Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

[David Landgren]

On 09/06/2011 15:22, David Matthewman wrote:
>
> On 9 Jun 2011, at 12:10, David Landgren wrote:
>
>> On 08/06/2011 15:00, David Matthewman wrote:
>>>
>>> On 8 Jun 2011, at 13:17, Tom Hukins wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 02:00:41PM +0200, Abigail wrote:
>>>>> I'd rather go for sacking people that don't know the difference
>>>>> between
>>>>>
>>>>>     if (something) { ... }
>>>>>
>>>>> and
>>>>>
>>>>>     unless (!something) { ... }

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> And now I'm wondering whether all this is either blindingly obvious to everyone else on the list and you can't believe I'm explaining something so basic, or abstruse in the extreme and you can't believe I'm noodling about such an unlikely edge case. Or both. ;-)

I had all the parts lying around, but didn't realise they were germane 
to the problem. So, thanks for the cogent explanation.

David
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