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FAQs and the Manual

See also Perl FAQ Index .Beginning with Perl version 5.004, the Perl distribution itself includes the Perl FAQ.

Perl philosophy and history

See also  Softpanorama Hall of Fame -- Larry Wall

Articles

Introduction and Tutorials

Several books are available online: see Perlbooks.  Please consult PERL Reference for a more complete list of tutorials. It does not make sense to try to learn Perl from WEB tutorials or, God forbid, from the Perl manual.  Perl books. including books from www.mcp.com are much more appropriate (but please avoid  popular Learning Perl and Learning Perl on Win32  twins :-). 

Actually there are few good online tutorials on Perl.

Some Perl Books sites

Please note that all O'Reilly Perl books have one chapter online. Those chapters are a nice complement to full online books.

Reviews

As for WEB tutorial IMHO only explanation of a particular language features can probably be useful. 

Regular expressions (see special section devoted to this important feature below)

References

General

See also modules, regular expressions

Editors

VIM has (limited) support of Perl. See Softpanorama VI Editor Links

***** DzSoft Perl Editor 3.1 Very decent shareware editor with elements of Integrated environment. Contains built-in beautifier ! by Sergey Dzyubenko, Alexander Dzyubenko, DzSoft Ltd.

Perl Scripting Tool PRO Perl Made Easy Win32 editor.

NOTE: This is beta software. If you are not entirely comfortable using beta software, DO NOT install this version on your PC. We strongly recommend that BEFORE you install this software, you  make a backup copy of your existing PST folder and put that copy in a separate area.  Do not be alarmed if there is a big jump in beta build numbers; gaps exists because we create frequent internal builds. This is one of a series of beta releases of Perl Scripting Tool 2.00. As with any beta software, some features may not be fully implemented. If you find any problems with this software, please send us a bug report to: [email protected] .

Perl Editors

ped A text editor with an emacs/vi-like user interface written in perl.[July 17, 1999]
Jul 08th 1999, 21:24 stable: none - devel: 0.1.2 license: Artistic

TkFileman Home Page

Perl::Tk

ptkpad.0.6.5.tar.gz
    This is an implementation of my Tk NotePad only it is done in Perl::Tk. The implementation is progressing quite fast and most of the features have been implemented. Currently the only features that have not been implemented are some keystroke bindings.
    Unfortunately there are a few bugs and is considered a beta release now, so please do not complain about bugs> I will welcome bug fixes. It originaly started out as a line by line conversion, but as I learn more about perl I am starting to optimize as well but this is a low priority.
   Some features that have been added in addition to what is in my original TkNotePad are the New Window Menu item, as well as a line and column indicator to tell the position of the cursor, and a goto line. I have also added an Options menu for changing a few things like the fonts. Many more features are planned. screenshot

PurePerl.org

EDITOR COST REVIEWS From PBML Posters
Perl Code Editor
from PerlVision		 Free After Wordpad, this was my first Perl editor.  Syntax highlighting and line numbering is definitely a step up.
Favorite feature: line numbering.
Submitted by: Bompa
[read more reviews]
Open Perl IDE
by Jürgen Güntherodt		 Free A big step up, yet still light on your cpu.  This is the one I use now because it's free and runs nicely even on my 122Mhz laptop.
Favorite feature:  A "run" button that runs the script and shows errors in a box at the bottom of the screen, this saves a bunch of testing time. 
Submitted by: Bompa
 
UltraEdit
IDM Computer Solutions, Inc		 $35 Full featured, tons of options, settings, and features.
Favorite feature:  being able to "'comment out" whatever code I highlight with just one click, (and the reverse), great for troubleshooting.  I loved it and might still cough up the 35 bucks.
Submitted by: Bompa
OptiPerl
Xarka Software		 $59 Full featured, tons of options, settings, and features, but more money than I want to spend at this time.
Submitted by: Bompa
 
Perl Builder 2.0
from Solutionsoft		 $149 Submit a review.
visiPerl+
from Softpile		 $59 Submit a review.
Komodo
from ActiveState		 $295 Submit a review.
DzSoft Perl Editor
by DzSoft		 $59 Like OptiPerl, full featured, tons of options, settings, and features, but more money than I want to spend at this time.
Submitted by: Bompa
 
EditPlus
by ES Computing		 $30 Submit a review.

