On Dec 5, 2003, at 11:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..]
You guys make it look so easy !
just think how weird you will be when your copy of Programming Perl 3rd Edition is the coffee stained collector's item right next to our copies of Programming Perl - the Pink Book - that was the first edition... Granted, we'll all be worm fodder when that stuff shows up on E-Bay...
May I recommend that you think seriously about picking up it, and the "learning perl" and "learning perl objects, references and modules" - as they will help get you over the camal's hump.
[..]Using an array with 'Split' seemed to be a key part of the solution. I guess I was sort of on the right track..... though I'm not sure when (or if) I would have figured it out.
Think a bit about what you just saw roll over the rollers at you - there were some of the basic 'perl-golfers' who were just teed up to swing swift one liners, as well as folks looking at transitioning your code into the more 'traditional' approach of application programming.
Now comes the harder parts of the process:
a. do this as a one liner each time
b. keep the knowledge as a filter
that takes stdin and woofs to stdout
c. generate a piece of code that takes a
file name and generates out put
d. start adding more flags to it to make it do more stuff
like take an input file name, and an output file name,
maybe some regEx options from the command line....
e. wrap d. inside a GUI front end...
....ciao drieux
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