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perlfaq-workers@perl.org (Moderated)
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Strawberry Perl Installing CPAN modules
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Hi, ...This is the third mailing list I have seen you post this to. You are getting help on the beginners list - please do not keep posting to other lists as well. Thanks Leo
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Changes to PerlFAQ process
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Dear PerlFAQ Workers, You're probably aware that after many years of looking after the perlfaq brian d foy moved on from running it about a month ago. At the request of several people I've taken it on. A few changes are happening.. - PerlFAQ is now dual-life (it lives as a CPAN module AND in Perl core),... more »
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Fwd: Error in Perlfaq6
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- ...To: brian.d....@gmail.com perlfaq6 - Regular Expressions ($Revision: 1.38 $, $Date: 2005/12/31 00:54:37 $)
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Quick usability enhancement to perldoc.pod
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Hello, I believe the following minor change may help new users / browsers of perlfaq.pod make better use of the perlfaq: mhorsfall@Fireforge:~/my-perl$ git show commit 15e42d2617514e42a0c1e082d6d9b5 175c52b5f5 Author: Matthew Horsfall <wolfs...@gmail.com> ... Add quick note to perlfaq main page about searching the perlfaq... more »
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Correction in perlfaq
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Sir I was going through the perlfaq and I found an error. Check this: [link] <[link]>Post: Where to get the perlfaq The perlfaq documents are in the perl source tree (see perlgit<[link]> ). *The URL of perlgit is invalid. It doesn't exist. Please correct this.*... more »
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perlfaq5: skip comment line
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Hi, this is a suggestion for the perlfaq5. In this FAQ, you suggest to use this command to skip commented lines when reading a file. next if /^\s+#/; # skip comment lines You should replace s+ by s*, since s+ will only take into account lines with at least one space before #.... more »
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Character encoding issue in perlfaq4.html (Data: Hashes section)
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Hey, Whilst reading through the "Data: Hashes" section of the FAQ I noticed what appears to be a UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 to HTML entity char conversion error in brian d foy's entry about multilevel hash checks (the last item in the section, "[link]"). Specifically, the word "naïve" contains an incorrectly-encoded "LATIN... more »
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Grammatical error in FAQ 8.45
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Dear perlfaq workers, It has come to my attention that in FAQ 8.45 (How do I install a module from CPAN?) a line reads: using the "cpan" command the comes with Perl. You can give it a list of To be more grammatically correct I believe this should be: using the "cpan" command that comes with Perl. You can give it a... more »
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FAQ 4.17 How do I find yesterday's date?
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...Since the faq is for the current released version of Perl, where Time::Piece and Time::Seconds are in core (but DateTime and Date::Calc are not), wouldn't a Time::Piece / Time::Seconds answer be better than the ones using non-core modules or the too complicated one using Time::Local, something like:... more »
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