Tips and Tricks in Perl

Create an array from a string
@months = split ' ', "Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec"
or
@months = qw/Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec/

Create a string from an array.
@stuff = ("hello", 0..9, "world"); $string = join '-', @stuff

Generate an array with even numbers from 1 to 100
perl -le '@even = grep {$_ % 2 == 0} 1..100; print "@even"'

The spaceship operator <=>
my @numbers = (-59, 99, 87, 1900, 42, 1, -999, 30000, 0);
my @sorted = sort { $a <=> $b } @numbers;
print "@sorted\n";
# output: -999 -59 0 1 42 87 99 1900 30000