Dear Laurent, many thanks to yourself and others for your most noble efforts.

But I do believe the most effective manner is : Debian::Dpkg::Version

I did not know the right question to ask the Oracle of CPAN.

I am an humble bookseller, not an enlightened programmer.

So I frequently have found need to Perl to manage my database scripts, and found it a wunderful tool, as well as an iinstructive one.

The project would surely be a Perl effort. Actually i know it better than AWK!

What is there not to love about it, It has everything, inclusing GOTO. The passage of time has diminished my grief over line numbers.

In reply to Re^4: File Parsing by kel
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