Prints the user's IP address and localtime on a web page.

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

Get a FileSize

Function to capitalize the first letter in every word in a string, but only if the entire string is in ALL CAPS.

Example:
"I LIKE TO SCREAM" becomes "I Like To Scream"
"I LIKE to RUN" remains "I LIKE to RUN".

This perl function will output to a file of your choosing the current localtime as defined by perl's localtime function. It will output the date in ISO 8601 date format plus the current localtime such as:
2006-08-21 09:26:35 am
The function also returns the localtime without the date to the calling environment.

I've found it kind of complicated to strip newline chars from a file with just the commandline. This tiny piece of code does just that.

I've found it especially useful when extracting tabulated data from a grabbed site where each cell is on a different html line. This way I can pre-filter the html, remove the newlines, and insert them again at register boundaries (row end in this case), so that with just a couple more replacement from within a regex enabled text editor I can copy&paste it directly to a database.

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 :-)

This requires Win32::API, and Win32::Clipboard.
Only works on Win32 Platforms. Only really tested on Win2000, and WinXP.

Not meant to be an be all, end all, but it's a start.

Have fun!

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.

Is this file the same as that file? The files may or may not be binary. We could compare the modify dates, or the sizes. But, those are not very accurate to know if a file has really changed.

Introducing MD5 Checksum. We can feed the files into Digest::MD5 in binary mode.

This is a great way to do Incremental Backups.

This is also an easy way to verify checksums when downloading files from the internet which list their MD5 Checksums.

You'll need the Digest::MD5 Perl Module.