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A big thank you to Mr. Krahn. Your code works great! Now, I have two
questions. One, it looks like you only added a couple of lines of code.
Can you tell me what this line does:
next if $. == 1 and -s OUT;
I think I get everything but the "and -s." Also, the more I see of the
solutions on this list the more I'm convinced this is not an easy language
to learn. Any suggestions for how to get a grasp of this language? I have
two O'Reilly books, Learning Perl and Programming Perl and I'm slowly going
through the Learning Perl book but it isn't easy. And I've been
programming for a lot of years! Is there some way to step through the code
to see what it's doing? (I lied about two questions) For example, when I
program Java, I put in a lot of System.out.printlns if I want to see what my
code is doing (I don't use an IDE). Also, is this the right language to do
quick text processing like I've been asking? I get the impression from my
reading that maybe this isn't the correct solution. What do all of you
think?
This list is a big help and you guys are awesome! Thanks again.
Debbie
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