| bpalmer | \d , if you check perldoc perlre , represents a digit a digit is 0,1,2, ... 9 ; notably the decimal point is not a digit |
| Caelum | Talaman72: open my $file, '>', '/tmp/afile' or die "Could not write to /tmp/afile: $!"; print $file "stuff"; |
| bpalmer | Huey: use Regexp::Common |
| Huey | so \d*\.?\d+ would work? oh |
| Caelum | also perldoc -q "is a number" |
| f00li5h | use Scalar::Util qw[ looks_like_number ] |
| stuuf | oh man, best xkcd EVER: "Dear god," "Yes, my child?" "I would like to file a bug report" |
| f00li5h | stuuf: indeed |
| rindolf | Hi all. |
| action | rindolf is back. |
| rindolf | is back. |
| f00li5h | rindolf! |
| action | f00li5h purrs at rindolf |
| f00li5h | purrs at rindolf |
| rindolf | I wrote an email to a journalist, asking him to connect me to some newspaper people, so I can write articles for them. And get some money. An Israeli journalist. |
| f00li5h | that's a good idea any idea what you're writing about yet? |
| rindolf | f00li5h: I have some stuff. f00li5h: I'd like to write an article about Neo-Tech. f00li5h: and one about the end of IT slavery. f00li5h: and maybe one about why discrimination should be legal. |
| f00li5h | aah, that'll make good reading "you are a crap programmer, get out" i'd be interested in seeing why you think that's a good idea |
| Caelum | rindolf: why not get another programming job? |
| rindolf | Caelum: I don't want one. |
| f00li5h | I do think that an employer sould be able to just hire people who he thinks are good for the job though |
| rindolf | Caelum: had enough. |
| f00li5h | rindolf: that's the spirit |
| Caelum | heh |
| f00li5h | (making other people rich)-- |
| rindolf | Caelum: I do want to become a trainer, though. |
| Talaman72 | what's that mean? |
| rindolf | f00li5h: I don't mind making other people rich. |
| Caelum | rindolf: you have a masters right? you can teach college |
| rindolf | f00li5h: if I sell someone a hammer and he uses it to construct furniture and sell it. Caelum: no, I only have a B.Sc. Caelum: a B.Sc. in EE from the Technion. |