SciTE
Free source project. 
Project Admin:Neil Hodgson		 Free Syntax highlighting for many languages, output pane, C-like macros (via FilerX), quick, small and mighty :-)
Submitted by: Jenda
 
VIM
Bram Moolenaar		 Free Vi and emacs, the great unix editor debate. Personally I like vim, it's quick, works great over slow links and has more features than you can shake a stick at. Once you've grokked enough of the commands to make this little baby run you'll never want to go back. mouse? mouse? i don't want no steeenking mouse. You windows types can even join in the fun too.
Submitted by: Daniel Gardner
 

 

Namespaces and Modules

Networking

[Oct. 07, 2000] A special module IPC-Run by Barrie Slaymaker([email protected]). After a user's spun up on bash/ksh, it provides useful piping constructs, subprocesses, and either expect-like or event loop oriented I/O capabilities.

www.perl.com Perl Reference/Networking

www.perl.com - You want to find the IP address of a host or turn an IP address into a name. Recipe of the Day

[Feb 20, 2000] pftp pFtp is a ftp client written in perl. It uses the Perl/Tk and Libnet libraries, both available from the CPAN FTP site. Download: pFtp 0.05

[Jan 28, 2000] DDJ EXAMINING PERLDAP  by Troy Neeriemer

Netscape's PerLDAP is an important tool for both programmers and administrators because it provides a mechanism for accessing directory information from Perl. Troy presents a high-level overview of PerLDAP, along with details of how you can use it. Additional resources include perldap.txt (listings) and perldap.zip (source code).

File managers

Paw (Perl ASCII Widgets) is a widgetset for generating a GUI on ASCII based terminals. It contains button, radiobutton, label, line, listbox, text_entry, pull-down-menu, filedialog, popup-box and more. Examples are included. This
software requires Perl::Curses. 

[Apr 18, 2001] Drall -- Stable version 1.4.0.0. Much better that it was and now supports authentication using the same author's Averist module. Written in Perl (GNU license) Screenshots: 

Here is the quote from the author page: 

If you like Drall, please express your satisfaction with a donation: send me what you feel Drall has been worth to you. If you are glad that I developed Drall and distribute it as free software, rather than following the obstructive and antisocial practices typical of software developers, reward me. If you would like me to develop more free software, contribute.

Development

 

 

Debugging

Dr. Dobb's Web Site Code Coverage Analysis in Perl by brian d foy

Is all of your Perl code actually executing? Are some statements invoked as expected? The Devel::Coverage module can give you the answer, but you've got to ask the right questions.

Perl comes with a built-in debugging mechanism that allows you to create your own debugger or use one created by someone else. Perl coders can also use the Devel::Coverage debugging module to determine just how much of a program actually executes. This testing process is called coverage analysis. The Devel::Coverage module is available on the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). I'll show you how to use this sort of analysis to actually test all parts of your target program.

You use coverage analysis while testing your code (and everyone tests their code, right?) to ensure that you have done everything that necessary to exercise as much of the code as possible. Proper coverage analysis by itself does not make your code better or your programs bulletproof, but allows you to focus on problems in your code or in the test cases by examining different coverage metrics.

