ZDNet

Creating your first Perl module

If you write enough Perl, you'll reach a point where you need to create a module. And the more you work with quality code modules from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN), the more you're ...
ZDNet

Perl tips: A good source for Win32 modules and an easier compile process

Two key areas for improving Perl programming are achieving better support for Win32 and efficiently producing an executable version of your program. Here, we've rounded up a couple of tips to address ...
Ars Technica

Installing perl modules w/o a c compiler

I'd like to install some perl modules to a Solaris 8 machine that doesn't have a c compiler on it. I do have access to another Solaris 8 machine that has gcc on it, but the directory structure isn't ...
TechRepublic

Parsing XML documents with Perl’s XML::Simple

As more and more Web sites begin using XML for their content, it's increasingly important for Web developers to know how to parse XML data and convert it into different formats. That's where the Perl ...
Linux Journal

Programming the Network with Perl: A Book Review

Title: Programming the Network with PerlAuthor: Paul BarryPublisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.URL: glasnost.itcarlow.ie/~pnb/index.html The focus of Programming the ...
InfoWorld

Call Perl routines from Java

Problem: You need to access a Perl program from your Java program—maybe a custom screen scraper written with LWP (Library for WWW access in Perl), maybe Bugzilla, or maybe one of countless ...
Linux Journal

Reading Native Excel Files in Perl

In my last article for Linux Journal's web edition, I discussed a web-based program that queried an SQL database and output a native Excel file. That article was based on a program I wrote for a ...
esa.org

SWISH::Filter - Perl extension for filtering documents with Swish-e

use SWISH::Filter; # load available filters into memory my $filter = SWISH::Filter->new; # convert a document my $doc = $filter->convert( document => \$scalar_ref ...