fo my $0.02 worth.. whoever starts the post should be able to determine the
posting...

you could have:
 top
 bottom
 sideways
 diagonal
 small letters
 all caps...
 

in san fran, i think sideways/bottom posting works well....

keep laughing!!!



-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Bob
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 6:33 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";
>       }
> }
> 
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