I have a (another) perl question for you guys:I have a script that relies on 'system()' to execute some shell commands that aren't available as perl functions. It seems that using system() is ...

In Perl, functions and subroutines can return different values based on the context of the caller (scalar, array or void). A nice feature of the Perl debugger is the r command, which tells you what ...

Perl lacks named arguments for its functions. This is okay for a tight, single file program that is less than 1,000 lines of code, with one developer handling the code for its entire lifetime.

Anyone know of a quick and easy way to find the number of days between two dates using perl without having to install additional cpan modules?I need to find the number of days between today and ...

Perl is a messy, maddening programming language, the “duct tape of the internet.” But at least you can tell it was made by humans.

I first heard of Perl when I was in middle school in the early 2000s. It was one of the world’s most versatile programming languages, dubbed the Swiss army knife of the Internet. But compared to ...

Almost 26 years after it was first released, Perl is finally looking to upgrade its major version number from Perl 5, to Perl 7. Speaking at the Perl Conference in the Cloud, project lead Sawyer X ...