I call my script, derived from many Perl command examples that I’ve encountered on the web, “listen”.

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 ...

To skip over blanks lines in a perl script, you have several choices. You could use a “next if /^$/” (skip if empty) command or a “next if /^s*$/” skip if empty or only white space.

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.

What functions and command line options are there available as far as reading the file's timestamp is concerned?I am writing a script to put in cron that deletes symlinks that are older than an ...

In Perl, functions and subroutines can return different values based on the context of the caller (scalar, array or void). A nice feature of the Perl debugger is the r command, which tells you what ...

Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to find out where the languages were headed ...