Can anybody please suggest me a small experiment or project by which i will be able to better learn / understand mod_perl.

Am a perl programmer for past 5 years. By googling i found mod_perl is very similar as perl. I have to spend time only in knowing about the mod_perl APIs, and nothing more.

If somebody asks me, I know programming, i would like to learn perl programming by experimentation, i will say take this log file ( may be syslog ), and produce reports like, word count, all ERROR lines and major errors, timing based report by giving command line option, print particular hours log lines. So this way he will be able to understand both data structures & regex in Perl.

I am expecting something similar or more better, experiment details, which i will do by my own & learn mod_perl.

Thanks for your time.

In reply to small project / experiment to learn mod_perl by Anonymous Monk

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