First, a brief rundown of the program. We have a perl script that creates some file system structures based on data in a database. We have different perl modules for the different types of file ...

In the January and February installments of “At the Forge”, I demonstrated a simple three-tier web application using a database, web server and the Mason templating system for mod_perl. We were able ...

Corinna offers everything you would expect from a modern OO – and more. The Perl team delivers Corinna carefully spread over several releases. It will retain its experimental status for at least that ...

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 ...

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 ...

All field variables can be read and changed within ADJUST{...}. Later, DESTRUCT{...} will be added, which programmers will use to clean up before the object is ...