You can use several different coverage analysis

Cultured Perl: Debugging Perl with ease. Catch the bugs before they bite by Teodor Zlatanov [Nov 2000]

 

Contents:
 The trouble with bugs
 Basic concepts of debugging
 Debugging terms
 The Perl debugger
 Devel::ptkdb
 Writing your own Perl shell
 Building an arsenal of tools
 Resources
 About the author

 

Teodor Zlatanov walks you through both the built-in Perl debugger and CPAN's Devel::ptkdb. The Perl debugger is powerful but frustrating to navigate. CPAN's Devel::ptkdb, on the other hand, works wonders by simplifying code debugging and thereby saving hours of your precious time. In his discussion Zlatanov concentrates on explaining debugging methods and general concepts rather than looking at specific tools.

 

Bugs are as inevitable as death and taxes. Nevertheless, the following material should help you avoid the pitfalls of bugs. Some of the examples will require Perl 5.6.0 or at least 5.005. If you want to try the Emacs examples, you may also need to install the Emacs editor.

 

Development Tools

Prettyprinting

Prettyprinting is a weak side of Perl: syntax is too complex. There are two major tools:

The Perltidy Home Page by Steven L. Hancock

Perltidy is a Perl script which indents and reformats Perl scripts to make them easier to read. If you write Perl scripts, or spend much time reading them, you will probably find it useful.

perltidy - a perl script indenter and reformatter

***** DzSoft Perl Editor  Very decent shareware editor with elements of Integrated environment. Contains built-in beautifier ! by Sergey Dzyubenko, Alexander Dzyubenko, DzSoft Ltd.

pb -- far from being perfect but better than nothing

#!/usr/bin/perl

# 'pb' Perl Beautifier

# Written by P. Lutus Ashland, Oregon [email protected] 5/20/96

# This script processes Perl scripts, cleans up and indents, like cb does for C

# Be careful with this script - it accepts wildcards and processes every text file
# that meets the wildcard criteria. This could be a catastrophe in the hands of the unwary.

$tabstring = "  "; # You may place any tab-stop characters you want here

if($ARGV[0] eq "") {
  print "usage: file1 file2 etc. or wildcards (replaces originals in place)\n";
}
else {
  foreach $filename (@ARGV) {
    if(-T $filename) {
      &process($filename);
    }
  }
}

sub process {
  $fn = $_[0];
  undef $/; # so we can grab the entire file at once
  undef @infa; # prevent left-overs
  print STDERR "$fn";
  open (INFILE,$fn);
  @infa = split(/\n/,);
  close INFILE;
  
  $/ = "\n"; # restore default
  
  open (OUTFILE,">$fn");
  $tabtotal = 0;
  for (@infa) {
    
    s/^\s*(.*?)\s*$/$1/; # strip leading and trailing spaces
    
    $a = $_; # copy original string
    $q = $a; # i plan to modify this copy for testing
    $q =~ s/\\\#//g; # remove escaped comment tokens
    $q =~ s/\#.*?$//g; # remove Perl-style comments
    $q =~ s{/\*.*?\*/} []gsx; # remove C-style comments
    $q =~ s/\\\{//g; # remove escaped left  braces
    $q =~ s/\\\}//g; # remove escaped right braces
    $q =~ s/\\\(//g; # remove escaped left  parentheses
    $q =~ s/\\\)//g; # remove escaped right parentheses
    
    $q =~ s/\'.*?\'//g; # remove single-quoted lines
    
# now the remaining braces/parentheses should be structural
    
    $delta = -($q =~ s/\}/\}/g); # subtract closing braces
    $delta += ($q =~ s/\{/\{/g); # add opening braces
    
    $delta -= ($q =~ s/\)/\)/g); # subtract closing parens
    $delta += ($q =~ s/\(/\(/g); # add opening parens
    
    $tabtotal += ($delta < 0)?$delta:0; # subtract closing braces/parentheses
    
    $i = ($tabtotal > 0)?$tabtotal:0; # create tab index
    
    $tabtotal += ($delta>0)?$delta:0; # add opening braces/parentheses for next print
    
    if(substr($a,0,1) ne "#") { # don't tab comments
      print OUTFILE $tabstring x $i; # "tab" out to position
    }
    
    print OUTFILE "$a\n"; # print original line
  } # -- for (@infa)
  
  close OUTFILE;
  
  if($tabtotal != 0) {
    print STDERR " Indentation error: $tabtotal\n";
  }
  else {
    print STDERR "\n";
  }
} # sub process

A Beautifier for Perl

But I figured it could not be as difficult as this makes it sound. For one thing, Perl knows how to parse Perl programs, and the Perl source code is freely available, so Perl could conceivably be reworked into a Perl beautifier.

