Asking for help sort of requires that you've tried
phase one (Trying to solve the problem yourself) and
phase two (searching the internet for a solution, after all www.google.com is a
wonderful thing) and were just about
to enter
phase three (repeatedly banging your head against your desk in the
vain hope that either you'd have an epiphany or your boss would take pity on you and
extend the deadline) when you thought
"I know, I'll mail the Beginners list at Perl.org. Maybe someone there can help"....
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you forgot to mention www.deja.com/usenet
and the reason i don't ask too many questions on this list is because i've usually
found the answer by phase three (epiphany).
