error with repeated matching

2008-05-28 Thread Marcel van de Vel
I recently decided to transform all figures (made with the language "pic", part of groff) in my course files from inches to mm. Roughly, this means multiplying numbers by 25.4, but life is more complicated: some numbers are Boolean, others are just quantities or proportions. It is necessary to s

Re: Getting started in Perl for Windows

2003-09-24 Thread marcel
== Quote from R. Joseph Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])'s article > "Dillon, John" wrote: > > > I've spent ages looking to find the front door into Perl. > > > > I have downloaded the Win32 version and installed that using > > MSI on Windows NT. It doesn't create an icon on the desktop. > > Why should