(). If we made sort() in scalar context
sort @stuff in-place, it would change the behavior of that code.
@stuff would inadvertently get sorted.
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that is entirely beyond me.
It's obviously more efficient!
Since A-Z are the most common characters, if you put one on each side
of the ball it has to at most go through a quarter turn from any
position to print a letter!
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.
sub is_num {
my($cand) = shift;
my $not_num;
local $^W = 1;
local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub {
$not_num = $_[0] =~ /^Argument .*? isn't numeric/;
};
() = $cand + 0;
return !$not_num;
}
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On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 11:57:41PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone know of a resource for researching WWW-Authenticate: NTLM ?
This might prove useful. At least you've got the protocol.
http://www.innovation.ch/java/ntlm.html
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necessary to run perl and the C pre-processor under
VMS eats up about 120 characters, plus the filename which could eat
anywhere from 1 to 100 characters. This doesn't leave much room to
maneuver.
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On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 09:03:21PM -0500, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
On Nov 14, Michael G Schwern said:
1) Strips all comment-only lines from a Perl program (ie. /^\s*#/)
except those which are C pre-processor commands. (It's not
necessary to worry about if you're inside
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 09:03:21PM -0500, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
On Nov 14, Michael G Schwern said:
1) Strips all comment-only lines from a Perl program (ie. /^\s*#/)
except those which are C pre-processor commands. (It's not
necessary to worry about if you're inside
Schuyler's got it down to:
perl -ne '(/^\\s*[^#]|^\\s*#\\s*(include|define|(ifn?|un)def|else|elif|endif)/)print'
and
perl -ne
'$s||=/^#!.*perl/i;$s(/^\\s*[^#]|^\\s*#\\s*(include|define|(ifn?|un)def|else|elif|endif)/)print'
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is covered by:
perl -ne'/^\\s*#(?!\\s*(include|define|if(n?def)?|el(se|if)|undef|endif))/||print'
Is that bitwise or wise?
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AY! The ground beef, she
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the chair. it wants to die. oh no! she sees me! she attacks!
#!./perl -l
# There's a bug in -P where the #! line is ignored. If this test
# suddenly starts
a shit
about -P anymore. I'm sort of doing this as a large-scale exercise in
anal-retentiveness.
Don't think of it as gaining VMS, think of it as losing sed. ;)
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)/||print'
perl -ne
'(1../^#!.*perl/i)|/^\s*#(?!\s*((ifn?|un)def|(el|end)?if|define|include|else)\b)/||print'
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Here's hoping you don't harbor a death wish!
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 01:35:56PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This leaves
#if--
in.
perl -ne '/^\s*#(?!\s*((ifn?|un)def|(el|end)?if|define|include|else)\s)/||print'
takes it out.
Thanks, Ab.
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On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 08:57:12PM +0100, Bart Lateur wrote:
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:14:23 -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
$1$dkb300:[schwern.src.perl-current.][00]perl.exe
The absolute path to the perl executable.
disk:[path.to.the.]program.exe I have no idea what the [00
be getting the native symbols, but they're
all in $Config{cppccsymbols} + $Config{cppsymbols} so you're good to
go.
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Right Wing Enema:
Flush Immorality
isprint(), as for as POSIX is concered, is just anything
between x20 and x7F, the s/[^ -~//ge regex should work fine.
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shitting is a chore
wet glue
, but you gain correctness across locales.
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We're talkin' to you, weaselnuts.
http://www.goats.com/archive/000831.html
. \x7F is a control character (DEL,
\c?).
It should really be:
$U2P{$chr} = isprint($chr) ? $chr : '\\'.sprintf(%03o,$num);
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Death? Its like
;
return $str;
}
The whole thing hinges on having a known set of locale independent
printable characters to avoid having to run each and every one through
isprint() every time.
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.
Of course, I'm a lazy git and haven't moved my stuff there yet.
Besides, Acme::Sex gives me bad imagery of exploding condoms.
