You may think of PERL as something for Unix gurus, but wise Windows administrators can also benefit from this powerful scripting language.

I looked around for a bit, but didn't find much to suit my needs, but as perl goes, i'm sure there are 400 different better ways to do what i'm doing. I have another perl script running, but its a ...

You may think of PERL as something for Unix gurus, but wise Windows administrators can also benefit from this powerful scripting language.

By using perl as a scripting language instead of a “traditional” shell, you can use much more C-like syntax without sacrificing functionality.

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 ...

PAL, is a Perl script that rapidly identifies conserved residues present in a large alignment file. The strengths of PAL are: speed, flexibility and ease of use.

I was given the task of finding out what's wrong with a Perl script. Basically, after upgrading to a new version of Perl the script takes around 45 seconds to 'compile' before execution. The "new ...

The future of Perl requires both visionaries and mechanics; one of the charms of Win32 Perl Scripting is that Roth manages to balance those roles in his own life and career.

Here’s a trick that I learned recently that allows me to combine a string of arguments into a single variable. In my case, this was necessitated by a script that I was preparing to help analyze ...