You write a Perl script to do it for you, of course! Learn about the basics of writing Perl statements with this script walk-through.

None of these techniques depends on what the person running the script does. Instead, they can all be set up in your Perl scripts. Let’s take a look at how this works.

} The first line clarifies the scripting language, strict disables some advanced Perl magic and warnings yells at you when you’re doing something wrong.

Scripting languages like PHP, Perl, and JavaScript are taking on programming heavyweights like Java and C, and taking many software developers with them. Find out how the toy languages and duct ...

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 ...