Apologies. The tone of your response led me to re-read my post, and on reflection I understand how it might have seemed like a flame. This was not my intent at all.

In your message to which my post was a reply, you began with a rhetorical question concerning how welcome your subsequent comment expressing surprise at the use of MS Word would be. I was expressing my own surpise at your surprise.

Dismay? Yes, perhaps. Disappointment? Well, okay. But surprise? It seemed slightly stronger than seemed appropriate on an off-topic post, ...

dmm

Just call me the Anti-Gates ...

In reply to (Re:) x 4: Regular Expressions in Perl: tutorial section (10 chapters) completed by dmmiller2k
in thread Regular Expressions in Perl: tutorial section (10 chapters) completed by japhy

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