Tag Archives: Perl

References 2, Scratching at Complex Data Structures

Back again for another bite of the Alpaca? In order to take our references to the next level we need to start making arrays of arrays and arrays of hashes and other such complex arrangements. I’ll be starting of with … Continue reading

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Perl References – In the beginning

I spend a few minutes here and there reading the ‘Alpaca’ book (Intermediate Perl) and feel its time to get a grip of references. It seems that a reference is only like a pointer in C so given that Perl … Continue reading

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Sorting a list of email addresses with Perl (virtusertable)

I’ve always had a mental block when sorting with Perl, but I was asked to write a quick script to sort out the /etc/mail/virtusertable file for our sendmail setup. The format of the table is as follows: <email address> (whitespace) … Continue reading

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