Perl

Perl is a dynamic programming language.

Regex

see: Regular expression

Search and replace all "foo" with "bar" in filename:

perl -i -pe 's/foo/bar/gi' filename

Modules

Search and download: http://search.cpan.org/

Installing

perl -MCPAN -e shell
#Or,
perl -MCPAN -e "install Example::Module"

My favourites

• DBI
• Math::Bezier
• WWW::Mechanize (see: [1])
• WWW::Search::PubMed (see: [2])
• WWW::Search::NCBI::PubMed
• MediaWiki
• mvs

Upgrade CPAN

% perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan>install Bundle::CPAN
cpan>q

BioPerl

See: http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Main_Page

External links

• Perl version 5.8.8 documentation
• Perl regular expressions
• perlrequick — Perl regular expressions quick start
• perlretut — Perl regular expressions tutorial
• "Beginning Perl" — full book online (as PDFs).
• wikipedia:Perl

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