perl in white papers
Mastering Regular Expressions: The Mechanics of Expression Processing
White Paper As one sees, there are several types of regex engines, and the type most commonly used - the type used by Perl, Tcl, Python, the .NET languages, Ruby, PHP, all Java packages seen, and more - works in such a way that how... [24 Oct 2007]
Perl Cookbook: Strings
White Paper Don't despair; Perl isn't a low-level language, so lines and strings are easy to handle. Perl was designed for easy but powerful text manipulation. In fact, Perl can manipulate text in... [17 Oct 2007]
Perl & XML - XML Basics: Reading and Writing
White Paper Unlike the line-by-line, make-it-up-as-you-go style that typifies text hacking in Perl, XML expects one to learn the rules of its game - the structures and protocols - before one can play with it. Fortunately, much of... [17 Oct 2007]
Perl Best Practices: Subroutines
White Paper Subroutines are one of the two primary problem-decomposition tools available in Perl, modules being the other. In effect, subroutines allow programmers to extend the Perl language, creating useful new... [17 Oct 2007]
Perl for Web Site Management: Parsing Web Access Logs
White Paper One can buy commercial log analysis software to do this, but Perl makes it easy to write one's own. Web server access logs are an excellent source of information about what the site's visitors are up to. [17 Oct 2007]
Perl Graphics Programming: Using Ming
White Paper In addition to the Perl wrapper described in this paper, Ming comes with interfaces to PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, and C++. Ming is a library written in C that provides a simple API for creating SWF files. [17 Oct 2007]
Perl Testing: Distributing Your Tests (and Code)
White Paper Perl has several tools and techniques to distribute tests and test the non-code portions of the projects. The goal of all testing is to improve the quality of code. Quality isn't just the absence of bugs and features... [17 Oct 2007]
The Perl Language
White Paper This paper is a quick and merciless guide to the Perl language itself. If one is trying to learn Perl from scratch and would prefer to be taught rather than to have things thrown at them, then one might... [17 Oct 2007]
PDF Hacks: Use Perl to Create PDF
White Paper Many web sites use Perl for creating dynamic content. The user can also use Perl to script Acrobat on the local machine. Given the great number of packages that extend Perl, it is no... [17 Oct 2007]
Programming Perl: Compiling
White Paper When the user hands the source code of the Perl script over to perl to execute, it is no more useful to the computer than the English description of the symphony was to the musicians. Before the program... [17 Oct 2007]
Perl for Oracle DBAs: Perl Meets Oracle
White Paper Perl is the world's number one solution for transforming and gluing data together, and Oracle is the world's number one solution for storing that data. This paper explores the interface between two of the finest American... [17 Oct 2007]
Learning Perl: File Tests
White Paper Perl has a complete set of tests that can be use to find information about files. If a person knows how to open a filehandle for output, he or she will be able to create a new file, wiping out any existing file with the... [17 Oct 2007]
Programming Web Services With Perl: Programming SOAP
White Paper There are currently two object-oriented modules for Perl that provide support for developing SOAP client/server applications: SOAP and SOAP::Lite. This paper introduces these two modules. By comparing and contrasting the... [17 Oct 2007]
Perl Template Toolkit: Building a Complete Web Site Using the Template Toolkit
White Paper This paper puts the Template Toolkit into context. The paper shows several different ways of using the Template Toolkit to simplify the process of building and managing web site content. It starts with some simple examples showing the... [17 Oct 2007]
Perl and LWP: HTML Processing With Tokens
White Paper Regular expressions are powerful, but they're a painfully low-level way of dealing with HTML. One is forced to worry about spaces and newlines, single and double quotes, HTML comments, and a lot more. [17 Oct 2007]
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