Perl is typically pre-installed on UNIX-like systems, including Linux, Solaris, and Mac OS X. Windows does not come with Perl pre-installed. To install Perl on Windows, you can use Strawberry Perl & ...

I need to learn a scripting language to get better use out of my TSM setup.<BR><BR>Of course I have no idea where to start but was told Perl was a good option. I am running 2003 on the server that I ...

I've used Perl/Tk in the past and while it works, the look and feel is really that of a late 90s app. There isn't much customization you can do (in terms of skinning the default Tk widgets), so ...

*Most programmers know that the file line endings used by Windows and Unix-based systems are different. Windows uses CRLF and the Unix-based systems use LF. So fixing this is in Perl requires a simple ...

In 1994, Jon Orwant, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, learned the power of the Unix scripting language Perl. “I bet a friend a six-pack of beer that I could write an ...

Two key areas for improving Perl programming are achieving better support for Win32 and efficiently producing an executable version of your program. Here, we've rounded up a couple of tips to address ...