Some useful Perl Editors available on different platformsNEW!!! Check my new resource: Perl How To Tutorial eBooks Keep in mind, though, that because you must indent or unindent some blocks of code in order to make your script more readable, the most likely way is to use a programmers’ text editor, available on any operating system and which offer you the possibility to highlight the text, expand or collapse subroutines, menus and so on. to see a lot of fully commented examples that help you use the Perl statements and the Perl buit-in functions in your scripts. It is not recommendable at all to use a word processor for your code, but if you do this, be sure to save your script files as "text only", otherwise you’ll be unpleasantly surprised to see some awkward characters inserted into your code that you don’t want to be there. And don’t forget that Perl is deeply portable, so you have the possibility to transfer the program code from one machine to another, but if you do this, do not forget to use "text" or "ASCII" mode instead of "binary" mode. Please check-up through the follows platforms some available editors: Windows – which provides WordPad and Notepad, but as we mentioned before, they lack many features for editing code so you can use nedit, UltraEdit or PFE (Programmer’s Favorite Editor) instead; Unix – the most popular programmers’s editors are emacs and vi (with their several successors like vim or vile) which, in some versions, offer a graphical interface; Mac OS X – with the BBEdit (this one is a popular commercial text editor considered by many developers as best available) and Alpha; Please consider some other interesting opportunities too, available through the links below. (regarding tips and tricks to manipulate multidimensional arrays and hashes in Perl) and you'll receive a link to download for FREE my Perl chomp Function Tutorial eBook (a $7.50 value), it's a bonus for you and I hope you'll enjoy it. You can see its Table of Contents here (if you subscribe to my free newsletter, you don't have to pay for this eBook or use your paypal account). Related links: Dzsoft Perl Editor Download Tavrida Enginsite Perl Editors return to Home Page Hit the Alarm Clock! 
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