I have a program currently written in Perl that checks the values of about 2gb worth of tab-delimited text files (files vary in size from about 10mb to 500mb). Every value of every file is checked ...
I was recently asked to help automate a long manual process at work. I need to take two input files that look like this (but longer) Code: *MB321LL/A 0 0 4 *MB128LL/A 0 0 2 *MB129LL/A 0 0 2 *Z0EM ...
In my last article for Linux Journal's web edition, I discussed a web-based program that queried an SQL database and output a native Excel file. That article was based on a program I wrote for a ...
A lot of information is available about individual files on a Unix system. For example, the ls -l command will display the permissions matrix and ls -i will display a file’s inode. But, if we want to ...
While Perl and Python are two different programming languages, Python has the ability to execute Perl scripts through a built in function. Since Perl and Python are designed for different programming ...
Perl is a language often associated with text processing and CGI. PHP is a language often associated with dynamic Web pages. Both are very popular with Web developers. Often, each of these languages ...