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Apr 2023
1h 17m

156: Perl and Regular Expressions

Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci
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Join Patrick and Jason as they tackle their answers to these timely questions – plus an in-depth discussion on Perl in practice – with today’s episode of Programming Throwdown. 
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