On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 02:44:29 +0100, "A. Pagaltzis" <[email protected]> wrote:
> * Michael Leuchtenburg <[email protected]> [2006-12-16 19:05]: > > What is this, loves-perl? Release your anger, your hate! > > : > > I could go on, getting in to the sorts of hate that Perl > > enables - s;foo;bar; anyone? > > That's annoying, but do you find the following pretty? > > s/^file:\/\/\/?// > > I guess the set of delimiters could have excluded things like > semicolons, though; granted. No. Very handy. my $sth = $dbh->prepare (qq; select foo, bar from baz where duh = ?; ); Now you can cut-n-paste the statement and run in SQL :) And it reads nice too -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.9.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, & 11.23, SuSE 10.0 & 10.1, AIX 4.3 & 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
