user biohisham Today is June, 6th, 2012, a few days past being a monk for three years!, how time passes. Still, not quite that lonely Perl programmer I had been anymore :) I joined the Monastery by a mere coincidence (believe it!), ever since I joined and my Perl knowledge skyrocketed in an exponential manner, I so love being here that this is what I've been doing for months now, away from the monks I am interacting here with everyday I am the only Perl programmer and monk I know in the outside world around me. Maybe one day I would get to meet all of ya'll in a YAPC if I ever get to attend one. :) ... Hisham.... Interesting Nodes and Links: <ul> <li>[Sort on Table headers]</li> <li>[http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html|How to Report Bugs Effectively]</li> <li>[An informal introduction to O(N) notation]</li> <li>[7 Stages of Regex Users]</li> <li>[href://http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html|Tao]</li> <li>[Perl Reference Materials: Books|references]</li> <li>[Learning Perl Online]</li> <li>[Simple Module Tutorial]</li> <li>[Re: Socket Programming] by [NetWallah]</li> <li>[From Initiate to Monk]</li> <li>[Who is Perl? (Anthropomorphizing Everything)]</li> <li>[http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=10/01/26/165254|See it Later]</li> <li>[http://perl.plover.com/IAQ/IAQlist.html|Perl Infrequently Asked Questions (perliaq)]</li> <li>[http://www.cpan.org/misc/lwall-quotes.txt.gz]</li> <li>[how to make this code more efficient? Need to Compute the Min and Max of a Temperature using an equation]</li> <li>[Numification of strings]</li> <li>[File Reading and Closing confusion]</li> </ul> DEBUGGING AND INTERACTIVE DEBUGGING TUTORIALS: <ul> <li>%perldoc perldebtut</li> <li>%perldoc perldebug</li> </ul> Tutorials: <ul> <li>[Perl and Bioinformatics] with substantial contributions from [BioLion]</li> <li>[Text::Table Tutorial].</li> </ul> XP cheers: <ul> <li>Monked at 9:00 a.m. GMT on ..August, 18th, 2009.</li> <li>Reached 500 XP...............August, 27th, 2009.</li> <li>Pilgrim......................September, 7th, 2009.</li> <li>Friar at 3:24 p.m. GMT on ..October, 16th, 2009.</li> <li>Reached 1000..................October, 25th, 2009.</li> <li>Hermit.......................November, 21st, 2009.</li> <li>Chaplain.....................January, 11th, 2010.</li> <li>Deacon..........................April, 05, 2010</li> <li>Curate..........................July 13-14, 2010</li> <li>Priest at 12:18 a.m. GMT on ..July 02, 2011</li> <ul><li>The 591st Monk to have been granted entrance into the [Saints in our Book] on a stormy summer night.</li> <li>First congratulated on attaining sainthood by my buddy [Ratazong].</li> <li>[http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=3557|Featured on the Best Users' List]</li> </ul> </ul> <code> #!/usr/local/bin/perl #Each parameter passed to a subroutine can be named, this enables you to pass them to subroutines #in any order. #the concept is known as Simulating Named Parameters and it employs hashes. print "The result is:".addem(OPERAND1=>2, OPERAND2=>8); sub addem{ my %hash=@_; return $hash{OPERAND2}+$hash{OPERAND1}; } </code> <!-- location:latitude:21.32.36,longitude:39.10.22> 2013-03-17 04:56:09 4151 769449 808574 414 Asia/Riyadh 80 on