Posted on Wednesday, 7th January 2009 by Balazs
If you need to make sure that data incoming from a data source is integer, you can use:
if ( $variable =~ m/^[d]*$/ ) { print “integern”; }
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Tags: Detection, Integer, Perl, Type
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Posted on Sunday, 4th January 2009 by Balazs
Perl announced a couple of weeks ago that it is switching from Perforce SCM to Git. Is it time to review what SCM to use for managing distributed projects?
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Tags: cvs, Git, Perforce, Perl, SCM, source code, svn
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Posted on Monday, 22nd December 2008 by Balazs
As we have progresses with our move from PostgreSQL to DB2, we discovered that DB2 doesn’t have internal Epoch functions to deal with the epoch time format. Luckily, we are running DB2 on AIX, and most Unix tools are readily available. We tried many different variations, including writing internal Epoch conversion in SQL. Most appeared [...]
Tags: Conversion, DateTime, DB2, Epoch, IBM, Perl, PHP, Unix
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