I've noticed that it sometimes takes a few hours before my post appear on
this NG (the one I sent before this one is already 4 hours and it still
hasn't showed up). I was wondering if this is common for this NG or is it
simply my experience?
I am posting this one at 2:52 PM EST on 9-9-03
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Thanks everyone for your help.
I'm working on a PERL script for the "WWWboard" originally written by Matt
Wright. PERL isn't my primary language (as I'm sure you all can see) ...
although I'm finding it very powerful and useful.
Apparently, Matt used a lot of global variables in his subroutines.
George,
Thanks for the quick response.
I was reviewing my code some more and here is what I think might be
happening.
In my code, the first thing I do is declare my variables.
Then I declare my subroutines'.
It looks like by declaring my subroutines, they are being executed. ???
example of my
I was under the impression that "subroutines" are only executed IF they're
called. But, it looks like subroutines will execute on there own if they
are written in the beginning part of the PERL code and before other code
takes over the codes sequence of events. In other words, if there is a
sub
I'm trying to place HTML Tags around the contents of Quoted material.
I'm using the following PERL code:
$TextBlockToConvert =~ s/"(.+?)"/"\1<\/Font>"/g;
Below, is an example of problem text this code chokes on.
Example Text:msgStop("", "Invalid date")
1. The 1st set of Quotes
