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Lexing and Parsing Continued 1 Feb 2013 | 07:50 am
Many practical programming problems require you to parse data. Ron Savage continues his demonstration of Marpa and other tools and techniques for lexing and parsing data. Put down the regexps; get it ...
Consuming RESTful Services with Perl 31 Dec 2012 | 07:00 pm
When JT Smith ported his web game The Lacuna Expanse to a board game, he used Perl to create the board game itself. Here's how he built the web service behind The Game Crafter.
Designing Board Games With Perl 30 Nov 2012 | 07:00 pm
When JT Smith ported his web game The Lacuna Expanse to a board game, he used Perl to automate things. Here's how he did it.
Newcomer Experience in the Perl Community Survey 15 Oct 2012 | 06:00 pm
Kevin Carillo asks for assistance surveying newcomers to the Perl community about their experiences, positive and otherwise.
An Overview of Lexing and Parsing 1 Oct 2012 | 06:00 pm
Perl programmers spend a lot of time reading, modifying, and writing data. When regular expressions aren't enough, turn to something more powerful: parsing.
Show off Perl in Plat_Forms 2012 30 Aug 2012 | 01:21 am
Thanks to Torsten Raudssus, who wrote in with this announcement. What is Plat_Forms? Plat_Forms is a contest and competition in which top-class teams of three programmers compete to implement the same...
Embrace the Reluctant Perl Programmer 27 Aug 2012 | 06:00 pm
editor's note: an earlier version of this article appeared at The Reluctant Perl Programmer. Per the suggestion of Ask Bjørn Hansen, this revision appears on Perl.com. Who We Are We all love Perl for ...
Perl Unicode Cookbook: Further Resources 29 Jun 2012 | 09:00 pm
This series has shown you several features of Unicode by example, as well as several techniques for working with Unicode correctly and easily with recent releases of Perl 5. By now you know more than ...
Perl Unicode Cookbook: Demo of Unicode Collation and Printing 22 Jun 2012 | 09:00 pm
℞ 44: PROGRAM: Demo of Unicode collation and printing The past several weeks of Unicode recipes have explained how Unicode works and shown how to use it in your programs. If you've gone through those...
Perl Unicode Cookbook: Unicode Text in DBM Files (the easy way) 20 Jun 2012 | 09:00 pm
℞ 43: Unicode text in DBM hashes, the easy way Some Perl libraries require you to jump through hoops to handle Unicode data. Would that everything worked as easily as Perl's open pragma! For DBM fil...
