I am thinking about taking a PERL course for college, and just have a few questions about it. I do not have my Apple yet, but it is in the mail, so I am not completely sure how the two work ...

Perl 5.10, the first revamp of the quick-and-dirty open-source programming language project in five years, pilfers some features from Perl 6. Stephen Shankland Former Principal Writer Stephen ...

In the December 2000 issue of Linux Journal, I reviewed the latest edition of the classic Perl text: Programming Perl, 3rd Edition (or The Camel for short). In that review, my advice to new Perl ...

spider.pl is a program for fetching documnts from a web server, and outputs the documents to STDOUT in a special format designed to be read by Swish-e. The spider can index non-text documents such as ...

I write Perl programs that use the Windows shell command dir. The dir command is built into cmd.exe and there is no dir.exe in the System folder. My colleagues use my Perl programs and some of them ...

Title: Core PerlAuthor: Reuven M. LernerPublisher: Prentice-Hall, Inc.URL: www.coreperl.comISBN: 0-13-035181-4Price: US$44.99 Every Linux Journal reader is probably familiar with Reuven Lerner's "At ...

Every programming language has its strengths...and its weaknesses. We identify five tasks for which perl is ideally suited, and four that...well, really, shouldn't you choose something else? We all ...

Problem: You need to access a Perl program from your Java program—maybe a custom screen scraper written with LWP (Library for WWW access in Perl), maybe Bugzilla, or maybe one of countless ...

Learn, create and discover this February at Anythink Perl Mack. Explore a variety of programs, everything from embryology to online gaming. Please note that all Anythink libraries and administrative ...

Learn, create and discover this March at Anythink Perl Mack. Explore a variety of programs, everything from sticky note art to coding to a special presentation by Rocky Mountain National Park rangers.