That's where the Perl module called XML::Simple comes in. It takes away the drudgery of parsing XML data, making the process easier than you ever thought possible.

I have been assigned a small project that requires a Perl front end via CGI and a MySQL back end with a simple database. The database has basic names, addresses, and some flags to tell whether ...

Debugging: Use Perl’s built-in debugging tool with perl -d script.pl for troubleshooting. Conclusion Bash, Python, and Perl each bring unique strengths to the table. Bash is excellent for simple ...

I can understand Apache and MySQL bogging a server down, but running simple perl scripts and searching directories for files?!<BR><BR>Does it have to do with the ext3 filesystem?

It was fairly simple to create an appropriate knowledge base for this project. We used MySQL, but any relational database supported by both Ruby on Rails and Perl would be fine. The database schema is ...