The following is just a problem in computer science. It is not directly
related to Perl, or to my work. I am looking for insights in how to
think about this.
The input: a list of words.
The output: a partitioning of the input list into a longest list of
phrases, such that the phrases are in
Of
Tolkin, Steve
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:12 PM
To: Boston Perl Mongers
Subject: [Boston.pm] merging lists that are ordered but not sorted
I am looking for a perl program that will solve the following problem.
Suppose I have 2 or more lists that are (conceptually) sublists of the
same
I am looking for a perl program that will solve the following problem.
Suppose I have 2 or more lists that are (conceptually) sublists of the
same underlying list.
I want to reconstruct the underlying list. In other words the order of
the elements agrees in all the lists, but there is no sort
In the middle of the long list of replies to a posting about why ESBs
are bad (and REST is good) at
http://steve.vinoski.net/blog/2007/10/04/the-esb-question/ I find this
reply:
30. John Davies says: October 7th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
... your best option is shell scripts (awk, grep, cut, tail etc.)
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From: Jerrad Pierce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 1:45 PM
To: Tolkin, Steve
Cc: Boston Perl Mongers
Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Extract text from html preserving newlines
lynx -dump
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From: Chris Devers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 1:53 PM
To: Tolkin, Steve
Cc: Boston Perl Mongers
Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Extract text from html preserving newlines
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Tolkin
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Thanks to Richard Barbalace for sending his program.
I can run it, and now I need to look at how to revise it.
Thanks,
Steve
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From: Chris Devers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 10:44 PM
To: Tolkin, Steve
Cc: boston perl mongers
Subject: Re
I am looking for a program that can recover the original text from text
that has spaces inserted or deleted.
Ideally in perl of course.
The following text has many places where an extra space is inserted.
Given a dictionary it would be possible to reconstruct the original
text, with only a few
Irish coffee contains all four required food groups:
Sugar, fat, caffeine, and alcohol
P.S. Obligatory comment about Perl -- the Chilean pianist Alfredo Perl has
recorded all of Beethoven's sonatas, and much else, and I recommend them.
Hopefully helpfully yours,
Steve
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I think the current policy is fine as is.
Location is just one of many factors to be discussed before applying
for, or accepting, a job. If this is a pressing concern the applicant
should ask about it in an early phone call. Other people will care more
about salary, benefits, the nature of
is important.
Hopefully helpfully yours,
Steve
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Dear Ben, Bob et al.,
Thanks for this thread. (It has a very high signal to noise
ratio, compared with many others.)
Dear Everyone,
Since this started about Python, in a Perl discussion list, I am
wondering about whether Perl facilitate the kind of experimentation that
led to
Are you serious? $.., $..., $ etc?! Aii!!! he screams and runs away.
Please stop this thread.
Hopefully helpfully yours,
Steve
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There is nothing so
(and deservedly so) glass flowers.
Hopefully helpfully yours,
Steve
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for a problem, due to
its unusual extension.
Specifically, can the *.pmc file be in a different directory than the *.pm file
that was intended to be used?
Hopefully helpfully yours,
Steve
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Summary: How to use Perl 5.8.0 to handle files encoded using utf-16 on
Windows?
Details:
I have read that perl 5.8 ought to handle utf-16 without me needing to
tell it anything.
But I am now getting the behavior I expect.
Specifically, I want to find what changed in a Registry after I install
a
The difference is that I am trying to find a quote that focuses on the
benefits of using data in a special way, as control data, to determine
the specific execution path taken by the code.
Thanks,
Steve
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Tolkin, Steve wrote:
I am looking for the best and/or original
Thank you Charlie. That is the idea I am trying to get across. Do you
have any suggestions about how to get developers to see the benefits of
writing programs this way? Any specific books, techniques, etc.? Any
pitfalls to be aware of?
Thanks,
Steve
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I used to have use Visual C compiler from 1998, aka VC98. I have
compiled some Perl XS modules with it. When I got a new PC it did not
have that old compiler on it. I copied my Perl directories over, and
they seem to work. I just downloaded the free (as in beer) Visual C++
Toolkit 2003 from
Message-
From: Ben Tilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 5:52 PM
To: Tolkin, Steve
Cc: Jeremy Muhlich; boston-pm@mail.pm.org
Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] script to normalize output of Windows dir
command
On 9/23/05, Tolkin, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I do have a port
this program one day; if I do I'll post it here for
feedback.
P.S. I tried to find a version of rsync for Windows that does not require
cygwin. Is there one?
Hopefully helpfully yours,
Steve
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Summary:
I would like a perl script that converts the output of the Windows dir
command so that each line has the same format, including the directory
it is in, and its extension. The date and time should use a format that
can be sorted as a string, e.g. -mm-dd and a 24 hour clock
I think
and diffing it has gotten me through most of these sorts of
problems.
Also, diff -r might be helpful. (possibly with the --brief option as
well)
-- Jeremy
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 11:55 -0400, Tolkin, Steve wrote:
Summary:
I would like a perl script that converts the output of the Windows dir
:05 PM
To: Tolkin, Steve; L-boston-pm
Subject: RE: [Boston.pm] Combining the nodes reachable in n steps from a
web page into one printable file
Is this to implement the missing PRINTABLE PAGE button for just yourself
or as part of the website?
