51 I guess the tag is a variable, and it is checking for 9eaf - but does this exist in Perl? What is the "=~" sign doing here and what are the "/" characters before and after 9eaf doing?

53 From Perl documentation: OR List operators On the right side of a list operator, it has very low precedence, such that it controls all comma-separated expressions found there.

Jun 10, 2011 · Below are the flags that I encounter most often, and I don't have a clue what they mean: perl -pe perl -pi perl -p perl -w perl -d perl -i perl -t I will be very grateful if you tell me what each of …

The match operator is the syntax that tells the Perl interpreter: here comes a regex. In Perl, the match operator is normally delimited by '/' at start and end, but you can use delimiters (e.g., m{^foo}).

I'm working on a Perl script. How can I parse command line parameters given to it? Example: script.pl "string1" "string2"

In Perl, the operator s/ is used to replace parts of a string. Now s/ will alter its parameter (the string) in place. I would however like to replace parts of a string befor printing it, as in pri...

In Perl, what is a good way to perform a replacement on a string using a regular expression and store the value in a different variable, without changing the original? I usually just copy the string to a new …

Per perldoc perluniintro, Perl does not support using digits other than [0-9] as numbers, so I would definitely use [0-9] if the following are both true: You want to use the result as a number (such as …

Output of perldoc -q round Does Perl have a round () function? What about ceil () and floor ()? Trig functions? Remember that int() merely truncates toward 0. For rounding to a certain number of digits, …

Jan 4, 2011 · Is there a built-in function to trim leading and trailing whitespace such that trim(" hello world ") eq "hello world"?