I'm working on a Perl script. How can I parse command line parameters given to it? Example: script.pl "string1" "string2"

51 I guess the tag is a variable, and it is checking for 9eaf - but does this exist in Perl? What is the "=~" sign doing here and what are the "/" characters before and after 9eaf doing?

Dec 30, 2010 · 128 perldoc perlvar is the first place to check for any special-named Perl variable info. Quoting: @_: Within a subroutine the array @_ contains the parameters passed to that …

Output of perldoc -q round Does Perl have a round () function? What about ceil () and floor ()? Trig functions? Remember that int() merely truncates toward 0. For rounding to a certain …

Oct 31, 2025 · Is there a built-in function to trim leading and trailing whitespace such that trim(" hello world ") eq "hello world"?

Mar 27, 2015 · In Perl, logical values are generally represented by 0 (or sometimes '' or undef) for false and 1 for true. However, to be more specific, any value that is not one of the above three …

I keep printing my hash as # of buckets / # allocated. How do I print the contents of my hash? Without using a while loop would be most preferable (for example, a one-liner would be best).

Jun 5, 2009 · Here we read file handle into an array (with the getlines method), and then convert the array's value into a string (using join). getlines is a Perl file handle built-in method coming …

Jun 10, 2011 · Below are the flags that I encounter most often, and I don't have a clue what they mean: perl -pe perl -pi perl -p perl -w perl -d perl -i perl -t I will be very grateful if you tell me …

Sep 5, 2012 · @pst, <> is not a file handle, "null" or otherwise. It's an operator. Specifically, the readline operator. There's a reference to it as the "angle operator" in perlvar, although there …