Next up: More new prefix tags...

Current task list:

1. Repair the perldoc:// tag
2. Repair the jargon:// tag
3. Streamline pad:// so that [pad://] returns "my pad" for the posting monk.
4. Investigate lucky:// and see if [lucky://try|this] is broken or not.
5. Investigate feasibility for section specific search links, e.g. user://, sopw://, med://, q&a://, and so on.
6. Try to streamline HTML.pm, per tye's suggestion.
7. Update doccy.
8. Under consideration: add a /think chatter tag?

Also, /me wonders what people think of these as new link tags:

• ora:// to search O'Reilly's website.
• rls:// to search merlyn's column archives.
• imdb:// to search the Internet Movie database.

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That's the end of the current content. Archives are below...

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• 10 Jul 2002: The lastest Consideration rant has been posted, primarily because the issue came up in the ChatterBox.

• 09 Jul 2002: The Tutorials update has been checked in. Please go there for the latest.

• 13 Nov 2001: The documentation for New Prefix tags has been checked in. For more information, please see What shortcuts can I use for linking to other information?

• Earlier: I'm no longer confused about regex parsing of white space, puncuation, and words. See below.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $sentence = "I am Sam.  Sam I am.";
my @words = ( $sentence =~ /(\w+|\s+|[[:punct:]]+)/g );
my $element;
my $count = 0;
foreach $element (grep { !/\s/ } @words) {
   print "Element ", sprintf( "%02d", $count++ ), ": $element\n";
}
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works as desired. It yields:

Element 00: I
Element 01: am
Element 02: Sam
Element 03: .
Element 04: Sam
Element 05: I
Element 06: am
Element 07: .
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