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A couple of times I've ran into the situation where I've forgotten to load the Try::Tiny module in my script and I've still used its try-catch block, like this: #!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; try { call_a( 'x' ); } catch { die "ACTUALLY die $_"; }; sub call_a { di…

I've got a mapping file of about 13491 key/value pairs which I need to use to replace the key with the value in a data set of about 500000 lines divided over 25 different files. Example mapping: value1,value2 Example input: field1,field2,**value1**,field4 Example output: field1,…

In a web application written in Perl and using PostgreSQL the users have username and password. What would be the recommended way to store the passwords? Encrypting them using the crypt() function of Perl and a random salt? That would limit the useful length of passswords to 8 c…