On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 04:32:44PM +0100, Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 05:39:43PM -0400, Amir Karger wrote: > > > Unfortunately, I don't have much free time, or I could > > try to help with the uninstalled reLyX problem. > > I have already a solution for that, I will commit it when I come back. Great! > I will extend your previous code in the $maybe_dir. I will locate the path > to the reLyX script and from there I will try to discover where is the > main_script located. Only some more lines of code... That sounds right. I'm sort of surprised I didn't do it in the first place. > If you see something that isn't the perlish way of doing it please say. I think I saw a couple things, but they didn't look too egregious. I think I would have solved differently the paperoptions stuff where you return subrefs, but it still seems OK. > At a certain point I was looking for the first char in a line and I was > doing something like: > > $_[0] eq '#', while the more natural way to do it in perl is /^\#/ $_[0] is wrong anyway, since that looks at the first scalar in @_, which is very different than the first character in $_! Yet another way to do it (recall that the Perl motto is "There's more than one way to do it" is substr($_,1,1) eq '#'. I think I usually use the regex, though. Enjoy your vacation. -Amir