Alternatively, the GNU source code for the popular C language beautifier "indent" is also available, so another approach would be to rework its 7k lines of C to handle the Perl language.

But I knew there was an easier approach, that would not require reworking anybody else's existing code, or the use of a language other than Perl. I knew this because my quest for beauty had already led me to write a rudimentary C++ beautifier in a three command (sed | indent| sed) shell script (UNIX/World, August 1991, p. 134.), and later a more robust C++ beautifier in 140 lines of C and shell code (Dr. Dobbs' Journal, Dec. 1992, pp. 23s-27s).

These beautifiers certainly don't qualify as "standalone parsers" for C++, because they don't classify the program elements into meaningful units. But that doesn't prevent them from doing for C++ everything that indent and cb do for C! The trick is realizing that programs written in Language B can be successfully processed by beautifiers for Language A, if Language B bears a syntactic similarity to Language A, and if the Language B program can be temporarily disguised as Language A.

So with this C++ beautification experience under my belt, and a stubborn determination to prove that "Perl Beautification" could be accomplished if sufficient Hubris, Impatience, and Laziness could be mustered, I began writing in Perl the first fully functional "Perl Beautifier", pbeaut,   in April of 1998 [1].

Beautification Strategy

As with its C++ predecessors, I approached the problem of writing pbeaut by capitalizing on the existence of mature beautification utilities for the C language, which has some fortunate syntactic similarities to Perl, and milking the UNIX filter model for all it's worth.

The basic approach, borrowed from my C++ beautifiers, is to use a pre-processor to disguise Perl code as C code, effect the beautification using standard C tools, and then convert the disguised Perl back to its original form using a post-processor.

The basic model is therefore:

Here is a listing of the first pbeaut program:

The encoder, pencode, examines every character of the Perl program, from first to last, and rewrites certain character sequences as necessary to disguise the Perl code as C.

The C beautifier, in this case GNU indent, inserts tabs to properly represent nesting levels, aligns parentheses and braces, inserts newline characters to split long lines into shorter ones, and generally fools around with the layout of the code to make it look more orderly and to emphasize the program's structure.

The decoder, pdecode, undoes the disguises crafted by pencode to reveal the hidden Perl program elements in their newly beautified context.

The current "production" version of pbeaut (version .62; 412 lines of code) communicates various types of information to and from the encoder and decoder and does extensive error checking, but its basic function is the same as the simple version shown above.

De-Obfuscation Testing

Where should one look to find the ugliest Perl code on the planet? Why the archives of past Obfuscated Perl Contests, of course, where contestants are rewarded for making their programs as inscrutable as possible (http://www.tpj.com/tpj/contest).

In this section, we'll examine the effects on Perl programs of C-style beautification using indent, as well as Perl-style beautification using pbeaut.

Here's a prize-winning entry from the 1996 contest:

After beautification with indent, it looks like this:

$ indent -npro -br -nce -npcs  < caton  # -br: brace on line with keyword
#F. First place: Russell Caton
$ -= 100;
while ((($ @) = (getpwent())[2])) {
        push(@@, $ @);
}
foreach(sort
        {
        $a <=> $b
        }
        @@) {
        (($_  <= $ -) || ($_  == ($ - +++1))) ? next : die "$-\n";
}

Perhaps surprisingly, the program layout looks pretty good, owing to the fact that Perl inherited many of its basic features from C (brace-delimited blocks, &&/|| conjunctions, semicolon line-termination, operator syntax, etc.).

