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Jason Silver

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Expertise

I can answer questions about script installation problems. I can give hints and tips for writing code. I can suggest the best approaches for writing web applications, and other similar topics.

Experience in the area

I've been writing Perl scripts since 1999. I sell my scripts at www.intelliscript.net

Education/Credentials

I'm self taught in computer programming.

Awards and Honors

I've been quoted in a computer programming publication, called CGI-101.

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  • Knowledgeability 9.72
  • Clarity of Response 9.86
  • Timeliness 9.81
  • Politeness 10.0
  • Number of Questions (in Past 24 Hours) 0
  • Max Questions to be Asked (in 24 Hour Period) 2
  • Total Questions (since joining AllExperts) 217
  • Volunteer Since 2007-06-21
  • Prestige Points 1150

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Recent Answers from Jason Silver

2009-11-23 Can't find string terminator "END_HTML" anywhere before EOF:

I personally recommend swapping out the <<END_HTML tag with the qq tag, as follows: print qq~ <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www

2009-11-20 Perl script - combine arrays/create new array based on header:

Hi, Glad the code worked out of the box-- I didn't test it at all. The 'sort by value' is done by using the number comparison operator <=>. There is a little nested comparison happening as it sorts

2009-11-19 Perl script - combine arrays/create new array based on header:

Though not tested, I would do it this way since you said the file isn't very large: #!/usr/bin/perl # get the file first: open (FILE, 'z.txt'); @whole_file = <FILE>; # assign it to an array

2009-09-07 Run same perl script on Win and Unix'es:

Hi Rodrigo, the way I do this is to set variables at the top of the script which accomodate the differences. You could do something like this: my $is_on_windows = 1; then in the script: my $path

2009-08-12 How Do I pass a javascript variable to a Perl script?:

This is a Javascript question, not a Perl question. But it looks to me that you've got a typo or something wrong with your Javascript function: <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">

 

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