?? "Shawn H. Corey" ?
Dave Tang wrote:
I wanted to ask why is Perl, in comparison to other programming
languages, so powerful in text processing?
Undoubtedly, when it was written, Perl was the most powerful text
processing language available. This is no longer the case (thanks
largely t
On Thursday 03 September 2009 06:44:40 Uri Guttman wrote:
> > "SHC" == Shawn H Corey writes:
>
> SHC> Dave Tang wrote:
> >> I wanted to ask why is Perl, in comparison to other programming
> >> languages, so powerful in text processing?
>
> SHC> Undoubtedly, when it was written, Perl
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 23:20, Shawn H. Corey wrote:
> Dave Tang wrote:
>>
>> I wanted to ask why is Perl, in comparison to other programming languages,
>> so powerful in text processing?
>
> Undoubtedly, when it was written, Perl was the most powerful text processing
> language available. This is
> "NGW" == Noah Garrett Wallach writes:
NGW> what is the cleanest way to search a multi-line single scalar variable
NGW> full of configuration information. I want match on specific criteria
NGW> and then save a portion of the matched information in a hash or hashes
NGW> variable.
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 21:39, Dave Tang wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I constantly read about Perl's powerful regular expression matching and
> string manipulation operators, and how it is superior to other programming
> languages in this aspect.
snip
* Regexes are first class citizens in Perl, in o
Hi there,
what is the cleanest way to search a multi-line single scalar variable
full of configuration information. I want match on specific criteria
and then save a portion of the matched information in a hash or hashes
variable.
What is the best approach to doing this?
Cheers,
Noah
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> "NGW" == Noah Garrett Wallach writes:
NGW> Jim Gibson wrote:
>> At 7:22 PM -0700 9/2/09, Noah Garrett Wallach wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> what is the way to collapse this search/replace to one line?
>>>
>>> my $filename_cmd = $cmd[-1];
>>> my $filename_cmd =~ s/\s/\./;
Jim Gibson wrote:
At 7:22 PM -0700 9/2/09, Noah Garrett Wallach wrote:
Hi there,
what is the way to collapse this search/replace to one line?
my $filename_cmd = $cmd[-1];
my $filename_cmd =~ s/\s/\./;
(my $filename_cmd = $cmd[-1]) =~ s/\s/\./;
thanks,
okay a step further -
> "SHC" == Shawn H Corey writes:
SHC> Dave Tang wrote:
>> I wanted to ask why is Perl, in comparison to other programming
>> languages, so powerful in text processing?
SHC> Undoubtedly, when it was written, Perl was the most powerful text
SHC> processing language available. This i
On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:18:44 +1000, Uri Guttman
wrote:
"TB" == Tim Bowden writes:
TB> On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 11:39 +1000, Dave Tang wrote:
>> I wanted to ask why is Perl, in comparison to other programming
>> languages, so powerful in text processing? I read
>> http://en.wikipedia.
Dave Tang wrote:
I wanted to ask why is Perl, in comparison to other programming
languages, so powerful in text processing?
Undoubtedly, when it was written, Perl was the most powerful text
processing language available. This is no longer the case (thanks
largely to Perl :). Today's scripti
> "TB" == Tim Bowden writes:
TB> On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 11:39 +1000, Dave Tang wrote:
>> I wanted to ask why is Perl, in comparison to other programming
>> languages, so powerful in text processing? I read
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl#Features, and that doesn't really
>> exp
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 11:39 +1000, Dave Tang wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I constantly read about Perl's powerful regular expression matching and
> string manipulation operators, and how it is superior to other programming
> languages in this aspect.
>
> Furthermore, I read this in the wikipedi
At 7:22 PM -0700 9/2/09, Noah Garrett Wallach wrote:
Hi there,
what is the way to collapse this search/replace to one line?
my $filename_cmd = $cmd[-1];
my $filename_cmd =~ s/\s/\./;
(my $filename_cmd = $cmd[-1]) =~ s/\s/\./;
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Hi there,
what is the way to collapse this search/replace to one line?
my $filename_cmd = $cmd[-1];
my $filename_cmd =~ s/\s/\./;
Cheers,
Noah
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Hi everybody,
I constantly read about Perl's powerful regular expression matching and
string manipulation operators, and how it is superior to other programming
languages in this aspect.
Furthermore, I read this in the wikipedia entry of Perl:
"The language provides powerful text processin
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:49, Telemachus wrote:
> On Tue Sep 01 2009 @ 10:44, Steve Bertrand wrote:
>> A good place to reference regex is [1].
>>
>> [1]: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlretut.html
>
> I will throw in my two cents and mention that if you are starting regular
> expressions, you may find
On Tue Sep 01 2009 @ 10:44, Steve Bertrand wrote:
> A good place to reference regex is [1].
>
> [1]: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlretut.html
I will throw in my two cents and mention that if you are starting regular
expressions, you may find perldoc perlrequick a little more gentle, as an
introduct
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