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Hi, Please could i know the basic guidelines to be followed while writing a perl program to make it more readable and for easy maintenance? i have written a lot of code and now need to implement a structure on the same. Thanks In Advance

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Re: perl basic guidelines
by marto (Cardinal) on Jan 14, 2009 at 09:35 UTC

    In addition to the advice you have already been given this is discussed well in Perl Best Practices, which IMHO is well worth buying and reading.

    Update: Fixed typo s/givem/given/

    Martin

Re: perl basic guidelines
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 14, 2009 at 09:31 UTC