On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 02:20:56PM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote: > Fair enough. Then tell me how you solve this problem: You have a text > file in a string, that the user has marked several places in. He's > referring to words for which he wants to keep bookmarks in. Now, he > deletes text (using substr), and we want to keep the marks relative to > the words, not their positions. This seems easy, yet there's not > necessarily an easy way to do it. Uh oh, violating perl philosophy :)
Sounds like a good candidate for modulehood. > Ok, how about this: Is there a reason I<not> to? Or should I not go > there? Off hand, it sounds expensive. I don't see a way to only let the people who use it incur the penalty, but my vision isn't the best in the world. -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
