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 ...

There are a lot of really nice scripting languages available to Unix admins, but Perl is still one of my favorites for doing any work that involves regular expressions — any text that you can describe ...

Being a hired-gun developer, I inherit all kinds of client problems. Recently, I was tasked with exporting a delimited flat file from one application and formatting it so it could be imported into ...

As systems get larger and the number of users they support increases, it becomes more difficult to manage systems using only the old-fashioned UNIX /etc/passwd file. A common solution to this problem ...

The Perl programming language was first posted to the comp.sources.misc Usenet newsgroup by its creator Larry Wall on December 18, 1987. Now known as a family of high-level, general-purpose, ...

There are numerous ways to redirect standard error in a Perl script. You can redirect the output from one particular command, you can combine standard error with ...

As more and more Web sites begin using XML for their content, it's increasingly important for Web developers to know how to parse XML data and convert it into different formats. That's where the Perl ...

Despite the fact that MySQL comes with a rich set of functions, at some point you will find yourself wishing for some additional function or needing an advanced regular expression engine. To solve ...

Almost 26 years after it was first released, Perl is finally looking to upgrade its major version number from Perl 5, to Perl 7. Speaking at the Perl Conference in the Cloud, project lead Sawyer X ...

I'm working on a basic perl script that needs to print (to a file) a variable all on one line. The variable is initially read in from a file where it may contain one or mare carriage returns or "\n"s.