Unfortunately if all
the values in the string passed to HTML::Entities are less than 256, the
string returned by HT
I have a module I've written, 'Tools.pm'. One of the function in
Tools.pm will look up an identifier in a table in a database and return
the value for the identifier. Since the table is rather short and to
keep from having to access the disk all the time, I have the function
store the values in a
Sharp, Craig wrote:
I have a script that uses file::find to create a list of files within
a subdirectory. Depending on the size of the directory, find can be
very resource intensive. I need to find a better way to generate a
list of files within a subdirectory for comparison to a time for de
