RE: RE: Re: Useless Program

[btrott]

No, you're right--in this case, that's much easier, faster, and better. I suppose I was just giving general advice (quoting meta-characters, not escaping $, etc.).

Of course, the easiest would probably be just to use tie and a DBM, as was mentioned (and for which the code was even provided).

[BBQ]

Actually, you'd make a better teacher than myself. :)

I was sticking strictly to the problem at hand, while you were expanding it and recommending good practices. I tend to have a very focused-on-the-job frame of mind when I read other people's code. I'll be as stupid as a debugger. At any rate, the DBM suggestion makes more sense anyway. I was just being picky.

#!/home/bbq/bin/perl
# Trust no1!