I'm gathering data about how my company uses LDAP and need to peruse some rather large chunks of the schema + data and turn it into information I can use to build an extraction routine to use with SAS.
I've decided to use Perl to write a dump routine to spit out data to a file.
Data::Dumper seems like the right place to start, especially if I want to reuse the dumped data in more Perl code. So, I started out learning about
Data::Dumper.
So, I've been fiddling with Emacs for a while now, and I'm starting to actually learn some Lisp. Now I want to get Emacs to play nicely with Perl including with perltidy and perlcritic.
I found the following two Emacs (Emacs Lisp) programs:
As a UNIX administrator with no Perl experience this was invaluable to me. Since I read it all the way through, I've found it very useful as a reference. Its a definite must for anybody wanting (or needing) to learn Perl.