On Sat, 02 Feb 2002 22:24:05 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bart Lateur) wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 12:35:13 -0800 , Pradeep Sethi wrote: > > >and I want to use regexp , without using sprinf. > > !?!?!! > > WTF is wrong with sprintf()? It's a proper tool for this job. Next > you'll want to replace "13.57831" by "13.58" without using sprintf(). This reminded me of something I read on http://perl.plover.com/Questions.html : The flip side of this is a question like ``I want to accomplish X, but I don't want to use Y. What can I use instead?'' Which, again, is sometimes reasonable, and then sometimes X is closing a filehandle and Y is the `close' function. The paragraph before that is also interesting in this context; and see also http://perl.plover.com/Questions3.html . Cheers, Philip
