While other scripting languages have gained popularity, Perl remains a popular choice due to its robust text processing ...

Every programming language has its strengths...and its weaknesses. We identify five tasks for which perl is ideally suited, and four that...well, really, shouldn't you choose something else? We all ...

You may think of PERL as something for Unix gurus, but wise Windows administrators can also benefit from this powerful scripting language. So just what is PERL, and where did it come from? PERL stands ...

Although this may actually belong in the programming forum, I figure that more Slackware users will see it here and maybe use it and/or improve upon it (I'm not exactly a programmer, but am just able ...

Since Solaris doesn't have GNU "date", Perl seems pretty much the only game in town, if I want to convert a static time stamp to the epoch time format. Given I'm not much of a Perl wizard, how do I ...

Being a hired-gun developer, I inherit all kinds of client problems. Recently, I was tasked with exporting a delimited flat file from one application and formatting it so it could be imported into ...

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 describe ...

Most of our beloved tools, such as Slic3r, Cura or KISSlicer, offer scripting interfaces that help a great deal if your existing 3D printing toolchain has yet to learn how to produce decent results ...

While Perl and Python are two different programming languages, Python has the ability to execute Perl scripts through a built in function. Since Perl and Python are designed for different programming ...

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 ...