From tobert at gmail.com Mon May 22 07:36:49 2006 From: tobert at gmail.com (Al Tobey) Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 10:36:49 -0400 Subject: [grand-rapids-pm-announce] May Perl Mongers: Text Magic with Perl Regular Expressions Message-ID: <5ac7acb10605220736k287870ffif6c2393816af1fb5@mail.gmail.com> The Grand Rapids Perl Mongers will be meeting this Friday, May 26 at 11:30am at the Priority Health Conference Center. Lunch will be provided to those that RSVP to . There is usually plenty of pizza for everybody, but we do count RSVP's to estimate how much to order. In addition to Joe Wright's talk on RE's, we are starting to experiment with some new additions to the meeting agenda. This month, I will introduce the first which is a quick overview of what has happened in the Perl community in the past month. Starting next month, we will have a 5-minute book review using a book donated by O'Reilly that the reviewer gets to keep. I think Intermediate Perl is still up for grabs for July. $abstracts{2006}->{May} << EOA; Text Magic with Perl Regular Expressions Perl gives you the power to make difficult tasks easy and regular expressions are one of Perl's most powerful features, giving you the power to find, manipulate, slice and dice text just the way you need it. This month's Perl Mongers meeting will focus on regular expressions: how to write and tune them to get the results you need, how to use the tools Perl offers, and future developments in Perl regular expressions. This month's presenter, Joe Wright, is a consultant at Priority Health who spent 6 years wielding Perl for tool development and system administration at BT (formerly Control Data) in St. Paul, Minnesota. Under the guise of Just Wright Communications he also does freelance writing and training in technical and presentation skills. EOA Directions: Priority Health Conference Center, 3111 Leonard St. NE (49525) http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=3111+Leonard+St.+NE+49525&ll=42.984495,-85.593023&spn=0.029636,0.102825&om=1 See you there! -Al Tobey