Hi I am not a professional programmer. I don't work with or for any professional programmers (does it show???). I am merely an engineer whose toolbox includes some software languages. The thing that attracted me to Perl was the extensive library of modules. Lego blocks that I could join together to get things done. Not a new concept. I was using Coral66 back in the 1980's.
I thought that perl would be the ideal tool to do something as simple as copy ip settings from one file to another. What I found was two broken case type constructs that seem to have remained broken for at least a decade? with no fix in sight. A Unix config module that goes half way to solving a problem, but like a hammer with no handle, is not much use to anyone. Really clever code that needs a Rosetta stone to translate.
Of course only a bad craftsman blames his tools but a good tool should enable simple things to be done simply. In the hands of an expert, that is doubtless true for perl. I shouldn't need to be an expert. As a non-expert, this simple task has proven to be a lot more difficult than it should be. I did not expect to hit fundamental language defects and I did expect to find a module that would hide all of the cryptic clever code.

Dazz

In reply to Re^5: Yet another config file editing programme : Tell me how to make it better ! by dazz
in thread Yet another config file editing programme : Tell me how to make it better ! by dazz

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