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Don't ask me lady, I
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And God created Cat to be a companion to Adam. And Cat would not obey
Adam. And when Adam gazed into Cat's eyes, he was reminded that he
0m0.030s
sys 0m0.000s
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OH GOD!! It's LINUX! All you Linux fanboys go wild! It never crashes!
It'll wash your underpants! It'll eat your
Perl code vs readable Ruby Python code.
They get named argument parameters cheaply, Perl doesn't. It hurts,
but ya gotta accept it.
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Beer still
));
}
139423224561697698330489613862193018947914545343780323868775030943672596190605867771863846635039486902272
real0m0.051s
user0m0.000s
sys 0m0.020s
Of course, that mess probably proves my point pretty well.
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.
hal2 92 [9:50] ~/Tests /usr/bin/time ./fib-fast 500
139423224561697873388268830107091057642465893024716039229340111610069135233925734164006795046787674537984
Algorithms count!
So does correctness, yours gives the wrong answer.
No wonder it's the Enterprise edition. ;)
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other TV sitcom)
There is nothing else worth watching on TV according to London.pm.
And what does it mean: Buffy riding a Pony?
Remember how they say Catherine the Great died...
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packages installed? You decide.
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Commence simultaneous panic on my mark.
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 06:40:47PM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
shuffle \@emails;
for (1..@emails) {
$santa{$emails[0]} = $emails[1];
push @emails, unshift @emails;
^^^
Make that shift
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Monkey tennis
own
buffering but maybe it could. does Tie::Filehandle have a TELL/SEEK method?)
Tied handles have TELL and SEEK, yep.
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Plus I remember being
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 11:34:24AM -0800, Chris Thorpe wrote:
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Yanick wrote:
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 01:34:02PM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Yesterday, I saw an interesting related exercise. Write a program that
reads the lines from a file and outputs
(g(n)) if and only if there are N 0 and c 0, such
that for all n N, |f(n)| |c * g(n)|.
Crash Course usually means you try to avoid those sort of precise
yet incomprehensible definitions.
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, so repetition as in
the next, is not good:
defined $flag !$flag
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But I wore the juice!
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:01:05AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- mid.pl -
#!/usr/bin/perl -p0
$_=$1while/.^(.+)^/ms
Someone want to explain why this works?
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On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:36:50AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Piers Cawley - 21
#!/usr/bin/perl -lp
$#='%010g'}{$_=$.
Shouldn't that be 20?
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On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 05:39:17PM -0500, Bill Jones wrote:
Hey! :)
Anyone know anything about the Cocoa Perl debate/project/anything?
http://dev.perl.org/macosx/
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On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 10:10:48AM -0800, David Wheeler wrote:
On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 23:28, Michael G Schwern wrote:
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 10:58:06PM -0800, David Wheeler wrote:
Given this script, what would you expect the output to be?
Depends on whether you're running bleadperl
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 04:47:35PM -0800, David Wheeler wrote:
On Sat, 2001-12-15 at 10:22, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Ah, interesting. I could see an argument where this would *not* be
considered a bug
?
http://archive.develooper.com/perl5-porters%40perl.org/msg60352.html
? mailman?
Look at the full mail headers on this and all perl.org list messages.
List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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inout 7
#!/usr/bin/perl # run this file with perl -x
seek(DATA,0,0);for(DATA){/^#!/last;/(\w+):/print(--== $1 ==--\n)
next;/(\w+)[ ]+ (\w+)(?:[ ]+(\d+))?/($sl = length $3 ? _vector($3 .
downto 0);:';')printf(%-8s: %s std_logic%s\n,$1,$2,$sl)next}
__DATA__
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to enter/leave that block on each element which isn't
cheap and its not smart enough to optimize it out.
print Found $c things\n;
print Mac OS X =~ tr/osxOSX//;
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will be reminded which side of the road
you drive on.
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Don't step on my funk
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 12:52:58PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
my $z = sprintf(%.2d/%.2d/%d, $d, $m, $y);
print $z\n;
printf.
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Don't step
\d/)(\d)(?=/)%0$1%;
Folks, I'm clawing my eyes out here. Stop hitting the regex crack pipe!
