DESCRIPTION. spider.pl is a program for fetching documnts from a web server, and outputs the documents to STDOUT in a special format designed to be read by Swish-e.. The spider can index non-text ...

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An astounding number of bugs can be caught by Perl automatically by turning on warnings and strict at the beginning of your program. If your program includes the line use warnings; you can catch ...

1987: The first version of the Perl programming language is released. Perl was the brainchild of Larry Wall, a programmer at Unisys, who borrowed from existing languages, especially C, to create a ...

Two key areas for improving Perl programming are achieving better support for Win32 and efficiently producing an executable version of your program. Here, we've rounded up a couple of tips to ...