Will pay $20 for 5 minutes help from Perl guru

cranberry13 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re: for moderator by davido (Cardinal) on Nov 20, 2003 at 18:52 UTC
Five-minute-advice here is free. Is there a specific question we can help with? I'll even give it a 10-minute go if it's an interesting question. ;) For the record, The monastery isn't really a place for job want ads. But there are a lot of people here willing to help. I'm intregued. I hope to see a question soon. Dave "If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber." -- Albert Einstein	[reply]
Re: Will pay $20 for 5 minutes help from Perl guru by Anonymous Monk on Nov 20, 2003 at 19:14 UTC
Please go ahead and frame your question, include details about the problem, inputs, expected outputs, and the like. Someone will more than likely have an instructive answer in short order. If you still feel like parting with your $20, consider using the Offering Plate.	[reply]
Re: for moderator by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Nov 20, 2003 at 18:57 UTC
Also, if you're looking to hire a Perl developer, you could check out http://jobs.perl.org and post there. It's a mailing list that a number of us (plus a whole bunch of other people) are on. In addition, there are a ton of freelancing boards, many of which specialize in the 10-minute deal. That said, post your problem. Most of us love solving problems like this, just for the fun of it. ------ We are the carpenters and bricklayers of the Information Age. The idea is a little like C++ templates, except not quite so brain-meltingly complicated. -- TheDamian, Exegesis 6 ... strings and arrays will suffice. As they are easily available as native data types in any sane language, ... - blokhead, speaking on evolutionary algorithms Please remember that I'm crufty and crochety. All opinions are purely mine and all code is untested, unless otherwise specified.	[reply]
Re: Will pay $20 for 5 minutes help from Perl guru by CountZero (Bishop) on Nov 20, 2003 at 20:17 UTC
Perhaps the question is "top secret" (such as finding a regex that can extract the password for the vaults of Fort Knox from a 10 GByte long string of Unicode characters and all we know is that the password is 6 characters long and includes at most 4 lowercase characters and at least one $/ or !) and cranberry13 does not want us to know he really is the head of the US Treasury. ;-) 20$ will of course buy the silence of any man! CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler."* - Conway's Law	[reply]
Re:* Will pay $20 for 5 minutes help from Perl guru by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Nov 20, 2003 at 21:43 UTC
Is that a new $20, or an old $20? You know, $20 implies a lot of grouping parentheses in the expression in question. It may be more than a 5-minute job.	[reply]
Re: Will pay $20 for 5 minutes help from Perl guru by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Nov 20, 2003 at 20:48 UTC
You can hire me for $20. But since I collect coins, I'd like the $20 in coins, all different. Preferably ones that are missing from http://www.abigail.nl/Coins/. Abigail	[reply]
Re: Will pay $20 for 5 minutes help from Perl guru by EvdB (Deacon) on Nov 20, 2003 at 19:12 UTC
Go on, ask us. A great thing to add with regular expression related questions is a whole load of examples. For example if I was to ask about matching something which was 4 lowercase letters followed by two numbers i might add the following to my post: `should match: abcd12 dhof83 should not match: abc12 abcd1 a1cd12 abcd1a a bc12 abcd 2` [download] Often what you want to do is best described by examples. --`tidiness is the memory loss of environmental mnemonics`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Will pay $20 for 5 minutes help from Perl guru by tachyon (Chancellor) on Nov 20, 2003 at 20:29 UTC
I'll see your $20 and call. cheers tachyon	[reply]
Re: Re: Will pay $20 for 5 minutes help from Perl guru by EvdB (Deacon) on Nov 20, 2003 at 21:00 UTC
I'll see your $20 and raise you $1. - Oh sorry, thought it said PokerMonks at the top there for a moment... --`tidiness is the memory loss of environmental mnemonics`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Will pay $20 for 5 minutes help from Perl guru by Art_XIV (Hermit) on Nov 20, 2003 at 21:10 UTC
I'll help you with your regular expressions for five minutes at $4/min, AND tell you if should have been using unpack or a parse module all along for FREE! Hanlon's Razor - "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity"	[reply]
Re: Will pay $20 for 5 minutes help from Perl guru by zentara (Cardinal) on Nov 21, 2003 at 17:06 UTC
Kind of makes me feel like a cheap hooker. :-)	[reply]
Re: Will pay $20 for 5 minutes help from Perl guru by pg (Canon) on Nov 20, 2003 at 19:05 UTC
Don’t you realize this is kind of insulting? The free advices people provide here are payless.	[reply]
Re: Will pay $20 for 5 minutes help from Perl guru by Paulster2 (Priest) on Nov 20, 2003 at 22:07 UTC
This is why I love these pages! Paulster2	[reply]