Perl Sucks!
Derek Ash
Application Programmer II
University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria
One Illini Drive, Box 1649
Peoria, Illinois 61656-1649
>>> "Ashok Varma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8/31/2006 11:04:49 PM >>>
Hi,
The best approach you go with is use regular expressions, rather that
c
Derek, it was nice of you to include your title and all. That way when a
future (potential) employer Googles you, they'll know for sure that it was
you that was this childish and immature.
8:13am, Derek Ash wrote:
Perl Sucks!
Derek Ash
Application Programmer II
University of Illinois Colleg
Well... he's right
Its confusing and overly complicated, in its multiple syntaxes, for a
compiled language.
I'm personally of the opinion that it was written by a grad student who
purposely created it to be confusing to keep the market limited of perl
programmers, and/or to show off of just how co
How have you assigned the variables to $fieldValue.
Try 'exists' or 'defined'
On 8/31/06, Ashok Varma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
The best approach you go with is use regular expressions, rather that
comparing them using relational operators.
next unless($fieldValue =~ /(\W|\D)+/);
the ab
On 9/1/06, Lou Hernsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well... he's right
Right is a matter of opinion. Trolling is a matter of fact. And he's a
troll. At this point, it doesn't really matter if he's right or wrong.
Its confusing and overly complicated, in its multiple syntaxes, for a
compiled lan
On 9/1/06, Mary Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Thanks for the tip. I will try it, even though there is another
suggestion ($fieldValue eq '') which works! Something can be defined to
be '', so that perhaps defined or exists won't always work.
That's why I said it depends on how it was
