I agree. I thought $Bill's post from the (no subject) thread...

> You're a rookie on posting.  Please don't top-post and trim the prior
posts.

... was ...

1) incorrect - as top posting is much easier to follow
2) ambiguous - do you mean 'don't top post and DON'T trim prior posts' or
'don't top post and DO trim prior posts'? (free from sin, casting stones
etc)
3) unpleasant - $Bill, who are you to make snydey remarks like that anyhow?

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of R. S.
> van Keuren
> Sent: 04 October 2005 14:03
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Top posting
>
>
> When a post starts to contain more than one previous message or pane, top
> posting is much easier to follow than bottom posting. With bottom posting,
> it's hard to find the most recent message.
>
> --Bob van Keuren
> San Diego
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of $Bill
> Luebkert
> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 1:42 AM
> To: Chris Cappelletti
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: [lists] Re: (no subject)
>
>
> Foo Ji-Haw wrote:
> > I think the tricky part is that spaces may appear within the
> "..." field.
> In
> > which case the pattern may well be:
> >
> /^"([^"]+)"\s+"([^"]+)"\s+"([^"]+)"\s+"([^"]+)"\s+"([^"]+)"\s+"([^
> "]+)"\s+"(
> >
> [^"]+)"\s+"([^"]+)"\s+"([^"]+)"\s+"([^"]+)"\s+"([^"]+)"\s+"([^"]+)"\s+$/)
> >
> > But I'm a rookie on regex, so this may not be optimal.
>
> You're a rookie on posting.  Please don't top-post and trim the
> prior posts.
>
> You can just adjust the split:
>
> foreach (@lines) {
>       my @flds = split /"\s+"|^"|"$/; # remove "s - column0 will
> now be empty
>       if ($flds[6] eq 'pink' and $flds[8] eq 'blue') {
>               print "found one: $_\n";
>       }
> }
>
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