Using Perl To Count Letter Occurrence In A Document
Hey I want a Perl script that reads a file and sends me the number of occurrences of the alphabets in that file... Could you please help me? Dave's Answer: This is an interesting little puzzle so what I will do is show how to write a quick, short Bourne Shell script for Linux...
http://www.perlpronews.com/2008/1202.html
| 12.02.08 |
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Perl 6 Progress Discussed
You may want to pull together some philosophy textbooks and a dictionary; all of them seem like useful resources in a new debate on whether or not Perl 6 is vaporware. Still, regardless of how you define Perl 6's existence, some interesting tidbits concerning its development were mentioned.
http://www.perlpronews.com/2008/1104.html
| 11.04.08 |
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February Perl Conference Planned
Make no mistake about how cold things will be during this conference; we're talking about Minnesota in early February, and the daily lows and highs should be around 10 F and 30 F, respectively.
http://www.perlpronews.com/2008/1021.html
| 10.21.08 |
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Perltidy Offers Reformatting Help
Take a look at any car that's littered with empty coke bottles and mangled takeout bags. Or any desk that's covered with bent pieces of paper and a dozen redundancies in terms of office supplies. Being neat is so much better, and Perltidy aims to help Perl experts achieve that state.
http://www.perlpronews.com/2008/1003.html
| 10.03.08 |
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Red Hat's Perl Problem Makes Waves
Whoops. Although Perl's not to blame, a problem involving it has come into the spotlight. Fingers are pointing at Red Hat over a screwup that made a Perl program run about 100 times slower than a user might reasonably expect.
http://www.perlpronews.com/2008/0912.html
| 09.12.08 |
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Perl Fighting Fuddy-Duddy Image
The law won't allow corporations to discriminate against people due to their age.
Programming languages aren't protected by any statutes, though, and it seems that Perl's maturity is sometimes being characterized as a bad thing.
http://www.perlpronews.com/2008/0820.html
| 08.20.08 |
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Perl Project Started For Google App Engine
The Google App Engine currently supports Python, but now Google employee and creator of blogging community LiveJournal Brad Fitzpatrick posts this bit: I'm happy to announce that the Google App Engine team has given me permission to talk about a 20% project inside...
http://www.perlpronews.com/2008/0724.html
| 07.24.08 |
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CPAN Touted As Perl High Point
It's easy to get lost in your own little programming world, focusing on one task after anther without regard for whatever else is going on. Here's a reminder, though, that the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, or CPAN, is a great resource.
http://www.perlpronews.com/2008/0625.html
| 06.25.08 |
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Perl 5 Wiki Nearing 1,000-Page Mark
Wikipedia does an impressive job of drawing audiences; the number of unique visitors to the site has grown by something like 8,000 percent over the last five years.
http://www.perlpronews.com/2008/0520.html
| 05.20.08 |
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Amazon S3 Available From Perl
Some lines of Perl enable efficient reading and writing of data to the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). The continued growth and adoption of web services places information online in ways that enable developers to tap the data all over the globe.
http://www.perlpronews.com/2008/0410.html
| 04.10.08 |
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Perl Modules: Java's Little Helpers
Perl programmers who may have to add "Write once, run anywhere" to their knowledge of "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch" can find modules to assist in working with Java.
http://www.perlpronews.com/2008/0312.html
| 03.12.08 |
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Playing With Perl 5.10
There is a simple mistake I make frequently with random numbers. I'll use Perl to illustrate, but trust me: I can screw this up in just about any language. And I have... To make it both easy and obvious, let's say we want to randomly choose one of three things.
http://www.perlpronews.com/2008/0208.html
| 02.08.08 |
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Playing With Perl 5.10
While we were all busy getting ready for the holidays, version 5.10 of Perl appeared on CPAN.
That surprised me, because I thought the next Perl I'd see would be the dreaded Perl 6.
http://www.perlpronews.com/2008/0115.html
| 01.15.08 |
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