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Re: The Official p5p FAQ by Abigail

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:18:37PM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote:> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 4:46 PM, PerlFAQ Server <joe@example.com> wrote:> > This is a test posting of the official p5p...

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[DOC PATCH] Reference 5.12 release in perlfaq by Paul Johnson

-- Paul Johnson - paul@pjcj.nethttp://www.pjcj.net

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Re: [DOC PATCH] Reference 5.12 release in perlfaq by brian d foy

[[ This message was both posted and mailed: see the "To," "Cc," and "Newsgroups" headers for details. ]]Can you put the patch in the message body (or fork the github repo andsend me a pull...

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About "How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web?" by Peter...

perlfaq9 has the above question, and the answer begins:> If you are writing a CGI script, you should be using the CGI.pm module> that comes with perl, or some other equivalent module.And yes, CGI...

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Re: About "How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web?" by brian...

[[ This message was both posted and mailed: see the "To," "Cc," and "Newsgroups" headers for details. ]]In article<f6bd282d-ddd2-4709-9c15-145a85ff5cdb@j4g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,Peter Valdemar...

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Re: About "How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web?" by Peter...

On Jun 27, 4:27 am, brian.d....@gmail.com (brian d foy) wrote:> Patches welcome :)CC: Lincoln D. Stein, author of CGI.pmYeah, as soon as I hit "Send" I realized that was a very probablerepsonse :-)...

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Re: About "How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web?" by Peter...

On Jun 27, 4:27 am, brian.d....@gmail.com (brian d foy) wrote:> > I suggest one of:> > * Document escape and unescape in perldoc CGI (please, please,> > please!)> > * Elaborate...

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Re: About "How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web?" by brian...

[[ This message was both posted and mailed: see the "To," "Cc," and "Newsgroups" headers for details. ]]In article<0bf7e3ae-a65d-4718-a2e8-b5e27429a84b@s9g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,Peter Valdemar...

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Re: About "How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web?" by Peter...

Although I'm affraid you might be right, I'm trying to do the best Iknow how:From perldoc CGI (e.g. http://perldoc.perl.org/CGI.html):> Address bug reports and comments to: lstein@cshl.org.:-(Peter

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Re: About "How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web?" by brian...

In article<dbee2d8d-1bc1-427c-8dbc-d1ead9ca624e@c33g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,Peter Valdemar Mørch <pmorch@gmail.com> wrote:> Although I'm affraid you might be right, I'm trying to do...

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Re: About "How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web?" by Peter...

> You can always CC authors, but always get it into something that other> people can see. That's why we have RT. Out of date docs can't be> trusted to tell you what to do. :)Ok, so I...

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The canonical source for perlfaq is now the perl reop by brian d foy

[[ This message was both posted and mailed: see the "To," "Cc," and "Newsgroups" headers for details. ]]Now that the perl sources are in git (meaning committers can easilyhave their own branches), it's...

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Re: The canonical source for perlfaq is now the perl reop by Craig A. Berry

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:32 PM, brian d foy <brian.d.foy@gmail.com> wrote:> [[ This message was both posted and mailed: see>   the "To," "Cc," and "Newsgroups" headers for details....

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Re: The canonical source for perlfaq is now the perl reop by brian d foy

In article<AANLkTinkUqcz0-Hw4DH74FHy6cEUiNnznBQR07YacyyU@mail.gmail.com>, CraigA. Berry <craig.a.berry@gmail.com> wrote:> In that case should the following entry in perl5122delta.pod...

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Re: The canonical source for perlfaq is now the perl reop by Craig A. Berry

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:02 PM, brian d foy <brian.d.foy@gmail.com> wrote:> In article> <AANLkTinkUqcz0-Hw4DH74FHy6cEUiNnznBQR07YacyyU@mail.gmail.com>, Craig> A. Berry...

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Re: The canonical source for perlfaq is now the perl reop by Craig A. Berry

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Craig A. Berry <craig.a.berry@gmail.com> wrote:> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:02 PM, brian d foy <brian.d.foy@gmail.com> wrote:>> In article>>...

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FAQ 4.72 How do I determine whether a scalar is a number/whole/integer/float?...

Suggested change to simplify some regular expressions:*** FAQ_4.72_before Mon Oct 11 18:07:09 2010--- FAQ_4.72_after Mon Oct 11 18:09:57 2010****************** 9,13 **** if (/^[+-]?\d+$/) { print "is...

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Re: FAQ 4.72 How do I determine whether a scalar is a...

[[ This message was both posted and mailed: see the "To," "Cc," and "Newsgroups" headers for details. ]]In article <4CB3903D.80509@uwaterloo.ca>, David Canzi<dmcanzi@uwaterloo.ca>...

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Contribution for Perlfaq3 by David Ljung Madison

First of all, thank you for all the work for creating the perlfaq, it'sa great resource.However, in perlfaq3 there is this question:"How can I hide the source for my Perl program?"The answer is very...

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Re: Contribution for Perlfaq3 by brian d foy

In article <E1PApyu-0005R1-BB@davesource.com>, David Ljung Madison<dave@davesource.com> wrote:> First of all, thank you for all the work for creating the perlfaq, it's> a great...

