Best Nodes of the Day, Week, Month, and Year

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Best Nodes of The Day

# Node Author Rep
1 Re: sort replies by datetime chronologically ? Athanasius 11
2 Re: Modern Subroutine Signature Requires Perl Version Corion 8
3 Re: Modern Subroutine Signature Requires Perl Version Haarg 7
4 A reply falls below the community's threshold of quality. You may see it by logging in. hexhex 7
5 sort replies by datetime chronologically ? hexhex 7
As of Apr 21, 2026 at 17:25 UTC, Next refresh in 30 mins ±15 min

Best Nodes of The Week

# Node Author Rep
1 Re: Perlbrew fails to install perl but reports success choroba 17
2 Re^15: Reusing a complex regexp in multiple spots, escaping the regexp dave_the_m 16
3 Re^4: Reusing a complex regexp in multiple spots, escaping the regexp sleet 16
4 Re: ExtUtils::Installed fails to find Catalyst because it doesn't have a .packlist Corion 16
5 Re^21: Reusing a complex regexp in multiple spots, escaping the regexp dave_the_m 15
6 Re^8: Reusing a complex regexp in multiple spots, escaping the regexp tobyink 15
7 Re: ExtUtils::Installed fails to find Catalyst because it doesn't have a .packlist Haarg 15
8 Re: metacpan fastapi can't find the Config module hippo 15
9 Re^6: Reusing a complex regexp in multiple spots, escaping the regexp sleet 15
10 Re^3: ExtUtils::Installed fails to find Catalyst because it doesn't have a .packlist Corion 15
As of Apr 21, 2026 at 15:29 UTC, Next refresh in 1 hour and 30 mins ±15 min

Best Nodes of The Month

# Node Author Rep
1 On improving Perlmonks site availability Co-Rion 34
2 Re: Reusing a complex regexp in multiple spots, escaping the regexp haukex 29
3 Re: Win32::OLE & encoding Corion 23
4 Re: Reusing a complex regexp in multiple spots, escaping the regexp ikegami 21
5 Re: It's been a long time marto 21
6 Re: NFS File Locking hippo 20
7 Re^2: Reusing a complex regexp in multiple spots, escaping the regexp LanX 19
8 Re: NFS File Locking choroba 19
9 Getting list of network interfaces Anonymous Monk 19
10 Re: Win32::OLE & encoding ikegami 19
As of Apr 21, 2026 at 10:08 UTC, Next refresh in 16 hours ±15 min

Best Nodes of The Year

# Node Author Rep
1 Re: Perl Best Practices -- 20 years later choroba 49
2 It's been a year davido 39
3 RIP Matt S. Trout LanX 39
4 Perl Best Practices -- 20 years later pfaut 38
5 Re: Perl hashes and non-determinism hippo 37
6 Selected parts of the site are now static for Anonymous Monks Co-Rion 36
7 Perl v5.42.0 is now available! choroba 36
8 Re: Using system sort order Arunbear 35
9 Re: Basic question about Iterator code choroba 35
10 On improving Perlmonks site availability Co-Rion 34
11 Re: [XS] sv_setpv change in behaviour with perl-5.42.0 and later dave_the_m 34
12 Re: Try::Tiny and -E haukex 34
13 Re: How to set the UTF8 flag? ysth 34
14 Re: how portable is the random number generator? haukex 33
15 Re: How to set the UTF8 flag? NERDVANA 33
16 Re: Is it possible load optional modules from PERL5OPT? jo37 33
17 Re: Speed comparison of foreach vs grep + map Corion 33
18 Re: Perl Best Practices -- 20 years later swl 33
19 Re: unpack Binary FAIL ikegami 32
20 Re: Purpose of the "caret" character in "qr" regex output jwkrahn 32
As of Apr 20, 2026 at 18:01 UTC, Next refresh in 15 mins ±15 min