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From:
John Costello
Date:
April 24, 2003 16:36
Subject:
Re: Question about regexp greediness
Message ID:
Pine.LNX.4.44.0304241537280.10748-100000@olivia.indeterminate.net
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,

John



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