Windows Forensics and Incident Recovery

Perl Editors

Writing Perl scripts is relatively simple, given that there are several books^[6] and a number of examples available. A little searching on the Internet via Google or perhaps posting to Perl newsgroups or contacting the author of this book will generally lead to some useful code snippets at the very least (see the “Perl Programming and Code Sites” section of Appendix B). Once the Perl distribution and any additional modules have been installed, all that is required is a program for creating Perl scripts. Notepad is suitable for this task, but if additional features such as syntax highlighting and auto-indenting are desired, a Perl integrated development environment (IDE) would be of greater use. There are several freely available ...