Samir Parikh

• Website: samirparikh.com
• About: Someone who knows very little about programming and even less about Perl.

Recent Actions

• Posted Perl Weekly Challenge 088 to Samir Parikh

  Despite the holiday week here in the U.S., I was able to tackle this week's Perl Weekly Challenge. I have to say that this week's challenge was the most satisfying for me as it allowed me to not only come up with a…

• Commented on Permutations and Recursion
  I've been working on an implementation to generate the result with arrays (rather than strings) but have been running into some issues. I'll try to post more about what I've come up with as soon as I find more time....
• Posted Permutations and Recursion to Samir Parikh

  (Originally published on samirparikh.com.)

  In one of my earlier posts describing how I solved the ="https://perlwe…

• Posted Perl Podcasts to Samir Parikh

  (Originally published on samirparikh.com.)

  Like any well-entrenched programming language, Perl has a rich history and a number of personalities who shape and lead its community. In addition to wanting to learn its syntax and ho…

• Commented on Perl Weekly Challenge 085
  Fair point, Toby. I guess I was just implicitly assuming that both a and b had to be integers per the examples given....
• Posted Perl Weekly Challenge 085 to Samir Parikh

  (Originally published on samirparikh.com.)

  The latest installment of the Perl Weekly Challenge…

• Commented on Monthly Report - October
  Hi Mohammad, We've never met or connected before but I feel like I kind of know you by following your work here, on your YouTube videos and most importantly, the Perl Weekly Challenges you run. As I mentioned on a...
• Commented on Perl Weekly Challenge 084
  Hi Toby, Unfortunately, the map function is not something I'm particularly familiar with. Any background, context or otherwise help you could also provide would be greatly appreciated! Thanks Samir...
• Posted Perl Weekly Challenge 084 to Samir Parikh

  (Originally published on samirparikh.com. Apologies in advance for going into some of the minute details of my thought process but I thought this might help others who are learning the language like I am.)

  As I ment…

• Commented on Adventures in Perl
  Hi Dave! I will definitely do my best to share what I learn and look forward to seeing what others find too. Samir...
• Commented on Adventures in Perl
  Hi Toby! Thank you for your comments and advice! I am familiar with PerlMonks (many of the answers to the questions I was looking for could be found there) and I have signed up for an account. You can find...
• Posted Adventures in Perl to Samir Parikh

  (Originally published on samirparikh.com.)

  Just over one year ago, I wrote about how I had become enchanted with the D programm…

Comment Threads

• Toby Inkster commented on Perl Weekly Challenge 084

  This:

  my @newlist = map { BLOCK } @oldlist;
  

  Is basically just a shortcut for:

  my @newlist = ();
  for my $item ( @oldlist ) {
      local $_ = $item;
      my @got = do { BLOCK };
      push @newlist, @got;
  }
  

  And if the block is just a simple expression like a regexp, then you don't need the curly braces. So for example, to lowercase a bunch of strings:

  my @lowercase = map lc, @uppercase;
  

• Ben Bullock commented on Monthly Report - October

  Good luck with your treatment.
  

• Mohammad Sajid Anwar commented on Monthly Report - October

  Thanks Samir for your kind message.

• Mohammad Sajid Anwar commented on Monthly Report - October

  Thanks Ben for your kind message.

• sofiya commented on Adventures in Perl

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