$date = sprintf %02d/%02d/%d, split '/', $date;
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On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 11:01:35AM +0800, Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Folks, I'm clawing my eyes out here. Stop hitting the regex crack pipe!
the poster asked for a regex solution.
$date =~ s{(.*)}{sprintf '%02d/%02d/%d', split '/', $1
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 08:10:00PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
In article 20020201025307.GC9474@blackrider,
Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
$date = sprintf %02d/%02d/%d, split '/', $date;
Perhaps slightly more efficient:
$date = sprintf %02d/%02d/%s, split
.
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kiloconway: unit of extreme mind expansion. Equal to 1024 conways,
one kiloconway gives the sensation that all of the quantuum particles
go over better.
Utilice el sprintf para formatar números
Employez le sprintf pour formater des nombres
Benutzen Sie sprintf, um Zahlen zu formatieren
Usare lo sprintf per formattare i numeri
Use o sprintf formatar números
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;
1 until christmasday($year++) eq 'Sunday';
print Christmas will fall on a Sunday in $year\n;
The man page has the algorithm.
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I SEE A RED
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 09:01:05PM +0100, F. Xavier Noria wrote:
Is there a way to list the symbols in the CORE package?
Not that I know of. CORE isn't a real package, which is why you can't
do things like:
goto CORE::open;
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of sort in void context at -e line 1.
sort doesn't bother to run if its results aren't being used. If, for
some odd reason, you do want it to work: () = sort ... will trick it
currently.
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PS With a truly lazy sort you'd be able to do...
($first) = sort { $a wibble $b } @big_list; # in O(n) time.
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Some like elmers glue
thought it would be nice to be able to do OLAP (multi-dimensional and
hierarchical reporting) in Perl.
Do you know of any development in this direction?
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as long as it compresses decently and decompresses without a lot
of effort.
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There is nothing wrong. We have taken control of this sig file. We
that.
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If you'll mount me, I'll let you bomb Canada until they swoon.
$vFlag !$End ) {
DISPATCH: foreach my $flag (keys %dispatch) {
if( substr($vFlag, 0, length $flag) eq $flag ) {
$dispatch{$flag}-();
last DISPATCH;
}
}
}
something like that.
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On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 02:34:20PM -0400, Bill -Sx- Jones wrote:
On 4/17/02 2:22 PM, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The above implies the format is something like:
SNEEXADMINEND
in which case, suicide is an honorable option.
:)
Actually, the input data looks
.
or simply:
croak $$: Bogus sub call: $blah if $blah =~ /\w+::\w+/;
$blah = '_your_private_method_im_not_supposed_to_call';
The jump table is safest and least clever. [1]
[1] That's the Chinese clever, like interesting.
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it'll blow off.
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There's a Balrog in the woodpile.
%20system%28%27rm%20%2Drf%20%2F%27%29
If sub_foo() exists, you now have a lot of free hard drive space.
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O you fat bastard
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 06:21:52AM +0200, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 07:59:22PM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Just because the safety is on doesn't mean you should juggle handguns.
Never know whose foot it'll blow off.
Awww. You're no fun.
*bang*
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On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 06:11:37PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
NT OS how much perl had requested but this number doesn't go down when you
execute %unique=().
Perl doesn't free the memory used by %unique on the assumption it would just
have to reallocate it when you use %unique again,
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 10:53:44PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Thanks for your reply. I was wondering, if you can't get any details about
the overall volume of data perl has in memory, can you find out information
about an individual variable's usage?
Not really. Individual variables
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 02:05:02AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
timethese(-5, {
'control' = sub {my $k=next_key()},
'plusplus' = sub {my $k=next_key(); $x{$k}++ },
'assign1' = sub {my $k=next_key(); unless ($y{$k}) {$y{$k}=1}}
});
plusplus and assign1 don't do the
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 11:48:33AM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
Perhaps... (I feel like disagreeing, though.)
Anyway:
my($foo, $bar); $foo = $bar . 42;
*should* warn.
It does in 5.8.0.
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On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 08:34:03PM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
What's so special about concatenation, anyway?
