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User CPAN installation broken

Posted on 7th November 20097th November 2018 by Khürt Williams

Here is a workaround for a common problem. You do not have root access the *NIX server to configure perl but want to install perl libraries. Normally the user can use CPAN with local libraries (PERL5LIB). But sometimes CPAN gets confused and you get an error like this: Your configuration suggests "/root/.cpan" as your CPAN.pm…

Adding style to perl code

Posted on 7th August 200920th August 2019 by Khürt Williams

Perl has always been my favourite command line and web programming language. There is nothing Perl can’t do. The Perl language combined with the large quantities of modules on CPAN (developed by some of the best programmers on the planet) make it the kitchen sink of programming languages. I like to make my code as…

The CPAN Search Site

Posted on 22nd October 200516th June 2018 by Khürt Williams

search.cpan.org: The CPAN Search Site: "CGI::Ajax - a perl-specific system for writing AJAX- or DHTML-based web applications (formerly know as the module CGI::Perljax)."