Ok...
this is getting really messy! Top posting means that the order of posts being
added remains clear and that the most recent addition is that the top - useful
is the post is being followed. I have Outlook set up to add > to previous
messages which works fine if everyone posts plain text messages (surely
breaking this rule is a much mroe heinous crime?) and uses the same policy.
Out of
interest I will also post this comment in the relevant (non-top-post) place in
the interests of science.
If this is not the way to do it then that's fine and
yes people should be told. However top posters are not necessarily lazy - I
have never come accross this being an issue before and did not see it buried in
the small print on the active perl site - so should not be villified in
such a manner.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Lou Losee
Sent: 04 October 2005 15:43
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Top postingThe 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.
LouOk... this is getting really messy! Top posting means that the order of posts being added remains clear and that the most recent addition is that the top - useful is the post is being followed. I have Outlook set up to add > to previous messages which works fine if everyone posts plain text messages (surely breaking this rule is a much mroe heinous crime?) and uses the same policy.This was the comment added in place nect to the comment it was replying to - though that comment was top posted which kinda confuses matters :|If this is the way to do it then that's fine and yes people should be told. However top posters are not necessarily lazy - I have never come accross this being an issue before and did not see it buried in the small print on the active perl site - so should not be villified in such a manner.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
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
> 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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