A FAQ sounds like a good idea to me. I have no idea of the mechanics of how to create one. A FAQ is usually little more than an example of "how to...". That seems to be appropriate in this case. The more detailed discussion that you proposed belongs somewhere else, perhaps a tutorial.

I suspect that Perl's concept of 'layers'(with appropriate defaults) works so well that most of us are not even aware that it exists. I had used perl for over fifteen years before I even read 'PerlIO'. (I still have not read all the documentation for open.) The issue came up when Laurent_R and I were helping someone on the old PerlGuru.com. We could use his help.

Bill

In reply to Re^6: How do I display only matches (updated) by BillKSmith
in thread (SOLVED) How do I display only matches by tem2

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