You may think of PERL as something for Unix gurus, but wise Windows administrators can also benefit from this powerful scripting language.

The future of Perl requires both visionaries and mechanics; one of the charms of Win32 Perl Scripting is that Roth manages to balance those roles in his own life and career.

By using perl as a scripting language instead of a “traditional” shell, you can use much more C-like syntax without sacrificing functionality.

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 ...

You write a Perl script to do it for you, of course! Learn about the basics of writing Perl statements with this script walk-through.

While Perl and Python are two different programming languages, Python has the ability to execute Perl scripts through a built in function. Since Perl and Python are designed for different ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scripting languages like PHP, Perl, and JavaScript are taking on programming heavyweights like Java and C, and taking many software developers with them. Find out how the toy languages and duct ...