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 ...

The Apple Developer Connection’s (ADC) Internet Developer site has published a new article with step-by-step instructions for installing Perl 5.8 on Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar). The article also walks ...

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 ...