@SVPerl

People interested in the Perl & Raku (formerly Perl6) programming languages in Silicon Valley, a local chapter of the international Perl Mongers

 Silicon Valley, California
svperl.org/
Joined August 2010
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The Perl Shop@ThePerlShop20 Jan 2024
The Perl Foundation: 2024 Letter from the President dlvr.it/T1f30B
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Regular Expression@RegexTip23 Jan 2024
? means a character or expression is optional, i.e. zero or one occurrences. Example: /ab?c/ matches 'ac' and 'abc' but not 'abbc'.
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Perl 5.38.0 released: class Feature, deprecation warnings subcategories, PERL_RAND_SEED, control flow out of defer or finally now detected, etc metacpan.org/release/RJBS/pe… #Perl #OpenSource #software #engineering #tech

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what is new for perl v5.38.0

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Perl 5.38.1 security release (5.38.1a was an error) fixes "CVE-2023-47038 - Write past buffer end via illegal user-defined Unicode property" & "CVE-2023-47039 - Perl for Windows binary hijacking vulnerability" metacpan.org/release/PEVANS/… #Perl #OpenSource #software #engineering #tech

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what is new for perl v5.38.1

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"Intro to Regular Expression" at Silicon Valley Perl tonight 6:30pm Pacific Time - RegEx's are a strength of Perl and a core skill for scripting and text processing in any programming language meetup.com/svperl/events/293… #Perl #OpenSource #software #engineering #tech

Intro to Regular Expression, Thu, Jun 1, 2023, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Lambert Lum will teach Intro to Regular Expression, a condensed version of his lecture when he taught at University Extension. Lecture will be conducted in Perl. However, P

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Perl 5.36.1 released - bug fixes and updated core module list metacpan.org/release/SHAY/pe… #Perl #OpenSource #software #engineering #tech

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what is new for perl v5.36.1

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Unix tool tip@UnixToolTip11 Apr 2023
Useful Perl one-liners catonmat.net/download/perl1l… by @pkrumins
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SVPerl online planning meeting tonight Thu Apr 6 6:30pm - Lambert is stepping down from running (+ paying for) the Meetup acct. Anyone want to help pick up part/all of it? New online and/or in-person meeting venue also a good idea. meetup.com/svperl/events/292… #Perl #OpenSource #tech
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2 years ago the monthly @SVPerl (Silicon Valley Perl) meeting fell on April 1. To embrace it without risking a serious presentation that day, I presented a history of #AprilFools Hijinks in the Perl community. slideshare.net/ikluft/aprilf… #Perl #OpenSource #software #engineering #tech
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Perl 5.37.10 development release - some gotos permitted in defer and finally blocks, ${^LAST_SUCCESSFUL_PATTERN}, deprecation warning subcategories, %{^HOOK} API metacpan.org/release/YVES/pe… #Perl #OpenSource #software #engineering #tech
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Lots of helpful changes in the latest releases of Perl::Critic. metacpan.org/dist/Perl-Criti…
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Ricardo SIGNES@rjbs9 Dec 2022
Maybe the end of an era as the use of ' (single tick) as a package separator may be on the way out in Perl. github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/2…

rfc 0015, part 1 - warn on use of ' as :: in identifiers by tonycoz · Pull Request #20593 ·...

This implements the first part of RFC 0015, which states we should warn on the use of ' instead of :: in identifiers.

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2nd of 2 modules in tonight's @SVPerl presentation: Sys::OsPackage installs Perl modules from OS binary packages if available, otherwise from CPAN metacpan.org/pod/Sys::OsPack… #OpenSource #software #tech
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1st of 2 modules in tonight's @SVPerl presentation: Sys::OsRelease processes system description from /etc/os-release metacpan.org/pod/Sys::OsRele… #OpenSource #software #tech
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Slides from my presentation are now posted. github.com/ikluft/Sys-OsPack…
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On Thu Nov 3 at 6:30pm I will present for @SVPerl about my modules Sys::OsRelease (get system info from standard /etc/os-release) & Sys::OsPackage (install modules from OS package repo, or fall back to CPAN) meetup.com/svperl/events/286… #Perl #OpenSource #software #engineering #tech
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Perl Weekly@PerlWeekly31 Oct 2022
On the Perl and Raku Foundation via @ThePracticalDev #perl dev.to/lizmat/on-the-perl-an…

On the Perl and Raku Foundation

The announcement of a change of name of "The Perl Foundation" to the "The Perl and Raku Foundation"...

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Regular Expression@RegexTip14 Jul 2022
In Perl, the expression s/^\s+|\s+$//g will trim all leading and trailing space characters, but leave other spaces alone.
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Perl Weekly@PerlWeekly9 Jun 2022
Robo-Promoting Perl via @ThePracticalDev #perl dev.to/davorg/robo-promoting…

Robo-Promoting Perl

Using an AI to write about Perl

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Mohammad Sajid Anwar@cpan_author10 Jun 2022
Good morning Perl hackers !!! Today's Perl feature post is about indirect object syntax, which is no longer acceptable in Perl v5.36. github.com/manwar/perl-cool-…
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