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Changes for 0.989089 - 2023-03-19

  • Incompatible Changes
  • Internal Changes



Provides United States of America holidays

Changes for 0.0200 - 2024-03-19T15:51:00Z

  • Fix docs.


Curaçao's official holidays

Changes for 0.003 - 2024-03-19T21:03:44Z

  • Another POD fix


access GCC compiler builtin functions via XS

Changes for 0.02 - 2024-03-19

  • Added a few more builtins. Fixed pod.



access GCC compiler builtin functions via XS

Changes for 0.01

  • First version, released on an unsuspecting world.


Hey all!

As a recent graduate seeking a junior developer position, I received an invitation for a job interview which included a Perl coding exercise. How can i make my code better? Additionally, are there recommended best practices for documenting my progress on this exercise? I never programmed in perl, so bare with me. Thanks a lot!!

here's the task:

- read the data from a .csv file

- store data in one hash

- outputs the data as HTML, sorted by company and within the company by name

here is my code:

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Text::CSV; my $csv_file = 'Bewerbungstest.csv'; open(my $fh, '<', $csv_file) or die "Could not open file '$csv_file' $!"; my $csv = Text::CSV->new({ binary => 1 }) or die "Cannot use CSV: ".Text::CSV->error_diag(); $csv->header($fh); # Hash Wert my %data_hash; while (my $row = $csv->getline($fh)) { my $pid = $row->[0]; # PID as key my $company = $row->[1]; # Company name as key my $last_name = $row->[2]; # Employee last name my $first_name = $row->[3]; # Employee first name push @{$data_hash{$company}}, [$pid, $last_name, $first_name]; } close($fh); # Sort the company names alphabetically foreach my $company (sort keys %data_hash) { @{$data_hash{$company}} = sort {$a->[1] cmp $b->[1]} @{$data_hash{$company}}; } # HTML Output open(HTML, '>', 'output.html') or die "Could not open file: $!"; print HTML "<html>\n"; print HTML "<head>\n"; print HTML "<title>Employee List</title>\n"; print HTML "</head>\n"; print HTML "<body>\n"; print HTML "<h1>User Liste</h1>\n"; print HTML "<table border='1'>\n"; print HTML "<tr><th>PID</th><th>Company</th><th>Last Name</th><th>First Name</th>\n"; foreach my $company (sort keys %data_hash) { foreach my $entry (@{$data_hash{$company}}) { my ($pid, $last_name, $first_name,) = @$entry; print HTML "<tr>\n"; print HTML "<td>$pid</td>\n"; print HTML "<td>$company</td>\n"; print HTML "<td>$last_name</td>\n"; print HTML "<td>$first_name</td>\n"; print HTML "</tr>\n"; } } print HTML "</table>\n"; print HTML "</body>\n"; print HTML "</html>\n"; close(HTML); print "HTML file erfolgreich generiert\n"; 

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Data objects for login.

Changes for 0.02 - 2024-03-19T14:01:19+01:00

  • Regen example file.
  • Rewrite to new Data::HashType@0.04 with added 'valid_from' parameter.


Random hash type objects.

Changes for 0.03 - 2024-03-19T13:59:34+01:00

  • Add support for Data::HashType@0.04.



Data objects for hash type.

Changes for 0.04 - 2024-03-19T13:12:38+01:00

  • API CHANGE: Add 'valid_from' and 'valid_to' parameters. 'active' parameter will be removed in future. And 'valid_from' will be required in future.
  • Add DESCRIPTION section to doc.


An open source web-based network management tool.

Changes for 2.074000 - 2024-03-19

  • NEW FEATURES
  • BUG FIXES


I have inherited some perl scripts that I've generally been able to edit well enough with my knowledge from other languages, but I need to make a change that has me stumped.

The user wants the output that happens from this loop to be reversed.

for ($nn=0;$nn<=$range_max;$nn++) { my $range=sprintf("%02d",$nn); $sum_of_A += $A_EACH_RANGE{"$range"}; $sum_of_B += $B_EACH_RANGE{"$range"}; printf("\"\",\"%s\",\"%s\",\"%s\",\"%s\",\"%s\"\n", $scale[$nn], commify($A_EACH_RANGE{"$range"}), commify($B_EACH_RANGE{"$range"}), commify($sum_of_A), commify($sum_of_B)); } 

So I figured all I had to do was start the for loop at the end like this:
for ($nn=$range_max;$nn>=0;$nn--) { 

Then I realized there's some cumulative math going on in the loop, which means the sum of everything needs to be at the top now instead of the bottom.

