But
since I've already read all the other posts anyways, I can cut to the chase
easily and read the new information (conveniently located at the top of the
message) without having to sort through everything I've already seen
anyway.
From:
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Losee
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 9:43 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Top posting
The problem with top posting is that it makes for a tottally
illogical order of messages. Rather than reading from top to bottom (as we
are taught from an early age) you end up reading from bottom to top.
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 9:43 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Top posting
Lou
On 10/4/05, Hicks,
Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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] ]On 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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