ActiveState is a software company which develops precompiled distros of Perl, Python, and Tcl as well as an IDE.
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Sort all records according to modified date and time
I have some problem with my code. I have 1 GB records, in which I have to sort according to date and time. Records are look like :
TYP_journal article|KEY_1926000001|AED_|TIT_A Late Eighteenth-Century Purist|TPA_|GLO_Pronouncements of George…

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Expect scripts cannot match
I am using the Community Edition of ActiveTcl from ActiveState on Windows with the Expect package installed. I have tried writing my own scripts, downloading some from various websites, and even copying and pasting them from the ActiveState website…

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How to Get Perl to Automatically Look in Specific Directories for Scripts?
I have ActiveState Perl installed on a Windows machine.
Now, suppose I have scripts, including one called "SomeScript.pl", in this directory:
"C:\Example\Foo\Bar\"
How do I configure Perl to automatically look in that directory for scripts when it…

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wxLocale not working with PerlApp
When I run my wxperl app from the command line it works great but after using the PerlApp from: http://www.activestate.com/perl-dev-kit to create an executable I'm seeing the following debug alert (shown below)
I've tried adding Locale for myFrame…

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Where can I find a working sample program using Canvas under Tkx?
I am using Active State Perl on Win7, and would like to run Canvas under Tkx.
The Active State build is a total kloodge of mutually incompatible Tk and Tkx modules in similar but not identical folders, and example programs that won't run because…

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What folder in windows contains the Tcl library code for the "foreach" command
I want to look at the actual code behind many of the commands in Tcl,
https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.6/TclCmd/contents.htm
Is this possible? For example, if I wanted to look at the "foreach" command to see how it works in Tcl code, can I find that in…

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How to read to and write from a pipe in perl with ActiveState Perl?
This excellent question
How to read to and write from a pipe in Perl?
provides an excellent answer.
It doesn't work on ActiveState Perl.
The BUGS section of perlfork
http://docs.activestate.com/activeperl/5.14/lib/pods/perlfork.html
says
In certain…

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activestate perl windows - find all installed xs modules
For prepairing a perl upgrade, i wanted to know which perl xs modules are installed for my local activestate perl 5.16 installation.
Does anybody know how i could get such a list of perl modules?

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How to deal with build problems of ActiveState for its ppm?
I use community version of ActiveState Perl under Windows and therefore need to either keep older versions around or use the most current releases. Problem is that I often found that some of my used packages do not build on their current Perl…

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Installing modules with PyPM on ActiveState
I am new to python scripting and started to look into a script to allow me to SSH to a box and check it is still running.
I have installed ActiveState (Python 2.7) on my windows desktop.
Using PyPM I have installed paramiko and pycrypto
but when I…

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Use perlcassa in Window
I'm trying to use perlcassa perl package in Window app. I started make but it failed because of missing prerequisites like Thrift::XS and Tie::IxHash
Unfortunatelly such prerequisites are not available for Windows.
Any idea how to overcome this?
Or…

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PNG File is corruped or not enough memory
Writing my first application using wxWidgets, everything compiled & run fine until I tried to load a few images for my application's toolbar!
It always throws: PNG file corrupted by ASCII conversion
I've written a simple perl script to convert PNG…

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ActiveState PerlApp fails to compile the RPC::XML::Client module
The uncompiled .pl runs like a scalded dog. The compiled version throws:
Can't locate object method "simple_request" via package "RPC::XML::Client::new: Unable to get RPC::XML::Parser object" (perhaps you forgot to load "RPC::XML::Client::new:…

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tk_getSaveFile Will not open dialogue in specified directory? (Tcl/Tk)
I must preface this question with the following information:
This problem only occurs when my application is wrapped with TclApp
I understand that when wrapping a Tcl program, one must lappend to the auto_path the location of the directory the…

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perl.exe runs from any folder, and perldoc.bat is not. Meanwhile they both are located in the same folder
I use ActiveState Perl 5.8.8 with Eclipse/EPIC. And it works fine. I'd like to use perldoc as well. But there is message in Eclipse "Documentation is not available." in Eclipse my perl interpreter is "C:\perl\bin\perlexe". Or if I type in cmd…

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