PUBLIC MARKS from sylvainulg with tag perl

give it a spin, see it helps automating remote playlist maintenance.

h : any horizontal white space character

? where does my regexp mismatch ? die "wrong pattern on $`//$+//$'";

no fseek(END), ftell(), fseek(BEGIN) hack anymore. Just $filesize = -s $filename /me love PERL ;)

The /o option for regular expressions (documented in perlop and perlreref) tells Perl to compile the regular expression only once. This is only useful when the pattern contains a variable. Perls 5.6 and later handle this automatically if the pattern does not change.

Un chouette bouquin pour exploiter au mieux le CPAN, donc, dirait-on.

'pdl' for 'Perl Data Language' is available as is in ubuntu repository: "pdl - perl data language: Perl extensions for numerics"

interesting, but a bit crude on the input (only raw, no history) and ... @x = (paul john george ringo) just prints out "4" :-/ you have to type "@x" to actually get the beatles displayed.

would you like to code graphical things in Perl ? Well, it took me 11 CPAN package to install manually, some of which turns out to have version conflicts, with no clear benefit but to be able to rebuild SDL from source in Build.PL. At the end fo the day, the SDL-2.530 perl module doesn't pass the tests. Time has been wasted, unfortunately

When you wish " wasn't " but ' or whatever else ... print qq|$text|; m{ftp://[^/]*/pub/}

maybe it'll be supported on sourceforge (?)

given that you installed the package liblinux-inotify2-perl, you can quite simply get notifications in PERL. Here's how ^_^ nb: bindings also exists for python and ruby, and inotify-tools package provide watch & wait commands suitable for shell-scripters.

programmable expressions to access items in an XML document ... massively used in meta-workbench project.

e.g. perl -n -e 'some code' file1 Then Perl will interpret that as: LINE: while (<>) { # your code goes here } ... and much more of the like ^_^