The docs for Compress::Zlib for perl are very complex. But, the most simple use of the Module is not too bad. I've waded through the perdoc so you don't have to.

Gunzip.pl is here. I will let you know when I have Gzip.pl done.

You can do something more interesting with "success" variable.

This is a little example of how to use threads in Perl. It creates three threads and runs them... That's it...

Retrieve, delete, view count of pop3 email.

Please download the pop3 class file here first:
http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/10/24/314941/pop3.class.inc

Many uses!!!!

A little function that returns a greeting based on the local time.

Another solution recommends using a text match pattern.
This works, but as long as you've got mail.jar in your classpath anyway, you might as well use this technique instead. (Plus, I think it works with older JDK 1.2+, whereas pattern.compile is 1.4+)

Note that it also accepts a comma-separated list of emails, just like a To: or CC: address line would.

Here's a simple JavaScript solution to hide your e-mail from many spam scripts while still providing clickable hyperlinks to your visitors.

Web crawlers and visitors with JavaScript disabled will see: me [at] mydomain [dot] com. I've seen a lot of people that just leave it at this, but it seems a bit unprofessional in my opinion. With the following code, we can replace that with a fully functional hyperlink.

I needed to send an email through an authenticated SMTP server. I found the snippet on the PHP website to do the trick.