I was given the task of finding out what's wrong with a Perl script. Basically, after upgrading to a new version of Perl the script takes around 45 seconds to 'compile' before execution. The "new" ...

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 ...

Scripting languages are the hot technology today for application and Web development — no longer the backwater afterthought of the early days running in a pokey interpreter. Nor are scripting ...

Here’s a trick that I learned recently that allows me to combine a string of arguments into a single variable. In my case, this was necessitated by a script that I was preparing to help analyze ...

a magazine but booty-saving in real use. Right?Now for the interesting problem. Look at this line:print S "GET /$document HTTP/1.0\n\n";We're sending a one-line HTTP ...

Editors exist for all kinds of scripting needs—some free, some cheap, and some not-so-cheap. Use this guide to help you find the right product for your work. Scripting in Windows has taken different ...

The former second-class citizens of the programming world have leaped to the fore, changing the face of enterprise software development. With the rise of Web 2.0, scripting languages (also called ...

In the post-genomic era, with an ever-increasing amount of sequence information, it is critical to develop tools that assist in sifting through all the data to identify information amidst the noise.