The best option is to find a step-by-step guide that can carefully explain the steps and give examples. One such guide can be found at a website called PageResource. Select CGI and Perl and click on the tutorial Perl: Reading from a File.
http://search.cpan.org/~jdb/Win32-OLE-0.1709/lib/Win32/OLE.pm This link has a great example of accessing the Excel API using Perl.
Are you looking specifically for a Perl answer, or a general answer? Most shell environments can do this as well, use the 'read' command.
There are a number of sites that provide information about how to learn the Perl programming language. They include Learn Perl, Learning Perl and Perl Tutorial Hub. Amazon and other good booksellers have a wide range of Perl books available.
Files that can only be read (data can be retirieved) are called read-only files. You cannot write any data into a read-only file (you cannot edit it).
The Perl split function is used to split a string into smaller section. One can find a guide on how to use a Perl split function on various websites including Perlmeme.
The Perl Chomp function is a programming function that remove the "newline" character at the end of the string. One can use the Perl Chomp function to remove any character that has the same value as the current one.
...midi files.
Perl is a server-side language. It is executed on the server, and any output generated is sent to the client (the user).HTML is read and executed by the client. It is simply sent, as is, by the server.
you read books and you learn wise one
It reads .pdf files.
It stands for the Web Preprocessor. It is a Perl script to preprocess HTML files. This helps speed things up when the page is working.
no we can`t read pdf files without Acrobat Reader