tom permutt Wrote: > I wonder if you might have downloaded different versions of Perl to the > two computers. I found the ActiveState website a little confusing that > way. I'm glad you got what you needed. > > Anyway, this has been fun. I've learned some things about how to write > this robustly as production code (thanks, radish) if I were ever going > to do such a thing. Of course, all I really meant was to share my > discovery that renaming a lot of files needn't be as daunting as it had > seemed both to you and to me. > > In fact, what I originally did was write a program just to find them > all and print them out, so I could rename them by hand. In the middle > of that I got bored enough to realize I didn't care what they were > named and to look up how to script the renaming.
That is entirely possible. I was utterly confused by he ActiveState web site. You script is very cool, I wish I could do something like that. is there a dummies guide online where I can at least attempt to learn how to do simple scripts? -- agentsmith ------------------------------------------------------------------------ agentsmith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1838 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22689 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss