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 ...

I am trying to build DB_File perl module on a AIX box. I have built and install BerkeleyDB 4.8, it is installed at /usr/local/BerkeleyDB. When I attempt to build the module, this is what I receive.

First of all- cpan sucks.<BR>It straight up sucks.<P>It use to be so brazen as to start downloading a newer version of perl if you weren't running the latest! (I *think* they changed that).<P>Anyway- ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Perl is a language often associated with text processing and CGI. PHP is a language often associated with dynamic Web pages. Both are very popular with Web developers. Often, each of these languages ...

Debian has released patches for a pair of security vulnerabilities in the free operating system, including a security bypass flaw in the Nginx Web server. The other vulnerability lies in a Perl module ...

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