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Re: FAQ 4.17 How do I find yesterday's date? by James Wright

On 02/07/11 03:00, PerlFAQ Server wrote:> This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq4.pod, which> comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to> reduce the number of...

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Re: FAQ 4.14 How can I compare two dates and find the difference? by James...

On 02/06/11 03:00, PerlFAQ Server wrote:> This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq4.pod, which> comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to> reduce the number of...

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Re: FAQ 4.14 How can I compare two dates and find the difference? by brian d foy

[[ This message was both posted and mailed: see the "To," "Cc," and "Newsgroups" headers for details. ]]In article <4D503604.90001@cox.net>, James Wright<monkey_vegas@cox.net> wrote:>...

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Re: FAQ 4.17 How do I find yesterday's date? by brian d foy

[[ This message was both posted and mailed: see the "To," "Cc," and "Newsgroups" headers for details. ]]In article <4D502FE7.9040106@cox.net>, James Wright<monkey_vegas@cox.net> wrote:>...

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Grammatical error in FAQ 8.45 by Justin Catterall

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 ofTo be more...

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Re: Grammatical error in FAQ 8.45 by brian d foy

[[ This message was both posted and mailed: see the "To," "Cc," and "Newsgroups" headers for details. ]]In article <849BA556-4DBF-44C9-9FCB-03FDDB825C84@masonsmusic.co.uk>,Justin Catterall...

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Character encoding issue in perlfaq4.html (Data: Hashes section) by Nick Morrott

Hey,Whilst reading through the "Data: Hashes" section of the FAQ I noticedwhat appears to be a UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 to HTML entity charconversion error in brian d foy's entry about multilevel hash...

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perlfaq5: skip comment line by Jerome Reybert

Hi,this is a suggestion for the perlfaq5. In this FAQ, you suggest to usethis command to skip commented lines when reading a file. next if /^\s+#/; # skip comment linesYou should replace s+ by s*,...

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Correction in perlfaq by Chankey Pathak

Sir I was going through the perlfaq and I found an error.Check this: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq.html#NAME<http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq.html#NAME>Post: Where to get the perlfaqThe perlfaq...

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Quick usability enhancement to perldoc.pod by Matthew Horsfall

Hello,I believe the following minor change may help new users / browsers ofperlfaq.pod make better use of the perlfaq:mhorsfall@Fireforge:~/my-perl$ git showcommit...

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Re: Quick usability enhancement to perlfaq.pod by Matthew Horsfall

My mistake,I meant perlfaq.pod in the subject.-- Matthew Horsfall (alh)On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Matthew Horsfall <wolfsage@gmail.com>wrote:> Hello,>> I believe the following...

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Fwd: Error in Perlfaq6 by Meir Michanie

---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Meir Michanie <meirgotroot@gmail.com>Date: Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:53 AMSubject: Re: Error in Perlfaq6To: brian.d.foy@gmail.com perlfaq6 - Regular...

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Changes to PerlFAQ process by Leo Lapworth

Dear PerlFAQ Workers,You're probably aware that after many years of looking after the perlfaqbrian d foy moved on from running it about a month ago.At the request of several people I've taken it on.A...

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Fwd: Strawberry Perl Installing CPAN modules by Perl developer

I need help regarding install of CPAN modules in strawberry perl.I have a question about Perl connectivity to Teradata.I have been using Active Perl 5.12 on Windows xp since one year. I...

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Re: Strawberry Perl Installing CPAN modules by Leo Lapworth

Hi,On 21 September 2011 16:04, Perl developer <perldevelopment@gmail.com>wrote:> I need help regarding install of CPAN modules in strawberry perl.>> I have a question about Perl...

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Update in perlop by Balasundaram, Prateek

Hello all,In the section: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Auto-increment-and-Auto-decrementI believe this line is incorrect:"undef is always treated as numeric, and in particular is changed to 0...

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Re: Update in perlop by Shlomi Fish

Hi Prateek,On Wed, 4 Sep 2013 12:19:17 +0000"Balasundaram, Prateek" <Prateek.Balasundaram@sig.com> wrote:> Hello all,> > In the section:>...

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Proposal: switch perlfaq $VERSION to be date-based by Karen Etheridge

Presently, the perlfaq distribution's version looks like a perl-coreversion - e.g. the latest release was perlfaq-5.021011, even though it wasdone just before perl 5.24 went stable. I think it would be...

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Re: Proposal: switch perlfaq $VERSION to be date-based by Shlomi Fish

Hi Karen!On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 13:35:11 -0800Karen Etheridge <perl@froods.org> wrote:> Presently, the perlfaq distribution's version looks like a perl-core> version - e.g. the latest release...

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Re: Proposal: switch perlfaq $VERSION to be date-based by Leo Lapworth

Sure - go for it :)On 28 December 2017 at 21:35, Karen Etheridge <perl@froods.org> wrote:> Presently, the perlfaq distribution's version looks like a perl-core> version - e.g. the latest...

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