brian d foy

brian d foy has asked 214 questions and find answers to 706 problems.

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I'm a Perl trainer and author. I'm the co-author of Programming Perl, Learning Perl, Intermediate Perl, and Effective Perl Programming, Programming Perl, and the author of Mastering Perl and Learning Perl 6. I'm working on a surprise.

brian d foy questions

Should this Perl 6 CATCH block be able to change variables in the lexical scope?
How can I call .WHY on a subroutine in a class in Perl 6?
Do Perl 6 POSIX character classes respect the LOCALE?
Can you loop a Perl 6 block that's in a variable?
How should I process HTML META tags with Mojo::UserAgent?
When is a Perl 6 array clone not a clone?
How can I drop into the Perl 6 REPL inside a program?
How can I tell if something is a Perl 6 container?
Why can't I call meta methods on Routine::WrapHandle?
Can I limit my Perl 6 program to running under a particular implementation?

brian d foy answers

How can I extract URLs from plain text in Perl?
Perl: opening a file, and saving it under a different name after editing
Perl: CPAN - Module modifying and adding functionality
Parallel execution of command using Parallel::ForkManager
How can I see the error from a Perl system command?
Is there a Bioperl equivalent of IO::ScalarArray for array of Seq objects?
Is there a Perl module to interface to Google Contacts API?
How to pipe to and read from the same tempfile handle without race conditions?
Makefile.PL meta.json prereqs for OS so module won't be installed on Windows
Perl: Why does \@_ provide an alias to the passed in array?