Welp, here's the change that fixed the 5.6 concat/warning bugs:
http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse?patch=10223action=patch
and here's the thread on p5p about it.
.
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Let me check my notes.
http://www.sluggy.com
statement object $sth can affect MySql performance ?
Are there altenative ways to optimize this routine ?
Are 3 records to much for this kind of query ?
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)90) {
($str = substr($str,0,90)) =~ s/,[^,]*$/, etc./;
}
$str = substr(join(', ', @names), 0, 90);
$str =~ s/,[^,]*$/, etc.../ if length $str = 90;
which is basicaly what you've got, just restructured a bit.
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and that, children, is how to clean and load a .38 revolver. Questions?
];
return($revision, $headers, $log);
}
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You're smoother than a tunnel of shining sorrow.
an enormous CVS history or there's some infinite loop in his program which
is growing some data structure. WWOD?
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Playstation? Of course Perl runs
with 310 MB RAM, 620 MB
VRAM and a 40gig EIDE drive, so roughly what you have. Extrapolated out
that would take about 100 megs to store the whole parsed log using your
rlog. You should be ok on your machine as long as you have some virtual
memory to pick up the slack.
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any subroutine.
So that covers altering code inside subroutines at run time.
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The key, my friend, is hash browns.
http://www.goats.com
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 01:10:59PM -0700, Tim Dolezal wrote:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my $line;
open(BAR, no-existing-file.$$) || die;
eval {
$line = BAR or die;
};
print STDERR $@\n;
close(BAR);
unlink(no-existing-file.$$);
On my machine (perl 5.8.0, Red Hat 9.0 on x86), this results in
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:43:18PM -0500, Harley D. Eades III wrote:
I have been following this mailing list for some time. I notice
there are a lot of people here that are vary knowledgable in perl so I
have a little question to ask.
when running `ld -lperl` I end up with an error
home and
I don't have the access to the console...
I think you have the wrong group. This is Fun With Perl. [EMAIL PROTECTED] M1 b0x is
better asked about somewhere else.
Perhaps you could call a friend and ask them to go to your house and
sit at the console?
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, is it?
if (returns_a_true_value () xor FALSE) {
print It returned true.\n;
}
I myself prefer:
print It returned true\n if !!returns_a_true_value() == TRUE
!! is the convert to boolean operator. :)
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operators we get 153 for Perl 6 and 123 for Perl 5 and things
start to look more sane.
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ROCKS FALL! EVERYONE DIES!
http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05032002.shtml
Excellent, thank you. I've got a little web app nearly finished which will
catalog all this and allow it to be modified and corrected.
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You are wicked and wrong to have broken inside and peeked at the
implementation
John Douglas Porter wrote:
Peter Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The documentation is clear that doesn't
localize $_. Why not?
Just so that if someone wanted to get at the last
value after the loop they could do it without an extra variable?
With all this talk of local $_, I feel
A. Pagaltzis wrote:
* Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-09 19:25]:
i don't like using shift for args if i can help it.
Personally I *always* use `shift` for the invocant, but
assignment from [EMAIL PROTECTED] for all other parameters in all but a few
rare circumstances. So methods in
Uri Guttman wrote:
is there any guarantee of evaluation order in arg lists? will the
bless/splice always be executed before the pop?
I believe it is undefined, so it's not recommended that you do anything order
dependent in the argument list. But it is stable.
As implemented, complex
Yanick Champoux wrote:
Chris Dolan wrote:
On a major tangent, have others noticed the resurgence of the umlaut
in printed English? I keep seeing things like coöperation or
coördinates -- particularly in Technology Review, but in other
publications on occasion too. Is that because it's
Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote:
Hi,
while doing some research for a talk on Perl secret operators, I tried
to find who first coined the term secret operator.
I found a post from Greg Allen on February 2004 on this very list
(http://groups.google.com/group/perl.fwp/msg/e62668a760de1652),
and then
David Nicol wrote:
the fun with perl mailing list doesn't still exist, does it?
Yes, yes it does. It's just pining for the fjords.
--
Clutter and overload are not an attribute of information,
they are failures of design
-- Edward Tufte
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