Perl syntax is particularly flexible—a Perl motto is “There's more than one way to do it”. This can make Perl code confusing for the novice, but he has been careful to use consistent idioms ...

Debugging is an annoying necessity in any language, whether it's debugging your own code or somebody else's that you've been given to make work on your system. Anything you can do to make debugging ...

The new concepts, syntax additions, and myriad changes in Perl 6 may create a barrier to widespread adoption, especially with the vast amount of existing Perl 5 code out in the world right now.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Descrambling DVDs just got even easier, thanks to a pair of MIT programmers.Using only seven lines of Perl code, Keith Winstein and Marc Horowitz have created the shortest-yet ...

This article describes how Perl is used to generate Perl CGI code using the multi-platform CGIScripter application. The resulting output code automates SQL table creation commands (in this example, ...

Below is the perl code that prints count and lines from /etc/passwd.So if count 1=>001 if count 10 => 010, count 101 -> 101.Count is printed using pattern matching. Can this be done through ...

Author Richard Lawson also shows you how to call the Perl methods as if they were Java code with minimum fuss from the Java XML-RPC client.

It turns out there might be a closer connection between the two than you’d think, as a software engineer discovered that random paint splatters are actually valid Perl code in disguise.