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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Can't get my head wrapped around CGI/Perl Post 302280318 by KevinADC on Monday 26th of January 2009 01:37:31 PM
Old 01-26-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by otheus
I love Perl, but if you're somewhat new to Perl and need to do a lot of scripting for the Web, try using PHP. It's similar to Perl, but much better suited for handling web form data.
Totally wrong about PHP better suited to handle form data than perl, but probably by this time you can tell this is school work. So I doubt the instructor would want the students in a perl course to use PHP.
 

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pmpath

PMPATH(1p)						User Contributed Perl Documentation						PMPATH(1p)

NAME

       pmpath - show full path to a perl module

SYNOPSIS

       pmpath module ...

DESCRIPTION

       For each module name given as an argument, produces its full path on the standard output, one per line.

EXAMPLES

	   $ pmpath CGI
	   /usr/local/devperl/lib/5.00554/CGI.pm

	   $ filsperl -S pmpath IO::Socket CGI::Carp
	   /usr/local/filsperl/lib/5.00554/i686-linux-thread/IO/Socket.pm
	   /usr/local/filsperl/lib/5.00554/CGI/Carp.pm

	   $ oldperl -S pmpath CGI CGI::Imagemap
	   /usr/lib/perl5/CGI.pm
	   /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/CGI/Imagemap.pm

SEE ALSO

       pmdesc(1), pmvers(1), pmcat(1).

AUTHORS and COPYRIGHTS
       Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Christiansen.

       Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Mark Leighton Fisher.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: (a) the GNU General Public License as published
       by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version, or (b) the Perl "Artistic License".  (This is the
       Perl 5 licensing scheme.)

       Please note this is a change from the original pmtools-1.00 (still available on CPAN), as pmtools-1.00 were licensed only under the Perl
       "Artistic License".

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