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authorAndy Lester <andy@petdance.com>2005-06-02 11:19:54 -0500
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2005-06-03 08:04:25 +0000
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@@ -349,16 +349,16 @@ Computers are good at being predictable and bad at being random
(despite appearances caused by bugs in your programs :-). see the
F<random> article in the "Far More Than You Ever Wanted To Know"
collection in http://www.cpan.org/misc/olddoc/FMTEYEWTK.tgz , courtesy of
-Tom Phoenix, talks more about this. John von Neumann said, ``Anyone
+Tom Phoenix, talks more about this. John von Neumann said, "Anyone
who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of
-course, living in a state of sin.''
+course, living in a state of sin."
If you want numbers that are more random than C<rand> with C<srand>
provides, you should also check out the Math::TrulyRandom module from
CPAN. It uses the imperfections in your system's timer to generate
random numbers, but this takes quite a while. If you want a better
pseudorandom generator than comes with your operating system, look at
-``Numerical Recipes in C'' at http://www.nr.com/ .
+"Numerical Recipes in C" at http://www.nr.com/ .
=head2 How do I get a random number between X and Y?
@@ -532,8 +532,8 @@ C<$timestamp = gmtime(1005613200)> sets $timestamp to "Tue Nov 13 01:00:00
That doesn't mean that Perl can't be used to create non-Y2K compliant
programs. It can. But so can your pencil. It's the fault of the user,
-not the language. At the risk of inflaming the NRA: ``Perl doesn't
-break Y2K, people do.'' See http://www.perl.org/about/y2k.html for
+not the language. At the risk of inflaming the NRA: "Perl doesn't
+break Y2K, people do." See http://www.perl.org/about/y2k.html for
a longer exposition.
=head1 Data: Strings
@@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ and C<Data::Validate::IP>.
=head2 How do I unescape a string?
-It depends just what you mean by ``escape''. URL escapes are dealt
+It depends just what you mean by "escape". URL escapes are dealt
with in L<perlfaq9>. Shell escapes with the backslash (C<\>)
character are removed with
@@ -2037,7 +2037,7 @@ function. Its semantics are somewhat cumbersome, so here's a C<getnum>
wrapper function for more convenient access. This function takes
a string and returns the number it found, or C<undef> for input that
isn't a C float. The C<is_numeric> function is a front end to C<getnum>
-if you just want to say, ``Is this a float?''
+if you just want to say, "Is this a float?"
sub getnum {
use POSIX qw(strtod);