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Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
Printed
Page 21
last paragraph

create something a little more advanced then "Hello, World"
should read:
create something a little more advanced than "Hello, World"

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Printed
Page 27
3rd

install libwww-perl

returns with

from ppm (version 3.0.1)

perl -v gives.

"This is perl, v5.8.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2002, Larry Wall

Binary build 802 provided by ActiveState Corp. http://www.ActiveState.com
Built 00:54:02 Nov 8 2002"

solution: goto http://www.cpan.org/modules/INSTALL.html and follow instructions to install manually.

AUTHOR: This is technically a mistake, but only because the user is using ppm3 and
not ppm (which is version 2, as indicated in output of that hack).

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Printed
Page 28
last command exampe

%perl -MWLP::Simple -e 'print join "
", head "http://cpan.org/RECENT"';
should be:
%perl -MWLP::Simple -e "print join '
', head 'http://cpan.org/RECENT'";

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Printed
Page 32
2nd last paragraph, first word

h1=en
should read:
hl=en

i.e. the letter "l", not the number "1".
Ditto in the last paragraph, where h1 is also used.

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Printed
Page 45
Bold code at bottom of page

if (my $encoding = $response->content_encoding) ) {
Should be
if (my $encoding = $response->content_encoding) {

There is an extra " ) "

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Printed
Page 50
foreach loop in Progress Bar script

The value of $final_data is not re-initialized upon each iteration of the foreach
loop over the @ARGV array. Consequently, the value of length($final_data) is inflated
for the second and subsequent URLs specified on the command line and the progress
reported is incorrect.
AUTHOR:This is correct. The script and hack was tested with only
one file at a time, even though it supported more than one command line.

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Printed
Page 53
2nd code fragment

In the example code, 2nd fragment, an extraneous character is indicated in the search
string. It currently reads as follows:

my @links = $p->look_down( _tag => 'a', href => qr{^
Ohttp://www.oreilly.com/catalog/E w+ $}x );

and should read:

my @links = $p->look_down( _tag => 'a', href => qr{^
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/E w+ $}x );

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Printed
Page 53
Hack #19 Scraping with HTML::TreeBuilder

The last para on this page referes to "O'Reilly's subscription-based Safari online Library
http://safari.online.com
Should be:
http://safari.oreilly.com

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Printed
Page 63
2nd paragraph

Andy Lester's WWW::Mechanize [Hack #22] allows you to go to a URL and explore the sit...
should say:
Andy Lester's WWW::Mechanize [Hack #21] allows you to go to a URL and explore the sit...

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Printed
Page 169
google search code block

The entire doGoogleSearch call appears to be missing.

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Printed
Page 273
3rd paragraph

Kurt Hindenburg's tvlisting no longer works and he closed development of it as per his website.

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Printed
Page 277
hack 74 introduction

...idea what you're visitor's weather is like.
should be
...idea what your visitor's weather is like.

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Printed
Page 326
function getBlock (lower half of page)

the variable $pElement is referenced in the getBlock function, but is never declared
or assigned in this function. This appears to cause the function to fail under some
conditions.

if( $_start > strlen($pElement) && $_stop > $start ) }
should read:
if( $_start < strlen($pSource) && $_stop > $start ) }

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Printed
Page 364
6 Hack #94 Using XML::RSS to Repurpose Data

http://www.newsmonster.com
should be
http://www.newsmonster.org

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