The input record separator variable ($/) is one of Perl’s special global variables. Perl has a large number of special variables (all listed and explained in the perlvar manpage), but really you only ...

Let me explain.<BR><BR>The CGI module handles all the decoding and whatnot of your CGI variables when you instantiate it (the new CGI; line). Then, a call to CGI->param () will return the list of ...

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 describe ...

In the December 2000 issue of Linux Journal, I reviewed the latest edition of the classic Perl text: Programming Perl, 3rd Edition (or The Camel for short). In that review, my advice to new Perl ...