Here's my position on this.
Randal is a very respected member of the Perl community, but in this
case I think his response was a bit extreme, especially as it didn't
spell out *why* he was so annoyed.
First of all, what's "The FAQ"? Perl, and the various version of
Perl, have a lot of differen
> "Silent" == Silent Zed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Silent> I'd like to know the thought's of other people are on this
Silent> though, was I wrong to post a quick and dirty solution to a
Silent> problem?
The problem with that kind of a response is that it's likely to get
picked up out of con
Silent Zed> You could very simply match the email address, like so:
Silent Zed> $text =~ m/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/g;
Randal L .Schwartz> WRONG. WRONG WRONG WRONG. Please read the FAQ on this.
Randal L .Schwartz> And dare I say again, WRONG.
Ok, well I'm going to go out on a limb here, and defend my
On Saturday, Nov 22, 2003, at 16:18 US/Pacific, Randal L. Schwartz
wrote:
[..]
It's just that we keep seeing this over and over again. That's the
point
of the FAQ. What happened to the ethic of even ATTEMPTING to look
for a local FAQ before posting to a list.
{sigh}
I think a part of the pro
> $text =~ m/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/g;
WRONG. WRONG WRONG WRONG. Please read the FAQ on this.
And dare I say again, WRONG.
Wow, Randal, even for you that's a bit extreme. Couldn't you explain
even a little bit why it's so wrong, and give more details about "the
FAQ"? It is a beginners' list after
> "John" == John Horner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > $text =~ m/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/g;
>>
>> WRONG. WRONG WRONG WRONG. Please read the FAQ on this.
>>
>> And dare I say again, WRONG.
John> Wow, Randal, even for you that's a bit extreme. Couldn't you explain
John> even a little bit why i
> "Silent" == Silent Zed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Silent> You could very simply match the email address, like so:
Silent> $text =~ m/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/g;
WRONG. WRONG WRONG WRONG. Please read the FAQ on this.
And dare I say again, WRONG.
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Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting S
> $text = qq|
> This is text and it contains a couple of e-mail addresses,
> like [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] what If I want to search
> for these [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc etc addresses in the text
> and perform search and replace function on those.
> |;
> Any idea as how to extract all th
