You can do a lot of strange and wonderful thingswith the Perl language—if you know how. Many Perlprogrammers have been frustrated at one time oranother because the system was missing some simpleand obvious utility. Wicked Cool Perl Scripts is yourguide to writing those utilities quickly and easily.This book contains a wide variety of scripts includingones that make use of really cool Perl features (seescript #1 Automatic Help Option) and Internet datamining (try script #18 Getting Stock Quotes or script#19 Comics Download).It also contains games (like Teaching a Toddler, script#35), programs to make system administration easier(such as Mass File Renaming, script #21), and even aprogram to help someone hiking the Grand Canyon(script #42 Location Finder).Even the most experienced programmer can benefitfrom script #46 the Regular Expression Grapherwhich shows you how a complex expression like /^.