Thanks guys.

Mr. Anonymous - your squigglies worked like a champ, although I would swear I already tried them - and every other darn key on the keyboard too.

Stevieb - I'm sorry - precise language is important, but sometimes us "hep cats" who cut our teeth on GE 235*s with paper tape on a Teletype sometimes regress to the "flash cant" of aeons past.

I have had problems getting the knack of some of these complex data structures because there seems to have been a lot of changes since 5.12, and I could never get things to work reliably on different systems.

In case you're wondering, I'm working on a big improvement to the background search for: http://www.harleykmodel.com/craigslist

Dave

* http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/GE/GE.235.1964.102646091.pdf

In reply to Re: Perl 5.12.2 Data Structures by hennesse
in thread Perl 5.12.2 Data Structures by hennesse

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