I'm thinking of learning perl. I found a good tutorial, but doesn anybody knopw of some better ones which arn't listed on google or any specific ones that they found to be very helpful?
Thanks
I'm thinking of learning perl. I found a good tutorial, but doesn anybody knopw of some better ones which arn't listed on google or any specific ones that they found to be very helpful?
Thanks
flashdaddee has a tutorial or a reference of some kind in its books section of the web site. look under the oreilly bookshelf.
Perl is great. I do pretty much everything I would normally do in C in Perl nowadays. Especially when I'm dealing with files or complex strings, and by changing the code a bit, I can put it on my website. It's not able to compete with the speed of C, though. I wrote a script to calculate the most said words in my IRC log [roughly 500kb with tens of thousands of unique words], and the processing took 5 minutes for my Perl script, and when I wrote the equivilent in C it took twenty seconds (with only a few changes to the method).
and it sucks that you can't treat strings as arrays unless you:
@arraystring = split(//, $string);
annoying.
tutorials...
http://www.perl.com/cs/user/query/q/6?id_topic=74
Last edited by Brian; 10-12-2002 at 02:41 PM.
