Useful Constructs (was About staying brushed up on perl)

2014-07-28 Thread Martin G. McCormick
One thing I just started working with is the anonymous subroutine as in $stringmuncher = sub { }; It lets one execute the same code multiple times from other code in the same scope without having to define and then pass values to lots of different variables. As long as one und

Re: About staying brushed up on perl

2014-07-26 Thread Martin G. McCormick
mimosin...@gmail.com writes: > I have self-learned Perl about a couple of years ago and I am also having > a > similar use of Perl, so I often forget how I did things. I must also say > that I am about to be 50 years old next December and I do not have any > technical education as my degree is in

Re: About staying brushed up on perl

2014-07-26 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 07/19/2014 11:33 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: First my usage: Single user machines, home lan and basic networking. My specific perl usage is as often just something I want to do as it is some system oriented scripting. --- --- ---=--- --- --- I've been a per

Re: About staying brushed up on perl

2014-07-23 Thread Mike McClain
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 05:33:06PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > > I mean an organized sort of structured kind of setup where you are > expected to program something to a spec determined by someone > knowledgeable. > Here's a suggestion that might give what you want but you'll have to supply t

Re: About staying brushed up on perl

2014-07-22 Thread Kent Fredric
On 20 July 2014 09:33, Harry Putnam wrote: > > So all and any ideas, suggestions etc would be well received on this end. > > One approach that may help is to double down on CPAN. This may reduce the total number of tricks you have to learn, by finding proxies that do the tricks for you. for inst

Re: About staying brushed up on perl

2014-07-21 Thread Sebastien Feugere
I strongly recommend to use a cheat sheet or pocket reference books as this one http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920018476.do. Personally, I use a french language "Perl Moderne" pocket reference book (http://perlmoderne.fr/) that helps me almost daily. I really love this way to learn because it

Re: About staying brushed up on perl

2014-07-21 Thread Marilyn Sander, Ken Armstrong
I am now 73 years old and retired one year ago. I used Perl extensively from 1998 until I retired. It can be hard to remember all the tricks, even when you use or write Perl often. When I learned or developed a useful technique, I would keep the program or a bit of it around. I have lots of

Re: About staying brushed up on perl

2014-07-21 Thread Shaji Kalidasan
Greetings, I self learned perl four years ago in the year 2010. The primary book from where I learned Perl programming is Learning Perl < http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Perl-Randal-L-Schwartz/dp/1449303587/ref=sr_1_1 > Then, I trained about 200+ students on Perl programming in the last 4 years be

Re: About staying brushed up on perl

2014-07-21 Thread Shawn H Corey
On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 15:01:10 +0200 mimosin...@gmail.com wrote: > I have self-learned Perl about a couple of years ago and I am also > having a similar use of Perl, so I often forget how I did things. I > must also say that I am about to be 50 years old next December and I > do not have any technic

Re: About staying brushed up on perl

2014-07-21 Thread mimosinnet
I have self-learned Perl about a couple of years ago and I am also having a similar use of Perl, so I often forget how I did things. I must also say that I am about to be 50 years old next December and I do not have any technical education as my degree is in psychology. I use http://perlweekly.com/

About staying brushed up on perl

2014-07-19 Thread Harry Putnam
First my usage: Single user machines, home lan and basic networking. My specific perl usage is as often just something I want to do as it is some system oriented scripting. --- --- ---=--- --- --- I've been a perl user for several yrs, but never really stay