Perl Tips Blog from Bay View Training

We’ve picked the dates for our next Perl training classes. They will be held on Saturdays, from 9am to 6pm, in Sunnyvale, CA. The dates are:

• Perl 101 - October 4
• Perl 201 - October 11

Sign up early for the early bird discount ($50 off) and take an extra 10% off if you enroll in more than class at once, or enroll as a group with one or more other people (limit one 10% discount per person). Email enroll@bayview.com today for more information.

If these dates don’t work for you, please feel free to contact us to discuss alternate dates, or for one-on-one coaching or on-site training at your location. We can be very flexible with scheduling to accommodate your needs.

We are planning to debut several new classes soon…

• Shell 101 - Using the Unix/Linux command line, including Bourne shell, tcsh, and text-processing utilities
• Shell 201 - Writing shell scripts in Bourne Again Shell (bash)
• Regex 101 - All about regular expressions, including grep, text editing (vi or emacs), Perl, and more

If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions please let us know by email at training@bayview.com.

We’ve picked the dates for our next Perl training classes. They will be held on Saturdays, from 9am to 6pm, in Sunnyvale. The dates are:

Perl 101 - September 22
Perl 201 - October 6 and 20 (two half-day classes)

Sign up early for the early bird discount ($50 off all-day classes or $30 off half-day classes) and take an extra 10% off if you enroll in more than class at once, or enroll as a group with one or more other people (limit one 10% discount). Email enroll@bayview.com today for more information.

If these dates don’t work for you, please feel free to contact us to discuss alternate dates, or for one-on-one coaching or on-site training at your location. We can be very flexible with scheduling to accommodate your needs.

Sign up now for Perl 101 and Perl 201. They will be held on June 9 and 16, respectively. Both classes are held on Saturdays from 9am-6pm in Sunnyvale. Sign up by May 25 to get early bird pricing. For more information give us a call at 650 279-9904 or email training@bayview.com. We can also deliver the training at your workplace if you have a group who need to learn Perl. Contact us today for details.

We are pleased to announce dates for the Perl 101 and 201 classes. This is the first offering of these classes in 2007. They will be held on February 10 (Perl 101) and 24 (Perl 201) in Sunnyvale. Please sign up by January 26 to take advantage of the early bird price. For more information give us a call at 650 279-9904 or email training@bayview.com. These classes are open to the public. But if you have a group of people who need to learn Perl, we can also provide on-site training at your company - just let us know and we will put together a package just for you.

We’ve picked the dates for our next Perl training classes. They will be held on Saturdays, from 9am to 6pm, in Sunnyvale, CA. The dates are:

• Perl 101 - April 19
• Perl 201 - April 26

Sign up early for the early bird discount ($50 off) and take an extra 10% off if you enroll in more than class at once, or enroll as a group with one or more other people (limit one 10% discount per person). Email enroll@bayview.com today for more information.

If these dates don’t work for you, please feel free to contact us to discuss alternate dates, or for one-on-one coaching or on-site training at your location. We can be very flexible with scheduling to accommodate your needs.

As an interpreted language, Perl scripts can generally be run unmodified on any platform. But there are situations where the differences between platforms make it necessary to test what platform you are running on and act accordingly. (more…)

The Number::Format module is now a SourceForge.net project and we have just released our first version there, which is version 1.52. It fixes a minor bug in the format_price subroutine which caused errors during the running of the test suite. The project, originally written by Bay View Consulting’s Bill Ward, now has several developers working on it and we plan a new release. Also, a Template Toolkit plugin and a JavaScript version have been included in the project. For more information visit the project’s page on SourceForge.

One of regular expressions’ most useful features is memorization. To do this, just put parentheses around part of your expression and the result will be memorized:

my($name) = /hello, (\w+)/

In this example, we look in $_ for the word “hello” followed by a comma, space, and a word. Since the word, \w+, has parentheses around it, the part of the string that it matches gets memorized. In this example, we are assigning the return value of the regular expression match to $name. So if $_ contains “hello, world” then $name gets “world” - very convenient.

But parentheses also do other things besides memorize their contents, and this feature can become annoying. Here’s an example. (more…)

The Perl Tips that were previously mere Web pages are now being presented in the form of a blog (short for “web log”). What does this mean to you? Several things: (more…)