On the other hand, the representations of two variables ( $- , $@ ) were altered by the insertion of a space between the symbols. Does this bother Perl?

It doesn't bother Perl a bit! The program still produces the next available number from the /etc/passwd file (or NIS database). However, having the depictions of those variables messed up is definitely likely to annoy most (non-obfuscatory) Perl programmers!

After beautification with pbeaut, the program looks like this:

As you can see, the preservation of variable names has been achieved, along with a much more Perlish representation of the foreach loop.

Here's another unattractive winning entry from the 1996 contest:

Let's try beautifying this one with indent:

Databases

Perl Critique

www.oreilly.com -- Why I Promote Python -- a very weak paper of high educational value:  I think that almost everything the author states about languages is wrong ;-). From one point of view the author does not recognize the right for existence of complex non-orthogonal languages, from the other he does not understand the value of TCL-style languages that presuppose usage of compiled language (C in case of TCL) for implementation of low level functions. From the third he does not recognize that C is a very elegant language that abstracts the most important features of contemporary CPUs.  He also thing that there is free lunch and you can have all desirable features in one language (Python in the author opinion).  As for scalability he is right about Perl (no clean way of interfacing with C and C++) and wrong about TCL which was designed to have a clean interface with C. And he naively believes in the power of OOP and consider creating a complex set of class the way to achieving scalability not the way to obscure the system to the point when it's easier to rewrite them from scratch then to use them and that for some reason this is more powerful approach the two level approach promoted by TCL.  Anyway such an advertising of Python makes it highly suspect and forces to look Perl more attractive ;-)

Where languages like Basic, TCL, and Logo were artificially limiting, C++ and Perl are, in my opinion, artificially complex. Obviously there are many smart people out there preparing to send me an email claiming that the complexity "buys" them something valuable. I think that the cost is high.

I am not entirely naive: Computer programming is hard. It is precisely because it is hard that there is no excuse for adding artificial obstacles like modern languages rooted in the idioms of dead languages, and adding syntaxes so complex that humans cannot keep them in their head.

... ... ...

My primary criteria for decency--whether in programming languages, markup languages, or graphical systems--is scalability. By scalability, I mean two things: the ability to scale from easy to difficult problems and the ability for beginners and experts to be comfortable.

Consider an episode from my own life. I was around nine or ten years old and my father taught me how to do things on our Apple II using Basic. My dad was always much more of a hardware rather than software guy. Whenever I would tell him I wanted to do something more complex than we could find in the Basic manual, he would say, "You have to do that in assembly language, and assembly is too hard for a kid." He didn't mean to shut me down but he also didn't know 6502 assembly language himself and was not in much of a position to teach it to me.

The effect, though, was that my travel down the path to programmer enlightenment was delayed for several years. The Basic dialect was (like today's "TCL") designed for beginners and had many arbitrary limitations built in. Assembly was designed for programmers and made no concessions to usability, intuitiveness, or learning. Neither was scalable.

Today we have Perl, TCL, and C++: all non-scalable in their own way. C++ and Perl only make sense if you have a particular programming background. If you did not come from the "Unix tradition", many of their conventions and idioms seem alien.

Consider the modern nine-year-old boy trying to configure and extend his Linux system. He would find that many string-processing programs are inexplicably written in C: one of a very few languages that does not even have a first-class string data type! Most of the GUIs would be written in C++, despite the inflexibility of the language. Many other programs are written in a variety of illegible dialects within the family of languages called "Perl".

C and assembly have historical reasons for being so low-level and thus difficult to use and learn. It makes sense sometimes to trade usability for performance. C++ and Perl have no such excuse. They are cryptic and complex because of an overemphasis on backwards compatibility and plain, old-fashioned poor design.

