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Dave Mitchell a écrit : > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 04:51:42PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 04:47:18PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote: >>> Well, for a recent consulting gig, the customer wanted me to parse XML >>> files using 5.005 and no external modules.... >> But had they found a bug in 5.005_$version, what would they have done? >> >> Hoped for 5.005_05, and installed that? >> Wanted just a patch for 5.005_$version that just fixed that bug? >> Wanted to work round it - "there's no way we're upgrading that"? > > For this particular customer (a bank), I got the impression (although they > never said it explicitly) that they were using whatever came bundled as > part of Solaris, and there was nothing on heaven or earth that would have > made them upgrade Solaris or install any new software on the server. > > I would have had to just work around it (rewrite the XML parser using > /bin/sh, probably ;-) Oh come now, I'm sure you could do it in awk and sed.Thread Previous | Thread Next