Perl and Edi Software for Windows

Top Perl Studio
$39 - Top Systems Ltd.

Top Perl Studio is an Integrated Development Environment for Perl, providing comprehensive and easy-to-use solution for editing, testing and deploying CGI/Perl based web applications. Top Perl Studio includes a built-in HTTP server which directly runs CGI/Perl code and an internal web browser for previewing the scripts. Top Perl Studio's powerful code editor supports configurable syntax highlighting for Perl, HTML, XML, SQL... and code completion for built-in Perl functions and HTML tags. Other major features are: built-in FTP client, file/server explorer, syntax checking for Perl code, visual file comparison utility, code snippets for CSS and HTML tags, automatic parentheses highlighting and more...

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Stunnix Perl Web Server
$239 - Stunnix

Stunnix Perl Web Server is designed for putting any Perl/PHP/MySQL/SQLite-based
website on CDROM, that once put to tray will run off CDROM (including
webserver itself, MySQL and PHP/Perl interpreters) and will open a browser
with site in it on Windows, MacOS X and Linux from that single CDROM, without
requiring installation of any software to user's computer. It also allows to
make any website into usual desktop applications with installer.

This allows to greatly reduce costs of development of desktop applications
or of CDROMs with presentations and catalogues - since development using
web technologies is much cheaper and allows to deliver the products to
users of all major desktop operating systems. Stunnix Perl Web Server
uses a lot of advanced technologies to make websites run under it to
feel responsive like usual desktop applications do.

Stunnix Perl Web Server also aims to be as configurable as Apache web server
is. This also allows to run web sites under Stunnix Perl Web Server
typically without any modifications.

The database files, versions of Perl and PHP interpreters and of MySQL
server, included for all major desktop operating systems, will run off
CDROM, without even hidden installation to the user's computer.

Any CGI scripts are also supported. Mod-perl like framework is also
available. All HTTP standards are supported, including GET, POST,
If-Modified-Since, PATH_INFO. Server-Side Includes are also supported.

Stunnix Perl Web Server is implemented in pure Perl language. If your
site uses only Perl scripts, then your CDROM or application will run
perfectly on any Unix where Perl is already installed too.

Stunnix Perl Web Server is used internally for GUI to other Stunnix
products - for Stunnix Perl-Obfus, Stunnix JavaScript Obfuscator/Encoder,
Stunnix VBScript And ASP Obfuscator/Encoder,
Stunnix C/C++ Obfuscator/Mangler.

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SannySoft Perl Editor
$44.95 - SannySoft

SannySoft Perl Editor 3.1 is a feature-packed Integrated Development Environment for Perl programmers. Why do Perl coders need it? Here is an analogy - you probably have both Notepad and MS Word on your PC. Both are text-editors or word processors. Which tool do you think professional writers prefer? MS Word, of course, because it has far more features for writers than Notepad. With MS Word's features like spell-checking and auto-formatting, a writer can do the same job better and faster than with Notepad. It's exactly the same story with Perl Editor.
With customizable highlighting, option to edit multiple scripts simultaneously and CGI Wizard that generates scripts automatically (no coding), any Perl programmer can cut time he or she spends on writing new code by at least 20%. Another great feature Perl Editor offers is auto-formatting. With this feature active, a coder does not need to spend waste any time doing routine. Since the program was created by an experienced team of Perl programmers, Perl Editor has every feature Perl coder could possible need and does not have any extraneous options that would make the program complicated, hard to learn or difficult to use.
SannySoft Perl Editor is really stuffed with handy features, like auto-completing, bookmarks, POD viewer, easy searching, automatic code replacing, syntax check, event logging, loaded module list and others. While, it can't entirely replace the coder, it surely takes on a hefty chunk of work off the programmers shoulders.
SannySoft Perl Editor 3.1 comes in two different versions. They are pretty close, except for the fact that Perl Editor Lite does not have Code Explorer, FTP uploader, Windows/Unix/Mac line endings support and some other functions. For detailed comparison, please refer to

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Perl Module Manager
$0 - Luckasoft

Perl Module Manager helps you to install, un-install and manage Perl modules from a CPAN site and other sources in an easy and intuitive way.

Allows you to search thru thousands of useful modules and libraries on a CPAN site and its mirrors, download and install the modules of your choice.

Automatically launches internal nmake util and makes necessary changes in the Perllocal.pod file.

The Perllocal.pod file contains a list of locally-installed modules not included with the standard distribution. If you download and install Perl and then install several CPAN
modules, only the CPAN modules will be listed in perllocal. It's updated during the "make install" process, by code in ExtUtils::MakeMaker. Stuff is added to perllocal when you install modules via 'make install' due to stuff in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.

Perl Module Manager makes all the necessary changes in the file during the installation or un-installation processes.

ActiveState Perl Distribution compatible.
This is freeware and will always stay as such.

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OptiPerl
$59 - Xarka Software

OptiPerl 5 is fully integrated visual environment and editor for creating, testing, debugging and running perl and cgi scripts, directly or through associated html documents. It has a well designed user interface and many features.

Features Include:
- Offline editing of CGI Perl Scripts.
- Complete emulation of a real server: scripts can be run indirectly from html documents, with OptiPerl's intenal server. However there is also excellent support if using an apache server.
- Live preview of the scripts in the internal web browser as text or web document.
- Feature packed editor with syntax highlighting and much user customization.
- Completely integrated local & remote debugging with live evaluation of expressions, watches, breakpoints, flow control.
- Code explorer which is a navigational tool that lists elements in your script and can also do a perl pattern search.
- Code librarian and code templates that can be shared with others.
- Context-Sensitive Help on all of Perl's core and module documentation
- Query editor to easily create Query's to be tested with a GET and POST method.
- Pod extractor creates a tree list view of embedded or standalone pod info.
- To do list that is associated with each script.
- Version converter to handle non supported perl functions in windows.
- Smart FTP uploader with a database of upload locations.
- Project support and publishing.
- Live RegExp Tester.
- Source reformatter.
- Many tools like Encoder, Perl Printer, Log Viewer, File Explorer and others!

OptiPerl is used by professionals or amatures.
- Professionals designing perl programs and cgi scripts use it. Save much time by quickly creating, debugging and testing all the ideas you have increasing productivity.
- It is a great learning tool. You can use it to learn Perl and CGI programming in the comfort of a visual editor, without loss of time and money because of loading from dos or being for hours on-line.

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Perl Express
$0 - Perl Express Group

A free integrated development environment (IDE) for Perl with multiple tools for writing and debugging your scripts. It features multiple CGI scripts for editing, running, and debugging; multiple input files; full server simulation; queries created from an internal Web browser or query editor; test MySQL, MS Access scripts; interective I/O; directory window; code library; and code templates. Perl Express allows you to set environment variables used for running and debugging script. It has a customizable code editor with syntax highlighting, unlimited text size, printing, line numbering, bookmarks, column selection, a search-and-replace engine, multilevel undo/redo operations, and so on.

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