Utility Modules That You Should Know About

By Josh McAdams (‎jmcadams‎) from Chicago.pm
Date: Saturday, February 16, 2008 11:30 AM
Duration: 20 minutes
Target audience: Beginner
Language:
Tags: modules perl

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Many Perl programmers learn the syntax of the language and a handful of huge and full-featured modules that help them get their jobs done, but their Perl education skips over some of the useful modules that handle small, tedious and error-prone tasks. This talk will help you learn more about these tools that serve the middle ground between the Perl language and mega-modules that do things like parse XML or talk HTTP. You see how do easily and cleanly do things like read in a file in one command, find out where your programming lives, parse file paths across platforms, manipulate directories in-bulk, and more.