Without changing the basic nature and mission of the language, Perl development leader Larry Wall nonetheless warned the Perl community at the end of 2004 in a communiqué on the topic of patterns ...

Need to touch up on your Perl skills? Here are five top tips collated by Builder AU. 1. Finding all files that match a pattern Perl’s glob operator makes it easy to find all files that match a ...

For instance, given a numerical pattern, Perl 6 can intuit the next numbers in the series. The statement “ (1,3,5,7….*)” will return a set of twenty odd numbers, starting at one.

Initiated in 2000, version 6 of Perl will be a total rewrite of this widely-used programming language, one that has been called the duct tape of the Internet. Judging from the Wall's presentation, ...