Reminiscent of the 2>&1 syntax of many shells, this line instructs perl to send standard error to the same place it sends standard out.

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.

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 have a text file that I need to parse in various ways. I have everything working to my standards using a Perl script, except for the removal of blank lines.Do you know a regex that will work for ...