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Mark-Jason Dominus

Two talks.

Regular Expressions

1/2 day tutorial

Everyone has been unpleasantly surprised by a regex that didn't do what they thought it would. Even experienced programmers are unable to predict what a regex will do. This course will fix that. You'll learn the deepest innermost details of what Perl is really doing when it evaluates a regex match, and how to figure out exactly what it will match and where, and how long it will take to do it. When you leave, you'll have such a complete understanding of how regexes work that you will never again be surprised for long by a regex that doesn't do what you expected.

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The Perl Hardware Store

Tools You Didn't Know You Needed

45 minutes

The world is full of tools that are easy to use and will make your life easier, if only you knew what they were! In this popular talk from last year's conference in San Jose, Mark-Jason Dominus will describe a boxful of programming tools techniques that are so simple and useful that you will wonder afterwards how you ever managed to live without them.

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Mark-Jason is affiliated with Plover Systems Co.

Kevin Lenzo

Last modified: Fri May 7 16:07:30 EDT 1999