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As it currently stands, this question is not a good fit for our Q&A format. We expect answers to be supported by facts, ...

Is there a regex to match “all characters including newlines”? For example, in the regex below, there is no output from $2 because ...

How can I start an interactive console for Perl, similar to the irb command for Ruby or python for Python? 24 Answers 24

I’m trying to use a break statement in a for loop, but since I’m also using strict subs in my Perl code, I’m ...

As it currently stands, this question is not a good fit for our Q&A format. We expect answers to be supported by facts, ...

I sometimes want to match whitespace but not newline. So far I’ve been resorting to...

I’m running ActiveState’s 32 bit ActivePerl 5.14.2 on Windows 7. I wanted to mess around with a Git pre-commit hook to detect programs ...

I wonder why most modern solutions built using Perl don’t enable UTF-8 by default. I understand there are many legacy problems for core ...

When I run perl, I get the warning: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = ...