A quick run down on how you can use regular expressions in your own programs to give you more power over searching and substituting text. Perl has long been an extremely popular choice for text ...

Can Perl insert commas into numbers with many digits using formatting strings?<BR><BR>I have this bit of code, and I need commas in the floating-point columns.<BR><BR ...

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 ...

As part of my exploration into the guts of how Perl handles random numbers I've come across some interesting things. When rand() is called without calling srand() first, a "random" seed is chosen to ...