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A fast 4 hour introduction to perl
by Ashley Harris
Language: Perl

Ever wanted to build your own web applications? But you have absolutely no idea where to begin? This tutorial will get a beginner started in perl in under 4 hours, starting with the installation of perl.

A Information Tracker (Advanced Counter)
by Alex Seidler
Language: Perl

Quickly and easily explains how to create your own counters, so that you can track the users that come to your page without them knowing a thing!

Checking for the existence of substrings (Updated)
by Brandon McPherson
Language: Perl

This is the most basic example of substring searching I could come up with.... and since I'm a VB programmer for the mostpart, simple is good :)

I've only tried this in ActivePerl, so I won't guarantee it works anywhere else without modifications.

This has been updated in light of the excellent advice I've been given from the more experienced Perl programmers (Thanks PaC).


Basic Perl Loop Tutorial
by Sirrus
Language: Perl

This is an example of a basic Perl loop.

A Clear Screen Function
by Jaime Muscatelli
Language: Perl

Hey, This is my first perl submission. I just started yesterday, and I found that there was no clear screen function (Like cls). Well, I figured out a way to do it (I think it only works in dos, but I think I know the way for unix too). KEYWORDS: CLEAR clear CLS cls Screen SCREEN screen Blank

Perl Tutorial
by www.cupidsystems.com
Language: Perl

Want to learn Perl? This may help you ...

Introduction to Perl
by T. E. Geek
Language: Perl

A friendly and easy approach to tackling perl for the first time. Hopefully, those considering to learn this wonderful language, or those struggling with the basics will benefit from this brief tutorial. It introduces the language, it's strengths, and leaves you able to write a "goodbye world" program.

Learn to write an ad / banner script!
by Rombauts Steven
Language: Perl

This is a short tutorial/article wich will explain you how to use randomness to make a banner script. This explains you how to use randomness, the split function, storing files in arrays and ssi includes. This tutorial has an example included in the zip file wich you can also download here! I hope this will help you to understand these functions!

A SIMPLE TUTORIAL TO CREATE YOUR OWN WEB APPLICATIONS IN PERL
by stephen antony
Language: Perl

A SIMPLE TUTORIAL TO CREATE YOUR OWN WEB APPLICATIONS IN PERL

Perl quote program for PHP sites
by Kurt Csowl
Language: Perl

This program is so that you can call a perl script with a file or multiple argument list. The files contain 1 quote per line. People running a web page can call the perl script to get a new random quote to put on the site from all the quotes in the text files you create. A new quote on ur page every time can make it even kewler to visit.

Writing Internet Clients with Perl - Fast and Easy
by T. E. Geek
Language: Perl

A brief introduction to the libwww-perl module. No advanced knowledged assumed. Learn how to request webpages and then parse them within perl. Easy to learn in under five minutes.

Using Flatfile Databases in Perl
by David C. Uhrig
Language: Perl

To explain how to use flatfile databases as information storage with perl.

Clear a package
by Found on the World Wide Web
Language: Perl

How do I clear a package? Use this code, provided by Mark-Jason Dominus:

How to start a Perl script under Windows without writing a separate batch file
by Marc-Alain Gross
Language: Perl

You know the problem: you want to write a Perl script under Windows but to run it, you need to specify the path to the script (i.e: "perl c:\apps\perl\showdate.pl"). Basically DOS allows to search through the Environment Variable "PATH" to find a script. But it allows only Microsoft scripts to run through this way (actually you have the possibility to assign all ".pl" files to Perl, but it doesn't work under DOS). Your (and my) goal is to start the script using the short way, that ... (see entry for full description)

Learn Perl By example
by GIRISH_S
Language: Perl

A Tutorial which teaches perl in an interactive way.Several examples gives you clear idea about what Perl can do and do not.

Deep vs shallow binding
by Found on the World Wide Web
Language: Perl

What's the difference between deep and shallow binding?

[[ A import of any database from any server to your site.
by Pamela RAI
Language: Perl

Imports any file from another server to the server where the script is running. No password. Please vote.

Cryptography
by sachin shankar kambli
Language: Perl

It will encrypt the any number of text and again decrypt it. you can use it as privacy like password and etc.

 



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Matrix n*n
by Morteza Zakeri
12/28/2010 5:12:38 AM

Language: Perl

Educational

How to start a Perl script under Windows without writing a separate batch file
by Marc-Alain Gross
3/4/2009 8:26:24 AM

Language: Perl

You know the problem: you want to write a Perl script under Windows but to run it, you need to specify the path to the script (i.e: "perl c:\apps\perl\showdate.pl"). Basically DOS allows to search through the Environment Variable "PATH" to find a script. But it allows only Microsoft scripts to run through this way (actually you have the possibility to assign all ".pl" files to Perl, but it doesn't work under DOS). Your (and my) goal is to start the script using the short way, that is without sp ... (see entry for full description)

Non Uniform Multi Dimensional Arrays
by michele berardi
7/12/2008 6:32:07 PM

Language: Perl

see the source code

Coding ftp in perl by Rohit D'souza BrandCoder
by rohit d'souza
5/23/2008 1:00:20 AM

Language: Perl

its explains how to get started on ftp in perl

Coding ftp in perl by rohit dsouza
by rohit d'souza
5/22/2008 7:31:31 AM

Language: Perl

it gets one started on using ftp in perl

read xml
by sachin shankar kambli
4/28/2007 5:57:58 AM

Language: Perl

Read all types of xml files along with it's attributes and contained data

Cryptography [modified]
by sachin shankar kambli
4/21/2007 5:21:41 AM

Language: Perl

it is used for encryption and decription

Cryptography
by sachin shankar kambli
4/20/2007 9:02:13 AM

Language: Perl

It will encrypt the any number of text and again decrypt it. you can use it as privacy like password and etc.

file uploading BY sachin kambli
by sachin shankar kambli
4/20/2007 3:18:58 AM

Language: Perl

it will upload your file after selection and make copy of the selected file in destination folder

xml
by sachin shankar kambli
4/20/2007 3:08:43 AM

Language: Perl

read attributes and data from xml file