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• How can I call Perl from Java?

  

  By Suresh Ram : 16 December 2009 - 01:01 AM

  Inline-Java is the usual library to call java from Perl, and this post propose a org.perl.java module which should allow calling Perl from Java, as asked. However, because of the unpredictability o...

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  • Perl
  • Java

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• Does anyone have or know any good Twitter Trends scraping tools? Preferrably Perl or Python...

  Asked by MikeH : 03 December 2009 - 10:00 AM

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  • twitter
  • perl
  • scraping
  • data
  • analysis

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• Dealing with GD module from CPAN.

  Asked by Andrew Ivanov : 29 November 2009 - 07:51 AM

  

  Answered by Util : Dec 01 2009 06:44 AM
  Since you are using ActivePerl's pre-compiled GD module, you should not need to install libgd separately; it is included in the ActiveState binary PPM of GD. When printing a GD::Image object, yo... full answer >

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• How do I know if my Perl script is running interactively?

  

  By brian_d_foy : 05 November 2009 - 09:23 AM

  taken from perlfaq8 This is a difficult question to answer, and the best answer is only a guess. What do you really want to know? If you merely want to know if one of your filehandles is connected to...

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• How can you convert MIME email files into Outlook on Linux?

  Asked by sanichi : 04 November 2009 - 01:24 PM

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  • Outlook
  • Perl
  • Linux
  • MIME

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• Performance of $& vs $1 in a Perl substitution

  

  By brian_d_foy : 04 November 2009 - 08:02 AM

  Here's a benchmark with Perl 5.010. Note that 5.010 has a new /p flag that supplies a ${^MATCH} variable that acts like $& but for only one instance of the match or substitution oper...

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  • perl
  • substitution
  • benchmark

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• How to remove duplicate lines with regular expressions

  

  By StevenLevithan : 30 October 2009 - 08:35 AM

  There is a variety of software (including the Unix command-line utility uniq and Windows PowerShell cmdlet Get-Unique) that can help you remove duplicate lines in a file or ...

  Tags:

  • duplicates
  • regex
  • regular expression
  • .NET
  • java
  • javascript
  • PCRE
  • perl
  • python
  • ruby
  • php

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• Convert Binary, Octal, and Hexidecimal Numbers in Perl

  

  By gnat : 20 October 2009 - 05:10 PM

  Perl understands numbers specified in binary (base-2), octal (base-8), and hexadecimal (base-16) notation only when they occur as literals in your programs. If they come in as data—such as by readin...

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  • binary
  • octal
  • hexidecimal
  • convert
  • perl

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• How to Multiply Matrices in Perl

  

  By gnat : 20 October 2009 - 04:53 PM

  If you want to multiply a pair of two-dimensional arrays, use the PDL modules, available from CPAN. PDL is the Perl Data Language—modules that give fast access to compact matrix and mathematical fun...

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  • perl
  • multiplication
  • matrices

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• How to Generate Random Numbers in Perl

  

  By gnat : 20 October 2009 - 04:01 PM

  If you want to make random numbers in a given range, inclusive, such as when you randomly pick an array index, simulate rolling a die in a game of chance, or generate a random password, use Perl's...

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  • rand
  • random numbers
  • perl
  • numbers

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