Adding style to perl code

Perl has always been my favourite command line and web programming language. There is nothing Perl can’t do. The Perl language combined with the large quantities of modules on CPAN (developed by some of the best programmers on the planet) make it the kitchen sink of programming languages. I like to make my code as easy to read as...

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User CPAN installation broken

Here is a workaround for a common problem. You do not have root access to perl but want to install perl libraries. Normally the user can use CPAN with local libraries (PERL5LIB). Sometimes CPAN gets comfused and you get an error like this: Your configuration suggests “/root/.cpan” as your CPAN.pm working directory. I could not...

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