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Last here: Jun 19, 2013 at 06:58 UTC (2 hours ago)
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Location:Gold Coast, Australia
Curacy:637th Monk in the Book, Dec 03, 2012
Image:Athanasius I of Alexandria
Motto:Contra Mundum (“Against the World”)
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Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
— John Dryden


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It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer
would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure.
Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure,
to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
— Nathaniel Borenstein


Useful Regexen

  
  • by Benjamin Goldberg, in How can I output my numbers with commas added?:
    		•    $integer =~ s/ (^ [-+]? \d+? (?=(?>(?:\d{3})+) (?!\d)) | \G\d{3}(?=\d) ) /$1,/gx;
      
  • to extract the name of the current s‎crip‎t (or module) from the full path:
    		•    (my $s‎crip‎t = $0) =~ s| ^ (?: .* [\\/])? (.*) \.p[lm] $ |$1|x;


    Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump;
    you may be freeing him from being a camel.
    — G. K. Chesterton