Re: Regular Expression Quick Reference

2003-07-27 Thread Sean M. Burke
+ lcfirst Lowercase first char of a string + uc Uppercase a string + ucfirst Uppercase first char of a string pos Return or set current match position quotemeta Quote meta characters reset Reset ?pattern? status -- Sean M. Burkehttp

Re: [RFC] POD2::* perldoc translations namespace

2003-07-20 Thread Sean M. Burke
At 11:25 PM 2003-07-20 +0200, Enrico Sorcinelli wrote: Which namespace? We have chosen POD2::country code namespace and specifically POD2::IT for the italian translations. NOT country code! Language code! [torrent of swearing here] -- Sean M. Burkehttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/

perlvar entry for $@

2002-07-08 Thread Sean M. Burke
My first attempt at a doc patch follows. This corrects an overly narrow description of $@. C:\WINDOWS\Desktopdiff -u perlvar.pod_orig perlvar.pod --- perlvar.pod_origMon Jul 8 02:50:32 2002 +++ perlvar.pod Mon Jul 8 03:09:26 2002 -612,10 +612,18 =item $ -The Perl syntax error

Fisher-Yates shuffle

2002-04-03 Thread Sean M. Burke
) 1411.43/s (n=10) way2: 53 wallclock secs (52.29 usr + 0.00 sys = 52.29 CPU) 1912.41/s (n=10) And neither implementation seems to do anything crazy, like going into an infinite loop when given a one-element list, nor always returning ('b', 'a') when given ('a', 'b'). -- Sean M

RE: perlfaq5: How can I read in an entire file all at once?

2002-03-20 Thread Sean M. Burke
At 16:12 2002-03-20 -0700, Hugh S. Myers wrote: I'm not sure that type doesn't crap out a some point short of the entire file... My question/point exactly. Well, that (i.e., stopping on ^Z's) and whether it corrupts/eats newlines or something. -- Sean M. Burke[EMAIL PROTECTED]http

RE: perlfaq5: How can I read in an entire file all at once? (`type filename` is bad!)

2002-03-20 Thread Sean M. Burke
At 18:53 2002-03-20 -0700, Hugh S. Myers wrote: That is bad enough to rate a mention in the FAQ perhaps? I say just strike the whole cat/type thing, for this reason as well as the others mentioned. -- Sean M. Burke[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.spinn.net/~sburke/

Re: Copyrights on perlfaq* (and copyright and rights)

2001-10-02 Thread Sean M. Burke
printing the book, even tho a bit of it is something that I didn't own copyright on, but wrote, and was granted unlimited republication rights to. Then you're happy, I'm happy, and the killer clone-cyborg army is happy. -- Sean M. Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.spinn.net/~sburke/