The Perl scripting language excels at creating filters and modifying text. This makes it a great choice for document filtering and for tying together text-oriented applications.
- MySQL for Other Applications
- The basics of working with MySQL for users of other applications such as Dreamweaver, PHP, Perl, or Python.
- Nisus HTML conversion
- New features in Nisus’s scripting language make HTML conversion almost a breeze.
- Nisus “clean HTML” macro
- The Nisus macro language is Perl; this means we can use all of Perl’s strengths as a text filter scripting language in Nisus.
- Perl Cookbook
- This is probably the most useful Perl book I own. Whenever I need a solution quickly--which is often here at the University--I am very likely to find my start in the Perl Cookbook.
- Perls Before Swine
- A basic Perl tutorial covering reading files, filtering files, importing into SQL databases, and displaying on the web.
- Perls before Swine Perl tutorial
- I’ve completely revamped my Perl tutorial, and explicitly released it under the Gnu FDL. This tutorial starts from a simple filter that does nothing but echo to the terminal window, and ends with the ability to split data according to fields and import data into a SQLite database.
- Representing code in HTML
- A minor epiphany that may not be new to others on how to display programming and HTML code in HTML.
- SilverService and Taskpaper
- SilverService is a great little app if you commonly need to repetitiously modify text. Any application that supports services will support running selected text through command-line scripts via SilverService.
- Using Term::ANSIColor with GeekTool
- Rather than using the raw codes directly, Perl (at least on OS X) comes with Term::ANSIColor built in.
