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

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Best Nodes of The Day

# Node Author Rep
1 Re: What's your view on AI coding assistants? 1nickt 10
2 Re^2: non-ASCII characters in text->Excel chafelix 5
3 Win32::OLE reading word file with tables chafelix 5
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Best Nodes of The Week

# Node Author Rep
1 DuckDuckGo Donates $25,000 to TPRF talexb 18
2 Re: Name a method that exposes a secret duelafn 17
3 Name a method that exposes a secret NERDVANA 17
4 Re^3: What's your view on AI coding assistants? hippo 16
5 Re: What's your view on AI coding assistants? Fletch 16
6 Re: What's your view on AI coding assistants? reisinge 15
7 Re: What's your view on AI coding assistants? (Updated) choroba 13
8 Re: What's your view on AI coding assistants? jdporter 12
9 Re: What's your view on AI coding assistants? talexb 12
10 Re: DuckDuckGo Donates $25,000 to TPRF Anonymous Monk 12
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Best Nodes of The Month

# Node Author Rep
1 Selected parts of the site are now static for Anonymous Monks Co-Rion 34
2 Re^2: Label makes a sub to return empty list -- "secret"? documented? LanX 27
3 Re: Label makes a sub to return empty list -- "secret"? documented? dave_the_m 26
4 Re: file handle var for print command Corion 23
5 Re^4: create-modulino.pl appears in a CPAN module Makefile.PL, and nukes the install retval pryrt 22
6 Re: Selected parts of the site are now static for Anonymous Monks LanX 22
7 Re: google drive ysth 21
8 Re: How to use Perl to assign different fill colors to columns in the same series of an Excel chart? choroba 20
9 Re^5: create-modulino.pl appears in a CPAN module Makefile.PL, and nukes the install retval choroba 19
10 Re: create-modulino.pl appears in a CPAN module Makefile.PL, and nukes the install retval ikegami 19
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Best Nodes of The Year

# Node Author Rep
1 Re: Perl Best Practices -- 20 years later choroba 48
2 Re: Why is using binmode on a file handle 77 times slower than just closing it and re-opening? choroba 45
3 DuckDuckGo Donates $25,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation marto 39
4 Perl Best Practices -- 20 years later pfaut 38
5 Re: Does perl have a builtin limit to the size of shared memory segments I can write to? NERDVANA 37
6 Does anyone use Perl on Windows? stevieb 37
7 RIP Matt S. Trout LanX 36
8 Re: Why does this compile? choroba 36
9 Re: Does anyone use Perl on Windows? Discipulus 36
10 CPANSec is now CNA! Tux 35
11 Re: How do I call a sub using a variable as its name, objectively choroba 35
12 Selected parts of the site are now static for Anonymous Monks Co-Rion 34
13 Re: Using system sort order Arunbear 34
14 Re: Basic question about Iterator code choroba 34
15 23 years, and an old dog learning new tricks talexb 34
16 Re: How to set the UTF8 flag? ysth 33
17 Perl v5.42.0 is now available! choroba 33
18 Re: Speed comparison of foreach vs grep + map Corion 33
19 Why is using binmode on a file handle 77 times slower than just closing it and re-opening? Maelstrom 33
20 Re: How to set the UTF8 flag? NERDVANA 32
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