-----<BR>It's been awhile since I've done anything in Perl (last scripts I wrote were a few months back), so I'm going to ask this real quick because I'm incredibly tired and busy ...

I'm modifying an irssi script that allows you to queue up packs to download one at a time via DCC. The function below checks to make sure that the DCC request is being sent by the same nick as the one ...

Being a hired-gun developer, I inherit all kinds of client problems. Recently, I was tasked with exporting a delimited flat file from one application and formatting it so it could be imported into ...

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 ...

A quick run down on how you can use regular expressions in your own programs to give you more power over searching and substituting text. Perl has long been an extremely popular choice for text ...

While other scripting languages have gained popularity, Perl remains a popular choice due to its robust text processing capabilities. It's easy to create "one-liners," or very short scripts, that can ...