Chas. Owens

Sterling, VA

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Age: 38

UNIX, Perl, what more is there to say?

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Can you provide some examples of why it is hard to parse XML and HTML with a regex?

html xml regex asked Mar 31 '09 at 14:13

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Is it safe to leave butter at room temperature?

food-safety storage-method storage-lifetime butter asked Jul 9 '10 at 19:20

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Can you provide examples of parsing HTML?

html language-agnostic html-parsing asked Apr 21 '09 at 15:55

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53 votes

At what point does a config file become a programming language?

configuration programming-languages configuration-files config asked Mar 15 '09 at 18:07

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Does anyone know of a good library for mapping a person's name to his or her sex?

database language-agnostic asked May 3 '09 at 22:34

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How do I edit git's history to correct an incorrect email address/name

git asked May 26 '09 at 20:56

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How should a user's death be handled?

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How, in Perl 5, can I get the pid of the process who sent me a signal?

perl signals asked Jun 9 '11 at 16:47

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26 votes

What is the difference between parent and base in Perl 5?

perl subclass pragma asked May 18 '09 at 6:36

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24 votes

What pseudo-operators exist in Perl 5?

perl documentation operators asked May 24 '10 at 14:53

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Why are regular expressions so controversial?

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Easiest way to open a text file and read it into an array with Perl

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automatically get loop index in foreach loop in perl

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In Perl, what is the difference between use and require for loading a module?

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How do I get the current date in ISO format using Perl?

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Can I tell Perl that some data are immutable to speed things up?

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Is there an OO Perl equivalent to an interface?

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Is this a bug in the CPAN Uniq module?

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Why is this bash prompt acting strangely/disappearing, and how do I fix it (OS X)?

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Using Perl, how can I sort an array using the value of a number inside each array element?

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