Category Archives: perl

Why doesn’t Mac update standard UNIX utilities?

Posted on September 15, 2008 by robfelty

I am currently teaching a course on programming for linguists. We are using python, but for the first few classes, I have been going over some standard UNIX utilities like cd, ls and such, plus using regular expressions with grep … Continue reading →

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Perl slurping

Posted on September 3, 2008 by robfelty

It seems like whenever I go to slurp in a whole file into a string in Perl, I have to search around to remember the exact syntax. So I decided to put it here for myself, so I won’t have … Continue reading →

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100 yootles bounty for solution to nested loop rounding error

Posted on November 5, 2007 by robfelty

I am working on doing some monte carlo simulations. I want to do a particular manipulation n times, but I want to constrain what I do based on three parameters, x, y, and z, which are probability distributions coded as … Continue reading →

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Picasa, JAlbum, and null bytes

Posted on April 25, 2007 by robfelty

I have recently been trying to transition from Mac to Linux, with much success for the most part, but a few hiccups as well, as is to be expected. One of the important uses of the computer for me is … Continue reading →

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web + print frustrations

Posted on November 21, 2006 by

Sometimes one wants to write a document that can be viewed both in print form and on the web. From my experiences so far, there does not yet exist a good way to do this from one document. I have … Continue reading →

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