Perl is a messy, maddening programming language, the “duct tape of the internet.” But at least you can tell it was made by humans.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Scripting languages are the hot technology today for application and Web development -- no longer the backwater afterthought of the early days running in a pokey interpreter. Nor are scripting ...