Re: automatically naming scalars

2001-08-14 Thread Jos I. Boumans
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 8:38 PM Subject: Re: automatically naming scalars > Hi Jos: > > Thanks for the reply. > > At 05:44 PM 8/14/01 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I must agree with Jos on this ... I read

Re: automatically naming scalars

2001-08-14 Thread Michael Fowler
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 02:38:54PM -0400, Ron Woodall wrote: > Ok here's my original problem. I have 166 HTML tag pages that I'm > processing one at a time. Each tag page can have 197 attributes and > potentially more arguments. Once I process the tag section of the page, I > have to a

Re: automatically naming scalars

2001-08-14 Thread Ron Woodall
Hi Jos: Thanks for the reply. At 05:44 PM 8/14/01 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I must agree with Jos on this ... I read the email and I saw that what Ron was >asking for was soft reference ... like I mentioned before a lot of the >situations (like I mentioned my experience) .. where

Re: automatically naming scalars

2001-08-14 Thread register
I must agree with Jos on this ... I read the email and I saw that what Ron was asking for was soft reference ... like I mentioned before a lot of the situations (like I mentioned my experience) .. where you think that soft reference is the only way to do it is because your mindset had been stuck i

Re: automatically naming scalars

2001-08-14 Thread Jos I. Boumans
a few notes on soft references: 1. they are generally concidered evil 2. they will not work under use strict 3. they are rarely what you really need/want I'm not saying they are bad in your case, but let me just elaborate on the above. you'll have to say 'no strict refs' for a certain block to

Re: automatically naming scalars

2001-08-14 Thread register
I am not sure if this will help but you might be talking about using soft references ... you would have to turn off strict to use it ... I could not get my head aroun your description of the problem but I had many experinces when I had discussions with people at work who felt soft references were

Re: automatically naming scalars

2001-08-01 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Ron Woodall wrote: > Here's the problem. Go to the Compendium of HTML Elements, > www.htmlcompendium.org --> Main Menu --> HTML --> Attribute Pages and click > on one of the tag names. > > The right frame will open up into a list of the tag and all > attribu

Re: automatically naming scalars

2001-07-31 Thread Ron Woodall
Hi Brett: Thanks for the reply. At 12:08 PM 7/31/01 -0400, you wrote: >On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Ron Woodall wrote: > > > I'm trying to take a word from a file and naming a scalar with > > that word. i.e. I find the word "target" in a file. I then need to > > create $target = "xxx" an

Re: automatically naming scalars

2001-07-31 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Ron Woodall wrote: > I'm trying to take a word from a file and naming a scalar with > that word. i.e. I find the word "target" in a file. I then need to > create $target = "xxx" and various other variables related to target. > Any suggestions? Create a hash containing