Sorry I didn't get this out here earlier (and it's an xpost from Perlmonks), but Perl Community (parent org of the Science Perl Committee that is initiated the Science Track) is giving out a "peoples choice" award at the end of Conference Lightning Talks. It's sincere gesture from us and allows anyone to vote for anyone in the Perl community at large, as a "thank you" from us.
The Science Track talks have been great, some are even starting to come online. Thanks to everyone who made this happen, especially the TPRC Planning Committee.
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The 2024 Golden PERL Award
The Golden PERL Award AKA The People's Choice Award is sponsored by PerlCommunity.org and the Public Enrichment & Robotics Labs. Anyone is eligible to cast a vote and anyone in the global Perl community is eligible to receive a vote.Google Docs
I am using Selenium to obtain a numeric value from a website with code such as:
my @divwrap = $driver->find_elements('whatever', 'id'); my $return_value = $driver->find_child_element($divwrap, 'changeValue', 'class')->get_text(); This works fine, and returns the correct expected value.
If the value is POSITIVE, it return the plus sign, such as "+64.43"
But if the value is NEGATIVE, it returns a "wide Character" string: "" instead of the minus sign.
So the return looks like "64.43"
Interestingly, I cannot do a substitution.
If I have explicit code, such as:
my $output = "64.43" ; $output =~ s/"/\-/ ; ... then $output will print as "-64.43"
... but if I try to do the same substitution on the return from the find_child_element function:
$return_value =~ s/"/\-/ ; ... the substitution does not take... and printing $return_value continues to output "64.43".
Any ideas why it doesn't... and how to solve it?
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I’m a dev with 20yoe in mostly Java and js but have various amounts of experience with other languages. I’ve decided that I need Perl in my toolkit because I find it on even the most minimal boxes preinstalled and I can’t always install Java or Js just to do admin things. Typically I use bash for these tasks but I just need a little more ability to abstract than what bash easily provides. What would you all recommend as the place to start? Most guides that I run into assume that I’m a beginner to programming and it feels slow. My normal method of learning a new language is to stumble through building a web server but I’m not sure that the way to go here.
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I am working with the IP::Geolocation::MMDB module which replaces the deprecated modules for GeoIP databases.
I am having trouble understanding how to extract data.
my $ip = "8.8.8.8"; my $db = IP::Geolocation::MMDB->new(file => "$geolitecitydb"); my $geodata = $db->record_for_address($ip); print Dumper($geodata); Using Data::Dumper as above to show the results, I see something like (truncated):
Dumper...........$VAR1 = { 'continent' => { 'geoname_id' => 6255149, 'names' => { 'de' => 'Nordamerika', 'es' => "Norteam\x{e9}rica", 'zh-CN' => "\x{5317}\x{7f8e}\x{6d32}", 'ru' => "\x{421}\x{435}\x{432}\x{435}\x{440}\x{43d}\x{430}\x{44f} \x{410}\x{43c}\x{435}\x{440}\x{438}\x{43a}\x{430}", 'fr' => "Am\x{e9}rique du Nord", 'ja' => "\x{5317}\x{30a2}\x{30e1}\x{30ea}\x{30ab}", 'en' => 'North America', 'pt-BR' => "Am\x{e9}rica do Norte" }, 'code' => 'NA' Supposing I just want to grab the value of continent=>names=>en portion (value: 'North America') and write it to a value -- how would I do this? I'm having problems understanding the documentation I'm reading to deal with hashes of hashes.
Most examples I can find online involve looping through all of this; but in my case, I just want to make $somevar = 'North America.' I'd like to repeat it for other data as well, which is returned in this hash.
It feels like something like:
$geodata{city=>names=>en} should work, but it doesn't.
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