Category Archives: Perl

“value” undefined on line 64 of RawInflate When using CPAN

Monday, March 9th, 2009


With certain linux distributions and version of perls implementation of Zlib a bug occurs which means that cpan cannot unpack modules it downloads causing all installs to fail. The solution to this is actually fairly simple, all that needs to … Continue reading →

Introduction to Regular Expressions

Monday, July 28th, 2008


Regular Expressions are a powerful and useful tool, when first starting with regular expressions they look like gibberish but with this article you can start to decipher the mysteries of Regular Expressions

Stripping HTML Tags From Text using Regular Expressions

Monday, July 28th, 2008


To strip html from a string using regular expressions we use the following regex. $string =~ s///g This will match the pattern of a html tag removing everything from an opening tage to the next closing tag.

Making SOAP Requests with PERL

Friday, June 27th, 2008


Using the SOAP::Lite perl module we can create and send SOAP requests for web services. This article is a begineers guide to get you started in the world of web services with perl.