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 ...

I'm confused by Perl's regex abilities. There seems to be a lot of duplicate flags: ^ and \A both match the beginning of a string. $ and \Z both match the end. It seems redundant and confusing. I'm ...

I'd like to try my hand at Perl. I have some experience with VBScript and PHP. What's a good starter book? I think I'd be doing mostly scripting in Active Directory environments and Apache web servers ...

We all have done it, haven't we? We've looked at source code--either our own or someone else's--and asked that age-old programming question: "What is this code doing?". When code is written in Perl, ...