Grep is another Perl's great built in function, one of the things I use it most is to check if I can find an element on a list. For example, instead of something like

    my $found = 0;
    foreach (@list) {
        $search eq $_ and $found++;
    }

I prefer to use something like:

    my $found = grep {$search eq $_} @list;

Code is simpler and more elegant, there's no significant performance from using one or another, although grep seems to actually run faster if you want to squeeze all the crumbs:

find_with_for  28818/s    …

In a Perl script typically a shebang line is something like:

#!/usr/bin/perl

this works great if you want to use a wide, system based, Perl for your scripts. But what if you have several different installations of Perl and want to run the same script using different Perl versions without having to change the shebang line. Well, one possible and straightforward solution is to change it to something like:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

and then push the version you want to use to your $PATH environment variable. This can even be easily done based on th…