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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lou 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. 

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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