> > I wonder if perlbook is still relevant in its current form. Moving the
> > book list to it seems to be a good idea. Anyway it does now
> > point as well to books.perl.org (#23893).
>
> Maybe we can work out something that automatically creates perlbook
> from books.perl.org.
/me brings Dave R
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Spier
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > +Versions prior to perl5.004 had serious problems with
> > +buffer overflows, and in some cases have CERT advisories.
> If someone is asking the question "what version of perl" - they may
> not know what a buffer overflo
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Rafael Garcia-Suarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wonder if perlbook is still relevant in its current form. Moving the
> book list to it seems to be a good idea. Anyway it does now
> point as well to books.perl.org (#23893).
Maybe we can work out something that a
* I pared down the answer. I'm not a big calendar calculating
type of person, but I found the last paragraph confusing. I'm
guessing that it's correct, but I don't think it really helps
someone who doesn't know about calenders or Julian days already.
I distilled David's suggestions into a couple
* I started modifiying this answer because it's not Knuth's
algorithm. I thought this was odd, but Knuth credits Odell
and Russell in "Sorting and Searching".
* I've run into several answers that seem to say "You don't really
want to do that" without any idea why someone is asking the question,
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, _brian_d_foy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* Dave Cross sent me a much better patch, so this is the revised
patch. (I think he sent it here too, but it hasn't shown up)
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 10:13:41AM -0600, _brian_d_foy wrote:
>
> +You can use the Time::JulianDay module available on CPAN. Ensure that
> +you really want to find a Julian day, though, as many people have
> +different ideas about Julian days. See
> +http://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud/jdn.htm for i
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, _brian_d_foy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> =head2 How do I find the soundex value of a string?
Kake Pugh suggested Text::Metaphone and Text::DoubleMetaphone, so
I'll add those to the final answer too.
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