Return a Portion of a Character String

Draws a line (with arrow head) between two given points.

I needed a quick way to make a Street Address and City proper case.
Lingua::EN::NameCase works best for peoples names, but it does not work well for Addresses. This is not intended by any means to be complete, but is quick and dirty.

Plus, there are not many Perl snippets here. So, I thought I would start simple :-)

List the databases on a MySQL serve

A very simple script to generate random hexa colors.
just modify line 36 to generate more/less colors.

This is a complete Hash table implementation for Visual Basic 6 or Visual Basic for applications. It is a complete tutorial and explains exactly how a hashtable works and the design decisions that were made for this version.

Proper case a string

convert An integer to a string

Recursively removes files or directories with a given name, using find.

I most frequently use it to remove 'CVS' or '.svn' directories from sourcepackages that still have the versioning information in them.

Below is a very simple bit of code you can use to test a MySQL Database Connection.