This page includes pointers to information which could be useful in perl programming.
For example the perl documentation in windows helpfile format.
ASP is important for perlscript developers so check out 15seconds.
comp.lang.perl.misc is for questions on the Perl language.
Try comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi for questions on the CGI part of CGI scripts.
The two leading blocks of reusable code for CGI purposes are CGI.pm, at http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/ftp/pub/software/WWW/cgi_docs.html
and cgi-lib.pl, at
http://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/cgi-lib/
You might also want to check out libwww-perl at
http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/libwww-perl/
Are you using the following?
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use diagnostics;
use strict;
"-w" turns on all sorts of warnings about probable errors (see the
perldiag manpage), "use diagnostics" causes the "-w" warnings to be
explained in greater detail (with the explanations from the perldiag
manpage), and "use strict" generates compile and run-time errors for
certain unsafe variable, reference and subroutine constructs (see the strict manpage)
Have you read the Perl FAQ? Many questions on sockets programming,
common problems with Solaris and SunOS, text manipulation and the
jargon of perl are answered in the FAQ. As well as being posted
regularly to comp.lang.perl.misc, the FAQ is on the web at:
http://www.perl.com/perl/faq/index.html
Have you read the man pages? Here are some subjects and the man
pages to look in:
Objects perlref, perlmod, perlobj
Modules perlmod, perlsub
Regexps perlre, perlfunc, perlop
Upgrading perltrap, perl
The man page for "perltoc" provides a crude table of contents for the
perl man page set.
Have you looked at http://www.perl.com/perl/ ?
This is a great
online reference, with documentation, pointers to modules in the
Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN), articles on the inner
workings of many bits of Perl, and more.
Have you tried archives of Usenet? http://www.dejanews.com/
maintains an archive of postings to Usenet dating from March, 1995.
Be sure to include "Perl" in your search.
There's learning perl for win32
And the perl for win32 resourcekit
You can order them from your bookstore or from http://www.ora.com/
I find that for editing perl files that PFE
works well for me(especially the context sensitive help :-)
Copyright © Robin S. Chatterjee. All rights reserved.
Updated on 6th October 1998
