Joe,
>From one Perl newbie to another, buy "Mastering Regular Expressions" by
Friedl. It's an O'reilly book. It is vey well written, and readable, I've
actually enjoyed reading it (believe it or not)! It really helps take the
mystery out of regexes. Try it out
brian
i guess i have to learn
Thank you to everyone who helped out with my questions and directing me to
the proper references. Thanks Matt for the pipe tip too.
brian
>
> Are backticks bad, and if so what are the alternatives if I need to
> return information to a variable?
They're not as "cross platform" as using pure Pe
Thank you to everyone who helped out with my questions and directing me to
the proper references. Thanks Matt for the pipe tip too.
brian
>
> Are backticks bad, and if so what are the alternatives if I need to
> return information to a variable?
They're not as "cross platform" as using pure Pe
