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Hello all, In the section: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Auto-increment-and-Auto-decrement I believe this line is incorrect: "undef is always treated as numeric, and in particular is changed to ...
Balasundaram, Prateek
Sep 4, 2013 at 12:19 pm
Sep 5, 2013 at 5:40 am -
I need help regarding install of CPAN modules in strawberry perl. I have a question about Perl connectivity to Teradata. I have been using Active Perl 5.12 on Windows xp since one year. I tried ...
Perl developer
Sep 21, 2011 at 3:04 pm
Sep 21, 2011 at 7:05 pm -
Dear PerlFAQ Workers, You're probably aware that after many years of looking after the perlfaq brian d foy moved on from running it about a month ago. At the request of several people I've taken it ...
Leo Lapworth
Sep 1, 2011 at 8:09 am
Sep 1, 2011 at 8:09 am -
perlfaq6 - Regular Expressions ($Revision: 1.38 $, $Date: 2005/12/31 00:54:37 $)
Meir Michanie
Aug 17, 2011 at 9:56 am
Aug 17, 2011 at 9:56 am -
My mistake, I meant perlfaq.pod in the subject. -- Matthew Horsfall (alh)
Matthew Horsfall
Aug 1, 2011 at 12:52 am
Aug 1, 2011 at 12:52 am -
Hello, I believe the following minor change may help new users / browsers of perlfaq.pod make better use of the perlfaq: mhorsfall@Fireforge:~/my-perl$ git show commit ...
Matthew Horsfall
Aug 1, 2011 at 12:34 am
Aug 1, 2011 at 12:34 am -
Sir I was going through the perlfaq and I found an error. Check this: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq.html#NAME <http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq.html#NAME Post: Where to get the perlfaq The perlfaq ...
Chankey Pathak
Jul 16, 2011 at 3:14 pm
Jul 16, 2011 at 3:14 pm -
Hi, this is a suggestion for the perlfaq5. In this FAQ, you suggest to use this command to skip commented lines when reading a file. next if /^\s+#/; # skip comment lines You should replace s+ by s*, ...
Jerome Reybert
Jun 30, 2011 at 2:32 pm
Jun 30, 2011 at 2:32 pm -
Hey, Whilst reading through the "Data: Hashes" section of the FAQ I noticed what appears to be a UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 to HTML entity char conversion error in brian d foy's entry about multilevel hash ...
Nick Morrott
Apr 24, 2011 at 7:18 am
Apr 24, 2011 at 7:18 am -
Dear perlfaq workers, It has come to my attention that in FAQ 8.45 (How do I install a module from CPAN?) a line reads: using the "cpan" command the comes with Perl. You can give it a list of To be ...
Justin Catterall
Feb 17, 2011 at 9:20 am
Feb 19, 2011 at 11:54 pm -
Perhaps mention the core Time::Piece + Time::Seconds modules before the non-core modules here? Could also add an example, like this: use Time::Piece; use Time::Seconds; my $date_one = Time::Piece- ...
James Wright
Feb 7, 2011 at 6:12 pm
Feb 11, 2011 at 3:04 am -
Since the faq is for the current released version of Perl, where Time::Piece and Time::Seconds are in core (but DateTime and Date::Calc are not), wouldn't a Time::Piece / Time::Seconds answer be ...
James Wright
Feb 7, 2011 at 5:46 pm
Feb 11, 2011 at 3:05 am -
First of all, thank you for all the work for creating the perlfaq, it's a great resource. However, in perlfaq3 there is this question: "How can I hide the source for my Perl program?" The answer is ...
David Ljung Madison
Oct 26, 2010 at 8:13 pm
Oct 27, 2010 at 5:17 am -
Suggested change to simplify some regular expressions: *** FAQ_4.72_before Mon Oct 11 18:07:09 2010 --- FAQ_4.72_after Mon Oct 11 18:09:57 2010 *************** *** 9,13 **** if (/^[+-]?\d+$/) { print ...
David Canzi
Oct 11, 2010 at 10:31 pm
Oct 14, 2010 at 3:27 am -
[[ This message was both posted and mailed: see the "To," "Cc," and "Newsgroups" headers for details. ]] Now that the perl sources are in git (meaning committers can easily have their own branches), ...
Brian d foy
Aug 21, 2010 at 5:32 pm
Aug 25, 2010 at 3:05 am -
And yes, CGI imports escape and unescape from CGI::Utils but perldoc CGI::Utils says: So I guess using CGI::escape and CGI::unescape amounts to using undocumented features of CGI. In light of that, I ...
