Hello David,
Wednesday, June 5, 2002, 12:30:46 AM, you wrote: >> Adam -- >> % >> % /(<.*>)/i; >> This (the // part) searches $_ ('cuz it's that with which we expect we're >> working) for a < and then zero or more of anything and then a > and it Searches, does not sound like much of a concept. You see, in this tutorial, you are shown commands up to this point, as well as anything of programming I know, you learn commands, and type them one by one, and computer runs them, just simple steps. But a pile of punctuation symbolxs! This tutorial just showed you this right away, and before then was all commands, no sense of it for me. >> It's very trivial, though somewhat less so than that good old favorite >> print "hello, world!\n"; Page 4, vs. page 17. >> which has been convoluted terribly along the way, and you could stick >> these commands into a file and then run >> perl /tmp/p >> against it or such; the commands need to be fed through the perl >> interpreter. Of course, it's wisest to turn on strict checking >> ("use strict;") and warnings ("perl -w" or, as you prefer, something like >> "use warnings" on which I'm unsure) and most useful to write code that >> actually does something, but who says every script has to pull its own >> weight? :-) Sure. Anything no more than a dozen lines would do fine. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]