Re: sequence checking weirdness

2002-05-13 Thread Rich Morin
I noticed a buglet in my script (I forgot to do case-insensitive matching). So, here's a new, improved version: tchk () { # # tchk - Check $T against $OldT for correct sort order. # # Note: Neither $T nor $OldT may contain spaces! # # Usage: tchk if [ $# -ne 0 ]; then echo !!! tchk:

Re: regex for html img... tags

2002-03-17 Thread Rich Morin
At 4:02 PM -0800 3/17/02, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Obfuscated Perl and Golf are both uninteresting to me. Ditto, but many FWP members seem to like them. So, I'm happy to let the Golfers play through. If those of us who have different interests fail to post items, we have nobody but ourselves

Re: rethinking printf

2002-03-10 Thread Rich Morin
Earlier, I mentioned the idea of replacing overly complicated printfs with a print and some f function calls, as: { $a=1828; $b=45; print f(pi=%8.6f, ,355/113), f(e=2.7$a$a$b%d$b\n, $b*2); } Now, f is really just shorthand for sprintf, but creating f was

Re: rethinking printf

2002-03-06 Thread Rich Morin
At 5:27 PM -0800 3/6/02, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: The format string is reused as often as necessary to satisfy the arguments. Where did you get that? Not true for Perl or C. Apparently, when I did a man printf, I got the one in FreeBSD's Section 1: PRINTF(1)

Re: rethinking printf

2002-03-06 Thread Rich Morin
At 11:24 PM -0500 3/6/02, Uri Guttman wrote: qn would be just like qq but not allow any direct hash interpolations (%foo or %foo{bar}). you can always get those with $() if needed. this solves the common case with a minimal of noise and the uncommon case has a simple out of using $(). no