Now I'm stuck, I've made a few attempts like pushing it into an array so I could have the option to output in forward or reverse, but all my attempts just hang with no warnings or errors.

I figure there's a more elegant solution but my Google-fu hasn't helped.

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sealed.pm implements dougm’s original patch to compile method lookups for typed lexicals:

https://www.perl.com/pub/2000/06/dougpatch.html/

v5.1.5 on CPAN resolves longstanding reentrancy issues.

Internally sealed always relied on an undocumented method in B::Generate to construct the replacement B::PADOP opcode, but internally it’s invoking newPADOP, which leaves the associated padname unaddressed.

This causes segfaults in Perl_pad_push reliably, when it indexes that padname element.

In v5.1.5, the padname gets created by an XS subroutine, which does the needful.

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Is there a module that can facilitate writing something similar to DBI, where one uses a common API for many different tools, swapping one for another but keeping the rest of of the program intact ? The non OO way is that of a dispatch table, but I want to elevate my OO a bit, and allow registration of components without touching the main application.

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So hear me out...


This idea is stupid. But on Star Trek (VOY, TNG, and DS9 at least), they measured their data as "quads". ( https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Quad ). This was never defined because it's just Sci-Fi and doesn't need a real definition. But... what if they're quad-floats aka 128bit floating point values. This would mean then that all the storage could be done as LLM or other neural network style models, and vector embeddings and such. Given what we've got today with transformer style models for doing translation, chat, etc. If you had ultrapowerful computers that could do these calculations with such gigantic precision then you'd be able to store very accurate data and transform it back and forth from vector embeddings and other fancy structures. It'd enable very powerful searches, and the kind of analysis we're trying to use LLMs for and see them use in the shows when talking to the computers. This would also explain a lot about the universal translators from ENG onward, and could even help make sense of Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra. And then Voyager even has bio-neural circuitry for doing things faster, some kind of organic analog computing doing stuff "at the edge". Using weights and embeddings to do things with them and have them react by programming them with a machine learning model at each node could easily explain how that could work too.

This idea honestly feels too stupid to be real but it could explain so much.







Perl.social server upgrades


So if anyone noticed things being a bit unstable recently it looks like the server was hitting the OOM killer sometimes and caused some odd behavior. In response to this I've added more ram to the VPS running perl.social so this shouldn't happen anymore and it'll also probably mean things run faster now too since more things will sit in the caches.









perlbot and related status


to stave off any rumors, i just had a hardware failure in my main server of some kind (likely motherboard failure) and I can't fucking fix it right now. I'm about to go out of town and won't be back for a little more than a week. there is literally nothing i can do right now, perlbot and all the related stuff will be down for that time while i get back from vacation and then spend gobs of money fixing the thing.
in reply to Ryan Voots

@Paul Evans pinging you here so you see this too, sent the above on irc too.







Perl.social updates


I've done some updates to https://perl.social/ to get it up to date with the latest Friendica version, along with getting it to properly use Redis to cache data and sessions instead of the mysql database. This has lead to some improvement in performance but it's still not at the level I'd (or others I imagine) would like. I'll be trying to do some more updates over the next week as I'm finally getting around to setting up some automation pipelines for building and deploying the site so that I can do tests of everything before pushing out updates, and to make keeping things up to date a bit easier. I'll also be looking at getting things finally setup with those changes to make it easier for anyone else to try to help out with development of things too (Mostly I'll need help with theme editing and finally giving this place it's own look).



Webservice to connect to Onfido API

Changes for 0.006 - 2023-07-02T15:36:03+00:00

  • Add hook



Open a file for shared reading and/or writing

Changes for 4.05 - 2023-07-02

  • Fix tests with perl-5.38.0.


Fast, safe DBI connection and transaction management

Changes for 0.59

  • Fix for Windows t/load.t failures