Peter Valdemar Mørch
Jun 23, 2010 at 10:59 am
Jul 3, 2010 at 8:15 am -
-- Paul Johnson - paul@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net
Paul Johnson
Apr 17, 2010 at 10:35 pm
Apr 20, 2010 at 3:26 am -
Actually, the people doing the monthly releases have been mentioned in perlhist, under "THE KEEPERS OF THE PUMPKIN". Abigail
Abigail
Apr 1, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Apr 1, 2010 at 2:48 pm -
Er, see perlhist. I think Hugo was going to do it, maybe did one 5.9.x development release, but had other obligations. Rafael actually did 5.10.0. And there have been maint pumpkings, but we're ...
Craig A. Berry
Mar 29, 2010 at 5:18 pm
Mar 29, 2010 at 5:18 pm -
From the docs in perlfaq.pod, I presume it's right to forward this to perlfaq-workers and not to patch the version in blead directly. Please correct me if I'm wrong on that. -j --
Jesse Vincent
Mar 29, 2010 at 1:51 pm
Mar 31, 2010 at 6:17 pm -
Hi, I am a newby to perlfaq. Please let me know if I am emailing the wrong group. Thanks. I have some code that uses a Perl module and I would like to catch the error "Can't locate <module .pm in ...
Janine Goldstein
Oct 16, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Oct 17, 2009 at 8:52 pm -
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Fix URL
Hello, I'm trying to update various URLs in the Perl source code. Here's a quick patch for perlfaq3. Thanks! LeonLéon Brocard
Sep 22, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Sep 23, 2009 at 4:22 pm -
Hello, in http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq5.html I noticed what I think must be a typo: under "How do I flush/unbuffer an output filehandle? Why must I do this?" the first paragraph reads: Perl does ...
Stephen Alexander
Aug 13, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Aug 14, 2009 at 12:47 pm -
Hello, in the topic http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq5.html#How-do-I-change%2c-delete%2c-or-insert-a-line-in-a-file%2c-or-append-to-the-beginning-of-a-file%3f in the second example code block in the ...
Zahn, Steffen (NSN - DE/Berlin)
Jun 12, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Jun 14, 2009 at 12:06 am -
But that's inside @perl.org Anyway, I posted lots in perl5-porters@perl.org over the last few months about me being banned. How did I post to perl5-porters@perl.org as it is inside @perl.org? Via an ...
Jidanni
Jun 7, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Jun 7, 2009 at 10:24 pm -
Dear FAQ maintainers, your size of hash FAQ needs expanding, see http://mid.gmane.org/87ljo8vmka.fsf@jidanni.org No I don't know the answer.
Jidanni
Jun 4, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Jun 4, 2009 at 7:42 pm -
Ah, so there are costs if in a loop! Dear FAQ maintainers, I have an idea for a new FAQ: "So what if I put "use" inside a loop? See http://mid.gmane.org/87oct4vogm.fsf@jidanni.org No I don't know the ...
Jidanni
Jun 4, 2009 at 7:36 pm
Jun 4, 2009 at 7:36 pm -
Hi, attached are some formatting fixes. Hanno
Hanno Hecker
May 13, 2009 at 3:54 am
May 22, 2009 at 12:13 pm -
Hi, The perlfaq answer to the question (posed in the subject line) refers to a file in the PGPLOT source (kgbpack.c) that no longer exists. I think the fix is to simply replace "kgbpack.c" in the ...
Sisyphus
Apr 23, 2009 at 2:04 am
Apr 24, 2009 at 11:03 pm -
Thanks! This has been applied to blead. Steve Peters steve@fisharerojo.org
Steve Peters
Mar 24, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Mar 24, 2009 at 5:54 pm -
Branch: refs/heads/master Home: http://github.com/briandfoy/perlfaq Commit: ae705195fe54fa225b9883b3b2104593e1f2249f ...
Noreply
Mar 13, 2009 at 8:16 am
Mar 13, 2009 at 8:16 am -
Branch: refs/heads/master Home: http://github.com/briandfoy/perlfaq Commit: 92a7fcb48a1107604f264a58ca8edfd1f1736a4b ...
Noreply
Mar 13, 2009 at 6:37 am
Mar 13, 2009 at 6:37 am -
I converted the perlfaq SVN repository to git: http://github.com/briandfoy/perlfaq/tree/master I'd like to make that the canonical repository for the perlfaq. I think the only thing that would need ...
Brian d foy
Mar 9, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Mar 13, 2009 at 5:43 am -
Hi! Here is a patch to the perlfaq: http://www.shlomifish.org/perlfaq2.diff It adds Notepad++ and implements some corrections. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ...
Shlomi Fish
Feb 22, 2009 at 10:34 am
Mar 13, 2009 at 10:25 pm -
This patch adds Notepad++ and Padre to the perlfaq (SVN trunk) and some other more minor changes. I hereby disclaim any explicit or implicit ownership of my contributions, but naturally giving me ...
