Learn through examples how to use and manipulate the arrays in a Perl script. The script examples show you how to define and create an array, the context in which the array variables are used and different ways to manipulate them: append elements to a Perl array, assign a list to Perl arrays, modify Perl array elements, iterate and loop throug

A wide selection of great CGI tutorials with code examples. All comments are commented to make it easier to read and understand.

Tutorial and sample codes to calculate the distance between two locations. Free sample source codes in PHP, ASP, ColdFusion, C/C++, C#, Java, Perl, Visual Basic and Javascript. Longitude and latitude for United States ZIP Code and Canadian Postal Code are available in database subscription from http://www.zipcodeworld.com.

The new Inline module for Perl allows you to write code in other languages (like C, Python, Tcl, or Java), as well as toss it into Perl scripts. Unlike previous ways of interfacing C code with Perl, Inline is very easy to use, and very much in keeping with the Perl philosophy. One extremely useful application of Inline is to write quick wrappe

Those who use Perl as a programming language frequently forget that it is just as useful as a quick and dirty scripting engine for command-line operations. From the command line Perl can accomplish, in just a single line, tasks that require pages of code in most other languages. This article takes you through some useful examples.

This is a code snippet useful for formatting common names. For example, john doe III, can be converted to John Doe III.

This article explains how to validate the structure of your XML documents with Perl. It does so by combining the simplicity of Test.pm from the standard Perl distribution with the flexibility of XPath.

This article shows how to turn any news site into a Remote Site Summary (RSS) web service using Perl. Using several modules from CPAN network, it shows how to: download the page, parse the HTML on the page, and encode the summary info in RSS.

This 6-page article explains what XML is, and what it can be used for. It also shows how to develop a Perl script to retrieve and display the contents of HTML embedded XML tags, and how to create a script that gathers news headlines from an XML file and creates an HTML news summary. Full source code for each script available for download.

Creating an XML-RPC Web service with Perl is almost as easy as CGI scripting. This article will bring you up to speed on what XML-RPC is and how to use Perl's Frontier::RPC library to create simple clients and servers. Included are samples of XML-RPC conversation diagrams and datatypes.