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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: "MOST COMMON NOVICE BUG" contest (now novice help)
Message-ID: <1990Mar10.014400.4658@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 10 Mar 90 01:44:00 GMT
References: <1990Mar9.094346.13142@lth.se>
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In-Reply-To: jh@efd.lth.se (Joergen Haegg)

In article <1990Mar9.094346.13142@lth.se>, jh@efd (Joergen Haegg) writes:
| I'm trying to convince a friend to give up awk, and use perl instead.
| He replies: "Give me 10-20 simple examples, like in the awk books!"
| 
| He just want to get started directly, and not read the manual.
| (Always the same problem when you use something, and don't have the
| time to learn something new.)
| 
| So, is there someone who has stumbled on this problem and have
| made some simple examples? (I just don't want to reinvent something :-)

He could wait about two months and read a draft of the first chapter
of the Perl book.  Or, you can feed him all my JAPH one-liners.
Naaahhh!  Actually, the archived stuff from the perl-users mailing
list, which became comp.lang.perl, is probably pretty useful.  Or, if
anyone saved my postings to comp.unix.questions regarding common tasks
in Perl, that'd be a good start too.

There *are* quite a few good fragments in the 69-page manpage.  Read
that first.  I found that the stuff in 'eg' in the distribution, as
well as the stuff in 't' (yes, the tests!) were good to grab some of
the idioms.

for($i=129600;@x=gmtime($i),(print substr('Just another Perl hacker,',$x[5]*12+$x[4]-840,1)),($i+=2639520)<66117600;){;}
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