This week, we discussed:
These are some answers to the Week 274, Task 1, of the Perl Weekly Challenge organized by Mohammad S. Anwar.
Spoiler Alert: This weekly challenge deadline is due in a few days from now (on June 23, 2024 at 23:59). This blog post provides some solutions to this challenge. Please don’t read on if you intend to complete the challenge on your own.
You are given a sentence, $sentance.
Write a script to convert the given sentence to Goat Latin, a made up language similar to Pig Latin.
Rules for Goat Latin:
1) If a word begins with a vowel ("a", "e", "i", "o", "u"), append "ma" to the end of the word. 2) If a word begins with consonant i.e. not a vowel, remove first letter and append it to the end then add "ma". 3) Add letter "a" to the end of first word in the sentence, "aa" to the second word, etc etc.
Example 1
A longer version of this post, including the full timeline as we know it, is available at security.metacpan.org
Between Dec 2023 and Jan 2024, vulnerabilities in Spreadsheet::ParseExcel and Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX were reported to the CPAN Security Group (CPANSec). This document describes the timeline and analysis of events.
Đình Hải Lê discovered an arbitrary code execution (ACE) vulnerability in the Perl module Spreadsheet::ParseExcel, version 0.65 and earlier.
An attacker, exploiting this vulnerability, would craft an Excel file containing malicious code encoded as a number format string, which is executed when the file is parsed by Spreadsheet::ParseExcel. Basically, untrusted data is passed to the Perl eval function enabling arbitrary code execution.
A detailed write up of the vulnerability and Proof of Concept (PoC) is available at
https://github.com/haile01/perl_spreadsheet_excel_rce_poc
After three years of not organising and one successful PTS in Lyon last year, we might have become a bit complacent and forgotten how taxing organizing an event is... After a very slow preparation, we are very pleased to announce the fourteenth edition of the Perl Toolchain Summit!
In 2024, we will be meeting in Lisbon, Portugal, from Wednesday April 25 to Sunday April 28. As has become customary, participants will stay at the hotel, and work in the meeting rooms dedicated for the event.
Just Paul and Philippe this week:
In absence of many other pressing issues, we spent some time thinking ahead to large-scale development work that might take place in the 5.41 series. We talked about “hooks” as a potential long-term thought to making a more powerful Magic-like structure, for implementing new features, attributes, etc..
These are some answers to the Week 255, Task 2, of the Perl Weekly Challenge organized by Mohammad S. Anwar.
Spoiler Alert: This weekly challenge deadline is due in a few days from now (on February 11, 2024, at 23:59). This blog post provides some solutions to this challenge. Please don’t read on if you intend to complete the challenge on your own.
You are given a paragraph $p and a banned word $w.
Write a script to return the most frequent word that is not banned.
Example 1
Input: $p = "Joe hit a ball, the hit ball flew far after it was hit."
$w = "hit"
Output: "ball"
The banned word "hit" occurs 3 times.
The other word "ball" occurs 2 times.
Example 2
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February 08, 6pm CT ~ Houston Perl Mongers Zoom Meeting 🔗 Thu Jan 25 2024
Title: Using Perl Prototypes
When: Thur February 8th at 6:00-8:00 PM CT (+6 UTC)
Where: (virtual, see below):
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/920069702
Meeting ID: 920 069 702
Password can be found by running this statement.
perl -e 'print +(0b1000100).((3<<2)*10).(010)."\n"' # 681208
Original post:
https://houstonperlmongers.org/posts/3a99ac5b-f9f9-4409-a38c-e9ef91d972c8
Back to the usual three of us
Further chats on allowing a subsequent use VERSION of the same value as is already prevailing
We continued going through the bug list to tag release blockers
These are some answers to the Week 254, Task 1, of the Perl Weekly Challenge organized by Mohammad S. Anwar.
Spoiler Alert: This weekly challenge deadline is due in a few days from now (on February 4, 2024 at 23:59). This blog post provides some solutions to this challenge. Please don’t read on if you intend to complete the challenge on your own.
You are given a positive integer, $n.
Write a script to return true if the given integer is a power of three otherwise return false.
Example 1
Input: $n = 27
Output: true
27 = 3 ^ 3
Example 2
2023 was a rather productive year for me on CPAN. Aided by taking some time off I managed to release a whopping 18 new modules.
Half of my new modules were related to my password framework Crypt::Passphrase. To be honest most of them are either small (± 100 LOC) glue two or three other pieces of code together. And then there was Crypt::HSM, a PKCS11 interface (to use cryptographic hardware without exposing cryptographic keys) that was probably more work (2600 LOC of XS) than the others combined.
Most of this was with the aim to add peppering support to Crypt::Passphrase, a subject extensive enough that I should probably dedicate a separate blogpost to it.
I missed last year but in 2024 I'm doing a dev release of Perl again. This time it is version 5.39.7.
And again, you can watch it live on Saturday 20th of January on Twitch.
Paul was away this week.
These are some answers to the Week 251, Task 1, of the Perl Weekly Challenge organized by Mohammad S. Anwar.
Spoiler Alert: This weekly challenge deadline is due in a few days from now (on January 14, 2024 at 23:59). This blog post provides some solutions to this challenge. Please don’t read on if you intend to complete the challenge on your own.
You are given an array of integers, @ints.
Write a script to find the concatenation value of the given array.
The concatenation of two numbers is the number formed by concatenating their numerals.
Well, not actually wrong, just slow. But the exaggeration makes a punchier headline, you’ll admit.
This comes up when an interface takes a pattern to match things against. Sometimes you have some reason to want this match to always fail, so you want to pass a pattern which will never match. The customary way of doing this is to pass qr/(?!)/. There is a problem with that, though.
I’m not talking here about the fact that if possible, you really don’t want to pass an actual qr object. We’ve already covered that. It was a surprising enough discovery that I’ll take this opportunity to signal-boost that while we’re here, but this article is not about that.
We are happy to announce that Geizhals Preisvergleich supports the German Perl Workshop in 2024!
These are some answers to the Week 273, Task 2, of the Perl Weekly Challenge organized by Mohammad S. Anwar.
Spoiler Alert: This weekly challenge deadline is due in a few days from now (on June 16, 2024 at 23:59). This blog post provides some solutions to this challenge. Please don’t read on if you intend to complete the challenge on your own.
You are given a string, $str.
Write a script to return true if there is at least one b, and no a appears after the first b.
Example 1
Input: $str = "aabb"
Output: true
Example 2
Input: $str = "abab"
Output: false
Example 3
Input: $str = "aaa"
Output: false
I am very pleased to announce that the 2024 Perl & Raku Conference Planning Committee (TPRC) is moving forward with the addition of a new track that targets academic, governmental, and industrial STEM applications. It will strive to be organized as a traditional science conference track; meaning the talks will be based on paper and poster submissions. (more on this in a future announcement!)
The decision by the TPRC Planning Committee is the result of an overwhelmingly positive response to the Science Track Survey that was held late in 2023. Everyone involved in organizing the survey deeply appreciates those who filled out the survey or shared it with others.
The track is being organized in tight cooperation with the TPRC, by the Science Perl Committee (SPC); a separately organized group of Perl and STEM enthusiasts that anyone of good will is welcome to join.
What to expect now: ...
We are happy to announce that CosmoShop supports the German Perl/Raku-Workshop.
CosmoShop is the largest pure Perl based shop system.
Since 1997, we have been implementing sophisticated and individual eCommerce projects in the B2B sector with our specially developed store software. We are the central point of contact for the entire spectrum.
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