Mark A. Biggar wrote:
What if I want to interpolate an empty string and let the fill
characters work?
Then you interpolate a single fill character instead of the empty string.
Damian
Damian Conway wrote:
Mark A. Biggar wrote:
What if I want to interpolate an empty string and let the fill
characters work?
Then you interpolate a single fill character instead of the empty string.
But that means I have to pre-process data lists that just happen to
contain empty strings so
But that means I have to pre-process data lists that just happen to
contain empty strings so that they won't disappear on me.
Huh? An empty string already *has* disappeared on you. ;-)
This seems to violate least surprise.
I'd be much more surprised if an empty string *didn't* disappear.
After
I also don't expect
$x = '';
$y = $x ;
to assign '' to $y either, but that's the equlvalent of what you say
form() will do.
I see your point.
I was more worried about arrays of items some of which are empty strings
and having items disappear out my repost because form() throws them
In And now at length they overflow their banks. its not clear
how an overflow field gets tied to its initial non-overflow field.
In the recipe example given, how does it know to go with the
$method field instead of the $prep_time field? Is it basing off
of matching the horizontal extent of the
Smylers --
So, what I'm looking for is more explicit phrasing around immediately
above. In the example, the column range for the overflow field is
exactly the same as that of the $method field in the prior picture.
But, what does it do if it doesn't match *exactly*? Is it an error,
does it have
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 11:59:15AM -0800, Gregor N. Purdy wrote:
: Smylers --
:
: So, what I'm looking for is more explicit phrasing around immediately
: above. In the example, the column range for the overflow field is
: exactly the same as that of the $method field in the prior picture.
: But,
Gregor N. Purdy wrote:
So, what I'm looking for is more explicit phrasing around immediately
above. In the example, the column range for the overflow field is
exactly the same as that of the $method field in the prior picture.
But, what does it do if it doesn't match *exactly*? Is it an error,
Larry Wall wrote:
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 11:59:15AM -0800, Gregor N. Purdy wrote:
: Smylers --
:
: So, what I'm looking for is more explicit phrasing around immediately
: above. In the example, the column range for the overflow field is
: exactly the same as that of the $method field in the
Mark A. Biggar writes:
Larry Wall wrote:
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 11:59:15AM -0800, Gregor N. Purdy wrote:
: Smylers --
:
: So, what I'm looking for is more explicit phrasing around immediately
: above. In the example, the column range for the overflow field is
: exactly the same as that
Luke Palmer wrote:
Mark A. Biggar writes:
Larry Wall wrote:
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 11:59:15AM -0800, Gregor N. Purdy wrote:
: Smylers --
:
: So, what I'm looking for is more explicit phrasing around immediately
: above. In the example, the column range for the overflow field is
: exactly the
Luke Palmer wrote:
Arn't there cases where the overflow field want to be bigger then the
first field? Something the ends up looking like:
LABEL: texttexttextexttexttext
texttextexttextetexttexttextte
xttexttexttexttexttexttextttex
where LABEL is in one field and text... is in an oveflow block?
Mark A. Biggar wrote:
Expect wouldn't that produce a extra blank line if $text is short?
Nope. Formats only generate text lines if at least one of their fields
interpolates at least one character.
Damian
Damian Conway wrote:
Mark A. Biggar wrote:
Expect wouldn't that produce a extra blank line if $text is short?
Nope. Formats only generate text lines if at least one of their fields
interpolates at least one character.
Damian
What if I want to interpolate an empty string and let the fill
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