I think first you need to realize that theres two types of questions. Theres the extremely specific type, i.e. "How do i split a string into an array", the best answer to that is obviously just say "split /delimiter/,$string", as that gives them everything they need and want. The second type of question is the vauger one, the one more like "How can i parse all the variables from a 'post' input method". Then i think you would need to point them to the cgi docs, as well as mentioning a small example (use cgi;new cgi;cgi->parse_data), just so they dont get lost in the 5000 lines of documentation. That is the down side to just saying 'rtfm', is that the manual is FRIGGIN HUGE (sometimes). If i wanted to know say, how to split a string or what not, i dont want to have to read through 5000 lines of semi-random documentation just to find it.
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