Currently no longer active

PUBcrawl is an intermittent (but supposedly bimonthly) publication by and for users of the Perl programming language. Ostensively, PUB stands for Perl Users Bimonthly---but if it turns out to be more or less than bimonthly we reserve the right to have the B stand for other things such as: bi-semi-annually, bi-quarterly, bi-bi-weekly, or anything else that fits the current schedule.

The primary goal is to provide a forum for the presentation of source code (in the form of literate programs), as well as tips, tricks, and some lighthearted humor. This publication is free and will be made available in Postscript and PDF formats right here (see below), and the literate sources for each issue will be available as a tarball (gzipped tarfile).

In each source tarball the articles each have a .nw extension. Also included in the tarball will be a script, pqtangle, which can be used to extract the program file from the literate source. For example, in Issue 01 there is an article describing the faqgrep program---to extract the program from the source you would use the following:

perl pqtangle -L faqgrep.nw

This would leave you with a new file named faqgrep which consists of the program code itself and line directives pointing to the appropriate places in the .nw file (leave off the -L option to avoid the line directives).

We welcome submissions from anyone with any interesting source code to share. Please see the submissions guidelines for details on submitting your article as well as notes and pointers about the literate programming syntax used for this publication.

All issues are available in this directory as a Postscript or PDF file (named either pub-xx.ps or pub-xx.pdf) and the sources for each issue are available in a tarball (named pub-xxsrc.tar.gz).