As some-one who has had NO formal programming training, I face this issue often. I have just written some code and tested it successfully. I manage to get perl to do what I need it to. What ALWAYS concerns me though, is that I am never confident in whether or not my code is "Best Practice" (for lack of a better expression). I mean are there better ways of doing certain things...?

Oddly enough, I can say literally the same thing. Even after a 25-year-long professional programming career.

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-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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