Shlomi Fish
Feb 17, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Feb 18, 2009 at 9:09 am -
Hello perlfaq people, just a minor suggestion to your generally brilliant (is there a superlative to that word?) FAQ: If you are referring to ultraedit, I think there should be a reference to ...
Claus Kick
Jan 8, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Jan 11, 2009 at 7:41 pm -
David Nicol submitted a patch for perlfaq4.pod two years ago to the Perl-RT (see http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=40250). I've attached the patch. Do you apply this patch or is it ...
Renee Baecker
Aug 27, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Aug 29, 2008 at 1:30 pm -
I need to be able to sort a hash, then pass the sorted hash as a reference. You see, there's this scrolling_list thing in CGI.pm to use human readable values in a dropdown, you need to pass the name ...
Chuck Cochems
Aug 20, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Aug 25, 2008 at 7:13 am -
Hi, There are a couple of small typos in FAQ 4.55 "How do I process an entire hash?". In the third paragraph (ignoring the code snippet), the first sentence is: "Once you have the list of keys, you ...
Stephen McCrea
Aug 15, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Aug 16, 2008 at 6:33 am -
Hi, There may be a couple of typos in FAQ 6.2 "I'm having trouble matching over more than one line. What's wrong?". The first two code snippets contain the comment: "# read in more whole paragraph, ...
Stephen McCrea
Aug 14, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Aug 15, 2008 at 9:14 am -
Hi, I think, though unfortunately am not sure, that there are some typos in FAQ 5.39: "Why do I get weird spaces when I print an array of lines?". In paragraph two (paragraph numbers ignore the code ...
Stephen McCrea
Aug 12, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Aug 16, 2008 at 6:36 am -
Hi, The second paragraph of FAQ 5.38: How do I select a random line from a file? reads: "Here's a resevoir-sampling algorithm from the Camel Book:". It should read: "Here's a reservoir-sampling...". ...
Stephen McCrea
Aug 9, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Aug 12, 2008 at 8:44 pm -
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Small typo in FAQ 5.23: "All I want to do is append a small amount of text to the end of a file...".
Hi, The last sentence in the penultimate paragraph of FAQ 5.23 ("All I want to do is append a small amount of text to the end of a file. Do I still have to use locking?") ends: "...which is simply a ...Stephen McCrea
Aug 5, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Aug 6, 2008 at 12:23 pm -
Hi, The sixth paragraph of this FAQ contains: "Use one of the modules that handle that fornat...". It should read "...that format...". Regards, Stephen. -- Stephen McCrea
Stephen McCrea
Jul 30, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Aug 16, 2008 at 6:40 am -
Hi, perlfaq3, "Is there an IDE or Windows Perl Editor?" The FAQ refers to the MKS shell, but it seems that http://mks.com/ has gone. The links to Pepper / Pe are not actual too---there's a ...
Alexey Beshenov
Jun 28, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Jun 29, 2008 at 12:57 pm -
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[PATCH] Add a question - "How do I traverse an entire directory tree? How do I delete or copy it?"
Hi all! The attached patch adds a question: {{{{{{ How do I traverse an entire directory tree? How do I delete or copy it? }}}}}} Regards, Shlomi Fish ----------------------------------- Shlomi Fish, ...Shlomi Fish
Jun 9, 2008 at 8:50 am
Jun 16, 2008 at 2:31 pm -
Hi all! The patch is attached. I hope GMail.com preserves it enough after I copy-and-pasted it from gvim. I started to revamp the FAQ. My original intention was to add some questions from ...
Shlomi Fish
Jun 7, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Jun 8, 2008 at 2:21 pm -
Sorry, forgot the attachment... Am 06.06.2008 um 15:11 Uhr haben Sie geschrieben: --- renee.baecker@smart-websolutions.de Smart-Websolutions André Windolph und Renée Bäcker GbR Maria-Montessori-Str. ...
Renée Bäcker
Jun 7, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Jun 10, 2008 at 4:24 pm -
Hi *, this is a small patch that removes commas, that are between index entries. X< sequences are translated into empty string, so you only see three commas. Other entries in perlfaq use space as ...
Renee Baecker
Jun 6, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Jun 7, 2008 at 10:59 pm -
Change 33455 by merijn@merijn-nb09 on 2008/03/09 10:54:11 Subject: [PATCH pod/perlfaq.pod] Typo Fix From: chromatic <chromatic@wgz.org Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 14:08:30 -0800 Message-Id: ...
H . Merijn Brand
Mar 9, 2008 at 11:00 am
Mar 9, 2008 at 11:00 am
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