If Larry's programming language makes you feel like beating your head against a Wall, LeMoDa.net is here to help with some top tips on the "Practical Eclectic Rubbish Language", as it is widely known.

• Regular expressions to match C grammar
• A simple "die" function for C - example of variable number of arguments
• HTTP status codes as C defines
• Check for valid C variable names
• Compressing CGI output with Perl
• Using Unicode in a Perl CGI script
• Requesting compressed content from a web server with LWP::UserAgent
• Some ways to customize cperl mode
• "Boilerplate" for new Perl files in Emacs
• Perl and Emacs regular expressions compared
• Guessing the encoding of a Japanese web page with Encode::Guess
• A script to build and run small Go programs
• Convert X bitmaps (.xbm) to PNG - example of Pozkanzer tools
• Make HTML image tags from a list of graphics files
• How to install the Perl module "JavaScript" on Unix
• How to serve compressed HTML, JavaScript and CSS
• Making generic links to search.cpan.org
• CPAN ratings
• Create a CSS sprite from smaller images using Perl and Image::Magick
• Daft Perl
• Choose to download a file depending on its modification date
• Perl code to detect googlebot from CGI
• Visit all cells in an Excel worksheet
• Turn a number into an Excel column name
• A simple guide to ExtUtils::MakeMaker
• Print sizes of all images in a directory
• Handy Perl modules
• Hash reference and hash copy in Perl
• Convert hexadecimal to binary
• Installing ImageMagick on FreeBSD with a non-system Perl
• IPC::Run3 for testing binaries
• Converting songs to romaji - example of Lingua::JA::Moji and Convert::Moji
• Stopping indexing with ExtUtils::MakeMaker
• Module::Build tutorial - simplest possible cases
• The files in a Perl module
• Review of mwForum forum software
• Perl modules
• Using OpenID with Perl
• Equivalents in JavaScript and Perl
• Perl tutorial for beginners
• Tutorial on Perl and Unicode
• Perl XS
• Using Unicode with Perl XS
• Ordering of search results on search.cpan.org
• Strip diacritics from text using Perl and Unicode::UCD
• Using Perl's Unicode encoding with the template toolkit
• Tie Perl variables for debugging
• How to install Perl on a Unix system
• Get the day of the week from a year, month and day
• What characters match a regular expression?
• Listing Windows processes with Win32::Process::List
• Switching Win32::OLE to UTF-8
• Regex for charset from an HTML page's meta tag
• A simple CGI sendmail script
• Perl's utf8 and file names on Windows
• Get paragraphs from a Word document using Perl
• Handling errors in Perl XS modules
• Get a hash value using XS
• Perl XS tutorial - digest version
• An example of using regular expressions in Perl XS
• XS Introduction
• Memory management in Perl XS