in reply to Need help with subdividing SGML files

This be not a role-playing game, Sir DukeLeto. Flowery language and especially flowery but meaningless article titles doth not contribute to our desire to help thee.

Firstly, thou shouldst "use strict". It will find for thee many problems.

Secondly, thy argument-passing skills want improvement. Instead of: 

my $LinesString = @_;

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thou shouldst have 
my $LinesString = shift;

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or 
my ($LinesString) = @_;

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When using $_[1] notation, remember that the first argument startest at $_[0]

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Re: Re: Need help with subdividing SGML files
by DukeLeto (Novice) on Mar 07, 2003 at 23:02 UTC
    My apologies for the flowery language. I wanted to establish my non-moronicity whilst proclaiming it. Seems to have backfired. I wanted to evoke an image of a penitant former MS programmer pleading at the gates of the monastery. I forgot that my favorite screen name can evoke the image of some D&D Paladin. (I though the fifth-score hour was good. BTW.)
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      Speaking as a former MS programmer, the standard tone for those of us who have left the Borg is somewhere around "Those Bastards! Those Evil Sons of..." you get the idea. I always thought of them as more of a demon horde (managers and above) fleshed out with the soul-less (employees, sacrificing everything in their lives to keep the stock vesting at all costs) and the damned (permatemps). But

      Dude, don't worry too much about tone. The Monk metaphor permeates the site, but one reference per post is sufficient. As for your screen name, I thought it was a Dune reference. Duke Leto Atreides, right?

      -Logan
      "What do I want? I'm an American. I want more."

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        Correct.
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Re: Re: Need help with subdividing SGML files
by DukeLeto (Novice) on Mar 12, 2003 at 18:23 UTC
    With respect to your suggestion of inadequate understanding of Perl variable passing, I plead guilty. I have to admit though, based on my work with the synoptic languages, this format is VERY odd.
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