Actually, the chomp function didn't use parentheses around its arguments; the syntax of Perl function calls is simply func args, no parentheses. The parentheses in the call to chomp is to change the ...

Enter Perl, the Swiss Army knife of languages, with a cast of thousands thanks to the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Embedding Perl into MySQL gave me a lot of flexibility in being able to ...

I have a (another) perl question for you guys:I have a script that relies on 'system()' to execute some shell commands that aren't available as perl functions. It seems that using system() is ...