For what it's worth, e-mail programs like MS Outlook make it difficult to *not* top-post.
For example, if one changes MS Outlook 2003's default setting to have the > character in front of each line of the original e-mail message, MS Outlook immediately displays a message warning that the setting will cause problems with spell-checking. Using MS Outlook to post a message in the more acceptable manner can take a significant amount of time, searching for and then changing MS Outlook's default settings or manually reformatting the message. Richard -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hicks, Bob Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 8:33 AM To: R. S. van Keuren Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: Top posting That is just a preference and most of usenet does not follow it. A: Yes, it is. Q: Is top posting bad? YMMV Robert > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:activeperl- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R. S. van Keuren > Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 9:03 AM > 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"; > } > } > > -- > ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > / ) /--< o // // Castle of Medieval Myth & Magic > http://www.todbe.com/ > -/-' /___/_<_</_</_ http://dbecoll.tripod.com/ (My Perl/Lakers stuff) > _______________________________________________ > ActivePerl mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ActivePerl mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