Where languages like Basic, TCL, and Logo were artificially limiting, C++ and Perl are, in my opinion, artificially complex. Obviously there are many smart people out there preparing to send me an email claiming that the complexity "buys" them something valuable. I think that the cost is high.

When you use some wickedly cool and obscure feature of the language, you reduce the number of potential readers of your code. Ideally the language would encourage you to concentrate your creativity on high-level design. Choosing algorithms and data structures is hard enough. Keeping all of the library functions in your head is also tricky. On top of all of this, programmers should not need to decipher obscure core language features. Why make life harder for those who will follow you?

Personally, I cannot stand this design aesthetic, because it divides the world into "programmers" and "non-programmers". My dream is a world wherein all but the very lowest levels and tightest loops of programs are written in a language that is so simple that it can be taught in primary school as a first language; where every word-processor user who can write a macro can at least try to dive into their word processor's source code to fix a bug, because the macro language is also the implementation language.

We know that such a language exists. Python is easy enough to be a first language and powerful enough to write object databases (like ZODB) and in-memory relational database engines (like Gadfly). And yet, you do not have to come to grips with a complex and difficult type system to use it, and there are few magical variables and functions. I believe it to be as flexible as Smalltalk and as feature-full as Perl; and yet it is as easy as Basic or TCL.

... ... ...

Python may or may not be the language that brings about a Computer-Programming-for-Everybody world. But it is currently the best contender. When there is a better horse, I'll switch my bet. The hard part for a competitive system is building a sophisticated class library; but if the language is good enough, it will find early adherents that will do the work, as Python has.

A hint to would-be language developers: If your language runs on the JVM as JPython does, you get the benefit of the Java library "for free". Being Open Source is also a necessity today.

Power, elegance, simplicity, equality, liberty, fraternity: This is heady stuff, and it explains the evangelical tone of some Python programmers. I promote Python because doing so is the right thing.

Scripts Archives

Etc

CGI Scripts

Perl for Win32

see also Index of PerlRing

Conferences

Second Perl conference [added November 4, 1998]

Mail

New Architec -- Uploading Files and Sending MIME Mail

Most of us have a junk drawer in our house. You know, the one with the random bits of discarded stuff we hope will come in handy in the future, like the last part of a roll of duct tape, a couple of nuts and washers that for some reason weren't needed when we reassembled the shelves this time, and so on. When something needs to get done, we rummage through the drawer looking for the right part or widget, only to pass the same useless items time after time. But every once in a while we find something that's actually useful and we think, "Yeah, I'm so glad I saved that!"

Random Findings

perl.com Critique of the Perl 6 RFC Process [Oct. 31, 2000]

Perl Shell

The Perl Shell is a shell that combines the interactive nature of a Unix shell with the power of Perl. The goal is to eventually have a full featured shell that behaves as expected for normal shell activity. But, the Perl Shell will use Perl syntax and functionality for for control-flow statements and other things.

http://www.focusresearch.com/gregor/psh/

[fm] Perl shell 0.003

Perl Shell 0.003 Gregor N. Purdy - November 23rd 1999, 18:03 EST

The Perl Shell (psh) is an interactive command-line Unix shell that aims to bring the benefits of Perl scripting to a shell context and the shell's interactive execution model to Perl.

Changes: This version of the Perl Shell adds significant functionality. However, it is still an early development release. New features include rudimentary background jobs handling and job management, signal handling, filename completion, updates to history handling, flexible %built_ins mechanism for adding built-in functions and smart mode is now on by default.

Etc

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Groupthink : Two Party System as Polyarchy : Corruption of Regulators : Bureaucracies : Understanding Micromanagers and Control Freaks : Toxic Managers :   Harvard Mafia : Diplomatic Communication : Surviving a Bad Performance Review : Insufficient Retirement Funds as Immanent Problem of Neoliberal Regime : PseudoScience : Who Rules America : Neoliberalism  : The Iron Law of Oligarchy : Libertarian Philosophy

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