51 I guess the tag is a variable, and it is checking for 9eaf - but does this exist in Perl? What is the "=~" sign doing here and what are the "/" characters before and after 9eaf doing?

I'm working on a Perl script. How can I parse command line parameters given to it? Example: script.pl "string1" "string2"

Dec 30, 2010 · 128 perldoc perlvar is the first place to check for any special-named Perl variable info. Quoting: @_: Within a subroutine the array @_ contains the parameters passed to that …

In Perl, what is a good way to perform a replacement on a string using a regular expression and store the value in a different variable, without changing the original? I usually just copy the …

Mar 27, 2015 · In Perl, logical values are generally represented by 0 (or sometimes '' or undef) for false and 1 for true. However, to be more specific, any value that is not one of the above three …

Output of perldoc -q round Does Perl have a round () function? What about ceil () and floor ()? Trig functions? Remember that int() merely truncates toward 0. For rounding to a certain number of …

Sep 5, 2012 · @pst, <> is not a file handle, "null" or otherwise. It's an operator. Specifically, the readline operator. There's a reference to it as the "angle operator" in perlvar, although there isn't …

Jun 5, 2009 · Here we read file handle into an array (with the getlines method), and then convert the array's value into a string (using join). getlines is a Perl file handle built-in method coming …

Nov 10, 2019 · 53 From Perl documentation: OR List operators On the right side of a list operator, it has very low precedence, such that it controls all comma-separated expressions found there.

Mar 5, 2010 · I'm looking for presence of an element in a list. In Python there is an in keyword and I would do something like: if element in list: doTask Is there something equivalent in Perl …