(resending)
Hi all,
I recently took upon myself to write a small piece of code (after not having
used Perl for 3 years), and found it reasonably straightforward - replacing
strings in files using user input.
Got the syntax for "#!" and "!~" wrong, had to read the man pages for the file
open tutorial (quick) and the easy introduction to regular expressions, and
check the syntax of if-then-else, and use perldoc to find out how one tests for
file existence and readability etc..
Wasn't satisfied with my file reading loop (while (<$in1>) {) - I remember
having done something more sophisticated back in the day.
Also, my email validation was very rudimentary (if ($ARGV[0] !~
/\w+\....@\w+\.\w+/))- i tried to find an existing, generic RE, but the
Internet yielded some scary (and non plug-and-play) results.
However, I was able to get the job done relatively quickly - Perl obviously
stays with one. :)
Cheers,
Srikanth Madani, long-time lurker
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