On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Rob Dixon wrote: > John Costello wrote: > > Gah. There were two causes. > > had the thing working but was looking at the wrong line of output. > > Funny that, I've cured any number of bugs byt getting someone to run > the self same code on a different machine. It often seems to fix it on > my system as well =) It is the fastest way to fix bugs and annoy the person next to you. :^) > > I don't usually use $a in production scripts or even test scripts. I > > tossed in $a in the test script because I was being lazy--less typing. > > No, I know - and it's just /there/, underneath your left index finger > asking to be hit! > > Thanks for coming clean John. It's good to know that other people > on the list are human too. Yes, indeed, all too human. It's the best part about learning a new aspect of Perl. > Cheers, > > Rob Cheers, JohnThread Previous