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From: Liviu Daia (Liviu.Daia_at_imar.ro)
Date: Sun Dec 01 2002 - 16:52:04 CST

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    On 1 December 2002, Len Conrad <LConradGo2France.com> wrote:
    >
    > >One caveat for the original poster -- these versions use
    > >'character class syntax [: :]', which isn't supported by the perl
    > >version installed with FreeBSD 4.7 (/usr/src/contrib/perl5).
    > >Changing the character classes into old style regular expressions,
    > >e.g., [[:alnum:]] into [0-9A-Za-z], appears to work fine.
    >
    > worse, the new mods needed:
    >
    > perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::IP'
    > perl -MCPAN -e 'install Sys::Hostname'

        Sys::Hostname is supposed to come with Perl.

    > perl -MCPAN -e 'install Number::Format'
    >
    > takes one into a full upgrade of PERL 5 to 5.8, which on slower
    > machines takes a ton of time.
    >
    > Is there anyway to avoid that 5.8 hell?

        Well, Perl 5.8 is definitely not required, both Net::IP and
    Number::Format seem to be working fine here with 5.6.1.

        Regards,

        Liviu Daia 

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