Re: [Boston.pm] binary search on a list of sorted strings in memory

2009-07-10 Thread Bernardo Rechea
connectives to combine regular expressions, rather than doing it all within a single pattern./quote That advice is misleading, and ought to be revised. Pasting together a pattern with pipes is a good idea, and widely known and used. However, Bernardo Rechea showed an approach that was totally new

Re: [Boston.pm] binary search on a list of sorted strings in memory

2009-07-09 Thread Bernardo Rechea
On Thursday 09 July 2009 10:17:40 Ronald J Kimball wrote: On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 08:33:34PM -0400, Steve Tolkin wrote: I want to search a sorted array to see if which strings, if any, have the same prefix as my search string. For example, given the search string of tempest I want to find

Re: [Boston.pm] meeting topic?

2009-06-01 Thread Bernardo Rechea
On Monday 01 June 2009 16:29:57 Adam Russell wrote: Bill Ricker Wed, 06 May 2009 06:36:38 -0700 On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: if there is interest, i can lead an exploration (on the fly as i may not have time to do it beforehand) and see

Re: [Boston.pm] Git tutorial

2009-04-13 Thread Bernardo Rechea
lengthy weeding) and what there is is generally fair to good quality. On the other hand, I'm not sure there is a source that could be considered excellent... Bernardo Rechea ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

2009-04-03 Thread Bernardo Rechea
On Friday 03 April 2009 13:38:09 Nick Patch wrote: Other than the camel, goats or mules probably come closest to representing Perl's versatility I think. Or maybe a mina bird, for it's mimicry abilities; everything's a dialect of Perl 6; and general cleverness. A platypus would be hard to

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's Harvard and MIT talks

2009-03-31 Thread Bernardo Rechea
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 18:50:39 flucifr...@acm.org wrote: What's Larry using for his slides? Some XUL-based stuff (I saw a .xul extension somewhere on his display), possibly the Takahashi-method XUL slideshow at: http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/applications/ Or perhaps this other version:

Re: [Boston.pm] slice of life

2008-12-04 Thread Bernardo Rechea
On Tuesday 02 December 2008, Uri Guttman wrote: yes, i like slicing! I sounds like we are big fans of slicing... Now, what kind of slicing would you say Perl's is more like, this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slicer ? or more like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtome ? :-D Bernardo

Re: [Boston.pm] Boston Perl Mongers technical meeting 7/15 @ MIT - (H)Ack-athon

2008-07-15 Thread Bernardo Rechea
Just got back to having an Internet connection, so I'm a bit deluged with all the Ackathon stuff, but count me in, Bill. On Tuesday 15 July 2008, Bill Ricker wrote: Uri and Andy have agreed, so the Ack Hackathon is a go. MIT E51-376, 7/15 @ 7:15pm [ Hmm, didn't plan that but it's cute ]

Re: [Boston.pm] Boston Perl Mongers technical meeting 7/15 @ MIT - (H)Ack-athon

2008-07-15 Thread Bernardo Rechea
Grr, after all, I can't make it to tonight's meeting. Last minute change of plans has derailed mine. Nevertheless, I'm looking forward to peruse the improved code. Bernardo On Tuesday 15 July 2008, Bernardo Rechea wrote: Just got back to having an Internet connection, so I'm a bit deluged

Re: [Boston.pm] Example XSD files

2008-02-14 Thread Bernardo Rechea
Martin, As I mentioned, there are about 20 data validation modules on CPAN, of which a few are generic enough to be comparable to yours (others are specialized on specific data types). Probably the most similar ones are Config::Validate, Data::Validate::Struct, which can validate data

Re: [Boston.pm] merging lists that are ordered but not sorted

2008-01-29 Thread Bernardo Rechea
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 12:11, Tolkin, Steve wrote: 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 condition.

Re: [Boston.pm] Dealing with different EOL's

2008-01-24 Thread Bernardo Rechea
On Wednesday 23 January 2008 19:26, Uri Guttman wrote: define inline break. it can't be a newline or CR as those define lines. you need clearer specs and data examples if you want more help. Expanding on Uri's comment, what do you want to do with the files while dealing with line terminators.

Re: [Boston.pm] Dealing with different EOL's

2008-01-24 Thread Bernardo Rechea
On Thursday 24 January 2008 10:28, Alex Brelsfoard wrote: Here's a more detailed explanation: We are reading in feeds (typically TSV or CSV files), Ah, by feeds I understood RSS/Atom feeds. OK, so TSV/CSV is a different beast. In the general case it is notoriously tricky to parse. I'd

Re: [Boston.pm] topic for meeting - perl 5.10?

2008-01-01 Thread Bernardo Rechea
On Friday 21 December 2007 12:48, Uri Guttman wrote: what about perl 5.10 as a topic for the next meeting? I am rewriting my little CD ripper program (geared toward people who care about audio metadata more than the average guy, especially those with large collections of classical music), and