This sounds a lot like one of the examples in MDJ's new
This seems like a problem that would be easily solved with a small perl
script.
Many web pages have a large list of links.
I would like to follow all the links, to some small depth (typically
just 1) and put their output into one file, in some format suitable for
printing.
I am flexible about
.
Hopefully helpfully yours,
Steve
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to
Hopefully helpfully yours,
Steve
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perl, etc.
This is basic information that should be available to Perl advocates,
i.e. easily findable at http://www.perl.org/advocacy/ which
unfortunately
does not have anything of the sort.
Hopefully helpfully yours,
Steve
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Fidelity
to open up your wallet and fork
over $2. (This is like other certification programs, but cheaper.)
[You can read the rest if you want.]
Hopefully helpfully yours,
Steve
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, do not hit page down unless you want to see it
millionairess
Clearly millionairess is feminine and singular and
I think that millionaires does have a masculine connotation.
Hopefully helpfully yours,
Steve
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null string) act as a previous value of
$1?
Thanks,
Steve
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From: Ron Newman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 11:52 AM
To: Tolkin, Steve
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] I want a compile time check on missing parens
in regex
If I
: Greg London [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 12:30 PM
To: Tolkin, Steve
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [Boston.pm] I want a 'compile time' check on missing parens
in regex
Tolkin, Steve said:
What is the scope of $1 and when does it get reset?
here's a start:
http
I believe that the technical portion of this,
i.e. the talk on Parrot by Dan, is open to the public.
(But I have not checked. Dan, do you know?)
Steve
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From: Kenneth Baclawski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 11:03 PM
To: Tolkin, Steve
Subject
if this is possible or easy to do.
Hopefully helpfully yours,
Steve
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Title: Thanks Andrew for all the Perl Monger meetings you hosted at Boston.com
Dear Andrew,
I wish to express my personal thanks for the work you
did in support of hosting the Boston Perl Monger meetings.
Thanks,
Steve Tolkin
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Title: using {3-8} instead of {3,8} doesn't produce even a warning?
# run using e.g. echo hello | perl this-file
# Why doesn't perl produce a warning from {3-8} ? This seems
# to be a syntax error. It surely is not the way to match strings of length 3 - 8. It
# should be {3,8} .
while ()
Title: why no warning about this infinite loop
# run using e.g. echo hello | perl this-file
# Why doesn't perl produce a warning from the following. It is an
# infinite loop. If I add a /g modifier to the m// it works fine.
while () {
while (m/([a-z])/) { # warning infinite loop!!!
of that principle? I scanned the 5.8 perltrap for curly
and this was not listed. Who should I notify to request its inclusion?
Steve
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From: Ronald J Kimball [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 5:06 PM
To: Tolkin, Steve
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED
to the error mechanism.
I am curious if Dan S. has any comments on this w.r.t. Parrot.
Steve
-Original Message-
From: Ronald J Kimball [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 5:33 PM
To: Tolkin, Steve
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] why no warning about
, using
a Unix like approach of hash + salt.
Here is a sanitized version of my message sent
to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
last March.
P.S. We did decide to sign up for the Safari service.
-Original Message-
From: Tolkin, Steve
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 1:34 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED
Title: Message
One
clarification. The suggested workaround was not to
just
start
the regex with a ^ but to start it with ^.*
I have
also changed the body of the message below to reflect this.
-Original Message-From: Tolkin, Steve
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 5:05 PMTo
there for zip4inq produced nothing.
Does anyone know of a similar page, wither by the USPS or
another provider of (web) services?
Hopefully helpfully yours,
Steve
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As a long time emacs user I must agree
with the positions we have all been agreeing with:
* it has a long learning curve
* it has a lot of power
So I have a lot invested in it, and want to ensure
emacs continues to survive, nay thrive.
Unfortunately I think its rate of adoption
is continually
design shows too much influence of Evil Damian.
I want good Damian to work with Larry el al. to reduce the
complexity of the language. Or (shudder) a subset of the language to
be defined.
Please advise me as to how to proceed.
Hopefully helpfully yours,
Steve
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Actually the best poetic form to feature the
word autovivication
would seem to be the Double Dactyl see
http://lonestar.texas.net/~robison/dactyls.html
http://www.kith.org/logos/words/lower/d.html etc.
e.g. the self-describing
Higgledy-Piggledy
Dactyls in dimeter,
Verse form with choriambs
Is this informatioon avaialble online,
e.g. in a Perl module, or an exegesis, etc.?
{I have read all the apocalypses and exegeses on Perl 6.)
I am interested in attending this meeting,
but would prefer to read this information first (or instead).
Hopefully helpfully yours,
Steve
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Et tu, you brute
Hopefully helpfully yours,
Steve
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Summary: I am looking for a program to do name mappping
as specified in Appendix C of the JAXB (Java XML Binding) spec.
This for example will map from foo_bar to fooBar etc.
Although they talk about Java and XML names, this
mapping applies to many other programming languages too.
In particular
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