spider.pl is a program for fetching documnts from a web server, and outputs the documents to STDOUT in a special format designed to be read by Swish-e. The spider can index non-text documents such as ...

I wish I had found Programming The Network With Perl two years ago. It really has opened my eyes to the power of Perl. The first chapter gives a brief overview of the basics of Perl. Users who are new ...

Until January of 2002, programmers wanting a book on Perl/Tk had one option: Learning Perl/Tk, by Nancy Walsh. Although well researched and accurate, it gave the reader only a basic familiarity with ...

Under a banner proclaiming the “Programming Republic of Perl,” Larry Wall delivered his State of the Onion address. The crowd ate it up. Wall is the principal author of Perl, a computer language so ...

Regarding the ability to create a double-clickable Terminal script (see previous item), Scott Lahteine notes that: AppleScript Menu can do more than just run AppleScripts. It allows you to run Perl ...

I write Perl programs that use the Windows shell command dir. The dir command is built into cmd.exe and there is no dir.exe in the System folder. My colleagues use my Perl programs and some of them ...