Notes Regex Engine Enhancements eq and UTF8 operator Caching of the getby Functions Forbidden Declarations Continued Perl in the News readonly Pragma Continues Magical Autoincrement Doctor, Doctor, it Hurts When I Do This! use strict ‘formatting’ Complex Expressions in…
Notes my $x if 0; Trick Zero-padded numbers in formats Forbidden Declarations Port to Windows/CE chat2.pl is Still There pod2latex Long Regexes UTF8 Hash Keys UTF8 String Patches mktables.pl has Been Addressed More Environmental Problems readonly Pragma Tutorials Brad…
Pod::Parser Notes -> Some of my co-workers noticed the p5p weekly summary discussing (among other things) Pod::Parser. They mentioned it to me, and said they thought it cast me in an unfavorable light. So I’d like to clear up a…
A few weeks ago I went to do a four-day beginning Perltraining at a local utility company. It was quite different from other training classes I’d given. Typically, my students have some Unix and C experience. These students, however,…
Notes Regex Stress Testing Another Thread-Safing Patch Enormous perldoc discussion winds up Build patches for OS/2 Regex Engine Method calls on unblessed references Version Tuples Broken? Negative Subscripts for Tied Arrays Upcoming corrections Various Notes You can subscribe to…
Notes Moderation is Imminent Simon’s Guide to p5p Big Discussion of perldoc and Indexing X<> splitpod Aliases perldoc Wishlist Tom’s Plan Editorial Opinion Section Mark Fisher’s man Replacement Pod::Parser Output Model roffitall Patches to perlre mktables.PL Needs Work Jarkko…
What’s wrong with this picture? -> What’s wrong with this picture? Reading the Input Computing Average and Total Times Sort Order Printing the Report Red Flags Get Rid of Array Size Variables Use Compound Data Structures Instead of Variable Families…
Notes Line Disciplines Continue Ben Tilly Fixes map Gack! Big Bug in 5.6 More pack Options IPC::BashEm perldiag Re-alphabetized Poor Diagnosis of sort Errors glob() function not documented Overloading Assignment POSIX Character Classes First Cite for ‘Perl’? Various Notes…
Notes Meta-Information Brief Update p5p to become Refereed? perlretut and perlrequick Threading Hilarity Line Disciplines Older Discussion of Disciplines Big Line Numbers Pseudohash Field Names, Hash Performance, and map Performance C with Embedded Perl `Unreachable’ code. sprintf Precision SDF…
Table of Contents Unicode - Perl goes international! Better Building Improved Compiler Version Tuples Lexical Warnings Lvaluable Subroutines Weak References POSIX Character Classes Miscellaneous Bits `Darn it, who spiked my coffee with water?!’…
My Life with Spam -> How I Caught the Spam and What I Did With it When I Caught it This article is the third in a series; you may want to read Part 1 and Part 2 if…
Notes Meta-Information Brief Update Module Warnings POD Changes Race conditions in statndard Perl utilities open Calls not checked in perldoc Big Flame Wars Chip and Jarkko Quit Templates in pack and unpack use strict in the core modules Various…
Beginning Perl : Ten Perl Myths -> Introduction Table of Contents Perl is hard Perl looks like line noise Perl is hard because it has regexps Perl is hard because it has references Perl is just for Unix Perl…
My Life with Spam -> or How I Caught the Spam and What I Did With It When I Caught it -> I wrote Part 1 of this series back in October 1999 for the LinuxPlanet web site, but the…
RSS is Born Contents: RSS is Born XML::RSS my_portal Future of my_portal Netscape had one of the first “portals” on the Web, a place where users could go to get most of their information needs…
How to Create Coding Standards that Work One of the things that we love most about Perl is its flexibility, itssimilarity to natural language, and the fact that There’s More Than One Way To Do It. Of course, when…
Notes Meta-Information Module Interface and Version Meta-Information SVs by Default Another return of PREPARE More Flushing Problems Array::Virtual #line directives DProf Various Notes Last year I fell behind on reports because I took three business trips in two weeks….
This summer, at yapc in Pittsburgh and again at the third Perl Conference, I was very fortunate to meet with a lot of friends from other regional Perl Monger groups. A lot of our groups have similar problems and…
Notes Meta-Information More 5.005_63 Results $^H and %^H Perl RPMs Development Continues on Ilya’s Patches Change to xsubpp Closed Filhandle in Signal Handler pad_findlex Needs to be Recursive Conversion Specifier Bug The Trivial Test eof() at the Beginning of…
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