--On Sunday, August 17, 2003 5:08 PM +0100 Rob Dixon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Glad you're on track, but I'd prefer no 'F's. RTM is fine :)
What does Robert T. Morris have to do with it? :-)
One thing that makes life easier for us people on windoze to use perldoc is
to grab a copy of less t
Robert Mark White wrote:
> Thank for all your explanations, yours were better than the books.
> Your right about perldoc perl, I found it a couple of hours after I wrote
> the orginal messge
> I had been reading for 4 hours when i wrote the orginal message.
> now after another 8 hours of RTFM even
Thank for all your explanations, yours were better than the books.
Your right about perldoc perl, I found it a couple of hours after I wrote
the orginal messge
I had been reading for 4 hours when i wrote the orginal message.
now after another 8 hours of RTFM even I can find many of my own mistakes.
Robert wrote:
>
> Please don't say RTFM
I don't think we've ever said that. But we often say
Please RTM /here/
> Please be gentle with me ..
We will. There are a few things that don't go down too
well: usually doing other people's work for them. But
if you've tried and got stuck then you're a
Robert --
...and then Robert Mark White said...
%
% Dear Gentle Readers,
%
% Please be gentle with me as this is only my first day trying to learn perl.
Hey, we've all been there :-)
I can't recommend highly enough the "Learning Perl" and "Programming
Perl" books. I read "Learning" to get sta
On Aug 16, Ramprasad said:
>open IN , $inputfile || die "COuldnot open in file\n";
A see many things unfavorable here. Because you're using the || operator,
the only time die() will be called is if $inputfile is a false value. You
haven't included the filename nor $! in the error message, and I
For a good online tutorial try this
http://www.sthomas.net/roberts-perl-tutorial.htm Its well written and
easy to follow. Plus it was written for perl users on windows machines.
If you want to shell out a bit of cash, start by getting Learning Perl
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperl3 This is pro
Robert Mark White wrote:
Dear Gentle Readers,
Please be gentle with me as this is only my first day trying to learn perl.
I am using an online tutorial, however it must be written for *nix and I am
trying to use it on win32.
man perl does not even work.
I have already found some other differences.
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 11:44:04PM -0600 Robert Mark White wrote:
> Please be gentle with me as this is only my first day trying to learn perl.
> I am using an online tutorial, however it must be written for *nix and I am
> trying to use it on win32.
> man perl does not even work.
We'll come to t
