On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 03:25:59PM -0800, R. Joseph Newton wrote:
> Clint wrote:
> > sub barometer {
> >      local $_ = shift;
> 
> Don't do that.  You are not using the default variable in the
> code at all, and it is a bad habit to be routinely tweaking 
> system variables.  What benefit did you expect from this construct?

It's for the m// here -->
 
>>      m{<td><b>Barometer</b>:</td>\n\s<td align="right"
>> nowrap>(.*?)&quot;} || die "No barometer data";
>>      return $1;
>> }

-- 
Steve

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