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Where is the new perlootut?

InfiniteSilence — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:57:28 +0000

shell> perldoc perlootut "...This document was created in February, 2011, and the last major revision was in February, 2013.... I check metacpan...same document. I want ...

Re: Where is the new perlootut?

LanX — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:32:48 +0000

Hmm yes, seems like the preamble of perlootut should better be updated with a reference to perlclass, instead of simply stating that it's very old...

Re: Where is the new perlootut?

choroba — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:03:18 +0000

Not a tutorial by name, but check perlclass. map{substr$_->[0],$_->1||0,1}...

Re: Where is the new perlootut?

ikegami — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:02:09 +0000

perlclass ...

Re^3: Regex question - identify which pattern comes first (named captures)

LanX — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:29:02 +0000

You might want to correct this > (?: Cheers Rolf (addicted to the Perl Programming Lan...

Re^2: Regex question - identify which pattern comes first (named captures)

ikegami — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:53:56 +0000

Adjusted for OP: if ( $str =~ / (?: (? BAABC{2} ) | (? CACD{2} ) | (? DASC{2} ) ) /x ) { my $first = substr( ( keys( %+ ) )[0]...

Re^5: copyfail challenge: making Perl version smaller

Anonymous Monk — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:40:53 +0000

Picking apart an obviously humorous post is actually trolling, or a symptom of an all too common psychological disorder, take your pick. Now back to our regularly scheduled...

Re^4: Installation of 2 module prerequisites failing - using cpanm

LanX — Sun, 03 May 2026 12:07:51 +0000

> I am capable of learning from past mistakes Well, actions speak louder than words. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Maybe convince us by replying to those who are sti...

Re^4: copyfail challenge: making Perl version smaller

LanX — Sun, 03 May 2026 11:59:34 +0000

Trolly... ...

Re^4: Installation of 2 module prerequisites failing - using cpanm

hippo — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:29:24 +0000

I also use Gnu/Linux systems and usually compare problems when they come up to see if I can reproduce the difficulty on Linux. Did you do that for the problem i...

Re^3: copyfail challenge: making Perl version smaller (trillion dollar lolcow)

Anonymous Monk — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:23:30 +0000

Duck.ai offers unpaid service. The quality of those models is obviously not the same. Obviously... The vulnerability in question was actually found with AI assistance. Actu...

Re^3: Installation of 2 module prerequisites failing - using cpanm

Intrepid — Sat, 02 May 2026 16:57:24 +0000

Rolf wrote: Multiple conflicting Perl installations and messed up environment variables are a recurring theme in many posts of this particular monk. Tha...

Re: Regex question - identify which pattern comes first (named captures)

LanX — Sat, 02 May 2026 15:18:08 +0000

requires 5.10 for named capture groups: This code will even give you the sequence. use v5.10; use strict; use warnings; my ...

Reaped: Re^5: Regex question - identify which pattern comes first

NodeReaper — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:43:20 +0000

This node was taken out by the NodeReaper on May 02, 2026 at 16:26 UTCReason: [LanX]: Reap: duplicate caused by lag-frustration-clickingYou may view [href://?op=viewreaped;nod...

Re^5: Regex question - identify which pattern comes first

LanX — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:43:11 +0000

No the feature was already present in 5.8 5.8.0/perlre#(?{ code }) I have another (simpler?) solution in mind which was pr...

Re^4: Regex question - identify which pattern comes first

harangzsolt33 — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:20:27 +0000

No, the second solution did not work. But the first one does work, and I never thought of doing it that way even though I knew you could capture using the parentheses. I didn't know you can use define...

Re^2: copyfail challenge: making Perl version smaller (trillion dollar lolcow)

LanX — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:42:35 +0000

Duck.ai offers unpaid service. The quality of those models is obviously not the same. The vulnerability in question was actually found with AI assistance. ...

Re^3: Regex question - identify which pattern comes first

LanX — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:28:33 +0000

> that is an amazingly simple solution! Did you try it? These (??{ $first = 1; }) won't work because they'll include 1,2 or 3 into the regex. Try (?{ $first ...

Re^2: Regex question - identify which pattern comes first

harangzsolt33 — Sat, 02 May 2026 02:15:03 +0000

Oh wow, that is an amazingly simple solution! Thank you so much!!! :-)...

Re: Regex question - identify which pattern comes first

ikegami — Sat, 02 May 2026 01:53:06 +0000

if ( /(BAABC{2})|(CACD{2})|(DASC{2})/ ) { my $first = ( defined( $1 ) ? 1 : defined( $2 ) ? 2 : 3 ); ... } local our $first;...