Perl
Description
Perl is a general purpose scripting language that is notable for its tightly integrated regular expression engine, and for the large collection of third party modules available through CPAN.
microHOWTOs
- Accept named function arguments in Perl
- Connect to a MySQL (or MariaDB) database using Perl DBI
- Connect to a PostgreSQL database using Perl DBI
- Connect to a SQLite database using Perl DBI
- Connect to a database using Perl DBI
- Dump the content of an arbitrary Perl data structure
- Fetch the content of a given URL in Perl
- Fetch the content of a given URL in Perl using LWP::Simple
- Fetch the content of a given URL in Perl using LWP::UserAgent
- Get the size of an array in Perl
- Install a Perl module
- Recursively compare the content of two arbitrary Perl data structures
- Select a single row from a database table using Perl DBI
Troubleshooting guides
Further reading
- The Perl Programming Language (official website)
- The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)